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Памятник, обычно называемый "Младшая Эдда", написан исландским ученым, поэтом и политическим деятелем Снорри Стурлусоном в 1222 - 1225 гг. в Исландии. В сокровищнице миров...
Studies on contemporary art and culture by one of the most original, critical and analytical minds of this century. Illuminations includes Benjamin's views on Kafka, with ...
Бывал ли Данте в "Аду"? А в "Чистилище"? Видел ли он "Рай" своей "Божественной Комедии"? Если думать, что она основана на реальных фактах, то - да, несомненно.
Но ведь эт...
Paradise Lost remains as challenging and relevant today as it was in the turbulent intellectual and political environment in which it was written. This edition aims to bri...
First published in 1960, The Violent Bear It Away is now a landmark in American literature. It is a dark and absorbing example of the Gothic sensibility and bracing satiri...
Roderick is combative, often violent, but capable of great affection and generosity. His father had been disinherited and has left Scotland leaving his son penniless. Afte...
This book comes with an introduction and notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury.
"Rasselas" is a provocative fable a...
Middlemarch is a complex tale of idealism, disillusion, profligacy, loyalty and frustrated love. This penetrating analysis of the life of an English provincial town is set...
Brilliant, prolific, uniquely American, Pulitzer prizewinning playwright Sam Separd is a major voice in contemporary theatre. And here are seven of his very best.
"One...
В ряде художественных произведений как прошлых, так и нынешнего века писатели нарисовали образ молодого человека, пытающегося осмыслить окружающую его жизнь и найти путь к...
In this quintessential Shakespearean tragedy, a young prince's halting pursuit of revenge for the murder of his father unfolds in a series of highly charged confrontations...
While living a life of reckless debauchery and sexual adventuring, Rochester produced comic verse, scurrilous satires, and highly explicit erotica. His Selected Works, edi...
Старость - пора собирания воспоминаний, и великий Гете (1749 - 1832) отдал дань этой распространенной привычке, искусно соединив в автобиографии `Из моей жизни` действител...
The central figure of this novel is a young man whose parents were executed for conspiring to steal atomic secrets for Russia.
His name is Daniel Isaacson, and as the s...
Aldous Huxley's lifelong concern with the dichotomy between passion and reason finds its fullest expression both thematically and formally in his masterpiece Point Counter...
Can you trust yourself when you don’t know who you are?
Syme uses his new acquaintance to go undercover in Europe’s Central Anarchist Council and infiltrate their deadl...
Невероятные события настоящего романа, сочетающего в себе признаки и эссе, и утопии, и философско-сатирической повести, происходят на переломе XVIII и XIX столетий. Герой ...
The celebrated play that draws from historical events in the Norman conquest of England to create a profound portrait of a man's soul—and a transcendent vision of the huma...