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Seven of the best Lawrence stories, each turning on some facet of sexual feeling, attitude, or convention. «The Prussian Officer» focuses on an aristocratic captain's homoerotic obsession for his young orderly. «The Shadow in the Rose Garden» and «The White Stocking» deal with sexual jealousy. «Daughters of the Vicar» brilliantly describes two exceedingly class-conscious mating rituals. «The Christening,» «Second Best» and «Odour of Chrysanthemums» etch memorable portraits of a...
| Автор | D. H. Lawrence |
First published in 1855, Bulfinch's Mythology has introduced generations of readers to the great myths of Greece and Rome, as well as time-honored legends of Norse mythology, medieval, and chivalric tales, Oriental fables, and more. Readers have long admired Bulfinch's versions for the skill with which he wove various versions of a tale into a coherent whole, the vigor of his storytelling, and his abundant cross-references to poetry and painting, demonstrating the relationship of...
| Автор | Bulfinch Thomas |
Twelve of the finest short stories by great French writers comprise this excellent collection, with themes that range from desire and psychological intrigue to the mysteries of failure and success.Includes: «The Horla» and «The Necklace» by Guy de Maupassant; «The Attack on the Mill» by Emile Zola; «Mocromegas» by Voltaire; «The Legend of St. Julian the Hospitaler» by Gustave Flaubert; «Mateo Falcone» by Prosper Mérimée; «The Return of the Prodigal Son» by André Gide;...
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A tribute to the first great age of fictional sleuthing, this delightful collection of 13 mystery classics is devoted to the genuine tale of ratiocination, in which the detective solves the crime by investigation and observation, by using his or her wits.Included among these gems, written between 1841 and 1920, are Edgar Allan Poe's «The Murders in the Rue Morgue,» widely acknowledged as the first detective story; Charles Dickens' «Three Detective Anecdotes,» in which a policeman is...
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У творах Френсіса Скотта Фіцджеральда (1896–1940), створених на початку 1920-х pp. – збірках новел «Flappers and Philosophers» (1920), «Tales of the Jazz Age» (1922) – зберігається здебільшого невимушено іронічний настрій розповіді. Письменник у той період уособлював втілення американської мрії – молодість, заможність, ранній успіх, тож і головними вартостями молодого покоління описував потяг до багатства, успіху і безтурботних розваг. У книзі зібрано п’ятнадцять новел початку 1920-х....
| Автор | Фрэнсис Скотт Фицджеральд |
Данная книга представляет собой сборник самых знаменитых произведений английской классической литературы. В него вошли самые известные романы сестер Бронте: «Джейн Эйр» и «Грозовой перевал», на которых выросло не одно поколение читателей по всему миру.
Тексты адаптированы для продолжающих изучение английского языка (Уровень 3) и сопровождаются комментариями и словарем.
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| Автор | Эмили Бронте |
Few works of contemporary literature are so universally acclaimed as central to our understanding of the human experience as Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett’s famous trilogy. Molloy , the first of these masterpieces, appeared in French in 1951. It was followed seven months later by Malone Dies and two years later by The Unnamable . All three have been rendered into English by the author.
| Автор | Samuel Beckett |
Maitland Maternity – where the luckiest babies are bornTriplet Secret Babies Judy Christenberry Unwed heiress Briana McCallum is expecting triplets. But the identity of the father is secret; rumour has it that she had met someone on a trip out of town almost eight months ago. Could the undisclosed daddy be newcomer Hunter Callaghan? Quadruplets on the Doorstep Tina Leonard Caleb McCallum had been an elusive bachelor, until April Sullivan wanted to raise abandoned quadruplet babies as her own....
| Автор | Kasey Michaels |
One of the towering figures of Russian literature, Fyodor Dostoyevsky depicted with remarkable insight the depth and complexity of the human soul. In this literary classic, he focuses on Prince Myshkin — a nobleman whose gentle, child-like nature, and refusal to be offended by anything has earned him the nickname of «the idiot.»Returning to Russia from Switzerland, where he underwent medical treatment for a number of years, Myshkin learns of his benefactor's death, finds himself...
| Автор | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
A young beauty defies bigotry to marry a heroic warrior of a different race, but a false friend poisons her husband's mind with jealousy, «the green-eyed monster.» This gripping drama of romance and treachery unfolds amid the Renaissance splendor of Venice and Cyprus, centering on a soldier's plot to exact revenge by exploiting the weaknesses of others. An eloquent tale of betrayal and racism, Shakespeare's seventeenth-century tragedy continues to resonate for today's...
| Автор | Уильям Шекспир |
Preoccupied with death, and repressed in many areas of their lives, Victorians seem to have found an emotional outlet in ghost stories, eerie tales, and a fascination with the macabre. Writers of the era fed this appetite with a continuing feast of stories steeped in terror and the supernatural. This unique collection gathers together 21 of these Victorian-era spine-tinglers, but unlike most anthologies, which feature the same tired tales, this volume contains 21 outstanding, but neglected...
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A charismatic politician's assassination leads to a civil war in Shakespeare's drama of ancient Rome. Written in 1599 about an event from more than 2,000 years ago, this historical play continues to captivate modern audiences with its memorable characters, poetic speeches, and profound examination of the conflicting claims of ambition, ethics, and loyalty. With its compelling insights into history and human nature, Julius Caesar often serves as an introduction to the works of...
| Автор | Уильям Шекспир |
Among the country's greatest artistic contributions, 20th-century Russian literature was revolutionary in its approach to realism, injecting characters with human weaknesses familiar to all. It also provided fodder for other such important concepts as existentialism and even passive resistance, which was rooted in the works of Tolstoy, and practiced resistance, which was rooted in the works of Tolstoy and practiced successfully by Gandhi and Martin Luther King. The 12 powerful short stories...
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Test? Paper? Class discussion? Don't worry, we have you covered. This book has everything you need.<BR>Not only does it feature the complete text of <I>Much Ado About Nothing</I>, it offers a comprehensive study guide that will easily help you understand Shakespeare's classic drama.<BR>You'll make the grade with:<BR>• Complete and unabridged text<BR>• Scene-by-scene summaries<BR>• Explanations and discussions...
| Автор | Уильям Шекспир |
Zastrozzi was written by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) at age of 17 during his last year at Eton, and it was published in 1810 when he was at Oxford. In the first edition, he was identified on the title page only by his initials. In St. Irvyne, published shortly afterward, he was identified as "A Gentleman of the University of Oxford." Both novels are of interest today as early artifacts of the age of the Gothic horror novel—the era that...
| Автор | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
Патрик Зюскинд относится к числу самых популярных писателей ХХ века. Правда, нередко его называют автором лишь одного романа – «Парфюмер». Познакомившись с этой книгой, читатель легко убедится, что такое мнение ошибочно. Под одной обложкой собраны повесть «Голубка» («маленький шедевр в прозе»), четыре сравнительно коротких, но бесспорно интересных рассказа и пьеса «Контрабас», первое произведение Зюскинда, в котором поднимается тема «маленького» человека. Здесь автор раскрывается как...
| Автор | Патрик Зюскинд |
This huge novel, closer in scope to a Russian epic than to any English counterpart, opens at the turn of the century in the extreme poverty of the Rhinns of Galloway, an agricultural backwater of the southern-most part of Scotland. With a loving regard for the land and its people, Barke traces the lives of David and Jean Ramsay who, full of hope, painstakingly uproot themselves and their family in the search for prosperity. Their efforts to retain respect and a decent way of life are thwarted...
| Автор | James Barke |
Edited and Introduced by Anne McKim. This extraordinary poem has been widely popular and influential ever since it was written in the fifteenth century, and its heroic account of the swordfighter Wallace was to symbolise the cause of liberty and independence to many other countries and cultures in the centuries to come. Looking back to the days of the Bruce and the war of independence, Blind Harry’s poem is not an aristocratic tale of chivalry and nobility, but a vivid account of the...
| Автор | Blind Harry |
Selected and introduced by Jenni Calder. Ill health drove Robert Louis Stevenson from Scotland; the urge for new and adventurous places drew him to the Pacific. There were those at home who would have been happier to see him purely as a spinner of the picturesque, but Stevenson could not close his eyes to the impact of colonialism, the ‘stir-about of epochs and races, barbarisms and civilizations, virtues and crimes’. This collection sets three of his imaginative works —The Bottle Imp, The...
| Автор | Роберт Стивенсон |
"There is something at work in my soul which I do not understand…"<br><br>Mary Shelley: literary queen of the Romantic era, deeply influenced by the Gothic tradition, and arguably the matriarch of the Science Fiction genre. Her works, though composed in the 1800s, contain elements straight out of today's headlines: the tension between what science can do vs. what it should do, cryonics, contagion, apocalypse and other dark futuristic themes. Shelley...
| Автор | Mary Shelley |
According to legend, a resourceful bride won a stay of execution by captivating a sultan with a series of fantastic tales—and after 1,001 nights, the sultan could not bear to part with his storyteller. More than a thousand years later, readers continue to fall under the spell of the romantic adventures known as the Arabian Nights. This original collection features rare and unusual illustrations inspired by the traditional tales of Sinbad, Aladdin, Ali Baba, and a host of other exotic...
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This outstanding compilation presents stories by two of the writers who helped launch the early nineteenth-century German Romanticism movement: Ludwig Tieck and Jean Paul Richter. Translated by the great British historian Thomas Carlyle, it features seven highly influential tales that range in mood from fantasy and fairy tale lightness to witty satire. Shemlzie's Journey to Fletz and Life of Quintus Fixlien, a story and a novella by Richter, the least translated of the major German...
| Автор | Ludwig Tieck |
«Гетманич Орлик» – книга про унікальну людину. Хто він? Дипломат? Розвідник? Підпільний маршал Франції? Один з найінтелектуальніших людей тодішньої Європи, з яким однаково цікаво було спілкуватися як Вольтеру, так і Ієрусалимському патріарху.
| Автор | Иван Корсак |
| Жанр | Историческая проза, Неотсортированное, Зарубежная классическая проза |