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6490 Ft
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Fedlapja kopottas, enyhén megtört. Rob Roy is a historical novel by Walter Scott, one of the Waverley novels. It is probably set in 1715, the year of the first Jacobite uprising, and the social and economic background to that event are an important element in the novel, though it is not treated...
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
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Introduction
The Red Badge of Courage was published in 1895 and is indisputably the novel for which Stephen Crane is best remembered and which established him as a major writer. A short but deeply intense and highly vivid book, it tells of the horrifying experiences of a young soldier on the...
Introduction
The fairy tales and stories of Oscar Wilde enjoy a perennial popularity and have been translated in almost every language on earth. They have also been made into films, adapted for television and radio, and appeared as highly successful cartoons. Wilde told André Gide that he was...
CHAPTER I
Sisters
Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen sat one morning in the window-bay of their father's house in Beldover, working and talking. Ursula was stitching a piece of brighdy-coloured embroidery, and Gudrun was drawing upon a board which she held on her knee. They were mostly silent, talking...
CLASSICS
Aesop's Fables
Illustrated by ARTHUR RACKHAM
Aesop's celebrated collection of fables has always been popular with both adults and children. These simple tales embody truths so powerful, the tides of individual fables - the fox and the grapes, the dog in the mangel, the wolf in sheep's...
Introduction
This volume completes the canon of the illustrated Sherlock Holmes stories reprinted from the Strand Magazine. It contains the short story series Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes, The Valley of Fear, a sinister novella which appeared in 1914-15, His Last Bow: The War Service of...
INTRODUCTION Tragedy, in its starkest form is epitomised by Othello. True greatness, achieved in the face of adversity, is humbled and brought down by the inexorable workings of a malign fate unleashed by humán weakness. The central theme in Othello is the humán weakness caused by jealousy, and...
PREFACE
Edward Lear must always be regarded as one of the most curious figures in English literature. He secured a permanent niche in the Temple of Fame by what he regarded as a mere pastime, till the literary world of the nineteenth century proclaimed its delight in it. He is known as the...
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
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INTRODUCTION
Set against the turbulent background of the emerging hish nation state, this autobiographical novel follows the early life and development of its central character, Stephen Dedalus (who also appears in Joyce's later novel, Ulysses), describing his boyhood, the bullying he suffered...
INTRODUCTION
Set against the turbulent background of the emerging Irish nation state, this autobiographical novel follows the early life and development of its central character, Stephen Dedalus (who also appears in Joyce's later novel, Ulysses), describing his boyhood, the bullying he suffered...
BOOK FIRST
The Workshop
With a single drop of ink for a mirror, the Egyptian sorcerer undertakes to reveal to any chance comer far-reaching visions of the past. This is what I undertake to do for you, reader. With this drop of ink at the end of my pen, I will show you die roomy workshop of Mr...
INTRODUCTION
Shirley was written between 1848 and 1849 at a time of great social and political vmrest in England and throughout continental Europe. The miseries induced by trade depression and an economy in the process of rapid change from an agrarian to an industrial base had led to mob...
In this selection of plays by the master folklorist Andrew Lang, the reader is taken into the romantic world of the gallant Knights of the Round Table and their courageous and chivalrous deeds, fair maidens, castles steeped in history, the quest for the Holy Grail, and the tragic love of King...
PREFACE TO THE SIXTH EDITION
I received the following letter from an old friend soon after the last edition of this book was published, and resolved, if ever another edition were called for, to print it. For it is clear from this and other like comments, that something more should have been said...
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Preface
The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.
The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things. The highest, as the lowest, form of criticism is a mode of autobiography.
Those...
INTRODUCTION
In introducing these two stories, one can do no better than quote the author's preface to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, written in 1876:
Most of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred; one or two were experiences of my own, the rest of boys who were schoohnates of...
c K Chesterton wrote forty-nine Father Brown stories, and this selection contains the eighteen which Mgr Ronnie Knox judged to be the most ingenious. Martin Gardner considers Father Brown to be 'the second most famous mystery-solver in English literature'. Whilst this claim is disputable, the...
INTRODUCTION
The Writer and his Times The precise identity of the Sir Thomas Malory who wrote Le Morte Darthur has always been shrouded in mystery, and has provoked much speculation. The work itself provides one piece of significant information. This comes at the end of the book, when the author...
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
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CHAPTER ONE
The Beginning of Things
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Kötéstábla / borítója kopott This collection of 100 of O Henry's finest stories is a showcase for the sheer variety of one of America's best and best-loved short story writers The variety of the stories is amazing; O Henry is as at home describing life south of the Rio Grande as he is...
Foreword
There are many more nursery rhymes than are included in this book, though I think most of the best known are here. I have chosen those I knew and liked best in my own nursery days, and I have kept to the versions that I was familiar with. I think one may do so, as nursery rhymes have...
Prologue
It was a perfect July evening in 1976; George Melly was to perform at the Guildhall, Cambridge, and we had met beforehand in the yard of the Eagle Tavern in Bene't Street.
George sat on a plastic beer-crate, wearing his Max Miller suit, with hat, cigar, cane and grin - exuding the...
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
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introduction
Ivan Turgenev lived largely in Baden-Baden and Paris and developed a sensibility and literary technique peculiarly akin to those of contemporary Western European writers. He was the first of the great authors of nineteenth-century Russia to make a name for himself outside his own...
INTRODUCTIONJerome Klapka Jerome was bom in Walsall, Staffordshire intheson of an unsuccessful ironmonger. He was brought up in London and educated at Marylebone Grammar School. He started work as a railway clerk at fourteen, and later worked as a schoolmaster, actor and journalist. He published...
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
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romance in four parts for the Atlantic Monthly, he was tremendously enthusiastic, and in a letter to the editor, William Dean Howells, he promised a work that would be as dazzHng as a 'sim-spot' and...
Hector Hugh Munro is perhaps the most graceful spokesman for England's "golden afternoon''--those slow and peaceful years prior to the outbreak of World War I. The good wit of bad manners, elegantly spiced with irony and deftly controlled malice, has made Saki stories small, perfect gems of the...
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Described by henry james as 'one of the first of the classics', Madame Bovary is Flaubert's flawless tale of human bondage which unfolds through his brilliant evocation of the doomed life of the Norman bourgeoise, Emma Bovary. A simple sentimental malcontent, Emma is...
GENERAL ENTRODUCTION
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INTRODUCTION
One of Dickens' most celebrated novels, Oliver Twist was Dickens' second overwhelmingly successful book, following the publication of Pickwick Papers. It contains many of the classical themes of his best writíng, such as the plight of orphans in Victorian England; the grinding...