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Much of what we know and feel about the First World War we owe to Vera Brittain’s elegiac yet unsparing book, which set a standard for memoirists from Martha Gellhorn to L...
Солнечная Италия. Страна романтики, музыки и любви. Однако даже здесь традиционная британская сдержанность мешает молоденькой англичанке Люси Ханичёрч ответить на безрассу...
Избранное: Куда боятся ступить ангелы. Морис. Машина останавливается. Рассказы и эссе
Эдвард Морган Форстер
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(57)"Слова - вино жизни", - заметил однажды классик английской литературы Эдвард Морган Форстер. Тонкий знаток и дегустатор Жизни с большой буквы, он в своих произведениях дае...
This is the story of Daisy Goodwill, from her birth in a kitchen in Manitoba, Canada, to her death in a Florida nursing home nearly ninety years later. Through Daisy's lif...
Once an officer in the Irish War for Independence, Moran is now a widower, eking out a living on a small farm where he raises his two sons and three daughters. Adrift from...
Charles Robert Maturin's last novel, The Albigenses (1824), a historical romance of the early 13th century, is a rich tale of the conflict between the Catholic church and ...
Languishing one summer at the Foreign Office in London, Carruthers is rescued by an unexpected invitation to join Arthur Davies on the `Dulcibella` in the Baltic. A grouse...
James Stephens (1882-1950) was an Irish novelist and poet who sometimes wrote under the pen name James Esse. James Stephens wrote many retellings of Irish fairy tales. His...
Роман Роберта Трессела (1870—1911), рабочего, ставшего известным английским писателем, рассказывает о жизни и борьбе рабочих Англии и посвящен мечте о будущем социалистиче...
This miracle of autobiography and prison literature begins: "Friday, in the evening, the landlady shouted up the stairs: 'Oh God, oh Jesus, oh Sacred Heart, Boy, there's t...
A group of young people, cut off in Connemara by IRA action, are forced to come to terms with life and death. As the plot builds to its inevitable climax, their haunting e...
Полагаем, что это первая книга, посвященная Корка Дорха, которая увидела свет. На наш взгляд, шаг давно назревший и своевременный. Это большая удача для языка и для тех, к...
Флэнн О'Брайен (1911-1966) — выдающийся англо-ирландский писатель, литературный критик. Мало известен русскому читателю. Его первый роман — "О водоплавающих" (1939) заслуж...
In The Heat of the Day, Elizabeth Bowen brilliantly recreates the tense and dangerous atmosphere of London during the bombing raids of World War II.
Many people have fl...
When eleven-year-old Henrietta arrives at the Fishers’ well-appointed house in Paris, she is prepared to spend her day between trains looked after by an old friend of her ...
In A World of Love, an uneasy group of relations are living under one roof at Montefort, a decaying manor in the Irish countryside. When twenty-year-old Jane finds in the ...
A young woman’s secret love affair leads to a violent and tragic act in one of Elizabeth Bowen’s most acclaimed novels. To the North centers on two young women in 1920s Lo...
Genteel life at 'the 'Big House' continues while the Irish War of Independence rages beyond the gates, but for how long?
The Irish troubles rage, but up at the 'Big Hou...
Беккет иронизирует над возможностью выразить словами невыразимое. Он понимает, когда человеку плохо, - это не страшно. Во-первых, так должно быть, во-вторых, ты не один.
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