Чарлз Диккенс - один из величайших англоязычных прозаиков XIX века. "Просейте мировую литературу - останется Диккенс", - эти слова принадлежат Льву Толстому.
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At first McTeague has a simple but satisfying life, surrounded by three symbolic possessions: a caged canary, a concertina, and a gold-plated molar he wants to use as his ...
<p>Сатана подобен бродяге, неприкаянному скитальцу: он лишен какого-либо постоянного местопребывания; хоть и имеет он, благодаря своей ангельской природе, своего рода импе...
The Golden Argosy: A Collection of the Most Celebrated Short Stories in the English Language
Van H. Cartmell, Charles Grayson
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Эти двое ни при каких обстоятельствах не стали бы друзьями. Они встречаются, когда обоих ожидает расстрел. В тюрьме. В блокадном Ленинграде. В 1942 году.
Один – задумчивы...
Documenting his reluctant grandparents' experiences during the infamous siege of Leningrad, a young writer learns his grandfather's story about how a military deserter and...
Американский Юг, на дворе 1960-е годы. Скитер только-только закончила университет и возвращается домой, в сонный городок Джексон, где никогда ничего не происходит. Она меч...
Swamplandia! is the story of Ava Bigtree, a 12-year-old alligator wrestler who embarks on an improbable journey through the mangrove wilderness of southwest Florida in sea...
Summer, 1968. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy are dead. The assassination conspiracies have begun to unravel. A dirty-tricks squad is getting ready to deploy at the ...
Matterhorn is a marvel--a living, breathing book with Lieutenant Waino Mellas and the men of Bravo Company at its raw and battered heart. Karl Marlantes doesn't introduce ...
A long, delicious trip to the land of Irving is hands-down the best way to begin the month of October. A trio of tragic events (though the prize for most hell-shocking goe...
Spare, clipped expository prose and hip, spot-on dialogue propel this visceral crime novel from Winslow (The Dawn Patrol). The future is looking good for Laguna Beach, Cal...
Near the start of this outstanding novel of psychological suspense from Edgar-winner Lippman (Life Sentences), Eliza Benedict, a 38-year-old married mother of two living i...
With its baroque subplots, zany political satire, morbid, cerebral humor and astonishing range of cultural references, Wallace's brilliant but somewhat bloated dirigible o...
Look who's on the "Dick Gibson Radio Show": Arnold the Memory Expert ("I've memorized the entire West Coast shoreline - except for cloud cover and fog banks"). Bernie Perk...
Told with great lyrical beauty and power, James Agee's novel is an exquisitely tender account of the pain and bewilderment of loss.
Driving back home to Knoxville, Tenne...
... Армия. Просто - армия.
Армия интеллектуалов-офицеров и бесстрашных солдат - или армия издерганных мальчишек, умирающих неизвестно за что, и пожилых циников, которым д...
The author of Wonder Boys returns with a powerful and wonderfully written collection of stories. Caught at moments of change, Chabon's men and women, children and husbands...
Book DescriptionAs products of the same urban landscape, Pete Hamill and Frank Sinatra have both been credited with giving the American city a voice. In this widely acclai...