John Donne (1572-1631) is a poet of concerted emotional and intellectual force, whose strenuously original approach to the subject matter, diction and form of verse re-made English poetry. Donne’s poetry combines paradoxical wit, scientific and theological learning with the rhythms and diction of spoken language. Crises of love, conscience, and faith are the great concerns of his poetry which is by turns exalted or disenchanted, direct or oblique, morally profound or outrageously spiteful.
ISBN: 978-1-85326-400-9
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: август 2011
William Sydney Porter known by his pen name 0. Henry, was an American short story writer. His wit and plot twists were adored by his readers, but often panned by the critics. Collected Short Stories includes "Psyche and the Pskyscraper", "A Bird of Bagdad", "Compliments of the Season", "A Night in New Arabia" and other stories.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07677-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
Edgar Allan Poe received scant recognition for his efforts, until the publication of "The Raven" in 1845. The poem`s popularity gave him a new visibility in literary circles. This title presents a collection of his tales and poems.
ISBN: 978-1-84022-172-5
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Wilde`s works are suffused with his aestheticism, brilliant craftsmanship, legendary wit and, ultimately, his tragic muse. He wrote tender fairy stories for children employing all his grace, artistry and wit, of which the best-known is The Happy Prince. Counterpoints to this were his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, which shocked and outraged many readers of his day, and his stories for adults which exhibited his fascination with the relations between serene art and decadent life. Wilde took London by storm with his plays, particularly his masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest. His essays - in particular De Profundis - and his Ballad of Reading Gaol, both written after his release from prison, strikingly break the bounds of his...
ISBN: 1-85326-397-4
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
William Sydney Porter known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. His wit and plot twists were adored by his readers, but often panned by the critics. Most of the stories included in Collected Short Stories are set in the early 20th century. Many take place in New York City and deal with ordinary people: policemen, waitresses and other citizens. This book includes wonderfull stories like "The Lost Blend", "A Harlem Tragedy", "The Last Leaf and other interesting tales.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07678-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title--offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords. This edition of "Edgar Allan Poe" includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and Afterword by S. T. Joshi. His life was a nightmare as gruesome as any of his stories. And his stories are dark masterpieces of gutwrenching horror.
ISBN: 978-0-8125-0455-2
Издательство:
Holtzbrink
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
William Sydney Porter known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. His wit and plot twists were adored by his readers, but often panned by the critics. Collected Short Stories includes amazing stories like "The Rose of Dixie", "The Third Ingredient", "The Hiding of Black Bill", "Schools and Schools" and many others.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07681-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
Herbert George Wells (1866 - 1946) was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, but he is now best remembered for his science fiction novels. This volume contains some of his most wonderful short stories, including "The Sea Raiders" - the story which describes a brief period when a previously unknown sort of giant squid, which attacks humans, is encountered on the coast of Devon, England.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08224-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2018
This edition of the poetry of Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) includes all the poems contained in the Definitive Edition of 1940. In his lifetime, Kipling was widely regarded as the unofficial Poet Laureate, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. His poetry is striking for its many rhythms and popular forms of speech, and Kipling was equally at home with dramatic monologues and extended ballads. He is often thought of as glorifying war, militarism, and the British Empire, but an attentive reading of the poems does not confirm that view. This edition reprints George Orwell's hard-hitting account of Kipling's poems, first published in 1942, and generally regarded as one of the most important contributions to critical...
ISBN: 9781853264054
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: август 2020
Selected and Introduced by David Stuart Davies. Prepare to take a step beyond reality into the fantastic realm of other worlds imagined by the pioneers of science fiction. This collection features a set of wide ranging and mind expanding tales created by the founding fathers of this most fascinating and exciting of literary genres. As well as the works of famous authors such as Jules Verne, Arthur Conan Doyle and Jack London, there are some startlingly original gems by lesser known scribes. Thrill to the adventures of the first invisible man in Edward Page Mitchell`s The Crystal Man; take part in Stanley G. Weinbaum`s A Martian Odyssey; travel back in time to the prehistoric world of Atlantis in J. Leslie Mitchell`s Three Go Back; be...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-656-0
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
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
В предлагаемом сборнике на английском языке опубликованы материалы международной конференции "Россия - Ирландия: коллективная память". Эти страны - крайние географические точки Европы, однако сходство между ними обнаруживается на уровне размышлений о национальной идентичности, в равной степени свойственных российским историкам, литераторам, политикам и их коллегам ирландцам. "Круглый стол" в Москве...
ISBN: 9785824308105
Издательство:
РОССПЭН
Дата выхода: август 2017
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor, and are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. Some of Gaskell`s best known novels are Cranford, North and South and Wives and Daughters. Collected Tales II contains five stories, including The Manchester Marriage and The Cage at Cranford.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07595-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
One of the greatest and grandest advocates of the literary vocation, Joseph Brodsky truly lived his life as a poet, and for it earned eighteen months in an Arctic labor camp, expulsion from his native country, and the Nobel Prize in Literature. Such were one man`s wages. Here, collected for the first time, are all the poems he published in English, from his earliest collaborations with Derek Walcott, Richard Wilbur, Howard Moss, and Anthony Hecht to the moving farewell poems he wrote near the end of his life. With nearly two hundred poems, several of them never before published in book form, this will be the essential volume of Brodsky`s work.
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: 978-5-521-08068-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
William Sydney Porter, known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. His wit and plot twists were adored by his readers, but often panned by the critics. Collected Short Stones includes two famous stories by O. Henry: "Waifs and Strays" and "The Ransom of Red Chief - a short story that follows two men who kidnap and attempt to ransom a wealthy Alabamian`s son; eventually, the men are driven crazy by the boy`s spoiled and hyperactive behavior.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07670-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
William Sydney Porter known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. His wit and plot twists were adored by his readers, but often panned by the critics. Collected Tales includes such wonderful stories like "The Fool-Killer", "The Clarion Call", "The Memento" and many others.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07684-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. This volume is a wonderful collection of absorbing short stories like "Our Midnight Visitor", "The Stone of Boxman`s Drift", "The Voice of Science", and other interesting tales.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07147-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018
The Student Activity Workbook has been updated with new assessment materials. Activities for each chapter are organized by section and are often integrated, calling on students to apply more than one skill to complete an activity. The workbook offers a variety of hands-on and critical thinking activities to reinforce and enrich each student`s learning of the text principles.
Contains essays, reviews and articles which illuminate the life and work of a man who created a literary manner from the process of thinking aloud and who elevated political writing to an art.
ISBN: 978-0-14-118306-0
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
William Sydney Porter known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. His wit and plot twists were adored by his readers, but often panned by the critics. Collected Short Stories is a collection of humorous and sentimental stories of sheepherders, cowpunchers, trail cooks, prospectors, outlaws, and Texas Rangers that offer the modern reader a window into American West. Perhaps reflecting O. Henry`s own experience as a young man in the middle of nowhere, where women were few and far between, many of the stories are comic tales of romantic rivalry.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07679-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
-This expanded edition of Pushkin``s prose fiction contains all his mature work with short pieces and The History of Pugachev. Pushkin``s prose tales are the foundation stones of Russian literature and his story-telling ability is clearly presented`
This title features collected works of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Few American novelists of the twentieth century have stayed as modern as F. Scott Fitzgerald. He gave a name to his age, `the Jazz Age`, but his reputation has outlived it. Gathered here are the five novels he wrote in his relatively short career, together with a number of the many short stories he wrote between 1922 and his death in 1940. "This Side of Paradise" catapulted him to fame, its expose of the manners and morals of a post-war generation becoming a cause celebre. "The Beautiful and Damned", a semi-autobiographical moral parable of a doomed marriage, affirmed Fitzgerald`s status as the spokesman for the generation of the 1920s. His third novel, "The Great Gatsby",...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-659-1
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
