Mrs Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel by William Trevor - a classic early novel by one of the world's greatest writers The probings of an outsider bring havoc to a crumbling Dubl...
Сам по себе человек — ничто. Только его любовь к кому-то имеет смысл. Эту простую истину предстоит понять Бруно и его близким. Через переживание бурных страстей, ревности ...
Eva Trout, Elizabeth Bowen’s last novel, epitomizes her bold exploration of the territory between the comedy of manners and cutting social commentary.
Orphaned at a you...
Marise Tomelty is a child-wife who dislikes sex and is terrified of open spaces. Ralph Shilling lives in the flat above the Tomeltys. One day, Marise's husband casually me...
Норман когда-то в прошлом — вундеркинд, родительский любимчик и блестящий адвокат… в сорок один год — наркоман, почти не выходящий из спальни, весь во власти паранойи и га...
Доброволец в рядах американской армии во время Второй мировой войны, попавший в плен к немцам, свидетель почти полного уничтожения Дрездена, Воннегут перенес этот опыт на ...
Leonard Michaels (January 2, 1933 - May 10, 2003) was an American writer of short stories, novels, and essays. He was born in New York City to Jewish parents; his father w...
Fat City is a novel about the indestructibility of of hope, the anguish and comedy of the human condition. It tells the story of two young boxers out of Stockton, Californ...
From the 1930s through the race riots of 1967, the members of the Wendall family, living in inner-city Detroit, struggle to understand the obscure forces constantly tearin...
Set in a small west of Scotland town in the 1950's, this novel by the author of "Straw Dogs" is the powerful and violent story of Duncan Logan, an adolescent growing up fa...
Annabel Christopher is every inch the star: a glamorous actress with a devoted, handsome husband. To keep the paparazzi and her adoring public under her spell, her perfect...
Айрис Мердок — самая «английская» писательница XX века, выдающийся мастер тонкой психологии. Книги ее вошли в золотой фонд мировой литературы, удостаивались самых престижн...
Two prisoners of war make a daring escape from their captors, fleeing across a hostile and alien terrain towards safety across the border, more than four hundred miles awa...
This book is the winner of the inaugural Booker Prize in 1969. It was 1956 and he was in Port Said. About these two facts Townrow was reasonably certain. He had been summo...
«Дорогостоящая публика» продается дорого… Дорого придется заплатить за тело женщины, которая видит мир через призму модных бутиков. Дорогой ценой достанется дружба мужчины...
This fictional memoir, the first of an autobiographical trilogy, traces a self professed failure’s nightmarish decent into the underside of American life and his resurrect...
Barth's lively, highly original collection of short pieces is a major landmark of experimental fiction. Though many of the stories gathered here were published separately,...
Роман известного американского индейского писателя "Дом, из рассвета сотворенный" (1968) повествует об индейском юноше Авеле, наделенном особой эмоциональной чуткостью, о ...