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Чарльз Диккенс – The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby I

Dickens’ genius for creating eccentric yet entirely captivating characters found its fullest expression in his third novel, Nicholas Nickleby, published in 1839. The narrative follows Nicholas as he escapes from the infl uence of his villainous uncle and the wicked schoolmaster Wackford Squeers, stumbles into a theatrical career, and pursues his [...]

Уильям Уилки Коллинз – The Fallen Leaves

Wilkie Collins was one of the leading English authors of the Victorian era. Collins was a prolifi c author and he is credited for writing the fi rst modern detective novel in English literature. The novel follows the fortunes of four women, all in one way or another ‘fallen leaves’, who are linked by their relationships with the hero, Amelius [...]

Шарлотта Бронте – Vilette

Villette draws on her profound loneliness following the deaths of her three siblings. Lucy Snowe, the narrator of this book, flees from an unhappy past in England to begin a new life as a teacher at a French boarding school in the great cosmopolitan capital of Villette. Soon Lucy’s struggle for independence is overshadowed by both her friendship [...]

Джозеф Конрад – The Mirror of the Sea & A Personal Record

These works are unique in Conrad’s oeuvre in being openly autobiographical – but in scope and literary form they differ widely. In The Mirror Conrad explores his vast knowledge of the sea in an era when the sailing ship gave way, after thousands of years, to steam. A Personal Record is Conrad’s account of himself, his cultural background, [...]

Джеймс Фенимор Купер – Wyandotte; or, The Hutted Knoll

The novel Wyandotte arrived at a time when a patriotic mythology about the American Revolution was developing, and Cooper’s somber tale of the sufferings of an isolated family in upstate New York during the Revolution was not congruent with the celebratory stories then being told. As Edgar Allen Poe observed, in Maud Meredith Cooper creates his [...]

Уильям Уилки Коллинз – The New Magdalen

William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. The adoptive daughter of a wealthy aristocrat is waiting for a profi table marriage. What hides her past? She lived in a shelter, dragged on a miserable existence and in a moment of desperation she appropriated other people’s documents, another’s life story. [...]

Даниэль Дефо – The Political History of the Devil

Daniel Defoe was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy. General scholarly opinion is that Defoe really did think of the Devil as a participant in world history. His view is that of an 18th-century Presbyterian – he blames the Devil for the Crusades and sees him as close to Europe’s Catholic [...]

Джон Голсуорси – The Forsyte Saga. Indian Summer of a Forsyte & In Сhancery

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. Soames Forsyte is the brilliantly portrayed central figure, a Victorian who outlives the age, and whose baffled passion for his beautiful but unresponsive wife Irene reverberates throughout [...]

Чарльз Диккенс – The Mudfog Papers and Other Sketches

The Mudfog Papers, a collection of sketches by Charles Dickens, describes the local politics of the fi ctional town of Mudfog – such as thedelusions of grandeur of its mayor Nicholas Tulrumble and his disastrous attempts at putting on a public show – and the meetings of its Society for the Advancement of Everything, during which the town is [...]

Даниэль Дефо – The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe’s faith-fi lled The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe fi nds Crusoe bored with his prosperity and consumed by an irresistible longing to return to the island he left many years before. Along with his trusty servant and companion, Friday, he embarks on a harrowing high-seas adventure that takes them to China, over the Russian [...]

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