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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...
Something about a Soldier is considered by some critics to be Mark Harris's finest novel. The wacky characters and situations are clothed in a trenchant language that says...
During forty-nine hours in the life of Arthur Winner, the leading lawyer in a small Pennsylvania town in the 1950's, By Love Possessed portrays all the myriad aspects of l...
James Agee. A Death in the Family. New York: McDowell, Obolensky, [1957]. First edition with the correct first issue points. Octavo. 339 pages. Publisher's binding, dust j...
""Мастер короткой фразы и крупной формы…"" - таков Сол Беллоу, которого неоднократно называли самым значительным англоязычным писателем второй половины XX века. Его талант...
With its depiction of the downtrodden prostitutes, bootleggers, and hustlers of Perdido Street in the old French Quarter of 1930s New Orleans, A Walk on the Wild Side foun...
Winner of the National Book Award "Wright Morris seems to me the most important novelist of the American middle generation. Through a large body of work --which, unaccount...