Penguin Selected Short Stories Вулф Вирджиния

One of the greatest French novelists, Balzac was also an accomplished writer of shorter fiction. This volume includes twelve of his finest short stories - many of which feature characters from his epic series of novels the Comedie Humaine. Compelling tales of acute social and psychological insight, they fully demonstrate the mastery of suspense and revelation that were the hallmarks of Balzac's genius. In The Atheist's Mass, we learn the true reason for a distinguished atheist surgeon's attendance at religious services; La Grande Breteche describes the horrific truth behind the locked doors of a decaying country mansion, while The Red Inn relates a brutal tale of murder and betrayal. A fascinating counterpoint to the renowned novels, all the stories collected here stand by themselves as mesmerizing works by one of the finest writers of nineteenth-century France

Июнь 1939 года. Обитатели загородного года заняты подготовкой к ежегодному сельскому празднику. Из года в год на празднике ставят пьесу, посвященную истории Англии. Однако грядущая война темным облаком нависает над деревней. Меняется сама суть прошлого и настоящего, и напрашивается новый акт пьесы…Размышления и личные драмы персонажей, воспевают и в то же время высмеивают английскую идентичность, а автор пьесы, эксцентричная мисс Ла Троб, исполняет призрачную роль художника • «Между актов» – это последний роман Вирджинии Вулф • Книга на английском языке • It is June in 1939, and the inhabitants of a country house prepare to host the annual village pageant in its grounds. It will tell the stories of English history, as it does every year. Yet the coming of war broods over the whole community, changing the meaning of past and present, and heralding a new act

«Комната Джейкоба» – это история молодого человека, вступающего во взрослую жизнь, рассказанная через восприятие окружающих его людей – от детства, проведенного на корнуоллском побережье, до учебы в Кембриджском университете. Его характер раскрывается через почти что не связанные между собой происшествия и впечатления – письма его матери, разговоры друзей или мысли близких ему женщин. Затем читатель видит его в свете уличного фонаря. На дворе 1914 год, и Европа находится на грани Первой мировой войны • «Комната Джейкоба» – это экспериментальный роман английской писательницы Вирджинии Вулф, написанный в 1922 году. Книга станет прекрасным подарком для поклонников творчества Вулф • Книга на английском языке • Jacob Flanders is a young man passing from adolescence to adulthood in a hazy rite of passage

Перед Кэтрин Хилбери, молодой красивой девушкой из обеспеченной семьи, встал непростой выбор: помолвка с Уильямом, подающим надежду поэтом, или опасное влечение к Ральфу, отношениям с которым препятствует ее статус. Тем временем судьба Кэтрин тесно переплетается с жизнями двух других женщин, суфражистки Мэри Датчет и ее собственной матери. Их влияние определит будущее девушки… • «Ночь и день» – это второй роман английской писательницы Вирджинии Вулф, история любви и социальная комедия, переосмысляющая все устоявшиеся традиции жанра. Центральной темой романа стало положение женщин в обществе и сама суть личного опыта. Книга станет прекраснымм подарком для поклонников творчества писательницы • Книга на английском языке • Virginia Woolf's delicate second novel is both a love story and a social comedy, yet it also subtly undermines these traditions, questioning a woman's role and the very nature of experience

«Маяк тогда был серебристой смутной башней с желтым глазом, который внезапно и нежно открывался по вечерам» • Роман Вирджинии Вулф «На маяк» – это описание семейного отдыха четы Рэмзи, за которым спрятаны рассуждения о браке, воспитании детей и о самом детстве, о скорби, тирании и обиде. Вот уже несколько лет семейство Рэмзи проводит лето в домике на одном из шотландских островов. Им казалось, что так будет всегда, пока над Европой не нависла тень Первой мировой войны. Их привычной жизни и старым общественным укладам пришел конец. Все события показаны через внутренние переживания и воспоминания героев • Впервые роман был опубликован в 1927 году. В те времена роман был поистине революционным, поскольку отвергал литературные традиции викторианской и эдвардианской эпох

Originally written to entertain, move or chill, the eight short stories in this collection accompanied by parallel English translations now also help students gain deeper insights into French literature and life • Arranged in approximate order of difficulty, the range of stories is wide, from the stylized wit of Raymond Queneau to the beautifully written ambiguities of Philippe Sollers, from Pierre Gascar’s exploration of childhood as a background to a tale of infidelity to Henri Thomas’s gentle, ironic look at war. All make wonderful reads in either language

This second volume of Italian Short Stories, with its parallel translations aims - as the first volume did - to exemplify the richness and variety of Italian writing of the twentieth century. In this volume, however, some of the language used is a little more advanced and the translations slightly less literal. Moravia and Calvino, both well known to British and American readers, appear again along with Italo Svevo, Comisso, Vittorini, Rigoni - Stern, Fenoglio and Pasolini so that the literature of both Rome and the provinces is fully represented. There are also discussions of the less familiar words and dialect expressions in the Italian text

The eight stories in this volume offer a varied and representative collection of twentieth century German authors from a range of political and cultural backgrounds. Styles include the non-fictional manner of Kluge's montage technique and the contrasting classical storytelling of Penzoldt • With reading notes and parallel texts in German and English, this anthology is valuable to the German student of English as well as the English student of German. Reflecting trends in German literature, the stories have been selected for their quality as well as their readability, and will enhance the appreciation of both languages

The eight stories in this collection, by Moravian, Pavese, Pratolina, and other modern writers, have been selected as being representative of contemporary Italian writing. The English translations provided are literal rather than literary, and there are notes and biographies to help the student of Italian. However, the volume can also be helpful to Italians, who can improve their English by studying a strict rendering of stories with which thet may already be familiar

Much maligned in pre-war Germany, the short story enjoyed a creative rebirth in 1945. Initially imported by the Allies, the form also matched perfectly the prevailing mood of irony, objectivity and mistrust of the didactic • With the original German text running alongside English translations, this collection features stories from eight outstanding post-war authors including Heinrich Boll, Ilse Aichinger and Reinhard Lettau which students will find both educational and engrossing. Boll’s opening story 'Pale Anna' follows a soldier returning home, his situation comparable to that of the writer in the first months of peace: he knows no-one and has few words not linked to painful memories. This poignant narrative is followed by a variety of tales representing the diversity of the time and including satires, explorations of private obsessions and experiments in form and language

These eight stories by leading 20th century French writers offer fascinating insights into French life and literature and are accompanied by a parallel English text, making them valuable for both French and English language students • Among the diverse and entertaining stories in the collection are the wistful masterpiece ‘Green Tobacco’ by Clair Sainte-Soline; the exuberant tale of ‘The Ants’ by the post-war king of cafe society, Boris Vian, and a suspense in the nineteenth-century erotic tradition from Andre de Mandiargues

From the reign of the Tsars in the early 19th century to the collapse of the Soviet Union and beyond, the short story has long occupied a central place in Russian culture. Included are pieces from many of the acknowledged masters of Russian literature - including Pushkin, Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and Solzhenitsyn - alongside tales by long-suppressed figures such as the subversive Kryzhanowsky and the surrealist Shalamov. Whether written in reaction to the cruelty of the bourgeoisie, the bureaucracy of communism or the torture of the prison camps, they offer a wonderfully wide-ranging and exciting representation of one of the most vital and enduring forms of Russian literature