Showing results for "major" in Classics

Sierpien 2007 roku.Pierwszy Samodzielny Batalion Rozpoznawczy wyrusza na wojne do Afganistanu. W wyniku diabolicznego spisku trafia jednak na pola bitew Wojny Obronnej w roku 1939.

The Napoleonic Wars are at their height, and upheaval and uncertainty plague British soil. In the midst of it all, the impoverished beauty Anne Garland finds herself at the center of a love quadrangle. She is torn between the persistent and annoying Festus Derryman, her womanizing childhood sweetheart Bob Loveday, and the reliable and thoughtful John Loveday, the eponymous Trumpet-Major. Who will she choose?

Against the larger-than-life backdrop of England's conflict with Napoleon, young Anne Garland is courted by three suitors: the trumpet-major John Loveday, his sailor-brother Bob, and Festus Derriman of the yeomanry cavalry. For Hardy, the loves and sorrows of ordinary characters are as much the material of history as any record of emperors and generals.

Shakespeare's seven great tragedies contain unmistakable elements that set them apart from any other plays ever written. In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare embodied in the character of Juliet the world's most impressive representation ever of a woman in love. With Julius Caesar, the great playwright produced a drama of astonishing and perpetual relevance.

Twelve dramatisations of the best love stories ever written, performed by star casts Treat yourself to this stunning collection of classic stories of love, loss, obstacles overcome and desperate attraction. This is a beautiful, moving and at times thrilling listen which takes you on a journey...

Audiobook-ul cuprinde 24 de poezii alese de Andrei Pleșu, dupa cum se va vedea, si auzi: "Toamna in parc", "Albumul", "Gelozie", "In jurul unui divort", "Balada unei stele mici", "Cioara", "Bacilul lui Koch", "Prohod", "Chinurile lui Ulise", "De profundis", "Balada chiriasului grabit", "Vara la tara", "La Pasti", "Intoarcerea fiului risipitor", "Intrebare si raspuns (asculta on line)", "Raspunsul micilor functionari", "Ploua", "Cobe", "Blesteme", "Tristeti provinciale", "Un duel", "Raspunsul Cometei", "Expunere de motive", "Testamentul unui poet cunoscut".

Barbara is a major in the Salvation Army - but she's also the daughter of Andrew Undershaft, a man who's made millions from the sale of weapons of war. The real battle, however, rages between between the devilish father and his idealistic daughter as they answer the question: does salvation come through faith or finance? This sparkling comedy traverses family relations, religion, ethics and politics - as only Shaw, the master dramatist, can!

With a single dollar in his pocket, a wagonload of axe handles, and a head full of curiosity, Major Jack Downing journeys from rural life into a growing New England town rumored to reward enterprise and quick thinking. What follows is a quietly comic account of first impressions: shrewd advice from a newspaper editor, bustling streets and shopfronts, and a memorable test of city “sharpers” along Huckler’s Row.

Barbara, the granddaughter of an earl, is busy saving souls in the Salvation Army while her father, maintaining that poverty is the worst of crimes, runs a munitions factory.

'Major Wilbraham' is the extraordinary tale of a respectable ex-army officer whose mysterious death is shrouded in the greatest mystery of all. What could have led to Major Wilbraham to behave like that? Causing a scene on Piccadilly, staying out all night in Green Park with a street fighter and a prostitute, causing a fight at Covent Garden Market in which he was fatally injured....

A brilliant and humorous short story by Wilkie Collins, in which an elderly lady, whose Victorian sensibilities on morals and propriety are finely honed, finds herself living next door to Major Namby, the ultimate neighbour from hell.

A story that blends practical joking with death; the irony of the Devil's Dictionary is a live and well in this story. A jewel.

The setting is before the American Revolution when Robin, a youth arrives in Boston seeking his kinsman, Major Molineux, who is an official in the British Colonial government and has promised him work. Yet no one in town tells him where the major is and he begins to hear some strange stories and finally meets his kinsman under very unusual circumstances.

Combien de fois, à l'époque où j'écrivais "Les Carnets du Major Thompson", n'ai-je pas vu apparaître dans mes songes Marmaduke ? Nos discussions étaient terribles. Souvent le Major, rouge et bleu, m'assenait de grands coups d'Encyclopaedia Britannica. J'essayais bien de riposter par un direct-Larousse ou un swing-Littré, mais le Major avait toujours le dernier mot. Finalement, le timbre de sa voix me réveillait : je devais me remettre au travail. Cette voix flegmatique, rocailleuse, métallique, forgée dans les sables de Mésopotamie et tout imbibée de whisky, Pierre Fresnoy la "restitue" ici de saisissante façon grâce à sa connaissance parfaite de l'anglais et, ce qui est plus rare encore, du français parlé par un Anglais.

Included in this collection are major works by Matthew Arnold, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, William Blake, Rupert Brooke, Robert Burns, Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Abraham Crowley, William Cooper, John Donne, Michael Drayton, John Dryden, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Hardy, Robert Herrick, Thomas Gray, Ben Johnson, John Keats, John Lyly, Christopher Marlowe, Andrew Marvell, John Milton, Alexander Pope, Sir Walter Raleigh, Christina Rossetti, Sir Walter Scott, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Southey and more!

Dostoyevsky & Tolstoy: The Major Novels, masterfully read by two Audie award-winning narrators - Jonathan Keeble and David Rintoul - includes unabridged recordings of four of the greatest novels of all time and the great authors' lasting masterpieces: The Brothers Karamazov; Crime and Punishment, WAr & Peace, and Anna Karenina. Translations by Constance Garnett and Aylmer & Louise Maude.