Author: Edward Joseph O'Brien
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
The Great Modern English Stories
Author: Edward Joseph O'Brien
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
The Great Modern English Stories
Author: Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories
Author: Malcolm Bradbury
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141965150
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
This anthology is in many was a ‘best of the best’, containing gems from thirty-four of Britain's outstanding contemporary writers. It is a book to dip into, to read from cover to cover, to lend to friends and read again. It includes stories of love and crime, stories touched with comedy and the supernatural, stories set in London, Los Angeles, Bucharest and Tokyo. Above all, as you will discover, it satisfies Samuel Butler's anarchic pleasure principle: 'I should like to like Schumann's music better than I do; I daresay I could make myself like it better if I tried; but I do not like having to try to make myself like things; I like things that make me like them at once and no trying at all ...'
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141965150
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
This anthology is in many was a ‘best of the best’, containing gems from thirty-four of Britain's outstanding contemporary writers. It is a book to dip into, to read from cover to cover, to lend to friends and read again. It includes stories of love and crime, stories touched with comedy and the supernatural, stories set in London, Los Angeles, Bucharest and Tokyo. Above all, as you will discover, it satisfies Samuel Butler's anarchic pleasure principle: 'I should like to like Schumann's music better than I do; I daresay I could make myself like it better if I tried; but I do not like having to try to make myself like things; I like things that make me like them at once and no trying at all ...'
Great Modern Short Stories
Author: Bennett Cerf
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Atlantic Narratives
Author: Charles Swain Thomas
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Readers
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Readers
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Longer Stories from the Last Decade
Author: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780679606635
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The story is devastatingly symbolic of the corruption and hopelessness in Russia toward the end of the autocracy."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780679606635
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The story is devastatingly symbolic of the corruption and hopelessness in Russia toward the end of the autocracy."--BOOK JACKET.
Shakespeare in Modern English
Author: Translated by Hugh Macdonald
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 178589840X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Shakespeare in Modern English breaks the taboo about Shakespeare’s texts, which have long been regarded as sacred and untouchable while being widely and freely translated into foreign languages. It is designed to make Shakespeare more easily understood in the theatre without dumbing down or simplifying the content. Shakespeare’s ‘As You Like It’, ‘Coriolanus’ and ‘The Tempest’ are presented in Macdonald’s book in modern English. They show that these great plays lose nothing by being acted or read in the language we all use today. Shakespeare’s language is poetic, elaborately rich and memorable, but much of it is very difficult to comprehend in the theatre when we have no notes to explain allusions, obsolete vocabulary and whimsical humour. Foreign translations of Shakespeare are normally into their modern language. So why not ours too? The purpose in rendering Shakespeare into modern English is to enhance the enjoyment and understanding of audiences in the theatre. The translations are not designed for children or dummies, but for those who want to understand Shakespeare better, especially in the theatre. Shakespeare in Modern English will appeal to those who want to understand the rich and poetical language of Shakespeare in a more comprehensible way. It is also a useful tool for older students studying Shakespeare.
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 178589840X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Shakespeare in Modern English breaks the taboo about Shakespeare’s texts, which have long been regarded as sacred and untouchable while being widely and freely translated into foreign languages. It is designed to make Shakespeare more easily understood in the theatre without dumbing down or simplifying the content. Shakespeare’s ‘As You Like It’, ‘Coriolanus’ and ‘The Tempest’ are presented in Macdonald’s book in modern English. They show that these great plays lose nothing by being acted or read in the language we all use today. Shakespeare’s language is poetic, elaborately rich and memorable, but much of it is very difficult to comprehend in the theatre when we have no notes to explain allusions, obsolete vocabulary and whimsical humour. Foreign translations of Shakespeare are normally into their modern language. So why not ours too? The purpose in rendering Shakespeare into modern English is to enhance the enjoyment and understanding of audiences in the theatre. The translations are not designed for children or dummies, but for those who want to understand Shakespeare better, especially in the theatre. Shakespeare in Modern English will appeal to those who want to understand the rich and poetical language of Shakespeare in a more comprehensible way. It is also a useful tool for older students studying Shakespeare.
Short Plays from Great Stories
Author: Roland English Hartley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Representative American Short Stories
Author: Robert William Chambers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 1250
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 1250
Book Description
Thrawn Janet
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher: Modernista
ISBN: 9180949185
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 15
Book Description
In a small Scottish village the Reverends housekeeper is rumoured to be involved with witchcraft. As strange and terrifying events unfold, the villagers' darkest fears come to life. Stevenson's masterful use of the Scots dialect and atmospheric setting enhances the eerie and unsettling mood of this gothic narrative. »Thrawn Janet« is a short story by Robert Louis Stevenson, originally published in 1881. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON [1850–1894] was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. He is among the 30 most translated authors of all time and has been praised by Marcel Proust, Jorge Luis Borges, Vladimir Nabokov, Ernest Hemingway, and Bertolt Brecht. Treasure Island is his most famous work, along with the gothic sci-fi novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde.
Publisher: Modernista
ISBN: 9180949185
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 15
Book Description
In a small Scottish village the Reverends housekeeper is rumoured to be involved with witchcraft. As strange and terrifying events unfold, the villagers' darkest fears come to life. Stevenson's masterful use of the Scots dialect and atmospheric setting enhances the eerie and unsettling mood of this gothic narrative. »Thrawn Janet« is a short story by Robert Louis Stevenson, originally published in 1881. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON [1850–1894] was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. He is among the 30 most translated authors of all time and has been praised by Marcel Proust, Jorge Luis Borges, Vladimir Nabokov, Ernest Hemingway, and Bertolt Brecht. Treasure Island is his most famous work, along with the gothic sci-fi novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde.