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Dark As the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid was Malcolm Lowry's last book. It is an autobiographical novel of Lowry's return to Mexico to look for his friend Marquez. The ...
Айрис Мердок — самая «английская» писательница XX века, выдающийся мастер тонкой психологии. Книги ее вошли в золотой фонд мировой литературы, удостаивались самых престижн...
Determined to reinvent himself and explore new territory in his work, Gore Vidal published a provocative satirical work destined to be on a collision course with social co...
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...
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...
New York is sweltering in the summer heat, and Harlem is close to the boiling point. To Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, at times it seems as if the whole world h...
In his carnivalesque and riotously inventive "Pricksongs & Descants" Robert Coover remakes old stories: of Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel, and Beauty (who married her ...
As a novel, Uwe Johnson’s masterpiece, Anniversaries, is at once daringly simple in conception and wonderfully complex and engaging in effect. Late in 1967, Johnson, alrea...
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Майя Анджелу — одна из главных американских писательниц и поэтесс второй половины XX века. «Поэтому птица в неволе поёт» (I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings) — главная книга ...
В этом романе Тони Моррисон показывает темное закулисье маленького американского городка, где живет Пикола Бридлав, единственная мечта которой — голубые глаза.
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Lise has been driven to distraction by working in the same accountants` office for sixteen years. So she leaves everything behind her, transforms herself into a laughing, ...
The central figure of this novel is a young man whose parents were executed for conspiring to steal atomic secrets for Russia.
His name is Daniel Isaacson, and as the s...
The theme is displacement, the yearning for the good place in someone else's land, the attendant heartache. In a Free State tells first of an Indian servant in Washington,...
Johnson's fifth novel, originally published in Britain in 1971, takes place during Social Evening at a home for the aged. The night's bizarre activities (among them a game...
Дж. – молодой авантюрист, в которого словно переселилась душа его соотечественника, великого соблазнителя Джакомо Казановы. Дж. участвует в бурных событиях начала ХХ века ...
В эту книгу, помимо единственного написанного Туве Янссон романа «Город солнца» о безмятежной старости на побережье и пронзительной повести «Летняя книга» о девочке, потер...
<p>Исповедь мужчины, превратившегося в женскую грудь.</p>
Two girls who grow up to become women. Two friends who become something worse than enemies. In this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison tells the story of Nel Wright...
<p>Несколько путешественников встречаются впервые в замке-приюте. Вследствие чар они стали немыми, но во что бы то ни стало хотят рассказать свои истории и используют для ...