Пэлем
Грэнвил Вудхауз
Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
Великобритания, 15.10.1881
- 14.2.1975
Родился в Гилфилде (графство Сарри). Окончил лондонский Далич-колледж,
работал в банке, затем устроился в газету "Глоб" и стал писать юморески
и фельетоны. Начиная с 1909 года, жил и работал в США и во Франции. В 1940 году,
находясь во Франции, был арестован нацистами и почти всю войну провел в Берлине. После войны окончательно переселился в США, в 1955 году принял американское гражданство.
В 1975 году королева удостоила Вудхауса рыцарского звания. Писать начал в юношеские
годы, пробовал свои силы в различных жанрах, к фарсу, прославившему его имя, обратился
в 1910-х годах. Первым опытом фарса "по Вудхаусу" стал роман "Кое-что
новенькое" (1913). Самые популярные у читателей персонажи Вудхауса, аристократ
Берти Вустер и его неотразимый слуга Дживс, "появились на свет" в 1917
году, когда был опубликовал рассказ "Человек, у которого было две левых ноги".
P.
G. Wodehouse
Blandings
Castle
Мягкая обложка (2008)
ЗАКАЗАТЬ
Издательство:
Arrow Books, 2008 г.
Мягкая обложка, 320 стр.
ISBN 9780099513834
Язык:
Английский
The ivied walls of "Blandings Castle" have seldom
glowed as sunnily as in these wonderful stories - but there are snakes in the
rolling parklanc ready to nip Clarence, the absent-minded Ninth Earl of Emsworth,
when he least expects it.
For a start the Empress of Blandings, in the running
for her first prize in the Fat Pigs Class at the Shropshire Agricultural Show,
is off her food and can only be coaxed back to the trough by a call in her own
language. Then there is the feud with Head Gardener McAllister, aided by Clarence's
sister, the terrifying Lady Constance, and the prospect of the summer fete - twin
problems solved by the arrival of a delightfully rebellious little girl from London.
But first of all there is the vexed matter of the custody of the pumpkin.
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Wodehouse
Piccadilly
Jim
Мягкая обложка (2007)
ЗАКАЗАТЬ
2007
г.
Мягкая обложка, 320 стр.
ISBN 978-0-09-951388-9
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Wodehouse
Uncle
Fred In The Springtime
Мягкая обложка (2007)
ЗАКАЗАТЬ
2007
г.
Мягкая обложка, 256 стр.
ISBN 978-0-09-951384-1
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Wodehouse
Ukridge
Мягкая
обложка (2007)
ЗАКАЗАТЬ
2007
г.
Мягкая обложка, 320 стр.
ISBN 978-0-09-951389-6
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Wodehouse
P.G.
Unkle
Fred in the Springtime
Мягкая обложка (2000)
ЗАКАЗАТЬ
Издательство:
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2000 г.
Мягкая обложка, 256 стр.
ISBN 0140284621
Pongo
Twistleton is in a state of financial embarrassment, again. Uncle Fred, meanwhile,
has been asked by Lord Emsworth to foil a plot to steal the Empress, his prize
pig. Along with Polly Pott (daughter of old Mustard), they form a deputation to
Blandigs Castle, bent on doing a "bit of good".
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P.
G. Wodehouse
Summer
Moonshine
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Wodehouse
P.G.
Right Ho Jeeves
The
Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature: 5-Volume Set
ЗАКАЗАТЬ
2006
г.
Твердый переплет, 2656 стр.
ISBN 0195169212
From folk ballads
to film scripts, this new five-volume encyclopedia covers the entire history of
British literature from the seventh century to the present, focusing on the writers
and the major texts of what are now the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.
In five hundred substantial essays written by major scholars, the Encyclopedia
of British Literature includes biographies of nearly four hundred individual authors
and a hundred topical essays with detailed analyses of particular themes, movements,
genres, and institutions whose impact upon the writing or the reading of literature
was significant. An ideal companion to The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature,
this set will prove invaluable for students, scholars, and general readers. For
more information, including a complete table of contents and list of contributors,
please visit www.oup.com/us/ebl
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Samuel
Johnson
The
Lives of the Poets: Boxed Set (Oxford English Texts)
Твердый переплет (2006)
ЗАКАЗАТЬ
2006
г.
Твердый переплет, 2062 стр.
ISBN 0199278970
Johnson himself wrote
in 1782: 'I know not that I have written any thing more generally commended than
the Lives of the Poets'. Always recognized as a major biographical and critical
achievement, Samuel Johnson's last literary project is also one of his most readable
and entertaining, written with characteristic eloquence and conviction, and at
times with combative trenchancy. Johnson's fifty-two biographies constitute a
detailed survey of English poetry from the early seventeenth century down to his
own time, with extended discussions of Cowley, Milton, Waller, Dryden, Addison,
Prior, Swift, Pope, and Gray. The Lives also include Johnson's memorable biography
of the enigmatic Richard Savage (1744), the friend of his own early years in London.
Roger Lonsdale's Introduction describes the origins, composition, and textual
history of the Lives, and assesses Johnson's assumptions and aims as biographer
and critic. The commentary provides a detailed literary and historical context,
investigating Johnson's sources, relating the Lives to his own earlier writings
and conversation, and to the critical opinions of his contemporaries, as well
as illustrating their early reception. This is the first scholarly edition since
George Birkbeck Hill's three-volume Oxford edition (1905).