Penguin Tales from Shakespeare Lamb Charles and Mary

Tales from Shakespeare is a perfect introduction to Shakespeare's greatest plays. Charles and Mary Lamb vividly bring to life the power of Hamlet and Othello, and the fun of As You Like It. They never lose the feel of Shakespeare's language and the tales are classic literature in their own right

These tales are the perfect introduction to Shakespeare's greatest plays. Renowned writers and essayists of the 18th century, siblings Charles and Mary Lamb vividly bring to life the power of Hamlet and Othello, the fun of As You Like It and the drama of Pericles. Their accessible writing never loses the feel of Shakespeare's beautiful language and humanity, and convey all of his wit and wisdom. These tales are classic literature in their own right • Puffin Clothbound Classics is a series of much-loved stories from classic literature for children and adults, brought together in beautiful hardback volumes

In 1807, Charles Lamb and his sister Mary wrote a collection of stories retelling twenty of Shakespeare's plays for children. While making sure that the pieces were accessible for a younger audience, they took care to stay faithful to the language and vocabulary of the Bard as much as possible • Ranging from the high drama of Romeo and Juliet to the delightful fancy of A Midsummer Night's Dream and the humour of As You Like it, this collection of vivid adaptations - here presented in a lavish new edition - has been a much loved children's classic for more than two hundred years, offering budding readers an accessible route to Shakespeare's works

Эта книга продолжает серию Just for Pleasure, адресуемую самому широкому кругу изучающих английский язык.Сборник, который был любимой книгой нескольких поколений юных англичан, представляет собой пересказы сюжетов" двенадцати комедий и трагедий Шекспира. Авторам "Tales from Shakespeare", как никому другому до и после них, удалось приблизить читателя к восприятию подлинных текстов шекспировских пьес.Книга с успехом может использоваться на занятиях в старших классах средних школ, вузах, на различных курсах по изучению английского языка, а также просто для домашнего чтения. Сборник может быть рекомендован для подготовки абитуриентов к вступительным экзаменам

This is the essential one-volume edition of Tales from 1,001 Nights, drawn from the acclaimed landmark translation published in 3 volumes by Penguin Classics in 2008. It contains 'Aladdin', 'Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves', 'Sindbad the Sailor' and many others of the most enjoyable and beloved tales from the Arabian Nights • This new translation was described as 'magnificent' and 'the most ambitious and thorough translation' in the Guardian and lauded in the Telegraph as 'outstanding'. The Sunday Times said 'The new Penguin edition is the one to have'

Darkly funny, searingly honest short stories from Hans Fallada, author of bestselling Alone in Berlin • In these stories, criminals lament how hard it is to scrape a living by breaking and entering; families measure their daily struggles in marks and pfennigs; a convict makes a desperate leap from a moving train; a ring - and with it a marriage - is lost in a basket of potatoes • Here, as in his novels, Fallada is by turns tough, darkly funny, streetwise and effortlessly engaging, writing with acute feeling about ordinary lives shaped by forces larger than themselves: addiction, love, money

Истории, входящие в "Книгу тысячи и одной ночи" и восходящие к арабскому, иранскому и индийскому фольклору, весьма разнородны по стилю и содержанию. Это калейдоскоп событий и образов давно минувшей эпохи с пестрым колоритом нравов и быта различных слоев во времена багдадского правителя Харун ар-Рашида. Связующим звеном всех сказок является мудрая и начитанная дочь визиря Шехерезада. Спасаясь от расправы Шахрияра, после измены ополчившегося на всех женщин, Шехерезада своими историями отвлекает тирана от мрачных мыслей, прерывая свой рассказ на самом интересном месте и разжигая его любопытство… • Джинны и колдуны, запечатанные тайным словом сокровища, волшебные кольца и светильники, очарованные юноши и лукавые красавицы - таким открывается читателю причудливый, пестрый, загадочный мир арабских сказок

Хрюшка и курочка играют в прятки. Куда же спряталась курочка? Может, сюда? • Мишка несет письма лягушке, белке и кроту. Чтобы узнать, какой сюрприз он подготовил своим друзьям, нужно открыть интерактивное окошко! • «Хрюшкины прятки» и «Мишка-почтальон» – это две интерактивные истории для детей из серии Tales from Acorn Wood от создателей «Груффало», Джулии Дональдсон и Акселя Шеффлера. Эта книга в мягком переплете станет прекрасным подарком как для детей, так и для их родителей • Книга на английском языке • With sturdy flaps on every spread and rhyming stories that are a joy to read aloud, the Tales From Acorn Wood books have been delighting both parents and toddlers for fifteen years. In Tales From Acorn Wood: Hide-and-Seek Pig and Postman Bear, two of the popular lift-the-flap stories from the creators of The Gruffalo, Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, are together in paperback, with a beautiful foiled cover look

Part of a new six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by award-winning director Guillermo del Toro • Howard Phillips Lovecraft's unique contribution to American literature was a melding of traditional supernaturalism (derived chiefly from Edgar Allan Poe) with the genre of science fiction that emerged in the early 1920s. The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Storiesbrings together a dozen of the master's tales - from his early short stories 'Under the Pyramids' (originally ghostwritten for Harry Houdini) and 'The Music of Erich Zann' (which Lovecraft ranked second among his own favourites) through to his more fully developed works, 'The Dunwich Horror', 'The Case of Charles Dexter Ward', and 'At the Mountains of Madness'

No, no, I've got your word for it, I've got to die... you promised me... you told me... Turgenev's accounts of hunting in rural Russia, and the extraordinary characters he meets there. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883). Turgenev's works available in Penguin Classics are Fathers and Sons, First Love, Home of the Gentry, On the Eve, Rudin, Sketches from a Hunter's Album, Spring Torrents and Three Sketches from a Hunter's Album

Steinbeck's first posthumously published work, The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights is a reinterpretation of tales from Malory's Morte d'Arthur. In this highly successful attempt to render Malory into Modern English, Steinbeck recreated the rhythm and tone of the original Middle English

A rich feast of travel writing, literary essays and fascinating interviews from Sunday Times bestselling travel author Paul Theroux • 'Wonderful... Evidence of both the breadth of Theroux's interests and his skill in bringing them to life' Sunday Times Culture • Drawing together a fascinating body of writing from over 14 years of work, Figures in a Landscape ranges from profiles of cultural icons (Oliver Sacks, Elizabeth Taylor, Robin Williams) to intimate personal remembrances; from thrilling adventures in Africa to literary writings from Theroux's rich and expansive personal reading. Collectively these pieces offer a fascinating portrait of the author himself, his extraordinary life, restless and ever-curious mind