14 似ている本： 動物農場
シャーロットの蜘蛛の糸
Charlotte's Web is a book of children's literature by American author E. B. White and illustrated by Garth Williams; it was published on October 15, 1952, by Harper & Brothers. The novel tells the story of a livestock pig named Wilbur and his friendship with a barn spider named Charlotte. When Wilbur is in danger of being slaughtered by the farmer, Charlotte writes messages praising Wilbur (such…
共通テーマ：Domestic animals, Animals
非商業的旅行者
A collection of seventeen sketches which grew out of Dickens' insomnia. He took long walks through London at night and his observations resulted in these sketches.
共通テーマ：British and irish fiction, English literature
佩勒姆
This is the tale of Henry Pelham. He falls in love with his best friend’s sister, and then learns that his friend is accused of murder. He must find the real killer in order to marry his love. The book really illustrates the manners, habits and lifestyles of the rich and famous in the first half of the 19th century. This is a very entertaining read!Please Note: This book is easy to read in true…
共通テーマ：British and irish fiction, Drama
一九八四年
Winston Smith lives in a society where the government controls people every second of the day. He fights this world with love. But it's dangerous: love for another person can be punished by death - and Big Brother is always watching.
Orwell's classic story shows that there is no freedom unless ideas and beliefs can be questioned. This is as true today as when it was written, more than fifty…
共通テーマ：Totalitarianism, British and irish fiction
黒衣
The Black Robe is an 1881 partially-epistolary novel by famed English writer, Wilkie Collins. The book, which relates the misadventures of one "Lewis Romayne", is noted for its anti-Catholic lens.
共通テーマ：British and irish fiction, English literature
幽霊屋敷
The drama begins with a Yuletide gathering in an eerie country retreat that's rumored to be haunted. There, Dickens and his friends, including acclaimed authors Elizabeth Gaskell and Wilkie Collins, take on the task of finding evidence of a supernatural presence in the house. When they reconvene at a Twelfth Night feast to review their findings, what will their stories reveal?
共通テーマ：British and irish fiction, English literature
権力と栄光
One of Greene’s most powerful novels, the book takes as its theme the era of religious suppression in Mexico during the early 1930’s. An unnamed Catholic priest, an alcoholic with a shameful past in search of either oblivion or redemption, travels through Mexico administering the rites of the church to the poor landless peasants, hunted by a remorseless police officer and always in fear of being…
共通テーマ：Classic, British and irish fiction
チャーリーとチョコレート工場
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 1964 children's novel by British author Roald Dahl. The story features the adventures of young Charlie Bucket inside the chocolate factory of eccentric chocolatier Willy Wonka.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was first published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. in 1964 and in the United Kingdom by George Allen & Unwin 11 months later.
In…
共通テーマ：Behavior, Drama
通行止め
No Thoroughfare is a stage play and novel by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, both released in December 1867.
共通テーマ：British and irish fiction, Drama
雅典のティモン
With its puzzling plot and unexplained characters, Timon is probably unfinished and rarely performed. Timon is a wealthy citizen of ancient Athens, who spends munificently on parasitic writers and artists. When he loses his wealth his former friends abandon him and he rails against the world and men from his new home in a cave.
共通テーマ：English literature, Drama
王になろうとした男
Rudyard Kipling is world famous for his children stories but here are collected two of his finest novellas. The first is inspired by a true story with a Kipling twist, the story of two British soldiers serving in India becoming rulers of a small isolated kingdom. The second story is the beautiful and heartbreaking story of a forbidden love that is doomed.
共通テーマ：British and irish fiction, English literature
自負と偏見
Pride and Prejudice is an 1813 novel of manners written by Jane Austen. The novel follows the character development of Elizabeth Bennet, the dynamic protagonist of the book who learns about the repercussions of hasty judgments and comes to appreciate the difference between superficial goodness and actual goodness.
Mr. Bennet, owner of the Longbourn estate in Hertfordshire, has five daughters,…
共通テーマ：British and irish fiction, English literature, Drama
恐怖とミステリーの物語
From the book:The idea that the extraordinary narrative which has been called the Joyce-Armstrong Fragment is an elaborate practical joke evolved by some unknown person, cursed by a perverted and sinister sense of humour, has now been abandoned by all who have examined the matter. The most macabre and imagi-native of plotters would hesitate before linking his morbid fancies with the unquestioned…
共通テーマ：British and irish fiction, English literature
ドライデン詩集
Oxford edition.The facsimiles are reproductions of title-pages of earlier editions.
共通テーマ：British and irish fiction, English literature, Drama