Элизабет Гаскелл «Рассказ старой няньки» — похожие книги — стр. 2

В этот сборник вошли аудиоверсии рассказов, принадлежащих разным авторам и разным эпохам. Но все они объединены сюжетами, обладающими завораживающей способностью погружать слушателя в мир тайн, покрытых пеленою мрака. Издательство предоставляет вам возможность с замиранием сердца, при свете тусклой свечи, подобно леди и джентльменам доброй старой Англии, приоткрыть дверь в мир таинственного и непознанного.

В этот сборник вошли аудиоверсии рассказов, принадлежащих разным авторам и разным эпохам. Но все они объединены сюжетами, обладающими завораживающей способностью погружать…

Eine gruselige Gespenstergeschichte: Eine arme Bettlerin bittet um Unterkunft, und der Marchese schickt das Bettelweib daher hinter den Ofen. Als sie dabei stürzt, stirbt sie dort an ihren Verletzungen. Von nun an spukt es auf dem Schloss, denn nicht nur der Ritter, der das Schloss eigentlich vom Marchese kaufen wollte, hört sonderbare Geräusche... Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) gehörte einem altpommerschen Adelsgeschlecht an, hatte jedoch trotz günstiger Voraussetzungen Zeit seines Lebens mit Problemen zu kämpfen und beging schließlich Selbstmord. Einerseits als Vertreter der Aufklärung verstanden, wird er auch oft der Weimarer Klassik und Romantik zugeordnet. Seine bekanntesten Werke sind u.a. "Die Marquise von O...", "Der zerbrochene Krug", "Michael Kohlhaas" und "Das Erdbeben von Chili".

Eine gruselige Gespenstergeschichte: Eine arme Bettlerin bittet um Unterkunft, und der Marchese schickt das Bettelweib daher hinter den Ofen. Als sie dabei stürzt, stirbt sie dort…

И вроде бы безобидный спиритический сеанс может таить в себе опасность встречи с вполне материальным, хотя и мифическим существом.

В маленьком городке в Уэльсе происходят странные события. Тяжелобольные выздоравливают, известные негодяи публично каются в своих проступках, а в местной церкви начинают тайно совершаться древние, странные обряды...

В маленьком городке в Уэльсе происходят странные события. Тяжелобольные выздоравливают, известные негодяи публично каются в своих проступках, а в местной церкви начинают тайно…

The most moving debut novel of the year, shortlisted for the 2001 Orange Prize for Fiction.
Homestead is simply one of the most beautifully written and moving books it’s been our privilege to publish in years. It is also perfectly constituted to be a word-of-mouth bestseller (and its fate in the US bears this out; from very small beginnings at an obscure press in 1998, that is what is has gone to become, picking up the prestigious PEN/Hemingway Prize on its way to regional bestsellerdom in paperback).
Its focus is on the women of a remote Alpine village, where life revolves around farming – and more particularly, around milk and cheese – in a way it has done for generations. Though the sense of place is acute in the book, equally the experiences and emotions of the women at the heart of it are timeless. This community of a few hundred souls, where everyone not only knows but is related to everyone else, is, of course, the kind of environment that is fast disappearing in Europe – reminiscent of remote sheep-farming communities in mid-Wales or the Cumbrian hills or the Scottish highlands. This self-contained, traditional world is evoked with tenderness but without sentimentality or blinkers. The real world creeps up the mountain to the village all too often – for example, carrying off its menfolk to war, and blighting the women with more work still, and less aid. The book spans more or less the entire twentieth century, and puts at the heart of each chapter a different woman. The casual brilliance of Lippi’s storytelling can be devastating; the reader passes by a seemingly innocuous sentence, only to turn back and see blood and fire everywhere in it.

The most moving debut novel of the year, shortlisted for the 2001 Orange Prize for Fiction.
Homestead is simply one of the most beautifully written and moving books it’s…

Tigers are Better-Looking incorporates selections from Jean Rhys's first book of stories, The Left Bank, published in 1927, and later stories written after 1939. In them she encompasses within a few pages both the gaiety and charm of youth and love, and an awareness of all that threatens them.

Writing in The New York Times, A. Alvarez has called these stories "extraordinary." The early stories have added value in that they illuminate Jean Rhys's development as a writer. Those written later, when her art was mature, are on the level of her novels and demonstrate that she is one of the most distinguished writers of our time, "the best living English novelist," again to quote Alvarez.

The title of this collection comes from the opinion which many of Jean Rhys's characters share, that respectable people are as alarming as tigers, but "tigers are better-looking, aren't they?" It also reflects the astringent humor in her work; an explanation that however sad or even sordid her subject, she is never depressing.

Tigers are Better-Looking incorporates selections from Jean Rhys's first book of stories, The Left Bank, published in 1927, and later stories written after 1939. In them she…

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote numerous short stories alongside his novels, the best known of which is of course The Great Gatsby. Flappers and Philosophers includes some of Fitzgerald's earliest short stories, all published in 1920 and covering a number of themes to which he would return in other stories and in some of his novels. They were written at a time when Fitzgerald's life seemed all promise and he had yet to endure the money and health problems that plagued his later life, and led to his premature death.
There are eight stories, including one of his most famous, "Bernice Bobs Her Hair". Other stories in this volume are "The Offshore Pirate" where the protagonist falls in love with the pirate who captured her; "Head and Shoulders", the tale of a couple who undergo a role reversal; and "The Cut-Glass Bowl" that is the recurring feature through various difficult or tragic events endured by a New York couple. The collection dates from the beginning of Fitzgerald's career and reveals an American society on the verge of jumping wholeheartedly into the brilliance of the "Jazz Age".

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote numerous short stories alongside his novels, the best known of which is of course The Great Gatsby. Flappers and Philosophers includes some of…

This anthology brings together core classical texts for understanding literature. The selections from Plato illustrate the poetic philosopher's surprising exclusion of poets from his ideal republic. In his response, Poetics, Aristotle draws on the works of the great Greek playwrights to defend the value of the art. Horace's The Art of Poetry is a vivid practitioner's guide that promotes a style of poetic craftsmanship rooted in wisdom, ethical insight, and decorum. Longinus's On the Sublime explores the nature of inspiration in poetry and prose. This volume is a work of great value and interest to classicists, students, and writers.

In her Introduction, Penelope Murray compares and contrasts the viewpoints of these formidable critics as well as their impact on the Western tradition. This edition also includes a new bibliography and chronology and comprehensive notes to each of the texts.

This anthology brings together core classical texts for understanding literature. The selections from Plato illustrate the poetic philosopher's surprising exclusion of poets from…

The Mounted Police Novels: Volume 3
The penultimate volume of Curwood's famous Mountie stories
In Curwood, the famous 'Mounties' had possibly their first and most enthusiastic champion and author of their adventures of fiction and legend. The image of the lone policeman out in the Canadian wilderness enduring every force nature could hurl against him and yet still resolutely and infallibly 'getting his man' was never more powerful than in the pages of Curwood's stories. His inspiration came from a time before 'The Royal Canadian Mounted Police', when the force was titled, 'The North West Mounted Police' and of course this meant the adventures are set in an earlier era-the Canada of the 19th century-where the untamed land was sparsely populated with untamed men and the tribes of indigenous Indians that might yet be hostile. These men were policemen, trappers, trackers, rangers, part lawman, part soldier-often imagined in their distinctive scarlet uniform-in fact the very stuff which has evoked true adventure in the minds of those aged from 8 to 80 This book, the third volume of Curwood's epic tales of the early days of the iconic 'Mounties, ' includes 'Isobel: A Romance of the Northern Trail' and 'The Golden Snare.' Available in soft back and hard back with dust cover for collectors. Leonaur hard covers feature real cloth bindings, gold foil lettering upon their spines and woven head and tail bands.

The Mounted Police Novels: Volume 3
The penultimate volume of Curwood's famous Mountie stories
In Curwood, the famous 'Mounties' had possibly their first and most enthusiastic…

Uprooted from a well-ordered life in Virginia when she was nine, Willa Cather came of age in the West during the last years of the American frontier. She developed a love for the beauty of open grasslands and an abiding interest in the Old World customs of her neighbors, the dreamers and builders who inhabit her fiction. This collection spans her career from talented young to Pulitzer Prize winning author. Included are "Eric Hermannson's Soul," "The Sculptor's Funeral," "A Wagner Matinee," "Paul's Case," "The Enchanted Bluff," "The Bohemian Girl," "Uncle Valentine," "Neighbour Rosicky," and "Old Mrs. Harris," as well as an important critical essay, "The Novel Démeublé." As Robert K. Miller writes in the Introduction, "To read the stories of Willa Cather is to discover that her short fiction is an essential part of the great legacy she left to our country."

Uprooted from a well-ordered life in Virginia when she was nine, Willa Cather came of age in the West during the last years of the American frontier. She developed a love for the…

To the English, I am "shocking"...What's more, French, which is disgusting; republican, which is abominable; exiled, which is repulsive; defeated, which is infamous. To top it all off, a poet...'

Victor Hugo dominated literary life in France for over half a century, pouring forth novels, poems, plays, and other writings with unflagging zest and vitality. Here, for the first time in English, all aspects of his work are represented within a single volume. Famous scenes from the novels Notre-Dame, Les Miserables and The Toilers of the Sea are included, as well as excerpts from his intimate diaries, poems of love and loss, and scathing denunciations of the political establishment. All the chosen passages are self-contained and can be enjoyed without any previous knowledge of Hugo's work. Much of the material is appearing in English for the first time, and most of it has never before been annotated thoroughly in any language.

To the English, I am "shocking"...What's more, French, which is disgusting; republican, which is abominable; exiled, which is repulsive; defeated, which is infamous. To top it all…

Excerpt from Modeste Mignon: And Other Stories

"Modeste Mignon" occupies a very peculiar place in Balzac's works - a place indeed, which, though for the form's sake more than anything else the author has connected it with the rest of the "Comedie" by some repetition of personages, is almost entirely isolated. I think it has puzzled some devoted Balzacians - so much so that I have seen it omitted even from lists of his works suitable to "the young person," in which it surely should have had an eminent place. As it is distinctly late - it was written in 1844, and nothing of combined magnitude and first-class importance succeeded it except "Les Parents Pauvres" - it may not impossibly serve as a basis for the expectation that if Balzac, after his re-establishment in Paris as a wealthy personage, had received a new lease of life and vigor instead of a sentence of death, we might have had from him a series of works as different from anything that he had composed before as "Modeste Mignon" is from her sisters.

In saying this, I do not mean to put the book itself in the very first class of its author's work. It is too much of an experiment for that of an experiment as far as the heroine is concerned, the boldness and novelty of which is likely to be underestimated by almost any reader, unless he be a literary student who pays strict attention to times and seasons. Even in England (though Charlotte Bronte was planning her at this very time) the willful, unconventional heroine was something of a novelty; and when it is remembered how infinitely stricter was the standard of the French ingenue, until quite recently, than it ever, even in the depths of the eighteenth century, was in England, the audacity of the conception of Modeste may be at least generally appreciated.

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"Modeste Mignon" occupies a very peculiar place in Balzac's works - a place indeed, which, though for the form's sake more than…

Not yet famous for his Civil War masterpiece, The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane was unable to find a publisher for his brilliant Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, finally printing it himself in 1893.
Condemned and misunderstood during Crane’s lifetime, this starkly realistic story of a pretty child of the Bowery has since been recognized as a landmark work in American fiction.

Now Crane’s great short novel of life in turn-of-the-century New York is published in its original form, along with four of Crane’s best short stories–The Blue Hotel, The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky, The Monster, and The Open Boat–stories of such remarkable power and clarity that they stand among the finest short stories ever written by an American.

Not yet famous for his Civil War masterpiece, The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane was unable to find a publisher for his brilliant Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, finally…

The Adventures of Captain Horn is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Frank Richard Stockton is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Frank Richard Stockton then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.

The Adventures of Captain Horn is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Frank Richard Stockton is in the English language, and may not…

What would happen if society was run by women? In Herland Charlotte Perkins Gilman imagines the result.

When three American men discover a community of women, living in perfect isolation in the Amazon, they decide there simply must be men somewhere. How could these women survive without man's knowledge, experience and strength, not to mention reproductive power? In fact, what they have found is a civilisation free from disease, poverty and the weight of tradition. All alone, the women have created a society of calm and prosperity, a feminist utopia that dares to threaten the very concept of male superiority.

What would happen if society was run by women? In Herland Charlotte Perkins Gilman imagines the result.

When three American men discover a community of women, living in perfect…

This gripping tragedy tells the haunting story of a nobleman who will stop at nothing to become king. Shakespeare’s immortal dramas are now available in illustrated form for classroom use! This revolutionary way of introducing the timeless comedies and tragedies of the Bard of Avon combines the art form of the graphic novel with written passages taken directly from Shakespeare’s texts. Children first studying Shakespeare are sometimes intimidated by the difficulty of his language. They will often miss the excitement and suspense in his story lines and the fascination of the wonderful characters he has created. Approaching his plays in the form of graphic-novel-style picture stories, supplemented with excerpts from the original dialogue, can be a young student’s important first step in truly understanding and appreciating Shakespeare’s masterpieces. Preceding the action of each play, these books offer brief summaries explaining what the play is all about, followed by illustrated casts of characters, each character shown with a brief descriptive caption. Supplementing each title in this series is a separately available teacher’s guide that suggests topics for classroom discussion and advises on imaginative activities that fit the classroom environment and coincide with the five acts of each play.

This gripping tragedy tells the haunting story of a nobleman who will stop at nothing to become king. Shakespeare’s immortal dramas are now available in illustrated form for…

'The Man Who Would be King' is the story of two British vagabonds who set off to establish a small kingdom among primitive tribesmen in Afghanistan. Only one of the men returns, and his condition is so bad that the newspaperman-narrator barely recognizes him.

This collection brings together seventeen of Kipling's early stories, written between 1885 and 1888, when Kipling was working as a journalist in India. The stories include: 'The Phantom Rickshaw, ' 'Baa Baa, Black Sheep, ' 'At the Pit's Mouth, ' 'A Wayside Comedy, ' 'Gemini, ' 'The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes, ' 'At Twenty-Two, ' and 'With the Main Guard.'

'The Man Who Would be King' is the story of two British vagabonds who set off to establish a small kingdom among primitive tribesmen in Afghanistan. Only one of the men returns,…

Lawrence ... describes the poems in this first collection of his unrhymed poems] as "intended as an essential story, or history, or confession," the critical experience occurring in the period of, "roughly, the sixth lustre of a man's life"-that is, from the age of 25 to 30. His Argument emphasizes the dramatic nature of the sequence. He speaks of "the protagonist" and of "the conflict of love and hate that] goes on between the man and the woman, and between these two and the world around them, till it reaches some sort of conclusion, they transcend into some condition of blessedness." Foreword and Argument complement each other: Look is both a personal confession and a drama. In both respects, it is closely related to the three novels which belong to the same period, 1912-1917.

Lawrence ... describes the poems in this first collection of his unrhymed poems] as "intended as an essential story, or history, or confession," the critical experience occurring…

This is the world of universal future war. Faced with the threat of bombs, bacteriological warfare and poison gas, a married couple whose pacificism complels them to opt out of 'civilisation', take to the hills to live as fugitives in the wild.

Plainly and simply told, Wild Harbour charts the practical difficulties, the successes and failures of living rough in the beautiful hills of remote Speyside. In this respect the book belongs to a tradition of Scottish fiction reflected in novels such as Stevenson's Kidnapped and Buchan's John MacNab. But it takes a darker and more contemporary turn, for although Hugh and his wife Terry learn to fend for themselves, they cannot escape from what the world has become. Their brief summer idyll is brought to an end as the forces of random and meaningless violence close over them.

Written in 1936, Wild Harbour has lost none of its relevance in a post-nuclear age, nor its power to move and shock.

This is the world of universal future war. Faced with the threat of bombs, bacteriological warfare and poison gas, a married couple whose pacificism complels them to opt out of…

Women readers everywhere will be entranced by bestselling Sheila O'Flanagan's unputdownable new novel of friendship, love and sweet revenge.

Darcey and Nieve were the closest and best of friends, through school, as neighbours, travelling round Europe: this was a friendship for life. Until Nieve, returning from Europe a little later than her friend, stole the heart of Aidan, the boy Darcey had fallen in love with in her absence. Aidan was going to propose the very night Nieve caught his eye, and Darcey knew it. For the next ten years she's haunted by the memory of her humiliation. No business success - and there are many - no comfort her warm if eccentric family can offer, not even marriage to Neil, can console her. And then the invitation comes: to the wedding of Aidan and Nieve, neither of whom she's seen since they left Ireland for life in the USA. They're coming home to have the wedding of a lifetime at Ireland's most expensive hotel. Will Darcey be there? Will there be fireworks? And can the past be put to rest at last?

Women readers everywhere will be entranced by bestselling Sheila O'Flanagan's unputdownable new novel of friendship, love and sweet revenge.

Darcey and Nieve were the closest…

In seeking to discover his inner self, the brilliant Dr Henry lekyll discovers a monster. First published to immediate acclaim in 1886, this mesmerising thriller is a terrifying study of the duality of man's nature, and it is the book which established Stevenson`s reputuation as a writer.

Also included in this volume is Stevenson's 1887 collection of short stories, "The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables".

"The Merry Men" is a gripping Highland tale of shipwrecks and madness; "Markheim", the sinister study of the mind of a murderer; "Thrawn Janet", a spine-chilling tale of demonic possession; "Olalla", a study of degeneration and incipient vampirism in the Spanish mountains; "Will O' the Mill", a thought-provoking fable about a mountain inn-keeper; and "The Treasure of Franchard", a study of French bourgeois life.
Формат: 12,5 см х 19,5 см.

In seeking to discover his inner self, the brilliant Dr Henry lekyll discovers a monster. First published to immediate acclaim in 1886, this mesmerising thriller is a terrifying…

One of the most distinctive literary voices of the 20th century, D.H.Lawrence wrote novels prized for their psychological and poetic insights, among them The Rainbow, Women in Love, Lady Chatterley's Lover, The Plumed Serpent and the autobiographical Sons and Lovers. His short stories are masterpieces of the genre, and, like the novels, daring for their time in their approach to sexual themes. This collection includes seven of the best Lawrence stories, each turning on some facet of sexual feeling, attitude or convention.

"The Prussian Officer" focuses on an aristocratic captain's homoerotic obsession for his young orderly. "The Shadow in the Rose Garden" and "The White Stocking" deal with sexual jealousy. "Daughters of the Vicar" brilliantly describes two exceedingly class-conscious mating rituals. The last three stories, "The Christening," "Second Best" and "Odour of Chrysanthemums," etch memorable portraits of a family's shame at an illegitimate birth, a country courtship and a brutish marriage abbreviated by death.Формат: 13 см х 21 см.

One of the most distinctive literary voices of the 20th century, D.H.Lawrence wrote novels prized for their psychological and poetic insights, among them The Rainbow, Women in…

A brilliant social satire by Nobel Prize-winning author John Galsworthy, this monumental trilogy chronicles the lives of three generations of an upper-middle-class London family obsessed with money and respectability. The first book, The Man of Property, established Galsworthy's reputation as an author and keen observer of society. His masterly prose, always scorchingly accurate and often very funny, introduces Soames Forsyte, an avaricious man who sees everything -- including his rebellious trophy wife, Irene -- in terms of its value as a possession. The second book, In Chancery, recounts the Forsytes' stormy marriage, separation, and eventual divorce; To Let, the last of the trilogy, focuses on the children of the estranged couple. In addition to the three original novels, this edition also contains the connecting interludes, Indian Summer of a Forsyte and Awakening. For years, The Forsyte Saga had an enormous impact on American and European conceptions of Victorian and Edwardian life. Among the most popular literary classics of the twentieth century, this beautifully written book, with its heartbreaking character studies, remains an impressive contribution to social history and literary art. Book jacket. Monumental trilogy by Nobel Prize-winning author chronicles the lives of three generations of an upper-middle-class London family obsessed with money and respectability. The first volume,The Man of Property,introduces the avaricious Soames Forsyte and his trophy wife, Irene. The second,In Chancery,recounts the Forsytes' marriage, separation, and eventual divorce.To Let,the last in the series, focuses on the children of the estranged couple. Among the most popular literary classics of the 20th century, this beautifully written work remains an impressive contribution to social history and literary art. This monumental trilogy by the Nobel Prize-winning author chronicles the lives of three generations of an upper-middle-class London family obsessed with money and respectability. The Forsyte Sagaenormously influenced views held by Americans and Europeans of Victorian and Edwardian life and it remains an excellent contribution to social history and literary art.

A brilliant social satire by Nobel Prize-winning author John Galsworthy, this monumental trilogy chronicles the lives of three generations of an upper-middle-class London family…