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Различные книги в жанре Публицистика: прочееThe Short Stories of Katherine Mansfield
Considered one of the greatest short story writers of her generation, Katherine Mansfield was a modernist writer from New Zealand. This collection includes thirty-five of her most popular stories. In this volume you will find the following stories: «The Tiredness of Rosabel», «At Lehmann's», «Frau Brechenmacher Attends a Wedding», «The Swing of the Pendulum», «The Woman at the Store», «How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped», «Ole Underwood», «Millie», «Bains Turcs'», «The Little Governess», «An Indiscreet Journey», «The Wind Blows», «Prelude», «A Dill Pickle», «Je Ne Parle Pas Français», «Bliss», «Psychology», «Pictures», «The Man Without a Temperament», «Revelations», «The Escape», «The Young Girl», «The Stranger», «Miss Brill», «Poison», «The Daughters of the Late Colonel», «Life of Ma Parker», «Her First Ball», «Marriage ý la Mode», «At the Bay», «The Voyage», «The Garden Party», «The Doll's House», «The Fly», and «The Canary».
Sketches by Boz
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was an English short story writer, dramatist, essayist, and the most popular novelist to come from the Victorian era. He created some of the most iconic characters and stories in English literature, including Mr. Pickwick from «The Pickwick Papers», Ebenezer Scrooge from «A Christmas Carol», David Copperfield, and Pip from «Great Expectations», to name a few. Dickens' began by writing serials for magazines, and from 1833-1836 he used the pseudonym Boz, taken from a childhood nickname for his younger brother. «Sketches by Boz» contains 56 stories and, like most of Dickens' work, vividly portrayed the lives of Londoners around him in an effort to illustrate social injustices and promote reform. Unlike less successful writers of the time who divided whole works into serialized episodes, Dickens often gauged public reaction to each installment, allowing himself to tailor the plot accordingly. This collection is divided into four sections: «The Parish,» «Scenes,» «Characters,» and «Tales.»
The Murders in the Rue Morgue: The Dupin Tales
While Edgar Allan Poe was most famous for his eerie tales of murder, ghouls, and suspense, he is also credited with paving the way for the future of detective stories with his character C. Auguste Dupin. Dupin made his first appearance in the murder mystery «The Murders in the Rue Morgue,» a tale about the murder of two women. When Dupin questioned witnesses, everyone claimed that the murderer was speaking a different language, yet none of the witnesses could place his accent. Dupin put himself in the mind of the killer and read the faces of witnesses, suspects, and other persons of interest. He also drew inspiration and ideas from outside resources such as newspapers or police reports. As Dupin sought to unravel the mystery, Poe was creating an archetypal character that would be followed by many other great detectives. In the collection «The Murders in the Rue Morgue: The Dupin Tales,» Poe allows Dupin's genius to shine in stories like «The Murders in the Rue Morgue,» «The Mystery of Marie Roget,» and «The Purloined Letter.» These tales are not typical Poe stories, but instead all follow the cases that detective Dupin solves after other police and investigators are stumped. Dupin showed that, with a little ingenuity and creativity, even the most difficult case could be solved. Mystery lovers and Poe fans will all enjoy this groundbreaking collection and the intrigue that Poe creates within it.
The Complete Christmas Books of Charles Dickens
While readers will be most familiar with «The Christmas Carol» in which Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by four ghosts who endeavor to show him the error of his miserly ways just in time for Christmas, Dickens also wrote four other Christmas themed books. These include «The Chimes», the story of Toby «Trotty» Veck, a poor working-class man who has lost his faith in humanity and believes that his poverty is the result of his unworthiness; «The Cricket on the Hearth», the story of John Peerybingle and his family who are visited by a guardian angel in the form of a cricket who is constantly chirping on their hearth; «The Battle of Life» a charmingly uplifting and romantic Christmas story; and «The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain», which is the story of Redlaw, a chemistry teacher constantly brooding over the grief caused by wrongs done to him in the past. These five books are collected here together in this edition of «The Complete Christmas Books of Charles Dickens.»
The Chorus Girl and Other Stories
"The Chorus Girl and Other Stories" is a classic collection of short stories by short story master Anton Chekhov. Included here in this volume are the following tales: The Chorus Girl, Verotchka, My Life, At a Country House, A Father, On the Road, Rothschild's Fiddle, Ivan Matveyitch, Zinotchka, Bad Weather, A Gentleman Friend, and A Trivial Incident.
The Horse Stealers and Other Stories
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) was a master of the short story. The son of a former serf in southern Russia, he attended Moscow University to study medicine, writing short stories for periodicals in order to support his family. What began as a necessity became a legitimate career in 1886 when he was asked to write in St. Petersburg for the Novoye Vremya (New Times), owned by millionaire magnate Alexey Suvorin. Chekhov began paying more attention to his writing, revising and developing his own principles and conceptions of truth, for a time coming under the influence of Leo Tolstoy. As a result of his widespread popularity, Chekhov amassed a vast collection of short stories displaying an early use of stream-of-consciousness writing, as well as his powerful ideas concerning the individual, the tedium of life, and the beauty nature and humanity. This edition contains many stories, including «Ward No. 6,» «The Looking-Glass,» «The Beggar,» «Darkness,» «An Avenger,» «A Happy Man,» and «A Troublesome Visitor.»
The Selected Stories of H. P. Lovecraft
Considered by many to be one of the greatest horror fiction writers of all time, H. P. Lovecraft was certainly a pioneer of the genre. Contained here are 24 of the author's classic stories. This collection includes the following tales: The Alchemist, The Beast in the Cave, Memory, The Picture in the House, Beyond the Wall of Sleep, Dagon, The White Ship, The Statement of Randolph Carter, The Doom That Came to Sarnath, Poetry and the Gods, Nyarlathotep, The Cats of Ulthar, Polaris, The Street, Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family, Ex Oblivione, The Crawling Chaos, The Terrible Old Man, The Tree, The Nameless City, Herbert West: Reanimator, The Tomb, The Music of Erich Zann, and Celephais.
Tanglewood Tales
In this sequel to «A Wonder-Book for Boys and Girls» we find another classic collection of stories from Greek mythology retold by Nathaniel Hawthorne for children. In this collection one will find the stories of «Theseus and the Minotaur», «Antaeus and the Pygmies», «Dragon's Teeth», «Circe's Palace», «Proserpina, Ceres, Pluto, and the Pomegranate Seed», and «Jason and the Golden Fleece». Hawthorne's «Tanglewood Tales» is an excellent collection of stories of adventure and fantasy which along with «A Wonder-Book for Boys and Girls» serves as a great introduction to Greek mythology for younger readers.
Triumph of the Egg and Other Stories
Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) was a novelist and short story writer who has been recognized as one of the most innovative and important American authors of his time. He was a prolific writer, publishing seven novels and myriad collections of essays, memoirs, poetry and short stories. Anderson wrote in a characteristically simple prose style, and his unconventional techniques caused him to at first be written off. However, his unique exploration of the unconscious and its effect on behavior created very vulnerable, human characters that evoke sympathy from readers. «Triumph of the Egg and Other Stories» is a collection of fifteen stories published in 1921. It includes some of his greatest works: «The Egg,» a story about the struggle to find success and happiness in the American Midwest, «I'm a Fool,» about a young man who sabotages his chance at love because of his own feelings of inferiority, and «I Want to Know Why,» about the confusion and desperation felt by a boy entering adulthood.
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales
Enter the dark worlds created by Edgar Allen Poe in the collection «The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales.» Poe emphasizes morbidity and death through his tales and poems, and this anthology holds all of Poe's best and most famous works from throughout his career. In «The Fall of the House of Usher,» a man and his sister suffer from a strange, debilitating illness. Her death drives him to the point of madness, and the fragile mansion falls along with the Usher family line. It is Poe's most famous and well-known story and is a masterpiece of the Gothic literature genre, demonstrating a prime example of the author's emotional tone and evoking fear, guilt, and trepidation. These same feelings are conjured in the rest of «The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales.» «The Tell-Tale Heart» shows how even the most calculating of murders can result in immeasurable guilt. Following the theme of murder, a narrator lures a drunken man to his death in the depths of Italy's cellars in «The Cask of Amontillado.» For the reader who wants to experience the mystery and macabre nature of early American literature, «The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales» is the perfect book to choose.