The three novellas collected in Van Gogh's Room at Arles demonstrate once again Stanley Elkin's mastery of the English language, with exuberant rants on almost every page, unexpected plot twists, and jokes that leave readers torn between laughter...
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«Ярмарка тщеславия» была и остается одним из самых популярных произведений мировой литературы. Роман без героя рассказывает историю...
«Ярмарка тщеславия» была и остается одним из самых популярных произведений мировой литературы. Роман без героя рассказывает историю...
A level 6 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Diane Mowat.
When Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley leave school, their feet are set on very different paths. Kind, foolish Amelia returns to her comfortable home and...
Unmistakably the work of César Aira, Varamo is about the day in the life of a hapless government employee who, after wandering around all night after being paid by the Ministry in counterfeit money, eventually writes the most celebrated...
Lydia Davis has been called “one of the quiet giants in the world of American fiction” (Los Angeles Times), “an American virtuoso of the short story form” (Salon), an innovator who attempts “to remake the model of the modern short story”...
Mavis Gallant is the modern master of what Henry James called the international story, the fine-grained evocation of the quandaries of people who must make their way in the world without any place to call their own. The irreducible complexity of...
"If someone in the future asks in frustration, 'What has Korean literature been up to?' we can quietly hand them Vaseline Buddha." — Pak Mingyu
A tragicomic odyssey told through free association scrubs the depths of the human psyche to...
A classic World War II novel from the bestselling thriller writer Derek Lambert. For the beleaguered German and Russian armies there is no war beyond the carnage in the city's grim skeleton, and the terrible winter at their heels. Desperate men need...
Historical novel, set in Italy during the time of Napoleon. The hero is Marc-Antoine Villiers de Melleville, a French nobleman (but English on his mother's side). His estates in France have been confiscated, and he has been betrayed by someone who...