Sexuality and erotic desire were important components of Victorian culture, and the novels of the Victorian era reflect the sexual attitudes of the authors and culture of ...
Turner's strikingly original and penetrating account of Hardy's extraordinarily creative life and longevity offers a series of thirty-two chapters, each of which relates t...
Doctor Hugh, at this, hesitated, and Dencombe, in spite of a desire to pass for unconscious, risked a covert glance at him. What his eyes met this time, as happened, was, ...
First UK paperback publication of Henry James's witty but forgotten adolescent memoirs, Notes of a Son and a Brother (1914). Praise for A SMALL BOY AND OTHERS, James's for...
James wrote this memoir of his early life as a remembrance following the death of his brother, William. James discusses his youth and his family in the same lush style emp...
"Adam Bede" (1859), George Eliot's first full-length novel, marked the emergence of an artist to rank with Scott and Dickens. Set in the English Midlands of farmers and vi...
Томас Харди (1840-1928) - английский писатель, для которого характерно определение, выражающее главное призвание литературы: изображать природную и духовную сущность челов...
Издательство продолжает знакомить читателей с лучшими образцами английской литературы. Важное место в романе занимает тема судьбы художника. Личные взаимоотношения героев,...
Замечательная английская писательница Шарлотта Бронте создала четыре романа, из которых наибольшую известность приобрела «Джейн Эйр». Но и в остальных произведениях автору...
This 1857 sequel to The Warden wryly chronicles the struggle for control of the English diocese of Barchester. The evangelical but not particularly competent new bishop is...
1875. A collection of verse by the poet Swinburne who is one of the very few, since the days of Raleigh and Sidney, to come from the aristocracy. He was also well-known fo...
Locrine - A Tragedy - By A. Swinburne
The Poems of Algernon Charles Swinburne, Vol. 6 of 6 (Classic Reprint)
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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1THE SEABOARDThe sea is at ebb, and the sound of her utmost word Is soft as the least wave's lapse in a still small reach. From bay into bay, on quest of a goal deferred, ...
'Sartor Resartus' ("The Tailor Retailored") is ostensibly an introduction to a strange history of clothing by the German Professor of Things in General, Diogenes Teufelsdr...
В своем творчестве Джордж Мередит (1828-1909) продолжает реалистические традиции в английской литературе.
Роман "Испытание Ричарда Феверела" (1859) посвящен проблеме стан...
Excerpt from Sonnets From the Portuguese, and Other Poems
In the very heart and center of our modern world of the nineteenth century there was enacted and immortally sung...