Brought up in the household of a powerful Baron, Candide is an open-minded young man, whose tutor, Pangloss, has instilled in him the belief that `all is for the best`. But when his love for the Baron`s rosy-cheeked daughter is discovered, Candide is cast out to make his own way in the world. And so he and his various companions begin a breathless tour of Europe, South America and Asia, as an outrageous series of disasters befall them - earthquakes, syphilis, a brush with the Inquisition, murder - sorely testing the young hero`s optimism.
ISBN: 0140623035
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: декабрь 2002
В серии Penguin Popular Classics вышли самые известные произведения классика английской литературы Чарльза Диккенса: David Copperfield Oliver Twist Great Expectations A Tale of Two Cities Bleak House A Christmas Carol Hard Times. Издание полностью на английском языке. Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения.
ISBN: 0140620990
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2002
Raskolnikov, a former student who is morbidly self-obsessed, murders an old woman money-lender with a borrowed hatchet in a desperate attempt to free himself from poverty. From the opening pages Dostoyevsky attaches us unflinchingly to his intense and mysterious anti-hero, creating a web of intimacy and tension which is increasingly claustrophobic. Crime and guilt - its traumatic and inevitable successor - are the central themes running through the novel and the notions of 'justifiable' murder and worldly retribution are depicted with a deft and razor-sharp precision.
ISBN: 0140621806
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: декабрь 2001
In the stultified air of the wealthy European holiday resorts, Americans cling to their old ways and traditions. Daisy Miller, with her outspoken honesty and innocence of mind, is anathema to them. Even to Winterbourne, the young American 'student' whom she meets on the shores of Lake Geneva, she is 'uncultivated' and although captivated by"her, he feels she is a little too forward for polite society.
ISBN: 0140621709
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: август 2002
"Of my books, I like this the best" Charles Dickens David Copperfield relates the story of his life - transmuting many of the early experiences of his creator — right from his birth to his attainment of settled maturity and successful authorship. On his journey, David encounters a gallery of memorable characters, kind, cruel or grotesque: Mr Micawber, Uriah Heep and Steerforth are among the many who shape his development. By turns absorbingly comic, dramatic, ironic and tender, the novel brings into energetic life the society and preoccupations of the mid-Victorian world.
ISBN: 0-14-062026-5
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2002
Роман А.Кристи, выдающегося мастера детективной прозы, захватывает читателя неожиданными поворотами сюжета, отточенностью мысли автора, умением анализировать, непредсказуемостью развязки. Книга предназначена для широкого круга читателей, изучающих английский язык и совершенствующихся в нем.
ISBN: 5-8346-0249-5
Издательство:
Менеджер
Дата выхода: январь 2004
Scott Fitzgerald blends wit and cynicism in his satirical portraits of the swinging Jazz Age. The stories capture a glittering whirl of dancing, laughter and champagne, and the gods that are worshipped are glamour, wealth and social status. `The Bowl` isa clear metaphor for this cold and brittle works, as a beautiful woman is made to suffer for the cruelty of her youth, her punishment ironically taking the shape of a cut - glass punch - bowl. The amusing `Bernice Bobs Her Hair` depicts a dull girl striving at all coasts to enter society, where the competition and jealousy wrought between women leads to bitter vengeance and a quirky twist in the tale. However, the powerful and destructive influence of money is never more stunningly...
ISBN: 0140622381
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2000
Dracula is a unique horror masterpiece and the most famous of all vampire tales. Few readers will ever forget the nightmare atmosphere of Count Dracula\'s sinister castle in Transylvania, the prowlings of the Un-dead, the blood-curdling tension as Bram Stoker\'s tale races towards a thrilling climax. Dracula recounts the struggle of a group of men and a woman - Dr Seward, Dr Van Helsing and Jonathan Harker and his wife Mina - to destroy the vampire, whose sinister earth-filled coffins are discovered by Harker in a ruined chapel adjoining Dr Seward\'s asylum. Cruel and noble, evilly and fatally desirable to women, Dracula possesses a terrifying lust for power and, like Dr Jekyll or Conan Doyle\'s Moriarty, is one of the immortal...
ISBN: 0-14-062063-X
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: декабрь 2002
"When you remember that Dublin has been a capital for thousands of years ... it seems strange that no artist has given it to the world." Thus Joyce wrote to his brother, and at the early age of twenty-five he completed Dubliners - a sequence of highly detailed episodes depicting middle-class Catholic life in Dublin. The frustrations of childhood, disappointments of adolescence and mystery of sexual awakening are related in the opening stories with clarity and sensitivity. In the most famous story, "The Dead", Joyce presents a Christmas gathering of friends and neighbours, but there is an underlying tension and sense of despair involved in the plot, which adds a disturbing clement to the superficial social scene. The realism and symbolic...
ISBN: 0-14-062217-9
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: август 2002
From her position of wealth and happy respectability, Fanny Hill looks back at her early life and disreputable adventures. Arriving in London alone, poor and innocent, she falls into the hands of a brothel-keeper. But only when she is separated from the man she loves does she enrol in the "unhappy profession" of prostitution. Fanny becomes a kept woman and also works in an elegant bawdy-house, entertaining polite voluptuaries. By the age of eighteen, she can afford to retire; in her marriage she can at last combine sexual passion with romantic love. Like its heroine, the novel "Fanny Hill" has also risen to respectability. It is now recognized as an erotic entertainment that exemplifies both the philosophy of libertinism and the...
ISBN: 0140620885
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2002
Frankenstein is a young, idealistic student of natural philosophy who, finding the secret of giving life to matter, creates a living being. The monstrous creation, though tender-hearted and gentle in nature, inspires fear in those who meet him and must hide away from society. Increasingly lonely and isolated, the monster becomes embittered and cruel, taking a hideous revenge on his creator. In a dramatic denouement in which Frankenstein pursues his creation to the Arctic in order to destroy him, Mary Shelley reveals the terrifying consequences of playing God.
ISBN: 0-14-062030-3
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: декабрь 2002