Everyman Selected Writings Humboldt Alexander von

Der große Naturforscher und Reiseschriftsteller Alexander von Humboldt erlebt seit einigen Jahren eine erstaunliche Renaissance. Wissenschaftlich und literarisch zugleich, lassen uns seine Schriften staunen über den Reichtum der Natur, und sie wecken die Sehnsucht nach einem Verständnis fremder Kulturen. Dieses attraktive Lesebuch, herausgegeben von dem Humboldt-Kenner Oliver Lubrich, bietet eine repräsentative Auswahl aus dem Gesamtwerk, mit ausnahmslos ungekürzten Texten im originalen Wortlaut • Mit einem Nachwort des Herausgebers und den Werkbeiträgen aus Kindlers Literatur Lexikon

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832) is one of the towering figures of world culture, a universal man whose extraordinary talents found expression in literature, drama, autobiography, politics and the sciences. Edited and introduced by Nicholas Boyle, author of the definitive biography of Goethe, the Everyman's Library edition shows that Goethe remains one of the most intriguing and readable of European writers. Goethe established an international literary reputation overnight with The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774), a story of disappointed love and pathological sensibility which mounted a powerful challenge to the rationalism of the Enlightenment

During his most productive decade, the 1880s, Maupassant wrote more than 300 stories, including ‘Boule de Suif’, ‘The Necklace’, ‘The House of Madame Tellier’, ‘The Hand’, ‘The Horla’ and ‘Mademoiselle Fifi’. Marked by the psychological realism that he famously pioneered, the tales in this selection lead us on a tour of the human experience—lust and love, revenge and ridicule, terror and madness. Many take place in the author’s native Normandy, but the settings range farther abroad as well, from Brittany and Paris to Corsica and the Mediterranean coast, and even to North Africa and India. Maupassant’s remarkable range and ability to evoke an entire world in a few pages have ensured that his fiction has retained its power to entertain through generations of readers

Ослепительные рассказы Саки с хорошо продуманными сюжетами и неожиданными концовками, радостно разоблачают напыщенное лицемерие высшего класса эдвардианского общества. Но они выходят за рамки простой сатиры, доводя черный юмор до крайностей развлекательной эпатажности. Элегантно озорные юные герои Саки, не задумываясь, сеют хаос на своем пути. Иногда им помогают оборотни, тигры, подслушивающие домашние питомцы и дети-убийцы. В эту подборку из более чем пятидесяти рассказов входят такие любимые, как "Тобермори", "Открытое окно", "Средний ваштар", "Тигр миссис Паклетайд", "Метод Шарца-Меттерклюма" и многие другие • Книга на английском языке • Saki's dazzling tales manage the remarkable feat of being anarchic and urbane at the same time. Studded with Wildean epigrams and featuring well-contrived plots and surprise endings, his stories gleefully skewer the pompous hypocrisies of upper-class Edwardian society

Before publishing the sensuous and scandalous poems of Les Fleurs du Mal, Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) had already earned respect as a forthright and witty critic of art and literature. This stimulating selection of criticism reveals him as a worshipper at the altar of beauty, illuminating his belief that the pursuit of this ideal must be paramount in artistic expression. Reviews of exhibitions discuss works by great painters such as Delacroix and Ingres in fascinating detail, and 'Of Virtuous Plays and Novels' sees Baudelaire as an avenging angel in defence of true art. Writings on Poe, Flaubert and Gautier evoke a profound understanding of fellow artists, while his single excursion into musical criticism, 'Richard Wagner and Tannhauser in Paris', displays an incisive awareness of the magical power of suggestion in music

"Сущностный Юнг. Избранные труды" - это компактный сборник выдержек из двадцати томов опубликованных работ Юнга представляет его ясно, его собственными словами и в точности • Труды Юнга являются ключом к пониманию психологии, психиатрии и психоанализа 20-го века. Большинство используемых в настоящее время терминов ("экстраверт", "коллективное бессознательное", "архетип") относятся к Юнгу • Книга на английском языке • This compact volume of extracts from the twenty volumes of Jung’s published writings presents him clearly, in his own words and in precis • Jung’s writing is the key to understanding 20th-century psychology, psychiatry and psychoanalysis. Most of the terms of reference now used (‘extrovert’, ‘collective unconscious’, ‘archetype’) are Jungian

Wonderfully sardonic and slyly humorous, the writings of landmark American feminist and socialist thinker Charlotte Perkins Gilman were penned in response to her frustrations with the gender-based double standard that prevailed in America as the twentieth century began. Perhaps best known for her chilling depiction of a woman's mental breakdown in her unforgettable 1892 short story 'The Yellow Wall-Paper', Gilman also wrote Herland, a wry novel that imagines a peaceful, progressive country from which men have been absent for 2,000 years. Both are included in this volume, along with a selection of Gilman's major short stories and her poems

In a world where we're more connected than ever, why is it that we're also more lonely? Dip into this anthology of classic writing to reclaim the pleasure of your own company • Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning pocket size classics. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition is edited and introduced by writer and academic, Zachary Seager • The Art of Solitude shows some of the myriad ways in which people throughout history have understood their experiences of solitary life, or have counselled others to benefit from solitude. It contains poetry, essays, autobiographical pieces and short stories from writers such as Virginia Woolf, Edgar Allen Poe, Emily Dickinson and Ralph Waldo Emerson

Richard Dawkins - author of The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker, and The God Delusion - is one of science's greatest communicators. This anthology of more than forty pieces is a kaleidoscopic argument for the power and the glory of science • Breathtaking, brilliant and passionate, these essays, journalism, lectures and letters make an unanswerable case for the wonder of scientific discovery and its power to stir the imagination; for the practical necessity of scientific endeavour to society; and for the importance of the scientific way of thinking - particularly in today's `post-truth' world • With an introduction and new commentary by the author, subjects range from evolution and Darwinian natural selection to the role of scientist as prophet, whether science is itself a religion, the probability of alien life in other worlds, and the beauties, cruelties and oddities of earthly life in this one

From one of the most unusual and distinctive writers working today, dubbed ‘the most daring and delightful novelist of his generation’ by the Guardian, Will Self’s Why Read is a cornucopia of thoughtful and brilliantly witty essays on writing and literature • Self takes us with him: from the foibles of his typewriter repairman to the irradiated exclusion zone of Chernobyl, to the Australian outback and to literary forms past and future. With his characteristic intellectual brio, Self aims his inimitable eye at titans of literature like Woolf, Kafka, Orwell and Conrad. He writes movingly on W.G. Sebald’s childhood in Germany and provocatively describes the elevation of William S. Burroughs’s Junky from shocking pulp novel to beloved cult classic

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