Скачать книгу (размер 3 339 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 656) Аннотация: Finnegans Wake is the book of Here Comes Everybody and Anna Livia Plurabelle and their family — their book, but in a curious way the book of us all as well as all our books. Joyce's last great work, it is not comprised of many borrowed styles, like Ulysses, but, rather, formulated as one dense, tongue-twisting soundscape. This 'language' is based on English vocabulary and syntax but, at the same…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: When Pollyanna Whittier goes to live with her sourtempered aunt after her father's death, things seem bad enough, but then a dreadful accident ensues. However, Pollyanna's sunny nature and good humour prove to have an astonishing effect on all around her, and this wonderful tale of how cheerfulness can conquer adversity has remained one of the world's most popular children's books since its first…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 529 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 301) Аннотация: In the The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, a huge cyclone transports the orphan Dorothy and her little dog Toto from Kansas to the Land of Oz, and she fears that she will never see Aunt Em and Uncle Henry ever again. But she meets the Munchkins, and they tell her to follow the Yellow Brick Road to the Emerald City where the Wonderful Wizard of Oz will grant any wish. On the way, she meets the brainless…
Скачать книгу (размер 7 582 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1488) Аннотация: This collection comprises of Joyce's three novels, plus the short story collection Dubliners. Dubliners, about Joyce's native city, is faithful to his country, seeing it unflinchingly and challenging every precedent and piety in Irish literature. The stories in Dubliners show us truants, seducers, hostesses, corrupt politicians, failing priests, struggling musicians, poets, patriots, and many…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: A Room of One's Own (1929) has become a classic feminist essay and perhaps Virginia Woolf's best known work; The Voyage Out (1915) is highly significant as her first novel. Both focus on the place of women within the power structures of modern society. The essay lays bare the woman artist's struggle for a voice, since throughout history she has been denied the social and economic independence…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: Virginia Woolf's second novel, Night and Day (1919), portrays the gradual changes in a society, the patterns and conventions of which are slowly disintegrating; where the representatives of the younger generation struggle to forge their own way, for '... life has to be faced: to be rejected; then accepted on new terms with rapture'. Woolf begins to experiment with the novel form while…
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Скачать книгу (размер 7 582 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1488) Аннотация: This collection comprises of Joyce's three novels, plus the short story collection Dubliners. Dubliners, about Joyce's native city, is faithful to his country, seeing it unflinchingly and challenging every precedent and piety in Irish literature. The stories in Dubliners show us truants, seducers, hostesses, corrupt politicians, failing priests, struggling musicians, poets, patriots, and many…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is a classic representation of the impoverished and politically powerless underclass of British society in Edwardian England, ruthlessly exploited by the institutionalized corruption of their employers and the civic and religious authorities. Epic in scale, the novel charts the ruinous effects of the laissez-faire mercantilist ethics on the men, women, and…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 665 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 720) Аннотация: 'His body was pressed against the wall at the head of the bed, and the face was a mask of agonised horror and fruitless entreaty. But the eyes were already glazed in death, and before Francis could reach the bed the body had toppled over and lay inert and lifeless. Even as he looked, he heard a limping step go down the passage outside'. E. F. Benson was a master of the ghost story and now all his…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 910 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 768) Аннотация: During his life, Geoffrey Chaucer (born c.1340) was courtier, diplomat, revenue collector, administrator, negotiator, overseer of building projects, landowner and knight of the shire. He was servant, retainer, husband, friend and father, but is now mainly known as a poet and 'the father of English literature', a postion to which he was raised by other writers in the generation after his death. It…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: This volume brings together two series of short fiction by the poet, writer and religious philosopher Aleister Crowley (1875-1947). It includes the first complete publication of Simple Simon, the detective series featuring Crowley's most memorable fictional creation, the mystic-magician-philosopher-psychoanalyst-detective Simon Iff. The idealised Crowley in old age, Simon Iff is wise, knowing and…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: This volume brings together Virginia Woolf's last two novels, The Years (1937) which traces the lives of members of a dispersed middle-class family between 1880 and 1937, and Between the Acts (1941), an account of a village pageant in the summer preceding the Second World War which successfully interweaves comedy, satire and disturbing observation. Rewriting the traditional family saga and the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Sigmund Freud's controversial ideas have penetrated Western culture more deeply than those of any other psychologist. But psychoanalysis was never just a method of treatment, rather a vision of the human condition which has continued to fascinate and provoke long after the death of its originator.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: «This title includes an Introduction and Notes by John Lester, formerly Head of English at Havering College of Further and Higher Education. From the rain forests of Almayer's Folly to the Mediterranean coast of «The Rover», Conrad's first and final completed novels are played out against contrasting backgrounds. Almayer, in Borneo, is hopelessly obsessed by his deluded dreams for himself and his…
Скачать книгу (размер 7 419 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1456) Аннотация: «This title features collected works of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Few American novelists of the twentieth century have stayed as modern as F. Scott Fitzgerald. He gave a name to his age, 'the Jazz Age', but his reputation has outlived it. Gathered here are the five novels he wrote in his relatively short career, together with a number of the many short stories he wrote between 1922 and his death in…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: A close friend of F. Scott Fitzgerald (he died in a car crash the day after Fitzgerald's death), Nathanael West wrote two classic American novels; The Day of the Locust is a stark portrayal of Hollywood in the 1930s and Miss Lonelyhearts a story set in New York in the Depression. Also included is 'A Cool Million', and his first novel, The Dream Life of Balso Snell, which he conceived while in…
Скачать книгу (размер 6 685 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1312) Аннотация: Selected and Introduced by David Stuart Davies. Prepare to take a step beyond reality into the fantastic realm of other worlds imagined by the pioneers of science fiction. This collection features a set of wide ranging and mind expanding tales created by the founding fathers of this most fascinating and exciting of literary genres. As well as the works of famous authors such as Jules Verne,…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 563 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 896) Аннотация: David Hume (1711-1776) was the most important philosopher ever to write in English, as well as a master stylist. This volume contains his major philosophical works. A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-1740), published while Hume was still in his twenties, consists of three books on the understanding, the passions, and morals. It applies the experimental method of reasoning to human nature in a…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 318 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 848) Аннотация: The final letters and diary entries of Robert Falcon Scott — written in his last days, while hopelessly trapped in a tiny tent by a raging blizzard on the Great Ice Barrier — are among the most poignant and haunting passages ever penned. 'Had we lived', he wrote, 'I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every…