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Райнер Мария Рильке - один из крупнейших поэтов XX столетия, родился в Праге, где провел детство и юность, жил в Берлине, Париже, Швейцарии. Основой своего жизненного восп...
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 ...
Set in the prewar Indochina of Marguerite Duras's childhood, this is the haunting tale of a tumultuous affair between an adolescent French girl and her Chinese lover. In s...
One of the most talked about books of the 19th century, The Renaissance combines scholarship and philosophy in an innovative work of cultural criticism. Published in 1837,...
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...
‘I knew that Clea would share everything with me, withholding nothing – not even the look of complicity which women reserve only for their mirrors.’
In Clea, the conclu...
Mountolive is a novel of vertiginous disclosures, in which the betrayer and the betrayed share secret alliances and an adulterous marriage turns out to be a vehicle for th...
In Boswell’s Life of Samuel Johnson, one of the towering figures of English literature is revealed with unparalleled immediacy and originality, in a biography to which we ...
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...
Август Юхан Стриндберг - один из талантливейших, во всяком случае, самый оригинальный шведский романист, драматург, новеллист - оказал большое влияние на мировую литератур...
One of the major political figures of his time, Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) served in the court of Elizabeth I and ultimately became Lord Chancellor under James I in 161...
Many experiences in the personal life of dramatist August Strindberg involved duels between the sexes, with ruthless, aggressive women usurping the supposedly male preroga...
Virginia Woolf's extraordinary last novel, Between the Acts, was published in July 1941. In the weeks before she died in March that year, Woolf wrote that she planned to c...
Sherwood Anderson's short stories, beautifully crafted and evocative of time and place, were hugely influential in their day. The title story in this collection, 'Death in...
Matthew Arnold's famous series of essays, which were first published in book form under the title Culture and Anarchy in 1869, debate important questions about the nature ...
John Stuart Mill is one of the few indisputably classic authors in the history of political thought. "On Liberty", first published in 1851, has become celebrated as the mo...
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its...
Роман "Гепард", принесший автору посмертную славу, давно занял заметное место среди самых ярких образцов европейской классики. Луи Арагон назвал произведение Лапмпедузы "о...
Fantasy, love offering, exuberant celebration of English life and literature, Orlando is a uniquely entertaining novel. Originally conceived by Virginia Woolf as a playful...
Рождение самобытного, оригинального - это всегда скандал и шок. Фридрих Ницше с момента выхода в свет своего первого произведения "Рождение трагедии из духа музыки" - это ...
