Henry James (1843—1916) was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism. «The Portrait of a Lady» is the awesome story of a spirited young American woman, Isabel Archer. She inherits a large amount of money and subsequently becomes the victim of Machiavellian scheming by two American expatriates. This novel reflects James\'s continuing interest in the differences between the New World and the Old, often to the detriment of the former.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07070-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: апрель 2018
Two 19th century stage illusionists, the aristocratic Rupert Angier and the working-class Alfred Borden, engage in a bitter and deadly feud; the effects are still being felt by their respective families a hundred years later. Working in the gaslight-and-velvet world of Victorian music halls, they prowl edgily in the background of each other`s shadowy life, driven to the extremes by a deadly combination of obsessive secrecy and insatiable curiosity. At the heart of the row is an amazing illusion they both perform during their stage acts. The secret of the magic is simple, and the reader is in on it almost from the start, but to the antagonists the real mystery lies deeper. Both have something more to hide than the mere workings of a trick.
ISBN: 978-0-575-07906-9
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Издание на английском языке.Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения.The Pickwick Papers is Dickens first novel and widely regarded as one of the major classics of comic writing in English. Originally serialised in monthly instalments, it quickly became a huge popular success with sales reaching 40,000 by the final number. In the century and a half since its first appearance, the characters of Mr Pickwick, Sam Weller and the whole of the Pickwickian crew have entered the consciousness of all who love English literature in general, and the works of Dickens in particular.
ISBN: 9781853260520
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2000
Джек Лондон - классик американской литературы XX века, автор ярких, живых приключенческий романов и рассказов. «Люди бездны» - знаменитая книга социологических очерков, результат журналистского расследования, проведённого в Лондоне. Очерки написаны через призму взгляда человека «со дна» - городского пролетария, жившего и работавшего в кварталах Ист-Энда, чтобы показать читателю правдивую...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05757-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2017
Walter Scott (1771-1832) was a Scottish historical novelist, poet, and playwright. Although he was an advocate and legal administrator by profession, Scott is most famous for his great literary works and activities in the Royal Highland Society. Loosely based on the life of the notorious pirate John Gow, the novel tells the tale of Captain Cleveland, his feud with young Mordaunt Mertoun, and their relationships with Mina and Brenda Troll. Of course, as the genre dictates, it is full of romance, danger, and wonderful adventures.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07553-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Charlotte Bronte`s first novel, The Professor, is narrated from the viewpoint of an ambitious and self-made man. Rejecting his aristocratic inheritance William Crimsworth goes to Brussels to find his fortune. He takes a job teaching at a boarding schoolfor young ladies, where he begins a flirtation with Zorai`de Reuter, who, out of jealousy, attempts to frustrate his courtship of Frances Henri, an attractive young woman determined to make her way in the world. In The Professor Charlotte Bronte holds up to scrutiny the Victorian ideals of self-help and individualism. The result is an unusual love story, and a novel profoundly critical of a society in which the relationships between men and women are reduced to power struggles.
ISBN: 0-14-062142-3
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: февраль 1994
Neorosurgeon Jessie Copeland works at the very frotier of neorosurgery, developing technology that coul revolutionize the treatment of brain tumors. But her work brings her to the attention of an infinitely dangerous man. Claude Malloche is a brilliant, remorseless - a terrorist without regard for human life. He is also ill with a brain tumor believed to be inoperable.
ISBN: 0-553-84031-2
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Charlotte Bronte was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Bronte sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels have become classics of English literature. The Professor was published only after Charlotte Brontes death and today it gives us a fascinating insight into the first stirrings of her supreme creative imagination. The book is the story of a young man, William Crimsworth, and is a first-person narrative from his perspective. It describes his maturation, his career as a teacher in Brussels, and his personal relationships. William reveals his attraction to the dominating directress of the girls` school where he teaches, played out in the school`s "secret garden".
ISBN: 978-5-521-07907-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Dorian Gray is having his picture painted by Basil Hallward, who is charmed by his looks. But when Sir Henry Wotton visits and seduces Dorian into the worship of youthful beauty with an intoxicating speech, Dorian makes a wish he will live to regret: that all the marks of age will now be reflected in the portrait rather than on Dorian's own face. The stage is now set for a masterful tale about appearance, reality, art, life, truth, fiction and the burden of conscience. Oscar Wilde's only full-length novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray is a lasting gem of sophisticated wit and playfulness, which brings together all the best elements of his talent in a reinterpretation of the Faustian myth.
ISBN: 9781847493729
Издательство:
Alma Books
Дата выхода: август 2020
Classic / British English (Available April 2008) Rudolf Rassendyll, a daring young Englishman looking for adventure, arrives in Ruritania for the new king`s coronation. The two men meet by chance the day before and are shocked to find that they look exactly the same! A trick leaves Rudolf in the king`s place while the king becomes the Prisoner of Zenda.
ISBN: 978-1-4058-6520-3
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Джеймс Фенимор Купер - известный американский романист и сатирик, классик приключенческой литературы. Его произведения заставляют задуматься о нашем месте в мире и месте людей нас окружающих. "Прерия" - это последний роман о Натти Бампо, главном герое историко-приключенческой пенталогии Фенимора Купера "Кожаный чулок". Читателя ждут невообразимые приключения, смелые и статные индейцы, лихой сюжет и...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05765-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2017
