Лучшие книги Мелвина Брэгга

Герой книги - английский язык - для автора персонаж одушевленный. Он живет собственной жизнью и обладает собственным характером. Вечно молодой, хотя ему порядка полутора тысяч лет. Родился в Англии, хотя среди его предков кого только нет. Он умело использовал свое наследство и внес величайший вклад в мировую культуру. Как ему это удалось, какие приключения и заслуги сделали его почетным гражданином мира? Книга приглашает вас выяснить все это, совершив захватывающее путешествие сквозь время и пространство. Мелвин Брэгг - энтузиаст языка, но не лингвист, и адресовал свою книгу широкой аудитории. Особенно интересна она будет тем, кто…

Книга, объединившая романы известных английских писателей - С.Моэма и М.Брэгга, дает читателю возможность проследить, как на протяжении целого столетия расшатывалась в Англии некогда "образцовая" система буржуазного консерватизма, как развивался дух неприятия буржуазной идеологии и морали. Творческие судьбы - основная тема романов. На широком общественном фоне прослеживают Моэм и Брэгг становление личности писателя.

Англичанин Мелвин Брэгг известен у себя на родине не только как сценарист — один из авторов киноверсии прославленного мюзикла «Иисус Христос — суперзвезда» — и ведущий телевизионных передач по искусству. Его перу принадлежит полтора десятка романов, пользующихся неизменным успехом у читателей. Действие «Девы Баттермира» переносит нас в начало XIX века, в Англию времен короля Георга III: Британская империя воюет за океаном со строптивыми американскими колониями, соперничает в Европе с Францией, где набирает силу Наполеон. В это самое время на северо-западе Англии, в краю холмов и озер возникает знаменитая поэтическая «Озерная школа», а…

"Земля обетованная" - многоплановый роман о современной Англии. Писатель продолжает и развивает лучшие традиции английской социально-психологической прозы. Рассказывая о трех поколениях семьи Таллентайр, Мелвин Брэгг сумел показать коренные изменения в жизни Англии XX века, объективно отразил духовный кризис, который переживает английское общество.

Мелвин Брэгг - популярный английский прозаик, для творчества которого характерен пристальный интерес к быту и нравам провинциальной Англии.
Герой романа "За городской стеной" молодой журналист Ричард Годвин покидает Лондон и поселяется в деревушке на севере Англии. Ричард бежит от тягостного для него буржуазного мира, но находит его и в сельской глуши. Автор приводит своего героя к выводу, что укрыться от действительности невозможно и что призвание человека - активно вмешиваться в жизнь.

English is the collective work of millions of people throughout the ages. It is democratic, ever-changing and ingenious in its assimilation of other cultures. English runs through the heart of world finance, medicine and the Internet, and it is understood by around two thousand million people across the world. Yet it was very nearly wiped out in its early years.
In this book Melvyn Bragg shows us the remarkable story of the English language; from its beginnings as a minor guttural Germanic dialect to its position today as a truly established global language. THE ADVENTURE OF ENGLISH is not only an enthralling story of power, religion and trade, but also the story of people, and how their day-to-day lives shaped and continue to change the extraordinary language that is English.

Britain during the Dark Ages is the setting for the fascinating story of Bega, a young Irish princess who became a saint, and her lifelong bond with Padric, prince of the north-western kingdom of Rheged. This dramatic, far-reaching tale brings to life a land of warring kings, Christians and pagans, and tribes divided by language and culture, illuminating a little-known yet critical period in British history.

Роман английского писателя Мелвина Брэгга рисует жизнь английского батрака начала века. Борьба за лучшую долю и поиски подлинных ценностей жизни воспроизведены в романе с тонкой психологической убедительностью.

Издание сопровождается вступительной статьей и комментариями к тексту на русском языке. Оно предназначено для студентов гуманитарных вузов, а также для широкого круга читателей, владеющих английским языком.

Melvyn Bragg gives new life to one of the most remarkable love stories in history: the passionate, enduring romance between Heloise and Abelard.
Within the Cloisters of Notre-Dame, a charismatic philosopher and a young woman renowned for her scholarship embark on an ardent, secret affair. It will send shockwaves through Paris, incur savage retribution and lead to years of separation, though nothing will break the bond between them.
Bringing the true story of Heloise and Abelard to vivid life, this engrossing novel conveys the powerful emotions and beliefs that drove them. It captures a couple who defied the conventions and religious orthodoxies of their times with striking audacity, and illuminates why their extraordinary tale still resonates today.

A classic love story, retold for our times.

Paris in 1117. Heloise, a brilliant young scholar, is astonished when the famous, radical philosopher, Peter Abelard, consents to be her tutor. But what starts out as a meeting of minds turns into a passionate, dangerous love affair, which incurs terrible retribution.

Nine centuries later, Arthur is in Paris to recreate the extraordinary story of Heloise and Abelard in a novel. To his surprise, his daughter visits and agrees to help, challenging his portraits of a couple who seem often inscrutable, sometimes breathtakingly modern. It soon emerges she is on her own mission to discover more about her parents' fractured relationship - and that Arthur's connection to his subject is more emotional than he cares to admit.

In this gripping novel, Melvyn Bragg brings an extraordinary episode in English history to fresh, urgent life.

At the end of May 1381, the fourteen-year-old King of England had reason to be fearful: the plague had returned, the royal coffers were empty and a draconian poll tax was being widely evaded. Yet Richard, bolstered by his powerful, admired mother, felt secure in his God-given right to reign.

Within two weeks, the unthinkable happened: a vast force of common people invaded London, led by a former soldier, Walter Tyler, and the radical preacher John Ball, demanding freedom, equality and the complete uprooting of the Church and state. They believed they were rescuing the King from his corrupt ministers, and that England had to be saved. And for three intense, violent days, it looked as if they would sweep all before them.

Now is the Time depicts the events of the Peasants' Revolt on both a grand and intimate scale, vividly portraying its central figures and telling an archetypal tale of an epic struggle between the powerful and the apparently powerless.

Set in Britain during the 1950s, this moving and evocative novel follows the intertwined fates of people crossing boundaries in their lives - from growing older to growing up, from first love to leaving home. Vividly conveying the spirit of the mid-century and the profound social changes taking place at the time, this is an enthralling successor to the award-winning 'The Soldier's Return' and 'A Son of War.'

The much-praised third part of 'a monumental series' (Sunday Times)

This novel takes up where The Soldier's Return left off, following the lives of the Richardson family from 1947 to the mid-1950s. The terrible upheavals of the Second World War reverberated in the peace that followed, and many found a return to the old life far more difficult than they had anticipated. If the earlier novel focused on the father, Sam, the sequel gives equal emphasis to the son, Joe, who is eight as the novel opens and an adolescent as it closes. The Richardsons, emblematic of a whole generation, are depicted with the same attention to detail, the same affection and compassion, the same lack of sentimentality, as in The Soldier's Return. They are a family forever altered by an experience later generations can scarcely imagine, yet whose hopes, compromises, and quiet triumphs form the fabric of everyday, universal life.
A SON OF WAR was a huge bestseller in the U.K.
The major, stunning reviews of The Soldier's Return--comparing Bragg to Hardy and D. H. Lawrence--set the stage for even greater success for the sequel.
As most British reviewers noted, these two novels are the crowning achievement of Bragg's career, "the novels he was born to write."
Melvyn Bragg is a major television personality both in the U.K. and here in the States.

'A Time to Dance' charts the consequences of a relationship between a man of 54 and a girl of 18. The gap in their backgrounds, expectations and experience proves to be as wide as that between their ages.