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"Transcendentalism in New England" by Octavius Brooks Frothingham. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are...
| Автор | Octavius Brooks Frothingham |
George Eliot has been widely praised both for the richness of her prose and the universality of her themes. In this compelling study, Peggy Fitzhugh Johnstone goes beyond these traditional foci to examine the role of aggression in Eliot's fiction and to find its source in the author's unconscious sense of loss stemming from traumatic family separations and deaths during her childhood and adolescence. Johnstone demonstrates that Eliot's creative work was a constructive response to...
| Автор | Peggy Fitzhugh Johnstone |
George Eliot has been widely praised both for the richness of her prose and the universality of her themes. In this compelling study, Peggy Fitzhugh Johnstone goes beyond these traditional foci to examine the role of aggression in Eliot's fiction and to find its source in the author's unconscious sense of loss stemming from traumatic family separations and deaths during her childhood and adolescence. Johnstone demonstrates that Eliot's creative work was a constructive response to...
| Автор | Peggy Fitzhugh Johnstone |
Translating Audiovisuals in a Kaleidoscope of Languagesaddresses the challenges involved in translating multilingualism in film and TV fiction. It shows the complexity of fictional characters «speaking in tongues» in different genres and for different audiences. It includes individual contributions and team project work on a range of audiovisual translation modes, such as dubbing, subtitling and audio description. The types of products analyzed go from musicals to detective stories, including...
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Артур Шницлер (1862–1931) – австрийский драматург и прозаик, в новеллах содержится социальная критика. В книге представлены наиболее интересные и значимые произведения автора, среди которых знаменитые новеллы «Лейтенант Густль» и «Траумновелле». По мотивам «Траумновелле» режиссер Стэнли Кубрик снял фильм «С широко закрытыми глазами». Оригинальный текст снабжен постраничными комментариями и словарем.
| Автор | Arthur Schnitzler |
This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Arisians, the alien race is breeding two genetic lines to become the ultimate weapon in Arisia's cosmic war with their arch-enemies, the Eddorians…. This edition brings to you both the versions of this famous sci-fi story in one convenient edition for your ultimate pleasure!
| Автор | E. E. Smith |
This volume is co-edited by the director of the Freiburg graduate school «Factual and Fictional Narration» (GRK 1767, Freiburg/Germany) and the director of the Aarhus Centre for Fictionality Studies (University of Aarhus, DK). The collection of essays re-examines the much discussed fact―fiction distinction in light of the current burgeoning of research on fictionality. It provides a forum for ongoing work on fictionality from France, Germany and Denmark and Sweden. By placing discussions of the...
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Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created volume of «Treasure Island & Other Great Adventures (Illustrated)». This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. A literary celebrity during his lifetime, Stevenson now...
| Автор | Robert Louis Stevenson |
Treasure Island is the ultimate pirate adventure story, replete with treasure and an unforgettable cast, including Jim Hawkins, the boy at the centre of the action; Billy Bones, the pirate with the all important treasure map; Captain Alexander Smollet, the stubborn yet loyal captain of the Hispaniola; Israel Hands, ships coxswain who tries to kill Jim Hawkins but ends up in Davy Jones Locker; Ben Gunn, a half-insane and marooned ex-pirate; Pew, a blind ex-pirate who dies when trampled by horses;...
| Автор | Robert Louis Stevenson |
Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of «buccaneers and buried gold». Stevenson conceived of the idea of Treasure Island (originally titled, «The Sea Cook: A Story for Boys») from a map of an imaginary, romantic island idly drawn by Stevenson and his stepson on a rainy day in Braemar, Scotland. Plot: An old sailor, calling himself «the captain» comes to lodge at the Admiral Benbow Inn on the west English coast during the mid-1700s,...
| Автор | Robert Louis Stevenson, Роберт Стивенсон и др. |
Die Erzählung von Tristan und Isolde ist neben der vom Gral oder der von König Artus und seiner Tafelrunde einer der Stoffe, die von der erzählenden Literatur des europäischen Mittelalters häufig bearbeitet wurden. Zahlreiche Dichter unterschiedlicher Volksliteraturen besonders in Frankreich und Deutschland haben ihr dichterisches Können an der Gestaltung dieses spannungsreichen Stoffes erprobt.
| Автор | Gottfried von Straßburg |
"Treat 'em Rough: Letters from Jack the Kaiser Killer" by Ring Lardner. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that...
| Автор | Lardner Ring |
This early work by Ring Lardner was originally published in 1918 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. 'Treat 'Em Rough' is a selection of short stories written in letter form. Ring Lardner was born in Niles, Michigan in 1885. He studied engineering at the Armour Institute of Technology in Chicago, but did not complete his first semester. In 1907, Lardner obtained his first job as journalist with the South Bend Times. Six years later, he published his first...
| Автор | Lardner Ring |
"Trees, and Other Poems" by Joyce Kilmer. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to...
| Автор | Joyce Kilmer |
"The world will never starve for want of wonders, but only for want of wonder."— G. K. ChestertonThe thirty-nine short essays that make up Chesterton's delightful book are the result of «sitting still and letting marvels and adventures settle on him like flies.» Actually, the author does move around quite a bit—to Germany, France, and on foot in England when he tires of waiting for a train. Everywhere he goes, Chesterton looks at ordinary things and asks us to see...
| Автор | G. K. Chesterton |