Un duet literar care adună între coperți cele mai iubite povești ale literaturii clasice engleze.
Pe de o parte, The Brontë Sisters — cu trei romane emblematice (Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights și Agnes Grey) ce surprind forța, delicatețea și frământările romantice ale secolului XIX.
Pe de altă parte, William Shakespeare — cu patru comedii inegalabile (The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night și The Tempest) care ne amintesc că, la final, iubirea și umorul înving întotdeauna.

Un cadou sustenabil și atemporal, ambalat eco-friendly, gata să aducă un strop de Anglia victoriană și elisabetană în orice bibliotecă.

The Brontë Sisters

Autor: The Brontë Sisters

Editura: Bounty Books

An apariție: 2014

Ediție: -

Colecție: Classic Fiction

Limba: Engleză

Traducerea: -

Număr pagini: 750

ISBN: 978-0-7537-2814-7

Stare: Excelentă

This collection brings together three pieces of work that, incredibly, were all published within a single year. That Jane Eyre (Charlotte), Wuthering Heights (Emily) and Agnes Grey (Anne), works of such lasting quality, were produced in such a short space of time is incredible enough: that it was all the output of three sisters living straitened lives in a lonely Yorkshire village was extraordinary. The story of the Bronte sisters is surely unique in literary history. Here were three girls who spent the greater part of their tragically brief lives in an austere, isolated parsonage on the Yorkshire moors. Their contacts with the outside world were brief and often unhappy, they fought a continual, hopeless battle against failing health, yet their combined willpower, energy and talent resulted in a stream of letters, stories, poems and novels, including two undoubted masterpieces, Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights. The three novels in this volume form a representative cross-section of their mature work. The most famous of them, Jane Eyre, is a deeply-felt, passionate story, based in part on Charlotte's personal experiences, strong in situation and characterisation. Wuthering Heights, Emily's only prose work, though bitterly attacked in its day, is recognised today as one of the greatest of English romantic novels. It is a powerful and imaginative tale with marvellous descriptions of the wild beauty of the moors. Agnes Grey, by the youngest sister Anne, is a moving and simply written story of a governess's life, again based on her own unhappy experiences.

William Shakespeare

Autor: William Shakespeare

Editura: Penguin Random House

An apariție: 1998

Ediție: -

Colecție: Signet Classics

Limba: Engleză

Traducerea: -

Număr pagini: 440

ISBN: 978-0-451-52731-8

Stare: Nouă

Four of the Bard’s most famous comedies—including The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, and The Tempest. “Comedies,” as one of William Shakespeare’s contemporaries wrote, “begin in trouble and end in peace.” This is certainly true of the four masterworks selected for this collection, each of which represents a significant stage in the Bard’s development as a writer. Reading these plays, we sample the whole comic spectrum of the Elizabethan world.