A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a nearly complete rewrite of the abandoned Stephen Hero novel, the original manuscript of which was partially destroyed in a fit of rage during an argument with Nora. A kunstlerroman, or story of the...
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Posthumous Papers of a Living Author (1936) collects together short prose and fiction, almost all written between 1920 and 1929, under the headings 'Pictures', 'Ill-tempered Observations' and 'UnStorylike Stories'. It is Musil's most accessible...
The Egoist by George Meredith recounts the story of self-absorbed Sir Willoughby Patterne and his attempts at marriage; jilted by his first bride-to-be, he vacillates between the sentimental Laetitia Dale and the strong-willed Clara Middleton....
The Troll Garden and Selected...
Молодой аристократ влюбляется в дочь лавочника и вынужден скрывать свой брак с ней от родных из-за существующего сословного...
A taxi-driver in 1930s Vienna impersonates a murder victim-with unsettling consequences.
"One doesn't step into anyone's life, not even a dead man's, without having to live it to the end."
A man climbs into Ferdinand Sponer's cab, gives the...
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon.
This huge and fundamental historical work covers the history of Western civilization from the beginning of the Roman Empire’s break, when the Nerva — Antonine dynasty...
A painter torn between his domestic arrangements and his artistic pursuits makes a fateful choice in this brilliant and provocative novel from a winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
Timothy Kane brought his wife and young...
This short story was tremendously interesting with such strong and mind gripping words that totally and utterly ensnared and encaptured from beginning to...
Рассказ вошёл в сборники:
Dark Carnival (Тёмный карнавал)
The October Country (Октябрьская страна)
The Stories of Ray Bradbury (И грянул гром: 100...