William Sydney Porter known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. His wit and plot twists were adored by his readers, but often panned by the critics. Most of the stories included in Collected Short Stories are set in the early 20th century. Many take place in New York City and deal with ordinary people: policemen, waitresses and other citizens. This book includes wonderfull stories like "The Lost Blend", "A Harlem Tragedy", "The Last Leaf and other interesting tales.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07678-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
В предлагаемом сборнике на английском языке опубликованы материалы международной конференции "Россия - Ирландия: коллективная память". Эти страны - крайние географические точки Европы, однако сходство между ними обнаруживается на уровне размышлений о национальной идентичности, в равной степени свойственных российским историкам, литераторам, политикам и их коллегам ирландцам. "Круглый стол" в Москве...
ISBN: 9785824308105
Издательство:
РОССПЭН
Дата выхода: август 2017
This title comes with an introduction and notes by Professor Stephen Arkin, San Francisco State University. Katherine Mansfield is widely regarded as a writer who helped create the modern short story. Born in Wellinton, New Zealand in 1888, she came to London in 1903 to attend Queen`s College and returned permanently in 1908. Her first book of stories, "In a German Pension", appeared in 1911, and she went on to write and publish an extraordinary body of work. This edition of "The Collected Stories" brings together all of the stories that Mansfield had written up until her death in January of 1923. With an introduction and head-notes, this volume allows the reader to become familiar with the complete range of Mansfield`s work from the...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-265-4
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. This volume includes a vast collection of intriguing short stories, such as "The Death Voyage", "The Confession" and "The Centurion", featuring a wide range of the author`s literary talent written on paper.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07146-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018
Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs. He is obsessed with a beautiful stranger, the art student Miranda. When he wins the pools he buys a remote Sussex house and calmly abducts Miranda, believing she will grow to love him in time. Alone and desperate, Miranda must struggle to overcome her own prejudices and contempt if she is to understand her captor, and so gain her freedom.
ISBN: 978-0-09-947047-2
Издательство:
Vintage Classics
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. This book is a wonderful collection of selected short stories like "That Veteran", "The Winning Shot", and "An Exciting Christmas Eve or, My Lecture on Dynamite".
ISBN: 978-5-521-07145-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018
Somerset Maugham`s irony and cool detachment make him an acknowledged master of the short story. The stories collected here are typical of Maugham`s wry perception of human weakness and his unique talent for evoking a sense of time and place. They are set in familiar Maugham territory - the South Seas, Europe and America - but they are all concise and compelling dramas played out by unforgettable characters. The collection includes some of Maugham`s most famous stories: "The Alien Corn", "Flotsam and Jetsam" and particularly "The Vessel of Wrath", a surprising tale of burgeoning love between a repressed mission lady and a drunken reprobate. Формат издания: 12,5 см х 19,5 см.
ISBN: 0-14-018590-9
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: январь 2002
John Donne (1572-1631) is a poet of concerted emotional and intellectual force, whose strenuously original approach to the subject matter, diction and form of verse re-made English poetry. Donne’s poetry combines paradoxical wit, scientific and theological learning with the rhythms and diction of spoken language. Crises of love, conscience, and faith are the great concerns of his poetry which is by turns exalted or disenchanted, direct or oblique, morally profound or outrageously spiteful.
ISBN: 978-1-85326-400-9
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: август 2011
William Sydney Porter known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. His wit and plot twists were adored by his readers, but often panned by the critics. Collected Tales includes such wonderful stories like "The Fool-Killer", "The Clarion Call", "The Memento" and many others.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07684-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor, and are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. Some of Gaskell`s best known novels are Cranford, North and South and Wives and Daughters. Collected Tales II contains five stories, including The Manchester Marriage and The Cage at Cranford.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07595-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
William Sydney Porter, known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. His wit and plot twists were adored by his readers, but often panned by the critics. Collected Short Stones includes two famous stories by O. Henry: "Waifs and Strays" and "The Ransom of Red Chief - a short story that follows two men who kidnap and attempt to ransom a wealthy Alabamian`s son; eventually, the men are driven crazy by the boy`s spoiled and hyperactive behavior.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07670-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
Wilde, glamorous and notorious, more famous as a playwright or prisoner than as a poet, invites readers of his verse to meet an unknown and intimate figure. The poetry of his formative years includes the haunting elegy to his young sister and the grieving lyric at the death of his father. The religious drama of his romance with Rome is captured here, as well as its resolution in his renewed love of ancient Greece. He explores forbidden sexual desires, pays homage to the great theatre stars and poets of his day, observes cityscapes with impressionist intensity. His final masterpiece, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, tells the painful story of his own prison experience and calls for universal compassion. This edition of Wilde`s verse presents...
ISBN: 978-1-85326-453-5
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: август 2010
Wilde`s works are suffused with his aestheticism, brilliant craftsmanship, legendary wit and, ultimately, his tragic muse. He wrote tender fairy stories for children employing all his grace, artistry and wit, of which the best-known is The Happy Prince. Counterpoints to this were his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, which shocked and outraged many readers of his day, and his stories for adults which exhibited his fascination with the relations between serene art and decadent life. Wilde took London by storm with his plays, particularly his masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest. His essays - in particular De Profundis - and his Ballad of Reading Gaol, both written after his release from prison, strikingly break the bounds of his...
ISBN: 1-85326-397-4
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. "Collected Tales" is a collection of early Doyle`s short stories. It includes stories of mystery, comedy, shipwrecks and fantasy. .
ISBN: 978-5-521-08068-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
One of the greatest and grandest advocates of the literary vocation, Joseph Brodsky truly lived his life as a poet, and for it earned eighteen months in an Arctic labor camp, expulsion from his native country, and the Nobel Prize in Literature. Such were one man`s wages. Here, collected for the first time, are all the poems he published in English, from his earliest collaborations with Derek Walcott, Richard Wilbur, Howard Moss, and Anthony Hecht to the moving farewell poems he wrote near the end of his life. With nearly two hundred poems, several of them never before published in book form, this will be the essential volume of Brodsky`s work.
Edgar Allan Poe received scant recognition for his efforts, until the publication of "The Raven" in 1845. The poem`s popularity gave him a new visibility in literary circles. This title presents a collection of his tales and poems.
ISBN: 978-1-84022-172-5
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, a dark romantic, and short story writer. Collected Short Stories is Hawthorne`s interesting story collection, which was written in honor of The Old Manse, where Hawthorne and his wife lived for the first three years of their marriage. This book includes wonderful short stories "The Brithmark", "Young Goodman Brown", "Rappaccini`s Daughter" and other tales.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07698-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
William Sydney Porter known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. His wit and plot twists were adored by his readers, but often panned by the critics. Collected Short Stones contains "Sound and Fury", "Tracked to Doom", "A Strange Story" and other famous stories by O. Henry.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07674-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
-This expanded edition of Pushkin``s prose fiction contains all his mature work with short pieces and The History of Pugachev. Pushkin``s prose tales are the foundation stones of Russian literature and his story-telling ability is clearly presented`
William Sydney Porter known by his pen name 0. Henry, was an American short story writer. His wit and plot twists were adored by his readers, but often panned by the critics. Collected Tales includes "The Roads We Take", "A Newspaper Story", "Tommy`s Burglar" and other stories.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07688-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. This volume is a wonderful collection of absorbing short stories like "Our Midnight Visitor", "The Stone of Boxman`s Drift", "The Voice of Science", and other interesting tales.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07147-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018
William Sydney Porter known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. His wit and plot twists were adored by his readers, but often panned by the critics. Collected Short Stories contain several short stories from a "Cabbages and Kings" series. In Coralio - a sultry coastal town in the volatile banana republic of Anchuria - a disparate cast of vagabonds, mercenaries and consuls is busy plotting, scamming, drinking, loving or trying to forget the past. Each has his own tale to tell and his own particular reason for washing up on these tropical shores.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07671-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018