The Pioneers enters of Cooper`s Leatherstocking Tales, and the one that incorporates most fully his own experience of growing up in a town of the American frontier. The heart of the novel is a conflict over who owns America, and by what concept of right. The competing claims of Native Americans, Tory loyalists, roving hunters, and visionary cultivators are pitted against one another in the area of history, and the magical village of Cooper`s youth becomes the scene in which a nation`s destiny is forged. Just as accessible and enjoyable for today`s modern readers as it would have been when first published well over a century ago, the novel is one of the great works of American literature and continues to be widely read throughout the world.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06445-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
Princess Mia may seem like the luckiest girl ever. But the truth is, Mia spends all her time doing one of three things: preparing for her nerve-racking entree into Genovian society, slogging through the congestion unique to Manhattan in December, and avoiding further smooching from her hapless boyfriend, Kenny. For Mia, being princess is not the fairy tale it`s supposed to be . . . or is it?
ISBN: 0-06-447280-9
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
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
This is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959.
ISBN: 978-0-571-20198-3
Издательство:
Faber
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2011
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
Un film de Almodovar: whether appearing in his stylish opening credits or on the suggestive poster that invariably accompanies each of his films, this announcement triggers a range of expectations. Sexy and subversive, colorful and controversial, passionate and provocative, Pedro Almodovar`s world is unlike any other director`s. Thanks to his remarkably cohesive and consistent ?uvre, the Manchegan maverick has become a reliable brand, his name a byword for the visual opulence, experimentation and eroticism of post-Franco Spanish cinema. Almodovar found fame with self-penned, gender-bending plots depicting the often comic misfortunes of junkies, nuns, housewives, whores, transvestites and transsexuals. Praised by critics, championed by...
ISBN: 978-3-8365-0283-2
Издательство:
TASCHEN
Дата выхода: август 2014
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most influential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. "The Purcell Papers" is a collection of early works of the author, united by one vivid dark theme. All these stories are a prime example of Victorian Gothic art, which inspired a whole genre.
ISBN: 978-5-517-00233-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2019
As if the fact that her mother is marrying her algebra teacher isn`t bad enough, Mia then manages to announce the engagement on live television. Mia`s grandmother immediately starts making arrangements for a grand state wedding - greatly upsetting Mia`s mother. Then Mia`s mother and her fiance go To add to her problems, Mia finds herself falling in love with her best friend`s brother Michael.
ISBN: 978-0-230-03748-9
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2011
Important collectors, like Peggy Guggenheim, have become almost as famous, if not more so, than the artists they nurtured and collected. As colorful and daring as the art she collected, Peggy Guggenheim was one of the most important figures in the twentieth-century art world. Born into a wealthy New York family, she traveled throughout Europe during the 1920s and 1930s, where she was witness to the development of the most influential art movements. With a keen eye and exalted social standing, she amassed one of the most significant, privately owned, modern art collections in the world from her palazzo in Venice, Italy. The Peggy Guggenheim Collection of Modern Art is the only complete book on this exceptional collection and the woman...
ISBN: 0847823792
Издательство:
Rizzolli
Дата выхода: май 2002
The Penguin Complete English Reference Collection: Dictionary of english grammar, new penguin dictionary of abbreviations, quickway crossword dictionary, penguin A-Z thesaurus, penguin guide to punctuation, pengiun dictionary of english idioms, concise english dictionary, penguin guide to plain english.
THE MONARCHY HAS BEEN DISMANTLED When a Republican party wins the General Election, their first act in power is to strip the royal family of their assets and titles and send them to live on a housing estate in the Midlands. Exchanging Buckingham Palace for a two-bedroomed semi in Hell Close (as the locals dub it), caviar for boiled eggs, servants for a social worker named Trish, the Queen and her family learn what it means to be poor among the great unwashed. But is their breeding sufficient to allow them to rise above their changed circumstance or deep down are they really just like everyone else?
ISBN: 978-0-141-01087-8
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: январь 2011
