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This is Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel, a widely acclaimed work based on the actual murder, in 1831, of a progressive mill owner. It follows Mary Barton, daughter of a ma...
A foundling of mysterious parentage brought up by Mr. Allworthy on his country estate, Tom Jones is deeply in love with the seemingly unattainable Sophia Western, the beau...
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...
"Обладать" - лучший английский роман 90-х годов и, несомненно, лучшее произведение Антонии Байетт. Впрочем, слово "роман" можно применить к этой удивительной прозе весьма ...
When first published in 1899, `The Awakening` shocked readers with its honest treatment of female marital infidelity. Audiences accustomed to the pieties of late Victorian...
"Adam Bede" (1859), George Eliot's first full-length novel, marked the emergence of an artist to rank with Scott and Dickens. Set in the English Midlands of farmers and vi...
Роман известного австралийского писателя посвящен двум простым труженикам - фермеру Стэну Паркеру и его жене Эми. Автора прежде всего интересует внутренний мир героев, вме...
Роман "Гепард", принесший автору посмертную славу, давно занял заметное место среди самых ярких образцов европейской классики. Луи Арагон назвал произведение Лапмпедузы "о...
Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman is a huge literary paradox, for it is both a novel and an anti-novel. As a comic novel replete with b...
Join Douglas Adams's hapless hero Arthur Dent as he travels the galaxy with his intrepid pal Ford Prefect, getting into horrible messes and generally wreaking hilarious ha...
Роман классика современной американской литературы Дона Делилло (р. 1936) "Белый шум" - комедия о страхе, смерти и технологии. Смерть невозможно отрицать, каждый день она ...
As Clarissa Dalloway walks through London on a fine June morning, a sky-writing plane captures her attention. Crowds stare upwards to decipher the message while the plane ...
"Американская пастораль" - по-своему уникальный роман. Как нынешних российских депутатов закон призывает к ответу за предвыборные обещания, так Филип Рот требует ответа у ...
One of the most important & influential books written in the past half-century, Robert M. Pirsig's Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a powerfully moving & penetra...
“The Adventures of Augie March is the great American Novel. Search no further.” –Martin Amis
As soon as it first appeared in 1953, this novel by the great Saul Bellow w...
Winner of the Booker Prize.
India, 1857—the year of the Great Mutiny, when Muslim soldiers turned in bloody rebellion on their British overlords. This time of convulsio...
With the publication of her first novel, THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER, Carson McCullers, all of twenty-three, became a literary sensation. With its profound sense of moral...
Силвия Плат (1932-1963) считается в наши дни крупнейшей после Эмили Дикинсон поэтессой США. Однако слава пришла к ней уже посмертно: в 1963 г. эта талантливейшая представи...
To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionist depiction of a family holiday, and a meditation on a marriage, on parenthood and childhood, on grief, tyranny and bitter...