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So begins Mr Vertigo, the story of Walt, an irrepressible orphan from the Mid-West. Under the tutelage o...
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Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living tha...
Even Zenia’s name is enough to provoke the old sense of outrage, of humiliation and confused pain. The truth is that at certain times—early mornings, the middle of the nig...
Scobie, a police officer serving in a war-time West African state, is distrusted, being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in doing ...
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The Alexandria Quartet is a tetralogy of novels by British writer Lawrence Durrell, published between 1957 and 1960. A critical and commercial success, the books present f...
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"Villette! Villette! Have you read it?" exclaimed George Eliot when Charlotte Brontë's final novel appeared in 1853. "It is a still more wonderful book than Jane Eyre. The...
Tod Hackett is a brilliant young artist - and a man in danger of losing his heart. Brought to an LA studio as a set-designer, he is soon caught up in a fantasy world where...
Balthazar, is the second volume of Durrell's The Alexandria Quartet, set in Alexandria, Egypt, during the 1940s. The events of each lush and sensuous novel are seen throug...
The time is the eve of the Second World War. The place is Alexandria, an Egyptian city that once housed the world's greatest library and whose inhabitants are still dedica...
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В романе выдающегося английского писателя Джозефа Конрада (1857 - 1924) "Ностромо" действие происходит в условной, вымышленной стране, на серебряных рудниках. Занимательны...
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В новелле "Смерть в Венеции" Томас Манн вторым слоем, поверх написанного, ведёт несколько важных для него мотивов, расширяющих и углубляющих содержание новеллы и смысл обр...
Опубликованная в 1909 году и впервые выходящая в русском переводе знаменитая книга Гертруды Стайн ознаменовала начало эпохи смелых экспериментов с литературной формой и яз...