В книге известного французского писателя Пьера Буля "Планета обезьян" повествуется о приключениях журналиста Улисса Меру, попавшего на планету, где носителями разума являются обезьяны. Людей, которые потеряли способность мыслить и говорить, выставляют в зоопарках и используют для биологических экспериментов. Улиссу удается войти в контакт с двумя учеными - шимпанзе, которые устраивают ему возможность...
ISBN: 5-8346-0209-6
Издательство:
Менеджер
Дата выхода: январь 2004
The story of Constance Chatterley\'s sexual awakening through her affair with Mellors the gamekeeper has remained one of the most controversial novels of the twentieth century. Frustrated and ensnared by her marriage to Clifford Chatterley, an invalid, Constance is deeply unhappy and unfulfilled. Her relationship with Mellors rekindles her sexual feelings and brings her back to life. She decides, however, to leave England to live with her sister Hilda and, though pregnant, she finds her own form of personal freedom. Unpublished in Britain until 1960 following the notorious trial, Lady Chatterley\'s Lover is still considered to be an unsurpassed celebration of sexual love that broke new ground in its frankness and candour.
ISBN: 0140622500
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2002
`Good people do a great deal of harm in this world. Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance. It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious ...` Beautiful, aristocratic, an adored wife and young mother. Lady Windermere is `a fascinating Puritan` whose severe moral code leads her to the brink of social suicide. The only one who can save her is the mysterious Mrs Erlynne whose scandalous relationship with Lord Windermere has prompted her ladyship`s fatal impulse. And Mrs Erlynne has a secret - a secret Lady Windermere must never know if she is to retain her peace of mind ... Lady Windermere`s Fan was first performed in 1892, launching Oscar...
ISBN: 0-14-062173-3
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: декабрь 2002
This light-hearted masterpiece tells of the influence Eugenia and her brother Felix exert on their Bostonian cousins when they visit the New World. In the hope of making a wealthy marriage, Eugenia, the Baroness Munster, and her younger brother, the artist Felix, descend on the Wentworths, in Boston. Installed in a nearby house, they become close friends with the younger Wentworths - Gertrude, Charlotte and Clifford. Издание полностью на английском языке.
ISBN: 0140620451
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2002
Вниманию читателей предлагается полный, неадаптированный текст популярного произведения Антуана де Сент-Экзюпери "Маленький принц". Издание рассчитано на лиц, владеющих основами французского языка и совершенствующих свои навыки в нем.
ISBN: 5-7974-0050-1
Издательство:
Икар
Дата выхода: июнь 2002
Издательство "Менеджер" продолжает знакомить читателей с творчеством известной французской писательницы Француазы Саган. В романе "Чудесные тучи" читатель встретит героев, знакомых ему по роману "Через месяц, через год", - Жозе и Бернара, познакомится с мужем Жозе - Алланом и грустной историей их совместной жизни.
ISBN: 5-8346-0251-7
Издательство:
Менеджер
Дата выхода: январь 2004
In `Little Dorrit` Dickens gives us a great satire on poverty and riches. At its centre are William Dorrit, who has been imprisoned for years in Marshalsea debtors` gaol, and his loyal daughter Amy, `Little Dorrit`, who cherishes an unrequited love for the novel`s hero, Arthur Clennam. As their stories weave together - drawing in the vast worlds of the Marshalsea, the poor of Bleeding Heart Yard, the government mandarins at the Circumlocution Office - so the novel unravels a compelling mystery of fraud, blackmail, a rich inheritance and a suppressed codicil. Dickens`s joyous eye for detail and his vigorous, encyclopedic curiosity combine with a mastery of plot and depth of vision to make `Little Dorrit` (1857) one of the finest novels...
ISBN: 0-14-062121-0
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2002
The good-natured March girls – Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy – manage to lead interesting lives despite Father\'s absence at war and the family\'s lack of money. Whether they\'re making plans for putting on a play or forming a secret society, their gaiety is infectious and even Laurie next door is swept up in their enthusiasm. Written from Louisa May Alcott\'s own experiences, this is a remarkable story.
ISBN: 0140621199
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: декабрь 1997
Jim, the first mate aboard the Patna, dreams youthful dreams of heroism and of the daring act that will prove his courage. But when the Patna, on a night crossing of the Arabian Sea, collides with a mysterious obstacle, Jim panics and jumps free. This single act of cowardice drives him to self-enforced exile as a white trader in the remote tropical outpost of Patusan. Jim`s search for redemption and his dramatic bid to vindicate his romantic ideals are the stuff of a magnificently vivid and subtle novel. With Heart of Darkness, Nostromo and The Secret Agent, Lord Jim ranks among Joseph Conrad`s masterpieces.
ISBN: 0-14-062014-1
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2002
Flaubert's story of the beautiful Madame Bovary scandalized Paris when first published in 1856. Seen as flagrantly amoral, its writer was himself prosecuted and, after a sensational trial, acquitted. Today, however, his novel is recognized as a milestone in European literature. Emma Rouault leaves her father to marry Charles Bovary, an insignificant local doctor, and to live among the bourgeoisie of Yonville. An ardent devourer of sentimental novels, Emma fills her head with fantastic notions of gallantry and high romance, which she soon finds lacking in her dull husband. Disillusioned and frustrated she finds solace in a tempestuous love affair with the local squire, naively imagining that he will fulfil her desires. Torn between...
ISBN: 0140621792
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2000
Учебное пособие является неотъемлемым компонентом учебно-методического комплекта (УМК) по английскому языку для учащихся I года обучения общеобразовательных учреждений.
ISBN: 5-241-00375-4
Издательство:
Высшая школа
Дата выхода: январь 2004
Учебное пособие является неотъемлемым компонентом учебно-методического комплекта (УМК) по английскому языку для учащихся I года обучения общеобразовательных учреждений.
ISBN: 5-241-00373-8
Издательство:
Высшая школа
Дата выхода: январь 2004
"I look out of my window in the morning when I rise as I would out of a port-hole of a ship in the Atlantic." In his imagination Melville lived as well as wrote Moby Dick, his great epic of whales and whaling, It tells the story of Ahab, Captain of the Pequod, and of his revenge-mission and insane pursuit of Moby Dick, the fierce white whale. Among Ahab\'s crew is Ishmael, a young man undergoing a gruelling rite of passage and pursuing a different salvation. As the Pequod circles the globe like a latter-day Noah\'s Ark, so Moby Dick ranges and digresses through space and time, through mythologies, religions and philosophies. It is Melville\'s great \'romance of adventure\' and one of the greatest novels of all time.
ISBN: 0140620621
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2002