Лучшие произведения Уильяма Генри Хадсона

«Пурпурную землю» (1885, 2-я редакция 1904 — о приключениях молодого англичанина в Уругвае) Джон Голсуорси назвал лучшим плутовским романом в английской литературе более чем за сто лет, а Хорхе Луис Борхес — «первозданным романом» и «одной из немногих счастливых книг на свете».

Adventures Among Birds is almost a manifesto for the life of birds. Hudson's experience of different forms of birdlife is prodigious, and he weaves a thousand small anecdotes together into a rallying call against indifference to the beauty of birds.

From childhood memories of his first caged bird and his growing passion for them, slowly growing throughout his adolescence in Argentina, to the beauty of the diversity of birdlife in England, Hudson's delight at this particular aspect of nature is palpable.

It is in his protests against the hunting of birds for sport that his love for birds is most clearly shown. Their behaviour towards one…

Повесть «Эль-Омбу» (1902) — трагическая история страстей и несчастий в одном из аргентинских поместий.

Рассказ «История пегой лошади» первоначально был одной из глав «Пурпурной земли».

A young wealthy Venezuelan named Abel flees Caracas, after a failed attempt at revolution, into the uncharted forests of the Guyana jungle. There he meets the mysterious Rima the Bird Girl. William Henry Hudson's «Green Mansion» is a romantic tale set in the exotic jungles of Venezuela.

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