Энгус Уилсон – лучшие книги

Литературная биография Чарльза Диккенса, созданная известным английским литератором сэром Энгусом Уилсоном со свойственной этому автору мудрой иронией, яркими и точными штрихами набрасывает сложный портрет кумира читателей всех возрастов, избегая нарочитого возвеличивания своего героя, не боясь представить его смешным и честолюбивым, слабым и деспотичным, наивным и прагматичным, исторически ограниченным и "неполиткорректным", но при этом всегда - пытливым и сочувственным исследователем человеческой природы во всей ее трагикомической сложности. Текст сопровождается уникальным по широте охвата диккенсовской эпохи изобразительным материалом. В…

В книгу вошли рассказы английского писателя Э.Уилсона, написанные в разные годы. Писатель разоблачает бездуховность, мещанскую ограниченность и ханжеское лицемерие современного английского "среднего класса". Рассказам присущи тонкий психологизм и ирония.

В сборник вошли рассказы Э.Уилсона, написанные в разное время. Писатель раскрывает бездуховность, мещанскую ограниченность, ханжество английского «среднего класса». Рассказы отличает тонкий психологизм.

Set in a near future (the novel was first published in 1961 and is set in the period 1970-73), this is Angus Wilson's most allegorical novel, about a doomed attempt to set up a reserve for wild animals.

Simon Carter, secretary of the London Zoo, has accepted responsibility and power to the prejudice of his gifts as a naturalist. But power is more than just the complicated game played by the old men at the zoo in the satirical first half of this novel: it lies very near to violence, and in the second half real life inexorably turns to fantasy - the fantasy of war.

This tense and at times brutal story offers the healing relationship between man and the natural world as a solution for the power dilemma.

Виртуозно написанный, беспощадно язвительный роман об Англии — уютной, благопристойной и… насквозь лживой. Интриганы-ученые и стареющие актрисы, бизнесмены, лавирующие между женами и любовницами, шантажисты, ловкие журналисты, охочие до сенсаций — таков многокрасочный фон, на котором разворачивается трагикомическая история немолодого ученого, ставшего жертвой самого изощренного и жестокого розыгрыша в истории мировой археологии.

Chronicles the end of the bourgeois way of life as seen through the lives of the six Matthews children and their dysfuntional middle-class family. This novel provides depictions of complex family relationships, where it is just as easy to hate as to love and where everyone struggles to be an individual.

A compassionate portrait of an elderly - and frustrated - woman adjusting to new town life and finding a new purpose in living.

Illness forces Sylvia Calvert to live with her son Harold, a headmaster in Carshall New Town. At first, Sylvia cannot adjust to the jungle of supermarkets, 10-pin bowling alleys and recreation areas; to the committees and purposeful entertaining involved in the creation of a new society.

Above all, Sylvia can't understand Harold's odd, thrusting idealism and the strange behaviour of her grandchildren.

But a chance meeting and a family crisis give her the chance to fulfil herself ...

Meg Eliot is the wife of a successful barrister and with that comes a lovely home in Westminster, cocktail parties and a round of charity committees. She is the model wife and her life is one of ease, contentment and privilege. All that changes though when she is suddenly left widowed after a senseless tragedy. Totally alone she is thrust into a struggle to reconstruct her life as she realises that she doesn't really know who she is anymore or who she is supposed to be. The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot follows Meg as she tries to make sense of the realities of life, of living and contemplates the future and its possibilites. What she finds is the ability to survive and, also, the joys of new friendships, new opportunities and perhaps even the idea of a new love.

A novel about one mans life and career. The main theme is the contradiction between the need for authority and the distaste for power. It is also the choice between fighting cruelty and falsehood by passive resistance or by direct action.

Angus Wilson's study of the life and works of Kipling.