Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: 'Our deeds carry their terrible consequences...consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves.' Pretty Hetty Sorrel is loved by the village carpenter Adam Bede, but her head is turned by the attentions of the fickle young squire, Arthur Donnithorne. His dalliance with the dairymaid has unforeseen consequences that affect the lives of many in their small rural community. First published…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: This brand new edition celebrating 20 years of R. W. Holder's popular and successful dictionary of euphemisms is packed full of traditional favourites, such as 'Dutch uncle' or 'push up the daisies', as well as euphemisms from the contemporary world such as 'restructuring', 'coffee-housing', 'extrajudicial killing'. Definitions include examples from real authors, along with entertaining…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 942 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 382) Аннотация: 'his perfect indifference, and your pointed dislike, make it so delightfully absurd!' «Pride and Prejudice» has delighted generations of readers with its unforgettable cast of characters, carefully choreographed plot, and a hugely entertaining view of the world and its absurdities. With the arrival of eligible young men in their neighbourhood, the lives of Mr and Mrs Bennet and their five…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 318 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 848) Аннотация: Herodotus is not only known as the `father of history', as Cicero called him, but also the father of ethnography; as well as charting the historical background to the Persian Wars, his curiosity also prompts frequent digression on the cultures of the peoples he introduces. While much of the information he gives has proved to be astonishingly accurate, he also entertains us with delightful tales…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 502 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 688) Аннотация: This edition contains generous selections from all five volumes of «The Wealth of Nations», and places Smith's inquiry into its historical, intellectual, and cultural context.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: A thrilling search for a missing man amidst the scorching deserts and perilous mountains of Africa. In 1885, H. Rider Haggard's publisher considered King Solomon's Mines 'the most amazing book ever written'.
Скачать книгу (размер 4 400 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 864) Аннотация: Writing at the very moment when the foundations of Western thought were being challenged and undermined, George Eliot fashions in Middlemarch (1871-2) the quintessential Victorian novel, a concept of life and society free from the dogma of the past yet able to confront the scepticism that was taking over the age. In a panoramic sweep of English life during thr years leading up to the First Reform…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 084 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 410) Аннотация: 'I beg as soon as you get Fielding's Joseph Andrews, I fear in Ridicule of your Pamela and of Virtue in the Notion of Don Quixote's Manner, you would send it to me by the very first Coach.' (George Cheyne in a letter to Samuel Richardson, February 1742) Both Joseph Andrews (1742) and Shamela (1741) were prompted by the success of Richardson's Pamela (1740), of which Shamela is a splendidly bawdy…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 665 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 916) Аннотация: Fielding's comic masterpiece of 1749 was immediately attacked as `A motley history of bastardism, fornication, and adultery'. Indeed, his populous novel overflows with a marvellous assortment of prudes, whores, libertines, bumpkins, misanthropes, hypocrites, scoundrels, virgins, and all too fallible humanitarians. At the centre of one of the most ingenious plots in English fiction stands a hero…
Скачать книгу (размер 5 705 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1120) Аннотация: This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Byron's poetry and prose — all the major poems, complemented by important letters, journals, and conversations — to give the essence of his work and thinking. Byron is regarded today as the ultimate Romantic, whose…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: 'I have made a terrible discovery ...I have not yet been born ...I live off borrowed substance; what I have within me is not mine.' In his four last plays Federico Garcia Lorca offered his disturbed and disturbing personal vision to Spanish audiences of the 1930s — unready, as he thought them, for the sexual frankness and surreal expression of his more experimental work. The ill-fated lovers of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Thomas More: Utopia/ Francis Bacon: New Atlantis/Henry Neville: The Isle of Pines With the publication of «Utopia» (1516), Thomas More introduced into the English language not only a new word, but a new way of thinking about the gulf between what ought to be and what is. His Utopia is at once a scathing analysis of the shortcomings of his own society, a realistic suggestion for an alternative…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: This novel, which has always been regarded as one of Scott's finest, opens with the Edinburgh riots of 1736. The people of the city have been infuriated by the actions of John Porteous, Captain of the Guard, and when they hear that his death has been reprieved by the distant monarch they ignore the Queen and resolve to take their own revenge. At the cente of the story is Edinburgh's forbidding…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Whitman is today regarded as America's Homer or Dante, and his work the touchstone for literary originality in the New World. In «Leaves of Grass», he abandoned the rules of traditional poetry — breaking the standard metred line, discarding the obligatory rhyming scheme, and using the vernacular. Emily Dickinson condemned his sexual and physiological allusions as `disgraceful', but Emerson saw…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: The Barber of Seville * The Marriage of Figaro * The Guilty Mother Eighteenth-century France produced only one truly international theatre star, Beaumarchais, and only one name, Figaro, to put with Don Quixote or D'Artagnan in the ranks of popular myth. But who was Figaro? Not the impertinent valet of the operas of Mozart or Rossini, but both the spirit of resistance to oppression and a bourgeois…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: `The story I now commence is rich in vicissitudes, grim with warfare, torn by civil strife, a tale of horror even during times of peace'. Edward Gibbon called «The Histories» an `immortal work, every sentence of which is pregnant with the deepest observations and the most lively images'. Its author, Cornelius Tacitus, widely acknowledged as the greatest of all Roman historians, describes with…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 910 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 768) Аннотация: This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique selection from the full range of Swift's fifty-year career — prose, poetry, and letters — to give the essence of his work and thinking. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) is best known as the author of «Gulliver's Travels», which alone would…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: This wide-ranging, jargon-free dictionary contains over 2,000 entries on all aspects of statistics, including terms used in computing, mathematics, and probability. It also includes biographical information on over 200 key figures in the field and coverage of statistical journals and societies. While embracing the whole multi-disciplinary spectrum of this complex subject, information is presented…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: In these tales Gogol guides us through the elegant streets of St Petersburg, the city erected by force and ingenuity on the marshes of the Neva estuary. Something of the deception and violence of the city's creation seems to lurk beneath its harmonious facade, however, and it confounds its inhabitants with false dreams and absurd visions — `nothing is what it seems!' warns Gogol. St Petersburg is…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: 'a Greek gentleman in a straw hat, standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the universe' E. M. Forster E. M. Forster's description of C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) perfectly encapsulates the unique perspective Cavafy brought to bear on history and geography, sexuality and language in his poems. Cavafy writes about people on the periphery, whose religious, ethnic and cultural identities are…