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This novel is one of the most ambitious and remarkable literary achievements of our time. It is a picaresque, psychological novel--a novel of the road, a journey or voyage...
Violet Clay had come to New York City from Charleston to take the art world by storm. But nine years, many affairs, and thousands of drinks later, the reality of her shado...
Один из наиболее знаменитых романов своего времени, «Анатомия любви» остается, пожалуй, самым сильным произведением о первой любви. Завораживающая, прекрасно написанная, п...
The stark grief of a brother mourning a brother opens this novel with a stunning, unforgettable experience. Here, in a monumental saga of love and rage, Baldwin goes back...
"Пташка" – знаменитая психологическая драма трагически погибшего писателя Уильяма Уортона, такого же "великого затворника", как Джером Д. Сэлинджер и Томас Пинчон. Роман-б...
This 1979 classic tells the darkly humorous story of I.C. Trumpelman, a man whose fancy determines the fate of others. Chosen as the head of a Judenrat, Trumpelman thrives...
In Sleepless Nights a woman looks back on her life—the parade of people, the shifting background of place—and assembles a scrapbook of memories, reflections, portraits, le...
Arguably the greatest book from America's most heroically ambitious writer, THE EXECUTIONER'S SONG follows the short, blighted life of Gary Gilmore who became famous after...
Жемчужина творческого наследия Уильяма Стайрона. Роман, который лег в основу сценария изумительного одноименного фильма с Мерил Стрип в главной роли, удостоенного премии "...
В романе “Призрак писателя” впервые появляется альтер эго Филипа Рота: Натан Цукерман — блестящий, сумасшедший, противоречивый и неподражаемый герой девяти великолепных ро...
In 1798, Irish patriots, committed to freeing their country from England, landed with a company of French troops in County Mayo, in westernmost Ireland. They were supposed...
Fiery lights are seen in the the small town of Oxrun Station. A series of strange murders, a group of odd, apparently possessed children terrorizing the adults of the town...
The Black Castle is a fast-moving tale of battle between brothers. One is seen as evil because he is a vampire, while the other is perceived as good because he is a man of...
NIGHT'S MASTER is the first book of the stunning arabesque high fantasy series "Tales from the Flat Earth," which, in the manner of "The One Thousand and One Nights," port...
После долгих лет ужаса и террора в Альбионе настал Золотой век, эпоха мира и процветания. Страной правит королева Глориана, чья империя охватывает большую часть известного...
Late summer near Dublin, 1920, and up at the great house there are still cucumber sandwiches for tea. Slipping away from Aunt Mary and dotty Grandfather, 18-year-old Nancy...
Praxis Duveen is a survivor. At five years old, in 1920s England, she is still innocent, the product of an unstable mother and a flighty father who abandoned Praxis and he...
Joseph Bosham, self–styled third Viscount of Bosham, with a half–English Catholic priest for a father and an Italian brothel–keeper in place of a mother, educated in mathe...
In the "brilliant novel" (The New York Times) V.S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one man—an Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history, has...