In the spring of 1948 Arthur Miller retreated to a log cabin in Connecticut with the first two lines of a new play already fixed in his mind. He emerged six weeks later with the final script of Death of a Salesman - a painful examination of American life and consumerism. Opening on Broadway the following year, Miller`s extraordinary masterpiece changed the course of modern theatre. In creating Willy Loman, his destructively insecure anti-hero, Miller himself defined his aim as being `to set forth what happens when a man does not have a grip on the forces of life.`
ISBN: 978-0-14-118274-2
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Hailed as one of the world`s supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his death so much as apassing thought. But one day death announces itself to him, and to his shocked surprise he is brought face to face with his own mortality. How, Tolstoy asks, does an unreflective man confront his one and only moment of truth?
ISBN: 0-553-21035-1
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Linnet Ridgeway is, beautiful and clever. But she has enemies. When she is shot dead on a boat in Egypt, it is fortunate that detective Hercule Poirot is also on the trip. Penguin Readers are written by specialist ELT authors. The language, vocabulary, style and content of every book is carefully graded to make sure it suits the learner`s own language Penguin Reader has a range of activities in the book and accompanying Factsheet to help increase comprehension and develop reading, writing, listening and speaking skills.
ISBN: 978-1-4082-7630-3
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: август 2011
Издание полностью на английском языке. The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful. A girl who had until she lost her life. Hercule Poirot recalled an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: "I'd like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger". Yet in this exotic setting nothing was ever quite what it
ISBN: 978-0-00-711932-5
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2010
Знаменитая пьеса "Смерть коммивояжера" (1949, Пулитцеровская премия), написанная в жанре "домашней трагедии", посвящена конфликту главного героя, стареющего коммивояжера Вилли Ломана, со старшим сыном, не оправдавшим ожиданий отца. Считается, что в этом произведении А.Миллер выступает с критикой американского образа жизни, стремления преуспеть любой ценой.
ISBN: 978-5-94962-162-2
Издательство:
Антология
Дата выхода: январь 2010
This new edition combines Tolstoy’s most famous short tale, “The Death of Ivan Ilyich”, with a less well known but equally brilliant gem, “Master and Man”, both newly translated by Ann Pasternak Slater. Both stories confront death and the process of dying: In “Ivan Ilyich”, a bureaucrat looks back over his life, which suddenly seems meaningless and wasteful, while in Master and Man, a landowner and servant must each confront the value of the other as they brave a devastating snowstorm. The quintessential Tolstoyan themes of mortality, spiritual redemption, and life’s meaning are nowhere more movingly and deftly explored than in these two tales. This unique edition also includes a critical Introduction and extensive notes...
