The undisputed master of terror and mystery, Edgar Allan Poe was a unique inventor in fiction. In "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Black Cat" he wrote the first and best tales of terror, with "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and his fictional detective M- Dupin he invented the detective story; and tales such as "MS. Found in a Bottle" and "Von Kempelen and His Discovery" pioneered modern science-fiction. As readers will discover, Poe possessed an unrivalled capacity to create atmosphere and suspense, and to probe the dark depths of the human psyche. All the stories in this volume push back the boundaries, making the improbable possible, the familiar terrifying and strange.

ISBN: 0-14-062116-4
Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2002

Seven of the best Lawrence stories, each turning on some facet of sexual feeling, attitude or convention. "The Prussian Officer" focuses on an aristocratic captain’s homoerotic obsession for his young orderly. "The Shadow in the Rose Garden" and "The White Stocking" deal with sexual jealousy. "Daughters of the Vicar" brilliantly describes two exceedingly class-conscious mating rituals. "The Christening," "Second Best" and "Odour of Chrysanthemums" etch memorable portraits of a family’s shame at an illegitimate birth, a country courtship and a brutish marriage abbreviated by death. Note.

ISBN: 0-486-27794-1
Издательство: Dover
Дата выхода: апрель 2004

В сборник включены наиболее известные произведения представителя английского неоромантизма Р.Л.Cтивенсона: `Дом на дюнах`, `Алмаз раджи`, `Странный случай с доктором Джекилем и мистером Хайдом`, `Ночлег Франсуа Вийона`. Разнообразные по тематике произведения объединяет увлекательность сюжета, тонкие психологические характеристики, яркие образы персонажей, прекрасный английский язык. Сборник...

ISBN: 5-8346-0071-9
Издательство: Менеджер
Дата выхода: апрель 2002

ISBN: 9780140431032
Дата выхода: январь 1985

Рассказы выдающегося мастера детективной прозы Агаты Кристи, включенные в сборник, интригуют читателя с первой минуты. Всегда неожиданные развязки психологически убедительны. В разгадке преступлений побеждает умнейший. Тонкая работа ума, отточенность мысли, логика и умение анализировать факты приковывают внимание читателя на протяжение всей книги.

ISBN: 5-8346-0089-1
Издательство: Менеджер
Дата выхода: декабрь 1999

Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most popular works of English fiction. Although Charlotte Bronte`s heroine is outwardly plain, she possesses an indomitable spirit, and great courage. Forced to battle against the exigencies of a cruel guardian, a harsh employer and a rigid social order when she becomes governess to the daughter of the mysterious, sardonic Mr Rochester. Villette is based on Charlotte Bronte`s personal experience as a teacher in Brussels. Rising above the confinement of a rigid social order, it is the story of a woman`s right to love and be loved. Wuthering Heights is Emily Bronte`s wild, passionate tale of the intense love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine`s father....

ISBN: 978-1-84022-060-5
Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: апрель 2012

ISBN: 9781840227451
Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2019

ISBN: 0-486-27282-6
Издательство: Dover
Дата выхода: апрель 2004

Macmillan Readers Pre-Intermediate D. H. Lawrence, Selected Short Stories by

ISBN: 978-0-230-03516-4
Издательство: Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Virginia Woolf tested the boundaries of fiction in these short stories, developing a new language of sensation, feeling and thought, and recreating in words the `swarm and confusion of life`. Defying categorization, the stories range from the more traditional narrative style of "Solid Objects" through the fragile impressionism of "Kew Gardens" to the abstract exploration of consciousness in "The Mark on the Wall".

ISBN: 978-0-14-118313-8
Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: июль 2012

``I was jealous of her writing. The only writing I have ever been jealous of``. Virginia Woolf Virginia Woolf was not the only writer to admire Mansfield`s work: Thomas Hardy, D. H. Lawrence, and Elizabeth Bowen all praised her stories, and her early death at the age of thirty-four cut short one of the finest short-story writers in the English language. This selection covers the full range of Mansfield`s fiction, from her early satirical stories to the subtly nuanced comedy of `The Daughters of the Late Colonel` and the macabre and ominous `A Married Man`s Story`. The stories that pay what Mansfield calls `a debt of love` to New Zealand are as sharply etched as the European stories, and she recreates her childhood world with mordant...

ISBN: 978-0-19-953735-8
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012

ISBN: 978-5-519-49864-7
Издательство: Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2017

Byron was a legend in his own lifetime and the dominant influence on the Romantic movement. The most European of the English writers in an age of revolution, Byron was deeply involved in contemporary events, and a passionate supporter of the struggle for Greek independence. Describing himself as `born for opposition`, his work was largely directed against what he called the `cant political, cant poetical, and cant moral` of the English and European worlds. He was rocketed to fame by the publication of "Childe Harold" in 1812, and lionized by society until his departure from England amid a whirlpool of private gossip and newspaper scandal in 1816. His is, in every sense, a poetry of experience, and a Romantic emphasis on the personality...

ISBN: 978-0-19-953878-2
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011

Maupassant`s keenly observed short stories reveal a world of vice and virtue, passions and obsessions. Adultery, prostitution, the Franco - Prussian War, the pleasures of river and countryside, the cunning and greed of the Norman peasantry - these are familiar themes throughout his work, yet they are treated differently each time, producing stories of a dazzling originality. BOULE DE SUIF, Maupassant`s earliest triumph, and the opening story in this selection, exposes the smug complacency of a group of travellers towards the prostitute in their midst. THE PIECE OF STRING and THE DEVIL centre on avarice, while tales of honour such as A DEAL and MADAME HUSSON`S MAY KING, from a rich contrast to the gentle pathos of TWO FRIENDS. Masterly,...

ISBN: 0140621830
Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2002