Pride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it the garrulous and empty-headed Mrs Bennet has only one aim - that of finding a good match for each of her five daughters. In this she is mocked by her cynical and indolent husband. With its wit, its social precision and, above all, its irresistible heroine, Pride and Prejudice has proved one of the most enduringly popular novels in the English language. ... |
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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 Thought Police, doublethink, Newspeak, Big Brother - "1984" itself: these terms and concepts have moved from the world of fiction into our everyday lives. They are central to our thinking about freedom and its suppression; yet they were newly created by George Orwell in 1949 as he conjured his dystopian vision of a world where totalitarian power is absolute. In this novel, continuously popular since its first publication, readers can explore the dark and extraordinary world he brought so fully to life. The principal characters who lead us through that world are ordinary human beings like ourselves: ... |
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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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James Joyce's astonishing masterpiece, Ulysses, tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on 16 June 1904, during which Bloom's voluptuous wife, Molly, commits adultery. Initially deemed obscene in England and the USA, this richly-allusive novel, revolutionary in its Modernistic experimentalism, was hailed as a work of genius by W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot and Ernest Hemingway. Scandalously frank, wittily erudite, mercurially eloquent, resourcefully comic and generously humane, Ulysses offers the reader a life-changing experience. ... |
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Three Men in a Boat is a comic classic. When it first appeared in 1889 it became a best seller, and has remained popular ever since. This motley novel has not only been translated into many languages but has also been staged, filmed, televised and imitated. The adventures and misfortunes on the Thames of the three English friends and their pugnacious dog, Montmorency, provide rich humour, shrewd observations, lyrical reflections, and, predominantly, genially ironic perceptions of human fallibility. The sequel, Three Men on the Bummel, reunites the three friends for their "Bummel" ("roaming or wandering& ... |
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Адаптирано ученическо издание ... Това издание е част от серията Книги за ученика на издателство Пан. Поредицата представя литературни произведения, включени в учебната програма за 4. - 11. клас. Текстовете са съобразени с възрастта на читателите. Придружени са с критически анализи и оценки от различни гледни точки, с проблемни въпроси, тематични разработки, животопис - съобразно съвременните методически изисквания. ... |
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Поредица "Шедьовър" представя на българския читател безсмъртни образци на световната литература. ... Шедьоврите на световната литература са кариатидите, които крепят огромното и невидимо мирознание на човешкия дух. Във всяко време, когато са поставени на изпитание нравствените устои на отделната личност или цели нации, великата творба е като спасителна слънчева стълба в бездната на отчаянието, хаоса и неверието. В този том, драги читателю, ти предстои среща с безсмъртния Пушкинов роман в стихове "Евгений Онегин". Откакто през 1894 г. Иван Вазов превежда няколко строфи от втора глава, романът има ... |
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Книга от поредицата "Българска класика" ... Класическите произведения на българската литература са слънчевите стълбове, крепящи националното ни самосъзнание. Те са кристалните мостове на възторга, по които Отечеството ще премине през огън и страдание и ще пребъде в третото хилядолетие. Издателство "Захарий Стоянов" предлага специална поредица - най-доброто от високата българска класика. Всеки том е придружен от статии, анализиращи от различни гледни точки творчеството на българските класици. Изданието е насочено към ученици и студенти, както и към широката българска общественост. Интересът към ... |
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Кабул през 70 -те години на XX в. Дванайсетгодишният Амир, останал сирак при раждането си, отчаяно копнее за одобрението на своя суров баща и решава да спечели състезанието по бой с хвърчила в Кабул, за да докаже, че от него ще излезе истински мъж. Но за да е пълна победата му, той или негов приятел трябва да улови последното прекършено хвърчило. Хасан, синът на слугата в техния дом, винаги е бил страхотен ловец на хвърчила и верен приятел на Амир. В деня на турнира Хасан му помага, но никой не подозира каква цена трябва да платят и двамата - единият е жертва на жестоко насилие, а другият е безмълвен наблюдател, чиято ... |
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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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Anna Karenina is one of the most loved and memorable heroines of literature. Her overwhelming charm dominates a novel of unparalleled richness and density. Tolstoy considered this book to be his first real attempt at a novel form, and it addresses the very nature of society at all levels, of destiny, death, human relationships and the irreconcilable contradictions of existence. It ends tragically, and there is much that evokes despair, yet set beside this is an abounding joy in life's many ephemeral pleasures, and a profusion of comic relief. ... |
