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Жанр "Художественная литература на английском языке"
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Among the earliest artistic descriptions of the hallucinogenic experience in European literature, the four pieces in this volume...
Jude Fawley, an intelligent and sensitive young Wessex schoolboy, dreams of studying at the famous university in Christminster,...
Published posthumously, The Red Notebook is an account of the youth of the author of the seminal Romantic novel Adolphe, relating...
Travelling to Italy on their honeymoon, Erszi and Mihaly are ready to take in all the beauties and pleasures of the country. But...
Trapped in an unhappy marriage with a boorish, inattentive and socially ambitious husband, Julie de Chaverny enjoys a flirtatious...
First published in French magazines in the 1960s, the essays and interviews collected in this volume tackle two of Sartre’s most...
When Mrs Ramsay tells her guests at her summer house on the Isle of Skye that they will be able to visit the nearby lighthouse...
When shop-owner Julia Segovia decides that she’s going to marry the handsome if exceedingly young and naive soldier Valentin Bru,...
Basil and Josephine charts the coming of age of two privileged youths from quiet Midwestern towns, Basil Duke Lee and Josephine...
In the title piece of this collection a party of guests wonder at the great comet which has appeared in the sky, and give their...
Having moved into an abandoned haunted house, the narrator, undaunted by the warnings of the locals, invites a party of friends...
With his birth itself a monumental exploit in itself, it is clear that the giant Pantagruel is destined to great things, and the...
The lowly, downtrodden Paris civil servant Jean Folantin seeks respite from the boredom and isolation of his life in the small...
After a traumatic early childhood spent living in poverty in a Preston cellar, the suddenly orphaned George Silverman grows up...
As Katharine Hilbery, the granddaughter of a famous man of letters buried in Poets’ Corner, is helping her mother write the...
Happily engaged to the poet Amandus, Fraulein Anna is horrified to discover that a beautiful ring, mysteriously deposited upon...
Based on a true story, The Jew's Beech centres on two brutal murders in rural Westphalia – the first of a local forester and the...
Celie Rousseau is a talented young artist who, along with her partner Algernon, resorts to petty thieving on the streets of Paris...
It is a variable early summer’s day, and there is an unusual bustle in the grounds of Pointz Hall, a country house in a remote...
This anthology – which contains writings from well-known figures such as John Knox and James VI through to the many lesser-known...
When the peaceful atmosphere of Barchester is destroyed by a scandal concerning the financial affairs of an almshouse, Septimus...
When an ageing, impoverished nobleman decides to style himself “Don Quixote” and embarks upon a series of daring endeavours, it...
When the young nobleman Des Grieux lays eyes on the beautiful and charming Manon Lescaut, he immediately falls in love with her,...
Under the pressure of his boss, the intransigent Riviere, the airmail pilot Fabien attempts a perilous flight during a heavy...
The Wallace is a historical play dramatizing the life of one of Scotland’s greatest heroes, William Wallace, whose revolt against...
On a train from Paris to Rome on his way to surprise his lover, the businessman Leon Delmont begins to mull over his past and...
Stephen Glennard is in desperate need of money. So when he becomes aware of the potential value of a series of passionate love...
In Hard Times, Dickens illustrates the condition of England through the fictional city of Coketown. Among its inhabitants are...
Through a series of connected monologues, The Waves tells the story of six very different friends – Bernard, Louis, Neville,...
The brooding, introverted Count von O— arrives in Venice during the carnival in order to escape from his duties and live...
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