Все книги издательства «Wordsworth»

Jack the Ripper	Wordsworth
Автор: Terry Lynch Издательство: Wordsworth, 2008	PDF, 384 страницы, 11.52 МБ 0 Оценка:
Horrific, horrendous, unspeakable, The Whitechapel Murderer, Jack the Ripper, stalked the streets of East London in 1888, slaughtering prostitutes and bewildering the police who were hunting him. They never succeeded in apprehending him, and to this day the mystery of his identity remains an enigma. But he did leave clues to his identity, and numerous theories have been entertained throughout the one hundred and twenty years since he held London’s East End in his grip of terror. This book looks at the evidence left by the murderer and the reports and investigative papers which recorded the atrocities that the ripper performed. It takes time to analyse the existing information and evaluate the letters sent to the police. It is the strongest and most powerful book ever written on the murders. It dispels a lot of myths attached to the Ripper, and eliminates a lot of the previously conjectured perpetrators, leaving only those who realistically could have been… Jack the Ripper.
1391 yury-m 14 февраля 2010	Скачать книгу

Jane Eyre	Wordsworth
Автор: Charlotte Bronte Издательство: Wordsworth, 1992	DjVu, 448 страниц, 17.92 МБ 7 Оценка:
Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most perennially popular works of English fiction. Although the poor but plucky heroine is outwardly of plain appearance, she possesses an indomitable spirit, a sharp wit and great courage. She is forced to battle against the exigencies of a cruel guardian, a harsh employer and a rigid social order. All of which circumscribe her life and position when she becomes governess to the daughter of the mysterious, sardonic and attractive Mr Rochester. However, there is great kindness and warmth in this epic love story, which is set against the magnificent backdrop of the Yorkshire moors.
1610 vtormai 07 апреля 2009	Скачать книгу

Jewish Antiquities	Wordsworth
Автор: Flavius Josephus Издательство: Wordsworth, 2008	PDF, 928 страниц, 27.84 МБ 7 Оценка:
The works of the Jewish writer Flavius Josephus represent one of the most important records of Judaism and the Jews that survive from the ancient world. The Jewish Antiquities, his largest historical enterprise, is an account in twenty books of Jewish history from the creation to the outbreak of the Jewish revolt against Rome in AD 66. Here is all the drama of the Old Testament transformed into a historical narrative of Greco-Roman character; and more important, our only continuous account of Middle Eastern affairs in the two hundred years that led up to the revolt. William Whiston, successor to Isaac Newton as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, published his famous translation of Josephus' works in 1737. The modern system of chapter divisions has been added.
3362 trium 19 апреля 2012	Скачать книгу

Journey to the Centre of the Earth	Wordsworth
Автор: Jules Verne Издательство: Wordsworth, 1996	PDF, 192 страницы, 5.76 МБ 5 Оценка:
Jules Verne's third science fiction novel describes the discovery and exploration of a secret tunnel which leads through a volcano to the centre of the Earth. The leader of the expedition, together with his ward and joined by his nephew and an Icelandic guide commence the journey.
691 zorkuzz 15 декабря 2009	Скачать книгу

Jude the Obscure	Wordsworth
Автор: Thomas Hardy Издательство: Wordsworth, 1995	DOC, 416 страниц, 1.00 МБ 0 Оценка:
Jude Fawley is a rural stone mason with intellectual aspirations. Frustrated by poverty and the indifference of the academic institutions at the University of Christminster, his only chance of fulfilment seems to lie in his relationship with his unconventional cousin, Sue Bridehead. But life as social outcasts proves undermining, and when tragedy occurs, Sue has no resilience and Jude is left in despair.
1497 delovar 15 июня 2009	Скачать книгу

Julius Caesar	Wordsworth
Автор: William Shakespeare Издательство: Wordsworth, 1992	DOC, 144 страницы, 1.00 МБ 0 Оценка:
«Julius Caesar» is among the best of Shakespeare's historical and political plays. Dealing with events surrounding the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 B.C., the drama vividly illustrates the ways in which power and corruption are linked. The cry 'Peace, freedom and liberty!' is used to exculpate brutal realities, while personal ambitions taint public actions. Rich in characterization and replete with eloquent rhetoric, «Julius Caesar» remains engrossing and topical: a play for today.»
517 alex033ru 16 мая 2009	Скачать книгу

The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book	Wordsworth
Автор: Rudyard Kipling Издательство: Wordsworth, 1993	PDF, 400 страниц, 12.00 МБ 8 Оценка:
«The «Jungle Book» introduces Mowgli, the human foundling adopted by a family of wolves. It tells of the enmity between him and the tiger Shere Khan, who killed Mowgli's parents, and of the friendship between the man-cub and Bagheera, the black panther, and Baloo, the sleepy brown bear, who instructs Mowgli in the Laws of the Jungle. «The Second Jungle Book» contains some of the most thrilling of the Mowgli stories. It includes «Red Dog», in which Mowgli forms an unlikely alliance with the python Kaa, «How Fear Came» and «Letting in the Jungle» as well as «The Spring Running», which brings Mowgli to manhood and the realisation that he must leave Bagheera, Baloo and his other friends for the world of man.»
1438 admin 12 мая 2009	Скачать книгу

Just So Stories	Wordsworth
Автор: Rudyard Kipling Издательство: Wordsworth, 1993	DOC, 144 страницы, 1.00 МБ 0 Оценка:
These witty stories were originally told by Rudyard Kipling to his own children. In them he gives fanciful accounts of how and why things came to be as they are. Generations of children have delighted to learn how the Leopard got his spots, how the Elephant's Child on the banks of the great grey-green Limpopo acquired his trunk with the help of the Crocodile, and the beginning of the Armadillos.
517 alex033ru 17 апреля 2009	Скачать книгу

Key Philosophical Writings	Wordsworth
Автор: Rene Descartes Издательство: Wordsworth, 1997	PDF, 432 страницы, 12.96 МБ 5 Оценка:
Rene Descartes (1569-1650), the 'father' of modern philosophy, is without doubt one of the greatest thinkers in history: his genius lies at the core of our contemporary intellectual identity. Breaking with the conventions of his own time and suffering persecution by the Church as a consequence, Descartes in his writings — most of which are philosophical classics — attempted to answer the central questions surrounding the self, God, free-will and knowledge, using the science of thought as opposed to received wisdom based on the tenets of faith. This edition, the most comprehensive one-volume selection of Descartes' works available in English, includes his great essay, Discourse on Method.
1556 olen33 18 июля 2009	Скачать книгу

Kim	Wordsworth
Автор: Rudyard Kipling Издательство: Wordsworth, 1994	PDF, 256 страниц, 7.68 МБ 0 Оценка:
This novel tells the story of Kimball O'Hara (Kim), who is the orphaned son of a soldier in the Irish regiment stationed in India during the British Raj. It describes Kim's life and adventures from street vagabond, to his adoption by his father's regiment and recruitment into espionage.
921 lawyer_78rus 19 февраля 2009	Скачать книгу

King Lear	Wordsworth
Автор: William Shakespeare Издательство: Wordsworth, 1994	PDF, 176 страниц, 5.28 МБ 0 Оценка:
«King Lear» has been widely acclaimed as Shakespeare's most powerful tragedy. Elemental and passionate, it encompasses the horrific and the heart-rending. Love and hate, loyalty and treachery, cruelty and self-sacrifice: all these contend in a tempestuous drama which has become an enduring classic of the world's literature.»
633 kubinec12 10 сентября 2009	Скачать книгу

Something of Myself	Wordsworth
Автор: Rudyard Kipling Издательство: Wordsworth, 2008	DOC, 144 страницы, 1.00 МБ 0 Оценка:
Something of Myself, Rudyard Kipling’s memoir of his writing life, was composed in the year before he died and published posthumously. Its spare, polished phrases and masterly anecdotes offer a unique insight into the mind of this divided man who upheld the Victorian imperialist values of duty, patriotism and obedience, and yet sympathized with outlaws and children. Kipling describes with unforgettable vividness his bitter childhood years in the ‘House of Desolation’, his apprenticeship to the craft of writing through the hard grind of journalism in British India, his beloved parents and his pride in his own work. Reissued with a new introduction by Jan Montefiore, author of the brilliant recent study ‘Rudyard Kipling’, this memoir is indispensable reading not only for Kipling admirers, but for anyone who cares about the art and craft of writing.
521 alex033ru 20 декабря 2010	Скачать книгу

Lady Audley's Secret	Wordsworth
Автор: Mary Elizabeth Braddon Издательство: Wordsworth, 1997	DOC, 368 страниц, 1.00 МБ 7 Оценка:
The flaxen-haired beauty of the child-like Lady Audley would suggest that she has no secrets. But M.E. Braddon's classic novel of sensation uncovers the truth about its heroine in a plot involving bigamy, arson and murder. It challenges assumptions about the nature of femininity and investigates the narrow divide between sanity and insanity, using as its focus one of the most fascinating of all Victorian heroines. Combining elements of the detective novel, the psychological thriller and the romance of upper class life, Lady Audley's Secret was one of the most popular and successful novels of the nineteenth century.
1326 lubacha 24 июля 2009	Скачать книгу

Lady Chatterley's Lover	Wordsworth
Автор: D.H. Lawrence Издательство: Wordsworth, 2005	PDF, 288 страниц, 8.64 МБ 7 Оценка:
With its four-letter words and its explicit descriptions of sexual intercourse, Lady Chatterley’s Lover is the novel with which D.H. Lawrence is most often associated. First published privately in Florence in 1928, it only became a world-wide best-seller after Penguin Books had successfully resisted an attempt by the British Director of Public Prosecutions to prevent them offering an unexpurgated edition to the general public. The famous ‘trial of Lady Chatterley’ heralded the sexual revolution of the coming decades and signalled the defeat of Establishment prudery. Yet Lawrence himself was hardly a liberationist and the conservativism of many aspects of his novel would later lay it open to attacks from the political avant-garde and from feminists. The story of how the wife of Sir Clifford Chatterley responds when her husband returns from the war paralysed from the waist down, and of the tender love which then develops between her and her husband’s gamekeeper, is a complex one open to a variety of conflicting interpretations. This edition of the novel offers an occasion for a new generation of readers to discover what all the fuss was about; to appraise Lawrence’s bitter indictment of modern industrial society, and to ask themselves what lessons there might be for the 21st century in his intense exploration of the complicated relations between love and sex.
1041 vitalysev 13 декабря 2009	Скачать книгу

The Last Man	Wordsworth
Автор: Mary Shelley Издательство: Wordsworth, 2004	PDF, 432 страницы, 12.96 МБ 5 Оценка:
«The Last Man» is Mary Shelley's apocalyptic fantasy of the end of human civilisation. Set in the late twenty-first century, the novel unfolds a sombre and pessimistic vision of mankind confronting inevitable destruction. Interwoven with her futuristic theme, Mary Shelley incorporates idealised portraits of Shelley and Byron, yet rejects Romanticism and its faith in art and nature. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) was the only daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, author of «Vindication of the Rights of Woman», and the radical philosopher William Godwin. Her mother died ten days after her birth and the young child was educated through contact with her father's intellectual circle and her own reading. She met Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1812; they eloped in July 1814.In the summer of 1816 she began her first and most famous novel, «Frankenstein». Three of her children died in early infancy and in 1822 her husband was drowned. Mary returned to England with her surviving son and wrote novels, short stories and accounts of her travels; she was the first editor of P.B.Shelley's poetry and verse.»
1562 olen33 19 февраля 2009	Скачать книгу

Life's Little Ironies	Wordsworth
Автор: Thomas Hardy Издательство: Wordsworth, 1996	PDF, 208 страниц, 6.24 МБ 7 Оценка:
The proverbial phrase ‘life’s little ironies’ was coined by Hardy for his third volume of short stories. These tales and sketches possess all the power of his novels: the wealth of description, the realistic portrayal of the quaint lore of Wessex, the ‘Chaucerian’ humour and characterisation, the shrewd and critical psychology, the poignant estimate of human nature and the brooding sense of wonder at the essential mystery of life. The tales which make up Life's Little Ironies tenderly re-create a rapidly vanishing rural world and scrutinise the repressions of fin-de-siecle bourgeois life. They share the many concerns of Hardy's last great novels, such as the failure of modern marriage and the insidious effects of social ambition on the family and community life. Ranging widely in length and complexity, they are unified by Hardy's quintessential irony, which embraces both the farcical and the tragic aspects of human existence.
749 anatoly_24 16 марта 2009	Скачать книгу

A Little Princess	Wordsworth
Автор: Frances Hodgson Burnett Издательство: Wordsworth, 1994	PDF, 192 страницы, 5.76 МБ 5 Оценка:
Motherless Sara Crewe was sent home from India to school at Miss Minchin's. Her father was immensely rich and she became 'show pupil' — a little princess. Then her father dies and his wealth disappears, and Sara has to learn to cope with her changed circumstances. Her strong character enables her to fight successfully against her new-found poverty and the scorn of her fellows.
690 zorkuzz 14 февраля 2009	Скачать книгу

Lives of the Twelve Caesars	Wordsworth
Автор: Suetonius Издательство: Wordsworth, 2008	PDF, 384 страницы, 11.52 МБ 0 Оценка:
Suetonius, chronicler of the extraordinary personalities of the first dynasties to rule the Roman Empire, was the greatest Latin biographer. His colourful work, Lives of the Twelve Caesars, is, along with Tacitus, the major source for the period from Julius Caesar to Domitian. He sets out in vivid detail a great range of aspects illuminating the emperor's characters, their habits, from table to bedchamber — their intrigues, their loves and their deaths. Himself a court official, he quotes from a variety of sources, from the official and private documents as well as from old anecdotes, gossip, songs and jokes, giving an unparalleled oblique view of his subjects. Long familiar to students of classics, he found a new audience as the main source for Robert Graves' novels and the subsequent television series I, Claudius.
1391 yury-m 14 февраля 2010	Скачать книгу

London Labour and the London Poor	Wordsworth
Автор: Henry Mayhew Издательство: Wordsworth, 2008	DOC, 636 страниц, 1.00 МБ 0 Оценка:
«London Labour and the London Poor» is a masterpiece of personal inquiry and social observation. It is the classic account of life below the margins in the greatest Metropolis in the world and a compelling portrait of the habits, tastes, amusements, appearance, speech, humour, earnings and opinions of the labouring poor at the time of the Great Exhibition. In scope, depth and detail it remains unrivalled. Mayhew takes us into the abyss, into a world without fixed employment where skills are declining and insecurity mounting, a world of criminality, pauperism and vice, of unorthodox personal relations and fluid families, a world from which regularity is absent and prosperity has departed. Making sense of this environment required curiosity, imagination and a novelist's eye for detail, and Henry Mayhew possessed all three. No previous writer had succeeded in presenting the poor through their own stories and in their own words, and in this undertaking Mayhew rivals his contemporary Dickens. To pass from one to the other, writes one authority, is to cross sides of the same street.»
2304 ligorn 7 октрября 2011	Скачать книгу

Lord Jim	Wordsworth
Автор: Joseph Conrad Издательство: Wordsworth, 1993	DjVu, 304 страницы, 12.16 МБ 0 Оценка:
First published in 1900, Lord Jim established Conrad as one of the great storytellers of the twentieth century. Set in the Malay Archipelago, the novel not only provides a gripping account of maritime adventure and romance, but also an exotic tale of the East. Its themes also challenge the conventions of nineteenth-century adventure fiction, confirming Conrad’s place in literature as one of the first ‘modernists’ of English letters. Lord Jim explores the dilemmas of conscience, of moral isolation, of loyalty and betrayal confronting a sensitive individual whose romantic quest for an honourable ideal are tested to the limit.
1093 stalker1965 15 октрября 2009	Скачать книгу

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