Set in Hardy's Wessex, Tess is a moving novel of hypocrisy and double standards. Its challenging sub-title, A Pure Woman, infuriated critics when the book was first published in 1891, and it was condemned as immoral and pessimistic. It tells of Tess Durbeyfield, the daughter of a poor and dissipated villager, who learns that she may be descended from the ancient family of d'Urbeville. In her search for respectability her fortunes fluctuate wildly, and the story assumes the proportions of a Greek tragedy. It explores Tess's relationships with two very different men, her struggle against the social mores of ... |
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"Wuthering Heights" is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. After Mr Earnshaw's death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine's brother Hindley and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated, leaves Wuthering Heights, only to return years later as a wealthy and polished man. He proceeds to exact a terrible revenge for his former miseries. The action of the story is chaotic and unremittingly violent, but the accomplished handling of a complex structure, ... |
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Now a major motion picture. ... Charlie's not the biggest geek in high school. Shy, introspective, intelligent, yet socially awkward, Charlie is a wallflower, standing on the threshold of his life whilst watching everyone else live theirs. As Charlie tries to navigate his way through uncharted territory - the world of first dates and mix tapes, family dramas and new friends - he realises that he can't stay on the sidelines forever. There comes a time when you have to see what life looks like from the dance floor. A modern classic and now a major motion picture, "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" is a ... |
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The greatest war novel of all time. ... Paul Baumer enlisted with his classmates in the German army of World War I. Youthful, enthusiastic, they become soldiers. But despite what they have learned, they break into pieces under the first bombardment in the trenches. And as horrible war plods on year after year, Paul holds fast to a single vow: to fight against the principles of hate that meaninglessly pits young men of the same generation but different uniforms against each other - if only he can come out of the war alive. "The world has a great writer in Erich Maria Remarque . He is a craftsman of unquestionably ... |
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Двуезични разкази на италиански и български език. ... Поредицата "Racconti bilingui" е предназначена за читатели, които са все още начинаещи в обучението си по италиански език. Тук оригналият текст е следван паралелно от превод на български. Джовани Бокачо е ерудит с много богат език и специфичен стил, заслужаващи вниманието на изучаващите италианския. В книгата са избрани отделни части - по една новела от всеки ден от "Декамерон", с които се слага началото на новата италианска учебно-развлекателна поредица. ... |
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"The New York Times" Bestseller. ... Before... Miles "Pudge" Halter is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big non-event, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave "the Great Perhaps" even more (Francois Rabelais, poet). He heads off to the sometimes crazy and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young. She is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge ... |
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Es scheint ein Fluch auf dem Geschlecht der Baskervilles zu liegen, denn seit Generationen überschattet eine Reihe rätselhafter Todesfälle die Geschichte der altehrwürdigen Familie. Als Sir Charles Baskerville auf ähnlich geheimnisvolle Weise ums Leben kommt, erhält Sherlock Holmes den Auftrag, die grausamen Geschehnisse aufzuklären. Gemeinsam mit seinem Gefährten Dr. Watson macht Holmes sich auf die Reise ins düstere Dartmoor, um Licht ins Dunkel zu bringen. Mit dem "Hund der Baskervilles" schuf Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) den wohl berühmtesten ... |
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Goethes "Faust" (1808) ist das Menschheitsdrama par excellence: Die ungeheuerliche Suche nach dem, was die Welt im Innersten zusammenhält, führt auch den Gelehrtesten an die Grenzen des Verstandes. In "Der Tragödie zweitem Teil" (1832) verdichtet sich diese Suche zum Streben nach dem universellen, unverbrüchlichen Bündnis von Leben und Kunst. Bis heute besticht der "Faust" durch seine fulminante Kraft und Tiefe und seinen Rechtum an Bezügen. Zu Recht gilt die Tragödie als das bedeutendste Werk der deutschen Literatur. ... |
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Oscar Wildes Dorian Gray ist eine der berühmtesten Figuren der Weltileratur: So staunenswert schön er ist, so unverdorben und naiv ist sein Blick auf die Welt. Verführt durch den geistreichen Zyniker Lord Wotton, stürzt Dorian sich haltlos ins lüsterne Londoner Nachtleben. Ausschweifung und Genuss wecken in ihm den innigen Wunsch nach unvergänglicher Jugend - und auf wundersame Weise altert fortan nicht mehr er selbst, sondern ein Porträt von ihm. Doch Dorians unbedachter Pakt mit dunklen Mächten hat grausame Folgen... ... |
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As variegated as the American experience itself, this original treasury reflects the vibrant role of the short story in our national literature. Fourteen outstanding tales by famous American authors unfold in settings ranging from the decaying family mansion of Edgar Allan Poe's dark psychological thriller, "The Fall of the House of Usher", to the bustling modern apartment building of John Cheever's domestic drama, "The Enormous Radio". Moods and attitudes shift from the simmering menace of a lynch mob in William Faulkner's "Dry September" to the gentle optimism of an elderly ... |
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The delighted wonder surrounding a cat that has learned to talk quickly turns to dismay when the feline's conversation involves the scandalous remarks he's overheard. "Tobermory" abounds in the irony for which its author, Saki, is well known and admired. Along with the other short stories in this first-rate anthology, it showcases the talents of a renowned British writer. Other stories include Anthony Trollope's "The Parson's Daughter of Oxney Colne," a subtle study of the psychological cost of maintaining self-esteem; Thomas Hardy's "The Fiddler of the Reels", in which a ... |
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"The Catcher in Rye" is the ultimate novel for disaffected youth, but it's relevant to all ages. The story is told by Holden Caulfield, a seventeen-year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Throughout, Holden dissects the "phony" aspects of society, and the "phonies" themselves: the headmaster whose affability depends on the wealth of the parents, his roommate who scores with girls using sickly-sweet affection. Lazy in style, full of slang and swear words, it's a novel whose interest and appeal comes from its observations rather than its plot intrigues (in ... |
