Литературоведение

Это лекция о кинике Диогене, который прославился тем, что так умело жил в бедности, что ему многие завидовали, включая Александра Македонского. Кто такое киники? Мудрецы или позеры? И правда ли, …

Вниманию читателей предлагается два аналитических этюда Альфреда Баркова: «„Гамлет“: трагедия ошибок или трагическая судьба автора?» и «Загадка личности „Шекспира“: Кристофер Марло или Роджер Мэн…

Эта книга – и срез эпохи, и мемуары вперемешку с производственными байками сценаристов, и учебник, созданный десятью отбитыми и зубастыми практиками, которые схомячили в своих направлениях целые …

Достоевский – один из самых сложных для понимания русских писателей. Как никто другой, он заставляет читателя думать, ставя вопросы и не давая на них прямые ответы. И Евангелие – один из ключей, …

Literary Thoughts edition <br/> presents <br/> The Orchid by Robert Grant <br/> <br/> <br/> – <br/> <br/> <br/> The Orchid is a 1905 novel by American writer Robert Grant (1852–1940), telling the…

44 songs from the repertoire of the singer with notes and lyrics classified type and explanations of foreign words, unfamiliar words and dialect. The songs are recorded in various radio stations …

Literary Thoughts edition <br/> presents <br/> The Twilight of Magic by Hugh Lofting <br/> <br/> <br/> – <br/> <br/> <br/> The Twilight of Magic, written in 1931 by Hugh Lofting (1886-1947), is a…

Alexandre Dumas published The Three Musketeers in 1844 and the sequel Twenty Years After in 1845. But what happened to the protagonist of both novels, the famous hero d&apos;Artagnan, in the mean…

Over about 200 years, up until the 1930s, the open valley of the River Tawe became one of the most heavily industrialised areas of the developed world. The &apos;Holy Grail&apos; which lay beneat…

This book provides a critical survey of the literature on the Vietnam War and is intended both for academic and general readers. Earlier works of this kind constantly recycled criticism of a half…

Literary Thoughts edition <br/> presents <br/> Black John of Halfaday Creek by James B. Hendryx <br/> <br/> <br/> – <br/> <br/> <br/> &quot;Black John at Halfaday Creek" is an adventure fiction n…

American author Augusta Huiell Seaman (1879–1950) wrote her mystery novel «The Curious Affair at Heron Shoals» in 1940: Marty is a teenaged heroine, who lives in relative isolation with her grand…

Literary Thoughts edition <br/> presents <br/> The Dinner Club by H. C. «Sapper» McNeile <br/> <br/> <br/> – <br/> <br/> <br/> &quot;The Dinner Club" is a mystery novel, written in 1923 by Britis…

Adam Brown, a British army Major in command of security for the British embassy in Beijing, learns of an impending Chinese nuclear strike against America. As all communications are compromised, A…

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…

&quot;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 …

&quot;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 &apos;revolution&apos; has failed. Once again they&apos;re enjoying being governe…

Set in 1914, during World War I, «The Thirty-Nine Steps» is a novel by Scottish novelist, historian, biographer John Buchan (1875 – 1940): Richard Hannay, the protagonist and narrator and an expa…

&quot;There are stories I want to tell, there are stories that I try to keep a secret. If you listen carefully you will get to know me. I am the city." <br/> Experience «A Day in the City», a day…