Джеймс Тёрбер — последние издания книг

Если знаменитый насмешник начнёт писать сказки, какими они получатся? Конечно, весёлыми. Но не только. Джеймс Тёрбер (1894-1961), писатель и художник-карикатурист, один из создателей современного американского юмора, сочинял волшебные истории всю жизнь - и вошёл в мировую литературу ещё и как сказочник. Его Зло способно испугать, Добро умеет и сочувствовать, и смеяться над собой, а сюжеты всегда чудесны и непредсказуемы.
Герцог с ледяным сердцем похищает принцессу, скармливает её спасителей гусям и почти убивает само Время. Но тёплые руки пленницы могут отогреть замёрзшие стрелки часов - если Принцу лоскутов и заплат удастся снять с неё заклятье.
Захватчики пытаются уничтожить на острове Оро всё, в названии чего есть буква "о": любовь и морковь, колёса и поэзию, бегемотов и единорогов. Но великолепное О постоит за себя - если люди не побоятся произнести слово "свобода".

Могучий великан требует, чтобы жители мирного городка платили ему непосильную дань, да ещё и рассказывали весёлые сказки. Однако сказка может стать оружием против самого огромного великана - если её создал настоящий мастер.

Для детей среднего школьного возраста.

В сборнике представлены народные сказки Англии и Шотландии, а также сказка писателя и карикатуриста Джеймса Тёрбера. Перевел их замечательный поэт и переводчик Григорий Кружков, великолепные иллюстрации к ним нарисовала Анна Гантимурова.

Littlejack has a map that indicates the existence of a treasure on a far and lonely island, and Black has a ship to get there. So the two bad men team up and sail off on Black’s vessel, the Aeiu. The name, Black explains, is all the vowels except for O—which he hates since his mother got wedged in a porthole: They couldn’t pull her in, so they had to push her out. Black and Littlejack arrive at the port and demand the treasure. No one knows anything about it, so they have their henchmen ransack the place—to no avail. But Black has a better idea: He will take over the island and purge it of O. (“I’ll issue an edict!”)

The harsh limits of a life sans O (where shoe is she and woe is we) and how finally with a little luck and lots of pluck the islanders shake off their overbearing interlopers and discover the true treasure for themselves (Oh yes—and get back their O’s)—these are only some of the surprises that await readers of James Thurber’s timelessly zany fairy tale about two louts who try to lock up the language—and lose. It is a tour de force of wordplay that will delight fans of Lewis Carroll, Dr. Seuss, Edward Lear, and Roald Dahl, and a timely reminder of how people can band together in the name of freedom to overthrow a tyrant.

Walter Mitty is an ordinary man living an ordinary life. But he has dreams - vivid, extraordinary day dreams - in which the life he leads is one of excitement and even adventure, in which he - a weary, put upon middle-aged man - is the hero of his own story.
A man can dream, can't he?
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is just one of the brilliant humorous and witty stories written by

A giant of American humor makes his Penguin Classics debut with “probably the best book in the world” (Neil Gaiman, from the Introduction), in a stunning Deluxe Edition featuring the original, full-color illustrations

The hands of all thirteen clocks stand still in the gloomy castle on a lonely hill where a wicked Duke lives with his niece, the beautiful Princess Saralinda. The Duke fancies he has frozen time, for he is afraid that one day a Prince may come and win away the hand of the Princess—the only warm hand in the castle. To thwart that fate, he sets impossible tasks for Saralinda’s suitors. But when the bold Prince Zorn of Zorna arrives, disguised as a wandering minstrel, and helped by the enigmatic Golux, the cold Duke may at last have met his match.

Since it was first published in 1950, James Thurber’s sublimely whimsical fairy tale of love forestalled but ultimately fulfilled has delighted readers of all ages. It is published here with Marc Simont’s enchanting, full-color illustrations from the first edition.

Сказка американского классика, юмориста и карикатуриста Джеймса Тэрбера "Белая лань" - одна из лучших сказок мировой литературы XX века. Впервые издана в 1945 году в США, хорошего перевода на русский язык до настоящего издания не было из-за трудности адекватной передачи пародийного стиля этого произведения Тэрбера. Сказка проиллюстрирована автором.

This selection of ten short stories about women by modern writers (James Joyce, Katherine Mansfield, Roald Dahl, James Thurber, Edna O’Brien, Anne Cassidy, Malachi Whitaker and Janet Frame) from different English-speaking countries – England, Ireland, America and New Zealand – explores such themes as love’s dilemma, loneliness, crime, myths and nostalgia.
Dictionary work, the role of the narrator, setting, story and plots, speech modes and characterisation are all featured in the analysis sections of each story.

Walter Mitty is an ordinary man living an ordinary life. But he has dreams - vivid, extraodinary day-dreams - in which the life he leads is one of excitement and even adventure, in which he - a weary, put-upon middle-aged man - is the hero of his own story.

A man can dream, can he?

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is just one of the brilliant humorous and witty stories written by James Thurber and collected here.

Mild-mannered Walter Mitty is a day-dreamer who escapes his anonymous life by disappearing into a world of fantasies filled with heroism, romance and action. This well-known and beloved tale has launched its famous protagonist into the cultural lexicon, warranting his inclusion in English-language dictionaries and countless anthologies. Stiller's imaginative performance as Mitty is the perfect re-introduction to the classic character and a great preface to the upcoming film, for longtime fans and new listeners alike.

Книги басен известного американского юмориста и карикатуриста Джеймса Тэрбера оформлены рисунками автора. Для стиля прозы его басен характерны ритмизованные пародийные интонации, аллитеративная и смысловая игра слов и афористичность моралей, приближающие эти тексты к поэтическим. Аналога этому стилю в русской прозе нет.

Сказка американского классика, юмориста и карикатуриста Джеймса Тэрбера "Белая лань" - одна из лучших сказок мировой литературы XX века. Впервые издана в 1945 году в США, у нас хорошего перевода пока не было из-за трудности адекватной передачи ее пародийного стиля. Сказка проиллюстрирована автором.

Black and Littlejack are bad men. Littlejack has a map that indicates the existence of a treasure on a far and lonely island. He needs a ship to get there. Black has a ship. So they team up and sail off on Black’s vessel, the Aeiu. “A weird uncanny name,” remarks Littlejack, “like a nightbird screaming.” Black explains that it’s all the vowels except for O. O he hates since his mother got wedged in a porthole. They couldn’t pull her in so they had to push her out.

Black and Littlejack arrive at the port of the far and lonely island and demand the treasure. No one knows anything about it, so they have their henchmen ransack the place—to no avail. But Black has a better idea: he will take over the island and he will purge it of O.

The vicissitudes visited on the islanders by Black and Littlejack, the harsh limits of a life sans O (where shoe is she and woe is we), and how finally with a little luck and lots of pluck the islanders shake off their tyrannical interlopers and discover the true treasure for themselves (Oh yes—and get back their O’s)—these are only some of the surprises that await readers of James Thurber’s timelessly zany fairy tale about two louts who try to lock up the language—and lose.

В сборник вошли пять разноплановых детективных историй зарубежных авторов: интригующие, удивляющие и даже вызывающие улыбку.

Once upon a time, in a gloomy castle on a lonely hill, where there were thirteen clocks that wouldn’t go, there lived a cold, aggressive Duke, and his niece, the Princess Saralinda. She was warm in every wind and weather, but he was always cold. His hands were as cold as his smile, and almost as cold as his heart. He wore gloves when he was asleep, and he wore gloves when he was awake, which made it difficult for him to pick up pins or coins or the kernels of nuts, or to tear the wings from nightingales.

So begins James Thurber’s sublimely revamped fairy tale, The 13 Clocks, in which a wicked Duke who imagines he has killed time, and the Duke’s beautiful niece, for whom time seems to have run out, both meet their match, courtesy of an enterprising and very handsome prince in disguise. Readers young and old will take pleasure in this tale of love forestalled but ultimately fulfilled, admiring its upstanding hero (”He yearned to find in a far land the princess of his dreams, singing as he went, and possibly slaying a dragon here and there”) and unapologetic villain (”We all have flaws,” the Duke said. “Mine is being wicked”), while wondering at the enigmatic Golux, the mysterious stranger whose unpredictable interventions speed the story to its necessarily happy end.

Джеймс Гроувер Тэрбер (1894-1961) - "культовый" американский юморист, чьи шутки в самой Америке давно стали классикой. Тэрбер также автор более тридцати книг. Его произведения переведены более чем на двадцать языков мира, в том числе на бенгальский, арабский, японский, турецкий и даже гуджаратский, на котором говорят - и читают Тэрбера - гуджаратцы, проживающие в Индии. На страницах настоящего сборника писатель предстает во всем блеске своего насмешливого таланта, а читатели получат возможность не только познакомиться с лучшими образцами писательской манеры Джеймса Тэрбера, но и оценить его мастерство как карикатуриста. В столь полном…

This hugely funny autobiographical memoir that takes into account the crumbling of empires, talks "largely about small matters and smally about great affairs". Mostly it is about the wildly incredible things people do when they think they are acting sensibly. Cartoons.

Книги басен известного американского юмориста и карикатуриста Джеймса Тэрбера оформлены рисунками автора. Для стиля прозы его басен характерны ритмизованные пародийные интонации, смысловая игра слов и афористичность моралей, приближающие эти тексты к поэтическим. Аналога этому стилю в русской прозе нет.

The charming Caldecott Medal-winning fable of a sickly princess who knows she will be well if only she can have the moon in the sky. Ages 4-8.