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Юный Роланд — последний благородный рыцарь в мире, «сдвинувшемся с места». Ему во что бы то ни стало нужно найти Темную Башню — средоточие Силы, краеугольный камень мирозд...
First published in 1979, The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s. Examining key events, figures, and trends of the era―including Charle...
Итак, знакомьтесь: семья Биневски. Родители – Ал и Лили, решившие поставить на своем потомстве фармакологический эксперимент. Их дети: Артуро – гениальный манипулятор с тю...
His talent was unbounded -- a raw force that commanded attention and respect.
His death was tragic -- a violent homage to the power of his voice.
His legacy is indom...
О чем эта книга? Романтизированная биография автора? Фантазия? Пародия? Все вместе и не только. Эта книга о безжалостном времени, о неповторимости мгновения, о томительных...
"Supremely humane.... Kay leaves us with a broad landscape of sweet tolerance and familial love". The New York Times Book Review
In her starkly beautiful and wholly une...
Few novels have caused as much controversy as Hubert Selby Jr.'s notorious masterpiece. Described by various reviewers as hellish and obscene, it tells the stories of New ...
Издание приурочено к году английского языка в России (2016) и 400-летнему юбилею со дня смерти поэта. В издании воспроизводится оригинальный английский текст сонетов, снаб...
From the celebrated poet Yrsa Daley-Ward, a poignant collection of autobiographical poems about the heart, life, and the inner self.
Bone. Visceral. Close to. Stark.
T...
Salt is a journey through warmth and sharpness. This collection of poetry explores the realities of multiple identities, language, diasporic life & pain, the self, communi...
This is an enchanting essay on aesthetics by one of the greatest Japanese novelists. Tanizaki's eye ranges over architecture, jade, food, toilets, and combines an acute se...
An eighteen-year-old Irish girl arrives in London to study drama and falls violently in love with an older actor. This older man has a disturbing past that the young girl ...
The stories in How to Breathe Underwater, Julie Orringer's debut collection, swim with tragedies both commonplace and horrific. A fall from a treehouse, an ailing mother, ...
Girl meets boy. It's a story as old as time. But what happens when an old story meets a brand new set of circumstances? Ali Smith's re-mix of Ovid's most joyful metamorpho...
Thirteen tales are unspun from the deeply familiar, and woven anew into a collection of fairy tales that wind back through time. Acclaimed Irish author Emma Donoghue revea...
Therese first glimpses "Carol" in the New York department store where she is working as a sales assistant. "Carol" is choosing a present for her daughter; she looks preocc...
Kate Tempest, winner of the Ted Hughes Prize for Brand New Ancients and widely regarded as the UK's leading spoken word poet, has produced a new poem-sequence of electrify...
Jacob and Julia Bloch are about to be tested . . .
By Jacob's grandfather, who won't go quietly into a retirement home.
By the family reunion, that everyone is dreadin...
«Война и мир» Л. Н. Толстого — книга на все времена. Кажется, что она существовала всегда, настолько знакомым кажется текст, едва мы открываем первые страницы романа, наст...
Лев Толстой. Классик не только русской, но - мировой литературы. Непревзойденный мастер психологического реализма. Тонкий знаток человеческой души. Впрочем... Писать о Тол...