Автор: Lovecraft H P
Название: Classic Horror Stories
ISBN: 0199639574 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199639571
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Описание: H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) was a reclusive scribbler of horror stories for the American pulp magazines that specialized in Gothic and science fiction in the interwar years. He often published in Weird Tales and has since become the key figure in the slippery genre of "weird fiction." Lovecraft developed an extraordinary vision of feeble men driven to the edge of sanity by glimpses of malign beings that have survived from human prehistory or by malevolent extra-terrestrial visitations. The ornate language of his stories builds towards grotesque moments of revelation, quite unlike any other writer.
This new selection brings together nine of his classic tales, focusing on the "Cthulhu Mythos," a cycle of stories that develops the mythology of the Old Ones, the monstrous creatures who predate human life on earth. The stories collected here include some of Lovecraft's finest, including "The Call of Cthulhu," "At the Mountains of Madness," "The Dunwich Horror," "The Colour Out of Space," "The Shadow over Innsmouth," and "The Shadow out of Time." The volume also includes vital extracts from Lovecraft's critical essay, "Supernatural Horror in Literature," in which he gave his own important definition of "weird fiction." In a fascinating introduction, Roger Luckhurst gives Lovecraft the attention he deserves as a writer who used pulp fiction to explore a remarkable philosophy that shockingly dethrones the mastery of man.
Featuring a chronology, bibliography, and informative notes, this is a must-have critical edition for Lovecraft aficionados, and the best introduction to his work for first-time visitors to his strange fictional world.

Автор: Pushkin, A.
Название: The Queen of Spades and Other Stories
ISBN: 0199538654 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199538652
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Описание: This volume contains new translations of four of Pushkin's best works of fiction. The Queen of Spades has long been acknowledged as one of the world's greatest short stories, in which Pushkin explores the nature of obsession. The Tales of Belkin are witty parodies of sentimentalism, while Peter the Great's Blackamoor is an early experiment with recreating the past. The Captain's Daughter is a novel-length masterpiece which combines historical fiction in the manner of Sir Walter Scott with the devices of the Russian fairy-tale. The introduction provides close readings of the stories and places them in their European literary context.

Автор: Kafka, Franz
Название: The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
ISBN: 0199238553 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199238552
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Описание: This new translation includes Kafka`s most famous story, The Metamorphosis, together with two other stories, The Judgement and In the Penal Colony, and Meditation and the autobiographical Letter to his Father. The edition includes a detailed introduction, notes, and other helpful items.

Автор: Byatt, A. S.
Название: The Oxford Book of English Short Stories
ISBN: 0199561605 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199561605
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Описание: A fresh contemporary design for A. S. Byatt's celebrated anthology of English short stories The Oxford Book of English Short Stories.The 37 stories featured here are selected from the 19th and 20th centuries, by authors ranging from Dickens, Trollope, and Hardy to J. G. Ballard, Angela Carter, and Ian McEwan.

Автор: Kipling Rudyard
Название: Just So Stories for Little Children
ISBN: 0199538603 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199538607
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Описание: How did the camel get his hump? Why won`t cats do as they are told? How did an inquisitive little elephant change the lives of elephants everywhere? Kipling`s imagined answers to such questions draw on the beast fables of India, and they are full of jokes, subtexts, and exotic references. This fully illustrated edition includes two extra stories and Kipling`s own explanation of the title.

Автор: James
Название: The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories
ISBN: 0199536171 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199536177
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Описание: A young, inexperienced governess is charged with the care of Miles and Flora, two small children abandoned by their uncle at his grand country house. She sees the figure of an unknown man on the tower and his face at the window. It is Peter Quint, the master`s dissolute valet, and he has come for little Miles. But Peter Quint is dead. Like the other tales collected here - `Sir Edmund Orme`, `Owen Wingrave`, and `The Friends of the Friends` - `The Turn of the Screw` is to all immediate appearances a ghost story. But are the appearances what they seem? Is what appears to the governess a ghost or a hallucination? Who else sees what she sees? The reader may wonder whether the children are victims of corruption from beyond the grave, or victims of the governess`s `infernal imagination`, which torments but also entrals her? `The Turn of the Screw` is probably the most famous, certainly the most eerily equivocal, of all ghostly tales. Is it a subtle, self-conscious exploration of the haunted house of Victorian culture, filled with echoes of sexual and social unease? Or is it simply, `the most hopelessly evil story that we have ever read`? The texts are those of the New York Edition, with a new Introduction and Notes.

Автор: Kafka, Franz
Название: A Hunger Artist and Other Stories
ISBN: 0199600929 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199600922
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Описание: 'In recent decades, interest in hunger artists has greatly diminished.' Kafka published two collections of short stories in his lifetime, A Country Doctor: Little Tales (1919) and A Hunger Artist: Four Stories (1924). Both collections are included in their entirety in this edition, which also contains other, uncollected stories and a selection of posthumously published works that have become part of the Kafka canon. Enigmatic, satirical, often bleakly humorous, these stories approach human experience at a tangent: a singing mouse, an ape, an inquisitive dog, and a paranoid burrowing creature are among the protagonists, as well as the professional starvation artist. A patient seems to be dying from a metaphysical wound; the war-horse of Alexander the Great steps aside from history and adopts a quiet profession as a lawyer. Fictional meditations on art and artists, and a series of aphorisms that come close to expressing Kafka's philosophy of life, further explore theme

Автор: Seirai Yuichi
Название: Ground Zero, Nagasaki: Stories
ISBN: 0231171161 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780231171168
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: An award-winning collection about the atomic bomb, told from the perspective of those who live in its shadow.

Автор: Hernandez Felisberto
Название: Piano Stories
ISBN: 0811221806 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780811221801
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Описание: Piano Stories presents fifteen wonderful works by the great Uruguayan author Felisberto Hernandez, "a writer like no other," as Italo Calvino declares in his introduction: "like no European or Latin American. He is an 'irregular, ' who eludes all classifications and labellings -- yet he is unmistakable on any page to which one might randomly open one of his books." Piano Stories contains classic tales such as "The Daisy Dolls," "The Usher," and "The Flooded House."

Название: Oxford book of french short stories
ISBN: 0192880373 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780192880376
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Описание: Spanning the centuries from the late 18th to the late 20th, this collection of French short stories in translation should expand our idea of French writing by including new stories by women writers and by authors of Francophone origin.

Автор: Tanner
Название: The Oxford Book of Sea Stories
ISBN: 0192803700 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780192803702
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Описание: There is no literature without a departure, a setting forth; and very often that has meant leaving the land for the more uncertain world of the sea. Many great writers have written about life at sea - this collection presents some of their more neglected works.

Автор: Craig
Название: The Oxford Book of Detective Stories
ISBN: 0192803719 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780192803719
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Описание: This is a new anthology of detective stories with an international flavour, from the middle of the last century to the present day. Ranging from 19th-century France to contemporary Scotland via Denmark, Italy, Czechoslovakia, Japan, America, Canada, and elsewhere, the anthology shows how different nationalities imposed their own stamp on the genre.

Автор: Byatt
Название: The Oxford Book of English Short Stories
ISBN: 019280376X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780192803764
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Описание: The 37 stories featured here are selected from the 19th and 20th centuries. They range from Dickens and Hardy to J.G. Ballard and Angela Carter, though many draw from the richness of earlier works. Their subjects range from humour to horror and from the sublime to the farcical.