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...
Кобо Абэ (1924-1993) получил медицинское образование, но избрал литературное поприще и создал произведения, принесшие ему мировую славу. Подняв в своем творчестве проблемы...
Harry Potter thinks he is an ordinary boy - until he is rescued by a beetle-eyed giant of a man, enrols at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, learns to play. Quid...
This book comes with an introduction and notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury.
"Rasselas" is a provocative fable a...
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...
The central figure of this novel is a young man whose parents were executed for conspiring to steal atomic secrets for Russia.
His name is Daniel Isaacson, and as the s...
Can you trust yourself when you don’t know who you are?
Syme uses his new acquaintance to go undercover in Europe’s Central Anarchist Council and infiltrate their deadl...
Невероятные события настоящего романа, сочетающего в себе признаки и эссе, и утопии, и философско-сатирической повести, происходят на переломе XVIII и XIX столетий. Герой ...
Set in the second half of the eighteenth century, Barry Lyndon is the fictional autobiography of an adventurer and rogue whom the reader is led to distrust from the very b...
It's a hilariously revisionist account of Noah's ark, narrated by a passenger who doesn't appear in Genesis. It's a sneak preview of heaven. It encompasses the stories of ...
События, описанные в книге, так или иначе связаны с крушением рожденных в годы Сопротивления надежд французской интеллигенции. Чтобы более полно представить послевоенную э...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
"Hesse's novel of two medieval men, one quietly content with his religion and monastic life, the other in fervent search of more worldly salvation. This conflict between f...