Найти книгу: "Roman Holidays And Others"

With that genially serious attention to minute details, that humorous circumstantiality in treating the commonplace, which we have all come to know so well and to like (or dislike) so heartily in Mr. Howells, he has filled a substantial volume with his easily-flowing narrative of a Mediterranean vacation journey, naming his book 'Roman Holidays and Others.' The first landing of his party was made at Madeira, whence they proceeded to Gibraltar, and then to Genoa, Naples, Rome, Leghorn, Pisa, Genoa again, and Monte Carlo. The style of the narrative – if it is necessary to indicate it at all – is well illustrated by the opening words of the second chapter: «There is nothing strikes the traveler in his approach to the rock of Gibraltar so much as its resemblance to the trade-mark of the Prudential Insurance Company. He cannot help feeling that the famous stronghold is pictorially a plagiarism from the advertisements of that institution.» Mr. Howells says of the Romans of these days that they have «a republican simplicity of manner, and I liked this better in the shop people and work people than the civility overflowing into servility which one finds among the like folk, for instance, in England.»

Данная заметка Тургенева является вводной к очерку А. Бадена «Роман графа Толстого» и сопровождается следующим примечанием от редакции журнала: «Наш выдающийся сотрудник, г. Иван Тургенев, желает сам представить нашим читателям графа Толстого и таким образом одобрить этот очерк о „Войне и мире“, что мы и отмечаем с гордостью».

В книге представлен один из шедевров западноевропейской литературы средних веков – Тристан и Изольда. В основе сюжета – трагическая любовь Изольды, жены корнуоллского короля, к племяннику её мужа Тристану. Эту легенду не раз перелагали французские поэты. Здесь представлен перевод на современный французский язык, выполненный в начале прошлого века известным филологом Жозефом Бедье и считающийся едва ли не самым удачным. Текст снабжён комментариями, в которых поясняются некоторые лексические и грамматические сложности. В конце книги помещён небольшой французско-русский словарь. Издание предназначено для Уровня 4, то есть для продолжающих изучение французского языка верхней ступени.

В фотоальбоме красноярского фотохудожника А. А. Белоногова показаны жизнь и культура сибиряков глазами современного человека, с тем, чтобы осмыслить те основы, на которых зиждется народная культура. Авторы постарались не только представить часть сибирской культуры через зрительные образы, но и с помощью текста рассказать о времени их зарождения и связи с национальными корнями. Фотоальбом адресован всем читателям, интересующимся Красноярским краем.

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