Margaret Drabble Knihy

Margaret Drabblová patrí medzi významné súčasné anglické prozaičky, ktorej diela vychádzajú zväčša v niekoľkých vydaniach a získavajú si čoraz väčší okruh čitateľov svojím spracovaním a osobitým prístupom k téme. Jej romány sú psychologické a s obľubou sa koncentrujú na duševnýsvet ženy, ktorý autorka odhaľuje priam so zarážajúcou úprimnosťou, bez pretvárky, bez pátosu. V románe Vodopád ide konkrétne o problém manželskej nevery a v širšom kontexte o problém spolužitia muža a ženy. Hrdinka sa po narodení druhého dieťaťa odpúta od manžela a nadviaže nový vzťah s mužom svojej sesternice. Vtedy sa jej predošlý život, vzťah k deťom, k okoliu, začína javiť v inom, novom svetle a rozpráva. Na to, aby dosiahla väčšiu účinnosť svojich výpovedí, uchyľuje sa k netradičnému spôsobu: úvahy o novom partnerovi uvádza v tretej osobe, svoje výpovede zasa v prvej. Ide jej predovšetkým o objektívnosť pri zachytení svojich pocitov a pohnútok, ktoré chce takto podčiarknuť. Drabblová však veľmi vnímavo opisuje nielen vnútorný svet svojej hrdinky, ale aj spoločenské vzťahy v Anglicku, predsudky, falošnú nadradenosť a povýšenectvo, ktoré pomáhajú istým spoločenským vrstvám prežiť vlastnú bezvýznamnosť. Román je spracovaný na vysokej umeleckej úrovni a vnímavému čitateľovi prinesie hlboký zážitok.

Dotek lásky, jehož filmová verze byla uvedená i u nás. Zachycuje problémy určitého typu dnešní mladé ženy, problémy jaké ještě neznala generace našich babiček . Jde o dívku zaměřenou rozumově, ctižádostivou ve svém povolání a ve své vědecké práci. V citové oblasti je ostýchavá, neprůbojná a bedlivě si střeží své soukromí. Když se do jejího života vloudí hluboký cit a mladá žena zápasí se změněnou životní perspektivou, to je obsahem této nevšední knihy.

The insatiable passion to know drives virtually all the characters in A Natural Curiosity: Liz, united with her divorced husband to fnd their friend, Liz's sister Shirley, who learns the truth about their mother's life and death, and Alix, who visits with an imprisoned mass-murder and learns things she doesn't want to know.

The colorful, controversial life story of Angus Wilson--one of the most brilliant writers to emerge after World War II--is captured by acclaimed novelist Margaret Drabble. A master chronicler of the foibles of English life, Wilson emerges as an artist of enormous courage, one of the very few who, even in the 1940s, lived as an open homosexual.

The Sixth Edition of this renowned literary reference book has been thoroughly updated and expanded by editor Margaret Drabble and a team of 140 distinguished contributors, including notable authors like Salman Rushdie and Penelope Fitzgerald. This edition features over 660 new entries, with more than a third authored by Drabble herself, encompassing hundreds of new biographies from Kathy Acker to Stefan Zweig, along with fresh entries on genres, literary terms, and critical schools. In total, it offers over 7,000 alphabetically arranged entries, providing extensive coverage of classical English literature and influential European works. The articles encompass authors, fictional characters, plot summaries, composers, artists, literary movements, historians, philosophers, critics, as well as aspects of publishing history, literary societies, and critical theory. Additionally, it includes sixteen new feature essays on topics ranging from gay and lesbian literature to modernism and science fiction, along with a comprehensive chronology that contextualizes key literary works over a thousand years. Complete lists of poet laureates and literary prize winners further enhance its value. With its engaging style, this edition serves as an essential resource for students, teachers, and anyone passionate about English literature.

English archaeologist Frances Wingate, divorced mother of four, and distinguished scholar Karel Schmidt, selfless and marriage-imprisoned, stay-at-home, come inexorably together once more after years of on-again, off-again romance.

"Wuthering Heights", Emily Bronte's only novel, is one of the pinnacles of 19th-century English literature. It's the story of Heathcliff, an orphan who falls in love with a girl above his class, loses her, and devotes the rest of his life to wreaking revenge on her family.

Based on the bestselling Oxford Companion to English Literature, this is an indispensable, compact guide to all aspects of English literature. For this revised edition, existing entries have been fully updated and 60 new entries have been added on contemporary writers, such as Peter Ackroyd, Martin Amis, Toni Morrison, and Jeanette Winterson. New appendices include a chronology of English literature, and a listing of major literary prize-winners.

The classic bigraphy of Queen Victoria, reissued in advance of the centenary of her death. Lady Longford regards her with undisguised affection and respect - respect for the iron sense of duty which impelled the secluded widow to emerge at last and rule her empire as a mother, her family as a Queen.

Perec was a leading exponent of French literary surrealism who found humour - and pathos - in the human need for classification. Thoughts of Sorts is itself unclassifiable, a unique collection of philosophical riffs on his obsession with lists, puzzles, catalogues, and taxonomies. Introduced by Margaret Drabble.