Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... First published in 1914, "Dubliners" depicts middle-class Catholic life in Dublin at the start of the twentieth century. Themes within the stories include the disappointments of childhood, the frustrations of adolescence, and the importance of sexual awakening. James Joyce was twenty-five years old when he wrote this collection of short stories, among which "The Dead" is probably the most famous. Considered at the time as a literary experiment, "Dubliners" contains moments of joy, fear, grief, love and loss, which combine to ... |
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Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. This elegant edition features an afterword by Dr Keith Carabine, specialist in American literature and former chair of the Joseph Conrad society. One night on the Thames, Charles Marlowe tells his fellow sailors the vivid and brutal tale of his time as a riverboat captain in the Belgian Congo. From the mists of London we are whisked to the darkness of Africa's colonial heart - and into the thrall of the ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. An unforgettably powerful tragedy, Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" is one of the great classics of the late nineteenth century. This edition features illustrations by Sir Hubert von Herkomer and Joseph Syddall, and an afterword by Philip Mallett, editor of the Thomas Hardy Journal. Tess Durbeyfield's father ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... One of Charles Dickens's most renowned and enjoyable novels, Great Expectations tells the story of Pip, an orphan boy who wishes to transcend his humble origins and finds himself unexpectedly given the opportunity to live a life of wealth and respectability. Over the course of the tale, in which Pip encounters such famous characters as Miss Havisham, Herbert Pocket and Joe Gargery, he comes to realize that his money is tainted and the girl he loves will not return his affections; happiness must be found in the things he gave up in pursuit of a more ... |
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Третата книга на Харуки Мураками, с която се среща българският читател (след Норвежка гора и Спутник, моя любов ) е като поглед от прозорчето на самолета към плъзгащата се покрай нас писта. Ала изведнъж привидно спокойният разказ се издига рязко нагоре и читателят префучава над облаците, без вече да разбира накъде се носи самолетът и дали законите на летенето изобщо са валидни. Кафка на плажа е поредното повествование за избягалия от къщи пубер: ученикът Кафка Тамура, син на известен скулптор, изведнъж се мята на автобус от Токио за случайно избрания град Такамацу, напомняйки си непрекъснато с присъщата си ... |
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"Атлас изправи рамене" превръща Айн Ранд не само в един от най-популярните писатели, но и в един от най-влиятелните мислители на съвременния свят. Това е удивителната история на човек, който казва, че ще спре света... и го прави. Със страхотния си замисъл, със спиращото дъха напрежение, "Атлас изправи рамене" не прилича на никоя друга книга, която сте чели. Това е криминална история, но не за убийството на човешкото тяло, а за убийството и възкресението - на човешкия дух. ... |
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Поредица "Шедьовър" представя на българския читател безсмъртни образци на световната литература. ... Шедьоврите на световната литература са кариатидите, които крепят огромното и невидимо мирознание на човешкия дух. Във всяко време, когато са поставени на изпитание нравствените устои на отделната личност или цели нации, великата творба е като спасителна слънчева стълба в бездната на отчаянието, хаоса и неверието. "Идиот" е един от петте велики романа на Достоевски. Съдбата на положително прекрасните хора във всички времена е еднаква трагична жертва в името на човечеството. Но тези лъчезарни личности, ... |
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Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. ... A plane crashes on a desert island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land of bright fantastic birds and dark blue seas, but at night their dreams are haunted by the image of a terrifying beats. As the boys' delicate sense of order fades, so their childish dreams are transformed into something more primitive, and their behaviour starts to take on a murderous, savage significance. First published in 1954, "Lord of the Flies" is one of the most celebrates and widely read of modern ... |
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Complete and unabridged. ... As well as being one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century and the recipient of the 1923 Nobel Prize for Literature, William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939) is the greatest lyric poet that Ireland has produced. His early work includes the beguiling When You are Old, The Cloths of Heaven and The Lake Isle of Innisfree but, unusually for a poet, Yeats's later works, including Parnell's Funeral, surpass even those of his youth. All are present in this volume, which reproduces the 1933 edition of W. B. Yeats's Collected Poems and also contains an illuminating ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... The orphaned Jane Eyre is no beauty but her plain appearance belies an indomitable spirit, sharp wit and great courage. As a child she suffers under cruel guardians, harsh schooling and a rigid social order but when she goes to Thornfield Hall to work as a governess for the mysterious Mr Rochester, the stage is set for one of literature's most enduring romances. A beloved classic and undisputed masterpiece, Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre" explores class, society, love and religion through the eyes of one of fiction's most unique and ... |
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The Thought Police, doublethink, Newspeak, Big Brother - "1984" itself: these terms and concepts have moved from the world of fiction into our everyday lives. They are central to our thinking about freedom and its suppression; yet they were newly created by George Orwell in 1949 as he conjured his dystopian vision of a world where totalitarian power is absolute. In this novel, continuously popular since its first publication, readers can explore the dark and extraordinary world he brought so fully to life. The principal characters who lead us through that world are ordinary human beings like ourselves: ... |
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1793 е книга за тъмните времена от живота на Стокхолм на фона на подробна градска история от XVIII век. Тежката зима на 1793 г. в Стокхолм. Четири години след нападението над Бастилията във Франция и повече от година след смъртта на крал Густав III в Швеция. Параноя и конспирация обитават улиците на града. Животински ужас, разтворен във въздуха, се промъква във всяко мръсно кътче, когато обезобразено тяло е открито във водата, а разследването разкрива най-страшните подробности от тайния живот на шведския елит. Сюжетът вледенява, зловещ на места, краят е непредсказуем. Дали злодеят се ражда чудовище, или средата го прави ... |
