филдинг хелен the history of tom jones a foundling i история тома джонса i
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling I / История Тома Джонса I
Henry Fielding (1707-1754) was an English novelist and dramatist known for his rich, earthy humour and satirical prowess. "The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling" is his popular comic novel. It tells the story of Tom Jones, a gallant and irresistible young man. After being betrayed by jealous relatives, Tom is exiled from home and must undergo a variety of trials in his quest to be reunited with his one true love. Filled with mischief and adventure, this book is one of the most clever and witty novels ever written.
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Fielding H. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 1 = История Тома Джонса 1
Henry Fielding (1707 — 1754) was an English novelist and dramatist known for his rich, earthy humour and satirical prowess. "The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling" is his popular comic novel. It tells the story of Tom Jones, a gallant and irresistible young man. After being betrayed by jealous relatives, Tom is exiled from home and must undergo a variety of trials in his quest to be reunited with his one true love. Filled with mischief and adventure, this book is one of the most clever and witty novels ever written.
938 Руб.
Fielding H. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 1 = История Тома Джонса 1
Henry Fielding (1707 — 1754) was an English novelist and dramatist known for his rich, earthy humour and satirical prowess. "The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling" is his popular comic novel. It tells the story of Tom Jones, a gallant and irresistible young man. After being betrayed by jealous relatives, Tom is exiled from home and must undergo a variety of trials in his quest to be reunited with his one true love. Filled with mischief and adventure, this book is one of the most clever and witty novels ever written.
938 Руб.
Fielding Henry The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. Part 1
Henry Fielding (1707-1754) was an English novelist and dramatist known for his rich, earthy humour and satirical prowess. "The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling" is his popular comic novel. It tells the story of Tom Jones, a gallant and irresistible young man. After being betrayed by jealous relatives, Tom is exiled from home and must undergo a variety of trials in his quest to be reunited with his one true love. Filled with mischief and adventure, this book is one of the most clever and witty novels ever written.
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Fielding Henry The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Henry Fielding's picaresque tale of a young man's search for his place in the world, The History of Tom Jones is edited with notes and an introduction by Thomas Keymer and Alice Wakely in Penguin Classics. A foundling of mysterious parentage brought up by Mr Allworthy on his country estate, Tom Jones is deeply in love with the seemingly unattainable Sophia Western, the beautiful daughter of the neighbouring squire - though he sometimes succumbs to the charms of the local girls. But when his amorous escapades earn the disapproval of his benefactor, Tom is banished to make his own fortune. Sophia, meanwhile, is determined to avoid an arranged marriage to Allworthy's scheming nephew and escapes from her rambunctious father to follow Tom to London. A vivid Hogarthian panorama of eighteenth century life, spiced with danger and intrigue, bawdy exuberance and good-natured authorial interjections, Tom Jones is one of the greatest and most ambitious comic novels in English literature. In his introduction Thomas Keymer discusses narrative techniques and themes, the context of eighteenth century fiction and satire, and the historical and political background of the Jacobite rebellion. This volume also includes a chronology, further reading, notes, a glossary and an appendix on Fielding's revisions. Henry Fielding (1707-1754) born at Sharpham Park, in Somerset, was a dramatist, novelist, political agitator and founder of London's first police force, the 'Bow Street Runners'. As a playwright he was a thorn in the side of Sir Robert Walpole's Whig government, who effectively legislated his retirement from the theatre with the Licensing Act of 1737. Undeterred, Fielding launched his career as a novelist in 1740 with Shamela (a parody of Samuel Richardson's Pamela), followed by Joseph Andrews (1741), an anticipation of his masterpiece, the comic novel Tom Jones (1749).
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Haggard Henry Rider King Solomon's Mines
Allan Quatermain is a Victorian Indiana Jones - he triumphs over deserts, snowy mountains, tribal warfare and witches, and unearths the mythical treasure of King Solomon's mines. This faithful but unpretending record of a remarkable adventure is hereby respectfully dedicated by the narrator to all the big boys and little boys who read it. I offer apologies for my blunt way of writing. I can but say in excuse of it that I am more accustomed to handling a rifle than a pen. This is the strange history of our journey into the heart of Kukuanaland; a trek into the interior of the dark continent to find a lost friend and discover the diamond mines of King Solomon.In the course of a long life of close shaves, I never had such shaves as those which I have recently experienced. - Allan Quatermain, of Durban, Natal, Gentleman
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Fielding Henry Tom Jones
"Tom Jones" is a great celebration of life, the first novel of its kind and still unrivalled as a classic of comic inventiveness and sheer exuberance. First published in 1749, Henry Fielding's tale of the foundling boy adopted by a rich and kindly benefactor only to be cast out on the verge of manhood is an epic saga that draws closely on the author's own rash and rackety life to pit 'goodness and innocence' against the greed and hypocrisy prevalent at all levels of society in his time. Described by Edward Gibbon as "that exquisite picture of human manners", Tom Jones is an enduring cause for optimism that our species is, after all, capable of redemption.
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Fielding Henry Tom Jones
For Coleridge the plot of Tom Jones was, along with that of Oedipus the King, the most perfect ever constructed. Fielding used all his art and all the craft he had amassed as a successful playwright for the eighteenth-century London stage to tell this hugely entertaining story of a foundling and how he arrives, through sexual misadventures and elaborate disasters, to claim his legitimacy, his fortune and his true love.
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Bronte Emily Wuthering Heights
'May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then' Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before: of the intense passion between the foundling Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, and her betrayal of him. As Heathcliff's bitterness and vengeance is visited upon the next generation, their innocent heirs must struggle to escape the legacy of the past.
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Penguin
As a chronicler of natural history today, Frans Lanting is a singular extraordinary talent. He has the mind of a scientist, the heart of a hunter, and the eyes of a poet." National Geographic, Washington "This book is a personal interpretation of the penguins I met, rather than a natural history of all penguins," Frans Lanting writes. "I wanted to create an impression of who these penguins are and what they go through. I hope my work will be seen as an homage to the individual within them all." This title is a celebration of the nature and beauty of penguins as expressed through the exquisite images and unique personal stories of master photographer and naturalist Frans Lanting. In a remarkable portfolio of photographs made during three expeditions to the icy kingdoms of penguins, he reveals both the amazing natural history and the irresistible appeal of the most human of birds. Through his images, he carries us beyond the familiar views of penguins to reveal the stern beauty and dignity of their lives. Издание на английском языке.
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Livy The Early History of Rome
'I hope my passion for Rome's past has not impaired my judgement; for I do honestly believe that no country has ever been greater or purer than ours or richer in good citizens and noble deeds' Livy dedicated most of his life to writing some 142 volumes of history, the first five of which comprise The Early History of Rome. With stylistic brilliance, he chronicles nearly 400 years from the founding of Rome to the Gallic invasion in 386 BC, an era that witnessed the establishment of the Republic, unrest and brutal conflict. Bringing compelling characters to life, and re-presenting familiar tales - including the tragedy of Coriolanus and the story of Romulus and Remus - The Early History is a truly epic work, and a passionate warning that a nation should learn from its history.
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Ozick Cynthia Antiquities and Other Stories
I remember nothing. I remember everything. I believe everything. I believe nothing. In 1949, Lloyd Wilkinson Petrie returns as a Trustee to the long-defunct boarding school that he attended as a child. There he is preparing a memoir about the subtle anti-Semitism that pervaded the school, about his fascination with the Egyptian archaeological adventures of his distant cousin, about the passions of a boyhood friendship with named Ben-Zion Elefantin, a mystifying older pupil. In this novella, and the three stories published alongside it, one of our most preeminent writers weaves together myth and mania, history and illusion to capture the shifting meanings of the past.
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Филдинг Генри История Тома Джонса, найденыша
Заглавный герой "Истории Тома Джонса, найденыша" (1749) английского прозаика и комедиографа Генри Филдинга – подкидыш и пария в доме состоятельного сквайра Олверти – благодаря чужим козням и собственной опрометчивости оказывается изгнан из дому и вытолкнут на открытую дорогу жизненных странствий. Добрый сердцем, но не отличающийся благоразумием, Том, подобно Дон Кихоту, помогает слабым и обиженным, то и дело сам оказываясь побит, а в попутчики ему дан своего рода Санчо Панса – трусоватый и мечтающий повернуть назад цирюльник Партридж…
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Филдинг Генри История Тома Джонса, найденыша
"История Тома Джонса, найденыша" - шедевр английской литературы. Иначе говоря, классика, которой все восхищаются, но которую, по едкому замечанию Марка Твена, мало кто читает. В данном случае восполнить пробел можно не без удовольствия. Заклейменный некогда критиками как непристойный, роман привлекает искусным сюжетом, живыми, не чуждыми человеческих слабостей героями и добродушным юмором от предшественника Диккенса и Теккерея.
233 Руб.
Филдинг Генри История Тома Джонса, найденыша
"История Тома Джонса, найденыша". Остроумная, колоритная история, переворачивающая с ног на голову все представления о традиционном "романе воспитания". Главный герой Том – любимец женщин, который никогда не откажется от легкой связи или пикантного приключения. Он живет одним днем, не заботится о своей репутации, зато умеет не-плохо пользоваться слабостями и глупостями окружающих. Он только и делает, что нарушает запреты унылой, на его взгляд, буржуазной морали.Однако сила духа Тома, юношеское очарование и искрометный юмор делают его одним из самых обаятельных героев в истории мировой лите-ратуры.
276 Руб.
Филдинг Генри История Тома Джонса, найденыша
"История Тома Джонса, найденыша" - шедевр английской литературы. Иначе говоря, классика, которой все восхищаются, но которую, по едкому замечанию Марка Твена, мало кто читает. В данном случае восполнить пробел можно не без удовольствия. Заклейменный некогда критиками как непристойный, роман привлекает искусным сюжетом, живыми, не чуждыми человеческих слабостей героями и добродушным юмором от предшественника Диккенса и Теккерея.
341 Руб.