Dubliners

James Joyce - Finnegans ​Wake
'Finnegans ​Wake', wrote Anthony Burgess, 'is a puzzle, just as a dream is a puzzle, but the puzzle element is less important than the thrust of the narrative and the shadowy majesty of the characters.' Many people spend a great deal of time and ingenuity unravelling the puzzle. Many more enjoy the book for its humour, Rabalesian, outrageous, always unexpected; for its down-to-earth humanity and for its sublime conspectus of the whole universe; and finally for its optimistic belief in man. The text of this edition of Finnegans Wake, the first to have been fully emended in accordance with the manuscript corrections compiled by Joyce himself, is the most accurate ever published.

F. Scott Fitzgerald - Tales ​of the Jazz Age
Though ​most widely known for the novella The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald gained a major source of income as a professional writer from the sale of short stories. Over the course of his career, Fitzgerald published more than 160 stories in the period's most popular magazines. His second short fiction collection, Tales of the Jazz Age (1922), includes two masterpieces as well as several other stories from his earlier career. One, "May Day," depicts a party at a popular club in New York that becomes a night of revelry during which former soldiers and an affluent group of young people start an anti-Bolshevik demonstration that results in an attack on a leftist newspaper office. "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" is a fantastic satire of the selfishness endemic to the wealthy and their undying pursuit to preserve that way of life. All of these stories, like his best novels, meld Fitzgerald's fascination with wealth with an awareness of a larger world, creating a subtle social critique. With his discerning eye, Fitzgerald elucidates the interactions of the young people of post-World War I America who, cut off from traditions, sought their place in the modern world amid the general hysteria of the period that inaugurated the age of jazz. This new edition reproduces in full the original collection, stories that represent a clear movement in theme and character development toward what would become The Great Gatsby. In introducing each story, Fitzgerald offers accounts of its textual history, revealing decisions about which stories to include.

F. Scott Fitzgerald - Flappers ​and Philosophers
Flappers ​and Philosophers was F. Scott Fitzgerald's initial encore - his first collection of short fiction, published in 1920 to capitalize on the success of This Side of Paradise, the novel that had made him famous at the age of twenty-three. Flappers and Philosophers contains some of Fitzgerald's best early stories: 'The Offshore Pirate' 'Bernice Bobs Her Hair', 'The Ice Palace', and 'Benediction'. In these narratives Fitzgerald presented his prototypical Jazz-Age heroines, beautiful and willful young women who later became trademarks of his fiction.

Margaret Atwood - The ​Handmaid's Tale
A ​gripping vision of our society radically overturned by a theocratic revolution, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid's Tale has become one of the most powerful and most widely read novels of our time. Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, serving in the household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife. She may go out once a day to markets whose signs are now pictures because women are not allowed to read. She must pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, for in a time of declining birthrates her value lies in her fertility, and failure means exile to the dangerously polluted Colonies. Offred can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost even her own name. Now she navigates the intimate secrets of those who control her every move, risking her life in breaking the rules. Like Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Handmaid's Tale has endured not only as a literary landmark but as a warning of a possible future that is still chillingly relevant.

James Joyce - Finnegan ​ébredése
Joyce ​az Ulysses megjelenését követően 16 évig dolgozott utolsó művén a Finnegan ébredésén, amelybe már nem az ember mítoszát, hanem az egész emberiségét, az öröklétét sűrítette bele. Elbukás és fölemelkedés, halál és föltámadás végeérhetetlen folyamata tárul föl a szerkezetben is körkörös, töredékes regény lapjain. A váratlan fordulatokban bővelkedő cselekmény, a szereplők eltűnése, átlényegülése és visszatérése, a szójátékok és nyelvi furfangok újabb és újabb kalandot, szellemi csemegét nyújtanak a szövegben elmélyedő olvasónak. Ironikus világrajz, komikus, karneváli játék e mű az emberi létről, homályos, rejtélyes álompoéma sorsunkról, a világtörténelemről.

Raymond Carver - Beginners
_What ​We Talk About When We Talk About Love_ is Raymond Carver's most famous collection of short stories and remains one of the most influential pieces of modern literature to date. But the original, unedited manuscript, _Beginners_ - published here for the first time - was almost fifty per cent longer than the published collection. This restored version of Carver's stories reveals what was previously unsaid, filling in the narrative silences that have both inspired and mystified readers for so long. _Beginners_ is a fascinating insight into the aesthetic of a literary great and, in the questions it raises, may just spark off one of the great cultural debates of our times.

Virginia Woolf - Mrs. ​Dalloway (angol)
This ​brilliant novel explores the hidden springs of thought and action in one day of a woman’s life. Direct and vivid in her account of the details of Clarissa Dalloway’s preparations for a party she is to give that evening, Woolf ultimately managed to reveal much more. For it is the feeling behind these daily events that gives Mrs. Dalloway its texture and richness and makes it so memorable. Foreword by Maureen Howard. "Mrs. Dalloway was the first novel to split the atom. If the novel before Mrs. Dalloway aspired to immensities of scope and scale, to heroic journeys across vast landscapes, with Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf insisted that it could also locate the enormous within the everyday; that a life of errands and party-giving was every bit as viable a subject as any life lived anywhere; and that should any human act in any novel seem unimportant, it has merely been inadequately observed. The novel as an art form has not been the same since. "Mrs. Dalloway also contains some of the most beautiful, complex, incisive and idiosyncratic sentences ever written in English, and that alone would be reason enough to read it. It is one of the most moving, revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century." --Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours

Angela Carter - The ​Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
Fairy ​tales retold and interwoven by a master of seductive, luminous storytelling

Ian McEwan - In ​Between the Sheets
Call ​them transcripts of dreams or deadly accurate maps of the tremor zones of the psyche, the seven stories in this collection engage and implicate us in the most fearful ways imaginable.

Alice Munro - Too ​Much Happiness
Short-story ​collections continue to be the bane of the publishing world - as Alice Munro herself puts it in a story here, they seem to 'diminish the book's authority, making the author seem like somebody who is just hanging on to the gates of literature, rather than safely settled inside'. Well, the septuangenarian Munro is undoubtedly safely inside; widely considered among the best in the business, earlier this year she won the International Man Booker prize. This latest collection is, as you might expect from the mocking tenor of the title, largely concerned with the elusive nature of happiness, a state of mind that, amid the chaotic everyday inhabited by Munro's characters, is impossible to fathom or control. It starts horrifically, with a woman in therapy following the murder of her three children by her demented husband. Just when you think there can be no possible relief, Munro throws in a deft, final redemptive sentence that's the equivalent of opening a window on a stifling, locked-up-room. Many stories reverberate with the aftershock of some grotesque or traumatic childhood event, from the son who falls down a ravine in Deep-Holes and the consequences this has for his mother, to the woman in Child's Play who is forced to acknowledge the guilt she has refused to bear for the death of a fellow pupil at summer camp. Munro's prose is surprisingly rangy, almost giving the impression of artlessness, yet there's nothing remotely careless about these effortless composition that run so dangerously close to real life and which, like touching an electric fence, jolt you violently alive. (Claire Allfree)

John McGahern - Amongst ​Women
Moran ​is an old Republican whose life was forever transformed by his days of glory as a guerilla leader in the War of Independence. Now, in old age, living out in the country, Moran is still fighting - with his family, his friends, even himself - in a poignant struggle to come to terms with the past.

Naszádi Anikó - Nyiss ​ki! / Open me!
25 ​önálló történet, ami egy-egy szálon mégis összefügg azáltal, hogy aki az egyik történetben mellékszereplőként jelenik meg, az a másik történetben főhősként tér vissza. 25 írás angol interpretációja. A kötet kétnyelvűsége lehetőséget nyújt azok számára, akik eddig nem mertek idegen nyelvű kötetet a kezükbe venni nyelvi bizonytalanságuk miatt. 25 illusztráció, mely öt különböző művész keze munkáját dicséri. Vannak köztük fiatal, feltörekvő képzőművészek, és vannak olyanok, akik az iskolában tanítják, hogyan fejezzük érzelmeinket a művészeten keresztül. 25 éves a szerző. Írásainak összetevői: csipetnyi erotika, egy marék ármány, leheletnyi szenvedély, egy nagy kanál szerelem, gondolatnyi fantasy, egy ujjnyi véres valóság titkokkal megfűszerezve, cseppnyi humor-aromával meghintve, majd egy késhegynyi gyilkosság drámával felöntve, bűnnel és bűnhődéssel megszórva. Ha mindezt összeadjuk, 100% olvasmányélményt kapunk!

Nyikolaj Vasziljevics Gogol - Gogol ​művei
Könyvünk ​Gogol összes szépirodalmi műveit tartalmazza, amelyek - magyarul - először jelennek meg ilyen összefoglaló kiadásban. Gogol prózája százhúsz év távlatából is igényt tarthat az olvasó érdeklődésére. A "modern" tehát az utódokat is nyugtalanító klasszikusok közé tartozik. Zsúfolt és mégis arányos művészetében szeszélyesen vegyül a társadalmi szatíra és a szorongatott-gyengéd líra, a szertelen humor és a tárgyias fantasztikum. Nem volt a "nagy oroszok" között egyetlen egy sem, akire ne hatott volna, titkait mégis megőrizte: megmaradt páratlanul különös alkotónak. Az orosz történelem legválságosabb negyedszázadában - I. Miklós, a "vascár" uralkodása idején -, torz alakjainak kihívó látomásával, bár maga is belepusztult, siettetni tudta kortársainak szellemi felszabadulását. Valóra vált, amit megsejtett: "Tudom, hogy nevem elmúlásom után szerencsésebb lesz nálamnál."

Ernest Hemingway - Selected ​Stories
Ehhez a könyvhöz nincs fülszöveg, de ettől függetlenül még rukkolható/happolható.

Samuel Beckett - The ​Complete Dramatic Works
The ​present volume gathers all of Beckett's texts for theatre, from 1955 to 1984. It includes both the major dramatic works and the short and more compressed texts for the stage and for radio. 'He believes in the cadence, the comma, the bite of word on reality, whatever else he believes; and his devotion to them, he makes clear, is a sufficient focus for the reader's attention. In the modern history of literature he is a unique moral figure, not a dreamer of rose-gardens but a cultivator of what will grow in the waste land, who can make us see the exhilarating design that thorns and yucca share with whatever will grow anywhere.' Hugh Kenner

James Joyce - Kamarazene
Harminchat ​variáció egy témára: szeretlek. Halvány körvonalakban bontakozik ki előttünk az igénytelen kis történet: a szerelem ébredése, a beteljesülés, majd disszonáns akkordok és végül a válás. A művész végig szordinoval játszik. Talán csak az utolsó vers lázas vízióiban és kétségbeesett sikolyában sejtet meg valamit a gáláns játék mögött feszülő tragédiából. Bensőséges, leheletfinom zene árad a kis dalokból, a szavak, a rímek és a ritmus andalító harmóniája.

Jack London - The ​White Silence / A fehér csend
A ​kétnyelvű olvasókönyvek eredeti, átdolgozatlan irodalmi szövegeket tartalmaznak és magyar műfordításaikat. Az angol szöveg alatt szereplő szómagyarázatok és a szemközti oldalon közölt magyar fordítás a nyelvtanulók számára lehetővé teszik a szöveg szótárazás nélküli, folyamatos olvasását. A szómagyarázatokat, az egyes fordítási megoldásokat elemző kommentárokat és az angol és a magyar szövegben kiemelt, egymásra utaló kifejezéseket a nyelvtanulók sokféleképpen hasznosíthatják: a könyv fejleszti a szókincset, javítja a szövegértési készséget, és segítséget nyújt fordítási problémák megoldásához.

Edgar Allan Poe - The ​complete illustrated works of Edgar Allan Poe
Here ​in one superb volume are tales, adventures and poems from the world's master of the mysterious - Edgar Allan Poe. Famous for his horror stories and brooding poetry, Poe is credited with the invention of the modern detective story and a distinctive style of science fiction writing. Included in this collection are: _The Complete Tales of Mystery and Imagination_ - contains all 70 of the remarkable stories of terror and fantasy that established Poe as the supreme craftsman of the short story and a great American author. _The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket_ - is Poe's only full-length work and a masterful blending of science and romance. W.H. Auden described it as 'one of the finest adventure stories ever written'. _The Raven and Other Poems_ - reflects Poe's obsession with the macabre and solitude. The stories are complemented with illustrations by Arthur Rackham, Aubrey Beardsley, Edouard Manet and others.

Frank O'Connor - My ​Oedipus Complex and Other Stories
This ​selection of stories by Frank O'Connor displays to the fullest his versatility, humour and insight in tales about childhood and marriage, sex and religion, war and old age. Here, O'Connor depicts young boys convinced of their own genius or locked in hilarious rivalry with their fathers, and IRA soldiers who must make heartbreaking decisions in the midst of a baffling war. In other tales an old woman threatens to haunt her son if he fails to bury her at her old home, while a scandal threatens to ignite when a floral wreath is sent anonymously to a priest's funeral. In these beautiful evocations of ordinary life - both comic and tragic - O'Connor portrays small moments that take us to the psychological truth at the heart of his characters.

Italo Calvino - Cosmicomics
An ​enchanting series of stories about the evolution of the universe During the course of these stories Calvino toys with continuous creation, the transformation of matter, and the expanding and contracting reaches of space and time. His characters, made out of mathematical formulae and simple cellular structures, disport themselves among galaxies, experience the solidification of planets, move from aquatic to terrestrial existence, play games with hydrogen atoms, and have a love life. Calvino succeeds in relating complex scientific concepts to the ordinary reactions of common humanity. Italo Calvino's superb storytelling gifts earned him international renown and a reputation as "one of the world's best fabulists" (John Gardner, New York Times Book Review). Born in Cuba in 1923, Calvino was raised in Italy, where he lived most of his life. He died in Siena at the age of sixty-one.