From the astonishing debut Hawk in the Rain (1957) to Birthday Letters (1998), Ted Hughes was one of postwar literature's truly prodigious poets. This remarkable volume ga...
Это новая версия страницы книги. Часть функций ещё в работе — мы добавляем их постепенно.
К старой версии страницыПохожие книги
Glengarry Glen Ross
David Mamet
Book Description Among the most studied, most read, and most admired works in world literature, the tragedies of Shakespeare constitute a body of work unrivaled in dramati...
In this illuminating script book, Charlie Kaufman, the Academy Award-nominated screenwriter of Being John Malkovich and Adaptation, shares the logistical challenges of wri...
In less than a year, Lawrence Ferlinghetti won a lifetime achievement award from the Author's Guild, received the Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of America, was elect...
Collection of short stories, published in 1991, by the acclaimed author of Edisto and A Woman Named Drown.
When the narrator of White's poised yet scalding autobiographical novel first embarks on his sexual odyssey, it is the 1950s, and America is "a big gray country of familie...
The second last prose text, Worstward Ho, the latter is a novella written in 1983, shortly after the largely autobiographical Company and an ironic theological speculation...
Through journals, letters, dreams, and close readings of the work of many poets, Adrienne Rich reflects on how poetry and politics enter and impinge on American life. This...
'The nearest the general run get to art is Action: sex is their form of art: the battle for existence is their picture.'
Tarr tells the blackly comic story of the lives...
A witty and elegiac novel in the form of a biography from a Pulitzer Prize winning author.
At the age of 2, Edwin Mullhouse was reciting Shakespeare. At 10 he had writ...
In The Harafish Naguib Mahfouz returns to the style of sweeping narrative at which he has proven himself a master. He chronicles the dramatic history of the Nagi family--a...
Turning upon the smallest of hints, and taking the detritus of modern life - offhand diary entries, discarded cigarette ends, casual glances - as a series of clues, a Lond...
The last work of fiction by one of the twentieth century’s greatest artists, Extinction is widely considered Thomas Bernhard’s magnum opus.
Franz-Josef Murau—the inte...
The central figure of this novel is a young man whose parents were executed for conspiring to steal atomic secrets for Russia.
His name is Daniel Isaacson, and as the s...
Смысл настоящей пьесы в том же, что и смысл самой действительности.
Что же касается морали пьесы, ее нравственного посыла, то он прост и стар как мир: быть добрым лучше, ...
“I felt right away, reading the first paragraph of Second Skin, that I was in the presence of the qualities Nabokov considered the hallmarks of art: curiosity, tenderness,...
Liverpool, 1752. William Kemp has lost a fortune in cotton speculation, and must recoup his losses if his son is to marry the wealthy woman whom he loves. His last resort ...
Miss Jean Brodie is a rare breed of teacher – passionate, independent-minded and romantically inspired, with not the slightest care for convention. She soon garners a devo...
Closely Watched Trains tells the story of Miloš Hrma, a young railroad apprentice coming of age in wartime Czechoslovakia. Miloš is overwhelmed with worries – about his vi...
Memento Mori opens with a telephone call and the words 'Remember you must die'. Over several months, a circle of elderly men and women receive similar calls and everyone b...