The morality of marriage, and other essays on the status and destiny of woman Caird Mona Alison Книга по Требованию

In 'The Decay of Lying' Oscar Wilde uses his decadent ideology in an attempt to reverse and therefore reject his audiences' 'normal' conceptualizations of nature, art and morality. Wilde's views of life and art are illustrated through the use of Platonic dialogue where the character Vivian takes on the persona of Wilde. Wilde's goal is to subvert the norm by reversing its values. Wilde suggests to us that society is wrong, not him. Calling on diverse examples - from Ancient Greek sculpture to contemporary paintings - Oscar Wilde's brilliant essay creates a witty, paradoxical world in which the only Art worth loving is that built on complete untruths

J.R.R. Tolkien’s writings on the Second Age of Middle-earth, collected for the first time in one volume • J.R.R. Tolkien famously described the Second Age of Middle-earth as a ‘dark age, and not very much of its history is (or need be) told’. And for many years readers would need to be content with the tantalizing glimpses of it found within the pages of The Lord of the Rings and its appendices, including the forging of the Rings of Power, the building of the Barad-dur and the rise of Sauron • It was not until Christopher Tolkien published The Silmarillion after his father’s death that a fuller story could be told. Although much of the book’s content concerned the First Age of Middle-earth, there were at its close two key works that revealed the tumultuous events concerning the rise and fall of the island of Numenor

В сборнике "Падение Нуменора, и другие истории из Второй эпохи Средиземья" • представлены труды Дж.Р.Р. Толкина о Второй эпохе Средиземья • Дж.Р.Р. Толкин, как известно, описал Вторую эпоху Средиземья как "темный век", многие истории которого не рассказаны. И в течение многих лет читателям приходилось довольствоваться дразнящими проблесками этих историй, которые можно найти на страницах "Властелина колец" • Более полную историю можно было узнать только после того, как Кристофер Толкин после смерти своего отца опубликовал "Сильмариллион". Хотя большая часть содержания книги касалась Первой эпохи Средиземья, в конце ее были две ключевые работы, раскрывающие бурные события, связанные с возвышением и падением острова Нуменор • Теперь, придерживаясь хронологии событий в приложениях к "Властелину колец", редактор Брайан Сибли собрал в один всеобъемлющий том новую хронику Второй эпохи Средиземья, рассказанную словами Дж

Джон Рональд Руэл Толкин называл Вторую Эпоху Средиземья «тёмным временем, о котором мало что известно». Много лет читателям приходилось довольствоваться обрывками истории этого времени, которые попадаются на страницах «Властелина Колец» и приложений к нему • Более обширный взглянуть на Вторую Эпоху стало возможным только после смерти мастера фэнтези, когда Кристофер Толкин опубликовал «Сильмариллион». Хотя основная часть книги была посвящена событиям Первой Эпохи, она также проливает свет на бурную историю и сокрушительное падение островного королевства Нуменор • Подаренное людям Средиземья за их помощь в победе над Морготом, королевство быстро обрело достаток и влияние, но именно растущее могущество нуменорцев стало зерном, из которого впоследствии проклюнулась их трагическая судьба

This collection of Pushkin’s stories begins with ‘The Queen of Spades’, perhaps the most celebrated short story in Russian literature. The young Hermann, while watching some friends gambling, hears a rumour of how an officer’s grandmother is always able to predict the three winning cards in a game. He becomes obsessed with the woman and her seemingly mystical powers, and seeks to extract the secret from her at any cost. This volume, part of a new series of the complete works of Pushkin in English, also includes ‘Dubrovsky’, the story of a man’s desire to avenge himself after his land is unjustly taken from him by an aristocrat; ‘The Negro of Peter the Great’, a tale inspired by Pushkin’s maternal grandfather; and the unfinished story ‘Egyptian Nights’, a meditation on poetry and the poet

This collection of Pushkin’s stories begins with ‘The Queen of Spades’, perhaps the most celebrated short story in Russian literature. The young Hermann, while watching some friends gambling, hears a rumour of how an officer’s grandmother is always able to predict the three winning cards in a game. He becomes obsessed with the woman and her seemingly mystical powers, and seeks to extract the secret from her at any cost • This volume, part of a new series of the complete works of Pushkin in English, also includes ‘Dubrovsky’, the story of a man’s desire to avenge himself after his land is unjustly taken from him by an aristocrat; ‘The Negro of Peter the Great’, a tale inspired by Pushkin’s maternal grandfather; and the unfinished story ‘Egyptian Nights’, a meditation on poetry and the poet

From a long-term planning lead for the Mars Exploration Rover Project comes this vivid insider account of some of NASA’s most vital and exciting missions to the Red Planet, illustrated with full-colour photographs—a wondrous chronicle of unprecedented scientific discovery and the search for evidence of life on Mars • ‘There are probably just a few of moments in human history when a small group of humans stood on the margins of a vast new world, and it is no stretch of the romantic imagination that the arrival of two rovers on the surface of another planet was surely one of them.’ • Human exploration of Mars is the most ambitious and exciting scientific goal of the 21st century, and few people on earth know as much about this fascinating planet as Dr Larry Crumpler

Gilbert's libretti of the comic operas composed by Arthur Sullivan are hugely well known, and lines such as "let the punishment fit the crime" have entered the English lexicon - but his short stories also deserve to be rediscovered by the modern reader. This collection, carefully curated by the secretary of the W.S. Gilbert Society, brings together the best of these sharp, clever, comical tales - many of which are published here for the first time since their first appearance in ephemeral magazines - enriched with the author's own illustrations • The stories feature many of the powerful motifs so associated with his work - fairies, elixirs, magic - and a wide variety of characters - from burglars to barristers and shopkeepers to gentlemen. This volume is shot through with the observational wit which drove Gilbert and Sullivan's works to fame, and constitutes a hugely enjoyable companion for fans of the pair's theatrical oeuvre

The scent of almonds • A snowstorm traps a family in a hotel on a tiny island off Fjallbacka - and then a body is discovered in the library • An elegant death • Two sisters witness a murder in a fashion boutique • Dreaming of Elisabeth • Malin is trapped on a boat with a man she is beginning to fear… • The widows' cafe • Marianne is serving up a dangerous concoction at the Widows' Cafe • Showcasing Camilla's acclaimed talent for combining heart-stopping plots with heart-warming characters, this collection of tales will thrill and delight in equal measure

In The Marquise of O-, a virtuous widow finds herself unaccountably pregnant. And although the baffled Marquise has no idea when this happened, she must prove her innocence to her doubting family and discover whether the perpetrator is an assailant or lover. Michael Kohlhaas depicts an honourable man who feels compelled to violate the law in his search for justice, while other tales explore the singular realm of the uncanny, such as The Beggarwoman of Locarno, in which an old woman's ghost drives a heartless nobleman to madness, and St Cecilia, which portrays four brothers possessed by an uncontrollable religious mania. The stories collected in this volume reflect the preoccupations of Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) with the deceptiveness of human nature and the unpredictability of the physical world