Скачать книгу (размер 2 615 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 514) Аннотация: The seventh novel in the Rougon-Macquart cycle, L'Assommoir (1877) is the story of a woman's struggle for happiness in working-class Paris. It was a contemporary bestseller, outraged conservative critics, and launched a passionate debate about the legitimate scope of modern literature. At the centre of the novel stands Gervaise, who starts her own laundry and for a time makes a success of it. But…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Trollope relates his life from the influence of his childhood and mother, to the time he spent in the Post Office and the motivation behind his literary career.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 288 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 450) Аннотация: Look at her, she is the image of our beautiful Italy. Corinne, or Italy (1807) is both the story of a love affair between Oswald, Lord Nelvil and a beautiful poetess, and an homage to the landscape, literature and art of Italy. On arriving in Italy, Oswald immediately falls under Corinne's magical spell as she is crowned a national genius at the Captitol. Yet, on returning to England, he succumbs…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 676 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 526) Аннотация: This volume contains the four plays by Thomas Middleton which have most impressed the modern world: A Chaste Maid in Cheapside is the most complex amd effective of the city comedies; Women Beware Women and The Changeling (with William Rowley) are two of the most powerful Jacobean tragedies outside of Shakespeare — studies in lust, power, violence, and self-delusive psychology; and A Game at Chess…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: A classic of Victorian literature, and one of the earliest books written specifically for boys, Tom Brown's Schooldays has long had an influence well beyond the middle-class, public school world that it describes. An active social reformer, Hughes wrote with a freshness, a lack of cant, and a kind, relaxed tolerance which keeps this novel refreshingly distinct from other schoolboy adventures.…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 971 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 780) Аннотация: This is a reissue of the previous World's Classics edition in the new, larger format and with the series name changed to Oxford World's Classics.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 207 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 238) Аннотация: ...there is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped. Winesburg, Ohio (1919) is Sherwood Anderson's masterpiece, a cycle of short stories concerning life in a small Ohio town at the end of the nineteenth century. At the centre is George Willard, a young reporter who becomes the confidant of the town's 'grotesques' — solitary figures unable to…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Philip Sidney was in his early twenties when he wrote his 'Old' Arcadia for the amusement of his younger sister, the Countess of Pembroke. The book, which he called a trifle, and that triflingly handled, reflects their youthful vitality. The Old Arcadia tells a romantic story in a manner comparable to that of Shakespeare's early comedies. It is divided into five Acts, and abounds in lively…
Скачать книгу (размер 575 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 114) Аннотация: This entirely new translation includes Petrarch's short autobiographical prose works, The Letter to Posterity and The Ascent of Mount Ventoux, and a selection of twenty-seven poems from the Canzoniere, Petrarch's best-known work in Italian.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 942 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 382) Аннотация: This remarkable collection of stories, first published in 1872, includes Green Tea, The Familiar, Mr. Justice Harbottle, The Room in the Dragon Volant, and Carmilla. The five stories are purported to be cases by Dr. Hesselius, a 'metaphysical' doctor, who is willing to consider the ghosts both as real and as hallucinatory obsessions. The reader's doubtful anxiety mimics that of the protagonist,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: This new translation reproduces the original style and metrical effect of Juvenal's hexameters, while the Introduction and Notes provide literary and historical background to the sixteen satires.
Скачать книгу (размер 5 379 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1056) Аннотация: Cecilia is an heiress, but she can only keep her fortune if her husband will consent to take her surname. Fanny Burney's unusual love story and deft social satire was much admired on its first publication in 1782 for its subtle interweaving of comedy, humanity, and social analysis. Controversial in its time, this eighteenth-century novel seems entirely fresh in relation to late twentieth-century…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: The Eclogues, ten short pastoral poems, were composed between approximately 42 and 39 BC, during the time of the 'Second' Triumvirate of Lepidus, Anthony, and Octavian. In them Virgil subtly blended an idealized Arcadia with contemporary history. To his Greek model — the Idylls of Theocritus — he added a strong element of Italian realism: places and people, real or disguised, and contemporary…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 391 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 274) Аннотация: This new translation of The Princesse de Cleves also includes two shorter works also attributed to Mme de Lafayette, The Princesse de Montpensier and The Comtesse de Tende.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 181 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 429) Аннотация: The Romance of the Forest (1791) heralded an enormous surge in the popularity of Gothic novels, in a decade that included Ann Radcliffe's later works, The Mysteries of Udolpho and The Italian. Set in Roman Catholic Europe of violent passions and extreme oppression, the novel follows the fate of its heroine Adeline, who is mysteriously placed under the protection of a family fleeing Paris for…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 554 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 306) Аннотация: «Based on Hawthorne's own experience of a Utopian socialist community outside Boston, «The Blithedale Romance» tells of the attempts of a like-minded group to begin reforming a dissipated America. However, rather than dropping bad habits and changing the world, Coverdale the prurient bachelor, Hollingsworth the furious philanthropist, Zenobia the voluptuous feminist, and Priscilla the vulnerable…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: The Condition of the Working Class in England is the best known work of Engels, and still in many ways the best study of the working class in Victorian England. What Cobbett had done for agricultural poverty in his Rural Rides, Engels did — and more — in this work on the plight of industrial workers in England in the 1840s.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: This is a reissue of the previous World's Classics edition in the new larger format, and with the series name changed to Oxford World's Classics.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: The Greek lyric, elegiac, and iambic poets of the two centuries from 650 to 450 BC — Archilochus and Alcman, Sappho and Mimnermus, Anacreon, Simonides, and the rest — produced some of the finest poetry of antiquity, perfect in form, spontaneous in expression, reflecting all the joys and anxieties of their personal lives and of the societies in which they lived. This new poetic translation by a…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 288 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 646) Аннотация: I sing of knights and ladies, of love and arms, of courtly chivalry, of courageous deeds. So begins Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (1532), the culmination of the chivalric legends of Charlemagne and the Saracen invasion of France. It is a brilliantly witty parody of the medieval romances, and a fitting monument to the court society of the Italian Renaissance which gave them birth. This unabridged…