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Written in mischievous and magically flowing prose, "Ada or Ardor" is a romance that follows Ada from her first childhood meeting with Van Veen on his uncle's country esta...
Роман "Пироги и пиво, или Скелет в шкафу", вышедший в свет в 1930 году, был объявлен критикой одним из "высочайших достижений британской романистики". В центре произведени...
San Francisco lies under a cloud of radioactive dust. People live in half-deserted apartment buildings, and keep electric animals as pets because so many real animals have...
Roderick is combative, often violent, but capable of great affection and generosity. His father had been disinherited and has left Scotland leaving his son penniless. Afte...
Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Paul Auster's fifteenth novel opens in New York City in the spring of 1967, when twenty-year-old Adam Walker, an aspiring...
News from Nowhere (1890) is the best-known prose work of William Morris. The novel describes the encounter between a visitor from the nineteenth century, William Guest, an...
Middlemarch is a complex tale of idealism, disillusion, profligacy, loyalty and frustrated love. This penetrating analysis of the life of an English provincial town is set...
В ряде художественных произведений как прошлых, так и нынешнего века писатели нарисовали образ молодого человека, пытающегося осмыслить окружающую его жизнь и найти путь к...
"Sometimes I whisper it over to myself: Murderess. Murderess. It rustles, like a taffeta skirt along the floor". Around the true story of one of the most enigmatic and not...
События, описанные в книге, так или иначе связаны с крушением рожденных в годы Сопротивления надежд французской интеллигенции. Чтобы более полно представить послевоенную э...
В этой книге Ромен Гари представлен как автор одной из самых увлекательных литературных биографий, "Обещания на рассвете". Роман, опубликованный в 1960 году, и поныне оста...
Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity’s Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce’s U...
Андре Жид (1869 - 1951) - лауреат Нобелевской премии, один из основателей французского символизма. В сборник `Яства земные` вошли произведения, относящиеся к раннему перио...
Третье русское переиздание "Песен Мальдорора" и первое в истории мировой культуры русское издание "Песен Мальдорора" с иллюстрациями. Первая Песнь Мальдорора была опублико...
The quest for V. sweeps us through sixty years and a panorama of Alexandria, Paris, Malta, Florence, Africa and New York. But who, where or what is V.? Bawdy, sometimes sa...
Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humor, The Crying of Lot 49 opens as Oedipa Maas discovers that she has been made executrix of a ...
In an astonishing feat of narrative invention, our most ambitious novelist imagines an alternate version of American history. In 1940 Charles A. Lindbergh, heroic aviator ...
Stevenson’s brooding historical romance demonstrates his most abiding theme—the elemental struggle between good and evil—as it unfolds against a hauntingly beautiful Scott...
Time Magazine included the book in its list of the 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005. The story of John Self and his insatiable appetite for money, alcoho...
