Alma Books Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel Джером Джером Клапка

Что может быть более расслабляющим, чем освежающий отдых на реке с двумя вашими лучшими друзьями и верной собакой-компаньоном Монморанси? Однако, как обнаруживает Джей, жизнь на волнах - это нечто большее, чем кажется на первый взгляд, включая проблемы с навигацией, кулинарные катастрофы и героические сражения с лебедями, чайниками и банками ананасов. Джером К. Восхитительный роман Джерома долгие годы заставлял читателей улыбаться, а его проза нашла идеального партнера в великолепных и остроумных иллюстрациях Вика Ривза • Книга на английском языке • What could be more relaxing than a refreshing holiday on the river with your two best friends and faithful canine companion, Montmorency? However, as J. discovers, there is more to life on the waves than meets the eye - including navigational challenges, culinary disasters, and heroic battles with swans, kettles and tins of pineapple

Вашему вниманию предлагаются знаменитые романы Джерома К. Джерома: "Трое в лодке, не считая собаки" и "Трое на велосипедах" • Идет время, сменяются эпохи, но читатели по-прежнему не могут оторваться от совершенно невероятной истории путешествия троих беззаботных английских джентльменов, пустившихся в плавание по Темзе вместе со своим любимцем - фокстерьером Монморанси • Забавные недоразумения, веселые коллизии и полные комизма ситуации, из которых герои выходят, сохраняя истинно британское чувство собственного достоинства, и сегодня поражают своей оригинальностью и неувядающим юмором • Более того, джентльмены честно пытаются идти в ногу с прогрессом - и овладеть последним достижением современной техники • Джером К. Джером - писатель, которого будут с наслаждением читать всегда

Джером Клапка Джером (1859-1927) - английский писатель, автор повестей, рассказов и одной пьесы. Герои этой книги, колесящие по горам Шварцвальда, без сомнения, хорошо знакомы всем: это над их необычными приключениями во время путешествия по Темзе добродушно смеялись целые поколения читателей. Неповторимый, ироничный юмор Джерома, а также подготовленные для удобства читателей словарик, комментарии, примечания и перевод особенно сложных для понимания фразеологизмов превратят чтение неадаптированного текста в удовольствие

On a visit to a provincial town to see his sister Nina who is suffering from cancer, Alexei Laptev, who works for his father's Moscow haberdashery business, falls in love with Yulia, the daughter of her doctor, and proposes to her. Although she does not reciprocate his feelings, she agrees to marry him and live with him in the capital, where the couple's relationship is marred by tensions: Yulia is filled with regrets about her choice and boredom with her new existence, while Alexei is nagged by the suspicion that she married him for his money alone. However, as time passes and misfortune strikes, they both learn to reassess all of their assumptions • Chekhov's second longest prose work after "The Steppe", "Three Years" is, in the author's own words, "a novel of Moscow life" and an examination of it's merchant classes

In contrast with the epic scope of the Rougon-Macquart novels, Zola’s short stories are concerned with the everyday aspects of human existence and the interests of ordinary people • From the cruel irony of ‘Captain Burle’ to the Rabelaisian exuberance of ‘Coqueville on the Spree’, these stories display the broad range of Zola’s imagination, using a variety of tones, from the quietly cynical to the compassionate, from the playful to the tragic • Contains • Dead Men Tell No Tales • Coqueville on the Spree • Captain Burle • Shellfish for Monsieur Chabre

On his return to London after serving in the Second Anglo-Afghan War as an assistant surgeon, Doctor Watson is looking for a place to live. He is introduced to a certain Mr Holmes, an eccentric, pipe-smoking gentleman who shows an interest in chemistry and is currently engaged in a test to detect human haemoglobin • What begins as a simple house-sharing enquiry soon turns into a fully fledged “study in scarlet”, a case of blood, murder and betrayal that will transport the reader from the streets of London to the early settlements of Salt Lake City in Utah…

The Lives of Haydn, Mozart and Metastasio – Stendhal’s first published work – owes its inspiration to the audacious pragmatism of its author. After the collapse of the Napoleonic empire, Henri Beyle was jobless, soon destined to become a refugee and in desperate need of money. His most abiding passion in life was music, so why not write about it? Unfortunately, however, he knew next to nothing about it. So, calmly and without the slightest pang of conscience, he resolved to plunder the works of other writers – in particular those of the musicologist Giuseppe Carpani, who was annoyed and said so vociferously • The result of Stendhal’s unscrupulous plagiarism is one of the most fascinating literary enigmas of all time. How is it that what started as a blatant act of piracy evolved into a work of enduring genius? Despite its unpropitious beginnings, this work represents the wrong-headedness of a genius – and the singular Louis-Alexandre-Cesar Bomet who signed the Lives was already, in everything that mattered, the man who was to be Stendhal, one of the most enduring literary figures of the nineteenth century

When it is discovered that the reigning world chess champion, Mirko Czentovic, is on board a cruiser heading for Buenos Aires, a fellow passenger challenges him to a game. Czentovic easily defeats him, but during the rematch a mysterious Austrian, Dr B., intervenes and, to the surprise of everyone, helps the underdog obtain a draw. When, the next day, Dr B. confides in a compatriot travelling on the same ship and decides to reveal the harrowing secret behind his formidable chess knowledge, a chilling tale of imprisonment and psychological torment unfolds • Stefan Zweig’s last and most famous story, ‘A Game of Chess’ was written in exile in Brazil and explores its author’s anxieties about the situation in Europe following the rise of the Nazi regime

One of Tolstoy’s last published works of fiction, The Devil revolves around the young landowner Yevgeny’s irrepressible lust for Stepanida, a sensual peasant woman. Even when he gets married to a respectable upper-class lady, he finds himself unable to put an end to his encounters with Stepanida, and becomes increasingly consumed by guilt and helplessness in the face of his urges. In some ways comparable to the controversial Kreutzer Sonata, The Devil shows Tolstoy at his most salacious, and addresses the conflicts between desire, social norms and personal conscience. Also included in this volume is Family Happiness, one of Tolstoy’s earliest works, an entertaining and cynical account of marriage from the perspective of a disillusioned wife, and A Landowner’s Morning

Orphaned at an early age, Heidi has been brought up by her mother’s sister Dete in Switzerland. Having been offered a job in Frankfurt, however, her aunt is forced to entrust her young charge into the care of her grandfather, the reclusive Alp-Uncle who lives in the mountains without any interaction with the villagers beneath. The curmudgeonly old man is initially reluctant to accept the new arrangement, but his grand-daughter’s warmth, cleverness and exuberance soon win him over, while Heidi learns to love her new surroundings and makes a new friend, Peter the goatherd. But as Heidi gets settled in her new life, little does she suspect that a major upheaval is just around the corner • A timeless classic of Swiss literature that has inspired many adaptations and has captured the imaginations of children the world over, Heidi: Lessons at Home and Abroad is here presented in a brand-new, unabridged translation by Peter James Bowman, with charming illustrations by Susan Hellard

Джерома К. Джерома прославила книга "Трое в лодке, не считая собаки". Многие поколения читателей с удовольствием читают и перечитывают романы о приключениях троих друзей и блистательные рассказы Джерома, улыбаясь забавным историям и узнаваемым характерам, соглашаясь с тонкими наблюдениями автора и каждый раз открывая для себя что-то новое. Благодаря его тонкому юмору, знанию людей и умению подмечать типические черты и смешные детали его романы и рассказы всегда современны и полны узнаваемых ситуаций и персонажей