Все книги издательства «Wordsworth»

Frankenstein	Wordsworth
Автор: Mary Shelley Издательство: Wordsworth, 1992	PDF, 208 страниц, 6.24 МБ 7 Оценка:
«Begun when the author was only eighteen and conceived from a nightmare, «Frankenstein», is the deeply disturbing story of a monstrous creation which has terrified and chilled readers since its first publication in 1818. The novel has thus seared its way into the popular imagination while establishing itself as one of the pioneering works of modern science fiction.»
747 anatoly_24 15 мая 2009	Скачать книгу

The Golden Bowl	Wordsworth
Автор: Henry James Издательство: Wordsworth, 2000	PDF, 480 страниц, 14.40 МБ 8 Оценка:
Henry James's last completed novel, The Golden Bowl, is the story of two flawed marriages. The lives and relationships of Maggie Verver and her widowed American millionaire father, Adam, are changed and challenged by the beautiful and charming Charlotte Stant, who is the former lover of Maggie's husband, the impoverished Italian, Prince Amerigo. The narrative is underpinned by complex symbolism. The gilded crystal bowl with its almost invisible flaw is the vehicle which James uses to reveal past misdemeanours and make his characters face their own defects in this classic tale of redemption.
1732 admin 9 февраля 2009	Скачать книгу

Gothic Short Stories	Wordsworth
Автор: David Blair Издательство: Wordsworth, 2002	PDF, 272 страницы, 8.16 МБ 8 Оценка:
This superb new collection brings together stories from the earliest decades of Gothic writing with later 19th and early 20th century tales from the period in which Gothic diversified into the familiar forms of the ghost-and horror-story. Some of these stories, like the haunting ‘The Lame Priest’ are ‘lost masterpieces’ and several have never been anthologised before.
982 radius 27 октрября 2009	Скачать книгу

The Great Comedies and Tragedies	Wordsworth
Автор: William Shakespeare Издательство: Wordsworth, 2005	PDF, 896 страниц, 26.88 МБ 0 Оценка:
These Comedies are among the best loved of Shakespeare's plays. In each a problem emerges, is then intensified to a point of maximum confusion and potential upset, before the chaos is resolved, however improbably, into general goodwill and a spate of marriages. The triumph of these plays lies in the way they mingle humorous stage business and dexterous word play with a more serious study of identity, gender, dreaming, the meaning of love, even of the theatre itself. They reassure us that with all its faults, the world will always in the end be redeemable. 'Not for an age but for all time.' So Ben Jonson established what we now take for granted: Shakespeare's unique place among the world's great authors. Romeo and Juliet shows us the archetypal story of fated young love; Hamlet, the tortured psyche of the young prince of Denmark; Othello, a strikingly modern representation of racial difference; King Lear, a man stripped of all material and psychological comforts; and Macbeth, a dark investigation of the origins and effects of, evil. The plays throw a fascinating light on the concerns of Shakespeare's day, yet offer perennial insights into the nature of human emotion.
3241 bablo 12 мая 2008	Скачать книгу

Great Expectations	Wordsworth
Автор: Charles Dickens Издательство: Wordsworth, 1992	DOC, 410 страниц, 1.00 МБ 8 Оценка:
«Considered by many to be Dicken's finest novel, «Great Expectations» traces the growth of the book's narrator, Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow dreams to a man with depth of character. From its famous dramatic opening on the bleak Kentish marshes, the story abounds with some of Dicken's most memorable characters. Among them are the kindly blacksmith Joe Gargery, the mysterious convict Abel Magwitch, the eccentric Miss Haversham and her beautiful ward Estella, Pip's good-hearted room-mate Herbert Pocket and the pompous Pumblechook. As Pip unravels the truth behind his own 'great expectations' in his quest to become a gentleman, the mysteries of the past and the convolutions of fate through a series of thrilling adventures serve to steer him towards maturity and his most important discovery of all — the truth about himself.»
1473 admin 23 октрября 2009	Скачать книгу

The Great Gatsby	Wordsworth
Автор: F.Scott Fitzgerald Издательство: Wordsworth, 1992	DOC, 144 страницы, 1.00 МБ 0 Оценка:
«Generally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald's finest novel, The Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of the «roaring twenties», and a devastating expose of the «Jazz Age». Through the narration of Nick Carraway, the reader is taken into the superficially glittering world of the mansions which lined the Long Island shore in the 1920s, to encounter Nick's cousin Daisy, her brash but wealthy husband Tom Buchanan, Jay Gatsby and the mystery that surrounds him.»
517 alex033ru 16 мая 2009	Скачать книгу

Grimm's Fairy Tales	Wordsworth
Издательство: Wordsworth, 1993	PDF, 272 страницы, 8.16 МБ 8 Оценка:
The Brothers Grimm rediscovered a host of fairy tales, telling of princes and princesses in their castles, witches in their towers and forests, of giants and dwarfs, of fabulous animals and dark deeds. This selection of their folk tales was made and translated by Lucy Crane, and includes firm favourites such as Rapunzel, The Goose Girl, Sleeping Beauty, Hansel and Gretel and Snow White. It is illustrated throughout by Walter Crane's charming line drawings.
978 radius 25 мая 2009	Скачать книгу

The Haunted Hotel and Other Stories	Wordsworth
Автор: Wilkie Collins Издательство: Wordsworth, 2006	PDF, 336 страниц, 10.08 МБ 0 Оценка:
This is a unique collection of strange stories from the cunning pen of Wilkie Collins, author of The Woman in White and The Moonstone. The Star attraction is the novella The Haunted Hotel, a clever combination of detective and ghost story set in Venice, a city of grim waterways, dark shadows and death. The action takes place in an ancient palazzo coverted into a modern hotel that houses a grisly secret. The supernatural horror, relentless pace, tight narrative, and a doomed countess characterise and distinguish this powerful tale. The other stories present equally disturbing scenarios, which include ghosts, corpses that move, family curses and perhaps the most unusual of all, the Devil's spectacles, which bring a clarity of vision that can lead to madness.
1216 phoenix7 14 июля 2009	Скачать книгу

Heart of Darkness and Other Stories	Wordsworth
Автор: Joseph Conrad Издательство: Wordsworth, 1995	PDF, 240 страниц, 7.20 МБ 8 Оценка:
Heart of Darkness is a chilling tale of horror which, as the author intended, is capable of many interpretations. Set in the Congo during the period of rapid colonial expansion in the 19th century, the story deals with the highly disturbing effects of economic, social and political exploitation of European and African societies and the cataclysmic behaviour this induced in some individuals.
864 admin 20 сентября 2009	Скачать книгу

Henry V	Wordsworth
Автор: William Shakespeare Издательство: Wordsworth, 2000	PDF, 160 страниц, 4.80 МБ 8 Оценка:
Henry V is the most famous and influential of Shakespeare's history plays. Its powerful patriotic rhetoric has resounded down the ages, gaining eloquent expression in Laurence Olivier's renowned film. Henry himself, astute and charismatic, who led his 'band of brothers' to victory in the Battle of Agincourt, could indeed seem to be 'this star of England'. In recent decades the play has attracted increasing critical attention and is now highly controversial. Kenneth Branagh's film-production reflected the changing valuation. Does this play have a sceptical sub-text which subverts its patriotism? Is Henry's achievement beset by irony? Has current scepticism distorted a predominantly and proudly nationalistic drama?
577 admin 25 мая 2009	Скачать книгу

Histories	Wordsworth
Автор: Herodotus Издательство: Wordsworth, 1996	PDF, 768 страниц, 23.04 МБ 7 Оценка:
Herodotus (c480-c425) is 'The Father of History' and his Histories are the first piece of Western historical writing. They are also the most entertaining. Why did Pheidippides run the 26 miles and 385 yards (or 42.195 kilometres) from Marathon to Athens? And what did he do when he got there? Was the Battle of Salamis fought between sausage-sellers? Which is the oldest language in the world? Why did Leonidas and his 300 Spartans spend the morning before the battle of Thermopylae combing their hair? Why did every Babylonian woman have to sit in the Temple of Aphrodite until a man threw a coin into her lap, and how long was she likely to sit there? And what is the best way to kill a crocodile? This wide-ranging history provides the answers to all these fascinating questions as well as providing many fascinating insights into the Ancient World.
2766 veditos 20 сентября 2009	Скачать книгу

The House of Mirth	Wordsworth
Автор: Edith Wharton Издательство: Wordsworth, 2002	PDF, 320 страниц, 9.60 МБ 8 Оценка:
The House of Mirth tells the story of Lily Bart, aged 29, beautiful, impoverished and in need of a rich husband to safeguard her place in the social elite, and to support her expensive habits — her clothes, her charities and her gambling. Unwilling to marry without both love and money, Lily becomes vulnerable to the kind of gossip and slander which attach to a girl who has been on the marriage market for too long. Wharton charts the course of Lily’s life, providing, along the way, a wider picture of a society in transition, a rapidly changing New York where the old certainties of manners, morals and family have disappeared and the individual has become an expendable commodity.
1156 admin 18 июля 2009	Скачать книгу

Human, All Too Human and Beyond Good and Evil	Wordsworth
Автор: Friedrich Nietzsche Издательство: Wordsworth, 2008	PDF, 720 страниц, 21.60 МБ 8 Оценка:
«Human, All Too Human» (1878) marks the point where Nietzsche abandons German romanticism for the French Enlightenment. At a moment of crisis in his life (no longer a friend of Richard Wagner, forced to leave academic life through ill health), he sets out his views in a scintillating and bewildering series of aphorisms which contain the seeds of his later philosophy (e.g. the will to power, the need to transcend conventional Christian morality). The result is one of the cornerstones of his life's work. It well deserves its subtitle 'A Book for Free Spirits', and its original dedication to Voltaire, whose project of radical enlightenment here finds a new champion. «Beyond Good and Evil» (1886) is a scathing and powerful critique of philosophy, religion and science. Here Nietzsche presents us with problems and challenges that are as troubling as they are inspiring, while at the same time outlining the virtues, ideas, and practices which will characterise the philosophy of the future. Relentless, energetic, tirelessly probing, he both determines that philosophy's agenda and is himself the embodiment of the type of thought he wants to foster.»
2608 admin 04 июля 2009	Скачать книгу

The Idiot	Wordsworth
Автор: Fyodor Dostoevsky Издательство: Wordsworth, 1996	DjVu, 592 страницы, 23.68 МБ 5 Оценка:
Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from an asylum in Switzerland. As he becomes embroiled in the frantic amatory and financial intrigues which centre around a cast of brilliantly realised characters and which ultimately lead to tragedy, he emerges as a unique combination of the Christian ideal of perfection and Dostoevsky's own views, afflictions and manners. His serene selflessness is contrasted with the worldly qualities of every other character in the novel. Dostoevsky supplies a harsh indictment of the Russian ruling class of his day who have created a world which cannot accomodate the goodness of this idiot.
2132 erdik 9 февраля 2009	Скачать книгу

The Iliad	Wordsworth
Автор: Homer Издательство: Wordsworth, 1995	DjVu, 448 страниц, 17.92 МБ 7 Оценка:
The product of more than a decade's continuous work (1598-1611), Chapman's translation of Homer's great poem of war is a magnificent testimony to the power of the Iliad. In muscular, onward-rolling verse Chapman retells the story of Achilles, the great warrior, and his terrible wrath before the walls of besieged Troy, and the destruction it wreaks on both Greeks and Trojans. Chapman regarded the translation of this epic, and of Homer's Odyssey (also available in Wordsworth Editions) as his life's work, and dedicated himself to capturing the 'soul' of the poem.
1612 vtormai 10 декабря 2009	Скачать книгу

The Iliad and The Odyssey	Wordsworth
Автор: Homer Издательство: Wordsworth, 2002	DOC, 976 страниц, 1.00 МБ 0 Оценка:
Hector bidding farewell to his wife and baby son, Odysseus bound to the mast listening to the Sirens, Penelope at the loom, Achilles dragging Hector's body round the walls of Troy — scenes from Homer have been reportrayed in every generation. The questions about mortality and identity that Homer's heroes ask, the bonds of love, respect and fellowship that motivate them, have gripped audiences for three millennia. Chapman's Iliad and Odyssey are great English epic poems, but they are also two of the liveliest and readable translations of Homer. Chapman's freshness makes the everyday world of nature and the craftsman as vivid as the battlefield and Mount Olympus. His poetry is driven by the excitement of the Renaissance discovery of classical civilisation as at once vital and distant, and is enriched by the perspectives of humanist thought.
3525 iguigu 20 декабря 2009	Скачать книгу

The Inferno	Wordsworth
Автор: Dante Издательство: Wordsworth, 1998	PDF, 224 страницы, 6.72 МБ 0 Оценка:
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is one of the most important and innovative figures of the European Middle Ages. Writing his Comedy (the epithet 'Divine' was added by later admirers) in exile from his native Florence, he aimed to address a world gone astray both morally and politically. At the same time, he sought to push back the restrictive rules which traditionally governed writing in the Italian vernacular, to produce a radically new and all-encompassing work. The Comedy tells the story of the journey of a character who is at one and the same time both Dante himself and Everyman. In The Inferno, Dante's protagonist — and his reader — is presented with a graphic vision of the dreadful consequences of sin, and encounters an all-too-human array of noble, grotesque, beguiling, ridiculous and horrific characters.
807 allkonekt 06 мая 2009	Скачать книгу

The Interpretation of Dreams	Wordsworth
Автор: Sigmund Freud Издательство: Wordsworth, 1997	PDF, 480 страниц, 14.40 МБ 8 Оценка:
Sigmund Freud's audacious masterpiece, The Interpretation of Dreams, has never ceased to stimulate controversy since its publication in 1900. Freud is acknowledged as the founder of psychoanalysis, the key to unlocking the human mind, a task which has become essential to man's survival in the twentieth century, as science and technology have rushed ahead of our ability to cope with their consequences. Freud saw that man is at war with himself and often unable to tolerate too much reality. He propounded the theory that dreams are the contraband representations of the beast within man, smuggled into awareness during sleep. In Freudian interpretation, the analysis of dreams is the key to unlocking the secrets of the unconscious mind.
1729 admin 27 апреля 2009	Скачать книгу

Irish Fairy Tales	Wordsworth
Автор: Joseph Jacobs Издательство: Wordsworth, 2001	PDF, 240 страниц, 7.20 МБ 8 Оценка:
The captivating Irish stories collected in this new edition include both comic tales such as 'Paddy O'Kelly and the Weasel', and tales of heroes from ancient literature such as 'How Cormac Mac Art went to Faery'. By turns funny, fantastical and mysterious, the stories are matched in liveliness by the original illustrations of John D. Batten. It would be hard to find a better introduction for children to the special magic of Celtic storytelling. The stories in this book are taken from Joseph Jacob's classic two-volume collection Celtic Fairy Tales (1891-2) and More Celtic Fairy Tales (1894)
866 admin 21 июня 2009	Скачать книгу

The Island of Sheep	Wordsworth
Автор: John Buchan Издательство: Wordsworth, 1995	PDF, 208 страниц, 6.24 МБ 7 Оценка:
In this, his final adventure, Buchan's hero Richard Hannay becomes embroiled in one of the most hazardous escapades of his life. Two men are honour bound to help the tormented Valdemar Haraldsen, and a third decides to mastermind the whole affair out of a sheer love of adventure and a dislike of villains.
748 anatoly_24 15 апреля 2009	Скачать книгу

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