Penguin Regeneration Баркер Пэт

The Booker Prize-winning final novel in Pat Barker's classic 'Regeneration' trilogy - from the acclaimed author of The Silence of the Girls • 1918, the closing months of the war. Army psychiatrist William Rivers is increasingly concerned for the men who have been in his care - particularly Billy Prior, who is about to return to combat in France with young poet Wilfred Owen. As Rivers tries to make sense of what, if anything, he has done to help these injured men, Prior and Owen await the final battles in a war that has decimated a generation. The Ghost Road is a vivid and unforgettable account of the devastating final months of the First World War

"Безмолвие девушек" – исторический роман букеровского лауреата, британской писательницы Пэт Баркер • Все знают сказание о Троянской войне, когда огромная армия греков осадила Трою, чтобы отбить у вероломных чужаков похищенную ими царицу Елену - а заодно поживиться несметными богатствами, хранившимися за стенами города. В войне приняло участие множество великих героев, главным из которых был Ахилл - сияющий, несравненный, богоравный. В конце войны он пал жертвой предательства и коварства, однако обессмертил свое имя в веках… Но так ли гладко все было на самом деле? Лучше всего об этом знала троянская царевна Брисеида, захваченная Ахиллом во время одного из греческих набегов и ставшая его рабой и наложницей. И вот ее рассказ - о ненависти, ужасе, безысходности, лишениях, смирении… и любви

От автора "Безмолвия девушек", писательницы, удостоенной Букеровской премии и номинированной на Женскую премию по литературе • Первая часть обласканной критиками трилогии Пэт Баркер - незабываемая история об искусстве и войне от мастерицы прозы, посвящённой войне и глубинам человеческого сердца • Весна 1914 года. Ученики Школы изящных искусств Феликса Слейда собрались в студии Генри Тонкса в ожидании его уроков рисования с натуры. Только вот Полу Тарранту не до учёбы - она лишь подталкивает его к тревожащим и полным сомнений размышлениям о его будущем наследии. Когда начинается война, Пола не берут в армию, но он добровольно решает стать медиком в бельгийском отделении Красного креста... аккурат когда он и его однокашница Элинор Брук признаются в любви друг к другу

From the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls • The first novel in Pat Barker's acclaimed 'Life Class' trilogy - an unforgettable story of art and war, from one of our greatest writers on war and the human heart • Spring, 1914. The students at the Slade School of Art gather in Henry Tonks's studio for his life-drawing class. But for Paul Tarrant the class is troubling, underscoring his own uncertainty about making a mark on the world. When war breaks out and the army won't take Paul, he enlists in the Belgian Red Cross just as he and fellow student Elinor Brooke admit their feelings for one another. Amidst the devastation in Ypres, Paul comes to see the world anew - but have his experiences changed him completely?

From the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls • The second novel in Pat Barker's acclaimed 'Life Class' trilogy - a dark and compelling examination of desire, friendship and the horror of war, from one of our greatest writers on war and the human heart • When Toby is reported 'Missing, Believed Killed', another secret casts a lengthening shadow over Elinor's world: how exactly did Toby die - and why? Elinor determines to uncover the truth. Only then can she finally close the door to Toby's room. Moving from the Slade School of Art to Queen Mary's Hospital, where surgery and art intersect in the rebuilding of the shattered faces of the wounded, Toby's Room is a riveting drama of identity, damage, intimacy and loss

When Tom Seymour, a child psychologist, plunges into a river to save a young man from drowning, he unwittingly reopens a chapter from his past he'd hoped to forget. For Tom already knows Danny Miller. When Danny was ten Tom helped imprison him for the killing of an old woman. Now out of prison with a new identity, Danny has some questions - questions he thinks only Tom can answer • Reluctantly, Tom is drawn back into Danny's world - a place where the border between good and evil, innocence and guilt is blurred and confused. But when Danny's demands on Tom become extreme, Tom wonders whether he has crossed a line of his own - and in crossing it, can he ever go back?

Все знают сказание о Троянской войне, когда огромная армия греков осадила Трою, чтобы отбить у вероломных чужаков похищенную ими царицу Елену – а заодно поживиться несметными богатствами, хранившимися за стенами города. В войне приняло участие множество великих героев, главным из которых был Ахилл – сияющий, несравненный, богоравный. В конце войны он пал жертвой предательства и коварства, однако обессмертил свое имя в веках… Но так ли гладко все было на самом деле? Лучше всего об этом знала троянская царевна Брисеида, захваченная Ахиллом во время одного из греческих набегов и ставшая его рабой и наложницей. И вот ее рассказ – о ненависти, ужасе, безысходности, лишениях, смирении и любви

Written by the author of "Union Street", "The Century's Daughter" and "The Man Who Wasn't There", this is a story about a killer who is roaming the streets of a northern city, setting off a wave of terror • A city and its people are in the grip of a killer who is roaming the northern city, singling out prostitutes. The face of his latest victim stares out from every newspaper and billboard, haunting the women who walk the streets. But life and work go on. Brenda, with three children, can't afford to give up while Audrey, now in her forties, desperately goes on 'working the cars'. And then, when another women is savagely murdered, Jean, her lover, takes desperate measures

Vivid, bawdy and bitter' (The Times), Pat Barker's first novel shows the women of Union Street, young and old, meeting the harsh challeges of poverty and survival in a precarious world. There's Kelly, at eleven, neglected and independent, dealing with a squalid rape; Dinah, knocking on sixty and still on the game; Joanne, not yet twenty, not yet married, and already pregnant; Old Alice, welcoming her impending death; Muriel helplessly watching the decline of her stoical husband. And linking them all, watching over them all, mother to half the street, is fiery, indomitable Iris

Penguin Readers is a graded reading series for English Language Teaching (ELT) markets, designed for teenagers and young adults learning English as a foreign or second language • In Yukon, Canada during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, strong sled dogs are in high demand. Buck is stolen from his comfortable home in California and sold into service as a sled dog in Alaska. Will he survive life in the wild? • Penguin Readers is a series of the best new fiction, essential non-fiction and popular classics written for learners of English as a foreign language. Beautifully illustrated and carefully adapted, the series introduces language learners around the world to the bestselling authors and most compelling content from Penguin Random House. The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework and include language activities that help readers to develop key skills

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online • Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content • The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning (CEFR). Exercises at the back of each Reader help language learners to practise grammar, vocabulary, and key exam skills. Before, during and after-reading questions test readers story comprehension and develop vocabulary

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online • Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content • The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning (CEFR). Exercises at the back of each Reader help language learners to practise grammar, vocabulary, and key exam skills. Before, during and after-reading questions test readers story comprehension and develop vocabulary