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«Татарская пустыня» – самый известный, великолепно экранизированный роман Д. Буццати, включенный Борхесом в его легендарную «Личную библиотеку». История молодого офицера, получившего назначение в крепость, затерянную в бескрайней пустыне. История людей, которые год за годом ждут нападения врага и надеются выполнить свое великое предназначение, вопреки неспешному и неумолимому отсчету времени…
| Автор | Дино Буццати |
В одном из самых известных романов знаменитого польского писателя Яна Добрачиньского (1910–1994) центральное место занимает Иосиф, опекун Святого Семейства. Его тихая, уединенная жизнь в Вифлееме внезапно меняется, и начинается нелегкое испытание для его послушания Богу, полное сомнений и опасностей. Герою приходится понять и принять свое призвание – быть тенью Настоящего Отца и защитником Иисуса и Мириам. «Тень Отца» – второе (после «Писем Никодима») русскоязычное издание произведений Я....
| Автор | Ян Добрачиньский |
Они вошли в американский рай, как тени. Люди, обожженные огнем Второй мировой. Беглецы со всех концов Европы, утратившие прошлое.
Невротичная красавица манекенщица и циничный, крепко пьющий писатель. Дурочка-актриса и гениальный хирург. Отчаявшийся герой Сопротивления и щемяще-оптимистичный бизнесмен. Что может быть общего у столь разных людей? Хрупкость нелепого эмигрантского бытия. И святая надежда когда-нибудь вернуться домой…
| Автор | Эрих Ремарк |
В романе Томаса Гарди (1840–1928) рассказывается о печальной судьбе девушки, наделенной красотой и тонко чувствующей душой. Проклятие, лежащее на Тэсс, обрекает ее расплачиваться за преступления некогда могущественных предков. Готовая пожертвовать собой ради близких, она протестует против грубого посягательства на человеческое достоинство и вынуждена совершить убийство.
| Автор | Томас Харди |
Thomas Hardy, Томас Харди и др.
First published serially in 1891 in “The Graphic”, an illustrated British newspaper, “Tess of the d’Urbervilles” is one of the last novels written by Thomas Hardy. It is the titular story of Teresa “Tess” Durbeyfield, the oldest child of John and Joan Durbeyfield. The Durbeyfields are a poor family living in rural England who are led to believe by a local parson that they may actually be related to the d’Urbervilles, a noble Norman family. Trying to capitalize on this knowledge the Durbeyfields...
| Автор | Thomas Hardy, Томас Харди и др. |
Tess Durbeyfield, the daughter of an impoverished family, must navigate a world of desire and romance once she meets Alec d'Urberville. The son of a rich widow, he takes a fancy to her and gets her a position as the poultry keeper on his family's estate. However, her good fortune is soon complicated by Alec's libertine ways, and Tess returns home shamed. Once recovered, she separates herself from the gossip by finding work at a dairy farm outside the village. There, she meets and...
| Автор | Thomas Hardy |
The Awakening , originally titled A Solitary Soul, is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published in 1899. Set in New Orleans and on the Louisiana Gulf coast at the end of the 19th century, the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle to reconcile her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the prevailing social attitudes of the turn-of-the-century American South. It is one of the earliest American novels that focuses on women's issues without condescension. It...
| Автор | Kate Chopin, Кейт Шопен |
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.‘I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn't give myself.’Heralded as one of the first instances of feminist literature and rejected at its time of publication by the literary set on grounds of moral distaste, Kate Chopin’s The Awakening caused consternation in 1899.Constrained and confined by the limitations surrounding marriage and motherhood in the...
| Автор | Кейт Шопен |
Following on from the 1950s collection, this is the second collection of Brian Aldiss’ short stories, taken from the 1960s. A must-have for collectors. Part one of four.This collection gathers together, for the very first time, Brian Aldiss’ complete catalogue of short stories from the 1960s, in four parts.Taken from diverse and often rare sources, the works in this collection chart the blossoming career of one of Britain’s most beloved authors. From stories of high-tech hive minds hunting wild...
| Автор | Brian Aldiss |
Following on from the 1950s collection, this is the second collection of Brian Aldiss’ short stories, taken from the 1960s. A must-have for collectors. Part two of four.This collection gathers together, for the very first time, Brian Aldiss’ complete catalogue of short stories from the 1960s, in four parts.Taken from diverse and often rare sources, the works in this collection chart the blossoming career of one of Britain’s most beloved authors. From stories of discordant astronauts, approaching...
| Автор | Brian Aldiss |
Following on from the 1950s collection, this is the second collection of Brian Aldiss’ short stories, taken from the 1960s. A must-have for collectors. Part three of four.This collection gathers together, for the very first time, Brian Aldiss’ complete catalogue of short stories from the 1960s, in four parts.Taken from diverse and often rare sources, the works in this collection chart the blossoming career of one of Britain’s most beloved authors. From stories of war robots, to a community of...
| Автор | Brian Aldiss |
Following on from the 1950s collection, this is the second collection of Brian Aldiss’ short stories, taken from the 1960s. A must-have for collectors. Part four of four.This collection gathers together, for the very first time, Brian Aldiss’ complete catalogue of short stories from the 1960s, in four parts.Taken from diverse and often rare sources, the works in this collection chart the blossoming career of one of Britain’s most beloved authors. From the first robot to commit suicide to the...
| Автор | Brian Aldiss |
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.‘Why can't people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has the wrong thing.’Just before the First World War, two young couples meet in Germany. The seemingly perfect yet brittle relationship of the Ashburnhams soon gives way to unhappiness and betrayal, and respectability to adultery and deception. The Dowells are no less affected by infidelity, and everyone...
| Автор | Ford Madox Ford |