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Great American Novels

Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse-Five or the Children's Crusade
Предлагаем вниманию читателей роман знаменитого американского писателя К.Воннегута, в основе которого - впечатления автора от событий февраля 1945 г., когда союзническая а...
Tom Robbins - Still Life with Woodpecker

Still Life with Woodpecker

Tom Robbins

3,9

(481)
Still Life with Woodpecker is a sort of a love story that takes place inside a pack of Camel cigarettes. It reveals the purpose of the moon, explains the difference betwee...
John Updike - Rabbit, Run

Rabbit, Run

John Updike

3,6

(2K)
Джон Апдайк - знаменитый американский писатель, поэт, критик. Неоднократный обладатель Пулитцеровской премии. "Rubbit, Run" ("Кролик, беги") - первый из серии романов п...
William Gaddis - The Recognitions

The Recognitions

William Gaddis

4,3

(68)
Wyatt Gwyon's desire to forge is not driven by larceny but from love. Exactingly faithful to the spirit and letter of the Flemish masters, he produces uncannily accurate '...
John Cheever - Falconer

Falconer

John Cheever

3,5

(62)
Ezekiel Farragut is a college professor, a drug-addict and a murderer. Locked in Falconer State Penitentiary, he struggles through tormenting visits from his wife, the bur...
John Barth - The Sot-Weed Factor

The Sot-Weed Factor

John Barth

4,4

(59)
Considered by critics to be Barth's most distinguished masterpiece, The Sot-Weed Factor has acquired the status of a modern classic. Set in the late 1600s, it recounts the...
Mark Twain, Elizabeth Dowsett - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain, Elizabeth Dowsett

4

(2)
"Someone killed Huckleberry Finn." Everyone in the village of St. Petersburg will tell you this, but Huck Finn is not dead. He ran away. Now he is traveling down the grea...
Питер Маттиссен - Shadow Country

Shadow Country

Питер Маттиссен

0

(0)
Peter Matthiessen’s great American epic–Killing Mister Watson, Lost Man’s River, and Bone by Bone–was conceived as one vast mysterious novel, but because of its length it ...
William T. Vollmann - The Rifles: a Book of North American Landscapes
The latest installment of Vollmann's seven-part epic chronicling the clash of Europeans and Native Americans in the New World. Volume six focuses on the white explorers of...
James Dickey - Deliverance

Deliverance

James Dickey

3,9

(52)
The setting is the Georgia wilderness, where the states most remote white-water river awaits. In the thundering froth of that river, in its echoing stone canyons, four men...
Hunter S. Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Hunter S. Thompson

3,9

(8,4K)
'We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like, "I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you shoul...
Rodrigo Alva, Maria Aparecida Andrade Salgueiro - Zora Neale Hurston And Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston And Their Eyes Were Watching God

Rodrigo Alva, Maria Aparecida Andrade Salgueiro

0

(0)
This work has two main goals. The first is to analyze the construction of the female identity of the main character of the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora N...
Richard Wright - Black Boy

Black Boy

Richard Wright

4,1

(54)
Richard Wright grew up in the woods of Mississippi, with poverty, hunger, fear, and hatred. He lied, stole, and raged at those around him; at six he was a "drunkard," hang...
Joseph Heller - Catch-22

Catch-22

Joseph Heller

4,2

(6,5K)
“Catch-22" is a satirical novel written by Joseph Heller, first published in 1961. The book is set during World War II and follows the experiences of Captain John Yossaria...
Philipp Meyer - The Son

The Son

Philipp Meyer

4,2

(2,3K)
Part epic of Texas, part classic coming-of-age story, part unflinching examination of the bloody price of power, The Son is a gripping and utterly transporting novel that ...
Харпер Ли - To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee, Harper

To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee, Harper

Харпер Ли

4,6

(75K)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. It was instantly successful, winning the Pulitzer Prize, and ...
Чарльз Джонсон - Middle Passage

Middle Passage

Чарльз Джонсон

4,3

(3)
It is 1830. Rutherford Calhoun, a newly freed slave and irrepressible rogue, is desperate to escape unscrupulous bill collectors and an impending marriage to a priggish sc...
Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar

The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath

3,9

(10,4K)
The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under -- maybe for the last time. Syl...
Kate Chopin - The Awakening

The Awakening

Kate Chopin

3,7

(79)
HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. "I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my childre...
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