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From its first publication in 1719, Robinson Crusoe has been printed in over 700 editions. It has inspired almost every conceivable kind of imitation and variation, and been the subject of plays, opera, cartoons, and computer games. The character of Crusoe has entered the consciousness of each succeeding generation as readers add their own interpretation to the adventures so thrillingly "recorded" by Defoe.

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Дата выхода: январь 2002

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A Room of One`s Own (1929) has become a classic feminist essay and perhaps Virginia Woolf`s best known work; The Voyage Out (1915) is highly significant as her first novel. Both focus on the place of women within the power structures of modern society. The essay lays bare the woman artist`s struggle for a voice, since throughout history she has been denied the social and economic independence assumed by men. Woolf`s prescription is clear: if a woman is to find creative expression equal to a man`s, she must have an independent income, and a room of her own. This is both an acute analysis and a spirited rallying cry; it remains surprisingly resonant and relevant in the 21st century. The novel explores these issues more personally, through...

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This edition presents the classic free translation by Edward Fitzgerald of the great Persian poem by the 12th century astronomer and poet - Omar Khayyám. Fitzgerald`s masterful translation was first published as an anonymous pamphlet in 1859. Its colourful, exotic and remote imagery greatly appealed to the Victorian age`s fascination with the Orient, while its luxurious sensual warmth acted as a striking counterpoint to the growth of scientific determinism, industrialisation and the soulless Darwinian doctrine of the survival of the fittest. Greatly praised by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Swinburne, Ruskin and William Morris, the romantic melancholy of the poem anticipates the poetry of Matthew Arnold and Thomas Hardy, while its...

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This is a fascinating selection of Kipling`s most famous short stories, bringing together the very best of his work. `Life`s Handicap` reflects his experiences of India, and contains two horror stories which permeate the collection with an air of haunteddestinies. Delusions and obsessions, past lives and the slums of London in 1890 are the fascinatingly diverse topics featured in `Many Inventions`. While `Traffics and Discoveries` contains three tales in which the subject matter ranges from unexplained mystery and the supernatural to an other-worldly house full of elusive but charming children. `The Maltese Cut` is Kipling`s well-loved story about a polo pony. These stories remind us once again that Kipling is an undisputed master of...

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Introduction and Notes by Henry Claridge, Senior Lecturer, School of English, University of Kent at Canterbury.This is a troubling story of crime, sin, guilt, punishment and expiation, set in the rigid moral climate of 17th-century New England. The young mother of an illegitimate child confronts her Puritan judges.However, it is not so much her harsh sentence, but the cruelties of slowly exposed guilt as her lover is revealed, that hold the reader enthralled all the way to the book`s poignant climax.

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Дата выхода: октябрь 2022

The final letters and diary entries of Robert Falcon Scott - written in his last days, while hopelessly trapped in a tiny tent by a raging blizzard on the Great Ice Barrier - are among the most poignant and haunting passages ever penned. `Had we lived`, he wrote, `I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman`. Scott`s diaries, discovered with his body the next spring and then used as the essence of the book Scott`s Last Expedition, caught the public imagination in a way few tales of exploration ever have. The account of Scott`s second Antarctic expedition describes the near-disastrous voyage south, the dangers and beauties of the long,...

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Scotland has a notoriously rich and diverse cultural tradition when it comes to the supernatural. Many of her greatest writers from Sir Walter Scott and James Hogg to Robert Louis Stevenson and John Buchan have explored the country`s unique folkloric heritage to spine-chilling effect. From Highlands to Lowlands, from blasted heath or remote glen to wretched hovel or austere castle, the very topography lends itself somehow to the strange and unexplainable. Leading off Edinburgh`s colourful Royal Mile, which runs from the Palace of Holyrood to the gaunt castle on the rock, there are many narrow `wynds` - passages ancient and mysterious. As soon as you leave the sunshine and enter these dark and reeking ways you know that you are in a city...

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Plutarch of Chaeronea is one of the great storytellers of antiquity, a writer whose ability to create unforgettable scenes matches the grandeur of his subject matter. The heroes of his "Lives" were the great men of antiquity, often greatly flawed, but with tragic depth and epic stature. Thomas North`s translation, one of the most splendid works of sixteenth-century English prose, presents a vigorous and passionate version of the "Lives" whose qualities so attracted Shakespeare that he used North as his major source for Julius Caesar, Coriolanus and Antony & Cleopatra. This collection includes all the Lives which Shakespeare used and a selection of others which aim to show the variety and range of Plutarch`s writing.

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Contains: A Room of One`s Own, To the Lighthouse, Between the Acts, Three Guineas, Mrs Dalloway, Jacob`s Room, The Waves, The Years, Orlando. Mrs Dalloway, the society hostess Clarissa, is giving a party and her thoughts on that one day, and the interior monologues of others with interwoven lives reveal the characters of the central protagonists. To the Lighthouse is the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf`s novels. Based on her early experiences, it touches on childhood and children`s perceptions and desires. It is at its most trenchant when exploring adult relationships and the changing class-structure in the period spanning the Great War. Virginia Woolf`s Orlando, `the longest and most charming love letter in literature`,...

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Short Stories from the Nineteenth Century is a wonderful collection of classic stories specially selected and introduced by David Stuart Davies, featuring tales by Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, RL Stevenson, Bram Stoker, Anthony Trollope and many others.

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Shelley’s short, prolific life produced some of the most memorable and well-known lyrics of the Romantic period. But he was also the most radical writer in the English literary tradition of his day, a fiery political visionary committed to social change and progress. The generous selection in this volume represents the wide range of his writing, both poetry and prose. Arranged chronologically, the accompanying introductory essays set Shelley’s works in their historical, social and political context.

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Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most popular works of English fiction. Although Charlotte Bronte`s heroine is outwardly plain, she possesses an indomitable spirit, and great courage. Forced to battle against the exigencies of a cruel guardian, a harsh employer and a rigid social order when she becomes governess to the daughter of the mysterious, sardonic Mr Rochester. Villette is based on Charlotte Bronte`s personal experience as a teacher in Brussels. Rising above the confinement of a rigid social order, it is the story of a woman`s right to love and be loved. Wuthering Heights is Emily Bronte`s wild, passionate tale of the intense love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine`s father....

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Chekhov is truly the grand-master of the short story. With supreme delicacy he constructs stories where the action and drama are often Implied rather than described, and which rely on the intelligence and imagination of his readers. This collection contains some of his earliest and briefest comic sketches, and some of his more elaborate yet equally subtle pieces. All are written with an extraordinary compassion and with a view of life that, though tragic, is tempered by his delight in the farcical situation and the incongruities of human behaviour. Chekhov presents life as he sees it, with no apology, and certainly without moral judgement.

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`I mean to show things really as they are, not as they ought to be`. wrote Byron (1788-1824) in his comic masterpiece Don Juan, which follows the adventures of the hero across the Europe and near East which Byron knew so well, touching on the major political, cultural and social concerns of the day.This selection includes all of that poem, and selections from Childe Harold`s Pilgrimage, and the satirical poems `English Bards and Scotch Reviewers` and `A Vision of Judgement`. Paul Wright`s detailed introductions place Byron`s colourful life and work within their broader social and political contexts, and demonstrate that Byron both fostered and critiqued the notorious `Byronic myth` of heroic adventure, political action and sexual scandal.

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Christina Rossetti is widely regarded as the most considerable woman poet in England before the twentieth century. No reading of nineteenth century poetry can be complete without attention to this prolific and popular poet. Rosetti`s inner life dominates her poetry, exploring loss and unattainable hope.Her divine poems have a freshness and toughness of thought, while many of her love poems are erotic, and as often express love for women as for men. The varied threads of Rossetti`s concerns are drawn together in what is perhaps her greatest poem, the strange and ambiguous `Goblin Market`.

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"Adam Bede" was George Eliot`s first full-length novel. Set in the English Midlands of farmers and village craftsmen at the turn of the eighteenth century, the book tells a story of seduction, and is also a pioneering record of a long lost rural world. "Middlemarch" is a complex tale of idealism, disillusion, profligacy, loyalty and frustrated love. This penetrating analysis of the life of an English provincial town is told through the lives of Dorothea Brooke and Dr Tertius Lydgate, illuminating the condition of English life in the mid-nineteenth century. "The Mill on the Floss" is a masterpiece of ambiguity in which moral choice is subjected to the hypocrisy of the Victorian age. Maggie Tulliver`s love for her brother Tom turns to...

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Lord Jim, first published in 1900, confirmed Conrad`s place in literature as one of the first `modernists` of English letters. Set in the Malay Archipelago, not only does the novel provide a gripping account of maritime adventure and romance, but also an exotic tale of the East. Nostromo is the only man capable of the decisive action needed to save the silver of the San Tome mine and secure independence for Sulaco, Occidental Province of the Latin American state of Costaguana. Is his integrity as unassailable as everyone believes, or will his ideals, like those which have inspired the struggling state itself, buckle under economic and political pressure? The Secret Agent, Conrad`s story of espionage and anarchists, tells of Winnie Verloc...

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The delicate artistry and lyrical prose of Woolf`s novels have established her as a writer of sensitivity and profound talent. Virginia Woolf displays genuine humanity and concern for the experiences that enrich and stultify existence. Society hostess, Clarissa Dalloway is giving a party and her thoughts on that one day, and the interior monologues of others with interwoven lives reveal the characters of the central protagonists. To the Lighthouse is the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf`s novels. Based on her early experiences, it touches on childhood and children`s perceptions and desires. It is at its most trenchant when exploring adult relationships and the changing class-structure in the period spanning the Great War. Orlando,...

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Дата выхода: июль 2011

The delicate artistry and lyrical prose of Woolf`s novels have established her as a writer of sensitivity and profound talent. Virginia Woolf displays genuine humanity and concern for the experiences that enrich and stultify existence. Society hostess, Clarissa Dalloway is giving a party and her thoughts on that one day, and the interior monologues of others with interwoven lives reveal the characters of the central protagonists. "To the Lighthouse" is the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf`s novels. Based on her early experiences, it touches on childhood and children`s perceptions and desires. It is at its most trenchant when exploring adult relationships and the changing class-structure in the period spanning the Great War....

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Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011