The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, Chesnutt Charles W.
Автор: Kipling Rudyard Название: The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories ISBN: 0199536473 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199536474 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 1944.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This collection brings together seventeen of Kipling`s early stories, written between 1885 and 1888, when Kipling was working as a journalist in India. Wry comedies of British officialdom alternate with glimpses into the harsh lives of the common soldiers and the Indian poor, revealing Kipling`s legendary powers of observation and, in `Baa Baa, Black Sheep` his own miserable childhood. From Mrs Hauksbee`s Simla drawing-room to Mulvaney`s cot in barracks, to the wild hills of Kafiristan, Kipling re-creates the India he knew in stories by turns ironic and sentimental, compassionate and bitter, displaying the brilliance that has captivated readersfor over a century.
Автор: Franz Kafka Название: The Metamorphosis and Other Stories ISBN: 0199238553 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199238552 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 1590.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This new translation includes Kafka`s most famous story, The Metamorphosis, together with two other stories, The Judgement and In the Penal Colony, and Meditation and the autobiographical Letter to his Father. The edition includes a detailed introduction, notes, and other helpful items.
Автор: Crane, Stephen Название: Red badge of courage and other stories ISBN: 0199552541 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199552542 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 1590.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Oxford offers the most generously annotated edition of The Red Badge of Courage (1895), a vivid psychological account of a young man's experience fighting in the American Civil War based on Crane's reading of popular descriptions of battle. This volume also includes the short stories The Open Boat(1898), The Monster(1899), and The Blue Hotel. The editors explore Crane's work from a fresh critical perspective, focusing on his role as an experimental writer, his modernist legacy, and his social as well as literary revisionism. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Автор: Gospodinov, Georgi Название: And other stories ISBN: 0810124327 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780810124325 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 1875.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A collection of short stories, which includes a tongue-in-cheek crime/horror story or the Christmas story of a pig, a language game leading to an unexpected epiphany or an inward-looking tale built on the complexity of a puzzle box, and more.
Автор: Chekhov Anton Название: Ward Number Six and Other Stories ISBN: 0199553890 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199553891 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 1944.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Taken from The Oxford Chekhov, the stories in this collection include The Butterfly, Ariadne, A Dreary Story, Neighbours, An Anonymous Story, and Doctor Startsev, as well as the title story. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Автор: MacLean Norman Название: A River Runs Through It and Other Stories ISBN: 022647206X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226472065 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 2376.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: When Norman Maclean sent the manuscript of A River Runs through It and Other Stories to New York publishers, he received a slew of rejections. One editor, so the story goes, replied, "it has trees in it." Forty years later, the title novella is recognized as one of the great American tales of the twentieth century, and Maclean as one of the most beloved writers of our time. The finely distilled product of a long life of often surprising rapture--for fly-fishing, for the woods, for the interlocked beauty of life and art--A River Runs through It has established itself as a classic of the American West. This new edition will introduce a fresh audience to Maclean's beautiful prose and understated emotional insights.
Elegantly redesigned, A River Runs through It includes a new foreword by Robert Redford, director of the Academy Award-winning 1992 film adaptation of River. Based on Maclean's own experiences as a young man, the book's two novellas and short story are set in the small towns and mountains of western Montana. It is a world populated with drunks, loggers, card sharks, and whores, but also one rich in the pleasures of fly-fishing, logging, cribbage, and family. By turns raunchy and elegiac, these superb tales express, in Maclean's own words, "a little of the love I have for the earth as it goes by."
Автор: Hale Edward Everett Название: The Brick Moon and Other Stories ISBN: 1600964435 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781600964435 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2573.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The history of Brown & Sharpe turns out to be not only an important technological and economic story, but also a fascinating human story. Gerald Carbone`s history of Brown & Sharpe tells the story of the company, bringing people to life, putting them into the context of Rhode Island`s and the nation`s history, and the history of technology and the political economy of the United States.
Автор: Pushkin Alexander Название: The Queen of Spades and Other Stories ISBN: 0199538654 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199538652 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 1899.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This volume contains new translations of four of Pushkin's best works of fiction. The Queen of Spades has long been acknowledged as one of the world's greatest short stories, in which Pushkin explores the nature of obsession. The Tales of Belkin are witty parodies of sentimentalism, while Peter the Great's Blackamoor is an early experiment with recreating the past. The Captain's Daughter is a novel-length masterpiece which combines historical fiction in the manner of Sir Walter Scott with the devices of the Russian fairy-tale. The introduction provides close readings of the stories and places them in their European literary context.
Автор: Chekhov Anton Название: Woman in the case and other stories ISBN: 1847490816 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781847490810 Издательство: Alma Рейтинг: Цена: 1055.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A collection of short stories that range from absurd humorous sketches to psychological pieces and tragic stories.
Автор: Chekhov Anton Название: Russian master and other stories ISBN: 0199554870 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199554874 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 1741.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Concentrating on the themes of the loss of ideals and the poverty of actual experience, this collection of Chekhov stories--taken from The Oxford Chekhov--includes "His Wife," "A Lady with a Dog," "The Duel," "A Hard Case," "Gooseberries," "Concerning Love," "Peasants," "Angel," "Terror," "The Order of St. Anne," and the title story. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Автор: Chekhov Anton Название: The Wife and Other Stories ISBN: 2382741627 ISBN-13(EAN): 9782382741627 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2752.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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The Wife and Other Stories by Anton ChekhovI RECEIVED the following letter: "DEAR SIR, PAVEL ANDREITCH "Not far from you-that is to say, in the village of Pestrovo-very distressing incidents are taking place, concerning which I feel it my duty to write to you. All the peasants of that village sold their cottages and all their belongings, and set off for the province of Tomsk, but did not succeed in getting there, and have come back. Here, of course, they have nothing now everything belongs to other people. They have settled three or four families in a hut, so that there are no less than fifteen persons of both sexes in each hut, not counting the young children and the long and the short of it is, there is nothing to eat. There is famine and there is a terrible pestilence of hunger, or spotted, typhus literally every one is stricken. The doctor's assistant says one goes into a cottage and what does one see? Every one is sick, every one delirious, some laughing, others frantic the huts are filthy there is no one to fetch them water, no one to give them a drink, and nothing to eat but frozen potatoes. What can Sobol (our Zemstvo doctor) and his lady assistant do when more than medicine the peasants need bread which they have not? The District Zemstvo refuses to assist them, on the ground that their names have been taken off the register of this district, and that they are now reckoned as inhabitants of Tomsk and, besides, the Zemstvo has no money. "Laying these facts before you, and knowing your humanity, I beg you not to refuse immediate help. "Your well-wisher." Obviously the letter was written by the doctor with the animal name* or his lady assistant. Zemstvo doctors and their assistants go on for years growing more and more convinced every day that they can do nothing, and yet continue to receive their salaries from people who are living upon frozen potatoes, and consider they have a right to judge whether I am humane or not. *Sobol in Russian means "sable-marten."-TRANSLATOR'S NOTE. Worried by the anonymous letter and by the fact that peasants came every morning to the servants' kitchen and went down on their knees there, and that twenty sacks of rye had been stolen at night out of the barn, the wall having first been broken in, and by the general depression which was fostered by conversations, newspapers, and horrible weather-worried by all this, I worked listlessly and ineffectively. I was writing "A History of Railways" I had to read a great number of Russian and foreign books, pamphlets, and articles in the magazines, to make calculations, to refer to logarithms, to think and to write then again to read, calculate, and think but as soon as I took up a book or began to think, my thoughts were in a muddle, my eyes began blinking, I would get up from the table with a sigh and begin walking about the big rooms of my deserted country-house.
Автор: Chekhov Anton Название: About love and other stories ISBN: 0199536686 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199536689 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 1187.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The importance of Chekhov`s stories is now recognized by readers as well as by fellow authors. Their themes - alienation, the absurdity and tragedy of human existence - have as much relevance today as when they were written, and this superb new translation captures their modernist spirit. Among the fourteen stories included are `The Lady with the Little Dog`, `Gusev`, and `Rothschild`s Violin`.
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