Sense and Sensibility is a delightful comedy of manners in which the sisters Elinor and Marianne represent these two qualities. Elinor’s character is one of Augustan detachment, while Marianne, a fervent disciple of the Romantic Age, learns to curb her passionate nature in the interests of survival.
ISBN: 9781840228007
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: февраль 2021
Elinor and Marianne Dashwood are two very different sisters. Marianne loves excitement and always shows her feelings; Elinor is quiet and has more good sense. They both fall in love and both suffer broken hearts. Will they ever find the right man to love and marry?
ISBN: 978-1-4058-7935-4
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Джейн Остин - известная английская писательница, романы которой за две сотни лет пережили множество изданий, как на языке оригинала, так и в переводах, и несколько экранизаций. "Разум и чувства" (1811) - первый роман писательницы. Это книга о любви и предательстве, об искренности и притворстве, о верности и вероломстве, о страсти и привязанности, и, конечно же, о вечной борьбе разума и чувств. Неадаптированный...
ISBN: 978-5-9925-0288-6
Издательство:
Каро
Дата выхода: январь 2009
Daniel Defoe was an English trader, writer, pamphleteer and journalist. He is most famous for his novel "Robinson Crusoe", which is second only to the Bible in its number of translations. The third book about Crusoe, Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, is a collection of Daniel Defoe`s essays on moral topics. The name of Crusoe used to spur the public`s interest in this work.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08176-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
This bumper book contains three of Dr. Suess`s most popular books: The Cat in the Hat, The Cat in the Hat Comes Back and Dr. Seuss`s ABC.The Cat in the Hat When the Cat in the Hat steps in on the mat, Sally and her brother are in for a roller-coaster ride of havoc and mayhem! The Cat can rescue them from a dull rainy day, but it`ll mean lots of spills along the way. The Cat in the Hat Comes Back When the Cat in the Hat once more steps into the lives of Sally and her brother, he`s soon up to his old tricks. He turns the house upside down, and the snow pink, ably assisted by a team of tiny helpers that he keeps in his hat!Dr. Seuss`s ABC Big B, little B, what begins with B? Baby, barber, bubbles and a bumblebee! Children can have lots of...
ISBN: 9780007158539
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: январь 2004
As Angus Calder states in his introduction to this edition, `Seven Pillars of Wisdom is one of the major statements about the fighting experience of the First World War`. Lawrence`s younger brothers, Frank and Will, had been killed on the Western Front in 1915. Seven Pillars of Wisdom, written between 1919 and 1926, tells of the vastly different campaign against the Turks in the Middle East - one which encompasses gross acts of cruelty and revenge and ends in a welter of stink and corpses in the disgusting `hospital` in Damascus. Seven Pillars of Wisdom is no Boys Own Paper tale of Imperial triumph, but a complex work of high literary aspiration which stands in the tradition of Melville and Dostoevsky, and alongside the writings of...
ISBN: 9781853264696
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: октябрь 2022
"Shadowplay" is a revelatory new look at how Shakespeare secretly addressed the most profound political issues of his day, and how his plays embody a hidden history of England.
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. She and Allan is a novel by H. Rider Haggard, first published in 1921. It brought together his two most popular characters, Ayesha from She (to which it serves as a prequel), and Allan Quatermain from King Solomon`s Mines.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07725-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Wanting to learn if he can communicate with deceased the children, adventurer Allan Quatermain seeks a meeting with the feared Zulu witch-doctor Zikali. He tells Allan he must seek out the great white sorceress who rules the Allan to take a message to her. En route, Quatermain encounters emigrant Scotsmen, cannibals, witch doctors, the beautiful Inez, and of course the mysterious She, or Ayesha. She and Allan is a novel by H. Rider Haggard, first published in 1921. It brought together his two most popular characters, Ayesha from She (to which it serves as a prequel), and Allan Quatermain from King Solomon`s Mines.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06441-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
She is the story of Cambridge professor Horace Holly and his ward Leo Vincey, and their journey to a lost kingdom in the African interior. The journey is triggered by a mysterious package left to Leo by his father, to be opened on his 25th birthday; the package contains an ancient shard of pottery and several documents, suggesting an ancient mystery about the Vincey family. Holly and Leo eventually arrive in eastern Africa where they encounter a primitive race of natives and a mysterious white queen, Ayesha, who reigns as the all-powerful "She" or "She-who-must-be-obeyed".
ISBN: 978-5-521-06594-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018