The maid of the title is red-haired, dog-loving Wilhelmina "Billie" Bennet, and the three men are Bream Mortimer, a long-time friend and admirer of Billie, Eustace Hignett, a lily-livered poet who is engaged to Billie at the opening of the tale,...
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Чтение оригинальных произведений – простой и действенный способ погрузиться в языковую среду и совершенствоваться в иностранном...
Чтение оригинальных произведений – простой и действенный способ погрузиться в языковую среду и совершенствоваться в иностранном...
Written in the final days of Roth's life, it is a novella of sparkling lucidity and humanity. "Fallmerayer the Stationmaster" and "The Bust of the Emperor" are Roth's most acclaimed works of shorter...
Three Sundays in a...
To Let, the final volume of the Forsyte trilogy, chronicles the continuing feuds of the two factions within the troubled Forsyte family. The shadow of the past returns to haunt the lives of a new generation, as Irene's son Jon falls in love with...
Introduction
One does not have to read very much of To the Lighthouse before one realizes that Woolf has chosen here a very particular style, a way of telling the story which exerts a strange and compelling effect upon the reader. In this lecture...
Legendary Japanese novelist Soseki Natsume dissects the human personality in all its complexity in this unforgettable narrative. Keitaro, a recent college graduate, lives a life intertwined with several other characters, each carrying their own...
Jaroslav Seifert
(Rep. Checa, 1901-1986)
Poeta checo, premio Nobel en 1984. Su obra, plena de sencillez y sensualidad, fue repetidamente censurada en su país por la negativa de Seifert a abrazar la ortodoxia política. Nació en un...
Toine est un recueil de nouvelles de Guy de Maupassant, paru en 1886 aux éditions Marpon-Flammarion, coll. Bibliothèque illustrée.
La plupart des contes ont fait l'objet d'une publication antérieure dans des journaux comme Gil Blas,...