"Мастер короткой фразы и крупной формы…" — таков Сол Беллоу, которого неоднократно называли самым значительным англоязычным писателем второй половины XX века. Его талант о...
Hamilton Basso's The Light Infantry Ball is a novel of the years of crisis that led to the fall of the plantation South, and of the more personal crisis of a well-born, hi...
In Pursuit of the Prodigal Louis Auchincloss tells the story of a rebel, a mature man born to wealth, social position, and the influence they guarantee, who forsakes his w...
В дебютную книгу, вышедшую, когда Филиппу Роту было 26 лет, он включил повесть "Прощай, Коламбус" - историю крушения первой любви молодых евреев в Америке пятидесятых, и п...
ADVISE AND CONSENT is a study of political animals in their natural habitat and is universally recognized as THE Washington novel. It begins with Senate confirmation heari...
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First published by St. Martin's in 1958, Robert Traver's Anatomy of a Murder immediately became the numbe...
First published in 1958 and set in the early 17th century, this bestselling novel—and follow-up to Katherine—follows Elizabeth Winthrop, a courageous Puritan woman who fin...
The "lost country" of the title is the familiar country of innocence and security known as youth--a country we have all known and which, occasionally, in a book like this ...
With over three million copies sold, O'Hara's great novel of America in the first half of the century was made into an acclaimed film starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodw...
«Лолита» — третий американский роман Владимира Набокова — увидела свет в 1955 году. Вызвав скандал по обе стороны океана, эта книга вознесла автора на вершину литературног...
Twelve years after Hannah Hunnicutt was committed to a Dallas asylum, her body is brought home to northeast Texas to be buried alongside those of her husband and son. Etch...
Роман Джеймса Патрика Донливи (род. 1926 г.) "Рыжий" является не только абсолютным шедевром черного юмора, но и одной из самых популярных и любимых книг Запада.
Это - ром...
Bernard Malamud's first book of short stories, The Magic Barrel, has been recognized as a classic from the time it was published in 1959. The stories are set in New York a...
The Travels of Jamie McPheeters is the sweeping, romance-warmed story of the journey of a father and his son answering the lure of California gold in 1849.
It was a har...
This is the story of the Wyeth family, set in Cambridge, Massachusetts (and in the summer, Maine): the very old, who are looking back; Sprig and his wife Frances, who are ...
"Атлант расправил плечи" - центральное произведение русской писательницы зарубежья Айн Рэнд, переведенное на множество языков и оказавшее огромное влияние на умы нескольки...
«Пнин» (1953–1955, опубл. 1957) – четвертый англоязычный роман Владимира Набокова, жизнеописание профессора-эмигранта из России Тимофея Павловича Пнина, преподающего в аме...
Speaking of this 1957 novel, the author has said it ended his obsession with the reconstruction of the immediate past and moved him into the contemporary scene. The narrat...
В своем романе "Помощник" автор с особой любовью рисует образ бакалейщика-шлимазела Морриса Бобера, который так и не смог выбиться в люди, но остался честным человеком, вз...