Все книги издательства «Wordsworth»

Three Men in a Boat	Wordsworth
Автор: Jerome K. Jerome Издательство: Wordsworth, 1992	PDF, 336 страниц, 10.08 МБ 0 Оценка:
«Three Men in a Boat There are four of them — George, Harris, the writer himself and that dog, Montmorency — all participants in a boating expedition on the Thames. The difficulties and vicissitudes heaped upon these innocents develop to epic proportions as they experience the hazards of the great English waterway. Their problems are in no way diminished by the outrageous behaviour of Montmorency, who lays waste several riverside communities in the course of their journey. Three Men on the Bummel 'What is a «bummel»?' said George. 'How would you translate it?' 'A «bummel»', I explained, I should describe as a journey, long or short, without an end; the only thing regulating it being the necessity of getting back within a given time to the point from which one started...' After considerable indecision the bummel takes our heroes to Germany's Black Forest where they manage to disrupt the tranquil way of life usually enjoyed by the denizens, whose curious behaviour they closely observe and record in their account of this second epic journey. Even without that dog, chaos and mayhem reign supreme.»
1207 phoenix7 05 июня 2009	Скачать книгу

Three Sea Stories	Wordsworth
Автор: Joseph Conrad Издательство: Wordsworth, 1998	DjVu, 304 страницы, 12.16 МБ 0 Оценка:
«As these three specially commissioned stories amply demonstrate, Conrad is our greatest writer of the sea. His characters are tested by dramatic events 'that show in the light of day the inner worth of a man, the edge of his temper, and the fibre of his stuff; that reveal the quality of his resistance and the secret stuff of his pretences, not only to others but also to himself'. In «Typhoon», Conrad's funniest story, Captain MacWhirr blunders into a hurricane that reveals the sea's treachery, violence and terror. «Falk» is desperate to get married, but first he must tell of his terrible experiences as sole survivor of a stricken ship that once drifted into the ice-caps of Antarctica. «The Shadow-Line» is a poignant and beautiful story. Written during the First World War and based on Conrad's fond evocation of his own first command, it expresses his solidarity with all who were obliged to cross in early youth the shadow-line of their war-torn generation. It includes a glossary of nautical terms.»
1096 stalker1965 15 июля 2009	Скачать книгу

Thus Spake Zarathustra	Wordsworth
Автор: Friedrich Nietzsche Издательство: Wordsworth, 2008	DjVu, 352 страницы, 14.08 МБ 5 Оценка:
This astonishing series of aphorisms, put into the mouth of the Persian sage Zarathustra, or Zoroaster, contains the kernel of Nietzsche's thought. 'God is dead', he tells us. Christianity is decadent, leading mankind into a slave morality concerned not with this life, but with the next. Nietzsche emphasises the 'Ubermensch, or Superman, whose will to power makes him the creator of a new heroic mentality. The intensely felt ideas are expressed in prose-poetry of indefinable beauty.
1275 anarho 24 августа 2010	Скачать книгу

To the Lighthouse	Wordsworth
Автор: Virginia Woolf Издательство: Wordsworth, 1994	PDF, 176 страниц, 5.28 МБ 0 Оценка:
«To the Lighthouse» is the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf's novels. It is based on her own early experiences, and while it touches on childhood and children's perceptions and desires, it is at its most trenchant when exploring adult relationships, marriage and the changing class-structure in the period spanning the Great War.»
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Tom Brown's Schooldays and Tom Brown at Oxford	Wordsworth
Автор: Thomas Hughes Издательство: Wordsworth, 1993	DjVu, 352 страницы, 14.08 МБ 5 Оценка:
«Lively and mischievous, idle and brave, Tom Brown is both the typical boy of his time and the perennial hero celebrated by authors as diverse as Henry Fielding (in «Tom Jones») and Alec Waugh (in «The Loom of Youth»). The book describes Tom's time at Rugby School from his first football match, through his troubled adolescence when he is savagely bullied by the unspeakable Flashman, to his departure for a wider world as a confident young man. This classic tale of a boy's schooldays under the benevolent eye of the renowned Dr Arnold still retains the appeal for which it was acclaimed on its first publication in 1857. In its less well-known sequel, «Tom Brown at Oxford», we follow our hero to St Ambrose's College, and, in sharing his undergraduate experiences, gain a vivid impression of university life in the mid nineteenth century.»
1265 anarho 21 июля 2009	Скачать книгу

The Travels of Marco Polo	Wordsworth
Автор: Marco Polo Издательство: Wordsworth, 1997	PDF, 320 страниц, 9.60 МБ 8 Оценка:
Marco Polo (1254-1329) has achieved an almost archetypal status as a traveller, and his Travels is one of the first great travel books of Western literature, outside the ancient world. The Travels recounts Polo's journey to the eastern court of Kublai Khan, the chieftain of the Mongol empire which covered the Asian continent, but which was almost unknown to Polo's contemporaries. Encompassing a twenty-four year period from 1721, Polo's account details his travels in the service of the empire, from Beijing to northern India and ends with the remarkable story of Polo's return voyage from the Chinese port of Amoy to the Persian Gulf. Alternately factual and fantastic, Polo's prose at once reveals the medieval imagination's limits, and captures the wonder of subsequent travel writers when faced with the unfamiliar, the exotic or the unknown.
1153 admin 17 октрября 2009	Скачать книгу

Tristram Shandy	Wordsworth
Автор: Laurence Sterne Издательство: Wordsworth, 1996	PDF, 474 страницы, 14.22 МБ 0 Оценка:
«Laurence Sterne's «The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman» is a huge literary paradox, for it is both a novel and an anti-novel. As a comic novel replete with bawdy humour and generous sentiments, it introduces us to a vivid group of memorable characters, variously eccentric, farcical and endearing. As an anti-novel, it is a deliberately tantalising and exuberantly egoistic work, ostentatiously digressive, involving the reader in the labyrinthine creation of a purported autobiography. This mercurial eighteenth-century text thus anticipates modernism and postmodernism. Vibrant and bizarre, «Tristram Shandy» provides an unforgettable experience. We may see why Nietzsche termed Sterne 'the most liberated spirit of all time'.»
1707 scorp26 04 июля 2009	Скачать книгу

The Trumpet-Major	Wordsworth
Автор: Thomas Hardy Издательство: Wordsworth, 1995	PDF, 288 страниц, 8.64 МБ 7 Оценка:
«Thomas Hardy's only historical novel, «The Trumpet Major» is set in Wessex during the Napoleonic Wars. Hardy skilfully immerses us in the life of the day, making us feel the impact of historical events on the immemorial local way of life — the glamour of the coming of George III and his soldiery, fears of the press-gang and invasion, and the effect of distant but momentous events like the Battle of Trafalgar. He interweaves a compelling, bitter-sweet romantic love story of the rivalry of two brothers for the hand of the heroine Anne Garland, played out against the loves of a lively gallery of other characters. While there are elements of sadness and even tragedy, «The Trumpet-Major» shows Hardy's skills of story-telling, characterisation and description in a novel of vitality, comedy and warmth.»
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The Turn of the Screw and The Aspern Papers	Wordsworth
Автор: Henry James Издательство: Wordsworth, 1995	PDF, 224 страницы, 6.72 МБ 0 Оценка:
«The Turn of the Screw» is the classic ghost story for which James is most remembered. Set in a country house, it is a chilling tale of the supernatural. «The Aspern Papers» is a tale of Americans in Europe, cleverly evoking the drama of comedie humaine against the settings of a Venetian palace.»
806 allkonekt 05 июня 2009	Скачать книгу

Twelfth Night	Wordsworth
Автор: William Shakespeare Издательство: Wordsworth, 1995	PDF, 128 страниц, 3.84 МБ 7 Оценка:
«The gentle melancholy and lyrical atmosphere of «Twelfth Night» have long made the play a favourite with Shakespearian audiences. The plot revolves around mistaken identities and unrequited love, but is further enlivened by a comic sub-plot of considerable accomplishment. In it, Sir Toby Belch and his companion outwit the pretentious Malvolio, who despite suffering their most outrageous and insulting practical jokes, emerges as an almost noble figure.»
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Twilight of the Idols / Antichrist / Ecce Homo	Wordsworth
Автор: Friedrich Nietzsche Издательство: Wordsworth, 2007	PDF, 288 страниц, 8.64 МБ 7 Оценка:
«The three works in this collection, all dating from Nietzsche's last lucid months, show him at his most stimulating and controversial: the portentous utterances of the prophet (together with the ill-defined figure of the Ubermensch) are forsaken, as wit, exuberance and dazzling insights predominate, forcing the reader to face unpalatable insights and to rethink every commonly accepted 'truth'. Thinking with Nietzsche, in Jaspers' words, means holding one's own against him, and we are indeed refreshed and challenged by the vortex of his thoughts, by concepts which test and probe. In «The Twilight of the Idols», The Antichrist, and Ecce Homo Nietzsche writes at breakneck speed of his provenance, his adversaries and his hopes for mankind; the books are largely epigrammatic and aphoristic, allowing this poet-philosopher to bewilder and fascinate us with their strangeness and their daring. He who fights with monsters, Nietzsche once told us, should look to it that he himself does not become one, and when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you. Reader, beware.»
1043 vitalysev 13 октрября 2010	Скачать книгу

The Ultimate Cocktail Book	Wordsworth
Автор: Ned Halley Издательство: Wordsworth, 2008	DjVu, 304 страницы, 12.16 МБ 0 Оценка:
This book contains more cocktails than any other — 1,500 of them, ranging from classic Martinis to unblushing modern concoctions such as Sex on the Beach. Recipes are user friendly, assembled on a 'unit' basis that clearly shows the proportions needed to make the perfect cocktail — without fuss. Ingredients and equipment are easy to acquire, techniques straightforward. Bewildering measures — 'jigger', 'half-gill' 3/4 fl oz — are avoided. There is much entertainment to be found in these pages too, with revealing anecdotes about many of the cocktails, and generous sprinklings of apposite quotations, risque jokes and little curiosities. The Ultimate Cocktail Book is more than a reference guide, it's a concocter's companion and a source of enlightenment. A volume tailor-made, in short, for good mixers.
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Uncanny Stories	Wordsworth
Автор: May Sinclair Издательство: Wordsworth, 2006	PDF, 224 страницы, 6.72 МБ 0 Оценка:
«May Sinclair was an innovator of modern fiction, a late Victorian who was also a precursor to Virginia Woolf. In her «Uncanny Stories» (1923), Sinclair combines the traditional ghost story with the discoveries of Freud and Einstein. The stories shock, enthral, delight and unsettle. Specially included in this volume is «The Intercessor» (1911), Sinclair's powerful story of childhood and abandoned love, a tale whose intensity compares with that of the Brontes.»
810 allkonekt 09 февраля 2008	Скачать книгу

Uncle Tom's Cabin	Wordsworth
Автор: Harriet Beecher Stowe Издательство: Wordsworth, 1999	PDF, 438 страниц, 13.14 МБ 7 Оценка:
Uncle Tom's Cabin is the most popular, influential and controversial book written by an American. Stowe’s rich, panoramic novel passionately dramatises why the whole of America is implicated in and responsible for the sin of slavery, and resoundingly concludes that only 'repentance, justice and mercy' will prevent the onset of 'the wrath of Almighty God!'.
1579 krola 25 апреля 2009	Скачать книгу

Under the Greenwood Tree	Wordsworth
Автор: Thomas Hardy Издательство: Wordsworth, 1994	PDF, 192 страницы, 5.76 МБ 5 Оценка:
«Under the Greenwood Tree» is Hardy's most bright, confident and optimistic novel. This delightful portrayal of a picturesque rural society, tinged with gentle humour and quiet irony, established Hardy as a writer. However, the novel is not merely a charming rural idyll. The double-plot, in which the love story of Dick Dewey and Fancy Day is inter-related with a tragic chapter in the history of Mellstock Choir, hints at the poignant disappearance of a long-lived and highly-valued traditional way of life.»
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Utopia	Wordsworth
Автор: Thomas More Издательство: Wordsworth, 1997	PDF, 160 страниц, 4.80 МБ 8 Оценка:
More's 'Utopia' is a complex, innovative and penetrating contribution to political thought, culminating in the famous 'description' of the Utopians, who live according to the principles of natural law, but are receptive to Christian teachings, who hold all possessions in common, and view gold as worthless.
576 admin 25 июня 2009	Скачать книгу

The Virgin and the Gipsy and Other Stories	Wordsworth
Автор: D.H. Lawrence Издательство: Wordsworth, 2004	PDF, 240 страниц, 7.20 МБ 8 Оценка:
«These stories of myth and resurrection, of uncanny events and violent impulse, were with one exception written and published in the latter half of the 1920s, coinciding with the composition of Lawrence's controversial masterpiece «Lady Chatterley's Lover». At this time Lawrence declared himself to be 'really awful sick of writing'; yet here we find some of his most beautiful, hauntingly melancholy fictions. In struggling to escape from their thwarted lives and to achieve human 'tenderness', the characters embody and continue the major preoccupations of Lawrence's work as a whole. «Love Among the Haystacks» provides an early illustration of the intensity and innovation which made Lawrence one of the most distinctive and important of twentieth-century writers.»
867 admin 22 мая 2009	Скачать книгу

Wagner the Werewolf	Wordsworth
Автор: George Reynolds Издательство: Wordsworth, 2006	PDF, 496 страниц, 14.88 МБ 0 Оценка:
«In the midst of a wood of evergreens on the banks of the Arno, a man — young, handsome, and splendidly attired — has thrown himself upon the ground, where he writhes like a stricken serpent. He is the prey of a demoniac excitement: an appalling consternation is upon him — madness is in his brain — his mind is on fire. Lightnings appear to gleam from his eyes — as if his soul were dismayed, and withering within his breast. 'Oh! no-no!' he cries with a piercing shriek, as if wrestling madly — furiously — but vainly, against some unseen fiend that holds him in his grasp. Aged and deserted, Fernand Wagner agrees to serve John Faust for the last year of his life. In return he is given youth, wealth and beauty — but at the terrible price of becoming a werewolf. He loves the glacial, beautiful, sensual Nisida, whose family history conceals a dreadful secret. Together, they flee from Florence to a desert island: but dogged by the Inquisition, and by the might of the Ottoman Empire, they are finally forced to face the horror that lurks in the closet... First published in 1847, «Wagner the Werewolf» is one of the very earliest treatments of the Werewolf theme in English literature, and has lost none of its power to shock, it is one of the greatest works of George W. M. Reynolds, once the most popular author in England, and the «Master of the Penny Dreadful».»
1795 neptun 15 сентября 2011	Скачать книгу

Washington Square	Wordsworth
Автор: Henry James Издательство: Wordsworth, 2001	PDF, 176 страниц, 5.28 МБ 0 Оценка:
«Washington Square» marks the culmination of James’s apprentice period as a novelist. With sharply focused attention upon just four principal characters, James provides an acute analysis of middle-class manners and behaviour in the New York of the 1870’s, a period of great change in the life of the city. This change is explored through the device of setting the novel's action during the 1840s, similarly a period of considerable turbulence as the United States experienced the onset of rapid commercial and industrial expansion. Through the relationships between Austin Sloper, a celebrated physician, and his sister Lavinia Penniman, his daughter Catherine, and Catherine's suitor, Morris Townsend, James observes the contemporary scene as a site of competing styles and performances where authentic expression cannot be articulated or is subject to suppression.»
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The Water Babies	Wordsworth
Автор: Charles Kingsley Издательство: Wordsworth, 1994	PDF, 224 страницы, 6.72 МБ 0 Оценка:
Tom, a poor orphan, is employed by the villainous chimney-sweep, Grimes, to climb up inside flues to clear away the soot. While engaged in this dreadful task, he loses his way and emerges in the bedroom of Ellie, the young daughter of the house who mistakes him for a thief. He runs away, and, hot and bothered, he slips into a cooling stream, falls asleep, and becomes a Water Baby. In his new life, he meets all sorts of aquatic creatures, including an engaging old lobster, other water babies, and at last reaches St Branden's Isle where he encounters the fierce Mrs Bedonebyeasyoudid and the motherly Mrs Doasyouwouldbedoneby. After a long and arduous quest to the Other-end-of-Nowhere young Tom achieves his heart's desire.
805 allkonekt 04 июля 2009	Скачать книгу

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