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Coming back to the “nest” of his family home in Russia after years of fruitless endeavours away from his roots, Lavretsky decides to turn his back on the vacuous salons of Paris and his frivolous and unfaithful wife Varvara Pavlovna. On his return he meets Liza, the daughter of one of his cousins, whom he had known when they were children and who rekindles in him long-smothered feelings of love. News of Varvara's death arrive from France, offering Lavretsky the prospect of a new life, but a cruel twist threatens to shatter his dreams and forces him to re-evaluate his plans • Hailed as a masterpiece of Russian literature, A Nest of the Gentry – Turgenev's most successful and widely read novel, here presented in a new translation by Michael Pursglove – deals with the personal struggles of the individual in a period of turbulent social change

When the young naturalist Darwin set sail on a round-the-world expedition at the end of 1831, it was only with a vague notion that the relationships between all life forms, both present and extinct, were more complex than the Christian version of the world’s creation purported them to be. During his five-year voyage of discovery on board HMS Beagle and more than two decades subsequently devoted to research, he painstakingly collected a mass of evidence from across the planet – from Paraguay and the Galapagos Islands to Staffordshire and Scotland – building a compelling case for the theory of natural selection, which would change the way we look at the world for ever • The founding text of evolutionary biology – which prompted a revolution in the fields of science and religion similar in magnitude to the discoveries of Copernicus and Newton – Darwin’s On the Origin of Species was an instant best-seller when it was published in 1859 and has become a cultural milestone that has influenced a wide range of disciplines of human knowledge

First published in 1831, Belkin's Stories was the first completed work of fiction by the founding father of Russian literature. Through a series of interlinked stories purporting to have been told by various narrators to the recently deceased country squire Ivan Belkin, Pushkin offers his own variation on themes and genres that were popular in his day and provides a vivid portrayal of the Russian people. From the story of revenge served cold in 'The Shot' to the havoc wreaked by a blizzard on the life of two young lovers, from the bittersweet tones of 'The Station Master' to the supernatural atmosphere of 'The Undertaker', this collection - presented here in a brand-new translation by Roger Clarke - sparkles with humour and is a testament to the brilliance and versatility of Pushkin's mind

Тургенев Иван Сергеевич (1818-1883) - русский писатель, поэт. Классик быстро угадывал новые идеи общества, которые находили своё отражение в его произведениях. "Отцы и дети" - роман, ставший знаковым для молодёжи 60-х гг. XIX в. В деревню к Николаю Петровичу Кирсанову приезжает его любимый сын Аркадий. Долгожданная встреча постепенно омрачается пониманием: сын изменился. Что тому виной: молодость Аркадия или опасное влияние Евгения Базарова - загадочного приятеля сына, любезно согласившегося погостить у Кирсановых

Иван Сергеевич Тургенев — крупнейший прозаик XIX века, в историю мировой литературы он вошел как один из создателей классического романа. Он уловил важнейшие идейные искания своего времени и именно он ввел понятие «лишний человек», обозначив им тот тип разочарованного героя, который сложился в отечественной литературе, начиная с произведений Грибоедова и Пушкина. Тургенев открыл ключевой для русской ментальности парадокс: с одной стороны, поиски нравственного идеала, с другой — трагическая невозможность его достичь. В настоящее издание вошли произведения, относящиеся к разным этапам творчества писателя

В этой книге вы прочитаете трогательные, нежные и необыкновенно лиричные повести И.С. Тургенева "Ася", "Первая любовь", а также повесть "Вешние воды", посвященную всегда волновавшей Тургенева теме обретения и утраты истинной любви и её столкновения с "темной", иррациональной страстью... Иван Сергеевич Тургенев - один из величайших русских писателей, абсолютный мастер психологического реализма, которого неоднократно называли "певцом русских женщин" и "идеальным выразителем чувств и настроений русской интеллигенции". Произведения Тургенева являются знаковыми для целой литературной эпохи, они неоднократно ставились на сцене и экранизировались лучшими режиссерами мира - однако никому не удалось достичь подлинной глубины оригиналов писателя

«КЛАССНАЯ КЛАССИКА» – ЭТО КНИГИ, КОТОРЫЕ РЕБЁНОК НЕПРЕМЕННО ДОЛЖЕН ПРОЧИТАТЬ В ДЕТСТВЕ • Классик мирового уровня, писатель, поэт и переводчик, Иван Сергеевич Тургенев по праву занимает почётное место • в плеяде лучших писателей Золотого века русской словесности. Его знаменитые произведения, уже давно ставшие • достоянием отечественной литературы, воспитывают в поколениях любовь и уважение к великому русскому языку • и русской культуре

Миссис Рэмзи обещает своим гостям, что на следующий день они вместе отправятся к маяку, вид на который открывается из окон их летнего домика. Однако этот визит состоится лишь спустя десять лет, за которые семье Рэмзи придется пережить войну и горе утраты. Это путешествие позволит героям познать себя • Данное издание является частью серии Alma Classics и Virginia Woolf Collection и содержит критический аппарат и материалы для дополнительного чтения, в том числе фотографии и примечания • По мотивам произведения был снят фильм «На маяке» • Книга на английском языке • When Mrs Ramsay tells her guests at her summer house on the Isle of Skye that they will be able to visit the nearby lighthouse the following day, little does she know that this trip will only be completed ten years later by her husband, and that a gulf of war, grief and loss will have opened in the meantime

The first story in this volume, How the Two Ivans Quarrelled, is an amusing portrayal of two exceptionally close friends, the mortal insult that drives them apart, and the ensuing chaos that occurs. This is Gogol's humour at it's best, where the most irrelevant-seeming details and turns of phrase take on a bizarre life of their own. Ivan Krylov's Panegyric in Memory of My Grandfather has an ingenuous narrator praise the nobility and modesty of a landowner whose actions prove him to be otherwise. The two tales by Mikhail Saltykov are satirical attacks on civil servants and Russia's autocracy. The final piece, Tolstoy's Ivan the Fool, is a playful and allegorical critique of contemporary Russian society. Together, they represent some of Russia's finest comic writing before the twentieth century

The lowly, downtrodden Paris civil servant Jean Folantin seeks respite from the boredom and isolation of his life in the small joys of food and the occasional embraces of a prostitute. But whatever he does, wherever he turns to in his quest for some pleasure, his dissatisfaction only increases, until he is forced to realize that he has to abandon all hope and just "go with the flow" • This 1882 novella, a key work in Huysmans' literary development - prefiguring in its protagonist the figure of Jean des Esseintes, the hero of A rebours, written two years later - is accompanied here by another masterly study of human despair, 'M. Bougran's Retirement' • M. Bougran is an ex-bureaucrat who cannot escape the process (or trial) of bureaucracy. It is as if he has internalized its routines

In a series of nine letters, the narrator tells his friend how he introduced Vera Nikolayevna, a married woman who had been forbidden as a child to read fiction and poetry, to the intellectual pleasures of Goethe's masterpiece. Opening up in front of Vera's eyes is not only the realm of imagination, but also a world of unbridled feelings and tempestuous passions, which can only shatter the comfort and safety of her existence and force her to set off on a journey of spiritual awakening

Dual-Language Edition • Translated for the first time into English • One of the pillars of nineteenth-century Russian prose fiction alongside towering figures such as Gogol, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev started his writing career as a poet, gaining much critical acclaim and renown in that field. The title piece of this collection, Parasha, which brought the young author to the attention of the influential critic Vissarion Belinsky and established his reputation, is a humorous narrative poem in the vein of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin or Lermontov's Sashka, telling the story of a young woman's marriage to her dull, unromantic neighbour and the couple's humdrum and more or less happy life ever after • Also contained in this volume are four other narrative poems by Turgenev - Andrei, A Conversation, The Landowner and The Village Priest - all showing the author's early interest in ordinary stories of Russian life and all displaying the wit and stylistic versatility that we have come to associate with his more famous prose works