Penguin The Blazing World and Other Writings Cavendish Margaret

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

Fifteen exquisite tales from one of the world'd greatest writers of the short story • Innovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with colour, these stories were written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield's tragically short life. Many are set in the author's native New Zealand, others in England and the French Riviera. All are revelations of the unspoken, half-understood emotions that make up everyday experience - from the blackly comic 'The Daughters of the Late Colonel', and the short, sharp sketch 'Miss Brill', in which a lonely woman's precarious sense of self is brutally destroyed, to the vivid impressionistic evocation of family life in 'At the Bay'. 'All that I write,' Mansfield said, 'all that I am - is on the borders of the sea. It is a kind of playing.'

This volume includes Family Happiness; The Kreutzer Sonata; The Devil and Father Sergius. The four stories are all about love, but they take very different attitudes towards it. Tolstoy knows that jis readers have fallen in love and also, often, fallen out of it; they have wanted to kill their loved ones; they have lusted vigorously; or desperately sought the approval and even worship of others - Tolstoy depends on our own memories to entagle us in his tragic stories

Рэймонд Чандлер был выдающимся американским писателем детективной литературы, и в сборнике "Большой сон и другие романы" представлены три лучших романа о пьющем и философствующем детективе Филипе Марлоу • Рэймонд Чандлер создал ищущего неприятностей калифорнийского частного детектива Филипа Марлоу для своего первого великого романа "Большой сон" в 1939 году. Связь Марлоу с семьей Стернвуд и сопутствующими ей яркими фигурами преступного мира - это фон для истории, отражающей весь потускневший блеск великой американской мечты. Культовый образ крутого детектива горит так же ярко в "Прощай, моя милая", по следам пропавшего певца из ночного клуба. А неподражаемый Марлоу способен доказать, что неприятности действительно его дело, в блестящей эпитафии Рэймонда Чандлера "Долгое прощание"

"Записи Асперна и другие истории" - замечательная новая подборка рассказов Генри Джеймса, исследующая взаимосвязь между искусством и жизнью • В этом томе собраны семь самых лучших рассказов Генри Джеймса, все они посвящены взаимосвязи между искусством и жизнью. В "Записях Асперна" критик полон решимости заполучить в свои руки бумаги великого поэта, спрятанные в выцветшем венецианском доме. "Автор Бельтраффио", "Урок мастера" и "Фигура на ковре" посвящены тревожным встречам наивных молодых людей со своими литературными героями. В "Средних годах" умирающий романист начинает осознавать свой потенциал, в то время как "Настоящая вещь" и "Гревилл Фэйн" исследуют напряженность между художественным и коммерческим успехом. Эти истории творческой жизни раскрывают Джеймса с его ироничной, провокационной стороны

The Penguin English Library edition • Many readers would claim that The Adventure of the Copper Beeches or The Man with the Twisted Lip was their favourite Sherlock Holmes story - but then that would be doing an injustice to The Adventure of the Yellow Face and The Problem of Thor Bridge. It is just as well that in the end we do not have to choose - as if we did then there would be no doubt it should be The Adventure of the Six Napoleons

This is the second of a new two-volume edition of the works of Descartes in Penguin Classics. This volume is designed for students who approach Descartes from the point of view of his philosophy of science. Includes DISCOURSE ON METHOD, the most accessible and well-known of his discussions of scientific method; the first seven chapters of the earlier, unpublished work, THE WORLD; as well as a selection of Descartes' correspondence and his replies to his critics

Брэм Стокер, наиболее известный по культовому роману «Дракула», также написал множество коротких рассказов. «Гость Дракулы и другие странные истории» – это сборник страшных историй, опубликованных его вдовой. В сборник также вошел роман «Логово белого червя», полный мрачных тайн и леденящего кровь ужаса. В этом сборнике рассказов в полной мере раскрывается талант Стокера как мастера готического хоррора. От «Гостя Дракулы» до «Дома судьи» и «Крукенских песков» – в этих страшных историях герои оказываются на грани между жизнью и смертью, человеком и животным, сном и реальностью • Книга на английском языке • Although Bram Stoker is best known for his world-famous novel Dracula, he also wrote many shorter works on the strange and the macabre. This collection, comprising Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories, a volume of spine-chilling short stories collected and published by Stoker's widow after his death, and The Lair of the White Worm, an intensely intriguing novel of myths, legends and unspeakable evil, demonstrate the full range of his horror writing

What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard-but only one variety of ketchup? What do football players teach us about how to hire teachers? What does hair dye tell us about the history of the 20th century? • In the past decade, Malcolm Gladwell has written three books that have radically changed how we understand our world and ourselves: The Tipping Point; Blink; and Outliers. Now, in What the Dog Saw, he brings together, for the first time, the best of his writing from The New Yorker over the same period • Here is the bittersweet tale of the inventor of the birth control pill, and the dazzling inventions of the pasta sauce pioneer Howard Moscowitz. Gladwell sits with Ron Popeil, the king of the American kitchen, as he sells rotisserie ovens, and divines the secrets of Cesar Millan, the "dog whisperer" who can calm savage animals with the touch of his hand

Ward No. 6 and Other Stories 1892-1895 collects stories which show Anton Chekhov beginning to confront complex, ambiguous and often extreme emotions in his short fiction. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with notes by Ronald Wilks, and an introduction by J. Douglas Clayton • These stories from the middle period of Chekhov's career include - influenced by his own experiences as a doctor - 'Ward No. 6', a savage indictment of the medical profession set in a mental hospital; 'The Black Monk', portraying an academic who has strange hallucinations, explores ideas of genius and insanity; 'Murder', in which religious fervour leads to violence; while in 'The Student', Chekhov's favourite story, a young man recounts a tale from the gospels and undergoes a spiritual epiphany

Robin Lane Fox's The Classical World: An Epic History of Greece and Rome is a comprehensive and enthralling introduction to Ancient civilization • The classical civilizations of Greece and Rome dominated the world for centuries and continue to intrigue and enlighten us with their inventions, whether philosophy, politics, theatre, athletics, celebrity, science or the pleasures of horse racing. Robin Lane Fox's spellbinding history, spans almost a thousand years of change from the foundation of the world's first democracy in Athens to the Roman Republic and the Empire under Hadrian • Bringing great figures such as Homer, Socrates, Cicero, Alexander, Antony and Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, Augustus and the first Christian martyrs to life, exploring freedom, justice and luxury, this wonderfully exciting tour brings the turbulent histories of Greece and Rome together in a masterly study

James Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner is a Scottish classic, a quintessentially Gothic tale of psychological horror, and a relentless attack on Calvinist dogma. The Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Karl Miller • Robert Wringham's family is composed of a dissolute father and brother, a pious mother, and a rival father in the person of a fanatical Calvinist minister. He comes to believe that he is one of the elect, predestined to be saved, while others are damned. Sure of his freedom from the dictates of morality, he embarks on a series of crimes in the company of a new friend Gil-Martin, a man of many likenesses who can be mistaken for Robert, and who explains that they are as one in the holy work of purifying the world