Честер Хаймз - крупнейший представитель американского "крутого детектива", отлично знает криминальный мир, о котором пишет.
Ч. Хаймз был осужден за вооруженное ограблени...
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Tijdens zijn studententijd, schreef Nicolaas Beets, als 'Hildebrand', de Camera Obscura (1839), een boek zo populair dat het al tijdens zijn leven 22 drukken beleefde en t...
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Hempel's now-classic collection of short fiction is peopled by complex characters who have discovered that their safety nets are not dependable and who must now learn to b...
<p>Aleksandar Hemon, author of The Question of Bruno, one of the most celebrated debuts in recent American fiction, returns with the mind- and language-bending adventures ...
Sadegh Hedayat's most famous work is a deeply haunting and disturbing gem of world literature, a classic tale that defies any attempt to tie it down to a single interpreta...
"Your mother was insane. If you're not careful you'll get insane just like your mother. Your mother was a white woman. They had to lock her up, as she was having a child b...
Eliza Haywood (1693-1756) was one of the most successful writers of her time; indeed, the two most popular English novels in the early eighteenth-century were Robinson Cru...
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Marble Faun mingles fable with fact in a mysterious tale of American artists liberated from New England mores in Rome. In his introduction, Andre...
Натаниель Готорн (1804 - 1864) - классик американской литературы, писатель-романтик. Он входит в плеяду писателей, стоящих у истоков национальной американской культуры и о...
Adventuress and opportunist, Ethelberta reinvents herself to disguise her humble origins, launching a brilliant career as a society poet in London with her family acting i...
Роман "В краю лесов" Томас Гарди писал немногим более года - с ноября до февраля 1887 года.
Роман переносит читателя в самую глубину сельской Англии. Деревушка Малый Хинт...
A visit to the city's outskirts, a stolen newspaper, narrow alleyways, and an open field are the elements of a writer's afternoon. As the nameless writer confronts his fea...
<p>Петер Хенеке рассказывает историю женщины, которая решает порвать со своим мужем и прошлым и начать все заново. Тридцатилетней Марианне, матери и домохозяйке, предстоит...
Проза Петера Хандке всегда точнее и тоньше, чем фильмы великого Вима Вендерса, который много раз пытался экранизировать ее. Вендерса интересует фабула, Хандке просто любуе...
London, 1939, and in the grimy publands of Earls Court, George Harvey Bone is pursuing a helpless infatuation. Netta is cool, contemptuous and hopelessly desirable to Geor...
Dealing with the themes of alienation and estrangement, this collection of stories reflects the impressions the author absorbed during her childhood and youth in the Indie...
Pedro Juan used to be a reporter in Havana, but as life in Cuba and his own life begin to collapse around him, he gives up the farce of a daily job, and begins t...