Penguin Seven Gothic Tales Dinesen Isak

Рассказы в сборнике "Зимние истории" посвящены теме тоски. Написанные после ее возвращения из Кении и в мрачные дни нацистской оккупации, эти рассказы берут свое начало в детстве Исака Динесена в Дании. Исак Динесен был псевдонимом Карен Бликсен, родившейся в Рунгстеде, Дания, в 1885 году. После изучения искусства в Копенгагене, Париже и Риме она вышла замуж за своего двоюродного брата, барона Брора Бликсен-Финеке, в 1914 году. Вместе они отправились в Кению управлять кофейной плантацией. После их развода в 1921 году она продолжала управлять плантацией, пока крах на кофейном рынке не вынудил ее вернуться в Данию в 1931 году • Книга на английском языке • If one theme unifies the 11 tales collected here, it is that of longing. Written after her return from Kenya and during the dark days of the Nazi occupation, they derive their themes and locales from Isak Dinesen's childhood in Denmark

Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith • Karen Blixen, author of the acclaimed memoir Out of Africa, was also a master of the short story form: her tales offer luminous meditations on rebirth and redemption, on the mystery and unexpectedness of human behaviour. Alongside 'Babette's Feast', this selection also includes 'Sorrow-Acre', often thought to be one of her finest stories

These five rich, witty and magical stories from the author of Out of Africa include one of her most well-known tales, 'Babette's Feast', which was made into the classic film. It tells the story of a French cook working in a puritanical Norwegian community, who treats her employers to the decadent feast of a lifetime. There is also a real-life Prospero and his Ariel in 'Tempests', a mysterious pearl-fisher in 'The Diver' and a brief, tragic encounter in 'The Ring'. All the stories have a mystic, fairy-tale quality, linked by themes of angels, the sea, dreams and fate. They were among the last to be written by Isak Dinesen, and show her as a master of short fiction

She turned into a frog, into a lizard, into all kinds of other reptiles and then into a spindle. In these tales, young women go on long and difficult quests, wicked stepmothers turn children into geese and tsars ask dangerous riddles, with help or hindrance from magical dolls, cannibal witches, talking skulls, stolen wives, and brothers disguised as wise birds. Half the tales here are true oral tales, collected by folklorists during the last two centuries, while the others are reworking of oral tales by four great Russian writers: Alexander Pushkin, Nadezhda Teffi, Pavel Bazhov and Andrey Platonov. In his introduction to these new translations, Robert Chandler writes about the primitive magic inherent in these tales and the taboos around them, while in the afterword, Sibelan Forrester discusses the witch Baba Yaga

In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature. A storytelling competition within a group of pilgrims from all walks of life is the occasion for a series of tales that range from the Knight's account of courtly love and the ebullient Wife of Bath's Arthurian legend to the ribald anecdotes of the Miller and the Cook. This masterly and vivid modern English verse translation retains all the vigour and poetry of Chaucer's fourteenth-century Middle English

In eighteenth century France, Charles Perrault rescued from the oral tradition fairy tales that are known and loved even today by virtually all children in the West. Angela Carter came across Perrault's work and set out to adapt the stories for modern readers of English. In breathing new life into these classic fables, she produced versions that live on as classics in their own right, marked as much by her signature wit, irony, and subversiveness as they are by the qualities that have made them universally appealing for centuries

Part of a new six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by award-winning director Guillermo del Toro • American Supernatural Tales is the ultimate collection of weird and frightening American short fiction. As Stephen King will attest, the popularity of the occult in American literature has only grown since the days of Edgar Allan Poe. The book celebrates the richness of this tradition with chilling contributions from some of the nation's brightest literary lights, including Poe himself, H. P. Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, Ray Bradbury, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and-of course-Stephen King. By turns phantasmagoric, spectral, and demonic, this is a frighteningly good collection of stories

Sarah loves being a mother - it defines her • Every year she writes a birthday letter of love to her adored daughter, Izzy, now seven. And after she falls pregnant, she promises Izzy that the arrival of a baby brother will make their family complete. So when she collapses a few months later, the safe happy life Izzy knows is shattered • With Sarah's future, and the future of her pregnancy, in their hands, her husband and sister disagree fiercely about her treatment. The once close family starts to fall apart • The clock is ticking, and the doctors need a decision. Can those who love Sarah get beyond the fog of grief and anger to figure out what's for the best? Can they ever forgive each other for the decisions they make? • Will Izzy lose everything she knows and loves?

"Семь столпов мудрости" - автобиографический рассказ Т.Э. Лоуренса,также известного как "Лоуренс Аравийский",о его службе в арабском восстании во время Первой мировой войны, опубликованный в журнале Penguin Modern Classics • Хотя Лоуренс "постоянно и горько стыдился" того,что арабы подняли восстание против турок в результате лживых британских обещаний о самоуправлении, он возглавил их в победоносной кампании,которая произвела революцию в военном искусстве. "Семь столпов мудрости" воссоздает эпические события с необычайной яркостью. По словам Э. М. Форстера, "Вокруг этого шеста военной хроники Лоуренс развесил непревзойденную ткань портретов,описаний, философий,эмоций,приключений, мечтаний". Каким бы ущербным ни был Т.Э. Лоуренс, он является одной из самых интересных фигур двадцатого века

Жанр готического романа, особенно популярный в период между 1765 и 1825 годами, основывается на ужасных сверхъестественных явлениях и событиях, экзотике и напряжении • В этом издании, дополненном вступительной статьёй от историка литературы Марио Праца, собраны три особенно важных готических романа • «Замок Отранто» Хораса Уолпола, опубликованный анонимно в 1765 году, является первым произведением своего жанра и, пожалуй, самым готическим в подборке • «Ватек», повесть эксцентричного миллионера Уильяма Бекфорда, опубликованная в 1786 году, добавляет в готический романтизм пламенные мотивы «1000 и 1 ночи» • «Франкенштейн, или Современный Прометей», написанный Мэри Шелли в 1818 году, сегодня вызывает мурашки так же, как и в день своей публикации • Книга на английском языке

Родоначальник "литературы ужасов", известнейший американский автор мистических детективов, Эдгар Аллан По широко известен именно своими короткими рассказами, в которых проявилась вся многогранность его таланта. Увлекающие, ужасающие и неповторимые истории ждут вас на страницах этой книги! • Читайте зарубежную литературу в оригинале!

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