HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics.‘Northanger Abbey! These were thrilling words, and wound up Catherine's feelings to the highest point of ecstasy.’Considered the most light-hearted and satirical of Austen’s novels, Northanger Abbey tells the story of an unlikely young heroine Catherine Morland. While staying in Bath, Catherine meets Henry Tilney and his sister Eleanor who invite her to their family estate, Northanger Abbey. A fan of Gothic Romance...
Catherine Morland is modest and well mannered, more comfortable reading her novels than socializing with people. When she is unexpectedly invited to the English resort city of Bath for the winter season, where many wealthy families reside, Catherine seizes the opportunity. Eager to create some excitement in her life, Catherine will not miss the doldrums of her home in the countryside. Catherine quickly makes friends with Isabella Thorpe, a coquettish young woman who has a predilection for...
In this spirited comedy of manners Catherine Morland, a plain, unspoiled small-town girl on holiday in Bath, meets and falls in love with Henry Tilney, a handsome young clergyman. Henry's father, believing Catherine to be wealthy, invites her to be a guest at Northanger Abby, the family's country estate. Catherine, who has read too many Gothic romances and who is possessed of too vivid an imagination, views the abbey as a house of nightmarish horror — an aspect of the book...
First published in 1904, “Nostromo” is widely considered one of Joseph Conrad’s best works. Set in the fictitious mining town of Sulaco, a port city in the imaginary South American country of Costaguana, it is the story of Senõr Gould, an English expatriate who owns the silver-mining concession in the country. When the country becomes engulfed in increasing violence and chaos, Senõr Gould charges Nostromo, his trusted head longshoreman, with the duty of hiding his silver so that it does not fall...
First published in 1930, “Not Without Laughter” is the debut novel by Langston Hughes and a deeply personal, semi-autobiographical tale of an African-American family in rural Kansas. Langston Hughes, born in 1902 in Joplin, Missouri, spent much of his youth in Lawrence, Kansas and it is here that he set his first novel. “Not Without Laughter” tells the story of young Sandy Rogers as he grows from a boy to a young man and focuses on his “awakening to the sad and beautiful realities of black life...
A shining star of the Harlem Renaissance movement, Langston Hughes is one of modern literature's most revered African-American authors. Although best known for his poetry, Hughes produced in Not Without Laughter a powerful and pioneering classic novel.This stirring coming-of-age tale unfolds in 1930s rural Kansas. A poignant portrait of African-American family life in the early twentieth century, it follows the story of young Sandy Rogers as he grows from a boy to a man. We meet...
A strange story, told by indirection, as Jane Waring, through recurrent interviews with a mysterious Mr. Small who is trying to get from her all she can give him of her knowledge of Mark Bradley, tells Brad’s story, as she knows it. In complete darkness as to Small’s purpose, Jane withholds (both from him and the reader) many connecting links, impressions, emotional overtones and undertones—telling only what each question involves. Bit by bit the pieces fall into place—and when after some time...
Утопия – это жанр художественной литературы, описывающий модель идеального общества. Впервые само слова «утопия» употребил английский мыслитель XV века Томас Мор. Книга, которую Вы держите в руках, содержит три величайших в истории литературы утопии. «Новая Атлантида» – утопическое произведение ученого и философа, основоположника эмпиризма Ф. Бэкона «Государства и Империи Луны» – легендарная утопия родоначальника научной фантастики, философа и ученого Савиньена Сирано де Бержерака. ...
Основоположник эмпиризма и материализма, Фрэнсис Бэкон – один из крупнейших философов Нового времени. Его главная работа была посвящена выработке нового научного метода на смену устаревшим идеям Аристотеля – старому «Органону». Монументальным трудом Ф. Бэкона должно было стать «Великое восстановление наук». В нем английский мыслитель хотел нарисовать подробную карту нового мировоззрения, уделив внимание каждой основной науке того времени: поэзии, истории и философии. Этой «карте», к сожалению,...
В романе «Нума Руместан», который изначально носил название «Север и Юг», Доде показывает французский Юг: помпезный, классический, театральный, обожающий зрелища, костюмы, подмостки, пышные султаны, фанфары… На Юге люди вкрадчивы и льстивы, они самозабвенно и ослепляюще красноречивы, и при этом абсолютно бесцветны. Цвет и краски – удел Севера, с его короткими, но страшными вспышками гнева и неестественными ужимками и… неиссякаемым воображением. Так и своих героев Доде «сталкивает»,...