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A top-rate novel of drugs, love and treachery from an author at the height of his powers.Blind Howard, an ex-RAF veteran, possesses an acute sense of awareness, and can see almost better than the sighted. Morse code patterns his universe and keeps his mind tuned sharp to the big and sometimes bad world. Laura, his ever-doting wife, is loveliness personified. Things start to change when he meets the nefarious Richard. Morse is the common denominator of the alliance, but before long Howard’s world...

From the author of ‘Saturday Night and Sunday Morning’ come stories of hardship and hope in post-war Britain.The title story in this classic collection tells of Smith, a defiant young rebel, inhabiting the no-man's land of institutionalised Borstal. As his steady jog-trot rhythm transports him over an unrelenting, frost-bitten earth, he wonders why, for whom and for what he is running.A groundbreaking work, ‘The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner’ captured the grim isolation of the working...

From one of England’s greatest living writers comes a collection of exquisitely formed stories set in life’s great playground.Relationships – clandestine and legitimate – are the theme: boorish chaps and their stalwart women ululate and hum; marriages and infidelities tick-tock and tick over; Fitzrovian passion flares; strong men turn to drink. Love, sex, loss, are captured in Mr Sillitoe’s inimitable style.As well as the general theme of the union of the sexes, we have inspired insights into...

A wonderful historical novel from one of our best loved and most prolific writersAs a young man Ernest Burton was a bold and reckless journeyman blacksmith, seducing all young girls he comes across. We watch him grow to become a master Blacksmith, and a tyrannical father of eight who refuses even to try to remain faithful to the woman he married and who reigns over his young family with an iron fist, instilling in his sons and daughters a mixture of fear and hatred of him. Burton is an...

 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...