Magic of Love

Ця книга містить адаптований текст найпопулярнішого роману англійської письменниці Джейн Остін «Гордість і упередження» (1813) про життя дрібного англійського дворянства на початку XIX століття.

Сюжет роману захоплює читача з перших сторінок. Знайомство багатого аристократа Дарсі й доньки провінційного поміщика Елізабет не обіцяло серйозних почуттів між ними.Дарсі поставився до родини Елізабет зверхньо, з упередженістю, і дівчина відповіла йому так само. Це і стало головною перешкодою у їхніх стосунках. Навіть тоді, коли вони зрозуміли, що не можуть жити одне без одного, їм не просто було зламати свою гордість, щоб відкрити серця коханню…

Текст супроводжується системою вправ, метою яких є перевірити розуміння тексту, відпрацювати та закріпити лексику і граматичні конструкції, сприяти розвитку мовленнєвих навичок і творчих здібностей у дітей. Вправи розроблено з урахуванням сучасних вимог методики викладання іноземних мов.

До книги додається англо-український словник.

Призначена для учнів загальноосвітніх і спеціалізованих шкіл, гімназій, ліцеїв, а також широкого кола читачів, які вивчають англійську мову самостійно.

Elizabeth Bennet is young, clever and attractive, but her mother is a nightmare and she and her four sisters are in dire need of financial security and escape in the shape of husbands.

The arrival of nice Mr. Bingley and arrogant Mr. Darcy in the neighbourhood turns all their lives upside down in this witty drama of friendship, rivalry, enmity and love.

When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than ever.

This award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students.

Accessible language and carefully controlled vocabulary build students’ reading confidence.

Introductions at the beginning of each story, illustrations throughout, and glossaries help build comprehension.

Before, during, and after reading activities included in the back of each book strengthen student comprehension.

This famous novel by Jane Austen is full of wise and humorous observation of the

people and manners of her times.

“Pride and Prejudice” is the best known novel of the famous British writer Jane Austen (1775 – 1817).

Amorous hearts every now and then easily get over social barriers but sometimes they fail skirting the walls of their own pride, natural misapprehensions or even prejudice.

21-year-old Jane Austen succeeded in revealing so masterly aspirations and disappointments, anxieties and feelings of enamoured Elizabeth and Mr Darcy that even today millions of readers of different generations admirably read her novel.

It is notable for its touching romantic mood, light humour, psychologically exact portraits of its characters.

If it were not for this book, there would be possibly neither “psychological” nor “chick-lit” novels, nor even feminist literature in general.

When Mrs Dashwood is forced by an avaricious daughter-in-law to leave the family home in Sussex, she takes her three daughters to live in a modest cottage in Devon.

For Elinor, the eldest daughter, the move means a painful separation from the man she loves, but her sister Marianne finds in Devon the romance and excitement which she longs for.

The contrasting fortunes and temperaments of the two girls as they struggle to cope in their different ways with the cruel events which fate has in store for them are portrayed by Jane Austen with her usual irony, humour and profound sensibility.

“Sense and Sensibility” is a novel of manners and societal expectations. The story concerns two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood (Elinor representing “sense” and Marianne “sensibility”).

Along with their mother and younger sister Margaret, they are left impoverished after the death of their father. The family is forced to move to a country cottage, offered to them by a generous relative.

Before the move, Elinor forms an attachment to Edward Ferrars, and after the move, Marianne forms one for John Willoughby.

These attachments lead to problems both personally and socially, and they must learn important lessons about themselves before resolutions can occur.

Новий посібник серії “Книга для читання англійською мовою” пропонує українським студентам, викладачам та усім, хто самостійно вивчає англійську мову, найвідоміший роман Шарлотти Бронте“Джен Ейр”.

Це захоплююча історія кохання, обману, боротьби та щастя.

Оригінальний текст роману не зазнав адаптації.

Технологія роботи з текстом, запропонована авторами посібника, спрямована на навчання розуміння літературного твору у сукупності його змістовних, художньо-стилістичних, соціокультурних і мовних параметрів і представлена комплексом вправ і завдань, філологічним коментарем до тексту та глосарієм.

Charlotte Brontë’s most beloved novel describes the passionate love between the courageous orphan Jane Eyre and the brilliant, brooding, and domineering Rochester.

The loneliness and cruelty of Jane’s childhood strengthens her natural independence and spirit, which prove invaluable when she takes a position as a governess at Thornfield Hall.

But after she falls in love with her sardonic employer, her discovery of his terrible secret forces her to make a heart-wrenching choice. Ever since its publication in 1847, “Jane Eyre” has enthralled every kind of reader, from the most critical and cultivated to the youngest and most unabashedly romantic.

It lives as one of the great triumphs of storytelling and as a moving and unforgettable portrayal of a woman’s quest for self-respect.

“Glencoe Literature” offers a collection of hardcover books that allows you to extend the study of literature to your choice of full-length novels and plays. Each “Glencoe Literature Library” book consists of a complete novel or play accompanied by several related readings, such as short stories, poems, essays, or informational articles.

“Jane Eyre” is a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë.

A powerful, emotional narrative about a young woman in Victorian society, this novel is a love story, a mystery and a psychological portrait of a young woman who acts on her own convictions.

After a sad and neglected childhood as an orphan, Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester as governess for his ward.

Jane is pleased with the quiet country life at Thornfield, with the beautiful old manor house and gardens, with the book-filled library, and with her own comfortable room.

But there are stories of a strange tenant, a woman who laughs like a maniac, and who stays in rooms on the third floor.

The moody Rochester rebuffs her attempts to find discover more, ordering her to keep silent on the matter.

An unlikely relationship blooms between the two, however, and Jane is thrilled to accept Rochester’s proposal of marriage.

But the quiet ceremony is shockingly halted by a stranger who claims that Rochester was already married – to the raving maniac Jane had heard crying in the house.Grief-stricken, Jane flees from Thornfield, feeling that her life is over before it has really begun.

Can she ever hope to find a comfortable life again–or even dare to dream of a happily ever after?

“Jane Eyre” (originally published as “Jane Eyre: An Autobiography”) is a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë.

It was published on 16 October 1847 by Smith, Elder & Co. of London, England, under the pen name “Currer Bell.”

Primarily of the bildungsroman genre, Jane Eyre follows the emotions and experiences of its title character, including her growth to adulthood, and her love for Mr. Rochester, the byronic master of fictitious Thornfield Hall.

In its internalisation of the action – the focus is on the gradual unfolding of Jane’s moral and spiritual sensibility and all the events are coloured by a heightened intensity that was previously the domain of poetry – Jane Eyre revolutionised the art of fiction.

Charlotte Brontë has been called the “first historian of the private consciousness” and the literary ancestor of writers like Joyce and Proust.

The novel contains elements of social criticism, with a strong sense of morality at its core, but is nonetheless a novel many consider ahead of its time given the individualistic character of Jane and the novel’s exploration of classism, sexuality, religion, and proto-feminism.

“Wuthering Heights” is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine’s father.

After Mr Earnshaw’s death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine’s brother Hindley and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated, leaves Wuthering Heights, only to return years later as a wealthy and polished man. He proceeds to exact a terrible revenge for his former miseries.

The action of the story is chaotic and unremittingly violent, but the accomplished handling of a complex structure, the evocative descriptions of the lonely moorland setting and the poetic grandeur of vision combine to make this unique novel a masterpiece of English literature.

“Glencoe Literature” offers a collection of hardcover books that allows you to extend the study of literature to your choice of full-length novels and plays. Each “Glencoe Literature Library” book consists of a complete novel or play accompanied by several related readings, such as short stories, poems, essays, or informational articles.

“Wuthering Heights” is one of the most strikingly original novels ever written. Its elements are simple to relate: the passionate relationship between Catherine Earnshaw and the dark, brooding Heathcliff, the destructive effects of their love, and the wild backdrop of the Yorkshire moors, based on the landscape around Emily Brontë’s native Haworth.

Yet the novel is much more complex than this.

It has an intricate structure in which events are recounted to an external narrator, a traveller called Lockwood, by the housekeeper Nelly Dean, whose down-to-earth voice throws the intensity of Catherine and Heathcliff’s story into sharp relief

Names are repeated down the generations, relationships are interwoven and devices such as Catherine’s diary give us further insights into the characters.

“Wuthering Heights”, Emily Brontë’s only novel, was published in 1847 under the pseudonym “Ellis Bell”.

Although “Wuthering Heights” is now a classic of English literature, contemporaneous reviews were deeply polarised; it was controversial because of its unusually stark depiction of mental and physical cruelty, and it challenged strict Victorian ideals regarding religious hypocrisy, morality, social classes and gender inequality.

The story is told in layers, a format that has earned the novel much praise despite initial mixed reviews. It is the story of Catherine and Heathcliff and how their unresolved passion eventually destroys them both.

The novel is also about envy, nostalgia, pessimism and resentment.

“Wuthering Heights” contains elements of gothic fiction and the moorland setting is a significant aspect of the drama.

The novel has inspired many adaptations, including film, radio and television dramatisations; a musical; a ballet; operas, and a song by Kate Bush.

With its forthright treatment of sex and depression, “The Awakening” (originally titled “A Solitary Soul”), first published in 1899, was so shocking to turn-of-the-century readers that it was neglected for decades.

Rediscovered in the 1960s, this brief, beautiful novel is considered a landmark of early feminism.

It is the story of Edna Pontellier, a twenty-eight-year-old wife and mother of two who – with devastating consequences – rejects her conventional married life for a transgressive path of self-discovery.

Edna is vacationing with her husband and children on the Louisiana Gulf Coast when she meets and falls in love with the passionate, impulsive Robert Lebrun. Afterward, Edna can no longer find meaning and satisfaction in her comfortable domestic life and moves out, alone.

Her tragic quest for personal, creative, and erotic freedom is at the heart of this now-classic novel which captures women’s desires with extraordinary frankness, sympathy, and intensity.

“Great Expectations” is Charles Dickens’s thirteenth novel.

It is his second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person.

“Great Expectations” is a bildungsroman, or a coming-of-age novel, and it is a classic work of Victorian literature.

It depicts the growth and personal development of an orphan named Pip.

The novel is collected and dense, with a conciseness unusual for Dickens. According to G. K. Chesterton, Dickens penned “Great Expectations” in “the afternoon of [his] life and fame.” It was the penultimate novel Dickens completed, preceding Our Mutual Friend.

It is set among the marshes of Kent and in London in the early to mid-1800s. The novel contains some of Dickens most memorable scenes, including its opening, in a graveyard, when the young orphan Pip is accosted by the escaped convict, Abel Magwitch.

“Great Expectations” is a graphic book, full of extreme imagery, poverty, prison ships (“the hulks”), barriers and chains, and fights to the death.

Upon its release, Thomas Carlyle spoke of “All that Pip’s nonsense.”

Later, George Bernard Shaw praised the novel as “All of one piece and consistently truthfull.” Dickens felt “Great Expectations” was his best work, calling it “a very fine idea,” and was very sensitive to compliments from his friends: “Bulwer, who has been, as I think you know, extraordinarily taken by the book.”Great Expectations has a colourful cast that has entered popular culture: the capricious Miss Havisham, the cold and beautiful Estella, Joe the kind and generous blacksmith, the dry and sycophantic Uncle Pumblechook, Mr. Jaggers, Wemmick with his dual personality, and the eloquent and wise friend, Herbert Pocket.

Throughout the narrative, typical Dickensian themes emerge: wealth and poverty, love and rejection, and the eventual triumph of good over evil.

“Great Expectations” has become very popular and is now taught as a classic in many English classes.

It has been translated into many languages and adapted many times in film and other media.

“Великий Гетсбі” — найвідоміший роман Ф.С. Фіцджеральда, у якому за карнавальною яскравістю життя пере¬дано приховану психологічну надломленість повоєнного покоління.

Головний герой роману Джей Гетсбі сповнений жаги до життя. Не гребуючи засобами, він прагне досягти конкретної мети: розбагатіти й одружитися з коханою, яка належить до грошової аристократії і тому є для нього не¬досяжною.

Але мрія героя про високе кохання виявилася далекою від реального життя.

Усі книги серії “Білінгва” виходять друком мовою оригіналу без скорочень і адаптації та у перекладі українською мовою.

Текст твору на сторінках книги розташований паралельно.

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896-1940) is one of the greatest American writers, a member of the Lost Generation of the 1920s.

“The Great Gatsby” (1925) is his most celebrated and exemplary novel of the “Jazz Age” , a term he coined himself.

The author, in an extraordinarily masterly manner, described the post-war generation’s psychological prostration under the guise of the carnival brilliance of life.

The novel is a fascinating, exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s in which the American Dream turned out to be a tragedy.

Основною сюжетною лінією популярного роману “Великий Гетсбі” Ф. Скотта Фіцджеральда є любовно-детективна історія з несподіваною розв’язкою: загадковий мільйонер Джей Гетсбі зробив неможливе заради своєї коханої Дейзі.

Адаптований текст супроводжується системою вправ, метою яких є перевірити розуміння тексту, відпрацювати та закріпити лексику, сприяти розвитку мовленнєвих навичок і творчих здібностей. Вправи розроблено з урахуванням сучасних вимог методики викладання іноземних мов.

До книги додається англо-український словник.

Призначена для учнів старших класів загальноосвітніх і спеціалізованих шкіл, гімназій, ліцеїв, а також широкого кола читачів, які вивчають англійську мову самостійно.

“The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald is the classic American novel about the importance and futility of dreams.

It tells the story of Jay Gatsby, whose ability to make his dreams a reality through sheer force of will initially seems boundless.

However, this self-made millionaire and embodiment of the American Dream eventually discovers that even love, wealth and ambition are powerless in the face of rigid class boundaries, proving that the myth of the American Dream ultimately rings hollow.

Today, “The Great Gatsby” is considered the quintessential novel about the American Jazz Age, and is widely viewed as F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece. Fitzgerald drew a great deal of inspiration from his own experiences of the Roaring Twenties in New York to write the novel, and his status as one of the most famous American writers of the 20th century can be largely attributed to “The Great Gatsby’s” enduring success.

“The Great Gatsby”, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career.

First published in 1925, this quintessential novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers.

The story of the mysteriously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when “The New York Times” noted “gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession,” it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s.

The scene is the village of Lyme Regis on Dorset’s Lyme Bay…”the largest bite from the underside of England’s out-stretched southwestern leg.”

The major characters in the love-intrigue triangle are Charles Smithson, 32, a gentleman of independent means and vaguely scientific bent; his fiancée, Ernestina Freeman, a pretty heiress daughter of a wealthy and pompous dry goods merchant; and Sarah Woodruff, mysterious and fascinating…deserted after a brief affair with a French naval officer a short time before the story begins.

Obsessed with an irresistible fascination for the enigmatic Sarah, Charles is hurtled by a moment of consummated lust to the brink of the existential void. Duty dictates that his engagement to Tina must be broken as he goes forth once again to seek the woman who has captured his Victorian soul and gentleman’s heart.

Charles Smithson, a respectable engaged man, meets Sarah Woodruff as she stands on the Cobb at Lyme Regis, staring out to sea. Charles falls in love, but Sarah is a disgraced woman, and their romance will defy all the stifling conventions of the Victorian age.

Навчальний посібник призначений для студентів спеціальності 035 «Філологія» та усіх, хто бажає розвинути власну англомовну компетентність. Він представляє відомий роман В. С. Моема «Театр» в оригіналі і комплекс вправ, завдань і довідкових матеріалів для роботи з ним.

Запропонована авторами навчального посібника технологія роботи з художнім текстом спрямована на формування усіх основних компонентів комунікативної компетенції: мовного, мовленнєвого, соціокультурного. Основними компонентами структури навчального посібника є передтекстові завдання, оригінальний текст роману з коментарем, блок питань і тестів для перевірки розуміння прочитаного, лексичні і мовні вправи та питання і завдання для обговорення змісту, проблематики та персонажів роману.

In “Theatre”, W. Somerset Maugham, the author of the classic novels “Of Human Bondage” and “Up at the Villa”, introduces us to Julia Lambert, a woman of breathtaking poise and talent whose looks have stood by her forty-six years. She is one of the greatest actresses England–so good, in fact, that perhaps she never stops acting.

It seems that noting can ruffle her satin feathers, until a quiet stranger who challenges Julia’s very sense of self.

As a result, she will endure rejection for the first time, her capacity as a mother will be affronted, and her ability to put on whatever face she desired for her public will prove limited.

In “Theatre”, Maugham subtly exposes the tensions and triumphs that occur when acting and reality blend together, and–for Julia–ultimately reverse.

Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong.

Unsatisfied by her marriage, she starts an affair with charming, attractive and exciting Charles Townsend.

But when Walter discovers her deception, he exacts a strange and terrible vengeance: Kitty must accompany him to his new posting in remote mainland China, where a cholera epidemic rages…

Julia Lambert is in her prime, the greatest actress in England.

Off stage, however, she is bored with her handsome husband, coquettish and undisciplined.

She is at first flattered and amused by the attentions of an eager young fan, but before long Julia is amazed to find herself falling wildly, dangerously, in love.

On a trip to the South of France, the shy heroine of Rebecca falls in love with Maxim de Winter, a handsome widower.

Although his proposal comes as a surprise, she happily agrees to marry him.

But as they arrive at her husband’s home, Manderley, a change comes over Maxim, and the young bride is filled with dread. Friendless in the isolated mansion, she realises that she barely knows him.

In every corner of every room is the phantom of his beautiful first wife, Rebecca, and the new Mrs de Winter walks in her shadow.

An international bestseller that has never gone out of print, “Rebecca” is the haunting story of a young woman consumed by love and the struggle to find her identity.

The novel begins in Monte Carlo, where our heroine is swept off her feet by the dashing widower Maxim de Winter and his sudden proposal of marriage. Orphaned and working as a lady’s maid, she can barely believe her luck.

It is only when they arrive at his massive country estate that she realizes how large a shadow his late wife will cast over their lives – presenting her with a lingering evil that threatens to destroy their marriage from beyond the grave.

One of the most beloved novels of all time, Colleen McCullough’s magnificent saga of dreams, struggles, dark passions, and forbidden love in the Australian outback has enthralled readers the world over.

“The Thorn Birds” is a chronicle of three generations of Clearys – an indomitable clan of ranchers carving lives from a beautiful, hard land while contending with the bitterness, frailty, and secrets that penetrate their family.

It is a poignant love story, a powerful epic of struggle and sacrifice, a celebration of individuality and spirit.

Most of all, it is the story of the Clearys’ only daughter, Meggie, and the haunted priest, Father Ralph de Bricassart – and the intense joining of two hearts and souls over a lifetime, a relationship that dangerously oversteps sacred boundaries of ethics and dogma.

“Romeo and Juliet” is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare between 1591-1595, and it remains one of his most popular and frequently performed plays. The romance between Romeo and Juliet has become the foundation for many derivative romantic works and established the title characters as the best known of any young lovers in literature. Shakespeare borrowed from other famous tales written earlier in the sixteenth century but expanded upon the plot and characters to create his own version of the famous story.

The play is set in Verona, Italy, and begins with a scuffle between members the rival families Montague and Capulet.

An age-old vendetta between two powerful families erupts into bloodshed.

A group of masked Montague risk further conflict by gatecrashing a Capulet party. A young lovesick Romeo Montague falls instantly in love with Juliet Capulet, who is due to marry her father’s choice, the County Paris.

With the help of Juliet’s nurse, the women arrange for the couple to marry the next day, but Romeo’s attempt to halt a street fight leads to the death of Juliet’s own cousin, Tybalt, for which Romeo is banished.

In a desperate attempt to be reunited with Romeo, Juliet follows the Friar’s plot and fakes her own death.

The message fails to reach Romeo, and believing Juliet dead, he takes his life in her tomb. Juliet wakes to find Romeo’s corpse beside her and kills herself.

The grieving family agree to end their feud.