Зарубежная литература — 395 книг

Первый перевод на русский язык самого известного романа на французском языке конца 80 - х годов. Герои в процессе самоидентификации. Язык в процессе своего преобразования в литературу.

Первый перевод на русский язык самого известного романа на французском языке конца 80 - х годов. Герои в процессе самоидентификации. Язык в процессе своего преобразования в…

В книгу современного американского писателя Курта Воннегута (р. В 1923) включено четыре романа. Философско-сатирические романы "Колыбель для кошки" и "Дай вам бог здоровья, мистер Розуотер" проникнуты глубокой тревогой за судьбы человечества в эпоху научно-технической революции. "Бойня номер пять, или Крестовый поход детей" - рассказ о варварском разрушении Дрездена англо-американской авиацией в конце второй мировой войны. Роман "Завтрак для чемпионов" представляет собой аллегорию, в гротескной форме изображающую превращение американского обывателя в робота-разрушителя.
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В книгу современного американского писателя Курта Воннегута (р. В 1923) включено четыре романа. Философско-сатирические романы "Колыбель для кошки" и "Дай вам бог здоровья, мистер…

В сборник английского писателя Джорджа Оруэлла (1903 - 1950) включен его наиболее известный роман "1984" и избранная эссеистика.
"1984" - антиутопия, рисующая дегуманизированное тоталитарное государство. В публицистике писателя нашли отражение острейшие проблемы политической и литературной жизни 30 - 40-х гг. прошлого века.

В сборник английского писателя Джорджа Оруэлла (1903 - 1950) включен его наиболее известный роман "1984" и избранная эссеистика.
"1984" - антиутопия, рисующая дегуманизированное…

Во второй том двухтомника Оруэлла вошли эссе, статьи, рецензии.

В первый том двухтомника Оруэлла вошел роман "1984" и сказка "Скотный двор".

Павел Хюлле - ведущий польский прозаик среднего поколения. Блестяще владея словом и виртуозно обыгрывая материал, экспериментирует с литературными традициями. "Мерседес-Бенц. Из писем к Грабалу" своим названием заинтригует автолюбителей и поклонников чешского классика. Но не только они с удовольствием прочтут эту остроумную повесть, герой которой (дабы отвлечь внимание инструктора по вождению) плетет сеть из нескончаемых фамильных преданий на автомобильную тематику. Живые картинки из прошлого, внося ностальгическую ноту, обнажают стремление рассказчика найти связь времен.

Павел Хюлле - ведущий польский прозаик среднего поколения. Блестяще владея словом и виртуозно обыгрывая материал, экспериментирует с литературными традициями. "Мерседес-Бенц. Из…

Хайнер Мюллер - один из ведущих драматургов Германии второй половины XX века, наследовавший традиции Б. Брехта, интеллектуальной и постмодернистской драмы, театра абсурда. Его пьесы снискали мировую известность. В пьесах-гротесках и трагифарсах "Битва", "Гамлет-машина", "Германия. Смерть в Берлине" писатель ставит наиболее трудные, острые проблемы исторического прошлого и настоящего Германии, Европы и современного миропорядка в целом. Кроме современных, злободневных тем Мюллера волновали мифологические и легендарные сюжеты, которые и легли в основу пьес-притч "Филоктет", "Геракл-5" и "Гораций".

В сборник вошли также проза и эссеистика писателя, позволяющие глубже понять его своеобразие, поэтику, философию, проникнуть в творческую лабораторию автора.

Хайнер Мюллер - один из ведущих драматургов Германии второй половины XX века, наследовавший традиции Б. Брехта, интеллектуальной и постмодернистской драмы, театра абсурда. Его…

'there were only seven out of the twenty-six on whom we knew we could rely; and out of those seven one was a boy ...'

When a mysterious seafarer puts up at the Admiral Benbow, young Jim Hawkins is haunted by his frightening tales; the sailor's sudden death is the beginning of one of the most exciting adventure stories in literature. The discovery of a treasure map sets Jim and his companions in search of buried gold, and they are soon on board the Hispaniola with a crew of buccaneers recruited by the one-legged sea cook known as Long John Silver. As they near their destination, and the lure of Captain Flint's treasure grows ever stronger, Jim's courage and wits are tested to the full.

Stevenson reinvented the genre with Treasure Island, a boys' story that appeals as much to adults as to children, and whose moral ambiguities turned the Victorian universe on its head. This edition celebrates the ultimate book of pirates and high adventure, and also examines how its tale of greed, murder, treachery, and evil has acquired its classic status.

'there were only seven out of the twenty-six on whom we knew we could rely; and out of those seven one was a boy ...'

When a mysterious seafarer puts up at the Admiral Benbow,…

'I wonder what will become of her!'

So speculate the friends and neighbours of Emma Woodhouse, the lovely, lively, wilful,and fallible heroine of Jane Austen's fourth published novel. Confident that she knows best, Emma schemes to find a suitable husband for her pliant friend Harriet, only to discover that she understands the feelings of others as little as she does her own heart. As Emma puzzles and blunders her way through the mysteries of her social world, Austen evokes for her readers a cast of unforgettable characters and a detailed portrait of a small town undergoing historical transition.

Written with matchless wit and irony, judged by many to be her finest novel, Emma has been adapted many times for film and television. This new edition shows how Austen brilliantly turns the everyday into the exceptional.

'I wonder what will become of her!'

So speculate the friends and neighbours of Emma Woodhouse, the lovely, lively, wilful,and fallible heroine of Jane Austen's fourth published…

Northanger Abbey is about the misadventures of Catherine Morland, young, ingenuous, and mettlesome, and an indefatigable reader of gothic novels. Their romantic excess and dark overstatement feed her imagination, as tyrannical fathers and diabolical villains work their evil on forlorn heroines in isolated settings. What could be more remote from the uneventful securities of life in the midland counties of England? Yet as Austen brilliantly contrasts fiction with reality, ordinary life takes a more sinister turn, and edginess and circumspection are reaffirmed alongside comedy and literary burlesque.

Also including Austen's other short fictions, Lady Susan, The Watsons, and Sanditon, this valuable new edition examines the ambitious and innovative works with which she inaugurated as well as closed her career.

Northanger Abbey is about the misadventures of Catherine Morland, young, ingenuous, and mettlesome, and an indefatigable reader of gothic novels. Their romantic excess and dark…

'As I walk'd through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place, where was a Denn; And I laid me down in that place to sleep: And as I slept I dreamed a Dream.'

So begins one of the best-loved and most widely read books in English literature.

'As I walk'd through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place, where was a Denn; And I laid me down in that place to sleep: And as I slept I dreamed a Dream.'…

Rene Weis reveals Shakepeare's use of multiple sources to be eclectic in the extreme in this radical reconsideration of the play's date and text. He also argues for the first time that Falstaff was called Oldcastle in Part 2 as well as in Part I. The play's striving towards a form of order, peace, and legitimacy is explored in relation to Part I and through rigorous attention to structure and language. A full account of the play's history in performance and on film yields a fascinating reflection of its relationship to national triumph and crisis, as well as the diverse idealogical interpretations it has inspired.

Rene Weis reveals Shakepeare's use of multiple sources to be eclectic in the extreme in this radical reconsideration of the play's date and text. He also argues for the first time…

As Henry's throne is threatened by rebel forces, England is divided. The characters reflect these oppositions, with Hal and Hotspur vying for position, and Falstaff leading Hal away from his father and towards excess.

During Shakespeare's lifetime Henry IV, Part I was his most reprinted play, and it remains enormously popular with theatregoers and readers. Falstaff still towers among Shakespeare's comic inventions as he did in the late 1590s.

David Bevington's introduction discusses the play in both peformance and criticism from Shakespeare's time to our own, illustrating the variety of interpretations of which the text is capable. He analyses the play's richly textured language in a detailed commentary on individual words and phrases and clearly explains its historical background.

As Henry's throne is threatened by rebel forces, England is divided. The characters reflect these oppositions, with Hal and Hotspur vying for position, and Falstaff leading Hal…

Based on Chaucer's Knight's Tale, the central themes of this humourous and moving play are the claims of love and friendship. The introduction to this new edition offers an illuminating account of Shakespeare's collaboration with his younger colleague John Fletcher, and there are full and helpful notes on unfamiliar words, stage business, allusions, and the play's often complex language.

Based on Chaucer's Knight's Tale, the central themes of this humourous and moving play are the claims of love and friendship. The introduction to this new edition offers an…

Henry V, the climax of Shakespeare's sequence of English history plays, is an inspiring, often comic celebration of a young warrior-king. But it is also a study of the costly exhilarations of war, and of the penalties as well as the glories of human greatness.

Introducing this brilliantly innovative edition, Gary Taylor shows how Shakespeare shaped his historical material, examines controversial critical interpretations, discusses the play's fluctuating fortunes in performance, and analyses the range and variety of Shakespeare's characterization. The first Folio text is radically rethought, making original use of the First Quarto (1600).

Henry V, the climax of Shakespeare's sequence of English history plays, is an inspiring, often comic celebration of a young warrior-king. But it is also a study of the costly…

When Claudio breaks the new laws against vice in Vienna by getting his financee, Julietta, pregnant, a series of ethical issues is brought under scrutiny. His sister's virtue is held to ransom by the deputy rule of the city until justice is done, mercy shown, and order restored.

This is among Shakespeare's most vivid dramatic projections of moral duplicity. The introduction discusses the origins of his treatment of the well-known story and examines his sources. The editor also sets the play in its historical context and offers the most comprehensive available account of the text's theatrical life from Restoration adaptations to present-day productions.

When Claudio breaks the new laws against vice in Vienna by getting his financee, Julietta, pregnant, a series of ethical issues is brought under scrutiny. His sister's virtue is…

This important new edition of one of Shakespeare's more neglected plays offers a wide-ranging critical introduction, concentrating on its relevance to Elizabethan political issues and on the role played in it by women, the family, and the law. There is a comprehensive stage history, and full and helpful annotation pays special attention to the play's language and staging.

This important new edition of one of Shakespeare's more neglected plays offers a wide-ranging critical introduction, concentrating on its relevance to Elizabethan political issues…

The Winter's Tale is Shakespeare's most perfectly realized tragi- comedy, as notable for its tragic intensity as for its comic grace and, throughout, for the richness and complexity of its poetry. It concludes, moreover, with the most daring and moving reconciliation scene in all Shakespeare's plays.

Though the title may suggest an escapist fantasy, recent criticism has seen in the play a profoundly realist psychology and a powerful commentary on the violence implicit in family relationships and deep, longlasting friendships. Stephen Orgel's edition considers the play in relation to Renaissance conceptions of both dramatic genre and the family, traces the changing critical and theatrical attitudes towards it, and places its psychological and dramatic conflicts within the Jacobean cultural and political context. The commentary pays special attention to the play's linguistic complexity, and the edition also includes a complete reprint of Shakespeare's source, Pandosto, by Robert Greene.

The Winter's Tale is Shakespeare's most perfectly realized tragi- comedy, as notable for its tragic intensity as for its comic grace and, throughout, for the richness and…

The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers.
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a new, modern-spelling text, collated and edited from all existing printings. -
on-page commentary and notes explain meaning, staging, allusions, and much else. -
detailed introduction considers composition, sources, performances, and changing critical attitudes to the play. -
includes extracts from the play's sources. -
illustrated with maps, production photographs, and related art. -
full index to introduction and commentary. -
durable sewn binding for lasting use.

The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers.
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a new,…