The Illustrated Letters of Richard Doyle to His Father, 1842–1843
Автор: Doyle Richard
Год издания: 0000
Before he joined the staff of Punch and designed its iconic front cover, illustrator Richard “Dicky” Doyle was a young man whose father (political caricaturist John Doyle) charged him with sending a weekly letter, even though they lived under the same roof. This volume collects the fifty-three illustrated missives in their entirety for the first time and provides an uncommon peek into the intimate but expansive observations of a precocious social commentator and artist. In a series of vivid manuscript canvases, Doyle observes Victorian customs and society. He visits operas, plays, and parades. He watches the queen visiting the House of Commons and witnesses the state funeral of the Duke of Sussex. He is caught up in the Chartist riots of August 1842 and is robbed during one of the melees. And he provides countless illustrations of ordinary people strolling in the streets and swarming the parks and picture galleries of the metropolis. The sketches offer a fresh perspective on major social and cultural events of London during the early 1840s by a keen observer not yet twenty years old. Doyle’s epistles anticipate the modern comic strip and the graphic novel, especially in their experimentation with sequential narrative and their ingenious use of space. The letters are accompanied by a full biographical and critical introduction with new material about Doyle’s life.
Father Brown Stories
Автор: Гилберт Кит Честертон
Год издания:
Произведения Г.К.Честертона стали классикой английской литературы ХХ века. В сборник вошли приключенческие рассказы о священнике-сыщике отце Брауне. Острый детективный сюжет, увлекательные методы раскрытия преступлений, парадоксы, яркие описания, прекрасный язык, юмор и жизнелюбие – в добрых и захватывающих рассказах мастера. Аудиокнига на английском языке. The Blue Cross The Secret Garden The Invisible Man The Hammer of God The Strange Crime of John Boulnois
Дедушка, Grand-pere, Grandfather… Воспоминания внуков и внучек о дедушках, знаменитых и не очень, с винтажными фотографиями XIX – XX веков
Автор: Группа авторов
Год издания:
Герои этой книги – дедушки. Благодарные внуки с любовью рассказывают о тех, кто подарил им «частичку своего сердца», несмотря на трудную жизнь или гибель в годы войны и репрессий. «Великая радость» – быть достойными памяти своих дедов.
Complete Letters of Mark Twain
Автор: Марк Твен
Год издания:
The letters of Mark Twain are peculiarly of the revealing sort. He was a man of few restraints and of no affectations. In his correspondence, as in his talk, he spoke what was in his mind, untrammeled by literary conventions.
Models of letters for the use of schools and private students
Автор: Группа авторов
Год издания:
Полный вариант заголовка: «Models of letters : for the use od schools and private students : being an epitome of the large 8 volume, entitled, Elegant epistles : and containig Select letters from the best English authors : with many translated from the French, which have never appeared in any miscellaneous collection».
Unpublished letters of the eighteenth century
Автор: Группа авторов
Год издания:
Полный вариант заголовка: «Unpublished letters of the eighteenth century : illustrative of the Herbert family ; and of the latter part of king William's and the earlier part of queen Anne's reigns : with notes / edited by Rebecca Warner».