Книги жанра Классика
Жанр: Классическая проза, Классика
From preface: In naming this second part of The Forsyte Chronicles "A Modern Comedy" the word Comedy is stretched, perhaps as far as the word Saga was stretched to cover the first part. And yet, what but a comedic view can be taken, what but comedic significance gleaned, of so restive a period as that in which we have lived since the war? An Age which knows not what it wants, yet is intensely preoccupied with getting it, must evoke a smile, if rather a sad...
Жанр: Классическая проза, Классика
From preface: In naming this second part of The Forsyte Chronicles "A Modern Comedy" the word Comedy is stretched, perhaps as far as the word Saga was stretched to cover the first part. And yet, what but a comedic view can be taken, what but comedic significance gleaned, of so restive a period as that in which we have lived since the war? An Age which knows not what it wants, yet is intensely preoccupied with getting it, must evoke a smile, if rather a sad...
Жанр: Классическая проза, Классика
Foreword to “On Forsyte ‘Change”
Before a long suffering public and still more long suffering critics, I lay this volume of apocryphal Forsyte tales, pleading the two excuses: That it is hard to part suddenly and finally from those with whom one has lived so long; and, that these footnotes do really, I think, help to fill in and round out the chronicles of the Forsyte family.
They have all been written since ‘Swan Song’ was finished, but in place they come between the Saga and the Comedy, for without the Saga they would not be understood, and they are over before the Comedy begins. In the hope of forgiveness I send them forth.
John...
Жанр: Классическая проза, Классика
From preface: In naming this second part of The Forsyte Chronicles "A Modern Comedy" the word Comedy is stretched, perhaps as far as the word Saga was stretched to cover the first part. And yet, what but a comedic view can be taken, what but comedic significance gleaned, of so restive a period as that in which we have lived since the war? An Age which knows not what it wants, yet is intensely preoccupied with getting it, must evoke a smile, if rather a sad...
Жанр: Классическая проза, Классика
From preface: In naming this second part of The Forsyte Chronicles "A Modern Comedy" the word Comedy is stretched, perhaps as far as the word Saga was stretched to cover the first part. And yet, what but a comedic view can be taken, what but comedic significance gleaned, of so restive a period as that in which we have lived since the war? An Age which knows not what it wants, yet is intensely preoccupied with getting it, must evoke a smile, if rather a sad...
Жанр: Европейская старинная литература, Классика
Создание «Камбрийских анналов», или «Анналов Уэльса», датируется 970 г. Хроника охватывает период 447-954 гг. Считается, что именно 447 г. (в оригинале – 1 г.) – начало анналов. Между тем, по мнению некоторых исследователей, в работе есть вставки, сделанные в более поздние времена – какие-то детали, имена и проч. Несмотря на название, в хронике отмечаются не только события в самом Уэльсе, но также – в Ирландии, Корнуэлле, Англии, сообщается о набегах язычников – викингов. Следует отметить, что практически все упомянутые в работе персонажи – реально существовавшие люди. К сожалению, имя автора русского перевода...
