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Fathers and Sons is one of the greatest nineteenth century Russian novels, and has long been acclaimed as Turgenev's finest work. It is a political novel set in a domestic context, with a universal theme, the generational divide between fathers and sons. Set in 1859 at the moment when the Russian autocratic state began to move hesitantly towards social and political reform, the novel explores the conflict between the liberal-minded fathers of Russian reformist sympathies and their free-thinking intellectual sons whose revolutionary ideology threatened the stability of the state. At its centre is Evgeny Bazorov, a strong-willed antagonist of all forms of social orthodoxy who proclaims himself a nihilist and believes in the need to overthrow all the institutions of the state. As the novel develops Bazarov's political ambitions become fatally meshed with emotional and private concerns, and his end is a tragic failure. The novel caused a bitter furore on its publication in 1862, and this, a year later, drove Turgenev from Russia.

Das große Epos vom Ende Roms und dem Beginn einer Liebe.

"With an increasing distance from the twentieth century the New England poet, author, essayist, and stunningly profuse epistolary Howard Phillips Lovecraft is beginning to emerge as one of that tumultuous period s most critically fascinating and yet enigmatic figures," writes Alan Moore in his introduction to The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft. Despite this nearly unprecedented posthumous trajectory, at the time of his death at the age of forty-six, Lovecraft's work had appeared only in dime-store magazines, ignored by the public and maligned by critics. Now well over a century after his birth, Lovecraft is increasingly being recognized as the foundation for American horror and science fiction, the source of "incalculable influence on succeeding generations of writers of horror fiction" (Joyce Carol Oates). In this volume, Leslie S. Klinger reanimates Lovecraft with clarity and historical insight, charting the rise of the erstwhile pulp writer, whose rediscovery and reclamation into the literary canon can be compared only to that of Poe or Melville. Weaving together a broad base of existing scholarship with his own original insights, Klinger appends Lovecraft's uncanny oeuvre and Kafkaesque life story in a way that provides context and unlocks many of the secrets of his often cryptic body of work. Over the course of his career, Lovecraft "the Copernicus of the horror story" (Fritz Leiber) made a marked departure from the gothic style of his predecessors that focused mostly on ghosts, ghouls, and witches, instead crafting a vast mythos in which humanity is but a blissfully unaware speck in a cosmos shared by vast and ancient alien beings. One of the progenitors of "weird fiction," Lovecraft wrote stories suggesting that we share not just our reality but our planet, and even a common ancestry, with unspeakable, godlike creatures just one accidental revelation away from emerging from their epoch of hibernation and extinguishing both our individual sanity and entire civilization. Following his best-selling The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, Leslie S. Klinger collects here twenty-two of Lovecraft's best, most chilling "Arkham" tales, including "The Call of Cthulhu," At the Mountains of Madness, "The Whisperer in Darkness," "The Shadow Over Innsmouth," "The Colour Out of Space," and others. With nearly 300 illustrations, including full-color reproductions of the original artwork and covers from Weird Tales and Astounding Stories, and more than 1,000 annotations, this volume illuminates every dimension of H. P. Lovecraft and stirs the Great Old Ones in their millennia of sleep."

Die fantastischen Reisen des Jules Verne in schöner Geschenk-Kassette.

Special collector's film tie-in hardback of the best-selling classic, featuring the complete story with a sumptuous cover design inspired by THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY and brand new reproductions of all the drawings and maps by J.R.R. Tolkien. Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely travelling further than the pantry of his hobbit-hole in Bag End. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard, Gandalf, and a company of thirteen dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on an unexpected journey 'there and back again'. They have a plot to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon...The prelude to The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit has sold many millions of copies since its publication in 1937, establishing itself as one of the most beloved and influential books of the twentieth century.

Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. §Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. §Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family." But then he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn't live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television. §When Mildred attempts suicide and Clarisse suddenly disappears, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. He starts hiding books in his home, and when his pilfering is discovered, the fireman has to run for his life.

Language: English, Binding: Hardback, Number of pages: 528, Publishers: FINGERPRINT PUB, ISBN-13: 9789354403057, Date of issue: 2021

The middle novel in The Lord of the Rings--the greatest fantasy epic of all time--which began in The Fellowship of the Ring, and which reaches its magnificent climax in The Return of the King. Nominated as one of America's be

Series of Penguin Classics each with extensive introductions, chronologies and discussions.

"Ein Buch! Mir begannen die Knie zu zittern: ein BUCH! Vier Monate lang hatte ich kein Buch in der Hand gehabt, und schon die bloße Vorstellung eines Buches, in dem man aneinandergereihte Worte sehen konnte, Zeilen, Seiten und Blätter, eines Buches, aus dem man andere, neue, fremde, ablenkende Gedanken lesen, verfolgen, sich ins Hirn nehmen könnte, hatte etwas Berauschendes und gleichzeitig Betäubendes."(Auszug aus der "Schachnovelle")

2001: A Space Odyssey confirmed Arthur C. Clarke's reputation as one of the best-known and most influential science fiction writers ever. The book and the 1968 movie are icons of the modern age. Now comes a special trade paperback edition, with a new introduction by the author which sheds light on the powerful synergy between the book and the movie.

In 1811, Jane Austen’s first published work, Sense and Sensibility, marked the debut of England’s premier novelist of manners. Believing that "3 or 4 families in a country village is the very thing to work on,” she created a brilliant tragicomedy of flirtation and folly. Romantic walks through lush Devonshire and genteel dinner parties at a stately manor draw two pretty sisters into the schemes and manipulations of landed gentry determined to marry wisely and well.Neither sense nor sensibility can guarantee happiness for either—as romantic Marianne falls prey to a dangerous rascal, and reasonable Elinor loses her heart to a gentleman already engaged.Wonderfully entertaining yet subtle and probing in its characterizations, Sense and Sensibility richly displays the supreme artistry of a great English novelist.

Castigated for offending against public decency, Madame Bovary has rarely failed to cause a storm. For Flaubert's contemporaries, the fascination came from the novelist's meticulous account of provincial matters. For the writer, subject matter was subordinate to his anguished quest for aesthetic perfection. For his twentieth-century successors the formal experiments that underpin Madame Bovary look forward to the innovations of contemporary fiction. Flaubert's protagonist in particular has never ceased to fascinate. Romantic heroine or middle-class neurotic, flawed wife and mother or passionate protester against the conventions of bourgeois society, simultaneously the subject of Flaubert's admiration and the butt of his irony - Emma Bovary remains one of the most enigmatic of fictional creations. Flaubert's meticulous approach to the craft of fiction, his portrayal of contemporary reality, his representation of an unforgettable cast of characters make Madame Bovary one of the major landmarks of modern fiction.

The perfect gift for the Shakespeare fan, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare is an elegant edition boasting the entire credited catalog of William Shakespeare including 16 comedies, 10 histories, 12 tragedies as well as all of his poems and sonnets.

Bleak House is one of Dickens' finest achievements, establishing his reputation as a serious and mature novelist, as well as a brilliant comic writer. It is at once a complex mystery story that fully engages the reader in the work of detection, and an unforgettable indictment of an indifferent society. Its representations of a great city's underworld, and of the law's corruption and delay, draw upon the author's personal knowledge and experience. But it is his symbolic art that projects these things in a vision that embraces black comedy, cosmic farce, and tragic ruin. In a unique creative experiment, Dickens divides the narrative between his heroine, Esther Summerson, who is psychologically interesting in her own right, and an unnamed narrator whose perspective both complements and challenges hers.

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Shirley z titulu je žena nezávislých poměrů; její kamarádka Caroline není. Oba bojují s tím, jaká je a může být ženská role. Jejich mužské protějšky - Louis, bezmocný učitel, a Robert, jeho bratr vyrábějící látky - jsou také v rozporu s očekáváním společnosti. Román se odehrává v období sociálního a politického kvasu, představuje třídní zbavení volebního práva, drama rozbití luddských strojů a rozdělující účinky napoleonských válek. Ale zvláštní síla Charlotte Brontové spočívá v prozkoumávání skrytého psychologického dramatu lásky, ztráty a hledání identity. Osobní a veřejná agitace se snoubí na dramatickém pozadí jejího rodného Yorkshiru. Jako vždy, Bronte? zpochybňuje konvence, zkoumá omezení sociální spravedlnosti a zároveň nevypráví jeden, ale dva milostné příběhy.

The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-41), with its combination of the sentimental, the grotesque and the socially concerned, and its story of pursuit and courage, which sets the downtrodden and the plucky against the malevolent and the villainous, was an immediate popular success. Little Nell quickly became one of Dickens' most celebrated characters, who so captured the imagination of his readers that while the novel was being serialised, many of them wrote to him about her fate. Dickens was conscious of the 'many friends' the novel had won for him, and 'the many hearts it turned to me when they were full of private sorrow', and it remains one of the most familiar and well-loved of his works.

A spectre is haunting Europe (and the world). Not, in the twenty-first century, the spectre of communism, but the spectre of capitalism. Marx's prediction that the state would wither away of its own accord has proved inaccurate, and he did not foresee the tyrannies which have ruled large parts of the globe in his name. Indeed, he would have been appalled if he had witnessed them. But his analysis of the evils and dangers of raw capitalism is as correct now as when it was written, and some of his suggestions (progressive income tax, abolition of child labour, free education for all children) are now accepted with little question. In a world where capitalism is no longer held in check by fear of a communist alternative, The Communist Manifesto (with Socialism Utopian and Scientific, Engels's brief and clear exposition of Marxist thought) is essential reading. The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 is Engels's first, and probably best-known, book. With Henry Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor, it was and is the outstanding study of the working class in Victorian England.

J.R.R. Tolkien's writings on the Second Age of Middle-earth, collected for the first time in one volume. J.R.R. Tolkien famously described the Second Age of Middle-earth as a 'dark age, and not very much of its history is (or need be) told'. And for many years readers would need to be content with the tantalizing glimpses of it found within the pages of The Lord of the Rings and its appendices, including the forging of the Rings of Power, the building of the Barad-dur and the rise of Sauron. It was not until Christopher Tolkien published The Silmarillion after his father's death that a fuller story could be told. Although much of the book's content concerned the First Age of Middle-earth, there were at its close two key works that revealed the tumultuous events concerning the rise and fall of the island of Numenor. Raised out of the Great Sea and gifted to the Men of Middle-earth as a reward for aiding the angelic Valar and the Elves in the defeat and capture of the Dark Lord Morgoth, the kingdom became a seat of influence and wealth; but as the Numenoreans' power increased, the seed of their downfall would inevitably be sown, culminating in the Last Alliance of Elves and Men. Even greater insight into the Second Age would be revealed in subsequent publications, first in Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth, then expanded upon in Christopher Tolkien's magisterial twelve-volume The History of Middle-earth, in which he presented and discussed a wealth of further tales written by his father, many in draft form. Now, adhering to the timeline of 'The Tale of Years' in the appendices to The Lord of the Rings, editor Brian Sibley has assembled into one comprehensive volume a new chronicle of the Second Age of Middle-earth, told substantially in the words of J.R.R. Tolkien from the various published texts, with new pencil illustrations by the doyen of Tolkien art, Alan Lee.

Moll Flanders follows the life of its eponymous heroine through its many vicissitudes, which include her early seduction, careers in crime and prostitution, conviction for theft and transportation to the plantations of Virginia, and her ultimate redemption and prosperity in the new World. Moll Flanders was one of the first social novels to be published in English and draws heavily on Defoe's experience of the topography and social conditions prevailing in the London of the late 17th century.

Cult director Rudi Dolezal, awarded at the Grammys for his film "Freddie Mercury - The Untold Story", has won numerous international film, music and TV awards and has filmed stars from all over the world: The Rolling Stones, Whitney Houston, Lionel Richie, Bruce Springsteen, Michael Jackson, Falco, and many more. From the very beginning, Dolezal had a very special relationship with Freddie Mercury and Queen, for whom he directed a total of 32 music videos.In his book "My Friend Freddie" Rudi Dolezal tells stories he has never told before. He guides the reader from beginning to end, starting with the unusual start of a friendship that was to last a lifetime. He talks about many private moments, including the last time Freddie stood in front of a camera. In front of his camera.

New editions, with couture-inspired cover illustrations by Ruben Toledo.

Frequently imitated and widely influential, H. P. Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre for the twentieth century. Discarding witches and ghosts, he envisaged mankind as an outpost of dwindling sanity in a chaotic and malevolent universe. S. T. Joshi makes his selection from the early tales of nightmares and madness to the overpowering cosmic terror of 'The Call of Cthulhu' . This is the first paperback edition to include the definitive corrected texts of these classics of American fantasy fiction.

Élisabeth Bennet a quatre soeurs et une mère qui ne songe qu’à les marier. Quand parvient la nouvelle de l’installation à Netherfield, le domaine voisin, de Mr Bingley, célibataire et beau parti, toutes les dames des alentours sont en émoi, d’autant plus qu’il est accompagné de son ami Mr Darcy, un jeune et riche aristocrate. Les préparatifs du prochain bal occupent tous les esprits… Jane Austen peint avec ce qu’il faut d’ironie les turbulences du coeur des jeunes filles et, aujourd’hui comme hier, on s’indigne avec l’orgueilleuse Élisabeth, puis on ouvre les yeux sur les voies détournées qu’emprunte l’amour…Collection Classiques dirigée par Michel Zink et Michel Jarrety.Traduction, introduction, notes et dossier de Sophie Chiari.

Language: English, Binding: Paperback, Number of pages: 256, Publishers: DELREY TRADE, ISBN-13: 9780593160022, Date of issue: 2020

Language: English, Binding: Hardback, Number of pages: 928, Publishers: Vintage Publishing, Author: George Eliot, ISBN-13: 9781784877569, Date of issue: 2021

Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank - Wissenschaftlich fundierte Neuausgabe (2022) mit Anmerkungen und Fußnoten | Hätte Anne Frank die Nazizeit überlebt, wäre wahrscheinlich eine große Schriftstellerin aus ihr geworden. Ihrem Tagebuch vertraute sie diesen Lebenstraum an: »Du weißt ja schon lange, dass es mein größtes Ziel ist, einmal Journalistin und später eine berühmte Schriftstellerin zu werden [...] Nach dem Krieg will ich auf jeden Fall ein Buch mit dem Titel 'Das Hinterhaus' herausbringen [...], mein Tagebuch kann mir als Grundstein dafür dienen.« | Den ersten Tagebucheintrag schrieb Anne am 12.Juni 1942, den letzten am 1.August 1944, vier Tage vor der Verhaftung. Alle Bewohner des Verstecks im 'Hinterhaus' wurden von den Nazis nach Auschwitz und in andere Lager verschleppt. Im März 1945 starb Anne, ebenso wie ihre Schwester Margot, an Entkräftung und Typhus im Konzentrationslager Bergen-Belsen. Der genaue Todestag ist nicht bekannt. | Anne Franks Tagebuch gilt heute als bedeutendstes schriftliches Zeugnis aus Zeit der Nazi-Diktatur. | Eine ausführliche Darstellung zur Urheberrechtsfrage findet sich im Vorwort dieses Buchs.

Los mejores libros jamás escritosFiódor Pávlovich Karamázov, unterrateniente borracho, arbitrario y corrompido, tiene cuatro hijos:Dmitri, de carácter violento, Iván, un intelectual frío ymaterialista, Aliosha, el hijo peque?o, pasivo y religioso, ySmerdiakov, el hijo bastardo y resentido. La novela gira en torno alas relaciones perversas que se establecen entre el padre y los hijoshasta que éste es asesinado y su presunto asesino, Dmitri, juzgado ycondenado. Odio, amor, crueldad, compasión, sentimientos radicalmentecontrarios y enfrentados...La presente edición de una de las obras más importantes de la literatura universal cuenta con la célebretraducción de José Laín Entralgo. Asimismo, viene acompa?ada de unaintroducción de David McDuff, traductor y crítico literarioespecialista en la obra del autor.«Siempre me parece que cuando entroen algún sitio soy el más miserable de todos y que todos me toman porun bufón: haré, pues, el bufón, porque todos vosotros, hasta elúltimo, sois más estúpidos y miserables que yo.»

White NightsAnd Other StoriesThe Novels of Fyodor DostoevskyFrom The Russian by Constance Garnett CONTENTSWhite NightsNotes from Underground-- Part 1. underground Part 2

Language: English, Binding: Paperback, Number of pages: 134, Publishers: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, Author: Marie Corelli, ISBN-13: 9781548920777, Date of issue: 2017

Avec Les Fleurs du Mal commence la poésie moderne : le lyrisme subjectif s'efface devant cette " impersonnalité volontaire " que Baudelaire a lui-męme postulée ; la nature et ses retours cycliques cčdent la place au décor urbain et ŕ ses changements marqués par l'Histoire, et il arrive que le počte accčde au beau par l'expérience de la laideur. Quant au mal affiché dčs le titre du recueil, s'il nous apporte la preuve que l'art ici se dénoue de la morale, il n'en préserve pas moins la profonde spiritualité des počmes.D'oů la stupeur que Baudelaire put ressentir quand le Tribunal de la Seine condamna la premičre édition de 1857 pour " outrage ŕ la morale publique et aux bonnes moeurs " et l'obligea ŕ retrancher six pičces du volume - donc ŕ remettre en cause la structure du recueil qu'il avait si précisément concertée. En 1861, la seconde édition fut augmentée de trente-cinq pičces, puis Baudelaire continua d'écrire pour son livre d'autres počmes encore. Mais aprčs la censure, c'est la mort qui vint l'empęcher de donner aux Fleurs du Mal la forme définitive qu'il souhaitait - et que nous ne connaîtrons jamais.Préface d'Yves Bonnefoy.Edition de John E. Jackson.

Iris Murdoch's first novel is set in a part of London where struggling writers rub shoulders with successful bookies, and film starlets with frantic philosophers. Its hero, Jake Donaghue, is a drifting, clever, likeable young man who makes a living out of translation work and sponging on his friends. A meeting with Anna, an old flame, leads him into a series of fantastic adventures. Jake is captivated by a majestic philosopher, Hugo Belfounder, whose profound and inconclusive reflections give the book its title - under the net of language.

This third volume in The Library of America's authoritative edition of John Steinbeck's writings shows one of America's most enduring popular writers continuing restlessly to explore new subject matter and new approaches to storytelling.

A special edition hardcover in celebration of Ayn Rand's centennial. When it was first published in 1943, "The Fountainhead"--containing Ayn Rand's daringly original literary vision with the seeds of her groundbreaking philosophy, Objectivism?won immediate worldwide acclaim. This instant classic is the story of an intransigent young architect, his violent battle against conventional standards, and his explosive love affair with a beautiful woman who struggles to defeat him. This centennial edition of "The Fountainhead," celebrating the controversial and eduring legacy of its author, features an afterword by Rand's literary executor, Leonard Peikoff, offering some of Ayn Rand's personal notes on the development of her masterwork. ?A writer of great power. She has a subtle and ingenious mind and the capacity of writing brilliantly, beautifully, bitterly.?--"The New York Times"

VINTAGE EARTH is a collection of novels to transform our relationship with the natural world. 'And so, with great care, he planted his hundred acorns'In 1910, while hiking through the wild lavender in a wind-swept, desolate valley in Provence, a man comes across a shepherd called Elzeard Bouffier. Staying with him, he watches Elzeard sorting and then planting hundreds of acorns as he walks through the wilderness.Ten years later, after surviving the First World War, he visits the shepherd again and sees the young forest he has created spreading slowly over the valley. Elzeard's solitary, silent work continues and the narrator returns year after year to see the miracle he is gradually creating: a verdant, green landscape that is a testament to one man's creative instinct. VINTAGE EARTH is a series of books that reveals our ever-changing relationship with the environment.These are stories old and young, set in worlds real or imagined, that allow us to explore our connection to the natural world. Transformative, wild, surprising and essential, these novels take on the most urgent story of our times.

With a new introduction from best-selling author Ann Patchett, the National Book Award-winning story collection that is one of the great works of twentieth-century American literature Eudora Welty wrote novels, novellas, and reviews ove

Language: English, Binding: Paperback, Number of pages: 448, Publishers: British Library Publishing, Author: William Hope Hodgson, ISBN-13: 9780712355759, Date of issue: 2024

Als der Berufspilot und Schriftsteller Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1943 den 'Kleinen Prinzen' erfand, konnte er nicht ahnen, welch gewaltiger Erfolg sein Büchlein werden sollte.Die philosophisch-poetische Geschichte vom kleinen Prinzen, der auf der Suche nach Freunden allerlei seltsame Planeten bereist, übt ungebrochene Faszination aus. Sie ist ein Plädoyer für Menschlichkeit, das in über 240 Sprachen und Dialekte übersetzt worden ist. Zwei davon sind hier enthalten, Deutsch und Englisch. Ihr Zusammenspiel ermöglicht einen spannenden Blick auf einen bekannten Text, der so abermals und wieder neu zum Staunen bringt.

Since his first appearance in Beetons Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyles Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created. Now, in two volumes, this new Bantam edition presents all 56 short stories and 4 novels featuring Conan Doyles classic hero -- a truly complete collection now available in paperback! Volume I includes the early novel, A Study in Scarlet, that introduced the eccentric genius of Sherlock Holmes to the world. This baffling murder mystery, with the cryptic word Rache written in blood, first brought Holmes together with Dr. John Watson. Next, The Sign of Four presents Holmess famous "seven percent solution" and the strange puzzle of Marry Mortson in the quintessential locked room mystery. Also included are Holmes's feats of extraordinary detection in such famous cases such as the chilling Adventure of the Specked Band, the baffling riddle of The Musgrave Ritual, and the ingeniously plotted The Five Orange Pips, tales that bring to life a Victorian England of horse-drawn cabs, fogs, and the famous lodgings at 221B Baker Street, where Sherlock Holmes earned his reputation as the greatest fictional detective of all time.

The fantasy classic, now in beautiful new deluxe trade paperback edition. From The Last Unicorn : "The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone. She was very old, though she did not know it, and she was no longer the careless color of sea foam, but rather the color of snow falling on a moonlit night. But her eyes were still clear and unwearied, and she still moved like a shadow on the sea..."

Unusually for Dickens, Hard Times is set, not in London, but in the imaginary mid-Victorian Northern industrial town of Coketown with its blackened factories, downtrodden workers and polluted environment. This is the soulless domain of the strict utilitarian Thomas Gradgrind and the heartless factory owner Josiah Bounderby. However human joy is not excluded thanks to 'Mr Sleary's Horse-Riding' circus, a gin-soaked and hilarious troupe of open-hearted and affectionate people who act as an antidote to all the drudgery and misery endured by the ordinary citizens of Coketown.