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Stevenson’s brooding historical romance demonstrates his most abiding theme—the elemental struggle between good and evil—as it unfolds against a hauntingly beautiful Scott...
The originality, concentrated power and "fierce indignation" of his satirical writing have earned Jonathan Swift a reputation as the greatest prose satirist in English lit...
This is a new translation of Faust, Part Two by David Luke, whose translation of Faust, Part I was the winner of the European Poetry Translation Prize. Here, Luke expertly...
This new translation, in rhymed verse, of Goethe's Faust--one of the greatest dramatic and poetic masterpieces of European literature--preserves the essence of Goethe's me...
Dorothy L. Sayers's landmark translation follows Dante's terza rima stanza's and brings his poetry vividly to life. Her work was completed after her death by Barbara Reyno...
The second illegitimate son of a priest and of a doctor's daughter, Erasmus was born in Rotterdam around 1467. His parents died while he was young, and he had little choic...
Although their themes are borrowed from Greek drama, these exuberant and often macabre plays focus on action rather than moral concerns and are strikingly different in sty...
This superb selection of the poetry of Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) offers rich evidence of the poetic gifts that made him famous in his day, and that continue to rank him a...
The haunting cry of "Bring out your dead!" by a bell-ringing collector of 17th-century plague victims has filled readers across the centuries with cold terror. The chillin...
"Blood Meridian" is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, which brilliantly subverts the conventions of the Western novel...
<p>Роман основан на метафоре человеческих страстей, рассмотренных с позиции законов химического сродства. Он представляет собой попытку выяснить, способны ли наука и закон...
Republican, pagan, a sensualist alive to pleasure and to pain, Swinburne flouted the rules of Victorian decorum and morality in his life and work He created a unique means...
An eloquent and sometimes even erotic book, the Philosophical Enquiry was long dismissed as a piece of mere juvenilia. However, Burke's analysis of the relationship betwee...
В книге представлена поэма Джорджа Гордона Байрона "Паломничество Чайльд Гарольда".
Серия English Fiction Collection состоит из лучших произведений английских и америка...
This volume constitutes the authorized canon of A.E. Housman’s verse as it was established in 1939, three years after his death. In contains A Shropshire Lad, Last Poems, ...