coetzee j m disgrace reading guide edition
Coetzee J.M. Disgrace. Reading Guide Edition
'A great novel by one of the finest authors writing in the English language today' The Times After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressure to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to his daughter Lucy's isolated smallholding. For a time, his daughter's influence and the natural rhythms of the farm promise to harmonise his discordant life. But the balance of power in the country is shifting. He and Lucy become victims of a savage and disturbing attack which brings into relief all the faultlines in their relationship.
3668 Руб.
Coetzee J. Disgrace
After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressure to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to his daughter Lucy's isolated smallholding. For a time, his daughter's influence and the natural rhythms of the farm promise to harmonise his discordant life. But the balance of power in the country is shifting. He and Lucy become victims of a savage and disturbing attack which brings into relief all the faultlines in their relationship.
1173 Руб.
Coetzee J. Disgrace
After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressure to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to his daughter Lucy's isolated smallholding. For a time, his daughter's influence and the natural rhythms of the farm promise to harmonise his discordant life. But the balance of power in the country is shifting. He and Lucy become victims of a savage and disturbing attack which brings into relief all the faultlines in their relationship.
1173 Руб.
Coetzee J.M. Disgrace
Winner of the 1999 Booker Prize 'A great novel by one of the finest authors writing in the English language today' The Times After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressure to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to his daughter Lucy's isolated smallholding. For a time, his daughter's influence and the natural rhythms of the farm promise to harmonise his discordant life. But the balance of power in the country is shifting. He and Lucy become victims of a savage and disturbing attack which brings into relief all the faultlines in their relationship. One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World.
3538 Руб.
Coetzee J.M. Age of Iron
Nobel Laureate and two-time Booker prize-winning author of Disgrace, J. M. Coetzee tells the remarkable story of a nation gripped in brutal apartheid in Age of Iron. In Cape Town, South Africa, an elderly classics professor writes a letter to her distant daughter, recounting the strange and disturbing events of her dying days. She has been opposed to the lies and the brutality of apartheid all her life, but now she finds herself coming face to face with its true horrors: the hounding by the police of her servant's son, the burning of a nearby black township, the murder by security forces of a teenage activist who seeks refuge in her house. Through it all, her only companion, the only person to whom she can confess her mounting anger and despair, is a homeless man who one day appears on her doorstep. In Age of Iron, J. M. Coetzee brings his searing insight and masterful control of language to bear on one of the darkest episodes of our times.
2068 Руб.
Coetzee J.M. Foe
Nobel Laureate and two-time Booker prize-winning author of Disgrace and The Life and Times of Michael K, J. M. Coetzee reimagines Daniel DeFoe's classic novel Robinson Crusoe in Foe. In an act of breathtaking imagination, J.M Coetzee radically reinvents the story of Robinson Crusoe. In the early eighteenth century, Susan Barton finds herself adrift from a mutinous ship and cast ashore on a remote desert island. There she finds shelter with its only other inhabitants: a man named Cruso and his tongueless slave, Friday. In time, she builds a life for herself as Cruso's companion and, eventually, his lover. At last they are rescued by a passing ship, but only she and Friday survive the journey back to London. Determined to have her story told, she pursues the eminent man of letters Daniel Foe in the hope that he will relate truthfully her memories to the world. But with Cruso dead, Friday incapable of speech and Foe himself intent on reshaping her narrative, Barton struggles to maintain her grip on the past, only to fall victim to the seduction of storytelling itself. Treacherous, elegant and unexpectedly moving, Foe remains one of the most exquisitely composed of this pre-eminent author's works.
2227 Руб.
Coetzee J.M. Foe
Nobel Laureate and two-time Booker prize-winning author of Disgrace and The Life and Times of Michael K, J. M. Coetzee reimagines Daniel DeFoe's classic novel Robinson Crusoe in Foe. Published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. In an act of breathtaking imagination, J.M Coetzee radically reinvents the story of Robinson Crusoe. In the early eighteenth century, Susan Barton finds herself adrift from a mutinous ship and cast ashore on a remote desert island. There she finds shelter with its only other inhabitants: a man named Cruso and his tongueless slave, Friday. In time, she builds a life for herself as Cruso's companion and, eventually, his lover. At last they are rescued by a passing ship, but only she and Friday survive the journey back to London. Determined to have her story told, she pursues the eminent man of letters Daniel Foe in the hope that he will relate truthfully her memories to the world. But with Cruso dead, Friday incapable of speech and Foe himself intent on reshaping her narrative, Barton struggles to maintain her grip on the past, only to fall victim to the seduction of storytelling itself. Treacherous, elegant and unexpectedly moving, Foe remains one of the most exquisitely composed of this pre-eminent author's works.
2068 Руб.
Coetzee J.M. Boyhood. Scenes from provincial life
In Boyhood, J. M. Coetzee revisits the South Africa of half a century ago, to write about his childhood and interior life. Boyhood's young narrator grew up in a small country town. With a father he imitated but could not respect, and a mother he both adored and resented, he picked his way through a world that refused to explain its rules, but whose rules he knew he must obey. Steering between these contradictions, Boyhood evokes the tensions, delights and terrors of childhood with startling, haunting immediacy. Coetzee examines his young self with the dispassionate curiosity of an explorer rediscovering his own early footprints, and the account of his progress is bright, hard and simply compelling.
2605 Руб.
IELTS Reading Academic Practice Test Book. IELTS Guide with Tips for Reading Test Preparation for a High Score on the Academic Module
ELTS Reading Academic Practice Test Book: IELTS Guide with Tips for Reading Test Preparation for a High Score on the Academic Module by IELTS Success Group contains four complete IELTS practice reading tests.This book is an expanded edition of IELTS Reading Practice Tests: IELTS Guide for Self-Study Test Preparation for IELTS for Academic Purposes by IELTS Success Associates.The first 107 pages of the study guide have the same great material as IELTS Success Associates' original publication.Plus, there is a new IELTS reading practice test at the end of the book.Each practice reading test in this book has three passages, just like the actual IELTS academic reading test, so there are twelve reading passages in the publication for you to study.All of the reading passages in the book are on factual, informative, or academic topics, which is also like the format of the actual IELTS test.The practice exams have questions of all of the types that you will see on the real IELTS reading test, so the book has multiple choice questions; form, diagram and summary completion; identification of the writer's views; matching features and headings; and gap-fill questions.The tips at the beginning of the book explain the format of the IELTS reading test and tell you what to expect on your exam day.Practice Reading Test 1 in the publication is in tutorial mode, so it includes tips and suggestions at the beginning of each section to give you strategies to help you answer all of the types of questions on the reading tests.There is a complete answer key with in-depth explanations for each answer, so that you can understand why each answer is the correct one.The explanations give you additional tips to help you improve your test-taking technique.Get a high score on your IELTS reading test with this great book!?
1670 Руб.
IELTS Reading Academic Practice Test Book. IELTS Guide with Tips for Reading Test Preparation for a High Score on the Academic Module
ELTS Reading Academic Practice Test Book: IELTS Guide with Tips for Reading Test Preparation for a High Score on the Academic Module by IELTS Success Group contains four complete IELTS practice reading tests.This book is an expanded edition of IELTS Reading Practice Tests: IELTS Guide for Self-Study Test Preparation for IELTS for Academic Purposes by IELTS Success Associates.The first 107 pages of the study guide have the same great material as IELTS Success Associates' original publication.Plus, there is a new IELTS reading practice test at the end of the book.Each practice reading test in this book has three passages, just like the actual IELTS academic reading test, so there are twelve reading passages in the publication for you to study.All of the reading passages in the book are on factual, informative, or academic topics, which is also like the format of the actual IELTS test.The practice exams have questions of all of the types that you will see on the real IELTS reading test, so the book has multiple choice questions; form, diagram and summary completion; identification of the writer's views; matching features and headings; and gap-fill questions.The tips at the beginning of the book explain the format of the IELTS reading test and tell you what to expect on your exam day.Practice Reading Test 1 in the publication is in tutorial mode, so it includes tips and suggestions at the beginning of each section to give you strategies to help you answer all of the types of questions on the reading tests.There is a complete answer key with in-depth explanations for each answer, so that you can understand why each answer is the correct one.The explanations give you additional tips to help you improve your test-taking technique.Get a high score on your IELTS reading test with this great book!?
1670 Руб.
Murakami Haruki The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. Reading Guide Edition
Toru Okada's cat has disappeared and this has unsettled his wife, who is herself growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has started receiving. As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada's vague and blameless life, spent cooking, reading, listening to jazz and opera and drinking beer at the kitchen table, are turned inside out, and he embarks on a bizarre journey, guided (however obscurely) by a succession of characters, each with a tale to tell.
3617 Руб.
Coetzee J.M. Youth
Youth's narrator, a student in 1950s South Africa, has long been plotting an escape from his native country. Studying mathematics, reading poetry, saving money, he tries to ensure that when he arrives in the real world he will be prepared to experience life to its full intensity, and transform it into art. Arriving at last in London, however, he finds neither poetry nor romance. Instead he succumbs to the monotony of life as a computer programmer, from which random, loveless affairs offer no relief. Devoid of inspiration, he stops writing and begins a dark pilgrimage in which he is continually tested and continually found wanting. Set against the background of the 1960s, Youth is a remarkable portrait of a consciousness turning in on itself. J. M. Coetzee explores a young man's struggle to find his way in the world with tenderness and a fierce clarity.
1346 Руб.
Coetzee J. Late Essays: 2006 - 2017
Late Essays gathers together J.M. Coetzee’s literary essays from 2006 to 2017. The subjects covered in this stunning collection range from Daniel Defoe in the early eighteenth century to Coetzee’s contemporary Philip Roth. Coetzee has had a long-standing interest in German literature and here he engages with the work of Goethe, Holderlin, Kleist and Walser. There are four fascinating essays on fellow Nobel laureate Samuel Beckett and he looks at the work of three Australian writers: Patrick White, Les Murray and Gerald Murnane. There are essays too on Tolstoy’s great novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich, on Flaubert’s masterpiece Madame Bovary, and on the Argentine modernist Antonio Di Benedetto. .
1096 Руб.
Coetzee J. Late Essays: 2006 - 2017
Late Essays gathers together J.M. Coetzee’s literary essays from 2006 to 2017. The subjects covered in this stunning collection range from Daniel Defoe in the early eighteenth century to Coetzee’s contemporary Philip Roth. Coetzee has had a long-standing interest in German literature and here he engages with the work of Goethe, Holderlin, Kleist and Walser. There are four fascinating essays on fellow Nobel laureate Samuel Beckett and he looks at the work of three Australian writers: Patrick White, Les Murray and Gerald Murnane. There are essays too on Tolstoy’s great novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich, on Flaubert’s masterpiece Madame Bovary, and on the Argentine modernist Antonio Di Benedetto. .
1096 Руб.
Chinese Reading Course. Volume 1
Since its publication, Chinese Reading Course has been used by many educational institutions. The revised edition was published in 2009. In order to better match Chinese Course (3rd edition), Chinese Reading Course (3rd edition) has been launched. Volume 1 consists of 30 lessons. Revisions were made in the third edition based on the revisions made in Chinese Course (3rd edition). Meanwhile, the outdated articles were replaced and deleted.
1580 Руб.