engleski Arhive | TEA BOOKS https://test.teabooks.rs/jezik/engleski/ Sat, 01 Feb 2025 07:09:10 +0000 sr-RS hourly 1 https://test.teabooks.rs/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/LOGO-630-150x150.png engleski Arhive | TEA BOOKS https://test.teabooks.rs/jezik/engleski/ 32 32 Down and Out in Paris and London https://test.teabooks.rs/george-orwell/down-and-out-in-paris-and-london/ Mon, 20 Jan 2025 14:46:46 +0000 https://teabooks.rs/?post_type=product&p=7837 Down and Out in Paris and London is the first full-length work by the English author George Orwell, published in 1933. It is a memoir in two parts on the theme of poverty in the two cities.

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]]> Its target audience was the middle and upper class members of society—those who were more likely to be well educated—and exposes the poverty existing in two prosperous cities: Paris and London. The first part is an account of living in near-destitution in Paris and the experience of casual labour in restaurant kitchens. The second part is a travelogue of life on the road in and around London from the tramp’s perspective, with descriptions of the types of hostel accommodation available and some of the characters to be found living on the margins.

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]]> The New Machiavelli https://test.teabooks.rs/hg-wells/the-new-machiavelli/ Wed, 30 Oct 2024 16:28:08 +0000 https://teabooks.rs/?post_type=product&p=7726 “I had the mind of my party. I do not know where I might not have ended, but for this red blaze that came out of my unguarded nature…”

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]]> Although H. G. Wells wrote this masterly novel in 1911, it is still a convincing and illuminating exploration of the “corridors of power”… a study of a man’s progress towards the leadership of the nation… and his love for a woman who was not his wife. And as Wells reminds us, this is a scandal no statesman can survive…

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]]> Cleopatra https://test.teabooks.rs/emil-ludwig/cleopatra-2/ Sun, 27 Oct 2024 15:36:46 +0000 https://teabooks.rs/?post_type=product&p=7718 Emil Ludwig’s account of Cleopatra’s life is a brilliant psychological study of the Queen and those two men with whom her name remains forever: Caesar and Antonius. Instead of the eccentric amorous, the idiosyncratic author shows us a real and deep lover, a mother, and a fighter.

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]]> Animal Farm https://test.teabooks.rs/george-orwell/animal-farm/ Sat, 27 Jan 2024 12:55:22 +0000 https://teabooks.rs/?post_type=product&p=6409 Animal Farm is a satirical allegorical novella by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. The book tells the story of a group of farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy. Ultimately, however, the rebellion is betrayed, and the farm ends up in a state as bad as it was before, under the dictatorship of a pig named Napoleon.

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]]> According to Orwell, the fable reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then on into the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union. Orwell, a democratic socialist, was a critic of Joseph Stalin and hostile to Moscow-directed Stalinism, an attitude that was critically shaped by his experiences during the May Days conflicts between the POUM and Stalinist forces during the Spanish Civil War. The Soviet Union had become a totalitarian autocracy built upon a cult of personality while engaging in the practice of mass incarcerations and secret summary trials and executions. In a letter to Yvonne Davet, Orwell described Animal Farm as a satirical tale against Stalin (“un conte satirique contre Staline”), and in his essay “Why I Write” (1946), wrote that Animal Farm was the first book in which he tried, with full consciousness of what he was doing, “to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole.”

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]]> 1984 https://test.teabooks.rs/george-orwell/1984/ Sat, 27 Jan 2024 07:01:25 +0000 https://teabooks.rs/?post_type=product&p=7291 Nineteen Eighty-Four, often referred to as 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction novel by the English novelist George Orwell (the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair). It was published on 8th June 1949 as Orwell’s ninth and final book completed in his lifetime.

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]]> Thematically, Nineteen Eighty-Four centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of persons and behaviours within society. Orwell, himself a democratic socialist, modelled the authoritarian government in the novel after Stalinist Russia. More broadly, the novel examines the role of truth and facts within politics and the ways in which they are manipulated.

The story takes place in an imagined future, the year 1984, when much of the world has fallen victim to perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, historical negationism, and propaganda. Great Britain, known as Airstrip One, has become a province of a totalitarian superstate named Oceania that is ruled by the Party who employ the Thought Police to persecute individuality and independent thinking. Big Brother, the leader of the Party, enjoys an intense cult of personality despite the fact that he may not even exist. The protagonist, Winston Smith, is a diligent and skilful rank-and-file worker and Outer Party member who secretly hates the Party and dreams of rebellion. He enters into a forbidden relationship with a colleague, Julia, and starts to remember what life was like before the Party came to power.

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]]> The Golden Lotus 1 https://test.teabooks.rs/lanling-xiaoxiaosheng/the-golden-lotus-1/ Sun, 01 Oct 2023 12:19:27 +0000 https://teabooks.rs/?post_type=product&p=6532 Integralna engleska verzija na 2.000 strana u 100 poglavlja, podeljenja na 10 tomova (roman kod nas poznat kao Šljivin cvet u vazi od zlata)

“The greatest novel of physical love which China has produced.” — Pearl S. Buck

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]]> A saga of ruthless ambition, murder, and, famously, Chinese erotica, The Golden Lotus (also known as The Plum in the Golden Vase) has been called the fifth Great Classical Novel in Chinese Literature and one of the Four Masterworks of the Ming Novel. Admired in its own time for its literary qualities and biting indictment of the immorality and cruelty of its age, this Chinese classic has also been denigrated for its sexual frankness.

It centers on Ximen Qing, a young, dissolute, and politically connected merchant, and his marriage to a fifth wife, Pan Jinlian, literally “Golden Lotus.” In her desire to influence her husband and, through him, control the other wives, concubines, and entire household, she uses sex as her primary weapon. The Golden Lotus lays bare the rivalries within this wealthy family while chronicling its rise and fall. It fields a host of vivid characters, each seeking advantage in a corrupt world.

This great work of classic Chinese literature, from an author whose pseudonym means “Scoffing Scholar of Lanling,” is a virtuoso collection of voices and vices, mixing in poetry and song. It samples different social registers from popular ballads to the language of bureaucrats to recreate and comment mordantly on the society of the time.

Little-known in the West but utterly iconic amongst the Chinese classics in worldly circles, reading The Golden Lotus promises both an astute reflection on human tendencies and a sumptuous, intoxicating take on Chinese erotica.

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]]> The Four Feathers https://test.teabooks.rs/aew-mason/the-four-feathers/ Fri, 02 Jun 2023 19:24:43 +0000 https://teabooks.rs/?post_type=product&p=6396 Just before sailing off to war in the Sudan, British guardsman Harry Feversham quits his regiment. He immediately receives four white feathers—symbols of cowardice—one each from his three best friends and his fiancée. To disprove this grave dishonour, Harry dons an Arabian disguise and leaves for the Sudan, where he anonymously comes to the aid of his three friends, saving each of their lives.

Having proved his bravery, Harry returns to England, hoping to regain the love and respect of his fiancée. This suspenseful tale movingly depicts a distinctive code of honour that was deeply valued and strongly promoted by the British during the height of their imperial power.

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]]> Just before sailing off to war in the Sudan, British guardsman Harry Feversham quits his regiment. He immediately receives four white feathers—symbols of cowardice—one each from his three best friends and his fiancée. To disprove this grave dishonour, Harry dons an Arabian disguise and leaves for the Sudan, where he anonymously comes to the aid of his three friends, saving each of their lives.

Having proved his bravery, Harry returns to England, hoping to regain the love and respect of his fiancée. This suspenseful tale movingly depicts a distinctive code of honour that was deeply valued and strongly promoted by the British during the height of their imperial power.

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]]> Michelangelo https://test.teabooks.rs/emil-ludwig/michelangelo/ Tue, 02 May 2023 11:09:14 +0000 https://teabooks.rs/?post_type=product&p=6402 “What possessed the thirteen-year old boy—what possessed Michelangelo—to declare that he wanted to be a painter? There he sat, a reticent lad, gazing with serious eyes at anything that happened to stand or lie before him, and scrawling an image of it—or what seemed to him such—on a sheet of superlative paper. Not the father only, but the brothers too scolded him, for this was a poor, inglorious calling, and he was so often cuffed and beaten by his parent that even in his old age he would still talk of it. There was no mother to protect him; men ruled the gloomy household. But as he seemed to be good for nothing else, the father was in the end obliged to yield and take him to Messer Ghirlandajo, who was painting the walls of Santa Maria Novella, surrounded by apprentices and colour-grinders. The contract was for three years; the distrustful man grumbled and handed over his money and his hopes of making something out of his son; for how could anyone suppose that he would ever do as well as his present teacher, or the great Donatello of old?”

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]]> “What possessed the thirteen-year old boy—what possessed Michelangelo—to declare that he wanted to be a painter? There he sat, a reticent lad, gazing with serious eyes at anything that happened to stand or lie before him, and scrawling an image of it—or what seemed to him such—on a sheet of superlative paper. Not the father only, but the brothers too scolded him, for this was a poor, inglorious calling, and he was so often cuffed and beaten by his parent that even in his old age he would still talk of it. There was no mother to protect him; men ruled the gloomy household. But as he seemed to be good for nothing else, the father was in the end obliged to yield and take him to Messer Ghirlandajo, who was painting the walls of Santa Maria Novella, surrounded by apprentices and colour-grinders. The contract was for three years; the distrustful man grumbled and handed over his money and his hopes of making something out of his son; for how could anyone suppose that he would ever do as well as his present teacher, or the great Donatello of old?”

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]]> The Scarlet Pimpernel https://test.teabooks.rs/emmuska-orczy/the-scarlet-pimpernel/ Tue, 02 May 2023 08:16:32 +0000 https://teabooks.rs/?post_type=product&p=6288 Volume 1 of Scarlet Pimpernel series

The Scarlet Pimpernel was first published in 1905 and has proved to be Orczy’s most famous and popular novel. The work was originally rejected by publishers, so she refashioned it as a play, with little initial success.

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]]> The book continued to be popular throughout the twentieth century and was adapted for film, stage and television on multiple occasions. One of the most famous and well-considered adaptations is the 1934 film starring Leslie Howard and directed by Harold Young. The television adaptations include a 1955-56 version and the 1999-2000 BBC production starring Richard E. Grant and Elizabeth McGovern.

The Scarlet Pimpernel is set in 1792 during the French Revolution, but centres on an English hero performing great and brave deeds in a violent and murderous climate. Marguerite St Just is a beautiful French actress, who is married to the English fop, Sir Percy Blakeney. The couple have become estranged as Marguerite has tired of her husband’s seemingly superficial lifestyle. She has heard about the exploits of the mysterious Scarlet Pimpernel — an unknown English man — who is daily helping French aristocrats to escape the Revolution. She is captivated and entranced by the stories surrounding him, but is soon forced into a position where she must assist the French ambassador to England in capturing the elusive man.

Orczy’s novel unfolds with a series of twists and turns, with frequent moments of excitement and tension. The author’s aristocratic heritage no doubt contributed to the politically conservative nature of the work, and her desire to make the hero of a tale an Englishman also underlines not only her own views but her belief in the nationalistic disposition of her English readership.

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]]> Found Treasure https://test.teabooks.rs/grace-livingston-hill/found-treasure/ Tue, 02 May 2023 07:32:16 +0000 https://teabooks.rs/?post_type=product&p=6427 Effie Martin was humiliated! Lawrence Earle, the football hero, was coming back from college, and all the girls were planning a big picnic for him. She had been planning to go, too—until she overheard the girls saying they didn’t want her along because she was too rough, too much of a tomboy. Well, she’d show them. She could be as much a lady as any of them!

 

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]]> Or could she? Almost immediately Effie found herself caught in a struggle between “acting ladylike” and being herself—a struggle she was afraid of losing. Then suddenly, wonderfully, an act of heroism throws Effie into an extraordinary friendship with the football star himself! And she begins the thrilling journey of becoming a woman who understands strong faith and lasting love.

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]]> An Iceland Fisherman https://test.teabooks.rs/pierre-loti/an-iceland-fisherman/ Tue, 02 May 2023 06:36:40 +0000 https://teabooks.rs/?post_type=product&p=6435 An Iceland Fisherman is a novel by French author Pierre Loti that depicts the romantic but inevitably sad life of Breton fishermen who sail each summer season to the stormy Iceland cod grounds...

A story of tragic love, set in the Breton village of Paimpol. In the 19th century, most of the young men joined the cod-fishing fleets, which spent several months each year in Icelandic waters. There was a high risk of mortality.

First published in 1886, An Iceland Fisherman is considered to be a classic of French literature today.

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]]> An Iceland Fisherman is a novel by French author Pierre Loti that depicts the romantic but inevitably sad life of Breton fishermen who sail each summer season to the stormy Iceland cod grounds…

A story of tragic love, set in the Breton village of Paimpol. In the 19th century, most of the young men joined the cod-fishing fleets, which spent several months each year in Icelandic waters. There was a high risk of mortality.

First published in 1886, An Iceland Fisherman is considered to be a classic of French literature today.

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