maupassant guy de calvino italo bowen elizabeth love stories
Maupassant Guy de, Calvino Italo, Bowen Elizabeth Love Stories
Love Stories brings together a captivating assortment of short stories inspired by romantic entanglement in its many forms: first love, infatuation, obsession, unrequited love, marriage, adultery, jealousy, and the complicated bonds of those who have spent their lives together. A tremendous array of writers evoke a variety of moods, from the raw, erotic passion of D. H. Lawrence and Colette to the wickedly cynical comedy of Dorothy Parker and Roald Dahl; from the agonizing madness of jealousy in Vladimir Nabokov’s ‘That in Aleppo Once . . .’ to the yearning romantic illusions in Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘Winter Dreams’. Objects of passion include a glamorous silent-movie starlet in Elizabeth Bowen’s haunting ‘Dead Mabelle’, a faithful ghost in Yasunari Kawabata’s ‘Immortality’, and in Margaret Atwood’s ‘Bluebeard’s Egg’ a heart surgeon who spends his days penetrating the mysteries of the human heart but who seems oddly emotionally opaque himself. Jhumpa Lahiri plumbs the depths of a couple sundered by tragedy while Lorrie Moore movingly portrays a husband and wife brought together by it.
2673 Руб.
Calvino Italo Fantastic Tales
From fabulous enchantments and supernatural horrors to subtler, more psychological terrors, the best of nineteenth-century fantastic literature is collected here by Italo Calvino. These mysterious and macabre tales include Hoffmann's nightmarish 'The Sandman', Poe's terrifying 'The Tell-Tale Heart' and Dickens's chilling ghost story 'The Signal-Man', and relatively unknown works from celebrated writers including Honore de Balzac, Henry James, Sir Walter Scott, Guy de Maupassant and Robert Louis Stevenson, alongside lesser-known contributors. Each story comes with a fascinating introduction by Calvino.
3147 Руб.
Maupassant Guy de Selected Stories
During his most productive decade, the 1880s, Maupassant wrote more than 300 stories, including ‘Boule de Suif’, ‘The Necklace’, ‘The House of Madame Tellier’, ‘The Hand’, ‘The Horla’ and ‘Mademoiselle Fifi’. Marked by the psychological realism that he famously pioneered, the tales in this selection lead us on a tour of the human experience—lust and love, revenge and ridicule, terror and madness. Many take place in the author’s native Normandy, but the settings range farther abroad as well, from Brittany and Paris to Corsica and the Mediterranean coast, and even to North Africa and India. Maupassant’s remarkable range and ability to evoke an entire world in a few pages have ensured that his fiction has retained its power to entertain through generations of readers. Marjorie Laurie’s accomplished translations from the 1920s have similarly stood the test of time.
3160 Руб.
Bowen Elizabeth Collected Stories
Celebrated for her much-admired novels, including The Heat of the Day and The Death of the Heart, Bowen established herself in the front rank of the century's writers equally through her short fiction. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY A. N. WILSON Throughout these seventy-nine stories - love stories, ghost stories, stories of childhood, of English middle-class life in the twenties and thirties, of London during the Blitz - Elizabeth Bowen combines social comedy and reportage, perception and vision in an oeuvre which reveals, as Angus Wilson affirms in his introduction, that 'the instinctive artist is there at the very heart of her work'.
3062 Руб.
Maupassant Guy de The Best Short Stories
Guy de Maupassant was a master of the short story. This collection displays his lively diversity, with tales that vary in theme and tone, ranging from tragedy and satire to comedy and farce. In a lucidly direct style, he provides unflinching realism and sceptical irony. He depicts the deceptions, hypocrisies and vanities at different levels of society. Prostitution is frankly described, while the harshness of war is deftly exposed. His tales have been televised and have influenced films, operas and rock music. Unillusioned but humane, Maupassant remains our contemporary.
1826 Руб.
Maupassant Guy de Boule de Suif and Other Stories
A carriage transporting ten passengers fleeing from Rouen is stopped at a village inn by Prussian soldiers, who decide to detain them until one of their party, the prostitute Boule de Suif, consents to sleep with their officer. When Boule de Suif refuses to do so on account of her principles and patriotic sentiments, the solidarity initially manifested by her fellow travellers becomes increasingly tested as the deadlock continues, and the strained relationship between her and her “respectable” counterparts gradually worsens. A scathing satire of bourgeois prejudice and hypocrisy and a compelling snapshot of France during the 1870 Franco-Prussian War, ‘Boule de Suif’ – here presented with five other major stories by the author of Bel-Ami – was declared a masterpiece by Flaubert and is widely considered to be Maupassant’s finest short story. Contains: ‘Boule de Suif’, ‘The Confession’, ‘First Snow’, ‘Rose’, ‘The Dowry’ and ‘Bed 29’.
1483 Руб.
Maupassant Guy de Mademoiselle Fifi and Other Stories
Ги де Мопассан - один из самых известных французских классиков XIX века, крупнейший новеллист, мастер рассказа с неожиданной концовкой. В сборник "Мадемуазель Фифи и другие рассказы" включены необычные и яркие произведения, за которыми обязательно скрывается глубокий смысл или нравственная дилемма. В книгу вошли такие рассказы, как "Марокка", "Махмед-Продувной", "Аллума" и многие другие. Читайте зарубежную литературу в оригинале!
2302 Руб.
Bowen Elizabeth Selected Stories
A girl shares her secret den. A couple stroll through a ruined city. A man walks into a ladies' hat shop. A teacher dreams of killing her pupil. Spanning the 1920s to the post-war years, this new selection brings Elizabeth Bowen's finest short stories together for the first time. Elegant and subtle, they showcase Bowen's ability to evoke ineffable emotions - grief, nostalgia, self-consciousness, dread - and combine remarkable psychological insight with vivid settings, from the countryside of Bowen's native Ireland to the streets of her London home after the Blitz. Encompassing characters from many walks of life and a vast array of moods, these are intricate journeys of domesticity and discovery, of the homely and uncanny, of the mind and body.
2384 Руб.
Bowen Elizabeth Selected Stories
Selected and with a New Introduction by Tessa Hadley A girl shares her secret den. A couple stroll through a ruined city. A man walks into a ladies' hat shop. A teacher dreams of killing her pupil. Spanning the 1920s to the post-war years, this new selection brings Elizabeth Bowen's finest short stories together for the first time. Elegant and subtle, they showcase Bowen's ability to evoke ineffable emotions - grief, nostalgia, self-consciousness, dread - and combine remarkable psychological insight with vivid settings, from the countryside of Bowen's native Ireland to the streets of her London home after the Blitz. Encompassing characters from many walks of life and a vast array of moods, these are intricate journeys of domesticity and discovery, of the homely and uncanny, of the mind and body.
3647 Руб.
Bowen Elizabeth Collected Stories
Widely known for her extraordinary novels, including The Last September, The Death of the Heart and The Heat of the Day, Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) surpassed even herself as a writer of short fiction. 'The supreme genius of her time, writes John Banville in his introduction; 'There is not a story in this substantial volume ... that is not brought off beautifully.' There are seventy-nine stories in all, amongst them of course such well-loved classics as 'Mysterious Kor', 'The Demon Lover', 'Summer Night', 'Ivy Gripped the Steps' and 'The Happy Autumn Fields'. Written over four decades, they range in setting from the County Cork of the author's Anglo-Irish childhood to bomb-ravaged London where she coolly sat out World War II, every scene evoked with vivid and impeccable artistry. Children, frustrated lovers and even ghosts inhabit her tales with an urgency and emotional complexity, which make it clear that the drama of human consciousness is her central subject. Rich in social comedy, penetrating in their psychological insight, perfect in their craft, these stories firmly stake Bowen's claim to be considered one of the greatest English writers of the twentieth century.
7107 Руб.
Calvino Italo Difficult Loves and Other Stories
A spectacular display of this key European writer's early work This dazzling collection of stories follows the individual adventures of a varied cast of characters and masterfully illustrates Calvino's unique perspective and narrative gifts. As well as the thirteen tales from his Difficult Loves collection this volume also includes Smog and A Plunge into Real Estate.
2421 Руб.
Maupassant Guy de Moonlight
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil. Often described as the father of the modern short story, there is perhaps no other writer more closely associated with the form than Guy de Maupassant. Included here is his most famous story, 'Boule de Suif', as well as tales of love, such as the brilliant 'Happiness', and the supernatural, like the chilling 'The Horla'.
2384 Руб.
Maupassant Guy de A Parisian Affair and Other Stories
Set in the Paris of society women, prostitutes and small-minded bourgeousie, and the isolated villages of rural Normandy that de Maupassant knew as a child, the thirty-three tales in this volume are among the most darkly humorous and brilliant short stories in nineteenth-century literature. They focus on the relationships between men and women, as in the poignant fantasy of 'A Parisian Affair', between brothers and sisters, and between masters and servants. Through these relationships, Maupassant explores the dualistic nature of the human character and his stories reveal both nobility, civility and generosity, and, in stories such as 'At Sea' and 'Boule de Suif', vanity, greed and hypocrisy. Maupassant's stories repeatedly lay humanity bare with deft wit and devastating honesty.
3301 Руб.
Maupassant Guy de Nouvelles
Оноре де Бальзак всемирно известный французский писатель романист. "Le pere Goriot" ("Отец Горио") - первый роман серии "Человеческая комедия". Главный герой Бальзака - некогда преуспевающий торговец хлебом, а ныне живущий на чердаке одного из пансионов Парижа - старик Горио. Весь мир как бы перестал для него существовать, ведь он потерял все, что любил... В книге представлен неадаптироваиный текст на языке оригинала
97 Руб.
Maupassant Guy de Yvette
Publie en 1884, Yvette, l'une des ?uvres les plus justement celebres de Maupassant, nous conte une education sentimentale et sociale. Courtisee par l'elegant Servigny, l'ingenue Yvette prend peu a peu conscience du milieu equivoque dans lequel la fait vivre sa mere, une aventuriere jouant la marquise. Se gardant de tout recours au larmoyant ou au tragique, l'auteur de Boule de suif depeint ce demi-monde a petites touches precises et subtiles. Les autres nouvelles du recueil explorent les registres les plus divers, du tableau exotique ou guerrier (Mohammed-Fripouille) au drame psychologique (L'Abandonne) ou criminel (Le Garde). Chacune offre cette alliance de realisme minutieux, de sens de l'intrigue et de recreation visionnaire qui fait la singularite et la force de Maupassant. Presentation et notes de Gerard Gengembre. Texte integral
1135 Руб.
Maupassant Guy de, Dickens Charles, Benson E. F. Ghost Stories
The dead linger in our world before passing over, tormenting those who disturb their rest. From startling visions to dreadful phantoms, these supernatural beings are a warning of what might be to come for all of us. This collection features tales from some of the genre’s greatest writers, including Edward Frederic Benson, Montague Rhodes James, Sheridan Le Fanu, and Guy de Maupassant. Sure to both terrify and entertain, these classic ghost stories will send a chill down every spine.
3155 Руб.