Alma Books The Waves Вулф Вирджиния

1880 год. Полковник Парджитер возвращается домой от любовницы. Дома его ждут дети и умирающая жена • Проходят годы. Жизненные пути персонажей расходятся и пересекаются вновь • Роман «Годы» английской писательницы Вирджинии Вулф – это не просто история одной семьи, это история двух поколений. Произведение является одной из самых масштабных работ Вулф, а также последним романом, опубликованным при жизни писательницы • Содержит дополнительные материалы, включая раздел с фотографиями и примечаниями • Книга на английском языке • It is 1880: after visiting his mistress in the London suburbs, Colonel Pargiter returns home to his children and his dying wife. In a series of snapshots we meet all the Pargiter siblings: twenty-year-old Eleanor, whose concern is to help the poor; her younger sisters Milly, Delia and Rose; her brothers Morris, Martin and Edward, who is at Oxford and in love with his cousin Kitty

Одним июньским лондонским утром 1923 года Кларисса Дэллоуэй отправляется за цветами: она готовится к приему, который устраивает тем же вечером. Прогуливаясь по улицам Лондона, женщина вспоминает и переосмысливает свое прошлое. Вспоминает и о том, почему решила выйти замуж за своего мужа. Шум ее автомобиля пугает молодого ветерана, Септимуса Смита, страдающего от контузии. К нему начинают возвращаться воспоминания о войне. Этим вечером на приеме у миссис Дэллоуэй их пути пересекутся еще раз • «Миссис Дэллоуэй» – это один из самых известных экспериментальных романов Вирджинии Вулф, яркий пример литературного модернизма, в котором поднимается тема любви, свободы, психического здоровья и положения женщин в обществе • По мотивам произведения был снят фильм

Издательство HarperCollins с гордостью представляет новую серию известных и значимых произведений классической литературы • «Однажды ночью сквозь облака пронеслась падающая звезда, и я сказала: “Поглоти меня”» • Бернард, Джинни, Луи, Рода и Сьюзен встречаются на берегу моря еще детьми, и эта встреча навсегда меняет их жизни. Вместе шестеро друзей ступят на тернистый жизненный путь… • «Волны» – это абсолютно уникальный и самый смелый роман английской писательницы Вирджинии Вулф. В нем герои проходят через все радости и невзгоды жизни. На протяжении всей своей жизни они исследуют связь между прошлым и настоящим, а также ищут свое предназначение. Роман Вирджинии Вулф считается одним из величайших произведений на английском языке и станет превосходным подарком для поклонников творчества писательницы

Бернард, Сьюзен, Рода, Невил, Джинни и Луи встречаются в саду у моря. Голоса друзей заглушает шум прибоя…Герои растут, оставляют позади свое детство и переходят во взрослую жизнь. Каждого из них ждет свой собственный жизненный путь, но в их мыслях по-прежнему звучит хор природы… • «Волны» считаются одной из величайших и наиболее оригинальных работ английской писательницы Вирджинии Вулф. Написанное в формате «потока сознания» произведение повествует о переплетающихся жизнях главных героев, которых объединяет разрушительная сила общего горя. Центральная тема романа – индивидуальная и коллективная идентичность, а также человеческие эмоции, от простоты и оптимизма юности до опустошенности и отчаяния средних лет • Роман «Волны» станет прекрасным подарком для поклонников творчества писательницы

After the Lady Vain is shipwrecked, Edward Prendick is plucked from the waves by a passing ship and deposited on a remote island. Here he is the guest of Dr Moreau, whose notorious scientific methods had caused an uproar that left him with no choice but to flee London • Disquieted and appalled by the pained cries of suffering animals, Edward soon realizes that the Doctor is continuing and developing his depraved experiments, and that he too is in great danger • Shocking and suffused with contemporary fears regarding the morality of the latest advances in science and their possible implications for religion, The Island of Dr Moreau is both a ruthless social satire and an exploration of human nature

Roberta, Phyllis and Peter have their comfortable lives in London thrown into disarray by the unexpected disappearance of their father. They are forced to move to a small cottage in the countryside with their mother, who struggles to make ends meet by writing books. The children find solace in a stretch of railway track and the station nearby, and befriend the railway porter, who teaches them about running the station, and an old gentleman who takes the 9.15 train every day. Through this love of the trains they are led on many exciting adventures, including a quest to discover the secret of their father's disappearance • One of the most popular children's books ever written, E. Nesbit's tale has enchanted generations of readers since it was first released in 1906

Alma Classics edition of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer contains 3,000 notes and 30 pages extra material • "And specially from every shires ende • Of Engelond to Caunterbury they wende, • The hooly blisful martir for to seke, • That hem hath holpen whan that they were seeke." • Assembling at the Tabard Inn in Southwark, a group of pilgrims begin their journey to Canterbury Cathedral. To entertain themselves on the long road, their host suggests that they regale each other with stories, with the teller of the best tale set to earn a free supper • The pilgrims correspond to all sections of medieval society, from the crusading knight to the drunken cook, and their tales span a range of genres, including the comic ribaldry and deception of 'The Miller's Tale' and the story of chivalry and courtly romance told by the Franklin

The adventures of Mowgli, the young man raised by wolves in the jungles of Central India, and his friends Baloo the bear, Bagheera the panther and Kaa the python, as they face the arch villain Shere Khan the tiger, have become so popular that they have achieved an almost mythical status throughout the world. They were collected by Kipling in The Jungle Book and its sequel, The Second Jungle Book, which also contain other stories set in India which prominently feature animals, such as the well-known "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi", which describes the struggles of a mongoose against venomous cobras • Here presented with brand-new illustrations by Ian Beck, these hugely popular tales, inspired by ancient fables and Kipling's own experiences in India, form a vivid account of the relationship between humans and nature, and will continue to inspire readers young and old

The Mudfog Papers, a collection of sketches by Dickens published in Bentley’s Miscellany between 1837 and 1838, describes the local politics of the fictional town of Mudfog – such as the delusions of grandeur of its mayor Nicholas Tulrumble and his disastrous attempts at putting on a public show – and the meetings of its Society for the Advancement of Everything, during which the town is overrun by illustrious scientists and professors conducting ostensibly pointless research • Written at the same time as Oliver Twist – indeed the serialized version of the novel referred to Mudfog as the protagonist’s home town – The Mudfog Papers lampoons all manner of journalistic and scientific writing of the time and showcases the young Dickens at his satirical best

The intelligent and charming Newland Archer – a member of one of New York’s most prominent families – is living the life that has always been expected of him: he is engaged to the beautiful and well-connected May Welland and understands the rarefied world of Fifth Avenue society inside out. However, with the arrival of May’s cousin, the free-spirited and unconventional Countess Ellen Olenska, Newland begins to doubt all that once seemed so natural to him • An extraordinarily well-observed dissection of New York high society in the 1870s – the world in which Edith Wharton grew up – The Age of Innocence shines a critical light on the social mores and values of the old order

The heir to his grandfather’s considerable fortune, Anthony Patch is led astray from the path to gainful employment by the temptations of the 1920s Jazz Age. His descent into dissolution and profligacy is accelerated by his marriage to the attractive but turbulent Gloria, and the couple soon discover the dangerous flip side of a life of glamour and debauchery • Containing obvious parallels with F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald’s own lives, The Beautiful and Damned is a tragic examination of the pitfalls of greed and materialism and the transience of youth and beauty

The judge Ivan Ilyich Golovin has spent his life in the pursuit of wealth and status, devoting himself obsessively to work and often neglecting his family in the process. When, after a small accident, he fails to make the expected recovery, it gradually becomes clear that he is soon to die. Ivan Ilyich then starts to question the futility and barrenness of his previous existence, realizing to his horror, as he grapples with the meaning of life and death, that he is totally alone • Included in this volume is another celebrated novella by Tolstoy, The Devil, which addresses the conflicts between desire, social norms and personal conscience, providing at the same time a further exploration of human fear and obsession