Penguin presents the companion book to the "Masterpiece Theatre" miniseries starring Gillian Anderson (T"he House of Mirth, The X-Files"). This stunning production features a screenplay written by Andrew Davies ("Bridget Jones's Diary"). Part romance, part melodrama, part detective story, the novel spreads out among a web of relationships in every level of society.
Nagrodzona National Book Award powieść, która zainspirowała Alfreda Hitchcocka i Stephena Kinga, jest teraz dostępna w eleganckim wydaniu. Podczas podróży na Riwierę Francuską nieśmiała dziewczyna poznaje zamożnego wdowca, Maxima de Wintera, i szybko zgadza się na małżeństwo. Szczęście kończy się po przyjeździe do Manderley, rodzinnej posiadłości Maxima, gdzie nowa pani de Winter odkrywa, że mąż zmienia się w niewytłumaczony sposób, a ona sama czuje się zagubiona. Pozbawiona przyjaciół, zostaje sama w ogromnej rezydencji, w której wciąż unosi się duch poprzedniej żony Maxima – Rebeki, zmarłej w niewyjaśnionych okolicznościach. Nowa pani de Winter postanawia odkryć prawdę o swojej doskonałej poprzedniczce i jej tragicznej historii. Powieść oferuje doskonałą rozrywkę, a du Maurier stworzyła nową skalę, dzięki której współczesne kobiety mogą mierzyć swoje uczucia. King nazywa ją arcydziełem, podkreślając, że rzadko martwa postać ma taką moc oddziaływania. „Rebeka” to inspirująca powieść XX wieku, która wplotła się w kulturę, zachwycając czytelników od 1938 roku swoją psychologiczną głębią i atmosferą niepokoju.
Four women answer and advertisement. They leave London and go on holiday to San Salavatore - an Italian castle by the sea. They find enchantment, happiness and love.
The three novels which make up The Forsyte Saga chronicle the ebbing social power of the commercial upper-middle class Forsyte family between 1886 and 1920. Galsworthy's masterly narrative examines not only their fortunes but also the wider developments within society, particularly the changing position of women. This is the only critical edition of the work available, with Notes that explain contemporary artistic and literary allusions and define the slang of the time.
John Harmon returns to England after years in exile to claim his inheritance: a great fortune and a beautiful young woman to whom he is betrothed, but has never met. When Harmon's body is pulled out of the Thames, all of London is fascinated by the mystery of the murdered man and his unclaimed riches. Scavengers, social-climbers, lawyers, teachers, a money-lender, a dolls-dressmaker, and men and women both honest and villainous will all become embroiled in this tale of love and obsession, death and rebirth.
Niezwykłe przygody Olivera Twista, sympatycznego i dobrego chłopca, urodzonego w schronisku dla bezdomnych, ciekawią, wzruszają i bawią od ponad stu pięćdziesięciu lat zarówno młodzież, jak i dorosłych. W Londynie, do którego ucieka z sierocińca, Oliver trafia do gangu miejscowych złodziejaszków, którym rządzi Fagin. Wyciągnięty z marginesu przez pana Brownslowa, zostaje porwany ... Wartka akcja, niezapomniane postacie, Dickensowski humor i plastyczny opis XIX-wiecznego, pełnego kontrastów Londynu ? to główne walory jednej z najsłynniejszych postaci na świecie.
Opowieść, w której prawda ukryta jest między słowami. Pełna tajemnic kobieta, która z pewnością ma coś na sumieniu Ale czy tak wiele, jak chcieliby tego niektórzy? Wydarzenia, które po spojrzeniu z innego punktu widzenia mogłyby wyglądać zupełnie inaczej Literacka zagadka z mistrzowsko poprowadzoną narracją. Klasyczna autorka, jedna z najważniejszych pisarek na świecie, w Polsce wciąż jeszcze nienależycie doceniona. Mistrzyni suspensu, bez której nie byłoby Stephena Kinga i Alfreda Hitchcocka takich, jakich znamy. WYJĄTKOWE WYDANIE W TWARDEJ OPRAWIE Z OBWOLUTĄ I ZŁOCENIAMI.
Opętany obsesją szalony naukowiec Victor Frankenstein plądruje cmentarze w poszukiwaniu materiału do stworzenia nowego życia. Jednak istota, którą udało mu się wskrzesić, nie spełnia jego oczekiwań. Odrzucona przez Frankensteina i pozbawiona ludzkiego towarzystwa, postanawia zniszczyć swojego stwórcę i wszystko, co jest mu drogie. Ta mrożąca krew w żyłach gotycka powieść, która powstała, gdy Mary Shelley miała zaledwie dziewiętnaście lat, stała się zaczątkiem nowego gatunku. Zyskała status doskonałego studium granic ludzkiej kreatywności i niszczenia oraz jednego z najsłynniejszych horrorów świata.
Reading Level: Upper IntermediateSteinbecks most powerful novel describes the lives of a homeless farming family as they travel across America in the Great Depression of the 1930s. When the Joad family loses its farm in Oklahoma, they join thousands of other families on the journey to a new life in California where they have heard there is work picking fruit. Every step of the way, the family face hardship and hostility as they struggle to survive in a country where kindness no longer exists.
Błyskotliwa komedia omyłek, której przedmiotem jest gra pozorów i iluzje, jakich dostarcza nam w nadmiarze nasz egoizm i zadufanie. W samym zaś środku intrygi stoi niezwykła bohaterka, pełna życia i wigoru, urocza, nieznośna i apodyktyczna Emma.
Dracula has been attributed to many literary genres including vampire literature, horror fiction, the gothic novel and invasion literature. Structurally it is an epistolary novel, that is, told as a series of diary entries and letters. Literary critics have examined many themes in the novel, such as the role of Victorian culture, conventional and conservative women sexuality, immigration, colonialism, postcolonialism and folklore. Although Stoker did not invent the vampire, the novel's influence on the popularity of vampires has been singularly responsible for many theatrical and film interpretations throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.
One of Macmillan's series of graded readers Much Ado About Nothing is Shakespeare's famous comedy/drama about the war of power and understanding between men and women and the disguises they wear in their romantic relationships.
Hamlet należy do arcydzieł literatury światowej. Utwór Williama Szekspira to dzieło o tragedii ludzkiego losu i konsekwencjach podejmowanych decyzji. Najważniejszym zagadnieniem moralnym, a także filozoficznym, jest dualizm świata i dwoistość natury ludzkiej, łączącej w sobie dobro i zło zarazem.... číst celé
Pomysł napisania "Anny Kareniny" powziął Tołstoj w r. 1870, dopiero jednak w marcu 1873 r. rozpoczął pracę nad powieścią. W początku 1874 r. Tołstoj oddał do druku pierwsze pięć arkuszy. Druk został jednak przerwany. Tołstoj znacznie rozwinął i pogłębił swój pierwotny pomysł. "Anna Karenina" stała się wielką powieścią ukazującą losy bohaterów na tle życia rosyjskiego i stosunków społecznych Rosji w latach 1870-75. W wydaniu książkowym powieść w całości po raz pierwszy ukazała się w r. 1878. W Polsce pierwszą wzmiankę o "Annie Kareninie" znajdujemy w r. 1876 w "Dzienniku Warszawskim" wydawanym przez carskie władze zaborcze.
This is a simple and powerful tale of the effects of the Mau Mau war on individuals and families in Kenya. Two brothers must decide where their loyalties lie; Njoroge, the dreamer and accomplished student, finds it hard to give up schooling and is drawn relentlessly into turmoil. Good and evil are portrayed somewhat more starkly than in Ngugi's later works.
Set amid the exotic world of deep-sea diving in the tropics, The Eye of the Tiger is a tale of adventure and romance told with rare humour and excitement. `I was looking down, watching the shark come. It seemed to swell up in size as it rushed towards me. Every detail was burned into my mind in those frantic seconds. I saw the hog`s snout with the two slotted nostrils, the golden eyes with the black pupils like arrowheads, the broad blue back from which stood the tall executioner`s blade of the dorsal fin.` Harry Fletcher, a man with a chequered past, has reformed and is making an honest living as a charter skipper fishing for big game in the seductive waters of the Indian Ocean. Suddenly men from the world of violence Harry has put behind him overturn his good intentions, involving him in a hectic race to recover a fabulous treasure from an ancient wreck.
A young man newly rich tries to recapture the past and win back his former love, despite the fact that she has married
When country-girl Grace Melbury returns home from her middle-class school she feels she has risen above her suitor, the simple woodsman Giles Winterborne. Though marriage had been discussed between her and Giles, Grace finds herself captivated by Dr Edred Fitzpiers, a sophisticated newcomer to the area - a relationship that is encouraged by her socially ambitious father. Hardy's novel of betrayal, disillusionment and moral compromise depicts a secluded community coming to terms with the disastrous impact of outside influences. And in his portrayal of Giles Winterborne, Hardy shows a man who responds deeply to the forces of the natural world, thought they ultimately betray him.
The Arden Shakespeare is the established edition of Shakespeare's work. Justly celebrated for its authoritative scholarship and invaluable commentary, Arden guides you a richer understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's plays.This edition of Macbeth provides, a clear and authoritative text, detailed notes and commentary on the same page as the text, a full introduction discussing the critical and historical background to the play and appendices presenting sources and relevant extracts.
Macmillan Readers are a range of contemporary and classic titles specially retold for learners of English. Levels are carefully graded from Starter to Upper Intermediate to help students choose the right material for their abilty.
Proud, passionate Eustacia Vye marries Clym Yeobright in the hope that he will help her escape her cramped rural existence. But when their relationship falters Eustacia turns to her old lover Damon Wildeve, leading to a disastrous climax on the brooding wilds of Egdon Heath.
Catherine Sloper is forbidden by her wealthy father to marry the fortune-hunting Morris Townsend. She secretly promises to marry Townsend when he is ready, but then realizes that Townsend is only waiting for her father to change his mind about her inheritance.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel, The Beautiful and the Damned, "marks an advance over This Side of Paradise," Edmund Wilson wrote. "The style is more nearly mature and the subject more nearly unified, and there are scenes that are more convincing than any in his previous fiction." Published in 1922, it chronicles the relationship of Anthony Patch, Harvard-educated, aspiring aesthete, and his beautiful wife, Gloria, as they await to inherit his grandfather's fortune. A devastating satire of the nouveaux rich and New York's nightlife, of reckless ambition and squandered talent.
This is an Upper Level title in a series of ELT readers comprising a wide range of stories - some original and some simplified - from modern and classic novels, and designed to appeal to all age-groups, tastes and cultures. The books are divided into five levels: Starter Level, with about 300 basic words; Beginner Level (600 basic words); Elementary Level (1100); Intermediate Level (1600); and Upper Level (2200). Some of the titles are also available on cassette.
During their school holidays, the teenagers, Frankie, Regan, Tom and Jack, join an archaeological dig in southeast England. Their teacher and the archaeologist in charge give them some facts about the historical background to the site and the Glanville family who had once lived there. When Frankie and Jack accidentally fall into the Glanville family's vault in the local graveyard, Frankie finds an old silver coin clipped in half. Shortly after her return to the graveyard, she meets an angry young man dressed in dark clothes. As Regan, Tom and Jack start to piece together the sad tale of Eleanor, the ward of the ruthless nineteenth century owner of the manor house and the local village, the friends begin to get seriously worried about Frankie's increasingly disturbed behaviour
Lychford Green is an old RAF airbase. It hasn't been used in years, but somehow it still bears the traces of the horrors which took place there 50 years previous. When Regan, Tom, Jack and Frankie investigate the empty airfield for a school project, they find that it echoes with its untold story.
1797 - the Mediterranean. Britain and France are at war. British warships are fighting French warships. Young Billy Budd arrives on the British warship, Indomitable. Billy is strong and handsome. Most of the sailors on the ship like Billy. But he has an enemy - John Claggart, the master-at-arms. Claggart hates Billy. And he has a plan. He will make trouble for the young sailor.
This is an Beginner Level title in a series of ELT readers which includes a wide range of stories - some original and some simplified - from modern and classic novels, and is designed to appeal to all age-groups, tastes and cultures. The books are divided into five Starter Level, with about 300 basic words; Beginner Level (600 basic words); Elementary Level (1100); Intermediate Level (1600); and Upper Level (2200). Some of the stories are also available on audio-cassette.
