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Àííîòàöèÿ: When Isabel Archer, a young American woman with looks, wit, and imagination, arrives in Europe, she sees the world as a place of brightness, of free expression, of irresistible action. She turns aside from suitors who offer her their wealth and devotion to follow her own path. But that way leads to disillusionment and a future as constricted as `a dark narrow alley with a dead wall at the end. In a conclusion that is one of the most moving in modern fiction, Isabel makes her final choice. The Portrait of a Lady is the masterpiece of James s middle period, and Isabel is perhaps his most engaging central character. This edition provides a challenging new introduction and detailed notes; the text is that of the New York Edition and includes Henry James s own Preface.

Àííîòàöèÿ: Brought up in poverty, Hyacinth has nevertheless developed aesthetic tastes that heighten his awareness of the sordid misery around him. He is drawn into the secret world of revolutionary politics and, in a moment of fervour, makes a vow that he will assassinate a major political figure. Soon after this he meets the beautiful Princess Casamassima. Captivated by her world of wealth and nobility, art and beauty, Hyacinth loses faith in radicalism, the beastly cause. But tormented by his belief in honour, he must face an agonizing, and ultimately tragic, dilemma.

Àííîòàöèÿ: Christopher Newman, a self-made American millionaire in France, has fallen in love with the beautiful, aristocratic Claire de Bellegarde. Her family, however, taken back by his brash American manner, rejects his proposal of marriage. When Newman discovers a guilty secret in the Bellegardes' past, he controls a moral dilema: should he reveal the truth behind the careful facade the family has maintained and thus gain his revenge?

Àííîòàöèÿ: The Wings of the Dove is a classic example of Henry James s morality tales that play off the naiveté of an American protagonist abroad. In early-20th-century London, Kate Croy and Merton Densher are engaged in a passionate, clandestine love affair. Croy is desperately in love with Densher, who has all the qualities of a potentially excellent husband: he s handsome, witty, and idealistic-the one thing he lacks is money, which ultimately renders him unsuitable as a mate. By chance, Croy befriends a young American heiress, Milly Theale. When Croy discovers that Theale suffers from a mysterious and fatal malady, she hatches a plan that can give all three characters something that they want-at a price. Croy and Densher plan to accompany the young woman to Venice where Densher, according to Croy s design, will seduce the ailing heiress. The two hope that Theale will find love and happiness in her last days and-when she dies-will leave her fortune to Densher, so that he and Croy can live happily ever after. The scheme that at first develops as planned begins to founder when Theale discovers the pair s true motives shortly before her death. Densher struggles with unanticipated feelings of love for his new paramour, and his guilt may obstruct his ability to avail himself of Theale s gift. James deftly navigates the complexities and irony of such moral treachery in this stirring novel.

Àííîòàöèÿ: King Solomon s Mines tells of a search of an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurers led by Allan Quatermain for the missing brother of one of the party. It is the first English adventure novel set in Africa, and is considered to be the genesis of the Lost World literary genre.

Àííîòàöèÿ: King Solomon s Mines tells of a search of an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurers led by Allan Quatermain for the missing brother of one of the party. It is the first English adventure novel set in Africa, and is considered to be the genesis of the Lost World literary genre.

Àííîòàöèÿ: Henry Green explored class distinctions through the medium of love. This volume brings together three of his novels contrasting the lives of servants and masters (Loving); workers and owners, set in a Birmingham iron foundry (Living); and the different lives of the wealthy and the ordinary, (Party Going).

Àííîòàöèÿ: Henry Fielding compares Jonathan Wild, highway bandit with Caesar -- and finds Caesar wanting ". . . . when the mighty Caesar, with wonderful greatness of mind, had destroyed the liberties of his country, and with all the means of fraud and force had placed himself at the head of his equals, had corrupted and enslaved the greatest people whom the sun ever saw, we are reminded, as an evidence of his generosity, of his largesses to his followers and tools, by whose means he had accomplished his purpose, and by whose assistance he was to establish it. "Now, who doth not see that such sneaking qualities as these are rather to be bewailed as imperfections than admired as ornaments in these great men; rather obscuring their glory, and holding them back in their race to greatness, indeed unworthy the end for which they seem to have come into the world, viz. of perpetrating vast and mighty mischief?" -- from Henry Fielding's tongue-in-cheek classic, Jonathan Wild

Àííîòàöèÿ: Spurred on by the awful prophecy of the Oracle Oedipus fled Corinth to avoid slaying his father. But he was a founding, and the lord he killed on the road to Thebes was his natural sire...the queen he thus widowed - and married - his mother. For centuries the legend of Oedipus has obsessed mankind. In this dramatic recreation of the story Henry Treece weaves the legend with his own wide knowledge of the Ancient World to produce a novel that is simultaneously true to the legend and historical fact.

Àííîòàöèÿ: Getting rich is just one of Jeremy Jame's problems in this hilarious sequel to Elephants Don't Sit On Cars. WHen he's not hunting for money, he's causing trouble for Daddy's car, Santa Claus's beard, and the vicar's sore bottom. But troubles gets its own back in the form of an aching tooth, a ghost in the bedroom, and a cow that isn't a cow - not to mention sploit Timothy who wins all the prizes. Winning or losing, Jeremy James is a delight.

Àííîòàöèÿ: Communication is essential to our lives, but how often do we stop to think about where the words we use have come from? Have you ever thought about which words in English have been borrowed from Arabic, French or Dutch? Try admiral,landscape and marmalade just for starters. The Secret Life of Words is a wideranging account not only of the history of English, but also of how words witness history, reflect social change and remind us of our turbulent past. Henry Hitchings delves into our promiscuous language and reveals how and why it has absorbed words from more than 350 other languages many originating from the most unlikely of places, such as shampoo from Hindi and kiosk from Turkish. From the Norman Conquest to the present day, Hitchings narrates the story of English as an archive of our human experience and uncovers the secrets behind everyday words.This is a celebration of our language; after reading it, you will never again take the words we use for granted.

Àííîòàöèÿ: The American Henry James's descriptions of the countryside, monuments, universities, cathedrals, castles, customs and manners of the English are filled with elegant charm and good humour. Here he delights in the hidden corners of ancient Chester streets, marvels at the drunken jollity of Epsom Derby day and savours the calm shadows of Glastonbury abbey, in a hymn to stained-glass windows, crumbling cottages, Norman towers, weather-beaten gables and the English genius. Generations of inhabitants have helped shape the English countryside — but it has profoundly shaped us too.It has provoked a huge variety of responses from artists, writers, musicians and people who live and work on the land — as well as those who are travelling through it. English Journeys celebrates this long tradition with a series of twenty books on all aspects of the countryside, from stargazey pie and country churches, to man's relationship with nature and songs celebrating the patterns of the countryside (as well as ghosts and love-struck soldiers).

Àííîòàöèÿ: Äàííîå ó÷åáíîå ïîñîáèå âêëþ÷àåò â ñåáÿ ïðîèçâåäåíèÿ, ïîäîáðàííûå â ñîîòâåòñòâèè ñ òðåáîâàíèÿìè Ìîñêîâñêîé ðåãèîíàëüíîé ïðîãðàììû "Õóäîæåñòâåííàÿ ëèòåðàòóðà" äëÿ øêîë ñ óãëóáëåííûì èçó÷åíèåì èíîñòðàííîãî ÿçûêà, ãèìíàçèé è ëèíãâèñòè÷åñêèõ ëèöååâ.  êîììåíòàðèÿõ ê òåêñòàì äàíû ëèòåðàòóðíî-ñòðàíîâåä÷åñêèå ñâåäåíèÿ è çàäàíèÿ. Êíèãà àäðåñîâàíà ó÷èòåëÿì, ó÷àùèìñÿ, à òàêæå øèðîêîìó êðóãó ëèö, èçó÷àþùèõ àíãëèéñêèé ÿçûê ñàìîñòîÿòåëüíî.

Àííîòàöèÿ: Der Roman "Amelia" enstand in den Jahren, in denen Fielding seine ganze Energie dem offentlichen Amt widmete. Mehr als in den fruheren Romanen sind hier soziale Missstande ins Blickfeld geruckt. Ganze Episoden des Buches muten wie eine Illustration der genannten "Untersuchung" an. Kein anderer Schriftsteller hinterliess ein authentischeres, lebendigeres Abbild jener Zeit.

Àííîòàöèÿ: Henry Green is a neglected master of 20th century literature who is ripe for rediscovery. These three brilliant novels span Green s career as a novelist and display his unique talents as a writer. Nothing is a tale of the merry-go-round of love, marriage and infidelity amid the ceaseless intergenerational tussle of innocence versus experience. Doting sets the middle-aged male infatuation with pretty girls against the comfortable affection of wives/old friends. In Blindness, a young man is blinded in a senseless accident but thereafter discovers new imaginative powers.

Àííîòàöèÿ: An impoverished woman who has been forced to choose between a privileged life with her wealthy aunt and her journalist lover, befriends an American heiress. When she discovers the heiress is attracted to her own lover and is dying, she sees a chance to have both the privileged life she cannot give up and the lover she cannot live without.