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Wing-and-Wing; or, Le feu-follet (Т8)
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James Fenimore Cooper was a prolifi c and popular American writer of the fi rst half of the 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature.
The Wing-and-Wing; Or, Le Feu-Follet is a 1842 sea novel by James Fenimore Cooper. The novel includes a thematic interest in religiousity and faith. The novel also introduces metacriticism into Cooper's sea fi ction, as does The Sea Lions, unlike earlier novels which typically also focused on nautical and nationalist themes.
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Золотая чаша (Центрполиграф)
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Мегги Вервер, дочь американского миллионера Адама Вервера, коллекционера и тонкого ценителя художественных ценностей, выходит замуж за князя Америго - молодого итальянца из обедневшего аристократического рода. Мегги влюблена и счастлива, однако ее тревожит мысль, что ее давно овдовевший отец, увлеченный совершенствованием своей коллекции, останется совсем один. Накануне свадьбы Мегги знакомит отца с давней подругой - очаровательной американкой Шарлоттой Стэнт, полагая, что тому пойдет на пользу общество молодой особы. Мегги не осознает, что, впуская в дом обольстительную женщину, рискует быть преданной и обманутой… Генри Джеймс (1843-1916), признанный классик американской литературы, мастер психологической прозы, описывает сложные взаимоотношения двух пар, связанных по прихоти судьбы узами любви, и отвечает на извечный вопрос: богатство - дар судьбы или проклятье?..
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Портрет леди (Центрполиграф)
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Молодая американка Изабелла Арчер по приглашению тетушки приезжает в Англию. Мисс Арчер хороша собой, обладает живым характером и в целом очаровательна. Ею движет желание увидеть мир, однако, не имея средств, Изабелла может довольствоваться лишь ролью компаньонки своей тетки. Внезапно свалившееся на нее состояние позволяет ей претворить мечты в реальность, однако, разбогатев, Изабелла рискует стать инструментом для достижения поставленных кем-то целей. Генри Джеймс (1843—1916), признанный классик американской литературы, заглядывает в таинственные глубины женской души и создает достоверный и поистине прекрасный портрет, попутно отвечая на извечный вопрос: богатство — дар судьбы или проклятье?..
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Barnaby Rudge 2 (Т8)
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Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic. Barnaby Rudge is a story of mystery and suspense which begins with an unsolved double murder. Barnaby Rudge is a young innocent simpleton who is devoted to his talkative raven, Grip. When he gets caught up in the mayhem of the Gordon riots and a mysterious unsolved murder, his life is put in jeopardy. And, as London erupts into riot, Barnaby himself struggles to escape the curse of his own past. Barnaby Rudge is a powerful, disturbing blend of historical realism and Gothic melodrama, it is a tale of treachery, forbidden love, abduction and the dangerous power of the mob.
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Man and Wife (Т8)
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Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. Man and Wife was Wilkie Collins' ninth published novel, which social questions provide the main impetus of the plot. The social issue which drives the plot is the state of Scots marriage law; at the time the novel was written, any couple who were legally entitled to marry and who asserted that they were married before witnesses, or in writing, were regarded in Scotland as being married in law.
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Путь всякой плоти (Ладомир)
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В английской литературе второй половины XIX в. Самуэлю Батлеру (1835-1902) принадлежит видное место. В жанре фантастического гротеска он возродил свифтовскую традицию, а в жанре романа воспитания предвосхитил тенденции, в полной мере развившиеся в европейской психологической прозе XX в. При создании "Пути всякой плоти" с немыслимой для того времени откровенностью писатель использовал личный жизненный опыт. Автобиографичность придает его повествованию особую остроту. В романе прослеживается формирование характера и духовное становление сына священника. Перед читателем проходят картины печального, искалеченного деспотичным произволом воспитателей детства главного героя, полной лишений и разочарований юности и, наконец, зрелости - поры, когда он обретает себя в творческом труде - писательской деятельности.
Огромная эрудиция автора и мастерское владение словом позволяют ему искусно вплетать в ткань повествования и в речи героев библейские, шекспировские и другие классические цитаты и аллюзии, очен ...
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Женщина в белом (Качели)
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Современники считали "Женщину в белом" Уилки Коллинза самым популярным романом XIX века. Он был написан в 1860 году и сразу сделал автора известным писателем. Поклонники с нетерпением ждали выпусков диккенсовского журнала "Круглый год", где книга выходила по частям. Идею своей романтической драмы Коллинз почерпнул в "Справочнике знаменитых судебных дел" Мориса Межана, где рассказывалась история французской маркизы, брат которой завладел ее состоянием, поместив сестру в дом умалишенных под вымышленным именем. Роман Коллинза начинается как раз с эпизода встречи главного героя Уильяма Хартрайта с таинственной женщиной в белом, сбежавшей из сумасшедшего дома. Разгадка тайны этой загадочной героини - одна из главных сюжетных линий романа, тесно переплетенная с другой - с историей любви бедного художника Уильяма Хартрайта и богатой наследницы Лоры Ферли. Неприятие общества, социальные условности встанут на пути этой любви. Однако гораздо более страшным препятствием окажутся беспринципн ...
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Легенда об Уленшпигеле (Т8)
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Шарль де Костер (1827-1879) - бельгийский писатель. Сегодня считается основателем франко-бельгийской литературы, хотя признание к нему пришло лишь спустя более 30 лет после смерти. Главное его произведение - "Легенду об Уленшпигеле" - ставят в один ряд с такими книгами как "Дон Кихот" и "Гаргантюа и Пантагрюэль". В знаменитой "Легенде об Уленшпигеле" описана героическая страница бельгийской истории - эпоха нидерландской революции XVI в. и борьбы против иноземных угнетателей. Главный герой книги - Тиль по прозвищу Уленшпигель, любимый персонаж народных преданий, неутомимый весельчак и балагур, постепенно перерождается в стойкого "гёза" и борца за независимость своей родины, воплощающего в себе национальный дух Фландрии. В западноевропейской литературе Нового времени не было создано ничего подобного - ничего подобного этой "легенде", поражающей своим патриотическим пафосом и духом неподдельного героизм. Леонид Андреев.
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Mrs Dalloway (Penguin)
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In Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf explores the events of one day, impression by impression, minute by minute, as Clarissa Dalloway's and Septimus Smith's worlds look set to collide - this classic novel is beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range.
'She had a perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.'
On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway, the glittering wife of a Member of Parliament, is preparing for a party she is giving that evening. As she walks through London, buying flowers, observing life, her thoughts are of the past and she remembers the time when she was as young as her own daughter Elizabeth, her romance with Peter Walsh, now recently returned from India; and the friends of her youth. Elsewhere in London Septimus Smith is being driven mad by shell shock. As the day draws to its end, his world and Clarissa's collide
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The Fall (Penguin)
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A philosophical novel described by fellow existentialist Sartre as 'perhaps the most beautiful and the least understood' of his novels, Albert Camus' The Fall is translated by Robin Buss in Penguin Modern Classics.
Jean-Baptiste Clamence is a soul in turmoil. Over several drunken nights in an Amsterdam bar, he regales a chance acquaintance with his story. From this successful former lawyer and seemingly model citizen a compelling, self-loathing catalogue of guilt, hypocrisy and alienation pours forth. The Fall (1956) is a brilliant portrayal of a man who has glimpsed the hollowness of his existence. But beyond depicting one man's disillusionment, Camus's novel exposes the universal human condition and its absurdities - for our innocence that, once lost, can never be recaptured ...
Albert Camus (1913-60) is the author of a number of best-selling and highly influential works, all of which are published by Penguin. They include The Fall, The Outsider and The Fi ...
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Penguin)
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One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'
The Penguin English Library Edition of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
'She looked so like herself that I knew not how to bear it'
In this sensational, hard-hitting and passionate tale of marital cruelty, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall sees a mysterious tenant, Helen Graham, unmasked not as a 'wicked woman' as the local gossips would have it, but as the estranged wife of a brutal alcoholic bully, desperate to protect her son. Using her own experiences with her brother Branwell to depict the cruelty and debauchery from which Helen flees, Anne Bronte wrote her masterpiece to reflect the fragile position of women in society and her belief in universal redemption, but scandalized readers of the time.
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.
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The Masque of the Red Death (Penguin)
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In 'The Masque of the Red Death' and other tales of gothic horror, Edgar Allan Poe writes as no one else ever has of creeping, mounting terrors, of malevolent tormentors and of a mind's own sickening madness
Outside the abbey's armoured walls, the common poor are ravaged by a grisly pestilence known as the 'Red Death', while within, safe and untroubled, the happy Prince Prospero hosts lavish entertainments. But, in their immodest comfort, the Prince and his guests are not as safe as they hope from the horrors of the outside world ...
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North and South (Penguin)
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As relevant now as when it was first published, Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South skilfully weaves a compelling love story into a clash between the pursuit of profit and humanitarian ideals. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction by Patricia Ingham.
When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her comfortable home in Hampshire to move with her family to the North of England. Initially repulsed by the ugliness of her new surroundings in the industrial town of Milton, Margaret becomes aware of the poverty and suffering of local mill workers and develops a passionate sense of social justice. This is intensified by her tempestuous relationship with the mill-owner and self-made man John Thornton, as their fierce opposition over his treatment of his employees masks a deeper attraction. In North and South Gaskell skilfully fused individual feeling with social concern, and in Margaret Hale created one of the most original heroine ...
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Frankenstein (Vintage books)
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A beautiful new edition of Mary Shelley's Gothic horror classic, Frankenstein
Includes A Cultural History of Frankenstein's Monster by Jeanette Winterson
Navigating the Arctic, the captain of a ship rescues a man wandering near death across the ice caps. How the man got there reveals itself a story of ambition, murder and revenge. As a young scientist, Victor Frankenstein pushed moral boundaries in order to cross the final frontier and create life. But his creation is a monster stitched together from grave-plundered body parts who has no place in the world, and his existence can only lead to tragedy.
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The Man Who Was Thursday (Penguin)
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The Penguin English Library Edition of The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton
'"A man's brain is a bomb," he cried out, loosening suddenly his strange passion and striking his own skull with violence. "My brain feels like a bomb, night and day. It must expand! It must expand! A man's brain must expand, if it breaks up the universe"'
In a park in London, secret policeman Gabriel Syme strikes up a conversation with an anarchist. Sworn to do his duty, Syme uses his new acquaintance to go undercover in Europe's Central Anarchist Council and infiltrate their deadly mission, even managing to have himself voted to the position of 'Thursday'. When Syme discovers another undercover policeman on the Council, however, he starts to question his role in their operations. And as a desperate chase across Europe begins, his confusion grows, as well as his confidence in his ability to outwit his enemies. But he has still to face the greates ...
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Mrs Dalloway (Vintage books)
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In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman's life, Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of party she is to give that evening. As she readies her house she is flooded with memories and re-examines the choices she has made over the course of her life.
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David Copperfield (Penguin)
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'The greatest achievement of the greatest of all novelists' Leo Tolstoy
In David Copperfield - the novel he described as his 'favourite child' - Dickens drew on his own experiences to create one of his most moving and enduringly popular works, filled with tragedy and comedy in equal measure. It is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a novelist. Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters he encounters are his tyrannical stepfather, Mr Murdstone; his brilliant but unworthy school-friend Steerforth; his formidable aunt, Betsey Trotwood; the eternally humble yet treacherous Uriah Heep; frivolous, enchanting Dora; and the magnificently impecunious Micawber, one of literature's great comic creations.
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The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Other Stories (Penguin)
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The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Other Stories collects some of Jack London's most profound and moving allegorical tales. This Penguin Classics edition is edited by Andrew Sinclair with an introduction by James Dickey.
The Call of the Wild, London's masterpiece about a dog learning to survive in the wilderness, sees pampered pet Buck snatched from his home and set to work as a sled-dog. White Fang, set in the frozen tundra and boreal forests of Canada's Yukon territory, is the story of a wolf-dog struggling to survive in a human society every bit as violent as the natural world. This volume of Jack London's famed stories of the North also includes 'Batard', in which an abused dog takes revenge on his owner; and 'Love of Life', in which an injured prospector, abandoned by his partner, must struggle home alone through the wilderness, stalked by a lone wolf.
In his introduction, James Dickey probes London's strong personal and literary id ...
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To the Lighthouse (Penguin)
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A pioneering work of modernist fiction, using her unique stream-of-consciousness technique to explore the inner lives of her characters, Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse is widely regarded as one of the greatest artistic achievements of the twentieth century. This Penguin Classics edition is edited by Stella McNichol, with an introduction and notes by Hermione Lee.
To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionistic depiction of a family holiday, and a meditation on marriage, on parenthood and childhood, on grief, tyranny and bitterness. For years now the Ramsays have spent every summer in their holiday home in Scotland, and they expect these summers will go on forever; but as the First World War looms, the integrity of family and society will be fatally challenged. With a psychologically introspective mode, the use of memory, reminiscence and shifting perspectives gives the novel an intimate, poetic essence, and at the time of publication in 1927 it represented an utter rejection of Vict ...
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The Great Gatsby (Penguin)
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'It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life'
Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. But one thing will always be out of his reach ... Everybody who is anybody is seen at his glittering parties. Day and night his Long Island mansion buzzes with bright young things drinking, dancing and debating his mysterious character. For Gatsby - young, handsome, fabulously rich - always seems alone in the crowd, watching and waiting, though no one knows what for. Beneath the shimmering surface of his life he is hiding a secret: a silent longing that can never be fulfilled. And soon this destructive obsession will force his world to unravel.
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.
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