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In common with much of his other writing, this work by the eminent English novelist and essayist E. M. Forster (1879-1970) displays an unusually perceptive view of British society in the early 20th century. Written in 1908, A Room with a View is a social comedy set in Florence, Italy, and Surrey, England. Its heroine, Lucy Honeychurch, struggling against straitlaced Victorian attitudes of arrogance, narrow-mindedness and snobbery, falls in love-while on holiday in Italy-with the socially...

In common with much of his other writing, this work by the eminent English novelist and essayist E. M. Forster (1879-1970) displays an unusually perceptive view of British society in the early 20th century. Written in 1908, A Room with a View is a social comedy set in Florence, Italy, and Surrey, England. Its heroine, Lucy Honeychurch, struggling against straitlaced Victorian attitudes of arrogance, narrow-mindedness and snobbery, falls in love-while on holiday in Italy-with the socially...

The Machine Stops is a science fiction short story by E. M. Forster. After initial publication in The Oxford and Cambridge Review (November 1909), the story was republished in Forster's The Eternal Moment and Other Stories in 1928. After being voted one of the best novellas up to 1965, it was included that same year in the populist anthology Modern Short Stories. In 1973 it was also included in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two. The story, set in a world where humanity lives...

E. M. Forster (1879–1970) was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist,and librettist. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society. Forster's humanistic impulse toward understanding and sympathy may be aptly summed up in the epigraph to his 1910 novel, Howards End: «Only connect…» His 1908 novel, A Room with a View, is his most optimistic work, while A Passage to India (1924) brought him his...

 Борисав Станкович (1875—1927) — крупнейший представитель критического реализма в сербской литературе конца XIX — начала XX в. В романе «Дурная кровь», воссоздавая быт и нравы Далмации и провинциальной Сербии на рубеже веков, автор осуждает нравственные устои буржуазного мира, пришедшего на смену патриархальному обществу.

В данный том вошло окончание романа Ярослава Ивашкевича "Хвала и слава". Перевод Ю. Абызова, В. Раковской, М. Игнатова. А. Ермонского. Примечания Б. Стахеева. Иллюстрации Б. Алимова.

Французский писатель Франсуа Мориак — одна из самых заметных фигур в литературе XX века. Лауреат Нобелевской премии, он создал свой особый, мориаковский, тип романа. Продолжая традицию, заложенную О. де Бальзаком, Э. Золя, Мориак исследует тончайшие нюансы человеческой психологии. В центре повествования большинства его произведений — отношения внутри семьи. Жизнь постоянно испытывает героев Мориака на прочность, и мало кто из них с честью выдерживает эти испытания. Роман Ф. Мориака «Тайна семьи...