Penguin The Mayor of Casterbridge Гарди Томас

В молодости Майкл Хенчард совершил ужасную ошибку - продал свою жену и дочь. Тогда он зарекся, что не будет пить 21 год и искупит свой грех. Хенчард сдержал слово. Из человека, потерявшего все, он превратился в успешного оптового торговца зерном и стал мэром Кестербриджа. Спустя 18 лет Хенчард вновь встречает жену Сьюзен и дочь. Семья воссоединяется после долгой разлуки. Но мужчина, которому Хенчард когда-то продал жену, вновь появляется в их жизни. Теперь он пришел, чтобы забрать то, что принадлежит ему… • Мощный роман Томаса Харди "Мэр Кэстербриджа" является чрезвычайно драматичным произведением, трагически разыгранным на ярком фоне сплоченного дорсетширского городка • Книга на английском языке • Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The movements of his mind seemed to tend to the thought that some power was working against him.' When Henchard, an out-of-work hay-trusser gets drunk and sells his wife at a country fair, his life will never be the same. Eighteen years later, his wife and daughter return to Casterbridge to find that Henchard has become Mayor. Although he's spent most of his life attempting to repent for his actions, he remains a rash and impetuous man. Hardy portrays Henchard as a tragic hero, searching for love and acceptance from the community around him, posing the overarching question of whether we shape our own fate, or whether life deals us an inevitable hand

D H Lawrence remarked that Hardy's best novels were about 'the struggle into love and the struggle with love', and The Major of Castlebridge is no exception. One of the long series of Wessex tales include Far from The Madding Crowd, it is the story of the brooding and sometimes brutal Michael Henchard and the women with whom he searches for happiness in the harsh world of the nineteenth-century rural England

«Мэр Кэстербриджа» – один из самых ярких и увлекательных великих романов Викторианской эпохи. На его страницах читателя ждут яркие примеры несравненного литературного мастерства Томаса Гарди. У классика английской литературы получилось создать трагедию поистине шекспировских масштабов с продуманным до мелочей и стремительно развивающимся сюжетом. Герой этой книги с подзаголовком «История человека с характером» – Майкл Хенчард, мужчина сильный и стойкий, но не лишённый пороков. Много лет назад он спьяну продал свою жену и маленькую дочь матросу на ярмарке за пять гиней. Ужаснувшись содеянному, он решил начать жизнь с чистого листа, отказался от алкоголя и стал сначала уважаемым торговцем зерном, мэром города Кэстербридж и одним из столпов местного сообщества

«Мэр Кэстербриджа» – один из самых ярких и увлекательных великих романов Викторианской эпохи. На его страницах читателя ждут яркие примеры несравненного литературного мастерства Томаса Гарди. У классика английской литературы получилось создать трагедию поистине шекспировских масштабов с продуманным до мелочей и стремительно развивающимся сюжетом. Герой этой книги с подзаголовком «История человека с характером» – Майкл Хенчард, мужчина сильный и стойкий, но не лишённый пороков. Много лет назад он спьяну продал свою жену и маленькую дочь матросу на ярмарке за пять гиней. Ужаснувшись содеянному, он решил начать жизнь с чистого листа, отказался от алкоголя и стал сначала уважаемым торговцем зерном, мэром города Кэстербридж и одним из столпов местного сообщества

The Penguin English Library Edition of The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells • 'Death!' I shouted. 'Death is coming! Death!' • In this pioneering, shocking and nightmarish tale, naive suburban Londoners investigate a strange cylinder from space, but are instantly incinerated by an all-destroying heat-ray. Soon, gigantic killing machines that chase and feed on human prey are threatening the whole of humanity. A pioneering work of alien invasion fiction, The War of the World's journalistic style contrasts disturbingly with its horrifying visions of the human race under siege • The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War

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The Voyage of the Beagle is Charles Darwin's account of the momentous voyage which set in motion the current of intellectual events leading to The Origin of Species. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Janet Brown and Michael Neve • When HMS Beagle sailed out of Devonport on 27 December 1831, Charles Darwin was twenty-two and setting off on the voyage of a lifetime. His journal, here reprinted in a shortened form, shows a naturalist making patient observations concerning geology, natural history, people, places and events. Volcanoes in the Galapagos, the Gossamer spider of Patagonia and the Australasian coral reefs - all are to be found in these extraordinary writings. The insights made here were to set in motion the intellectual currents that led to the theory of evolution, and the most controversial book of the Victorian age: The Origin of Species

The most important historical source on one of the most powerful leaders of the ancient world, Arrian's The Campaigns of Alexander illustrates how Alexander the Great came to rule over a vast empire of his own making, translated from the Greej by Aubrey de Selincourt, and revised with an introduction and notes by J.R. Hamilton in Penguin Classics • Although written over four hundred years after Alexander's death, Arrian's Campaigns of Alexander is the most reliable account of the man and his achievements we have. Arrian's own experience as a military commander gave him unique insights into the life of the world's greatest conqueror. He tells of Alexander's violent suppression of the Theban rebellion, his total defeat of Persia and his campaigns through Egypt, India and Babylon - establishing new cities and destroying others in his path

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

The Penguin English Library Edition of The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells • 'That black figure, with its eyes of fire, struck down through all my adult thoughts and feelings, and for a moment the forgotten horrors of childhood came back to my mind' • Adrift in a dinghy, Edward Prendick, the single survivor from the good ship Lady Vain, is rescued by a vessel carrying a profoundly unusual cargo - a menagerie of savage animals. Tended to recovery by their keeper Montgomery, who gives him dark medicine that tastes of blood, Prendick soon finds himself stranded upon an uncharted island in the Pacific with his rescuer and the beasts. Here, he meets Montgomery's master, the sinister Dr. Moreau - a brilliant scientist whose notorious experiments in vivisection have caused him to abandon the civilised world