Книгата е част от колекция "Върхове" на издателство "Изток - Запад". ... Романът "Наследникът от Калкута" е приключенска история, написана по време на 10-годишна присъда в съветски трудов лагер в Сибир. Там Роберт Щилмарк попада, след като е осъден за клеветничество срещу властта. Действието в книгата се развива в края на XVIII век в Англия, Индийския океан, Северна Америка и Африка. Борбата между доброто и злото, която привлича много герои, и е в основата на сюжета. Пиратски кораб, командван от капитан Бернардито Луис Ел Гора и неговият старши помощник Джакомо "Леопарда" Грелли ... |
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Featuring 19 of the finest works from the most distinguished writers in the American short-story tradition, this new compilation begins with Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1835 tale "Young Goodman Brown" and ranges across an entire century, concluding with Ernest Hemingway 's 1927 classic, "The Killers". Other selections include Poe 's "The Tell-Tale Heart", Melville's "Bartleby", Harte's "The Luck of Roaring Camp", "To Build a Fire", by Jack London, "The Real Thing" by Henry James, F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Bernice Bobs Her Hair& ... |
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Завръщането на един голям майстор продължава. Изданието включва книгите "Скици из Лондон", "Иманяри" и "Откровения". ... |
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"Бяхме шестима. Майстора, калфите и белият слон. Строяхме всичко заедно. Джамии, мостове, медресета, кервансараи, приюти, акведукти... Мисля за Истанбул всеки ден. Хората се разхождат в дворовете на джамиите и сигурно предполагат, че те са там от времето на Ной. А не е така. Ние ги построихме. Мюсюлмани и християни, майстори и роби, хора и животни, ден след ден. Но Истанбул е град на бързата забрава. Всичко се пише върху вода, с изключение на творбите на Майстора. Те са от камък. Под един от тези камъни скрих тайна. Мина много време, но може да е още там и да чака някой да я намери. А ако я открият, дали ще я ... |
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Lawrence's finest, most mature novel initially met with disgust and incomprehension. In the love affairs of two sisters, Ursula with Rupert, and Gudrun with Gerald, critics could only see a sorry tale of sexual depravity and philosophical obscurity. "Women in Love" is, however, a profound response to a whole cultural crisis. The "progress" of the modern industrialised world had led to the carnage of the First World War. What, then, did it mean to call ourselves "human"? On what grounds could we place ourselves above and beyond the animal world? What are the definitive forms of our ... |
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Considered by many to be Dickens' 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 Dickens' 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' ... |
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Кабул през 70 -те години на XX в. Дванайсетгодишният Амир, останал сирак при раждането си, отчаяно копнее за одобрението на своя суров баща и решава да спечели състезанието по бой с хвърчила в Кабул, за да докаже, че от него ще излезе истински мъж. Но за да е пълна победата му, той или негов приятел трябва да улови последното прекършено хвърчило. Хасан, синът на слугата в техния дом, винаги е бил страхотен ловец на хвърчила и верен приятел на Амир. В деня на турнира Хасан му помага, но никой не подозира каква цена трябва да платят и двамата - единият е жертва на жестоко насилие, а другият е безмълвен наблюдател, чиято ... |
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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 ... |
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Anna Karenina is one of the most loved and memorable heroines of literature. Her overwhelming charm dominates a novel of unparalleled richness and density. Tolstoy considered this book to be his first real attempt at a novel form, and it addresses the very nature of society at all levels, of destiny, death, human relationships and the irreconcilable contradictions of existence. It ends tragically, and there is much that evokes despair, yet set beside this is an abounding joy in life's many ephemeral pleasures, and a profusion of comic relief. ... |
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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. The Great Gatsby is an undisputed classic of American literature from the period following the First World War and is one of the great ... |
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Dickens wrote of David Copperfield: "Of all my books I like this the best". Millions of readers in almost every language on earth have subsequently come to share the author's own enthusiasm for this greatly loved classic, possibly because of its autobiographical form. Following the life of David through many sufferings and great adversity, the reader will also find many light-hearted moments in the company of a host of English fiction's greatest stars including Mr Micawber, Traddles, Uriah Heep, Creakle, Betsy Trotwood, and the Peggoty family. Few readers, arriving at the end of David Copperfield, will ... |
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"There he lay looking as if youth had been half-renewed, for the white hair and moustache were changed to dark iron-grey, the cheeks were fuller, and the white skin seemed ruby-red underneath; the mouth was redder than ever, for on the lips were gouts of fresh blood, which trickled from the corners of the mouth and ran over the chin and neck. Even the deep, burning eyes seemed set amongst the swollen flesh, for the lids and pouches underneath were bloated. It seemed as if the whole awful creature were simply gorged with blood; he lay like a filthy leech, exhausted with his repletion." Thus Bram Stoker, one of ... |
