Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке [T], часть 3

Tales From The Perilous Realm
This is the definitive collection of Tolkien s five acclaimed modern classic fairie tales in the vein of The Hobbit, fully corrected and reset for this edition and all beautifully illustrated in pencil by the award-winning artist, Alan Lee.

The five tales are written with the same skill, quality and charm that made The Hobbit a classic. Largely overlooked because of their short lengths, they are finally together in a volume which reaffirms Tolkien's place as a master storyteller for readers young and old.



Roverandom is a toy dog who, enchanted by a sand sorcerer, gets to explore the world and encounter strange and fabulous creatures.

Farmer Giles of Ham is fat and unheroic, but having unwittingly managed to scare off a short-sighted giant is called upon to do battle when a dragon comes to town;

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil tells in verse of Tom's many adventures with hobbits, princesses, dwarves and trolls;

Leaf by Niggle recounts the strange adventures of the painter Niggle who sets out to paint the perfect tree;

Smith of Wootton Major journeys to the Land of Faery thanks to the magical ingredients of the Great Cake of the Feast of Good Children.



This new collection is fully illustrated throughout by Oscar-winning artist, Alan Lee, who provides a wealth of pencil drawings to bring the stories to life as he did so memorably for The Hobbit and The Children of Hurin. Alan also provides an Afterword, in which he opens the door into illustrating Tolkien's world.



Taken together, this rich collection of tales from the author of The Children of Hurin will provide the reader with a fascinating journey into lands as wild and strange as Middle-earth.
Год: 2021
Производитель: Harpercollins
Артикул: 898795
ISBN: 9780008453343
Автор: Tolkien John Ronald Reuel

Tales from the Thousand and One Nights
Sometimes known as the Arabian Nights, Tales from the Thousand and One Nights includes some of the world's best-loved tales, including such classics as Aladdin and 'Sindbad the Sailor'



The tales told by Scheherazade over a thousand and one nights to delay her execution by the vengeful King Shahryar have become among the most popular in both Eastern and Western literature. From the epic adventures of 'Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp' to the farcical 'Young Woman and her Five Lovers' and the social criticism of 'The Tale of the Hunchback', the stories depict a fabulous world of all-powerful sorcerers, jinns imprisoned in bottles and enchanting princesses. But despite their imaginative extravagance, the Tales are also anchored to everyday life by their bawdiness and realism, providing a full and intimate record of medieval Eastern world.



In this selection, N.J. Dawood presents the reader with an unexpurgated translation of the finest and best-known tales, preserving their spirited narrative style in lively modern English. In his introduction, he discusses their origins in the East and their differences from Classical Arabic literature, and examines English translations of the tales since the eighteenth century.

Серия: Penguin Classics
Год: 1973
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 886561
ISBN: 9780140442892

Tales from the Underworld
Darkly funny, searingly honest short stories from Hans Fallada, author of bestselling Alone in Berlin



In these stories, criminals lament how hard it is to scrape a living by breaking and entering; families measure their daily struggles in marks and pfennigs; a convict makes a desperate leap from a moving train; a ring - and with it a marriage - is lost in a basket of potatoes.



Here, as in his novels, Fallada is by turns tough, darkly funny, streetwise and effortlessly engaging, writing with acute feeling about ordinary lives shaped by forces larger than themselves: addiction, love, money.

Серия: Penguin Modern Classics
Год: 2014
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 887915
ISBN: 9780141392851
Автор: Fallada Hans

Tales of Hoffmann
E.T.A. Hoffman's wildly original fictions are some of the most unusual examples of German Romanticism's dark passions, and the stories in Tales of Hoffman are selected and translated from the German with an introduction by R.J. Hollingdale in Penguin Classics.



This selection of Hoffmann's finest short stories vividly demonstrates his intense imagination and preoccupation with the supernatural, placing him at the forefront of both surrealism and the modern horror genre. Suspense dominates tales such as Mademoiselle de Scudery, in which an apprentice goldsmith and a female novelist find themselves caught up in a series of jewel thefts and murders. In the sinister The Sandman, famously used by Sigmund Freud to illustrate both his concept of the unheimlich, or 'uncanny', and of Oedipal guilt, a young man's sanity is tormented by fears about a mysterious chemist; while in The Choosing of a Bride a greedy father preys on the weaknesses of his daughter's suitors. Master of the bizarre, Hoffman creates a sinister and unsettling world combining love and madness, black humour and bewildering illusion.



This edition contains authoritative translations of Hoffman's best stories. In his introduction, R.J. Hollingdale explores the background of these works and examines the duality of Hoffman's life - a lawyer by day and creator of a world of fantasy by night.



E.T.A Hoffmann (1776-1822) studied law and entered the Prussian civil service, but his over-riding ambition was to become a graphic artist and painter. He turned to fiction only in his thirties, living a Jekyll-and-Hyde existence as lawyer by day, author by night - and became one of the most influential authors of his time.

Серия: Penguin Classics
Год: 2004
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 886574
ISBN: 9780140443929
Автор: Hoffmann Ernst Theodor Amadeus

Tales of Mystery and Imagination
This collection of Poe's work contains some of the most exciting and haunting stories ever written. They range from the poetic to the mysterious to the darkly comic, yet all possess the genius for the grotesque that defines Poe's writing. They are peopled with neurotics and social outcasts, obsessed with nameless terrors or preoccupied with seemingly unsolvable mysteries. 'The Tell-Tale Heart' and 'The Fall of the House of Usher' are key works in the horror canon, while in the 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' and 'The Mystery of Marie Roget' we find the origins of modern detective fiction. Collectively, these tales represent the best of Edgar Allan Poe's prose work before his premature death in 1849.



This beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition of Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination feature With an afterword by Jonty Claypole.



Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

Серия: Macmillan Collector's Library
Год: 2016
Производитель: Macmillan
Артикул: 903020
ISBN: 9781509826698
Автор: Poe Edgar Allan

Tales of St Austin's
St Austin s school (as featured in The Pothunters) is the setting for twelve delightful early Wodehouse stories. The familiar ingredients and some of the same characters are present: cricket and rugby loom large, colours are gained, tricks are played, exams avoided, revenge wreaked upon enemies, and the honour of School and House upheld. A nostalgic look at English public-school life at the turn of the twentieth century, including four essays on educational themes, made enjoyable today by the young Wodehouse s gentle humour and inimitable turn of phrase.

Серия: Everyman`s Library P. G. Wodehouse
Год: 2012
Производитель: Everyman
Артикул: 892438
ISBN: 9781841591803
Автор: Wodehouse Pelham Grenville

Tales of Wrykyn and Elsewhere
The twenty-five stories in this collection reflect Wodehouse s own happy schooldays at Dulwich College but they also do a good deal more. Although among his earliest attempts at fiction, they reveal an early-maturing comic talent with flashes of brilliance which foreshadow the later adventures of Ukridge, Bingo Little and Bertie Wooster. And by the way, they give fascinating glimpses of a time when motor cars were novelties, schoolmasters wore mortar boards and gowns, and America was a rising power in the world.



The best of them display the author s love of games and knack for neat plotting. In one, a resourceful teenaged heroine helps a truant schoolboy cricketer by marooning his credulous schoolmaster at the top of a church tower until the match is over. Another describes a boy escaping from the scene of his crime by a passing car, only to be caught out by a last-minute revelation. Several Sherlock Holmes parodies read as what they are high-spirited experiments but the longer stories delve deeper into character: together, they recreate a vanished world of school shops, fagging, Latin prep and hearty teas.

Серия: Everyman`s Library P. G. Wodehouse
Год: 2014
Производитель: Everyman
Артикул: 892437
ISBN: 9781841591797
Автор: Wodehouse Pelham Grenville

Tales of the German Imagination from the Brothers Grimm to Ingeborg Bachmann
'It was a very momentous day, the day on which I was to be slaughtered'



Bringing together tales of melancholy and madness, nightmare and fantasy, this is a new collection of the most haunting German stories from the past 200 years. Ranging from the Romantics of the early nineteenth century to works of contemporary fiction, it includes Hoffmann's hallucinatory portrait of terror and insanity 'The Sandman'; Chamisso's influential black masterpiece 'Peter Schlemiel', where a man barters his own shadow; Kafka's chilling, disturbing satire 'In the Penal Colony'; the Dadaist surrealism of Kurt Schwitters' 'The Onion'; and Bachmann's modern fairy tale 'The Secrets of the Princess of Kagran'. Macabre, dreamlike and expressing deep unconscious fears, these stories are also spiked with unsettling humour, showing stylistic daring as well as giving insight into the darkest recesses of the human condition.



Peter Wortsman's powerful translations are accompanied by brief overviews of the lives of each author, and an introduction discussing the notion of 'angst' and the stories' place in the context of German history.



Translated, selected and edited with an introduction by Peter Wortsman

Серия: Penguin Classics
Год: 2012
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 887510
ISBN: 9780141198804
Автор: Brothers Grimm, Гофман Эрнст Теодор Амадей, Tieck Ludwig

Tales of the Green Flag
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. This volume includes a collection of entertaining short stories like "The Green Flag, " "The Crime of the Brigadier, " "The Lord of Chateau Noir, " "A Shadow Before, " and others.

Серия: Rugram-классика
Год: 2023
Производитель: Т8
Артикул: 930523
ISBN: 978-5-517-05852-2
Автор: Doyle Arthur Conan

Tales of the Jazz Age
'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' sees a baby born in 1860 begin life as an old man and then age backwards. F. Scott Fitzgerald hinted at this kind of inversion when he called his era 'a generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken'. Perhaps nowhere in American fiction has this 'Lost Generation' been more vividly preserved than in Fitzgerald's short fiction. Spanning the early twentieth-century American landscape, this collection captures, with Fitzgerald's signature blend of enchantment and disillusionment, America during the Jazz Age.

Серия: Penguin F Scott Fitzgerald Hardback Collection
Год: 2011
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 887484
ISBN: 9780141197470
Автор: Fitzgerald Francis Scott

Tanamera
Opulence. Invasion. Terror. And forbidden passion in 1930s Singapore.



'They were the golden days, when Singapore was as rich as its climate was steamy, its future as assured as it was busy. And those days were made even better when, as was inevitable, I fell in love with the Chinese beauty of Julie Soong and, against all unwritten canons of Singapore life, we became lovers.'
Год: 2007
Производитель: Hodder & Stoughton
Артикул: 908653
ISBN: 9780340938324
Автор: Barber Noel

Tarry Flynn
He did not ask things to have a meaning or to tell a story. To be was the only story



A semi-autobiographical novel from the author of The Green Fool and The Great Hunger



A man's mother can be a terrible burden sometimes. For Tarry Flynn - poet, farmer and lover-from-afar of beautiful young virgins - the responsibility of family, farm, poetic inspiration and his own unyielding lust is a heavy one. The only solution is to rise above all - or escape over the nearest horizon.



Patrick Kavanagh's Tarry Flynn is an idyllic and beautifully evocative account of life as it was lived in Ireland in the 1930s.

Серия: Penguin Modern Classics
Год: 2000
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 887134
ISBN: 9780141183619
Автор: Kavanagh Patrick

Tarzan of the Apes
Fate favours the infant son of John and Alice Clayton when he is found and adopted by a female ape after the death of his parents. Growing up in the African jungle, Tarzan becomes a skilled hunter and the protector of animals from the local tribe.



When a new party of white people arrive, an unexpected chain of events occur that lead Tarzan to discover his true ancestry and fall in love with the first white woman he has ever met - Jane Porter. Will his love for Jane lead to Tarzan claiming his rightful place in society, or will he renounce his heritage to remain as Lord of the Jungle?



This Arcturus Classics edition brings this timeless tale to a new readership, featuring a modern graphic cover design.

Серия: Arcturus Classics
Год: 2021
Производитель: Arcturus
Артикул: 935005
ISBN: 9781785996436
Автор: Burroughs Edgar Rice

Tender Is the Night
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896 1940) - а famous American novelist and short story writer. F. Scott Fitzgerald is regarded as one of the greatest twentieth century writers from the so-called "Lost Generation". He finished four novels, left a fifth unfinished, and wrote dozens of short stories that treat themes of youth, promise, age, and despair. Tender is the Night (1934), tells the story of the rise and fall of Dick Diver, a promising young psychoanalyst, and his wife, Nicole, who is also one of his patients. The early 1930s, when Fitzgerald worked on the book, were the darkest years of his life, and the novel's bleakness reflects the author s own experiences.

Серия: Palmyra Classics
Год: 2023
Производитель: Пальмира
Артикул: 933517
ISBN: 978-5-517-08782-9
Автор: Fitzgerald Francis Scott

Tender is the Night
New Penguin Essentials edition of the heartbreaking classic of the roaring twenties, Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald.



'I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there'll always be the person I am tonight.'



American psychoanalyst Dick Diver and his wife Nicole live in a villa on the French Riviera, surrounded by a circle of glamorous friends. When beautiful film star Rosemary Hoyt arrives she is drawn to the couple - Dick contemplates an affair, while Nicole believes she's found a new best friend. But a dark secret lies at the centre of the Divers' marriage. A secret which could destroy Dick and Nicole and those close to them . . .

Серия: Penguin Essentials
Год: 2014
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 886389
ISBN: 9780140282559
Автор: Fitzgerald Francis Scott

Tender is the Night
These sumptuous new hardback editions mark the 70th anniversary of Fitzgerald's death.



Between the First World War and the Wall Street Crash, the French Riviera was the stylish place for wealthy Americans to visit. Among the most fashionable are the Divers, Dick and Nicole who hold court at their villa. Into their circle comes Rosemary Hoyt, a film star, who is instantly attracted to them, but understands little of the dark secrets and hidden corruption that hold them together. As Dick draws closer to Rosemary, he fractures the delicate structure of his marriage and sets both Nicole and himself on to a dangerous path where only the strongest can survive. In this exquisite, lyrical novel, Fitzgerald has poured much of the essence of his own life; he has also depicted the age of materialism, shattered idealism and broken dreams.

Серия: Penguin F Scott Fitzgerald Hardback Collection
Год: 2010
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 887417
ISBN: 9780141194066
Автор: Fitzgerald Francis Scott

Tender is the Night
'I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there'll always be the person I am to-night.'



Between the First World War and the Wall Street Crash the French Riviera was the stylish place for wealthy Americans to visit. Among the most fashionable are psychoanalyst Dick Diver and his wife Nicole, who hold court at their villa. Into their circle comes Rosemary Hoyt, a film star, who is instantly attracted to them, but understands little of the dark secrets and hidden corruption that hold them together. As Dick draws closer to Rosemary, he fractures the delicate structure of his marriage and sets both Nicole and himself on to a dangerous path where only the strongest can survive. In this exquisite, lyrical novel, Fitzgerald has poured much of the essence of his own life; he has also depicted the age of materialism, shattered idealism and broken dreams.



The Penguin English Library - collectable general readers' editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century to the end of the Second World War.

Серия: Penguin English Library
Год: 2018
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 888136
ISBN: 9780241341483
Автор: Fitzgerald Francis Scott

Tender is the Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald's last completed novel, Tender is the Night is edited by Arnold Goldman with an introduction and notes by Richard Godden in Penguin Modern Classics.



Between the First World War and the Wall Street Crash the French Riviera was the stylish place for wealthy Americans to visit. Among the most fashionable are psychoanalyst Dick Diver and his wife Nicole, who hold court at their villa. Into their circle comes Rosemary Hoyt, a film star, who is instantly attracted to them, but understands little of the dark secrets and hidden corruption that hold them together. As Dick draws closer to Rosemary, he fractures the delicate structure of his marriage and sets both Nicole and himself on to a dangerous path where only the strongest can survive. In this exquisite, lyrical novel, Fitzgerald has poured much of the essence of his own life; he has also depicted the age of materialism, shattered idealism and broken dreams.



F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) has acquired a mythical status in American literary history, and his masterwork The Great Gatsby is considered by many to be the 'great American novel'. In 1920 he married Zelda Sayre, dubbed 'the first American Flapper', and their traumatic marriage and Zelda's gradual descent into insanity became the leading influence on his writing. As well as many short stories, Fitzgerald wrote five novels This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, The Beautiful and the Damned, Tender is the Night and, incomplete at the time of his death, The Last Tycoon. After his death The New York Times said of him that 'in fact and in the literary sense he created a "generation" '.

Серия: Penguin Modern Classics
Год: 2000
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 887133
ISBN: 9780141183596
Автор: Fitzgerald Francis Scott

Tender is the Night
'Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives.'



American Dick Diver and his wife Nicole are the epitome of 1920s elegance and sophistication, entertaining friends and pursuing a glamorous lifestyle at their French Riviera villa. When Rosemary Hoyt, a young film star, arrives in France, she becomes entranced by the couple, but it is not long before the dark secrets of their marriage are revealed.

In this acclaimed semi-autobiographical work, F. Scott Fitzgerald explores the destructiveness of intimate relationships in a novel that captures the highs and lows of the Jazz Age.

Серия: Collins Classics
Год: 2021
Производитель: William Collins
Артикул: 899115
ISBN: 9780008516161
Автор: Fitzgerald Francis Scott

Terrorist
In his extraordinary and highly charged new novel, John Updike tackles one of America's most burning issues - the threat of Islamist terror from within. Set in contemporary New Jersey, Terrorist traces the journey of one young man, from radicalism to fundamentalism to terrorism, against the backdrop of a fraying urban landscape and an increasingly fragmented community. In beautiful prose, Updike dramatizes the logic of the fundamentalist terrorist - but also suggests ways in which we can counter it, in our words and our actions . . .
Год: 2007
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 886838
ISBN: 9780141027845
Автор: Updike John

Tess of the D Urbervilles
HarperCollins is pround to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.



My life looks as if it had been wasted for want of chances! When I see what you know, what you have read, and seen, and thought, I feel what a nothing I am!



Challenging the hypocrisy and social conventions of the rural Victorian world, Tess of the D Urbervilles follows the story of Tess Durbeyfield as she attempts to escape the poverty of her background, seeking wealth by claiming connection with the aristocratic D Urberville family. It is through Tess s relationships with two very different men that Hardy tells the story of his tragic heroine, and exposes the double standards of the world that she inhabits with searing pathos and heart-rending sentiment.

Серия: Collins Classics
Год: 2022
Производитель: William Collins
Артикул: 899208
ISBN: 9780008542122
Автор: Hardy Thomas

Tess of the D'Urbervilles
With its depiction of the wronged 'pure woman' Tess and its powerful criticism of Victorian hypocrisy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles is one of the most moving and poetic of Hardy's novels. When its heroine, Tess Durbeyfield, is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles, meeting her 'cousin' Alec proves to be her downfall. A very different man, Angel Clare, seems to offer her love and salvation, but Tess must choose whether to reveal her past or remain silent in the hope of a peaceful future.

Серия: Penguin Classics
Год: 2003
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 888019
ISBN: 9780141439594
Автор: Hardy Thomas

Tess of the D'Urbervilles
The Penguin English Library Edition of Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy



"I would be content, ay, glad, to live with you as your servant, if I may not as your wife; so that I could only be near you, and get glimpses of you, and think of you as mine... I long for only one thing in heaven or earth or under the earth, to meet you, my own dear! Come to me - come to me, and save me from what threatens me!"



When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeting her 'cousin' Alec proves to be her downfall. A very different man, Angel Clare, seems to offer her love and salvation, but Tess must choose whether to reveal her past or remain silent in the hope of a peaceful future. With its sensitive depiction of the wronged Tess and powerful criticism of social convention, Tess of the D'Urbervilles is one of the most moving and poetic of Hardy's novels.



The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

Серия: Penguin English Library
Год: 2012
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 887563
ISBN: 9780141199948
Автор: Hardy Thomas

Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.



When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeting her 'cousin' Alec proves to be her downfall. A very different man, Angel Clare, seems to offer her love and salvation, but Tess must choose whether to reveal her past or remain silent in the hope of a peaceful future. With its sensitive depiction of the wronged Tess and powerful criticism of social convention, Tess of the D'Urbervilles is one of the most moving and poetic of Hardy's novels.

Серия: Penguin Clothbound Classics
Год: 2008
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 886957
ISBN: 9780141040332
Автор: Hardy Thomas

Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Hardy's account of a pure woman betrayed by love is his most powerful and moving novel. Set in the sometimes bleak but always magical Wessex landscape so familiar from his earlier stories, Tess of the d'Urbervilles works up a domestic drama to heights of tragic intensity which make the book a fit companion for Anna Karenina and Madame Bovary.

Серия: Everyman`s Library
Год: 1991
Производитель: Everyman
Артикул: 892816
ISBN: 9781857150339
Автор: Hardy Thomas

Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Set in Hardy's Wessex, Tess is a moving novel of hypocrisy and double standards. Its challenging sub-title, A Pure Woman, infuriated critics when the book was first published in 1891, and it was condemned as immoral and pessimistic.



It tells of Tess Durbeyfield, the daughter of a poor and dissipated villager, who learns that she may be descended from the ancient family of d'Urbeville. In her search for respectability her fortunes fluctuate wildly, and the story assumes the proportions of a Greek tragedy. It explores Tess's relationships with two very different men, her struggle against the social mores of the rural Victorian world which she inhabits and the hypocrisy of the age.



In addressing the double standards of the time, Hardy's masterly evocation of a world which we have lost, provides one of the most compelling stories in the canon of English literature, whose appeal today defies the judgement of Hardy's contemporary critics.

Серия: Collector`s Editions
Год: 2022
Производитель: Wordsworth
Артикул: 939074
ISBN: 9781840228298
Автор: Hardy Thomas

Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Young Tess Durbeyfield attempts to restore her family's fortunes by claiming their connection with the aristocratic d'Urbervilles. But Alec d'Urberville is a rich wastrel who seduces her and makes her life miserable. When Tess meets Angel Clare, she is offered true love and happiness, but her past catches up with her and she faces an agonizing moral choice.

Hardy's indictment of society's double standards, and his depiction of Tess as "a pure woman, " caused controversy in his day and has held the imagination of readers ever since. Hardy thought it his finest novel, and Tess the most deeply felt character he ever created. This unique critical text is taken from the authoritative Clarendon edition, which is based on the manuscript collated with all Hardy's subsequent revisions.

Серия: Oxford World`s Classics
Год: 2007
Производитель: Oxford
Артикул: 958682
ISBN: 9780199537051
Автор: Hardy Thomas

The "Canary" Murder Case
"Смерть Канарейки" - второй роман из цикла книг о частном детективе Фило Вэнсе. Вэнс, стильный джентльмен из Нью-Йорка с незаурядным интеллектом, помогает полиции раскрывать запутанные дела. На сей раз в своей квартире задушена молодая певичка с Бродвея Маргарет Оделл по прозвищу Канарейка. Несмотря на свою молодость, Канарейка успела нажить врагов, и в деле несколько подозреваемых. Интрига не отпускает читателя до конца последней главы.

Неадаптированный полный текст романа с комментариями автора и редактора, уровень B2-C1.

Серия: Чтение в оригинале. Английский язык
Год: 2022
Производитель: Каро
Артикул: 915447
ISBN: 978-5-9925-1639-5
Автор: Ван Дайн С. С

The A B C Murders
Королева классического детектива Агата Кристи предлагает читателям сложную, но интересную загадку - убийства по железнодорожному справочнику, которые берется расследовать блестящий сыщик Эркюль Пуаро.

Следить за развитием событий читателю помогут подробные комментарии и словарь, данный в конце книги.

Серия: Чтение в оригинале. Английский язык
Год: 2023
Производитель: Каро
Артикул: 932849
ISBN: 978-5-9925-1648-7
Автор: Кристи Агата

The ABC Murders
Agatha Christie's world-famous serial killer mystery, coming to BBC TV and reissued in a beautiful new classic hardcover edition designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.

'Let us see, Mr Clever Poirot, just how clever you can be.'

Murder is a very simple crime. But at the hands of a maniac, a serial killer, it becomes a very complicated business.

With the whole country in a state of panic, the killer is growing more confident with each successive execution - Mrs Ascher in Andover, Betty Barnard in Bexhill, Sir Carmichael Clarke in Churston... But laying a trail of deliberate clues to taunt the proud Hercule Poirot might just be his first mistake...

Серия: Poirot
Год: 2018
Производитель: Harpercollins
Артикул: 898068
ISBN: 9780008310226
Автор: Christie Agatha

The Acts of King Arthur and his Noble Knights
Steinbeck's first posthumously published work, The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights is a reinterpretation of tales from Malory's Morte d'Arthur. In this highly successful attempt to render Malory into Modern English, Steinbeck recreated the rhythm and tone of the original Middle English.

Серия: Penguin Modern Classics
Год: 2001
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 887232
ISBN: 9780141186306
Автор: Steinbeck John

The Actual
The story behind The Actual belongs to Harry Trellman, an aging, astute businessman who has never belonged anywhere.

Серия: Penguin Modern Classics
Год: 2008
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 887314
ISBN: 9780141188843
Автор: Bellow Saul

The Adventure Of The Christmas Pudding
Agatha Christie s seasonal Poirot and Marple short story collection in a new hardback special edition.

First came a sinister warning to Poirot not to eat any plum pudding then the discovery of a corpse in a chest next, an overheard quarrel that led to murder the strange case of the dead man who altered his eating habits and the puzzle of the victim who dreamt his own suicide.



What links these five baffling cases? The little grey cells of Monsieur Hercule Poirot!



Contains the stories:

The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding

The Mystery of the Spanish Chest

Four-And-Twenty Blackbirds

The Under Dog

The Dream

Серия: Poirot
Год: 2021
Производитель: Harpercollins
Артикул: 899064
ISBN: 9780008509347
Автор: Christie Agatha

The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb and Other Cases
As usual with the Sherlock Holmes stories it is very hard to say which are the best - but there are many stories here which would get the vote - ranging from The Boscombe Valley Mystery to the wonderful Adventure of Silver Blaze, from the Adventure of the Norwood Builder to A Case of Identity, but above to the uniquely strange and macabre Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb.

Серия: Penguin English Library
Год: 2014
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 887965
ISBN: 9780141395500
Автор: Doyle Arthur Conan

The Adventure of the Six Napoleons and Other Cases
The Penguin English Library edition



Many readers would claim that The Adventure of the Copper Beeches or The Man with the Twisted Lip was their favourite Sherlock Holmes story - but then that would be doing an injustice to The Adventure of the Yellow Face and The Problem of Thor Bridge. It is just as well that in the end we do not have to choose - as if we did then there would be no doubt it should be The Adventure of the Six Napoleons.

Серия: Penguin English Library
Год: 2014
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 887966
ISBN: 9780141395548
Автор: Doyle Arthur Conan

The Adventures Of Augie March
The fictional autobiography of a rumbustious adventurer and poker-player who sets off his native Chicago in the spirit of a latter-day Columbus to rediscover the world-and more especially, twentieth-century America. This expansive comedy of American manners in the tradition of Twain's 'innocent abroad' is a major classic of twentieth-century American literature.

Серия: Everyman`s Library
Год: 2015
Производитель: Everyman
Артикул: 892909
ISBN: 9781857152159
Автор: Bellow Saul

The Adventures Of Elizabeth In Rugen
In 1901 the 'real' Elizabeth holidayed on the Baltic island of Rьgen with just her maid, a coachman, a carriage piled with luggage, and a woman friend. From such unpromising beginnings Elizabeth weaves a captivating farrago around her encounters. There's the snobbish bishop's wife and her personable, handsome son, a dressmaker and, astonishingly, a long-lost cousin - Charlotte - who is trying to evade the pursuit of her husband, the maddeningly genial old professor.



Here, with delightfully astringent humour, Elizabeth recounts the misadventures that befall her. And, as she immortalised her Pomeranian wilderness in the famous Elizabeth and Her German Garden, she now writes enticingly of this remote and attractive island.

Серия: Virago Modern Classics
Год: 2006
Производитель: Virago
Артикул: 910441
ISBN: 9781844082766
Автор: Von Arnim Elizabeth

The Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Thief
The inspiration for the hit Netflix show, Lupin, Arsene Lupin is charming, clever and bold. A master of disguise, he steals from the rich, he outsmarts the police and he's generous to those in need. And above all, he never takes himself too seriously. This French Robin Hood has charmed readers for generations and the stories about his dazzling escapades have been adapted countless times for television, stage and film.



Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition of The Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Thief is translated from the French by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos and features an introduction by Emma Bielecki.



In the opening stories, Lupin is arrested, only to engineer his own incredible escape. What follows are wonderfully entertaining and action packed stories that finish with a brief encounter with none other than Sherlock Holmes. These stories were first published together in 1907 and this edition of the gentleman thief's very first adventures is the perfect place to start exploring his world of daring escapes, cunning disguises and ambitious heists.

Серия: Macmillan Collector's Library
Год: 2021
Производитель: Macmillan
Артикул: 902411
ISBN: 9781529078206
Автор: Leblanc Maurice

The Adventures of Augie March
A penniless and parentless Chicago boy growing up in the Great Depression, Augie March drifts through life latching on to a wild succession of occupations, including butler, thief, dog-washer, sailor and salesman. He is a 'born recruit', easily influenced by others who try to mould his destiny. Not until he tangles with the glamorous Thea, a huntress with a trained eagle, can he attempt to break free. A modern day everyman on an odyssey in search of reality and identity, Augie March is the star of star performer in a richly observed human variety show, a modern-day Columbus in search of reality and fulfilment.

Серия: Penguin Modern Classics
Год: 2019
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 887173
ISBN: 9780141184869
Автор: Bellow Saul

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Nostalgic and melancholy in equal measure, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is a razor-sharp satire of the antebellum South that, despite beginning life as a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, is now seen in its own right as one of the most important of all American novels.



Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn features an afterword by playwright and screenwriter Peter Harness.



Rather than be 'sivilized' by the Widow Douglas, Huckleberry Finn - the grubby but good-natured son of a local drunk - sets off with Jim, an escaped slave, to find freedom on the Mississippi river. With the law on their tail, they navigate a world of robbers, slave hunters and con men, and Huck must choose between what society says is 'right' and his own burgeoning understanding of Jim's friendship and humanity.

Серия: Macmillan Collector's Library
Год: 2017
Производитель: Macmillan
Артикул: 903008
ISBN: 9781509827992
Автор: Twain Mark

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Penguin English Library Edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain



'I'm unfavorable to killin' a man as long as you can git around it; it ain't good sense, it ain't good morals. Ain't I right?'



The original Great American Novel, an incomparable adventure story and a classic of anarchic humour, Twain's masterpiece sees Huckleberry Finn and Jim the slave escape their difficult lives by fleeing down the Mississippi on a raft. There, they find steamships, feuding families, an unlikely Duke and King and vital lessons about the world in which they live. With its unforgettable cast of characters, Hemingway called this 'the best book we've ever had'.



The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

Серия: Penguin English Library
Год: 2012
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 887526
ISBN: 9780141199009
Автор: Twain Mark

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain's witty, satirical tale of childhood rebellion against hypocritical adult authority, the Penguin Classics edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is edited with a critical introduction by Peter Coveney.



Mark Twain's story of a boy's journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed the voice and experience of the American frontier as no other work had done before. When Huck escapes from his drunken, abusive 'Pap' and the 'sivilizing' Widow Douglas with runaway slave Jim, he embarks on a series of adventures that draw him to feuding families and the trickery of the unscrupulous 'Duke' and 'Dauphin'. Beneath the exploits, however, are more serious undercurrents - of slavery, adult control and, above all, of Huck's struggle between his instinctive goodness and the corrupt values of society which threaten his deep and enduring friendship with Jim.



Based on the first edition of 1884, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn includes a chronology and list of further reading by Richard Maxwell.



Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910) trained as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi river; 'Mark Twain', a phrase used on riverboats to indicate that the water is two fathoms deep, became the pseudonym by which he was best known. After the Civil War, Twain turned to journalism, publishing his first short story in 1865. Dubbed 'the father of American literature' by William Faulkner, Twain led a colourful life of travelling, bankruptcy and great literary success.

Серия: Penguin Classics
Год: 2003
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 888023
ISBN: 9780141439648
Автор: Twain Mark

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.

'We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.'



Miserable and down on his luck, young Huck Finn escapes his drunken father by faking his own death - and so begins his life-changing journey through the Deep South. On his travels Huck meets Jim, a runaway slave, and together they form a close friendship as they journey down the Mississippi River on their individual quests for independence and freedom.



First published in 1884, Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn remains a defining classic, grappling with issues of prejudice, morality and religion, with bravery and hope at its heart. Today, the tale of Huck Finn and Jim is considered one of the first Great American novels.

Серия: Collins Classics
Год: 2022
Производитель: William Collins
Артикул: 899212
ISBN: 9780008542184
Автор: Twain Mark

The Adventures of Sally
The Adventures of Sally is a transatlantic comedy set in worlds Wodehouse knew well: American theatres, English country houses, and the theatrical boarding-houses where young men and women dream of finding fame and fortune. Coming into a modest inheritance, one of these young women, Sally, is able to leave her boarding-house at last, and looks forward to a quiet life in a small apartment. Instead, she finds herself swept up in a series of adventures with her ambitious brother and her playwright fiance, along with an accident-prone, dog-loving Englishman she meets on a French beach and his supercilious cousin, who pursue her across the Atlantic. While losing most of her inheritance backing a play, she sheds the unsatisfactory fiance, rejects the supercilious cousin, falls in love with the accident-prone Englishman, and finds happiness in a kennel on Long Island.

Серия: Everyman`s Library P. G. Wodehouse
Год: 2011
Производитель: Everyman
Артикул: 892432
ISBN: 9781841591742
Автор: Wodehouse Pelham Grenville

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Первый сборник рассказов о Шерлоке Холмсе, увидевший свет в 1892 году. Непревзойденная классика английского детектива, дополненная иллюстрациями Сидни Пэджета. Именно эти рисунки сопроводили первую публикацию "Приключений " в журнале Strand Magazine, сформировав канонический облик знаменитого сыщика.

Издание на английском языке.

Серия: Palmyra Classics
Год: 2023
Производитель: Пальмира
Артикул: 956462
ISBN: 978-5-517-09503-9
Автор: Дойл Артур Конан

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Out of his smoke-filled rooms in Baker Street stalks a figure to cause the criminal classes to quake in their boots and rush from their dens of inequity The twelve mysteries gathered in this first collection of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson's adventures reveal the brilliant consulting detective at the height of his powers. Problems involving a man with a twisted lip, a fabulous blue carbuncle and five orange pips tax Sherlock Holmes' intellect alongside some of his most famous cases, including A Scandal in Bohemia and The Red-Headed League.
Год: 2007
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 886897
ISBN: 9780141034355
Автор: Doyle Arthur Conan

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
'It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.'



Sherlock Holmes, scourge of criminals everywhere, whether they be lurking in London's foggy backstreets or plotting behind the walls of an idyllic country mansion, and his faithful colleague Dr Watson solve twelve breathtaking and perplexing mysteries.



In The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the first collection of the great consulting detective's cases, we encounter some of his most famous and devilishly difficult problems, including A Scandal in Bohemia, The Speckled Band, The Red-Headed League, The Blue Carbuncle, The Five Orange Pips and The Man with the Twisted Lip.
Год: 2011
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 889016
ISBN: 9780241952900
Автор: Doyle Arthur Conan

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.

A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there was a loud and authoritative tap.



Set against the foggy backdrop of London and the English countryside, each story in this quintessential collection unravels an exciting new mystery, from mistaken identity and portentous omens to counterfeit currency and jewellery theft. They follow the famous detective and his partner Watson on the trail of some of their most enjoyable cases, including A Scandal in Bohemia , The Five Orange Pips and The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle .



Appearing in the Strand magazine between 1891 and 1892, these are the first stories ever published to feature the famous detective Sherlock Holmes, whose adventures hold an unparalleled and enduring appeal to this day.

Серия: Collins Classics
Год: 2016
Производитель: William Collins
Артикул: 897529
ISBN: 9780008182229
Автор: Doyle Arthur Conan

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
A collection of the most famous cases faced by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's peerless creation, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes contains an introduction by Iain Pears and notes by Ed Glinert in Penguin Classics.



This collection includes many of the famous cases - and great strokes of brilliance - that made the legendary Sherlock Holmes one of fiction's most popular creations. With his devoted amanuensis Dr Watson, Holmes emerges from his smoke filled room in Baker Street to grapple with the forces of treachery, intrigue and evil in such cases as 'The Speckled Band', in which a terrified woman begs their help in solving the mystery surrounding her sister's death, or 'A Scandal in Bohemia', which portrays a European king blackmailed by his mistress. In 'Silver Blaze' the pair investigate the disappearance of a racehorse and the violent murder of its trainer, while in 'The Final Problem' Holmes at last comes face to face with his nemesis, the diabolical Professor Moriarty - 'the Napoleon of crime'.



In his introduction, Iain Pears discusses characterization, the key themes of the stories and Victorian methods of deduction. This edition also includes a chronology, further reading and explanatory notes by Ed Glinert, author of The London Compendium.



Edinburgh-born Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) took a degree in medicine at Edinburgh University before becoming a doctor in Southsea. He began writing detective stories to supplement his income and 'A Study in Scarlet' (1887) introduced his finest creation, the hawk-eyed detective, Sherlock Holmes.

Серия: Penguin Classics
Год: 2001
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 886536
ISBN: 9780140437713
Автор: Doyle Arthur Conan

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
In this enduring and internationally popular novel, Mark Twain combines social satire and dime-novel sensation with a rhapsody on boyhood and on America's pre-industrial past. Tom Sawyer is resilient, enterprising, and vainglorious, and in a series of adventures along the banks of the Mississippi he usually manages to come out on top. From petty triumphs over his friends and over his long-suffering Aunt Polly, to his intervention in a murder trial, Tom engages readers of all ages. He has long been a defining figure in the American cultural imagination.



Alongside the charm and the excitement, the novel also raises questions about identity, and about attitudes to class and race. Above all, Twain's study of childhood brings into focus emergent notions of individual and literary maturity.

Серия: Oxford World`s Classics
Год: 2008
Производитель: Oxford
Артикул: 958930
ISBN: 9780199536566
Автор: Twain Mark

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
One of the most irrepressible and exuberant characters in the history of literature, Tom Sawyer explodes onto the page in a whirl of bad behaviour and incredible adventures. Whether he is heaving clods of earth at his brother, faking a gangrenous toe, or trying to convince the world that he is dead, Tom's infectious energy and good humour shine through.



Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer features an afterword by playwright and screenwriter Peter Harness.

Серия: Macmillan Collector's Library
Год: 2017
Производитель: Macmillan
Артикул: 903007
ISBN: 9781509828005
Автор: Twain Mark

The African Queen
Central Africa, 1914; Rose Sayer, a thirty-three year-old English woman, is left alone when her missionary brother dies. Her only route out is aboard The African Queen, a steam-powered launch captained by Cockney mechanic, Charlie Alnutt. Determined to do her bit for the war effort and to avenge her brother, Rose persuades Charlie that they should attack the German gunboat, the Koenigin Luise. And so begins a most unlikely alliance and love affair, as Charlie and Rose venture down the treacherous Ulanga river encountering danger and adventure at every turn.



This beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition of The African Queen by C. S. Forester features an introduction by the award-winning author and journalist, Giles Foden.



Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

Серия: Macmillan Collector's Library
Год: 2017
Производитель: Macmillan
Артикул: 903019
ISBN: 9781509826773
Автор: Forester C.S

The African Queen
The African Queen is C.S Forester's sublime story of how Rose Sayer, a straitlaced missionary and Charlie Allnut, a gin-swilling riverboat owner, sail down a dangerous African river in a rusty old tub, The African Queen and outwit the Germans is a classic tale of derring-do. Made into a Hollywood movie starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn, it remains one of the most popular films ever made.
Год: 2006
Производитель: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Артикул: 909247
ISBN: 9780753820797
Автор: Forester C.S

The Age Of Innocence
Edith Wharton's novel reworks the eternal triangle of two women and a man in a strikingly original manner. When about to marry the beautiful and conventional May Welland, Newland Archer falls in love with her very unconventional cousin, the Countess Olenska. The consequent drama, set in New York during the 1870s, reveals terrifying chasms under the polished surface of upper-class society as the increasingly fraught Archer struggles with conflicting obligations and desires. The first woman to do so, Edith Wharton won the Pulitzer Prize for this dark comedy of manners which was immediately recognized as one of her greatest achievements.

Серия: Everyman`s Library
Год: 1993
Производитель: Everyman
Артикул: 892901
ISBN: 9781857152029
Автор: Wharton Edith

The Age of Innocence
The return of the beautiful Countess Olenska into the rigidly conventional society of New York sends reverberations throughout the upper reaches of society.



Newland Archer, an eligible young man of the establishment is about to announce his engagement to May Welland, a pretty ingenue, when May's cousin, Countess Olenska, is introduced into their circle. The Countess brings with her an aura of European sophistication and a hint of scandal, having left her husband and claimed her independence.



Her sorrowful eyes, her tragic worldliness and her air of unapproachability attract the sensitive Newland and, almost against their will, a passionate bond develops between them. But Archer's life has no place for passion and, with society on the side of May and all she stands for, he finds himself drawn into a bitter conflict between love and duty.

Серия: Penguin Classics
Год: 2019
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 886344
ISBN: 9780140189704
Автор: Wharton Edith

The Aleph
Borges' stories have a deceptively simple, almost laconic style. In maddeningly ingenious stories that play with the very form of the short story, Borges returns again and again to his themes: dreams, labyrinths, mirrors, infinite libraries, the manipulations of chance, gaucho knife-fighters, transparent tigers and the elusive nature of identity itself.

Серия: Penguin Modern Classics
Год: 2024
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 887140
ISBN: 9780141183831
Автор: Borges Jorge Luis

The Alexiad
Written between 1143 and 1153 by the daughter of Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, The Alexiad is one of the most popular and revealing primary sources in the vast canon of medieval literature. Princess Anna Komnene, eldest child of the imperial couple, reveals the inner workings of the court, profiles its many extraordinary personages, and offers a firsthand account of immensely significant events such as the First Crusade, as well as its impact on the relationship between eastern and western Christianity. A celebrated triumph of Byzantine letters, this is an unparalleled view of Constantinople and the medieval world.



This Penguin Classics edition is based on E. R. A. Sewter's renowned translation, revised by Peter Frankopan. It also includes an introduction, notes and other critical apparatus by Frankopan.

Серия: Penguin Classics
Год: 2024
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 886684
ISBN: 9780140455274
Автор: Komnene Anna

The Amazing Hat Mystery
Meet the Young Men in Spats all members of the Drones Club, all crossed in love and all busy betting their sometimes non-existent fortunes on unlikely outcomes that's when they're not recovering from driving their sports cars through, rather than round, Marble Arch.



These wonderful comic short stories are the essence of innocent fun. Here, you'll encounter some of Wodehouse's favourite characters and, in 'The Amazing Hat Mystery', one of his favourite stories.



Contents:

- The Amazing Hat Mystery

- Uncle Fred Flits By

- Trouble Down at Tudsleigh
Год: 2017
Производитель: Arrow Books
Артикул: 892242
ISBN: 9781787460126
Автор: Wodehouse Pelham Grenville

The Amazing Test Match Crime
It was here at the Manor House that Norman Blood, captain of England, spent his childhood playing cricket with the vicar's radiant daughter, Monica. And it was she who presented young but poor Joe Prestwick with a belt on the occasion of his first game of cricket, saving his honour for as Sir Timothy Blood remarked, 'I would rather see the whole village dead at my feet than a man bowling in braces.'



With a short - but sensational - career behind him, Joe just needs to be selected to play at the Oval to win Monica's heart and her hand in marriage: everything depends on the Test.



But The Bad Men, Europe's most wanted gang, have no intention of letting the best team win. Sawn-off Carlo, The Professor and Ralph the Disappointment (an Englishman who, knowing the rules of the Game, is eternally damned for not playing by them) plan to strike a blow at the very heart of proud Albion and her Empire.



The Amazing Test Match Crime, first published in 1939, is a wicked yet affectionate comedy of cricketing (and criminal) manners, proving - as if proof were needed - that a straight bat and nimble spinning finger will always win through.
Год: 2019
Производитель: Abacus
Артикул: 904593
ISBN: 9780349143880
Автор: Alington Adrian

The Ambassadors
This complex tale of self-discovery - considered by the author to be his best work - traces the path of an aging idealist, Lambert Strether. Arriving in Paris with the intention of persuading his young charge to abandon an obsession with a French woman and return home, Strether reaches unexpected conclusions.

Серия: Everyman`s Library
Год: 2016
Производитель: Everyman
Артикул: 892494
ISBN: 9781841593746
Автор: James Henry

The American
Henry James's third novel is an exploration of his most powerful, perennial theme - the clash between European and American cultures, the Old World and the New. Christopher Newman, a 'self-made' American millionaire in France, falls in love with the beautiful aristocratic Claire de Bellegarde. Her family, however, taken aback by his brash American manner, rejects his proposal of marriage. When Newman discovers a guilty secret in the Bellegardes' past, he confronts a moral dilemma: Should he expose them and thus gain his revenge? James's masterly early work is at once a social comedy, a melodramatic romance and a realistic novel of manners.

Серия: Penguin Classics
Год: 1986
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 886429
ISBN: 9780140390827
Автор: James Henry

The Annotated Alice
'A landmark, bringing together a lifetime's work on Lewis Carroll by writer and mathematician Martin Gardner. He dazzles on Carroll's puzzles and games of logic and entertains on everything from Alice's influence on the Beat poet Jack Kerouac to howmercury in hat linings turned hatters mad...it is unsurpassed' - Jackie Wullschlager, Financial Times 'The indispensable guide to a classic of English literature...no one who has ever wondered about the meaning of 'Jabberwocky' should fail to include on their Christmas list' - Robert McCrum, Observer
Год: 2001
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 886396
ISBN: 9780140289299
Автор: Carroll Lewis

The Arabian Nights
Ever since their first arrival in the West three hundred years ago, these stories spun by Scheherazade over a thousand and one nights have cast a spell of enchantment which has never been broken. Collected over centuries from many sources - Persian, Arabic-Islamic, Greek, Indian, and perhaps even Chinese; containing magical transformations and incredible journeys featuring genies and demons, sultans and carpets, they epitomized for Europeans all that was mysterious and exotic about the East. Such was the craze for Oriental tales that a number of stories - 'Aladdin' and 'Ali Baba' among them - more than likely orignated in the West and were later translated into Arabic and back again as part of a complicated but highly fruitful cross-cultural exchange.

This unique anthology draws on the best of many English translations, from the earliest to the most recent. Pride of place goes to nineteenth-century Orientalists Richard Burton, Edward W. Lane and John Payne, who combined meticulous scholarship with imaginative enterprise and stylistic artistry, to create works which are classics in their own right. These in turn were translated in to many languages, thus bringing The Arabian Nights to the centre of world literature. Generous space is also given to the fin-de-siecle version of 'Mardrus/Mathers' - arguably the most lively and entertaining of them all.

All the most famous stories are here, plus many more, each chosen in a version that best conveys the texture and nuance of the original Arabic. The new Everyman edition has been designed to give something of the flavour of the first editions and includes elegant illustrations by the popular early Victorian engraver and designer, William Harvey.

Серия: Everyman`s Library
Год: 2014
Производитель: Everyman
Артикул: 892487
ISBN: 9781841593616

The Art of Solitude. Selected Writings
In a world where we're more connected than ever, why is it that we're also more lonely? Dip into this anthology of classic writing to reclaim the pleasure of your own company.



Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning pocket size classics. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition is edited and introduced by writer and academic, Zachary Seager.



The Art of Solitude shows some of the myriad ways in which people throughout history have understood their experiences of solitary life, or have counselled others to benefit from solitude. It contains poetry, essays, autobiographical pieces and short stories from writers such as Virginia Woolf, Edgar Allen Poe, Emily Dickinson and Ralph Waldo Emerson.



These diverse works can teach us how to think in freedom, how to enjoy a profound inner life and how best to cope with the fact that, as the novelist Joseph Conrad put it, we live, as we dream - alone. Above all, they show how we might truly connect with ourselves and, in the process, how we can meaningfully connect with those around us, including the earth itself. Looked at in this way, solitude is always focused both outward and inward, towards the self and towards the world. The cure for loneliness is, in the end, the art of solitude.

Серия: Macmillan Collector's Library
Год: 2020
Производитель: Macmillan
Артикул: 902608
ISBN: 9781529032628
Автор: Chomei Kamo no, Descartes Rene, de Montaigne Michel

The Artificial Silk Girl
Doris is going to be a big star. Wearing a stolen fur coat and recently fired from her office job, she takes an all-night train to Berlin to make it in the movies. But what she encounters in the city is not fame and fortune, but gnawing hunger, seedy bars, and exploitative men - and as Doris sinks ever lower, she resorts to desperate measures to survive. Very funny and intensely moving, this is a dazzling portrait of roaring Berlin in the 1920s, and a poignant exploration of the doomed pursuit of fame and glamour.



The Artificial Silk Girl was a huge bestseller in Weimar Germany before the Nazis banned it, and is today Keun's best-loved book in Germany. Funny, fresh and radical in its dissection of the limited options available to working women, it is a novel that speaks to our times.

Серия: Penguin Modern Classics
Год: 2019
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 888296
ISBN: 9780241382967
Автор: Keun Irmgard

The Ascent Of Rum Doodle
An outrageously funny spoof about the ascent of a 40, 000-and-a-half-foot peak, discover this laugh-out-loud cult favourite.



Led by the reliably under-insightful Binder, a team of seven British men including Dr Prone (constantly ill); Jungle the route finder (constantly lost), Constant the diplomat (constantly arguing) and 3, 000 Yogistani porters, set out to conquer the highest peak in the Himalayas.



Vintage Voyages: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind

Серия: Vintage Voyages
Год: 2019
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 891875
ISBN: 9781784875299
Автор: Bowman W E

The Aspern Papers and Other Tales
A wonderful new selection of Henry James's short stories exploring the relationship between art and life, edited by Michael Gorra.



This volume gathers seven of the very best of Henry James's short stories, all focussing the relationship between art and life. In 'The Aspern Papers', a critic is determined to get his hands on a great poet's papers hidden in a faded Venetian house - not matter what the human cost. 'The Author of Beltraffio', 'The Lesson of the Master' and 'The Figure in the Carpet' all focus on naive young men's unsettling encounters with their literary heroes. In 'The Middle Years', a dying novelist begins to glimpse his own potential, while 'The Real Thing' and 'Greville Fane' both explore the tension between artistic and commercial success. These fables of the creative life reveal James at his ironic, provocative best.



Henry James was born in 1843 in New York and died in London in 1916. In addition to many short stories, plays, books of criticism, autobiography and travel, he wrote some twenty novels, the first published being Roderick Hudson (1875). They include The Europeans, Washington Square, The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians, The Princess Casamassima, The Tragic Muse, The Spoils of Poynton, The Awkward Age, The Wings of the Dove, The Ambassadors and The Golden Bowl.

Серия: Penguin Classics
Год: 2014
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 887894
ISBN: 9780141389790
Автор: James Henry

The Avenue Goes to War
The wail of sirens and the bombs of the Luftwaffe shook the people of the Avenue out of their dreams and preoccupations, bringing out their best and worst qualities. Only a handful of neighbours remained to face the Blitz. They endured death and destruction, relief and victory. Bound together by their experiences, they found in themselves surprising reserves of heroism, courage and humour.
Год: 2008
Производитель: Hodder & Stoughton
Артикул: 908673
ISBN: 9780340963784
Автор: Delderfield R. F

The Awakening
Over one long, languid summer Edna Pontellier, fettered by marriage and motherhood, becomes acquainted with Robert Lebrun. As the days shorten and the temperature drops Edna succumbs to Robert s devotion. But as her desire grows so too does her discontentment - with the role society has forced her to play and with the bonds that hold her fast - and her world begins to unravel with devastating consequences

The Awakening is widely regarded as one of the forerunners of feminist literature alongside Tolstoy s Anna Karenina and Flaubert s Madame Bovary. First published in the United States in 1899, this radical novel sent shockwaves through American society and continues to speak to readers over a hundred years later. This tender, brilliant, and seductive novel is as beautifully written as it is politically engaging.

Серия: The Canons
Год: 2016
Производитель: Canongate
Артикул: 953702
ISBN: 9781782117131
Автор: Chopin Kate

The Awakening
'The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude'

When 'The Awakening' was first published in 1899, charges of sordidness and immorality seemed to consign it into obscurity and irreparably damage its author's reputation. But a century after her death, it is widely regarded as Kate Chopin's great achievement. Through careful, subtle changes of style, Chopin shows the transformation of Edna Pontellier, a young wife and mother, who - with tragic consequences - refuses to be caged by married and domestic life, and claims for herself moral and erotic freedom.



The Penguin English Library - collectable general readers' editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century to the end of the Second World War.

Серия: Penguin English Library
Год: 2018
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 888134
ISBN: 9780241341421
Автор: Chopin Kate

The Awakening
While spending the summer in the resort of Grand Isle with her husband and children, Edna Pontellier begins a process of self-discovery that is accelerated after she meets the charming Robert Lebrun. Yet, when Robert departs for Mexico and the summer vacation ends, Edna's new-found sense of independence and personal freedom mean that she isolates herself from New Orleans society and rejects her former lifestyle. Moving into a home of her own and choosing a lover, Edna soon becomes a protegee of the unconventional pianist Mademoiselle Reisz, through whom she learns that Robert still longs for her.

Centring upon the conflict between Edna's increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood and the prevailing social attitudes of the fin de siecle American South, The Awakening is widely seen as a landmark of early feminism and a precursor of American modernism.

Серия: Evergreens
Год: 2020
Производитель: Alma Books
Артикул: 960824
ISBN: 9781847498250
Автор: Chopin Kate

The Awakening & Other Stories
Readers and critics were scandalized by The Awakening when it was first published, but it is now regarded as among the boldest and earliest examples of feminist fiction. It is published here with a selection of Chopin's strikingly perceptive short stories and introduced by Dr J. Michelle Coghlan, a specialist in American literature.



Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover.



In The Awakening, Edna Pontellier is on holiday with her husband and two young children at a sleepy resort town on the Louisiana Gulf Coast. There, she is pursued by the charming and unmarried Robert Lebrun. Edna doesn't play by the rules; flirtation turns into an affair that awakens in Edna her desire to break away from her passionless marriage, her children and the strict conventions of nineteenth-century society.

Серия: Macmillan Collector's Library
Год: 2018
Производитель: Macmillan
Артикул: 902901
ISBN: 9781509854127
Автор: Chopin Kate

The Awkward Age
The story of young Nanda Brookenham's struggle to preserve her honesty in the brilliant but corrupt world of her parents is a drama of innocence betrayed yet preserved. Written when James was recovering from the shock od failure as a playwright, The Awkward Age is one of his greatest masterpieces. Conceived like a play terms of scenes and conducted largely through witty dialogue, the novel bears the triumphant signs of his painful apprenticeship in the theatre.

Серия: Everyman`s Library
Год: 1993
Производитель: Everyman
Артикул: 892876
ISBN: 9781857151527
Автор: James Henry

The Awkward Age
Making her debut in London society, Nanda Brookenham is being groomed for the marriage market. Thrust suddenly into the superficial and immoral circle that surrounds her mother, the innocent but independent-minded young woman even finds herself in competition with Mrs Brookenham for the affection of the man she admires. Only an elderly bachelor, Mr Longdon, is immune to this world of greed and scheming, and determines to rescue Nanda from its corrupting influences out of loyalty to the deep love he once felt for her grandmother. In The Awkward Age (1899), Henry James explores the English character, and the clash between old and new money with a light and subtly ironic touch to create a devastating critique of society and its machinations.

Серия: Penguin Classics
Год: 1987
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 886452
ISBN: 9780140432978
Автор: James Henry

The Bacchae and Other Plays
Through their sheer range, daring innovation, flawed but eloquent characters and intriguing plots, the plays of Euripides have shocked and stimulated audiences since the fifth century BC. Phoenician Women portrays the rival sons of King Oedipus and their mother's doomed attempts at reconciliation, while Orestes shows a son ravaged with guilt after the vengeful murder of his mother. In the Bacchae, a king mistreats a newcomer to his land, little knowing that he is the god Dionysus disguised as a mortal, while in Iphigenia at Aulis, the Greek leaders take the horrific decision to sacrifice a princess to gain favour from the gods in their mission to Troy. Finally, the Rhesus depicts a world of espionage between the warring Greek and Trojan camps.

Серия: Penguin Classics
Год: 2005
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 886611
ISBN: 9780140447262
Автор: Euripides

The Balkan Trilogy
The Balkan Trilogy is the story of a marriage and of a war, a vast, teeming, and complex masterpiece in which Olivia Manning brings the uncertainty and adventure of civilian existence under political and military siege to vibrant life.



At the heart of the trilogy are newly-weds Guy and Harriet Pringle, who arrive in Bucharest - the so-called Paris of the East - in the autumn of 1939, just weeks after the German invasion of Poland. Guy's lecturing job awaits, alongside friends and the ever-ardent Sophie - but for Harriet, alone and naive, it's a strange new life. Other surprises follow: Romania joins the Axis, and before long German soldiers overrun the capital. The Pringles flee south to Greece, part of a group of refugees made up of White Russians, journalists, con artists, and dignitaries. In Athens, however, the couple will face a new challenge of their own...
Год: 2021
Производитель: Windmill Books
Артикул: 892176
ISBN: 9781786091567
Автор: Manning Olivia

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
Few writers have expressed loneliness, the need for human understanding and the search for love with such power and poetic sensibility as the American writer Carson McCullers, and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe collects her best-loved novella together with six short stories, published in Penguin Modern Classics.



Miss Amelia Evans, tall, strong and nobody's fool, runs a small-town store. Except for a disastrous marriage that lasted just ten days, she has always lived alone. Then Cousin Lymon appears from nowhere, a strutting hunchback who steals Miss Amelia's heart. Together they transform the store into a lively, popular cafe where the locals come to drink and gossip. But when her rejected and dangerous ex-husband Marvin Macy returns, the result is a bizarre love triangle that brings with it violence, hatred and betrayal. Among other fine works, the collection also includes 'Wunderkind', McCullers's first published story written when she was only seventeen, about a musical prodigy who suddenly realizes she will not go on to become a great pianist.

Серия: Penguin Modern Classics
Год: 2001
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 887135
ISBN: 9780141183695
Автор: McCullers Carson

The Bandini Quartet. Wait Until Spring, Bandini. The Road to Los Angeles. Ask the Dust
Possessing a style of deceptive simplicity, emotional immediacy and tremendous psychological point, among the novels, short stories and screenplays that complete his career, Fante s crowning accomplishment is the Arturo Bandini tetralogy.

This quartet of novels tell of Fante s fictional alter-ego Bandini, an impoverished young Italian-American escaping his suffocating home in Colorado for Depression-era Los Angeles. In the beginning, it is the triple weights of poverty, father and Church that Bandini struggles under but though the physical escape is complete, the psychological imprint continues as he comes to terms with love, desire and the knowledge his talent may not be recognised.
Год: 2022
Производитель: Canongate
Артикул: 953763
ISBN: 9781841954974
Автор: Fante John

The Baron in the Trees
'I can think of no finer writer to have beside me while Italy explodes, Britain burns, while the world ends' Salman Rushdie



From the age of twelve, the Baron Cosimo Piovasco di Rondo makes his home among ash, elm, magnolia, plum and almond, living up in the trees. He walks through paths made from the twisted branches of olive, makes his bed in a holly oak, bathes in a fountain constructed from poplar bark. An aerial library holds the books with which he educates himself in philosophy and mathematics. Suspended among the leaves, the Baron adventures with bandits and pirates, conducts a passionate love affair, and watches the Age of Enlightenment pass by beneath him.
Год: 2021
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 891859
ISBN: 9781784874223
Автор: Calvino Italo

The Beast Within
His haunting, impressionistic study of a man's slow corruption by jealousy, Emile Zola's The Beast Within (La Bete Humaine) is translated from the French with an introduction and notes by Roger Whitehouse in Penguin Classics.



Roubaud is consumed by a jealous rage when he discovers a sordid secret about his young wife's past. The only way he can rest is by forcing her to help him murder the man involved, but there is a witness - Jacques Lantier, a fellow railway employee. Jacques, meanwhile, must contend with his own terrible impulses, for every time he sees a woman he feels the overwhelming desire to kill. In the company of Roubaud's wife, Severine, he finds peace briefly, yet his feelings for her soon bring disasterous consequences. A key work in the Rougon-Macquart cycle, The Beast Within is one of Zola's most dark and violent works - a tense thriller of political corruption and a graphic exploration of the criminal mind.



Roger Whitehouse's vivid translation is accompanied by an introduction discussing Zola's depiction of the railways, politics and the legal system and the influence of the studies of criminology and the Jack the Ripper murders on his novel. This edition also includes a chronology, suggestions for further reading and notes.



Emile Zola (1840-1902) was the leading figure in the French school of naturalistic fiction. His principal work, Les Rougon-Macquart, is a panorama of mid-19th century French life, in a cycle of 20 novels which Zola wrote over a period of 22 years, including Au Bonheur des Dames (1883), The Beast Within (1890), Nana (1880), and The Drinking Den (1877).

Серия: Penguin Classics
Год: 2007
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 886666
ISBN: 9780140449631
Автор: Zola Emile

The Beautiful Summer
'An astonishing portrait of an innocent on the verge of discovering the cruelties of love... there are whispers here of the future work of Elena Ferrante' Elizabeth Strout, from the introduction



'Life was a perpetual holiday in those days...'



It's the height of summer in 1930s Italy and sixteen-year-old Ginia is desperate for adventure. So begins a fateful friendship with Amelia, a stylish and sophisticated artist's model who envelops her in a dazzling new world of bohemian artists and intoxicating freedom. Under the spell of her new friends, Ginia soon falls in love with Guido, an enigmatic young painter. It's the start of a desperate love affair, charged with false hope and overwhelming passion - destined to last no longer than the course of a summer.



The Beautiful Summer is a gorgeous coming-of-age tale of lost innocence and first love, by one of Italy's greatest writers.

Серия: Penguin European Writers
Год: 2018
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 889355
ISBN: 9780241983393
Автор: Pavese Cesare

The Beautiful and Damned
The heir to his grandfather s considerable fortune, Anthony Patch is led astray from the path to gainful employment by the temptations of the 1920s Jazz Age. His descent into dissolution and profligacy is accelerated by his marriage to the attractive but turbulent Gloria, and the couple soon discover the dangerous flip side of a life of glamour and debauchery.



Containing obvious parallels with F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald s own lives, The Beautiful and Damned is a tragic examination of the pitfalls of greed and materialism and the transience of youth and beauty.

Серия: Evergreens
Год: 2012
Производитель: Alma Books
Артикул: 960904
ISBN: 9781847497390
Автор: Fitzgerald Francis Scott

The Beautiful and Damned
The Beautiful and Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel, tells the story of Anthony Patch, a 1920s socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune. Anthony and his wife Gloria are young and gorgeous, rich and leisured, and dedicate their lives to the reckless pursuit of happiness. But this intimate story turns tragic, as their marriage disintegrates under the weight of their expectations, dissipation, jealousy and aimlessness.



Fitzgerald skilfully portrays the east-coast elite as the Jazz Age begins its ascent, engulfing all classes into what will soon be known as Cafe Society. As with all of Fitzgerald's novels, it is a brilliant character study written in breathtaking prose. It is also a gripping account of the complexities of marriage, largely based on Fitzgerald's relationship with his wife, Zelda.



This Macmillan Collector's Library edition features an afterword by Ned Halley.



Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

Серия: Macmillan Collector's Library
Год: 2016
Производитель: Macmillan
Артикул: 903024
ISBN: 9781509826384
Автор: Fitzgerald Francis Scott

The Beautiful and Damned
These sumptuous new hardback editions mark the 70th anniversary of Fitzgerald's death.



Anthony and Gloria are the essence of Jazz Age glamour. A brilliant and magnetic couple, they fling themselves at life with an energy that is thrilling. New York is a playground where they dance and drink for days on end. Their marriage is a passionate theatrical performance; they are young, rich, alive and lovely and they intend to inherit the earth.



But as money becomes tight, their marriage becomes impossible. And with their inheritance still distant, Anthony and Gloria must grow up and face reality; they may be beautiful but they are also damned.

Серия: Penguin F Scott Fitzgerald Hardback Collection
Год: 2010
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 887418
ISBN: 9780141194073
Автор: Fitzgerald Francis Scott

The Beautiful and Damned
Exploring the decadence of Jazz Age New York through a fictionalised version of his own marriage to Zelda Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and the Damned includes an introduction by Geoff Dyer in Penguin Modern Classics.



Anthony Patch and his wife Gloria are the essence of Jazz Age glamour. A brilliant and magnetic couple, they fling themselves at life with an energy that is thrilling. New York is a playground where they dance and drink for days on end. Their marriage is a passionate theatrical performance; they are young, rich, alive and lovely and they intend to inherit the earth. But as money becomes tight, their marriage becomes impossible. And with their inheritance still distant, Anthony and Gloria must face reality; they may be beautiful - but they are also damned.



F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) has acquired a mythical status in American literary history, and his masterwork The Great Gatsby is considered by many to be the 'great American novel'. In 1920 he married Zelda Sayre, dubbed 'the first American Flapper', and their traumatic marriage and Zelda's gradual descent into insanity became the leading influence on his writing. As well as many short stories, Fitzgerald wrote five novels This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, The Beautiful and the Damned, Tender is the Night and, incomplete at the time of his death, The Last Tycoon. After his death The New York Times said of him that 'in fact and in the literary sense he created a "generation" '.

Серия: Penguin Modern Classics
Год: 2004
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 887261
ISBN: 9780141187815
Автор: Fitzgerald Francis Scott

The Beguiled
A classic slice of Southern Gothic, shot through with psychological suspense - now the basis for Sofia Coppola's highly anticipated new film (winner of Best Director at Cannes) starring Nicola Kidman, Colin Farrell and Kirsten Dunst.



When an injured Union soldier is found in the Virginia woods as the Civil War rages, he is brought to the nearby Miss Martha Farnsworth Seminary for Young Ladies to recover. For the sheltered girls and their teachers, the arrival of the attractive John McBurney is a thrilling distraction from normal life. But before long, McBurney's presence will turn them against each other and upend all their lives - with potentially devastating consequences. Combining psychological suspense with humour and romantic drama, The Beguiled is a wildly entertaining novel of sexual tension and repression, and of rivalry, jealousy and, ultimately, vengeance.
Год: 2017
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 888043
ISBN: 9780241321812
Автор: Cullinan Thomas

The Bell
'In this holy community she would play the witch.'



Imber Court is a quiet haven for lost souls, a utopia for those who can neither live in the world, nor out of it. But beneath the gentle daily routines of this community run currents of supressed desire, religious yearning and a legend of disastrous love. Charming, indolent Dora arrives in their midst, and half-unwittingly conjures these submerged things to the surface.

Серия: Vintage Classics Murdoch Series
Год: 2019
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 891872
ISBN: 9781784875206
Автор: Murdoch Iris

The Benson Murder Case
"Дело Бенсона" - первый роман из цикла книг о частном детективе Фило Вэнсе. Вэнс, стильный джентльмен из Нью-Йорка с незаурядным интеллектом, помогает полиции раскрывать запутанные дела. Известный в городе биржевой маклер Элвин Бенсон, циничный и жестокий человек, убит в своем загородном поместье. Вокруг жертвы было много сложных интриг, поэтому подозреваемых тоже много - кто же убийца?

Неадаптированный полный текст романа с комментариями автора и редактора, уровень B2-C1.

Серия: Чтение в оригинале. Английский язык
Год: 2023
Производитель: Каро
Артикул: 915437
ISBN: 978-5-9925-1638-8
Автор: van Dine S. S

The Besieged City
'She suddenly leaned toward the mirror and sought the loveliest way to see herself'



Lucrecia Neves is vain, unreflective, insolently superficial, almost mute. She may have no inner life at all. As she morphs from small-town girl to worldly wife of a rich man, and her small home town surrenders to the forces of progress, Lucrecia seeks perfection: to be an object, serene, smooth, beyond the burden of words or even thought itself. A book that obsessed its author, The Besieged City is unlike any other work in Lispector's canon: a story of transformation, of what it means to see and to be seen.

Серия: Penguin Modern Classics
Год: 2019
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 888236
ISBN: 9780241371374
Автор: Lispector Clarice

The Best of Frank O'Connor
For the first time, a career-spanning omnibus edition of the works of Frank O Connor, the writer Yeats dubbed Ireland s Chekhov . Edited and introduced by Julian Barnes, The Best of Frank O Connor gives us a generous selection of the author s oeuvre, intriguingly divided into eight thematic sections. War includes the famous Guests of the Nation , set during the Irish Civil War; Childhood draws on autobiographical writings to present a revealing picture of the author as a boy, the only child of an alcoholic father and doting mother; Writers bears witness to his literary debt to Yeats and Joyce. The stories in Lonely Voices movingly demonstrate O Connor s theory that in this genre can be achieved something we do not often find in the novel an intense awareness of human loneliness ; yet they are complemented by his wonderfully polyphonic tales of family, friendship and rivalry in Better Quarrelling. In Ireland come poems, stories and articles inspired by the native land he loved but never sentimentalized, while from Abroad the writer in exile discourses upon universally relevant themes of emigration, hardship, absence and return. Finally, Last Things contains O Connor s thoughts on religion, the church, the soul and its destiny, but remains above all a celebration of humanity who for me represented all I should ever know of God . The Best of Frank O Connor will bring readers into the keenly discerning, complex and humane mind of one of Ireland s greatest authors.

Серия: Everyman`s Library
Год: 2009
Производитель: Everyman
Артикул: 892466
ISBN: 9781841593210
Автор: O`Connor Frank

The Best of Wodehouse. An Anthology
P. G. Wodehouse was, by common consent, the most brilliant writer of English comedy in the twentieth century, equally celebrated on both sides of the Atlantic. He achieved the unusual distinction of combining the widest possible popularity with the highest literary standards, attracting both the devotion of readers and the respect of his peers from Hilaire Belloc to Graham Greene. Several of his characters have already entered popular mythology. This anthology includes two novels, fourteen short stories and extracts from Wodehouse s autobiography. The Code of the Woosters was written in 1938, Uncle Fred in the Springtime in 1939, when Wodehouse was at the height of his powers. The short stories feature all Wodehouse s most famous creations Jeeves and Wooster, Ukridge, Bingo Little, Mr Mulliner, the Earls of Emsworth and Ickenham. Finally, extracts from Over Seventy, a memoir as amusing and beautifully written as the novels, offer an insight into the attitudes and working habits of a very private man.

Серия: Everyman`s Library P. G. Wodehouse
Год: 2007
Производитель: Everyman
Артикул: 892459
ISBN: 9781841593067
Автор: Wodehouse Pelham Grenville

The Betrothed
Set in Lombardy during the Spanish occupation of the late 1620s, The Betrothed tells the story of two young lovers, Renzo and Lucia, prevented from marrying by the petty tyrant Don Rodrigo, who desires Lucia for himself. Forced to flee, they are then cruelly separated, and must face many dangers including plague, famine and imprisonment, and confront a variety of strange characters - the mysterious Nun of Monza, the fiery Father Cristoforo and the sinister 'Unnamed' - in their struggle to be reunited. A vigorous portrayal of enduring passion, The Betrothed's exploration of love, power and faith presents a whirling panorama of seventeenth-century Italian life and is one of the greatest European historical novels.

Серия: Penguin Classics
Год: 1972
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 886559
ISBN: 9780140442748
Автор: Manzoni Alessandro

The Big Sleep
'I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four million dollars.'



Los Angeles Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wheelchair-bound General Sternwood to discover who is blackmailing him. A broken, weary old man, Sternwood just wants Marlowe to make the problem go away. However, with Sternwood's two wild, devil-may-care daughters prowling LA's seedy backstreets, Marlowe's got his work cut out. And that's before he stumbles over the first corpse.



The Big Sleep is Raymond Chandler's first novel featuring laconic PI Philip Marlowe.

Серия: Phillip Marlowe
Год: 2011
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 889073
ISBN: 9780241956281
Автор: Chandler Raymond

The Big Sleep and Other Novels
Raymond Chandler was America's preeminent writer of detective fiction, and this edition of The Big Sleep and Other Novels collects three of the best novels to feature his hard-drinking, philosophising PI, Philip Marlowe.



Raymond Chandler created the fast talking, trouble seeking Californian private eye Philip Marlowe for his first great novel The Big Sleep in 1939. Often imitated but never bettered, it is in Marlowe's long shadow that every fictional detective must stand - and under the influence of Raymond Chandler's addictive prose that every crime author must write. Marlowe's entanglement with the Sternwood family - and an attendant cast of colourful underworld figures - is the background to a story reflecting all the tarnished glitter of the great American Dream. The hard-boiled detective's iconic image burns just as brightly in Farewell My Lovely, on the trail of a missing nightclub crooner. And the inimitable Marlowe is able to prove that trouble really is his business in Raymond Chandler's brilliant epitaph, The Long Goodbye.

Серия: Penguin Modern Classics
Год: 2000
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 887108
ISBN: 9780141182612
Автор: Chandler Raymond

The Bird in the Tree
Lucilla Eliot has spent a lifetime making the Hampshire estate of Damerosehay a tranquil haven for her family. When her favourite grandson, David, falls in love with an unsuitable woman, Lucilla sees her most cherished ambitions put at risk.



But can she persuade David and Nadine to put duty and family honour before love?
Год: 2017
Производитель: Hodder & Stoughton
Артикул: 910063
ISBN: 9781473655942
Автор: Goudge Elizabeth

The Bird's Nest
Elizabeth Richmond is almost too quiet to be believed, with no friends, no parents, and a job that leaves her strangely unnoticed. But soon she starts to behave in ways she can neither control nor understand, to the increasing horror of her doctor, and the humiliation of her self-centred aunt. As a tormented Elizabeth becomes two people, then three, then four, each wilder and more wicked than the last, a battle of wills threatens to destroy the girl and all who surround her. The Bird's Nest is a macabre journey into who we are, and how close we sometimes come to the brink of madness.



Shirley Jackson's chilling tales of creeping unease and casual cruelty have the power to unsettle and terrify unlike any other. She was born in California in 1916. When her short story The Lottery was first published in The New Yorker in 1948, readers were so horrified they sent her hate mail; it has since become one of the most iconic American stories of all time. Her first novel, The Road Through the Wall, was published in the same year and was followed by five more: Hangsaman, The Bird's Nest, The Sundial, The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, widely seen as her masterpiece.

Серия: Penguin Modern Classics
Год: 2014
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 887903
ISBN: 9780141391946
Автор: Jackson Shirley

The Birds
Mattis doesn't understand much about the world. He doesn't understand why others call him simple. Or why his sister Hege, who has cared for him in their peaceful lakeside cottage since they were young, gets so frustrated. But he knows that the woodcock which starts to fly over their house every day is a sign something is about to change. And when Hege falls in love, disrupting their familiar existence and unbalancing his thoughts, he decides he must face his fate.

Серия: Penguin Modern Classics
Год: 2019
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 888301
ISBN: 9780241384879
Автор: Vesaas Tarjei

The Birds And Other Stories
'How long he fought with them in the darkness he could not tell, but at last the beating of the wings about him lessened and then withdrew . . . '



A classic of alienation and horror, 'The Birds' was immortalised by Hitchcock in his celebrated film. The five other chilling stories in this collection echo a sense of dislocation and mock man's sense of dominance over the natural world.



The mountain paradise of 'Monte Verita' promises immortality, but at a terrible price; a neglected wife haunts her husband in the form of an apple tree; a professional photographer steps out from behind the camera and into his subject's life; a date with a cinema usherette leads to a walk in the cemetery; and a jealous father finds a remedy when three's a crowd . . .

Серия: Virago Modern Classics
Год: 2004
Производитель: Virago
Артикул: 904628
ISBN: 9781844080878
Автор: Du Maurier Daphne

The Birds And Other Stories
'How long he fought with them in the darkness he could not tell, but at last the beating of the wings about him lessened and then withdrew...'



A classic of alienation and horror, 'The Birds' was immortalised by Hitchcock in his celebrated film. The five other chilling stories in this collection echo a sense of dislocation and mock man's sense of dominance over the natural world.



The mountain paradise of 'Monte Verita' promises immortality, but at a terrible price; a neglected wife haunts her husband in the form of an apple tree; a professional photographer steps out from behind the camera and into his subject's life; a date with a cinema usherette leads to a walk in the cemetery; and a jealous father finds a remedy when three's a crowd...

Серия: Virago Modern Classics
Год: 2015
Производитель: Virago
Артикул: 904626
ISBN: 9780349006666
Автор: Du Maurier Daphne

The Black Ball
Belonging and estrangement intertwine in these four lyrical short stories from the the author of Invisible Man.

Серия: Penguin Modern
Год: 2018
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 888107
ISBN: 9780241339220
Автор: Ellison Ralph