This selection of a hundred of O. Henry's succinct tales displays the range, humour and humanity of a perennially popular short-story writer. Here Henry gives a richly colourful and exuberantly entertaining panorama of social life, ranging from thieves to tycoons, from the streets of New York to the prairies of Texas. These stories are famed for their "trick endings" or "twists in the tail": repeatedly the plot twirls adroitly, compounding ironies. Indeed, O. Henry's cunning plots surpass those of the ingenious rogues he creates. His style is genial, lively and witty, displaying a virtuoso&# ... |
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Tender is the Night is a story set in the hedonistic high society of Europe during the ‘Roaring Twenties’. A wealthy schizophrenic, Nicole Warren, falls in love with Dick Diver - her psychiatrist. The resulting saga of the Divers’ troubled marriage, and their circle of friends, includes a cast of aristocratic and beautiful people, unhappy love affairs, a duel, incest, and the problems inherent in the possession of great wealth. Despite cataloguing a maelstrom of interpersonal conflict, Tender is the Night has a poignancy and warmth that springs from the quality of Fitzgerald's writing and the tragic personal ... |
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Generally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald's finest novel, The Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of the "roaring twenties", and a devastating expose of the "Jazz Age". Through the narration of Nick Carraway, the reader is taken into the superficially glittering world of the mansions which lined the Long Island shore in the 1920s, to encounter Nick's cousin Daisy, her brash but wealthy husband Tom Buchanan, Jay Gatsby and the mystery that surrounds him. The Great Gatsby is an undisputed classic of American literature from the period following the First World War and is one of the great ... |
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The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906) are world famous animal stories. Set in Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush of the late 1890s, The Call of the Wild is about Buck, the magnificent cross-bred offspring of a St Bernard and a Scottish Collie. Stolen from his pampered life on a Californian estate and shipped to the Klondike to work as a sledge dog, he triumphs over his circumstances and becomes the leader of a wolf pack. The story records the "decivilisation" of Buck as he answers 'the call of the wild', an inherent memory of primeval origins to which he instinctively responds. In contrast, ... |
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Благодарение на достъпния обем и съдържание, съобразени с потребностите на учебния процес в различните степени на българското училище, настоящото издание е верен пътеводител в необозримия и бурен океан на българския книжовен език. ... |
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Бързо и лесно за разбиране ръководство на най-новата терминология в областта на компютрите и мрежите. Тази книга осигурява ясни дефиниции, както и широко използвани синоними и съкращения, компютърни и мрежови термини, концепции и продукти. Когато свързвате два компютъра или мрежа, не позволявайте никоя дума или съкращение да ви спрат! От хардуера до най-новите Web технологии - това ръководство ще ви помогне да разберете дори най-сложните термини комуникационни пособия и съоръжения кабели, карти и конектори индустриални стандарти операционни системи - DOS, OS/2, Mac OS, UNIX и Windows протоколи и интерфейси ... |
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Изданието има нормативен характер и съдържа основните правила на правописа и пунктуацията на българския език. Разработено е от екип езиковеди, специалисти по книжовен език от Института за български език при Българската академия на науките. Изданието има официален характер – правилата, формулирани в него, са задължителни за писменото общуване. Обхванати са най-важните правописни и пунктуационни проблеми. Всички обяснения са илюстрирани с внимателно подбрани примери от разнообразни източници, представителни за днешната писмена практика. Книгата е предназначена за всички, които си поставят за цел да овладеят правописа и ... |
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Със своите близо 90 000 речникови единици "Официален правописен речник на българския език" е най-пълният досега справочник от този тип. Речникът има нормативен характер – правилата, формулирани в увода, и правописът на включените в него думи са задължителни за писменото общуване. Уводните части на речника съдържат правилата на писмения език, представени максимално ясно, достъпно и непротиворечиво. Речникът регистрира активния речников състав на днешния книжовен български език и съдържа значително повече думи и форми от досега действалите правописни речници, издания на Института за български език. След ... |
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Adultery is not a typical Jane Austen theme, but when it disturbs the relatively peaceful household at Mansfield Park, it has quite unexpected results. The diffident and much put-upon heroine Fanny Price has to struggle to cope with the results, re-examining her own feelings while enduring the cheerful amorality, old-fashioned indifference and priggish disapproval of those around her. ... |
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Wilde's only novel, first published in 1890, is a brilliantly designed puzzle, intended to tease conventional minds with its exploration of the myriad interrelationships between art, life, and consequence. From its provocative Preface, challenging the reader to believe in 'art for art's sake', to its sensational conclusion, the story self-consciously experiments with the notion of sin as an element of design. Yet Wilde himself underestimated the consequences of his experiment, and its capacity to outrage the Victorian establishment. Its words returned to haunt him in his court appearances in 1895, and he ... |
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Set in Hardy's Wessex, Tess is a moving novel of hypocrisy and double standards. Its challenging sub-title, A Pure Woman, infuriated critics when the book was first published in 1891, and it was condemned as immoral and pessimistic. It tells of Tess Durbeyfield, the daughter of a poor and dissipated villager, who learns that she may be descended from the ancient family of d'Urbeville. In her search for respectability her fortunes fluctuate wildly, and the story assumes the proportions of a Greek tragedy. It explores Tess's relationships with two very different men, her struggle against the social mores of ... |
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Jane Austen teased readers with the idea of a "heroine whom no one but myself will much like", but Emma is irresistible. "Handsome, clever, and rich", Emma is also an "imaginist", "on fire with speculation and foresight". She sees the signs of romance all around her, but thinks she will never be married. Her matchmaking maps out relationships that Jane Austen ironically tweaks into a clearer perspective. Judgement and imagination are matched in games the reader too can enjoy, and the end is a triumph of understanding. ... |
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