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
Jeremy Paxman knows every maneouvre a politician will make to avoid answering a difficult question, but here he seeks an answer to just one: What makes politicians tick? Embarking on a journey in which he encounters movers and shakers past and present, he discovers: • that Prime Ministers have often lost a parent in childhood • why Trollope is the politician’s novelist of choice • that Lloyd George once hunted Jack the Ripper • how an Admiral’s speech in parliament helped win WWII Where do politicians come from? How do they get elected? What do they do all day? And why do they seek power? All these questions and many more are addressed in Paxman’s thrilling dissection of that strange and elusive breed – the...
ISBN: 978-0-14-103296-2
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic. The Pickwick Papers, written when Dickens was only 25 years old, immediately brought him immense popularity. Mr. Samuel Pickwick, retired business man and confirmed bachelor, is determined that after a quiet lite of enterprise the time has come to go out into the world. Together with the other members of the Pickwick Club: Tracy Tupman, Augustus Snodgrass and Nathaniel Winkle, he embarks on a series of hilariously comic adventures. From these reports emerge the rascal Jingle and his servant, Job Trotter, the engaging Sam Weller, the greedy drunkard Stiggins, and many more of Dickens`s best-loved characters.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07930-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Книги серии "Читаем на английском языке в оригинале" — это любимые всеми произведения мировых классиков, представленные на языке оригинала. Вы сможете не только по-настоящему "прочувствовать" стиль автора и познакомиться с характерными выражениями и речевыми оборотами, но и повысить свой уровень владения языком. Перед вами всемирно известный роман Оскара Уайльда "Портрет Дориана Грея", который по своей...
ISBN: 978-5-17-121597-2
Издательство:
АСТ
Дата выхода: март 2020
An exhilarating exploration of how the world`s languages are likely to transform and be transformed by their speakers Mark Abley, author of Spoken Here, takes the reader on a global journey like no other - from Singapore to Tokyo, from Oxford to Los Angeles, through the Internet and back in time. As much a travel book as a tour of words at play, The Prodigal Tongue goes beyond grammar and vocabulary to discover how language is irrevocably changing the people of the world in far-reaching his travels, Abley encounters bloggers, translators, novelists, therapists, dictionary makers, hip-hop performers, and Web-savvy teens. He talks to a married couple who corresponded passionately online before they met in meatspace. And he listens to...
Henry James (1843—1916) was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism. «The Princess Casamassima» is the wonderful story of an intelligent but confused young London bookbinder, Hyacinth Robinson, who becomes involved in radical politics and a terrorist assassination plot. The book is unusual in the Jamesian canon for dealing with such a violent political subject.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07074-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: апрель 2018
Fenimore Cooper`s fictitious frontier hero Bumppo is never called by his name, but is instead referred to as "the trapper" or "the old man". It depicts Natty in the final year of his life still proving helpful to people in distress on the American frontier. The book frequently references characters and events from the two books previously published in the Leatherstocking Tales as well as the two which Cooper wouldn`t write for more than ten years.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06641-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
Блестящая книга от самого индийского из английских писателей - Редъярда Киплинга. Иногда так случается, что бывшие возлюбленные не дают о себе забыть. Рикша-призрак становится проводником для беспокойных духов, и разум героя рискует повредиться от переплетения видимого и невидимого миров. Но что делать мужчине, если экс-любовница не прекращает преследовать его не только после их расставания, но и… после...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05552-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2017
