Fifteen-year-old Alex doesn`t just like ultra-violence - he also enjoys rape, drugs and Beethoven`s Ninth. He and his gang rampage through a dystopian future, hunting for terrible thrills. But when Alex finds himself at the mercy of the state and subject to the ministrations of Dr Brodsky, the government psychologist, he discovers that fun is no longer the order of the The basis for one of the most notorious films ever made, "A Clockwork Orange" is both a virtuoso performance from an electrifying prose stylist and a serious exploration of the morality of free will. Формат: 13 см х 19,5 см.

ISBN: 978-0-14-118260-5
Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011

What changes occurred and what remained the same in Chinese civil justice from the Qing to the Republic? Drawing on archival records of actual cases, this study provides a new understanding of late imperial and Republican Chinese law. It also casts a new light on Chinese law by emphasizing rural areas and by comparing the old and the new.

ISBN: 9780804741118
Дата выхода: апрель 2002

ISBN: 9781471133107
Дата выхода: январь 2023

Contemporary / American English Inman leaves the horrors of the American Civil War and begins a long, dangerous journey home to Ada, the woman he loves. Along the way, he witnesses great poverty, cruelty, and violence. Will he ever see Ada again? And if he does, will she recognize the man he has become?

ISBN: 978-1-4058-8241-5
Издательство: Pearson
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Wilde, glamorous and notorious, more famous as a playwright or prisoner than as a poet, invites readers of his verse to meet an unknown and intimate figure. The poetry of his formative years includes the haunting elegy to his young sister and the grieving lyric at the death of his father. The religious drama of his romance with Rome is captured here, as well as its resolution in his renewed love of ancient Greece. He explores forbidden sexual desires, pays homage to the great theatre stars and poets of his day, observes cityscapes with impressionist intensity. His final masterpiece, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, tells the painful story of his own prison experience and calls for universal compassion. This edition of Wilde`s verse presents...

ISBN: 978-1-85326-453-5
Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: август 2010

Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he was a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. Collected Short Stories I contains two of the Conrad\'s most powerful, gripping stories, including Amy Foster — a classic story of a young foreign man who survives a shipwreck off the coast of Kent, England.

ISBN: 978-5-521-07576-8
Издательство: Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018

Книга полностью на английском языке.A collection of Oscar Wildess many varied works. These include the tender fairy stories he wrote for his children, his novels, many of which shocked and outraged many readers of his day, plays which were enormously successful and continue to be so, and poems and essays.

ISBN: 9781853263972
Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 1998

Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs. He is obsessed with a beautiful stranger, the art student Miranda. When he wins the pools he buys a remote Sussex house and calmly abducts Miranda, believing she will grow to love him in time. Alone and desperate, Miranda must struggle to overcome her own prejudices and contempt if she is to understand her captor, and so gain her freedom.

ISBN: 978-0-09-947047-2
Издательство: Vintage Classics
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set largely in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and influential. Collected Tales II from master storyteller includes two stories: Little Flower and Only a Dream, a ghost story about the strange experience of a widower about to remarry, who is visited on the eve of his wedding by the ghastly apparition of his dead first wife.

ISBN: 978-5-521-07602-4
Издательство: Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018

Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. “Collected Tales” is a collection of early Doyle’s short stories. It includes stories of mystery, comedy, shipwrecks and fantasy.

ISBN: 978-5-521-08069-4
Издательство: Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018

Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, a dark romantic, and short story writer. Collected Short Stories, a collection of essays, based on Hawthorne`s stay in England from 1853 to 1857 as American Consul in Liverpool, were the first published in the form of a series of travel papers for "The Atlantic Monthly". Hawthorne shows us the splendors of London, and the horrors of the poverty that so many suffered at the time.

ISBN: 978-5-521-07692-5
Издательство: Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018

Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, a dark romantic, and short story writer. Collected Short Stories, a collection of essays, based on Hawthorne`s stay in England from 1853 to 1857 as American Consul in Liverpool, were the first published in the form of a series of travel papers for "The Atlantic Monthly". Hawthorne shows us the splendors of London, and the horrors of the poverty that so many suffered at the time.

ISBN: 978-5-521-07691-8
Издательство: Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018