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The first part of the celebrated 'Alberta' trilogy, where Alberta loses her brother, experiences growing pains and ends up turning her back on her Norwegian homeland 'She ...
В романе "Орас" Ж.Санд, следуя идеям утопического социализма, рассматривает брак между представителями враждующих сословий как средство уничтожения классов.
В романе "Н...
Самое знаменитое произведение Антуана де Сент-Экзюпери с авторскими рисунками. Мудрая и "человечная" сказка-притча, в которой просто и проникновенно говорится о самом важн...
In sixteenth-century Spain, a cabin boy sets sail on a ship bound for the New World. An inland expedition ends in disaster when the group is attacked by Indians.The Witnes...
Маркиз де Сад (Донасьен Альфонс Франсуа де Сад) - одна из наиболее скандальных персон в истории мировой литературы и культуры в целом. Роман "Жюстина, или Несчастья доброд...
Маркиз де Сад написал "120 дней Содома" за 37 дней 1785 года — а споры вокруг этого текста не утихают вот уже третье столетие. Однако вот что интересно: уже в начале ХХ ве...
The Tin Flute, Gabrielle Roy’s first novel, is a classic of Canadian fiction. Imbued with Roy’s unique brand of compassion and compelling understanding, this moving story ...
The first of Roussel’s two major prose works, Impressions of Africa is not, as the title may suggest, a conventional travel account, but an adventure story put together in...
When Henry Roth published his debut novel Call It Sleep in 1934, it was greeted with considerable critical acclaim though, in those troubled times, lackluster sales. Only ...
Writing with rare power and insight, one of England's most distinguished thinkers and scholars takes readers on an extraordinary journey through the soul, plumbing her own...
Lively reminiscences of bandit warfare in the sertao, the still primitive Brazilian back country, told by a wise, retired outlaw chief. ~Worldcat.org
Grande Sertão: Ver...
One day George Arthur Rose, hack writer and minor priest, discovers that he has been picked to be Pope. He is hardly surprised and not in the least daunted. "The previous ...
"Селестина" занимает в истории испанской литературы такое же место, как "Кентерберийские рассказы" Чосера в английской и великая поэма Данте в итальянской литературе. Пожа...
Hundreds of thousands of readers were enthralled and delighted by the luminous, tender voice of John Ames in Gilead, Marilynne Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
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A STRIKING REASSESSMENT OF THE DON JUAN MYTH A literary tour de force, this extraordinary novel is told in single-minded pursuit of double meanings, but it is serious play...
The thirteen magnificent novels that comprise Pilgrimage are the first expression in English of what it is to be called 'stream of conciousness' technique, predating the w...
Set in a superficially romantic, between-wars Paris, QUARTET is a poignant tale of a lonely woman. Set against a background of winter-wet streets, Pernod in smoky cafes an...
In 1930s Paris, where one cheap hotel room is very like another, a young woman is teaching herself indifference. She has escaped personal tragedy and has come to France to...
