Съставители: Лиляна Грозданова , Мария Пипева . ... Selected papers of teh 13th International Conference of the Bulgarian Society for British Studies - November 7-9th 2008, Sofia. The volume examines the current discourses of globalization from multiple perspectives, coming from such diverse fields of scholarship as Linguistics, Cultural Studies, Education, Literary theory and criticism, and Translation studies. Сборникът съдържа текстове, които са ориентирани в следните теоретични полета: лингвистика, културни изследвания, образование, литературна теория и критика, теория на превода. Изданието демонстрира активния ... |
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Pride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it the garrulous and empty-headed Mrs Bennet has only one aim - that of finding a good match for each of her five daughters. In this she is mocked by her cynical and indolent husband. With its wit, its social precision and, above all, its irresistible heroine, Pride and Prejudice has proved one of the most enduringly popular novels in the English language. ... |
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Най-великите световни романи, изследвани и обяснени. Потопете се в най-добрите древни и съвременни романи. Разберете какво е вдъхновило авторите, какви са били техните цели и как са написали тези световни шедьоври. Великите романи предоставя завладяващ поглед за развитието на вечните класики през вековете и празнува безкрайното удоволствие от четенето. Джон Мълан е професор по съвременна английска литература в Юнивърсити Колидж Лондон с множество публикации за литературата на XVIII и XIX век. Известни негови книги са What Matters in Jane Austen?, Anonymity: A Secret History of English Literature, How Novels Work, а ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Shipwrecked off the coast of Trinidad, Robinson Crusoe - a young man with a thirst for adventure - finds himself washed up on a remote tropical island with nothing but a few tools and animals for company. Cast away for thirty years, he must battle cannibals, mutineers and the elements in a tale so convincing that many readers at the time believed it to be non-fiction. A true page-turner, "Robinson Crusoe" is one of the most enduring novels in the English language and its unique blend of extraordinary realism and brilliant drama continues to ... |
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"The Red Badge of Courage" is an adaptation of Stephen Crane's classic novel. The story is about a young man who goes to fight in the American Civil War on the side of the North's Union Army. In order to prove his bravery, he wishes to be wounded in battle - "the red badge of courage". The simplified text has about 2500 headwords and is appropriate for intermediate learners. The novel is included in: The Guardian;s list of The 100 Best Novels Written in English, No. 30; Ernest Hemingway's anthology Men at War: The Best War Stories of All Time. "Crane was concerned with elemental ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... "About here, she thought, dabbling her fingers in the water, a ship had sunk.""To the Lighthouse", considered by many to be Virginia Woolf 's finest novel, is a remarkably original work, showing the thoughts and actions of the members of a family and their guests on two separate occasions, ten years apart. The setting is Mr and Mrs Ramsay's house on a Scottish island, where they traditionally take their summer holidays, overlooking a bay with a lighthouse. An experimental work that pushes the limits of what we know about the ... |
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If a novel is a long and torrid love affair, full of ups and downs and highs and lows, then a short story is merely a kiss from a stranger in the dark - a fleetingly experience that grips the heart, ignites the blood and lingers in the memory. The seven stories collected in this volume explore the world of darkness - the outer darkness which surrounds us and where all monsters live... and the inner darkness where all your secret demons dwell and fester undisturbed, feeding on your soul. Beware the truth contained within! Emil Minchev is born in 1984 in Sofia, Bulgaria, and has published six novels and a short story ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... It is 1941 and bombs have turned London into the front line of a world war - it is a city of nightmares. Hitler’s agents are running a blackmail operation to obtain documents that could bring the nation to instant defeat. Arthur Rowe, a man once convicted of a notorious mercy killing, stumbles onto a German spy operation in Bloomsbury and must be silenced. Even with his memory taken from him, he is still a very dangerous witness. In the hands of Graham Greene , this tale unfolds both as a taut thriller and as a haunting exploration of pity, love, and guilt. ... |
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Fluent from birth in French as well as his native Polish, Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924) learned his third language, English, as an adult. And it was in English that he wrote his evocative stories and novels, drawing upon his experiences in the British and French navies to portray the struggles of humanity amid the world's vast indifference. This anthology offers readers the essential Joseph Conrad, including his debut novel, "Almayer's Folly". Other features include his political thriller, "The Secret Agent", along with his most famous novel, "Heart of Darkness", and a related account ... |
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Influential and innovative, James Joyce (1882 - 1941) led the vanguard of 20th-century fiction. Sooner or later, most undergraduates encounter him, and many scholars devote their entire careers to his exuberantly eloquent prose. Joyce's experimental use of language and stream-of-consciousness techniques continues to captivate modern readers and writers, and this anthology offers a first-rate introduction to the Irish author's fiction and poetry. "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man", Joyce's coming-of-age novel, appears here in its entirety. Readers will also find the complete texts of the ... |
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Фантастика на английски език + историята за слушане на MP3 CD. ... Учете английски с фентъзи майстора: увлекателна фентъзи история; с превод на трудните думи и много упражнения; въпросите по текста Ви помагат с разбирането; над 3 часа оригинални записи на МP3 диск. Книгата е част от поредицата "Dragon novels" на издателство "Клет България". Поредицата включва три романа посветени на битки, приятелства, дракони и преди всичко на търсенето на правилния път в живота. На фона на увлекателни нови светове се разиграват драматични истории, които оставят читателите без дъх. Поредицата е предназначена ... |
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Фантастика на английски език + историята за слушане на MP3 CD. ... Учете английски с фентъзи майстора: увлекателна фентъзи история; с превод на трудните думи и много упражнения; въпросите по текста Ви помагат с разбирането; над 3 часа оригинални записи на МP3 диск. Книгата е част от поредицата "Dragon novels" на издателство "Клет България". Поредицата включва три романа посветени на битки, приятелства, дракони и преди всичко на търсенето на правилния път в живота. На фона на увлекателни нови светове се разиграват драматични истории, които оставят читателите без дъх. Поредицата е предназначена ... |
