Penguin Three Tales Флобер Гюстав

"Госпожа Бовари" стоила Флоберу более четырех лет напряженного беспрерывного труда: писатель не только тщательно разработал психологическую основу романа, но и приложил все свои силы, чтобы довести текст до идеала. Роман рождался из колоссального количества черновиков, готовых фрагментов и сюжетных вариантов. Эмма Бовари тяготится браком, пускается навстречу любовным приключениям и по легкомыслию истрачивает все небольшое состояние мужа • Трагическая история провинциалки получила скандальную известность после первой публикации, а сам Флобер и его издатели - обвинение в "оскорблении общественной морали, религии и добрых нравов". Однако уже очень скоро "Госпожа Бовари" была по достоинству оценена во всем мире и признана одним из литературных шедевров

Part love story, part historical novel, part satire, and an evocative tale youthful passion, Gustave Flaubert's A Sentimental Education is translated by Robert Baldick and revised with an introduction by Geoffrey Wall in Penguin Classics • Frederic Moreau is a law student returning home to Normandy from Paris when he first notices Mme Arnoux, a slender, dark woman several years older than himself. It is the beginning of an infatuation that will last a lifetime. He befriends her husband, influential businessman Jacques Arnoux, and their paths cross and re-cross over the years. Through financial upheaval, political turmoil and countless affairs, Mme Arnoux remains the constant, unattainable love of Moreau's life. Flaubert described his sweeping story of a young man's passions, ambitions and amours as 'the moral history of the men of my generation'

Flaubert's erotically charged and psychologically acute portrayal of a married woman's affair caused a moral outcry on its publication in 1857. Its heroine, Emma Bovary, is stifled by provincial life as the wife of a doctor. An ardent devourer of sentimental novels, she seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment, and when real life continues to fail to live up to her romantic expectations, the consequences are devastating. It was deemed so lifelike that many women claimed they were the model for his heroine; but Flaubert insisted: 'Madame Bovary, c'est moi.'

A major new translation of one of the most popular classics of all time, now in a gorgeous deluxe edition • Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment and the consequences are devastating. Flaubert's erotically charged and psychologically acute portrayal of Emma Bovary caused a moral outcry on its publication in 1857. It was deemed so lifelike that many women claimed they were the model for his heroine; but Flaubert insisted: 'Madame Bovary, c'est moi'

Three hours to save the people you love • In rural Somerset in the middle of a blizzard, the unthinkable happens: a school is under siege • Pupils and teachers barricade themselves into classrooms, the library, the theatre. The headmaster lies wounded in the library, unable to help his trapped students and staff. Outside, a police psychiatrist must identify the gunmen, while parents gather desperate for news • In three intense hours, all must find the courage to stand up to evil and save the people they love

С пафосом и юмором Флобер представляет себе неизведанную жизнь служанки • Представляем классику Little Black: 80 книг к 80-летию Пингвина. Little Black Classics прославляет огромный ассортимент и разнообразие классической литературы Penguin, включающей книги со всего мира на протяжении многих столетий. Они переносят нас от полета на воздушном шаре над викторианским Лондоном к цветущему саду в Японии, от Огненной земли до Калифорнии 16 века и русской степи. Здесь представлены рассказы лирические и жестокие; стихи эпические и интимные; эссе сатирические и вдохновляющие; и идеи, которые сформировали жизни миллионов • Гюстав Флобер (1821-1880). Произведения Флобера, доступные в Penguin Classics, - "Мадам Бовари", "Сентиментальное воспитание", "Три сказки" и "Саламбо"

Пятьдесят новых книг, воспевающих новаторский дух серии Penguin Modern Classics, от вдохновляющих эссе до новаторской художественной литературы и поэзии • - О жестокость времени, которое разрушает все сущее! • "Соблазнительные, странные и вызывающие трепет истории из Японии начала 20-го века: "За тюрьмой" Нагаи, "Доктор философии в чулане" Уно и "глубоко жуткий генерал Ким" Акутагавы • Книга на английском языке • Fifty new books, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry • 'Oh the cruelty of time, that destroys all things! • 'Beguiling, strange and hair-raising tales from early 20th century Japan: Nagai's Behind the Prison, Uno's Closet LLB and Akutagawa's deeply macabre General Kim

Подсчитано, что около трех миллионов человек погибло в советских лагерях принудительного труда на Колыме, в северо-восточной части Сибири. Сам Варлам Шаламов провел там семнадцать лет, и в этих рассказах он ярко запечатлел жизнь обычных людей, оказавшихся в ужасных обстоятельствах, чьи надежды и планы простирались дальше, чем на несколько часов • Это новое дополненное издание объединяет два сборника, ранее опубликованных в Соединенных Штатах под названием "Колымские рассказы" и "Графит" • Книга на английском языке • It is estimated that some three million people died in the Soviet forced-labour camps of Kolyma, in the northeastern area of Siberia. Shalamov himself spent seventeen years there, and in these stories he vividly captures the lives of ordinary people caught up in terrible circumstances, whose hopes and plans extended to further than a few hours This new enlarged edition combines two collections previously published in the United States as Kolyma Tales and Graphite

Containing an enchanting mix of familiar favourites and hidden gems, the Penguin Classics edition of Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales is translated by Tiina Nunnally and edited with an introduction by Jackie Wullschlager • The first writer to create timeless, universal fairy tales from his own imagination, Hans Christian Andersen conjured up a world of icy queens, match girls and tin soldiers, rewarded virtue and unfulfilled desire. Rich with popular tales such as 'The Emperor's New Clothes' and 'The Ugly Duckling', this revelatory new collection contains many later, darker and rarely collected stories, such as 'Auntie Toothache' and 'The Shadow', in which a man's shadow slyly takes over his life • This sparkling new translation captures the eccentric charm of Andersen's original, colloquial Danish style as never before

Puskin's masterpieces in prose, in sparkling new translations by the award-winning Pevear and Volokhonsky • The father of Russian literature, Pushkin is beloved not only for his poetry but also for his brilliant stories, which range from dramatic narratives of love, obsession and betrayal to lively comic tales, and from satirical epistolary tales to imaginative historical fiction. This volume includes all Pushkin's prose in brilliant new translations, including his masterpieces 'The Queen of Spades', 'The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin' and 'The Captain's Daughter'

"Трое в лодке, не считая собаки" - самая известная книга английского прозаика и драматурга Джерома Клапки Джерома. Изданная в Англии в 1889 году, она имела оглушительный успех • Трое друзей вместе со своим любимцем фокстерьером Монморанси отправляются в плавание на лодке по Темзе • Путешествие джентльменов сопровождается множеством неурядиц и происшествий, но они и не думают унывать • Автор видит иронию в любой ситуации и не перестает радовать читателя тонкими и остроумными описаниями • Книга на английском языке • A comic masterpiece that has never been out of print since it was first published in 1889, Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat includes an introduction and notes by Jeremy Lewis in Penguin Classics • Martyrs to hypochondria and general seediness, J

The Strange Tales of Pu Songling (1640-1715) are exquisite and amusing miniatures that are regarded as the pinnacle of classical Chinese fiction. With their elegant prose, witty wordplay and subtle charm, the 104 stories in this selection reveal a world in which nothing is as it seems. Here a Taoist monk conjures up a magical pear tree, a scholar recounts his previous incarnations, a woman out-foxes the fox-spirit that possesses her, a child bride gives birth to a thimble-sized baby, a ghostly city appears out of nowhere and a heartless daughter-in-law is turned into a pig. In his tales of humans coupling with shape-shifting spirits, bizarre phenomena, haunted buildings and enchanted objects, Pu Songling pushes back the boundaries of human experience and enlightens as he entertains