Shakespeare William: Sonnets
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: A complete and annotated edition of Shakespeare's non-dramatic verse, including the sonnets, Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece.
Joyce James: Ulysses
Скачать книгу (размер 5 481 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1076) Аннотация: First published in 1922, and modelled on Homer's Odyssey, this is Joyce's account of one day in 1904 in the life of Dublin. It is an earthy story which focuses on the humble Lionel Bloom and his sensuous wife, Molly.
Faulkner William: The Sound and the Fury
Скачать книгу (размер 1 411 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 278) Аннотация: This narrative chronicles the decline of the American South through the experiences of Benjy Compson, who struggles to articulate his vision of life. William Faulkner is the author of As I Lay Dying and Sanctuary and he won the Nobel Prize in 1949.
Lermontov M.: A Hero of Our Time
Скачать книгу (размер 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 188) Аннотация: Set in the Caucasus, the scene of Russia's military campaigns in the 19th century, this is both an adventure story and a sardonic look at the heroic ideals of the author's contemporaries — which makes it all the more ironic that the main character, Pushkin, (like the author) was killed in a duel.
Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: The story of an obsessive middle-aged scholar who pursues an exquisite nymphet.
Austen Jane: Pride and Prejudice
Скачать книгу (размер 1 661 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 327) Аннотация: Probably the popular favourite among Jane Austen's novels, Pride and Prejudice was the first to be written (1796-7), when the author was just twenty-one. Revised for publication thirteen years later, it combines the freshness of youth with the skill of maturity, not least in the brilliance of the characterization and the attractiveness of the heroine, Elizabeth Bennet.
Austen Jane: Emma
Скачать книгу (размер 2 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 484) Аннотация: Emma Wodehouse has led a simple life, but during the course of this, she at last reaps her share of the world's vexations. In this comedy of manners, the heroine learns to come to terms with the reality of other people, and with her own erring nature.