Life is fury. Fury—sexual, Oedipal, political, magical, brutal—drives us to our finest heights and coarsest depths. This is what we are, what we civilize ourselves to disguise—the terrifying human animal in us, the exalted, transcendent,...
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Hailed by his famous contemporaries including Edith Wharton, H.G. Wells, Katherine Mansfield, Graham Greene, and Evelyn Waugh, who called him a "genius," William Gerhardie is one of the twentieth century's forgotten masters, and his lovely comedy...
В третьей книге Мирко Благовича главные герои продолжают сражение против Системы. На пути Николаича, Олюшки и Славуни встаёт...
То ли - неумная мистификация светотени, то ли - чья-то пьяная выходка, но в субботу вечером, проходя мимо "Вахты", он, оглянувшись на...
In this luminous novel—winner of Britain’s prestigious Booker Prize—John Berger relates the story of “G.,” a young man forging an energetic sexual career in Europe during the early years of this century. With profound compassion, Berger...
The protagonist of this novel is a 15-year-old North London schoolboy called Gabriel. He is forced to come to terms with a new life, and use his gift for painting in order to make sense of his world, once the equilibrium of the family has been...
When Gabriel Lynch moves with his mother and brother from a brownstone in Baltimore to a dirt-floor hovel on a homestead in Kansas, he is not pleased. He does not dislike his new stepfather, a former slave, but he has no desire to submit to a...
The heir to the magnificent English trading company, the Noble House… the direct descendant of the first Toranaga Shogun battling to usher his country into the modern age… a beautiful young French woman forever torn between ambition and...