Clive James was one of our finest critics and best-loved cultural voices. He was also a prize-winning poet. Since he was first enthralled by the mysterious power of poetry, he has been a dedicated student. In fact, for him, poetry was nothing less than the occupation of a lifetime, and in this book Poetry Notebook, he presents a distillation of everything he learned about the art form that matters to him most. With his customary wit, delightfully lucid prose style and wide-ranging knowledge, James explains the difference between the innocuous stuff that often passes for poetry and a real poem: the latter being a work of unity that insists on being heard entire and threatens never to leave the memory. A committed formalist and an astute commentator, he offers close and careful readings of individual poems and poets (from Shakespeare to Larkin, Keats to Pound), and in some case second readings or re-readings late in life - just to be sure he wasn't wrong the first time! Whether discussing technical details of metaphorical creativity or simply praising his five favourite collections of all time, he is never less than captivating.

Told with Clive James's unassailable sense of humour and self-effacing charm, Unreliable Memoirs is a hilarious and touching introduction to the story of a national treasure. A million-copy bestseller, this classic memoir is a celebration of life in all its unpredictable glory. With an introduction by political satirist and journalist P. J. O'Rourke. I was born in 1939. The other big event of that year was the outbreak of the Second World War, but for the moment that did not affect me. In the first instalment of James's memoirs we follow the young Clive on his journey from boyhood to the cusp of manhood, when his days of wearing short trousers are finally behind him. Battling with school, girls, various relatives and an overwhelming desire to be a superhero, Clive's adventures growing up in the suburbs of post-war Sydney are hair-raising, uproarious and almost too good to be true…

Татьяна Данильянц - дважды лауреат Международного фестиваля свободного стиха, автор трех книг стихов, "Венецианское" (издательство free - poetry , 2005), "Белое" (издательство ОГИ, поэтическая серия, 2006), "Venezianita" (издательство Universitaria , 2007). Поэзия Татьяны Данильянц переведена на английский, польский, французский, итальянский и японский языки.

In Somewhere a Band is Playing newsman James Cardiff is lured through poetry and his fascination with a beautiful and enigmatic young woman to Summerton,Arizona,where no children play and the residents never seem to age. He sets out to uncover the town`s mysteries before the inevitable arrival of a ruthless destruction. . .

In Somewhere a Band is Playing newsman James Cardiff is lured through poetry and his fascination with a beautiful and enigmatic young woman to Summerton,Arizona,where no children play and the residents never seem to age. He sets out to uncover the town`s mysteries before the inevitable arrival of a ruthless destruction. . .

Герои рассказов сборника "Суп гаспачо" - советские (и пост-, и антисоветские) интеллигенты, а сюжет - опыт их вживания в повседневность. Меняются времена, политические режимы, города и страны, а этот процесс - процесс приспособления, поиска своего места (в жизни вообще и в конкретных обстоятельствах), поприща, заработка, любви, - неизменно сочетает горечь неудач с радостью творчества, открытий в искусстве, человеческой близости. Об этом и рассказывает - со знанием дела, сочувствием, юмором и мастерством - писательница Катя Капович. Автор книги - Катя Капович - русский и американский поэт, прозаик. С 1992 года живет в г. Бостон, штат Массачусетс. Лауреат "Русской премии" в категории "малая проза" (2012). Публикации (стихи и проза) в журналах "Новый мир" (1991, 2018), "Знамя" (1997, 2010, 2011, 2015, 2018), "Дружба народов" (2014), "Звезда" (2004, 2006, 2007, 2017), "Волга" (2013, 2015, 2017, 2019) и других. Премии за произведения на английском языке: Witter Bynner Fellowship Библиотеки Конгресса США (2002). Книга "Gogol in Rome" (2004) - шорт-лист Poetry Trust's 2005 Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. Стихотворения "The Green One Over There", "The Ferry" и "Painting a Room" (2003) включены в список "Poetry-180" (рекомендовано для изучения поэзии в школе) Библиотеки Конгресса США.

Described as 'a metaphysical shocker' at the time of its release, Muriel Sparks' The Driver's Seat is a taut psychological thriller, published with an introduction by John Lanchester in Penguin Modern Classics. Lise has been driven to distraction by working in the same accountants' office for sixteen years. So she leaves everything behind her, transforms herself into a laughing, garishly-dressed temptress and flies abroad on the holiday of a lifetime. But her search for adventure, sex and new experiences takes on a far darker significance as she heads on a journey of self-destruction. Infinity and eternity attend Lise's last terrible day in an unnamed southern city, as she meets her fate. One of six novels to be nominated for a 'Lost Man Booker Prize', The Driver's Seat was adapted into a 1974 film, Identikit, starring Elizabeth Taylor. Muriel Spark (1918 - 2006) wrote poetry, stories, and biographies as well as a remarkable series of novels, including The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), The Mandelbaum Gate (1965) which received the James Tait Black Prize, and The Public Image (1968) and Loitering with Intent (1981), both of which were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Spark was awarded the T.S. Eliot Award for poetry in 1992, and the David Cohen Prize for literature in 1997.

Blake occupies a very special place in the pantheon of English Romanticism: just as innovative and brilliant as a painter and draughtsman as in the field of poetry, he created works that are often difficult to categorize and that, while harking back to a classical and biblical past, also look forward to the future - with authors such as T.S. Eliot, Aldous Huxley and the Beat poets among his many modern admirers. This volume includes an essential selection of Blake's poetry, from the lesser-known Poetical Sketches to his celebrated Songs of Innocence and of Experience and the "prophetic works" inspired by the French Revolution, covering over two decades of poetical activity and displaying the author's originality and independence of mind at their sparkling best. Contains: Poems from Poetical Sketches (1783), An Island in the Moon (c.1784-85), Songs of Innocence (1789), The French Revolution (1791), The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (c.1790-93), Poems and Fragments from the Notebook (1793), Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793), America: A Prophecy (1793), Songs of Experience (1794), The First Book of Urizen (1794), Poems from the Notebook (1800-3), Poems from the Pickering Manuscript (c.1803-7), notes and extra material, as well as a selected bibliography and an index of Titles and First Lines.

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'Henry James is as solitary in the history of the novel as Shakespeare is in the history of poetry' Graham Greene Isabel Archer's main aim in life is to protect her independence. She is not interested in settling down and compromising her freedom for the sake of marriage. However, on a trip around Europe with her aunt, she finds herself captivated by the charming Gilbert Osmond, who is very interested in the idea of adding Isabel to his collection of beautiful artworks...

An superbly illustrated new edition of a children's favourite. Retells the stories of the Bible in a clear, lively style that retains the poetry of the traditional text. Colour photographs of people, places and wildlife, together with maps of the Bible lands, provide a detailed background. Features quotations from the King James Bible with reference to chapter and verse. Prepared in full consultation with education experts, scholars and religious advisers - supports National Curriculum at Key Stage 2, making it ideal for school projects. Retold by Selina Hastings.

Universally known for his groundbreaking prose - especially for the monumental novel Ulysses and its depictions of Dublin at the turn of the twentieth century - James Joyce started off as a writer of lyrical poetry, a genre which he never abandoned in his lifetime and which informs and enriches the rest of his literary production. This volume, which includes Joyce's first published book, Chamber Music, as well as his later collection Pomes Penyeach and several other uncollected poems, reveals a lesser-known facet of the great modernist's artistic career and a glimpse into his poetical sensibility.

The hilarious writing of James Thurber, author of 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty', collected in this classic anthology. This collection brings together the best of James Thurber's brilliantly funny, eccentric and anarchic writings. It includes his most famous work, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, in which an ordinary man's fantasies have a more powerful hold on him than reality, as well as essays, poetry and cartoons gathered from all of Thurber's collections. Making fun of his own weaknesses and those of other people (and dogs) - the English teacher who looked only at figures of speech, the Airedale who refused to include him in the family, the botany lecturer who despaired of him totally - James Thurber is a true original, whose off-beat imagination shows us everyday life from a different angle. James Thurber was born in 1894 at Columbus, Ohio, where, as he once said, so many awful things happened to him. After university (Ohio State) he worked at the American Embassy in Paris from 1918 to 1920, and then turned to journalism. From 1927 onwards he was on the staff of the New Yorker, and first published much of his work in it. He died in New York in 1961, and is today recognised as one of America's greatest twentieth-century humourists.

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Саундтрек к фильму «Казино Рояль» 2006 года был написан Дэвидом Арнольдом и является четвертым саундтреком Арнольда к популярному сериалу о Джеймсе Бонде. Постоянный соавтор Николас Додд оркестровал и дирижировал партитурой. Традиционная тема Джеймса Бонда проявляется на протяжении всего фильма, а затем появляется в своей полной форме в финальных титрах в треке 25 «The Names Bond. James Bond».