Penguin A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings Диккенс Чарльз

Эбенизер Скрудж ненавидит Рождество. Для него все это вздор. Но изменит ли он свои привычки после знакомства с тремя духами в Сочельник? Мы представляем вам величайшую из когда-либо рассказанных рождественскую историю в волшебном подарочном издании, которое содержит не только полный текст «Рождественской песни», но и другие святочные рассказы, написанные Чарльзом Диккенсом • Книга на английском языке • Ebenezer Scrooge hates Christmas. It's all humbug to him. But will he change his ways after a series of ghostly visits one Christmas Eve? • Oxford Children's Classics presents the greatest Christmas story ever told in this eye-catching new edition which not only contains the complete and unabridged text of A Christmas Carol but also features other Christmas stories written by Charles Dickens

Роман Чарльза Диккенса "Повесть о двух городах" стал настоящим бестселлером для англоязычной аудитории. В романе противопоставляется Париж, плотно окутанный революцией, и кажущийся спокойным, Лондон. Читатель видит противоборство двух разных миров - свет и тьма, вера и безверие, жгучая ненависть и искренняя любовь. Что же в этих условиях сможет спасти главного персонажа от казни? • Книга на английском языке • The Penguin English Library Edition of A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens • 'Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!' • Described by Dickens as 'the best story I have written', A Tale of Two Cities interweaves thrilling historical drama with heartbreaking personal tragedy. It vividly depicts a revolutionary Paris running red with blood, and a London where the poor starve

В романе описаны жизни двух мужчин: Чарльза Дарнея, беглого французского аристократа, и Сиднея Картона, великолепного английского адвоката с плохой репутацией. Оба влюблены в одну женщину – Люси Манетт, дочь политического заключённого. Вихрь судеб уносит героев с тихих улиц Лондона в залитые кровью кварталы Парижа, живущие под властью Террора. Здесь на их переплетённые судьбы падают тени зловещих гильотин • «Повесть о двух городах», исторический роман одного из культовых авторов классической британской литературы Чарльза Диккенса, станет замечательным подарком для ценителей нестареющей классики • Книга на английском языке • 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...' • Vividly interweaving epic historical drama with personal tragedy, Dickens's gripping novel depicts the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, as they become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette, the daughter of a political prisoner

Эдвин Друд с детства обручён с сиротой по имени Роза, но с приближением совершеннолетия оба они понимают, что взаимная симпатия уступила место долгу, и решают расторгнуть свою помолвку. Вскоре, во время метели в канун Рождества, Эдвин пропадает. И это не единственная тайна: его исчезновение как-то связано с тёмной стороной тихого кафедрального городка Клойстерхэм, и двойной жизнью регента хора по имени Джаспер, который путает реальную жизнь с опиумными иллюзиями. Диккенс умер, не успев дописать роман, и оставил поиски разгадки таинственного исчезновения поколениям любопытных читателей • «Тайна Эдвина Друда», последний и неоконченный роман одного из самых видных авторов классической британской литературы Чарльза Диккенса, станет замечательным подарком для ценителей нестареющей классики

В своем эссе "Скромное предложение" Свифт раскрывает всю мощь своего иронического арсенала и едкого остроумия, находя свои цели - британский правящий класс и алчных землевладельцев, а также озверевших ирландцев, замешанных в собственном угнетении, - со смертельной точностью • Также в книге представлена обширная подборка его других прозаических произведений • Книга на английском языке • The Penguin Classics edition of Jonathan Swift's savagely satirical A Modest Proposal and Other Writings is edited with an introduction and notes by Carol Fabricant • To ease poverty in Ireland by eating the children of the poor was the satirical 'solution' suggested by Jonathan Swift in his essay 'A Modest Proposal' (1729). Here Swift unleashes the full power of his ironic armoury and corrosive wit, finding his targets - the British ruling class and avaricious landlords, and the brutalized Irish, complicit in their own oppression - with deadly precision

The Gambler and Other Stories is Fyodor Dostoyevsky's collection of one novella and six short stories reflecting his own life - indeed, 'The Gambler', a story of a young tutor in the employment of a formerly wealthy Russian General, was written under a strict deadline so he could pay off his roulette debts. This volume includes 'Bobok', the tale of a frustrated writer visiting a cemetery and enjoying the gossip of the dead; 'The Dream of a Ridiculous Man', the story of one man's plan to commit suicide and the troubling dream that follows, as well as 'A Christmas Party and a Wedding', 'A Nasty Story' and 'The Meek One'

The Steppe and Other Stories 1887-91 is a collection that reveals Anton Chekhov's evolution from a novice writer to a master of short narrative form. This Penguin Classics edition is translated by Ronald Wilks with an introduction by Donald Rayfield • This collection of Chekhov's finest early writing is headlined by 'The Steppe', which established his reputation, telling the unforgettable tale of a boy's journey to a new school in Kiev, travelling through majestic landscapes towards an unknown destiny. 'Gusev' depicts an ocean voyage, where the sea takes on a terrifying, primeval power; 'The Kiss' portrays a shy soldier's failed romantic encounter; and in 'The Duel' two men's enmity ends in farce. Haunting and highly atmospheric, all the stories in this volume show a writer emerging from the shadow of his masters - great Russian writers such as Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev and Nikolai Gogol - and discovering his own voice

Describing Tolstoy's crisis of depression and estrangement from the world, A Confession (1879) is an autobiographical work of exceptional emotional honesty. By the time he was fifty, Tolstoy had already written the novels that would assure him of literary immortality; he had a wife, a large estate and numerous children; he was 'a happy man' and in good health - yet life had lost its meaning. In this poignant confessional fragment, he records a period of his life when he began to turn away from fiction and aesthetics, and to search instead for 'a practical religion not promising future bliss, but giving bliss on earth'

With their penetrating psychological insight and their emphasis on human dignity, respect and forgiveness, Dostoyevsky's early short stories contain the seeds of the themes that came to his major novels. Poor Folk, the author's first great literary triumph, is the story of a tragic relationship between an impoverished copy clerk and a young seamstress, told through their passionate letters to each other. In The Landlady Dostoyevsky portrays a dreamer hero who is captivated by a curious couple and becomes their lodger. Mr Prokharchin, inspired by a true story, is a sly comedy centring on an eccentric miser, and Polzunkov is a powerful character sketch which, in common with the other tales in this volume, questions the very nature of existence

Four of Ibsen's most important plays in superb modern translations, part of the new Penguin Ibsen series • In these four unforgettably intense plays, Henrik Ibsen explores the complex nature of truth, the tension between freedom and responsibility, and the terrible pull that the past exerts over the present. In The Wild Duck, an idealist destroys a family by exposing the lie behind his friend's marriage. In Rosmersholm, a respectable man is driven to extremes by guilt over his wife's death, while in The Lady from the Sea a woman is caught between her family and the enticement of the wild sea. And in Hedda Gabler, one of Ibsen's most famous and vivid anti-heroines struggles to break free from the conventional life she has created for herself, with tragic results

The new Penguin Freud, under Adam Phillips' general editorship, offers a fantastic opportunity to see Freud in a fresh light • This endlessly beguiling, suggestive, thought-provoking writer can be appreciated nowhere more vividly than in The Case Histories: 'Little Hans', 'The Rat Man', 'The Wolf Man' and 'Some Character Types Met within Psychoanalytic Work.'

Throughout his life Isaac Babel was torn by opposing forces, by the desire both to remain faithful to his Jewish roots and yet to be free of them. This duality of vision infuses his work with a powerful energy from the earliest tales including 'Old Shloyme' and 'Childhood', which affirm his Russian-Jewish childhood, to the relatively non-Jewish world of his collection of stories entitled 'Red Cavalry'. Babel's masterpiece, 'Red Cavalry' is the most dramatic expression of his dualism and in his simultaneous acceptance and rejection of his heritage heralds the great American-Jewish writers from Henry Roth to Saul Bellow and Philip Roth