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Flappers and Philosophers (Oxford)
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'Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story.'
F. Scott Fitzgerald's first story collection, Flappers and Philosophers, appeared in 1920 on the heels of his debut novel, This Side of Paradise, and immediately established him a master of popular fiction.
Love stories such as 'The Offshore Pirate' and 'Head and Shoulders' capture the spectacle and fantasy of the Jazz Age, celebrating that modern icon of feminine self-possession, the flapper, while comedies of manner like 'Bernice Bobs Her Hair' and 'The Ice Palace' showcase Fitzgerald's eye for humour. In addition to these four classic tales, which first appeared in The Saturday Evening Post, this edition highlights the author's proficiency with other crowd-pleasing story types: from Gothic fiction ('The Cut-Glass Bowl') to didactic moral stories ('The Four Fists'), from satire ('Dalyrimple Goes Wrong') to spiritual quests ('Benedict ...
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The Classic Horror Stories (Oxford)
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H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) was a reclusive scribbler of horror stories for the American pulp magazines that specialized in Gothic and science fiction in the interwar years. He often published in Weird Tales and has since become the key figure in the slippery genre of "weird fiction."
Lovecraft developed an extraordinary vision of feeble men driven to the edge of sanity by glimpses of malign beings that have survived from human prehistory or by malevolent extra-terrestrial visitations. The ornate language of his stories builds towards grotesque moments of revelation, quite unlike any other writer.
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Horror Stories (Oxford)
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The modern horror story grew and developed across the nineteenth century, embracing categories as diverse as ghost stories, the supernatural and psychological horror, medical and scientific horror, colonial horror, and tales of the uncanny and precognition. This anthology brings together twenty-nine of the greatest horror stories of the period, from 1816 to 1912, from the British, Irish, American, and European traditions. It ranges widely across the sub-genres to encompass authors whose terror-inducing powers remain unsurpassed.
The book includes stories by some of the best writers of the century -- Hoffmann, Poe, Balzac, Dickens, Hawthorne, Melville, and Zola -- as well as established genre classics from M. R. James, Arthur Machen, Bram Stoker, Algernon Blackwood, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and others. It includes rare and little-known pieces by writers such as William Maginn, Francis Marion Crawford, W. F. Harvey, and William Hope Hodgson, and shows the important role played by periodicals in populariz ...
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The Gambler and Other Stories (Penguin)
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The Gambler and Other Stories is Fyodor Dostoyevsky's collection of one novella and six short stories reflecting his own life - indeed, 'The Gambler', a story of a young tutor in the employment of a formerly wealthy Russian General, was written under a strict deadline so he could pay off his roulette debts. This volume includes 'Bobok', the tale of a frustrated writer visiting a cemetery and enjoying the gossip of the dead; 'The Dream of a Ridiculous Man', the story of one man's plan to commit suicide and the troubling dream that follows, as well as 'A Christmas Party and a Wedding', 'A Nasty Story' and 'The Meek One'.
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Moscow Tales (Oxford)
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Fifteen stories from Russia's greatest city.
A writer recalls his time in an infamous high-security prison, a woman amazes her friends with her supernatural gift for repairing household devices, a pitiful lost dog joins a Moscow circus... Through these varied and intriguing tales, whose authors range from Chekhov to Yury Koval, Larisa Miller and Marina Boroditskaya, we travel from the city centre to the outer rings, to desolate estates, dachas, and tumbledown shacks. This volume of stories, many of which have never been translated before, is a vivid portrait of life in Russia's capital from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century.
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Сандро из Чегема. В 2-х томах (Время)
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Роман-эпопея Фазиля Искандера (1929-2016) "Сандро из Чегема" вырастал, словно дерево. В 1973 году появилась первая журнальная версия - сокращенная, "подчищенная" цензурой, и лишь в 1988 были опубликованы "Пиры Валтасара" - последняя из 32 новелл, составивших книгу. Прием тот же, что и в легендарном "Созвездии Козлотура" - сочетание фантастической гиперболы с реальностью, сплав политического гротеска с народным анекдотом. Художественное пространство романа очень близко к географической карте Абхазии и густо населено. В нем много реальных лиц - Сталин (Большеусый), Берия, Хрущев, Лакоба, Жордания - но есть и целые вымышленные народности - эндурцы и кенгурцы. И возглавляет весь этот эпический литературный пир дядя Сандро - много повидавший на своем веку и сохранивший редкостное жизнелюбие и чувство юмора. В новелле "Дерево детства", завершающей роман, Искандер пишет: "Я люблю деревья. Мне кажется, дерево - одно из самых благородных созданий природы. Крепко д ...
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Хитроумный идальго Дон Кихот Ламанчский. В 2-х томах (Время)
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С книги Мигеля де Сервантеса (1547-1616) "Хитроумный идальго Дон Кихот Ламанчский" (1605, 1615) началась новая история европейской прозы. Переведенный, и довольно быстро, на множество языков, он оказал большое влияние на литературу многих народов; на русскую литературу - просто огромное. Достоевский говорил, что "Дон Кихот" принадлежит к числу книг, написанных на много столетий вперед. При этом из разнообразных толкований книги и ее главного образа выкристаллизовалась, стала основной одна трактовка. Взгляд на Дон Кихота как на воплощение идеи о высоком предназначении человека, как на героя, жертвующего собой во имя добра и справедливости. Таким он вошел и в массовую культуру, став мгновенно считываемым мемом.
Но в действительности роман о Рыцаре Печального Образа намного сложней, интересней, глубже. "Про Дон Кихота надо сказать: жил безумным, умер мудрым. "Дон Кихот" рассказывает, какая должна быть женщина и как должен любить мужчина. Люди думают, что "Дон Кихот&q ...
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Катриона (Нигма)
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"Катриона" - второй роман дилогии Роберта Льюиса Стивенсона о приключениях Давида Бальфура. Молодой человек, став новым владельцем поместья Шоос, решает помочь своему другу Алану покинуть Шотландию и восстановить справедливость в отношении Джемса Стюарта, ложно обвинённого в громком политическом убийстве.
Однако на пути Давида встаёт клан Кемпбеллов, который всеми средствами пытается помешать юноше, вступившемуся за жизнь и честь своих друзей. Но Давид не боится - он храбро бросается в круговорот опасных приключений, где встречает свою первую и настоящую любовь, гордую красавицу Катриону Друммонд… дочь объявленного вне закона преступника Джемса Мора и внучку легендарного шотландского разбойника Роб-Роя из клана Макгрегоров.
Роман "Катриона" (как и первую часть дилогии, роман "Похищенный") проиллюстрировал Заслуженный художник РФ, выдающийся мастер историко-приключенческой иллюстрации Анатолий Зиновьевич Иткин.
Анатолий Зиновьевич оформил более 200 ...
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Машина времени. Остров доктора Моро (Нигма)
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Герберт Джордж Уэллс по праву считается одним из родоначальников фантастической литературы, его романы известны всему миру. Уэллс всегда восхищался достижениями науки, способными изменить жизнь человека и общества, и многие идеи, высказанные в его книгах, стали пророческими.
В сборник вошли два известнейших произведения Уэллса: "Машина времени" и "Остров доктора Моро". Герой "Машины времени" создаёт экспериментальную установку для хронопутешествий и перемещается на 800 тысяч лет в будущее. Оказалось, что за это время на Земле произошли чудовищные перемены: люди разделились на два вида существ - беззаботных изнеженных элоев и звероподобных морлоков, обитающих под землёй. Роман "Остров доктора Моро" рассказывает о безумном учёном, решившем хирургическим путём превратить животных в людей. Однако природа не терпит столь грубого вмешательства…
Книга проиллюстрирована художником Олегом Пахомовым.
Для среднего школьного возраста.
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The Innocence of Father Brown (Arcturus)
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Father Brown is a short and stumpy Catholic Priest with a wit and intellect that belie his physical appearance. Using his intuitive prowess and his deep knowledge of human nature, gained via the confessional, this perceptive amateur sleuth is a crime-solving force.
This collection serves as an introduction to G.K. Chesterton's much-loved Father Brown with classic tales such as "The Blue Cross", "The Secret Garden", and "The Invisible Man". Received with great enthusiasm upon first publication this intuitive man of the cloth-come-detective continues to charm readers to this day.
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Arcturus)
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In this adventure deep beneath the waves, Professor Arronax, his servant Conseil, and the straight-shooting harpooner, Ned Land, set out in search of a giant narwhal.
As the hunt progresses, they receive a shocking revelation: their prey is nothing less than the Nautilus, an advanced submarine piloted by the mysterious Captain Nemo. The adventurers have no choice but to become the vessel's newest crew members. As they help Nemo on his quest, they encounter giant squids, lost cities, and other nautical wonders.
Exciting and insightful, Jules Verne's fantastical story is an action-packed tale that demonstrates the unequalled imagination of one of science fiction's greatest writers.
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Inferno (Arcturus)
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"Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark For the straightforward pathway had been lost... "
Canto I
Dante's Divine Comedy, and in particular "Inferno", is a masterpiece of world literature. The fearsome journey recounted in "Inferno" is told by a pilgrim - the poet himself - who meanders through the increasingly macabre landscape of Hell. He meets and often recognizes the various inhabitants of the hellish circles and witnesses their strangely befitting punishments.
It is a spiritual allegory without comparison: at once a voyage of self-discovery and a revelation of the divine.
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The Cherry Orchard (Arcturus)
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The tide of change is coming. Madam Ranyevskaya's liberal world of privilege and pleasure is beginning to show cracks, but she and her family live on in denial. Lopakhin wants to rescue Ranyevskaya. The hard-working son of one of her family's serfs, his new-found wealth can offer shelter and security to the woman he has loved since boyhood, but it will come at a high price. Meanwhile, revolution hangs in the air, the poor and hungry are pushing at the doors, and the tutor Trofimov predicts a tumultuous change for everybody.
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Emma (Arcturus)
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Beautiful, clever, rich - and single - Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, however, delights her more than interfering in the romantic lives of others. But when she ignores the warnings of her good friend Mr Knightley and attempts to arrange a suitable match for her protegee Harriet Smith, her carefully laid plans soon unravel and have consequences that she never expected. With its imperfect but charming heroine and its witty and subtle exploration of relationships, "Emma" is often seen as Jane Austen's most flawless work.
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Pride and Prejudice (Arcturus)
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'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.'
The famous opening words of Pride and Prejudice carry the reader straight to the heart of the Bennet household, the home of no fewer than five marriageable daughters.
Austen's best-loved romance unfolds aroundthe two eldest, Jane and Elizabeth, and two eligible bachelors, Mr Bingley and his friend Mr Darcy. When the lively Elizabeth first meets the aloof, conceited Darcy she dislikes him immediately, but this is only the prelude to a classic attraction of opposites.
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Grimm's Fairy Tales (Arcturus)
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Originally entitled Children's and Household Tales, Grimm's Fairy
Tales were first published by the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in the early nineteenth century.
This selection contains forty-five stories and includes some of the best known, such as 'Briar-Rose' (perhaps better known Is Steeping Beauty), and 'Little Red-Cap' (Little Red Riding Hood ), as well as some of the lesser known tales like 'The Mouse, the Bird and the Sausage , The Iron Stove and 'The Hare and the Hedgehog.
Handsome princes and princesses, wicked witches and step-mothers, benevolent kings and fortune seekers abound among the stories that were collected from all over Germany in the folklore tradition. But no matter what the moral story, good always triumphs over evil.
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Robinson Crusoe (Arcturus)
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"It happened one day, about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore..."
Thus Defoe describes the heart-stopping moment when - after years of solitude - the world's most famous shipwrecked mariner discovers that he is not totally alone on his island.
From its publication in 1719, and through many translations, Robinson Crusoe has been hailed as the classic adventure story. Although the inspiration came from a real-life castaway called Alexander Selkirk, the novel can be enjoyed as a tale of survival, of spiritual awakening, or as a mythic quest.
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Persuasion (Arcturus)
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'l am half agony, half hope.'
Anne Elliot lost the love of her life eight years earlier and the sorrow lingers on. Yet the dashing Captain Wentworth did not desert her; it was Anne who rejected him because she 'was persuaded that she could make a better match.
She never did.
Suddenly, life deals them a second chance. Anne and Wentworth meet again on the social circuit. He acts coolly and even openly courts a younger woman, yet Anne remains painfully alert for the slightest hint that their love might be rekindled.
Persuasion was Austen's last novel, published posthumously in 1818.
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Jane Eyre (Arcturus)
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Jane Eyre rightly remains high on the list of the most popular English novels, and brought fame to its author, Charlotte Brontd, on its publication in 1847.
The story's heroine, Jane, is a plain and plain-speaking orphan whose determination, good nature and spirit see her through a series of personal ordeals from an early age. When she takes up a position as governess at Thornfield Hall, to teach eight-year-old Adele, she is resigned to an uneventful career. But then the moody, charismatic owner of Thornfield, Edward Rochester, makes a rare visit to the Hall and Jane's 'impassioned self-respect and moral conviction' are tested to breaking point.
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Northanger Abbey (Arcturus)
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Northanger Abbey is the light-hearted account of a young girl's first excursion into fashionable society. Catherine Morland is taken to Bath where, among a crowd of new acquaintances, she meets Henry Tilney and his sister Eleanor, who invite her to stay at their family home, Northanger Abbey. Catherine, a devotee of 'horrid' Gothic novels, fervently hopes that the Abbey will match the haunted ruins conjured up in her imagination.
While poking fun at popular fiction, Catherine's story also exposes the difference between illusion and reality, and shows how her artless approach to people attracts true friendship and love.
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