Ïîèñê ïî êàòàëîãó ïå÷àòíûõ èçäàíèé

Àííîòàöèÿ: Featuring 19 of the finest works in the American short-story tradition, this compilation includes: The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe, Bartleby by Herman Melville, To Build a Fire by Jack London, Bernice Bobs Her Hair by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Killers by Ernest Hemingway, plus stories by Hawthorne, Twain, Cather, and others

Àííîòàöèÿ: Willa Cather's My qntonia is considered one of the most significant American novels of the twentieth century. Set during the great migration west to settle the plains of the North American continent, the narrative follows Antonia Shimerda, a pioneer who comes to Nebraska as a child and grows with the country, inspiring a childhood friend, Jim Burden, to write her life story. The novel is important both for its literary aesthetic and as a portrayal of important aspects of American social ideals and history, particularly the centrality of migration to American culture.

Àííîòàöèÿ: The wonderful anthology of verse and prose, short stories, reminiscences and diary entries, ranging from the traditional to the subversive, the whimsical to the sinister, the ironic to the tragic. Exquisitely illustrated with black and white drawings from many periods, The Christmas Reader is a perfect source-book for reading aloud to family and friends.

Àííîòàöèÿ: Ðîìàí "Îäèí èç íàøèõ" - èñòîðèÿ ìîëîäîãî ÷åëîâåêà, êîòîðûé âñåìè ñèëàìè ñòðåìèòñÿ âûðâàòüñÿ èç ãíåòóùåé åãî ïàòðèàðõàëüíîé àòìîñôåðû æèçíè íà Ñðåäíåì Çàïàäå. Ãåðîé îòâåðãàåò ïðåäíà÷åðòàííóþ åìó ñóäüáó è âûáèðàåò âîåííûå ïðèêëþ÷åíèÿ âî Ôðàíöèè âî âðåìÿ Ïåðâîé ìèðîâîé âîéíû.

Àííîòàöèÿ: The most complete collection available of Willa Cather's remarkable short fiction, Collected Stories brings together all the stories published in book form during her lifetime along with two additional volumes compiled after her death. These nineteen stories resonate with all the great themes that Cather staked out like tracts of fertile land: the plight of people hungry for beauty in a country that has no room for it; the mysterious arc of human lives; and the ways the American frontier transformed the strangers who came to it, turning them imperceptibly into Americans. In these fictions, Cather displays her vast moral vision, her unerring sense of place, and her ability to find the one detail or episode that makes a closed life open wide in a single exhilarating moment.