Книги на языке - английский
Жанр: Современная русская литература, Современная проза
The book is a philosophical story about sense and principles of life. Rich and colourful illustrations give an impression that the reader himself is travelling round the ancient temples of Beorgia, learning a history and lifestyle of the ancient city-state.
For children and adults.
The book is illustrated by the...
Жанр: Современная проза
Бывшая учительница Энни заведует заштатным местным музеем в приморском городишке. И все бы ничего, но жизнь будто утекает сквозь пальцы: детей у Энни так и нет, единственным развлечением служат еженедельные сеансы у чопорного старичка психоаналитика, а ее бойфренд Дункан – хорош бойфренд, когда обоим уже под сорок! – больше интересуется забытым рок-кумиром 80-х Такером Кроу. Но однажды к Энни попадает новый альбом Кроу «Голая...
Жанр: Современная проза
Впервые на русском – второй роман глашатая «поколения Икс», автора бестселлеров «Информаторы» и «Гламорама», переходное звено от дебюта «Ниже нуля» к скандально знаменитому «Американскому психопату», причем переходное в самом буквальном смысле: в «Правилах секса» участвуют как герой «Ниже нуля» Клей, так и Патрик Бэйтмен. В престижном колледже Кэмден веселятся до упада и пьют за пятерых. Здесь новичку не дадут ни на минуту расслабиться экстравагантные вечеринки и экстремальные приколы, которым, кажется, нет конца. Влюбляясь и изменяя друг другу, ссорясь и сводя счеты с жизнью, местная богема спешит досконально изучить все запретные страсти и пороки, помня основной закон: здесь не зря проведет время лишь тот, кто усвоит непростые правила бесшабашного секса… Как и почти все книги Эллиса (за исключением «Гламорамы» – пока), «Правила секса» были экранизированы. Поставленный Роджером Эйвери, соавтором Квентина Тарантино и Нила Геймана, фильм вышел в...
Жанр: Поэзия, Поэзия и Драматургия
The Song of Hiawatha is based on the legends and stories of many North American Indian tribes, but especially those of the Ojibway Indians of northern Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. They were collected by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, the reknowned historian, pioneer explorer, and geologist. He was superintendent of Indian affairs for Michigan from 1836 to 1841.
Schoolcraft married Jane, O-bah-bahm-wawa-ge-zhe-go-qua (The Woman of the Sound Which the Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky), Johnston. Jane was a daughter of John Johnston, an early Irish fur trader, and O-shau-gus-coday-way-qua (The Woman of the Green Prairie), who was a daughter of Waub-o-jeeg (The White Fisher), who was Chief of the Ojibway tribe at La Pointe, Wisconsin.
Jane and her mother are credited with having researched, authenticated, and compiled much of the material Schoolcraft included in his Algic Researches (1839) and a revision published in 1856 as The Myth of Hiawatha. It was this latter revision that Longfellow used as the basis for The Song of Hiawatha.
Longfellow began Hiawatha on June 25, 1854, he completed it on March 29, 1855, and it was published November 10, 1855. As soon as the poem was published its popularity was assured. However, it also was severely criticized as a plagiary of the Finnish epic poem Kalevala. Longfellow made no secret of the fact that he had used the meter of the Kalevala; but as for the legends, he openly gave credit to Schoolcraft in his notes to the poem.
I would add a personal note here. My father's roots include Ojibway Indians: his mother, Margaret Caroline Davenport, was a daughter of Susan des Carreaux, O-gee-em-a-qua (The Chief Woman), Davenport whose mother was a daughter of Chief Waub-o-jeeg. Finally, my mother used to rock me to sleep reading portions of Hiawatha to me, especially:
«Wah-wah-taysee, little fire-fly,Little, flitting, white-fire insectLittle, dancing, white-fire creature,Light me with your little candle,Ere upon my bed I lay me,Ere in sleep I close my eyelids!»Woodrow W. Morris
April 1,...
Жанр: Зарубежные детские книги, Детские книги
Book Description Hilariously picaresque, epic in scope, alive with the poetry and vigor of the American people, Mark Twain's story about a young boy and his journey down the Mississippi was the first great novel to speak in a truly American voice. Influencing subsequent generations of writers – from Sherwood Anderson to Twain's fellow Missourian, T.S. Eliot, from Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner to J.D. Salinger – Huckleberry Finn, like the river which flows through its pages, is one of the great sources which nourished and still nourishes the literature of...
