Andrew Sanders Pořadí knih (chronologicky)

A brilliantly funny, laugh-out-loud story about a missing cake, a pack of criminally-minded, cake-stealing penguins and a little boy with a talent for the tallest of tales!

This book, first published in 1988, reveals the great care Dickens took with the planning and preparation of A Tale of Two Cities and its roots. It also explores the aspects of Dickens's life which contributed to the genesis of the novel.

The Short Oxford History of English Literature provides a comprehensive and authoritative introductory guide to the literature of the British Isles from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present day, including a full treatment of Irish, Scottish, and Welsh writing in English. The chapters are arranged chronologically, covering all major periods of English literature from Old English to the post-war era, including the medieval period, the Renaissance, Shakespeare, the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Romanticism, the Victorians, Modernism, and Postmodernism. In addition to a detailed discussion of all major figures and their works, Andrew Sanders examines throughout the relationship between the literary landscape and wider contemporary social, political, and intellectual developments. This edition contains a range of new entries on important contemporary authors and an increased focus on female writers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as well as a fully updated and revised bibliography.

Recounts the adventures of a young English boy at Rugby School in the early nineteenth century.

Je téměř neuvěřitelné, že toto světoznámé dílo, které je pátou nejprodávanější knihou všech dob, u nás znovu vychází až po 60 letech! Román Londýna a Paříže ve vzrušených letech Velké francouzské revoluce, která stejně jako jakýkoliv jiný dějinný zvrat za sebou kromě vítězství nových myšlenek zanechala potrestané viníky, ale i nevinné oběti, avšak především zcela proměněné osudy lidí, kteří se jí připletli do cesty – ať už úmyslně, či zcela náhodně. Nejinak je tomu i u hlavních hrdinů strhujícího románu, který konečně přichází také k českým čtenářům. Láska a nenávist až za hrob, závist a zášť, věrnost a zrada, náhoda či osud, zhýralost aristokracie i drásavá chudoba lidu, to vše zachyceno mistrným perem klasika. Utajený bestseller!

'The saddest story I ever wrote.' Mrs Gaskell Sylvia's Lovers is set during the French Revolutionary Wars in the remote whaling-port of Monkshaven in Yorkshire. The sea dominates the lives of the inhabitants: whalers returning from their long and dangerous trips to Greenland bring crowds to the quayside, every local man has tales to recount of his exploits at sea, and smuggling is rife. The people of Monkshaven hate the French, but they live in greater and more immediate fear of the dreaded incursions of the callous press-gang, who snatch sailors returning from whaling trip before they have even spoken to their friends or families. In Mrs Gaskell's provincial England war is seen to mirror a private violence which has already disrupted the lives of her fictional characters. Sylvia is a heroine loved by two men of completely different types--the bold sailor Charley Kinraid and the cautious and conventional Philip Hepburn, who idolizes her. The novel follows her development from a wilful, imaginative, but not especially clever girl, to an alert woman who has been matured by her acute suffering. The text is that of the one-volume fourth edition, published in December 1863.