Classics

Издательство: Alma Books
Дата выхода: январь 2017

Издательство: Alma Books
Дата выхода: январь 2018

Издательство: Alma Books
Дата выхода: январь 2019

Jacob Grimm and his brother Wilhelm were philologists and folklorists. The brothers rediscovered a host of fairy tales, telling of princes and princesses in their castles, witches in their towers and forests, of giants and dwarfs, of fabulous animals and dark deeds. Together with the well-known tales of "Rapunzel", "The Goose Girl", "Sleeping Beauty", "Hansel and Gretel" and "Snow White", there are the darker tales such as "Death`s Messengers" which deserve to be better known, and which will appeal not only to all who are interested in the history of folklore, but also to all those who simply love good story-telling.

Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012

Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2017

Издание полностью на английском языке.Father Brown, one of the most quirky genial and lovable characters to emerge from English detective fiction, first made his appearance in "The Innocence of Father Brown" in 1911. That first collection of stories established G.K. Chesterton`s kindly cleric in the front rank of eccentric sleuths.This complete collection contains all the favourite Father Brown stories, showing a quiet wit and compassion that has endeared him to many, whilst solving his mysteries by a mixture of imagination and a sympathetic worldliness in a totally believable manner.

Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2006

Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2011

Издательство: Alma Books
Дата выхода: январь 2020

"Father Brown" one of the most quirkily genial and lovable characters to emerge from english detective fiction, first made his appearance in The Innocence of "Father Brown" in 1911. that first collection of stories established G.K.Chesterton`s kindly clericin the front rank of eccentric steuths. This collection contains all the favourite "Father Brown" stories. They represent form quiet wit and compassion which is so different from his moody and caustic predecessor, Conan Doyle`s Sherlock Holmes. Father Brownsilves his mysteries by a mixture of intuition and aympatheticworldlines in a totally believable manner.

Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2006

Издательство: Alma Books
Дата выхода: январь 2012

Издательство: Alma Books
Дата выхода: январь 2016

Издательство: Alma Books
Дата выхода: январь 2012

Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения.

Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2012

Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения. Set in 1482, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame is a compelling story of love and betrayal, brutal deeds and one of the most famous acts of revenge in world literature. Quasimodo, the hunchback of the title, is one of fiction`s most extreme characters - beneath his monstrous disfigurement, his love for the beautiful Esmerelda reveals a heart full of intense emotion. The novel is set in the great cathedral of Notre-Dame and had a profound influence on the Romantic Movement.

Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2020

Издательство: Alma Books
Дата выхода: январь 2008

Издательство: Alma Books
Дата выхода: январь 2020

"The Last Man" is Mary Shelley`s apocalyptic fantasy of the end of human civilisation. Set in the late twenty-first century, the novel unfolds a sombre and pessimistic vision of mankind confronting inevitable destruction. Interwoven with her futuristic theme, Mary Shelley incorporates idealised portraits of Shelley and Byron, yet rejects Romanticism and its faith in art and nature. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) was the only daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, author of "Vindication of the Rights of Woman", and the radical philosopher William Godwin. Her mother died ten days after her birth and the young child was educated through contact with her father`s intellectual circle and her own reading. She met Percy Bysshe Shelley in...

Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

The Little Prince is a modern fable, and for readers far and wide both the title and the work have exerted a pull far in excess of the book's brevity. Written and published first by Antoine de St-Exupery in 1943, only a year before his plane disappeared on a reconnaissance flight, it is one of the world's most widely translated books, enjoyed by adults and children alike. In the meeting of the narrator who has ditched his plane in the Sahara desert, and the little prince, who has dropped there through time and space from his tiny asteroid, comes an intersection of two worlds, the one governed by the laws of nature, and the other determined only by the limits of imagination. The world of the imagination wins hands down, with the concerns...

Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2018

Издательство: Alma Books
Дата выхода: январь 2020

None of the great Victorian novels is more vivid and readable than `The Mayor of Casterbridge`. Set in the heart of Hardy`s Wessex, the `partly real, partly dream country` he founded on his native Dorset, it charts the rise and self-induced downfall of asingle `man of character`. The fast-moving and ingeniously contrived narrative is Shakespearian in its tragic force, and features some of the author`s most striking episodes and brilliant passages of description.

Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: январь 2002

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.

Издательство: Alma Books
Дата выхода: август 2020

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.

Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2000

Издательство: Alma Books
Дата выхода: январь 2011

"The Rainbow" is about three generations of the Brangwen family of Nottinghamshire from the 1840s to the early years of the twentieth century. Within this historical framework Lawrence`s essential concern is with the passional lives of his characters andhe explores the pressures that determine their lives, using a religious symbolism in which the "rainbow" of the title is his unifying motif. His primary focus is on the individual`s struggle to growth and fulfilment within marriage and changing social circumstances, a process shown to grow more difficult through the generations. Young Ursula Brangwen, whose story is continued in "Women in Love", is finally the central figure in Lawrence`s anatomy of the confining structures of English...

Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: февраль 2007

After Sherlock Holmes` apparently fatal encounter with the sinister Professor Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls, the great detective reappears, to the delight of the faithful Dr Watson in "The Adventure of the Empty House". This follows the celebrated full-length "The Hound of the Baskervilles". The stories are illustrated by Sidney Paget, the finest of illustrators, from whom our images of Sherlock Holmes and his world derive. This is the second of three volumes of "The Complete Sherlock Holmes" reproduced from original copies of "The Strand Magazine". The three books present all the Holmes stories arranged chronologically in order of first publication.

Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: август 2001