Все книги издательства «Wordsworth»
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Sense and Sensibility
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Wordsworth
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Автор: Austen Jane
Издательство: Wordsworth, 1992
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PDF, 272 страницы, 8.16 МБ
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Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения. 'Young women who have no economic or political power must attend to the serious business of contriving material security'. Jane Austen's sardonic humour lays bare the stratagems, the hypocrisy and the poignancy inherent in the struggle of two very different sisters to achieve respectability. Sense and Sensibility is a delightful comedy of manners in which the sisters Elinor and Marianne represent these two qualities. Elinor's character is one of Augustan detachment, while Marianne, a fervent disciple of the Romantic Age, learns to curb her passionate nature in the interests of survival.
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25 мая 2009
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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
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Wordsworth
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Автор: Hugo Victor
Издательство: Wordsworth, 1993
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PDF, 480 страниц, 14.40 МБ
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Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения. Set in 1482, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame is a compelling story of love and betrayal, brutal deeds and one of the most famous acts of revenge in world literature. Quasimodo, the hunchback of the title, is one of fiction's most extreme characters — beneath his monstrous disfigurement, his love for the beautiful Esmerelda reveals a heart full of intense emotion. The novel is set in the great cathedral of Notre-Dame and had a profound influence on the Romantic Movement.
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admin
23 августа 2009
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Vanity Fair
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Wordsworth
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Автор: Thackeray William Makepeace
Издательство: Wordsworth, 1992
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PDF, 720 страниц, 21.60 МБ
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Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения. Thackeray's upper-class Regency world is a noisy and jostling commercial fairground, predominantly driven by acquisitive greed and soulless materialism, in which the narrator himself plays a brilliantly versatile role as a serio-comic observer. Although subtitled 'A Novel without a Hero', Vanity Fair follows the fortunes of two contrasting but inter-linked lives: through the retiring Amelia Sedley and the brilliant Becky Sharp, Thackeray examines the position of women in an intensely exploitative male world.
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admin
28 июля 2009
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Villette
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Wordsworth
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Автор: Bronte Charlotte
Издательство: Wordsworth, 1993
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PDF, 496 страниц, 14.88 МБ
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Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения. This novel is based on the author's personal experience as a teacher in Brussels. It is a moving tale of repressed feelings and subjection to cruel circumstance and position, borne with heroic fortitude. It is also the story of a woman's right to love and be loved.
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neptun
27 октрября 2009
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Tales from the Arabian Nights
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Автор: Andrew Lang
Издательство: Wordsworth, 1993
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DjVu, 352 страницы, 14.08 МБ
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The beautiful Scheherazade's royal husband threatens to kill her, so each night she diverts him by weaving wonderful tales of fantastic adventure, leaving each story unfinished so that he spares her life to hear the ending the next night. This is the background to the Arabian Nights. In this selection made by that master of folklore and fairy-tale Andrew Lang, the reader meets Aladdin with his wonderful lamp, the Enchanted Horse, the Princess Badoura, Sinbad the Sailor, and the great Caliph of Bagdad, Haroun-al-Raschid.
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anarho
21 июля 2009
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Hamlet
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Автор: Shakespeare William
Издательство: Wordsworth, 1992
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PDF, 192 страницы, 5.76 МБ
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Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения. The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal. Hamlet is not only one of Shakespeare's greatest plays but also the most fascinatingly problematic tragedy in world literature. First performed around 1600, this is a gripping and exuberant drama of revenge, rich in contrasts and conflicts. Its violence alternates with introspection, its melancholy with humor, and its subtlety with spectacle. The Prince, Hamlet himself, is depicted as a complex, divided, introspective character. His reflections on death, morality and the very status of human beings make him 'the first modern man'.
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zorkuzz
14 февраля 2009
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Моби Дик: На английском языке
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Зарубежная литература
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Автор: Melville Herman
Издательство: Wordsworth, 1992
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PDF, 492 страницы, 14.76 МБ
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«Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения. Moby Dick is the story of Captain Ahab's quest to avenge the whale that «reaped» his leg. The quest is an obsession and the novel is a diabolical study of how a man becomes a fanatic. But it is also a hymn to democracy. Bent as the crew is on Ahab's appalling crusade, it is equally the image of a co-operative community at work: all hands dependent on all hands, each individual responsible for the security of each. Among the crew is Ishmael, the novel's narrator, ordinary sailor, and extraordinary reader. Digressive, allusive, vulgar, transcendent, the story Ishmael tells is above all an education: in the practice of whaling, in the art of writing. Expanding to equal his 'mighty theme' — not only the whale but all things sublime — Melville breathes in the world's great literature. Moby Dick is the greatest novel ever written by an American.»
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supersaw
21 июня 2009
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Persuasion
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Зарубежная литература
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Автор: Austen Jane
Издательство: Wordsworth, 1993
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PDF, 208 страниц, 6.24 МБ
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Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения. What does persuasion mean — a firm belief, or the action of persuading someone to think something else? Anne Elliot is one of Austen's quietest heroines, but also one of the strongest and the most open to change. She lives at the time of the Napoleonic wars, a time of accident, adventure, the making of new fortunes and alliances. A woman of no importance, she manoeuvres in her restricted circumstances as her long-time love Captain Wentworth did in the wars. Even though she is nearly thirty, well past the sell-by bloom of youth, Austen makes her win out for herself and for others like herself, in a regenerated society.
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anatoly_24
15 мая 2009
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Romeo fnd Juliet
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Зарубежная литература
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Автор: Shakespeare William
Издательство: Wordsworth, 2000
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PDF, 160 страниц, 4.80 МБ
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«Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения. Love, sex and death are the components of Shakespeare's classic story of the love of two young people which reaches across the barriers of family and convention. It encompasses great love, high drama, low comedy and a tragic ending. «Romeo and Juliet» is a pure tragedy of youth told in verse that is both youthful and intense. The loveliness and the music of the poetry make believable the otherwise commonplace afflictions of blighted love. The beautiful personification of some of the main characters has caused Romeo, Juliet, Mercutio and the Nurse to become part of the world's literary mythology.»
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577
admin
25 мая 2009
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Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn: На английском языке
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Зарубежная литература
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Автор: Twain Mark
Издательство: Wordsworth, 1995
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DOC, 416 страниц, 1.00 МБ
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«Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения. Tom Sawyer, a shrewd and adventurous boy, is as much at home in the respectable world of his Aunt Polly as in the self-reliant and parentless world of his friend Huck Finn. The two enjoy a series of adventures, accidentally witnessing a murder, establishing the innocence of the man wrongly accused, as well as being hunted by Injun Joe, the true murderer, eventually escaping and finding the treasure that Joe had buried. «Huckleberry Finn» recounts the further adventures of Huck, who runs away from a drunken and brutal father, and meets up with the escaped slave Jim. They float down the Mississippi on a raft, participating in the lives of the characters they meet, witnessing corruption, moral decay and intellectual impoverishment. Sharing so much in background and character, these two stories, the best of Twain, indisputably belong together in one volume. Though originally written as adventure stories for young people, the vivid writing provides a profound commentary on provincial American life in the mid-nineteenth century and the institution of slavery.»
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delovar
15 июня 2009
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The Pickwick Papers: На английском языке
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Wordsworth
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Автор: Dickens Charles
Издательство: Wordsworth, 1995
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PDF, 760 страниц, 22.80 МБ
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The Pickwick Papers is Dickens first novel and widely regarded as one of the major classics of comic writing in English. Originally serialised in monthly instalments, it quickly became a huge popular success with sales reaching 40,000 by the final number. In the century and a half since its first appearance, the characters of Mr Pickwick, Sam Weller and the whole of the Pickwickian crew have entered the consciousness of all who love English literature in general, and the works of Dickens in particular. Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения.
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admin
10 октрября 2009
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Little Women and Good Wives: На английском языке
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Wordsworth
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Автор: Alcott Louisa May
Издательство: Wordsworth, 1993
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PDF, 464 страницы, 13.92 МБ
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«Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения. «Little Women» is one of the best-loved children's stories of all time, based on the author's own youthful experiences. It describes the family life of the four March sisters living in a small New England community; Meg, the eldest, is pretty and wishes to be a lady; Jo, at fifteen is ungainly and unconventional with an ambition to be an author; Beth is a delicate child of thirteen with a taste for music and Amy is a blonde beauty of twelve. The story of their domestic adventures, their attempts to increase the family income, their friendship with the neighbouring Lawrence family, and their later love affairs remains as fresh and beguiling as ever. «Good Wives» takes up the story of the March sisters, some three years later, when, as young adults, they must face up to the inevitable trials and traumas of everyday life in their search for individual happiness.»
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biomg
22 мая 2009
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Emma: На английском языке
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Wordsworth
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Автор: Austen Jane
Издательство: Wordsworth, 2000
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DOC, 368 страниц, 1.00 МБ
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Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения. Jane Austen teased readers with the idea of a 'heroine whom no one but myself will much like', but Emma is irresistible. 'Handsome, clever, and rich', Emma is also an 'imaginist', 'on fire with speculation and foresight'. She sees the signs of romance all around her, but thinks she will never be married. Her matchmaking maps out relationships that Jane Austen ironically tweaks into a clearer perspective. Judgement and imagination are matched in games the reader too can enjoy, and the end is a triumph of understanding.
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lubacha
26 мая 2009
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The Lost World and Other Stories
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Wordsworth
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Автор: Doyle Arthur Conan
Издательство: Wordsworth, 1995
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PDF, 480 страниц, 14.40 МБ
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«The science fiction stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stand alongside those of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells. The protagonist, the 'cave-man in a lounge suit', is the maddening, irascible and fascinating Professor George Edward Challenger. In these collected tales he faces adventures such as that high above the Amazon rain forest in «The Lost World» and the challenges of «The Land of Mist».»
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1728
admin
25 июня 2009
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
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Wordsworth
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Автор: Jules Verne
Издательство: Wordsworth, 1992
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PDF, 256 страниц, 7.68 МБ
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«Professor Aronnax, his faithful servant, Conseil, and the Canadian harpooner, Ned Land, begin an extremely hazardous voyage to rid the seas of a little-known and terrifying sea monster. However, the «monster» turns out to be a giant submarine, commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo, by whom they are soon held captive. So begins not only one of the great adventure classics by Jules Verne, the 'Father of Science Fiction', but also a truly fantastic voyage from the lost city of Atlantis to the South Pole.»
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lawyer_78rus
18 марта 2009
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Adam Bede
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Wordsworth
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Автор: George Eliot
Издательство: Wordsworth, 1997
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DOC, 528 страниц, 1.00 МБ
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Adam Bede (1859), George Eliot's first full-length novel, marked the emergence of an artist to rank with Scott and Dickens. Set in the English Midlands of farmers and village craftsmen at the turn of the eighteenth century, the book relates a story of seduction issuing in 'the inward suffering which is the worst form of Nemesis'. But it is also a rich and pioneering record — drawing on intimate knowledge and affectionate memory — of a rural world that we have lost. The movement of the narration between social realism and reflection on its own processes, the exploration of motives, and the constant authorial presence all bespeak an art that strives to connect the fictional with the actual.
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1902
carabin
16 февраля 2009
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