Classics

"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

Издательство: Alma Books
Дата выхода: январь 2020

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

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

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

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

Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2012

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a powerful and sometimes violent novel of expectation, love, oppression, sin, religion and betrayal. It portrays the disintegration of the marriage of Helen Huntingdon, the mysterious ‘tenant’ of the title, and her dissolute, alcoholic husband. Defying convention, Helen leaves her husband to protect their young son from his father`s influence, and earns her own living as an artist. Whilst in hiding at Wildfell Hall, she encounters Gilbert Markham, who falls in love with her. On its first publication in 1848, Anne Brontë`s second novel was criticised for being `coarse` and `brutal`. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall challenges the social conventions of the early nineteenth century in a strong defence of...

Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2020

Издательство: Alma Books
Дата выхода: январь 2022

"To the Lighthouse" is the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf novels. It is based on her own early experiences, and while it touches on childhood and children perceptions and desires, it is at its most trenchant when exploring adult relationships, marriage and the changing class-structure in the period spanning the Great War.Издание на английском языке.

Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2002

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman took fiction into unknown realms, combining an entirely new concept in form with an idiosyncratic type of sentimental comedy. The publication of the first two of nine volumes brought the clergyman, Laurence Sterne, instant celebrity, but the novel`s exuberant mixture of bawdry and virtuous feeling also provided considerable moral outrage, which the author relished. An amorphous mass of inconsequential incidents, musings, reminiscences and countless hilarious digressions into side issues of the vaguest tangential relevance, make up this engaging anti-novel which has no beginning, middle or end, and is dominated by the author`s vibrant personality which commands the reader`s active...

Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2001

Дата выхода: январь 2020

Complete and unabridged, this title comes with a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. James Joyce`s astonishing masterpiece, "Ulysses", tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on 16 June 1904, during which Bloom`s voluptuous wife, Molly, commits adultery. Initially deemed obscene in England and the USA, this richly-allusive novel, revolutionary in its Modernistic experimentalism, was hailed as a work of genius by W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot and Ernest Hemingway. Scandalously frank, wittily erudite, mercurially eloquent, resourcefully comic and generously humane, "Ulysses" offers the reader a life-changing experience.

Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2010

One of Thomas Hardy`s most greatly loved and gentlest books, `Under the Greenwood Tree` is an unashamed idyll and picturesque portrait of the long-vanished pastoral society of early Victorian England. It was the book which established Hardy as a writer and is the ideal vehicle for him to express his affection and love for the Wessex countryside, rural life and characters in all seasons and moods. `Under the Greenwood Tree` will strike a chord with the modern day reader.

Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: декабрь 1999

Издательство: Alma Books
Дата выхода: январь 2017

"What Katy Did at School and What Katy Did Next" continue the story of the high-spirited and rebellious American girl, Katy Carr, and her family, who first appeared in "What Katy Did". "What Katy Did at Schoo"l is a compelling tale of the intrigues of life at the New England girls’ boarding school which Katy attends. Her trials and adventures are all interwoven with a sense of fun and gently ironic good humour. "What Katy Did Next" describes a tour by Katy of Europe as she evolves from the child of earlier books into a spirited young woman, and brings to a satisfying close this delightful trilogy.

Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2020

Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2013

Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2013

Вниманию читателей предлагается полный, неадаптированный текст трагедии Шекспира "Ромео и Джульетта" (1591). Издание рассчитано на лиц, владеющих основами английского языка и совершенствующих свои навыки в нем.

Издательство: Икар
Дата выхода: январь 2006