Edward Godfree Aldington was an English writer and poet whose work is valued for its lyricism and keen insight into the world. His creations often explore complex human relationships and the transience of the moment. Aldington's style is characterized by elegance and depth, drawing the reader into his stories and thoughts. His poetic and prose works represent a significant contribution to English literature.
Includes the following works: Novels- The Portrait of Dorian Gray; Plays-Salome and The Importance of Being Earnest; Writings-De Profundis, Critic as Artist, and Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Very Young; and selections from Lady Windermere's Fan, An Ideal Husband, and A Woman of No Importance. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Salome and The Importance of Being Earnest are accompanied by Wilde's prison memoirs, poems, and selected correspondence
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Mad, lascivious, sadistic and ridiculous, the provincial school teacher Peredonov torments his students and has hallucinatory fantasies about acts of savagery and degradation, yet to everyone else he is an upstanding member of society. As he pursues the idea of marrying to gain promotion, he descends into paranoia, arson, torture and murder.
One of the great World War I antiwar novels—honest, chilling, and brilliantly satirical Based on the author's experiences on the Western Front, Richard Aldington's first novel, Death of a Hero, finally joins the ranks of Penguin Classics. Our hero is George Winterbourne, who enlists in the British Expeditionary Army during the Great War and gets sent to France. After a rash of casualties leads to his promotion through the ranks, he grows increasingly cynical about the war and disillusioned by the hypocrisies of British society. Aldington's writing about Britain's ignorance of the tribulations of its soldiers is among the most biting ever published. Death of a Hero vividly evokes the morally degrading nature of combat as it rushes toward its astounding finish. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Tato kniha je posledním útokem D.H. Lawrence proti materialistické a zintelektualizované západní civilicazi. Jeho poetický komentář Knihy Zjevení odsuzuje pokrytectví průměrných vrstev a vyzdvihuje pohanské hodnoty zničené křesťanstvím, vědou a demokracií. Lawrencova fascinující interpretace symbolů, zvířat a čísel odkrývá současně nitro jeho samého.
This collection of poems by the British poet Richard Aldington and his wife, the classicist Alice Maynard, is a tour de force of classical imagery and modernist sensibility. Inspired by the ancient Greek tradition of carved medallions, the poems explore themes of love, death, and the fragility of human existence. An essential work of modernist poetry.