"Great Expectations" opens unforgettably in a twilit and overgrown churchyard on the eerie Kent marshes. There the orphan Pip is disturbed to meet an escaped convict, Magwitch, but gives him food, in an encounter that is to haunt both their lives. How Pip receives riches from a mysterious benefactor, snobbishly abandons his friends for London society and "great expectations", and grows through misfortune and suffering to maturity is the theme of one of Dickens`s best-loved novels. In "Great Expectations" Dickens blends gripping drama with penetrating satire to give a compelling story rich in comedy and pathos: he has also created two of his finest, most haunting characters in Pip and Miss Havisham.
ISBN: 0-14-062016-8
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: август 1995
Издание полностью на английском языке. Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения. The parties at Gatsby's Long Island mansion were legendarily glamorous affairs. Yet amid the throng of guests, starlets and champagne waiters, their host would appear oddly aloof. For there was only one person Jay Gatsby sought to impress. She was Daisy Buchanan: married, elegant, seducing men with a silken charisma and `a full of money`. As Gatsby pursues shady deals and his doomed obsession with Daisy, Fitzgerald distills the essence of the Jazz Age, and probes to the empty heart of the American Dream.
ISBN: 0140620184
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: февраль 2002
"O, what a noble mind is here o\'erthrown!" Probably the most famous play in the English language, Hamlet transcends the revenge tradition and explores the nature of man. Learning that his father has been killed by Claudius, his uncle. Hamlet\'s only honourable course of action is revenge- But Hamlet\'s nature tends not towards action but reflection and in his incapacity to act lies the seed of his own destruction. The text of this edition is edited by G.B. Harrison and contains notes, a glossary and an introduction.
ISBN: 0-14-062058-3
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: декабрь 2002
Hard Times is both a tragic story of human oppression and a dazzling work of political satire. It depicts Coketown, a typical red-brick industrial city of the north. In its schools and factories children and adults are caged and enslaved, with no personal freedom until their spirit is broken. Against this social backdrop where harsh regimes are enforced by the likes of Josiah Bounderby, the pompous self-made man, and Gradgrind, the censorious disciplinarian, the personal tragedies of Louisa Gradgrind and Stephen Blackpool are played out. Despite its vivid portrait of the horrors of the newly mechanized society, Hard Times is shot through with a wit, good humour and a conviction that entertainment is essential for human happiness, making...
ISBN: 0140620443
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2002
In this haunting tale, Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his experiences in Africa when he led an expedition into the impenetrable and mysterious core of the jungle. The darkness he encounters is both moral and physical: Mr Kurtz, the agent dealing in ivory whom he is to meet, is the embodiment of corruption, decay and exploitation. As an outsider, Marlow finds himself drawn to the charismatic Kurtz, but after witnessing the malevolence and tyranny that emanate from him, Marlow is forced to look into his own soul and reassess his values. Издание полностью на английском языке.
ISBN: 0140620486
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2002
Heidi is only five when she is taken to live with her grandfather, known as Uncle Alp, in the Swiss mountains. Notorious in the village for his gloomy outlook and reclusive nature, Uncle Alp nevertheless comes to love little Heidi, and she him. Heidi is growing fond of her new mountain family and friends when she is suddenly taken to Frankfurt to be a companion to Clara, an invalid. Although she brings great joy into Clara's life, Heidi pines for her home in the mountains. Only a miracle can bring joy to both Heidi and Clara, but for someone with Heidi's faith and goodness, miracles really can happen ... This classic story lyrically evokes a young child's growing understanding of poverty and wealth, illness and health and...
ISBN: 0140621911
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: декабрь 2002
Роман `В петле` - второй том трилогии `Сага о Форсайтах`, написанный в начале XX века, - знакомит читателей с историей семьи Форсайтов, неразрывно связанной с историей Англии. Бурное начало века и первая мировая война перевернули жизнь викторианской Англии. Закончилась целая эпоха. Смена эпох вызвала кризис традиционных устоев могущественной английской буржуазии, разрушила привычный уклад жизни, породила...
ISBN: 5-8346-0176-6
Издательство:
Менеджер
Дата выхода: август 2002
Jane Eyre is one of the great romantic heroines of world literature. Orphaned into cold charity at the hands of her rich cousins and, later, at Lowood School, Jane escapes to take up a position as governess to the young ward of Mr.Rochester. Their love affair, Jane`s discovery of Rochester`s secret - hideously concealed in the attic of Thornfield Hall - and her desperate flight are told in a drama of passionate intensity whose pace never slackens. Jane Eyre is a love story with a happy ending, rare in its time for its sympathetic portrayal of the love of a married man for another woman. It is, as Thackeray said, "The masterwork of a great genius".
ISBN: 0140620117
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: февраль 1994
Роман Т. Драйзера "Дженни Герхардт" — это роман о настоящей любви, бескорыстной и возвышенной, встречающей на своем пути препятствия, закаляющие характер главной героини, способствующие ее становлению как личности. Книга предназначена для широкого круга читаталей, изучающих английский язык.
ISBN: 5-8346-0246-0
Издательство:
Менеджер
Дата выхода: январь 2004
King Solomon's Mines has gripped generations of readers, young and old alike, ever since it first appeared in 1885. The whereabouts o{ King Solomon's legendary diamond mines had been inscribed in blood on an ancient map now in the possession of Allan Quatermain. His enthralling story begins on a ship steaming up the east coast of Africa. On board he meets Sir Henry Curtis and Captain John Good, and agrees to join their search for Curtis's younger brother, missing, believed dead, in the interior. Aided by the treasure map, the men set out on a perilous journey, an adventure tense with danger and excitement that culminates in a mountain trek to the vast caves of Solomon - and what they find there. Издание...
ISBN: 0140621237
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2002