Set during the year preceding the Easter Uprising of 1916 -- Ireland's brave but fractured revolt against British rule -- At Swim, Two Boys is a tender, tragic love story ...
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A historian, trying to finish a long-overdue book on Isaac Newton, rents a cottage not far by train from Dublin for the summer. All he needs, he thinks, is a few weeks of ...
One part Nietzsche, one part Humbert Humbert, and a soupcon of Milton’s Lucifer, Axel Vander, the dizzyingly unreliable narrator of John Banville’s masterful new novel, is...
Separated from her husband, Ellen finds herself living alone in a city she dislikes - a place that denies her past and offers no hope for her future. Determined to change ...
A terrifying new novel from the author of Wild Decembers follows Michen O'Kane, who was born with a killer instinct, as he unleashes his murderous rage along the countrysi...
Joe and Kate Ruttledge, have come to rural Ireland from London in search of a different life. In passages of beauty and truth, the drama of a year in their lives and those...
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...