Скачать книгу (размер 2 237 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 440) Аннотация: The social comedies, Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, and An Ideal Husband offer a moving as well as witty dissection of society and its morals, with a sharp focus on sexual politics. By contrast, the experimental symbolist Salome, written originally in French and illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley, was banned for public performance by the English censor. His final dramatic triumph…
Скачать книгу (размер 9 010 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1768) Аннотация: F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in St Paul, Minnesota, and went to Princeton University which he left in 1917 to join the army. Fitzgerald was said to have epitomised the Jazz Age, an age inhabited by a generation he defined as 'grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken'. In 1920 he married Zelda Sayre. Their destructive relationship and her subsequent mental…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 053 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 600) Аннотация: Claudius, the pitiful stammerer who became Emperor despite his first passionate refusal, was the uncle and butt of the notorious Caligula, the husband, dupe and vengeful destroyer of the wicked Messalina, and the stepfather and victim of the still more notorious Nero. Robert Graves' most famous book is regarded as the best historical novel of its time, and has made the name of Claudius as…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 325 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 261) Аннотация: This First World War classic novel is written in the first person by a young German soldier, Paul Bauer. Only eighteen when he is pressured by his family, friends and society in general, to enlist and fight at the front, he enters the army with six school friends, each filled with optimistic and patriotic thoughts. Within a few months they are all old men, in mind if not completely in body. They…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 553 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 894) Аннотация: Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte are three of the most remarkable novelists and poets of the nineteenth century. Charlotte was the most prolific of the three: Jane Eyre, the story of a governess' triumph over her lowly station in life; Shirley, set in Yorkshire at the time of the Luddite riots at the end of the Napoleonic war; and Villette, based on her experiences as a teacher in Belgium. The…
Скачать книгу (размер 8 561 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1680) Аннотация: This handsome boxed set contains the following unabridged novels: Anne Bronte: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall; Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre; and, Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights. This elegant boxed set of the three most popular novels by the Bronte sisters — Anne, Charlotte & Emily — makes a perfect gift or addition to a home library. Beautifully designed, with a real cloth padded top and matt…
Скачать книгу (размер 677 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 134) Аннотация: One hot summer's day Alice tumbles down, down, down a rabbit hole — and finds herself in Wonderland, where everything is topsy-turvy, upside down, and wrong-way round. Here begins a series of fantastical adventures as Alice's body GROWS and shrinks, she swims in a pool of her own tears, attends the maddest of tea parties, and meets such iconic and beloved characters as the smiling Cheshire Cat,…