Литературоведение

В сборник включено 47 статей, подготовленных на основе избранных докладов IX международной научной конференции «Проблемы литератур Дальнего Востока», организованной Санкт-Петербургским государств…

"Once upon a time—of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve—old Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house. It was cold, bleak, biting weather: foggy withal: and he could hear the peopl…

The Egyptians are disillusioned, disappointed, fatigued and silent. Caught between power and powerlessness. Their 'revolution' has failed. Once again they're enjoying being governe…

Meine Pferde, meine Heiler beginnt mit einem Kindheitstrauma des sexuellen Missbrauchs. Durch das Zusammensein mit Pferden verwandelt Shelley Rosenberg ihre Erfahrung in ein Zeugnis der Selbsthei…

"Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in …

A dangerous affair: Revenge for justice. Power and control. Set among the power games of the Mafia and the rich and beautiful of Italy, on the island of Ponza, in Ferrara and in London. Corruptio…

More than a quarter of a century living away from the country she grew up in, the author finds she is constantly revisiting her native land, when often only inside her head. It is a journey which…

"Robin Hood assured them that he had detached a party in the direction of the road they were to pass, who would not fail to discover and apprize them of any secret ambuscade; and that he had…

"Robin Hood assured them that he had detached a party in the direction of the road they were to pass, who would not fail to discover and apprize them of any secret ambuscade; and that he had…

Literary Thoughts edition <br/> presents <br/> The Island of Captain Sparrow by S. (Sydney) Fowler Wright <br/> <br/> <br/> – <br/> <br/> <br/> &quot;The Island of Captain Sparrow" by author S. (…

&quot;The Second Jungle Book" is a sequel to «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling. First published in 1895, it features five stories about Mowgli and three unrelated stories, all but one set in I…

&quot;The sea-reach of the Thames stretched before us like the beginning of an interminable waterway. In the offing the sea and the sky were welded together without a joint, and in the luminous s…

&quot;The Twilight of Magic" was written in 1931 by Hugh Lofting (1886-1947), telling about the Middle Ages, when adults and children alike still believed in magic. The tale is full of castles, k…

This important book by two leading scholars of Africa examines a series of issues that are central to the question of the postcolonial. The postcolonial paradigm, and the more recent decolonial p…

&quot;No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man&apos;s and yet as mortal as his…

This fascinating account, envisages as a virtual film, Alexander the Great&apos;s early life tracing events from his birth, through to his boyhood and thence to the brink of manhood. He inherited…

&quot;The Jungle Book" (1894) is a collection of stories by English author Rudyard Kipling. The stories were first published in magazines in 1893–94. The original publications contain illustratio…

In this study of three of Barbara Pym’s novels, Naghmeh Varghaiyan, drawing on examinations of women’s humour by Eileen Gillooly, Regina Barreca, and others, shows how the humorous female discour…

&quot;Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays" is a collection of 23 essays by George Orwell. <br/> Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), known by his pen name George Orwell, was an E…

Literary Thoughts edition <br/> presents <br/> Christmas Holiday by W. Somerset Maugham <br/> <br/> <br/> – <br/> <br/> <br/> &quot;Christmas Holiday" is a novel written in 1939 by W. Somerset Ma…