Предлагаем читателям один из наиболее популярных романов современной английской писательницы Д. дю Морье. Захватывающий сюжет, интригующие загадочные обстоятельства, неразгаданная тайна, романтическая любовь приковывают внимание читателей. Книга предназначена для широкого круга читателей, изучающих английский язык и совершенствующихся в нем.
ISBN: 5-8346-0247-9
Издательство:
Менеджер
Дата выхода: январь 2004
Stephen Crane's American Civil War masterpiece The Red Badge of Courage is one of the greatest of all war novels. Two days of fighting on a woodland battlefield are focused through the excited senses of a raw Union recruit, Henry Fleming. Dreaming of heroism, but shamefully discovering his own mortal fear of danger and death - and of fear itself - he flees from his first encounter with Confederate troops. But when he is drawn back into the battle he wins by accident his 'red badge', the wound that signifies initiation into manhood and possession of courage to join the world of men. Издание полностью на английском языке. Полный, неадаптированный текст...
ISBN: 0140620893
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2002
Перу Д.Дефо принадлежит около 400 произведений. Самое знаменитое из них, сделавшее имя автора бессмертным, - роман `Робинзон Крузо`. Это рассказ о молодом человеке, заброшенном после кораблекрушения на необитаемый остров и сумевшем выжить благодаря своейэнергии, настойчивости и изобретательности.
ISBN: 5-8346-0197-9
Издательство:
Менеджер
Дата выхода: август 2002
Издание полностью на английском языке. Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения. The Arden Shakespeare is the established edition of Shakespeare's work. Justly celebrated for its authoritative scholarship and invaluable commentary, Arden guides you a richer understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's plays. This edition of Romeo and Juliet provides, a clear and authoritative text, detailed notes and commentary on the same page as the text, a full introduction discussing the critical and historical background to the play and appendices presenting sources and relevant extracts.
ISBN: 0140620931
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: декабрь 2002
Behind the facade of a Soho shop selling dubious merchandise lives Verloc with his wife Winnie, her mother and her retarded brother, Stevie. Verloc is an overweight, indolent anarchist who conceals his political activities, such as they are, under a veneer of domesticity and family life. According to the First Secretary, Mr Vladimir, Verloc has done little to earn his money in recent years and it is time for a 'dynamic outrage' to provoke the middle classes. So Verloc, accepting his duty, plants a bpmb at the Greenwich Observatory. But when the blast has done its work, Verloc finds he has destroyed a great deal more than the complacency of the bourgeoisie. Издание полностью на английском языке....
ISBN: 0140620567
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2002
The undisputed master of terror and mystery, Edgar Allan Poe was a unique inventor in fiction. In "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Black Cat" he wrote the first and best tales of terror, with "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and his fictional detective M- Dupin he invented the detective story; and tales such as "MS. Found in a Bottle" and "Von Kempelen and His Discovery" pioneered modern science-fiction. As readers will discover, Poe possessed an unrivalled capacity to create atmosphere and suspense, and to probe the dark depths of the human psyche. All the stories in this volume push back the boundaries, making the improbable possible, the familiar terrifying and strange.
ISBN: 0-14-062116-4
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2002
В сборник включены наиболее известные произведения представителя английского неоромантизма Р.Л.Cтивенсона: `Дом на дюнах`, `Алмаз раджи`, `Странный случай с доктором Джекилем и мистером Хайдом`, `Ночлег Франсуа Вийона`. Разнообразные по тематике произведения объединяет увлекательность сюжета, тонкие психологические характеристики, яркие образы персонажей, прекрасный английский язык. Сборник...
ISBN: 5-8346-0071-9
Издательство:
Менеджер
Дата выхода: апрель 2002
Maupassant`s keenly observed short stories reveal a world of vice and virtue, passions and obsessions. Adultery, prostitution, the Franco - Prussian War, the pleasures of river and countryside, the cunning and greed of the Norman peasantry - these are familiar themes throughout his work, yet they are treated differently each time, producing stories of a dazzling originality. BOULE DE SUIF, Maupassant`s earliest triumph, and the opening story in this selection, exposes the smug complacency of a group of travellers towards the prostitute in their midst. THE PIECE OF STRING and THE DEVIL centre on avarice, while tales of honour such as A DEAL and MADAME HUSSON`S MAY KING, from a rich contrast to the gentle pathos of TWO FRIENDS. Masterly,...
ISBN: 0140621830
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2002
Книга на английском языке Сборник знакомит читателя с наиболее значительными произведениями известного американского прозаика XX века Ф.С.Фицджеральда, яркого представителя литературы `потерянного поколения`. Издание рассчитано на широкий круг лиц, изучающих английский язык и интересующихся американской литературой.
ISBN: 5-8346-0008-5
Издательство:
Менеджер
Дата выхода: декабрь 2000
Книга продолжает знакомить читателей с творчеством О.Уайльда. В сборник включены произведения разных жанров, наиболее отражающие все многообразие творчества писателя.
ISBN: 5-8346-0100-6
Издательство:
Менеджер
Дата выхода: октябрь 2002
Издательство знакомит читателя с произведениями известного английского писателя, яркого представителя жанра психологической прозы Д.Г.Лоуренса. Философское осмысление жизни, вечные темы любви и ненависти, тонкое проникновение в переживания героев делают книгу интересной широкому кругу читателей.
ISBN: 5-8346-0048-4
Издательство:
Менеджер
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2001
Сборник включает в себя хорошо знакомую российским читателям пьесу Б. Шоу "Пигмалион", в которой вопросы языка и культуры, внешнего и внутреннего в, человеке рассматриваются автором, переносящим действие древнегреческого мифа о скульпторе Пигмалионе в современную ему Англию. Пьеса "Дом, где разбиваются сердца" - одно из лучших произведений Шоу - написана в подражании образцам русской реалистической драмы...
ISBN: 5-8346-0189-8
Издательство:
Менеджер
Дата выхода: август 2002
Unfairly deprived of their family inheritance by the grasping Mrs John Dashwood and her husband, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood and their mother find themselves in greatly reduced circumstances. Compelled to leave Norland in Sussex for Barton Cottage in Devonshire, the two sisters are soon accepted into their new society. Marianne, whose sweet radiance and open nature charm the roguish John Willoughby, is soon deeply in love. Elinor, whose disposition is more cautious and considered, who carefully conceals her emotions, is suffering the loss of Edward Ferrars whom she has left behind. Despite their very different personalities, both sisters experience great sorrows in their affairs of the heart: Marianne demonstrably wretched and Elinor...
ISBN: 0-14-062042-7
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: февраль 1994
Written after the deaths of Branwell, Emily and Anne, she found it a struggle to finish and in her portraits of Shirley Keeldar and Caroline Helstone Charlotte Bronte poured out her feelings for her dead sisters. Nevertheless, it is a historical novel which depicts an uneasy era of Luddite riots, bad harvests and social unrest as well as Charlotte Bronte`s belief that the denial of the world of feeling is responsible for much of society`s suffering. Tense, romantic, atmospheric, ringing with imaginative power, Charlotte Bronte`s story of the two women and the men they loved grips until the last page.
ISBN: 0-14-062023-0
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2002
George Eliot`s own favourite novel centres on Silas Marner, the linen weaver of Raveloe, a village on the brink of industrialization. Once he was a respected member of a narrow congregation, but the events that took place during one of his cataleptic fits led to the loss of everything that he valued. Now he lives a withdrawn half-life and is an object of suspicion to his new neighbours; he exists only for his work and his golden guineas. But when his precious money is stolen and, shortly after, seeminglyand mysteriously replaced by the child Eppie, Silas is awakened to life by the redemptive power of love. George Eliot`s affectionate but unsentimental portrait of rural life combines irony, humour and sharp social comment. Above all, she...
ISBN: 0-14-062091-5
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: декабрь 2001
\'I tell you I have written a great book ... Read my novel, it is a great novel,\' Lawrence declared shortly before Sons and Lovers was published in 1913. Drawing on his own childhood and adolescence, Lawrence depicts the early married life of the Morels - the father a hard- working, hard-drinking Nottinghamshire coal miner, the mother a refined woman of middle-class aspirations. Born into the family battle, their son Paul Morel initially takes his mother\'s part, until in adolescence he meets and falls in love with a young girl, Miriam, and discovers a new conflict of loyalties. Sons and Lovers portrays the sexual and emotional struggle of Paul Morel, caught between the women he attempts to love, and in it D. H. Lawrence...
ISBN: 0140621601
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2002
Edgar Allan Poe`s tales and poems draw the reader into an unsettling world of mystery and fear. In `The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether`, `A Predicament`, `The Angel of the Odd` and other stories, characters are caught up in macabresituations, often with horrifying results. The poems are full of melancholic beauty whether in the disturbing images of death and events beyond the grave described in `The Raven` and `Lenore`, or in the hypnotic fantasy of works such as `The Bells`, `TheCity in the Sea` and `Annabel Lee`. Possessed of a powerful, richly inventive imagination, Edgar Allan Рое explored the darkest corners of the human psyche and is recognized as one of the first writers to offer a genuine American voice.
ISBN: 0-14-062239-X
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2002