Книгу составляет одна из лучших сказок классика английской литературы ирландского происхождения Оскара Уайльда (1854–1900). Параллельный...
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Of the many pitfalls lurking for the historical novel, the most dangerous is history itself. The best writers either warp it for selfish purposes (Gore Vidal), dig for the untold, interior history (Toni Morrison), or both (Jeannette Winterson)....
Translated by Pevear-Volokhonsky
THE DEATH OF A CLERK
SMALL FRY
THE HUNTSMAN
THE MALEFACTOR
PANIKHIDA
ANYUTA
EASTER NIGHT
VANKA
SLEEPY
A BORING STORY
GUSEV
PEASANT WOMEN
THE FIDGET
IN EXILE
WARD NO. 6
THE BLACK MONK
ROTHSCHILD’S FIDDLE
THE...
Исторические приключения, Советская классическая проза
The Tale of Hodja Nasreddin: Disturber of the Peace
Returning to Bukhara after a prolonged exile, Hodja Nasreddin finds his family gone, his home destroyed, and his city in the grasp of corrupt and greedy rulers who have brought pain and suffering upon the common folk. But Hodja Nasreddin is not one...
The Return of...
An elderly man reads to an elderly woman every day from a yellowed notebook that he carries around with him. He hopes that this notebook, which contains the memories of his love and life, will jog her memory, but it is not to be. Yet, he tries...
In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from "the good fight," For Whom the Bell Tolls. The story of Robert...
Set in our own time along the bloody frontier between Texas and Mexico, this is Cormac McCarthy's first novel since Cities of the Plain completed his acclaimed, best-selling Border Trilogy.
Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande,...
«Сага о Форсайтах» известного английского писателя Дж. Голсуорси (1867–1933) – эпопея о судьбах английской буржуазной семьи,...
Originally published in 1936, House of Incest is Anaïs Nin’s first work of fiction. The novel is a surrealistic look within the narrator’s subconscious mind as she attempts to escape from a dream in which she is trapped, or in Nin’s...