Похожие книги
Роза для Эмили
Уильям Фолкнер
Barbara Pym is a master at capturing the subtle mayhem that takes place in the apparent quiet of the English countryside. Fifty-something sisters Harriet and Belinda Bede ...
The Man with the Golden Arm tells the story of Frankie Machine, the golden arm dealer at a back street Chicago gambling den. Frankie reckons he's a tough guy in the Chicag...
In this 1931 Dada-inspired work, the first novel of the author of Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust, the eponymous anti-hero stumbles across the Trojan Horse and...
First published in 1930, the author provides a tour of the novel from its birth to his own time, including the works of Flaubert and Conrad.
<p>Рассказ</p>
A collection of nine exceptional stories from the acclaimed author of The Catcher in the Rye
'This is the squalid, or moving, part of the story, and the scene changes. ...
This collection of four stories, "I Stand Here Ironing," "Hey Sailor, what Ship?," "O Yes," and "Tell me a Riddle," had become an American classic. Since the title novell...
Castle Richmond is about the fortunes and relationships of two families of the Irish aristocracy, set against the harrowing background of the Great Famine. Sir Thomas Fitz...
“‘Of course,’ said Orfieu, ‘the sort of time-travelling you read about in books—time-travelling in the body—is absolutely impossible.’”
So begins The Dark Tower, a capt...
A choral novel on the hopes, disillusionments and betrayals of family life in Mexico. A rich Catholic rancher wants his four sons to become priests, while the boys themsel...
Somerset Maugham is one of the world's great story tellers. You turn the pages and enter a magical world of fabulous characters. You feel as if you are curled up listening...
The Library of America presents an exclusive e-book edition of the astonishing 1930 collection that introduced a major new voice in American literature. “If Katherine Anne...
This short story collection, a facsimile of the 1909 Authorized Edition, includes the title story, "The Lonesome Road," "The Emancipation of Billy," and many more.
Nancy, a black nursemaid, is about to be hanged for killing her mistress's baby. The mother, Temple Drake, knows the reason why. The night before the execution, a lawyer p...
This classic 1949 novella about the violent expulsion of Palestinian villagers by the Israeli army has long been considered a high point in Hebrew literature, as it has al...
The complete text of Faulkner’s third novel, published for the first time in 1973, appeared with his reluctant consent in a much cut version in 1929 as Sartoris.
Miss Lonelyhearts is a male newspaper columnist writing an advice column for the lovelorn and lonesome. The job is a circulation stunt and the whole staff considers it a j...
The canoe was now approaching the land. The bay opened out, and a gap in the white surf of the reef marked where the little river ran out to the sea; the thicker and deepe...
"Деревушка" – первая книга трилогии Фолкнера "Деревушка", "Город", "Особняк", посвященной трагедии аристократии американского Юга. Семьи высшего общества оказались перед м...
Edith Wharton (1862—1937) was an American novelist and short story writer. Her works show the lives of people of the late nineteenth century, the times of decline in Ameri...



















