Alan Sillitoe3.6 Perhaps one of the most revered works of fiction in the twentieth-century, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner is a modern classic about integrity, courage, and bucking the system. Its title story recounts the story of a reform school cross-country runner who seizes the perfect opportunity to defy the authority that governs his life. It is a pure masterpiece. From there the collection expands even further from the touching “On Saturday Afternoon” to the rollicking “The Decline and Fall and Frankie Buller.” Beloved for its lean prose, unforgettable protagonists, and real-life wisdom, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner captured the voice of a generation, and its poignant and empowering life lessons will continue to captivate and entertain readers for generations to come.
Грэм Грин4.2 Романом Грэма Грина "Сила и слава" издательство начинает новую серию "Соль земли". Роман Грэма Грина занимает в этой серии особое место: он был переведен отцом Александром в то время, когда Грин не разрешал публиковать свои произведения в СССР - стране, преследующей инакомыслие. История гонения опального священника была близка отцу Александру, и до какой-то степени он видел в его судьбе свою судьбу.
Дэвид Джонс0.0 This writing has to do with some things I saw, felt, and was part of": With quiet modesty, David Jones introduces one of the grandest imaginative efforts to grapple with World War I. Fusing poetry and prose, gutter-speech and high
Evelyn Waugh0.0 In 1581 Edmund Campion, a Jesuit priest working underground in Protestant England, was found guilty of treason and hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn. Years later he would be beatified. Evelyn Waugh's compelling and elegant narrative is a homage to the man he revered as a poet, scholar, hero and martyr. He tells Campion's story with a novelist's eye for detail, from his success as an Oxford scholar, through his travels around Europe, his doomed secret mission to England and on to his capture and dramatic trial.
Vividly re-creating a time of persecution and surveillance, Evelyn Waugh - author of A Handful of Dust, Scoop, Vile Bodies, Brideshead Revisited and the Sword of Honour trilogy - writes that 'the hunted, trapped murdered priest is our contemporary and Campion's voice sounds to us across the centuries'.
Роберт Грейвз4.4 В младенчестве Клавдий потерял отца. В детстве и отрочестве страдал затяжными болезнями, от которых так ослаб умом и телом, что окружающие считали его не способным ни к каким общественным или частным делам. Даже его мать утверждала, что он урод среди людей.
Однако, по воле случая став римским императором, Клавдий принял бремя власти на свои плечи и расширил пределы державы. Он правил столь мудро, что последним из рода Юлиев-Клавдиев заслужил прозвание Божественный.
Джеймс Хилтон4.1 Шангри-Ла.
Древняя буддистская легенда о существующей вне пространства и времени Обители просветленных?
Или последний островок безмятежности и гармонии в раздираемом войнами, истекающем кровью мире?
Шангри-Ла тщетно искали великие ученые, мистики и философы.
Но однажды врата Шангри-Ла отворились, чтобы спасти четверых европейцев, похищенных из мятежного Афганистана...
Так начинается один из самых загадочных романов XX века "Потерянный горизонт" Джеймса Хилтона, книга, соединившая в себе черты интеллектуальной мистики с увлекательным приключенческим сюжетом!
Siegfried Sassoon3.5 The first volume in Siegfried Sassoon’s beloved trilogy, The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston, with a new introduction by celebrated historian Paul Fussell
A highly decorated English soldier and an acclaimed poet and novelist, Siegfried Sassoon won fame for his trilogy of fictionalized autobiographies that wonderfully capture the vanishing idylls of Edwardian England and the brutal realities of war.
In this first novel of the semiautobiographical George Sherston trilogy, Sassoon wonderfully captures the vanishing idylls of the Edwardian English countryside. Never out of print since its original publication in 1928, when it won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Sassoon's reminiscences about childhood and the beginning of World War I are channeled through young George Sherston, whose life of local cricket tournaments and fox-hunts falls apart as war approaches and he joins up to fight. Sassoon's first novel, though rife with comic characters and a jaunty sense of storytelling, presents his own loss of innocence and the destruction of the country he knew and loved.
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Генри Уильямсон4.1 This is the classic story of an otter living in the Devonshire countryside, which captures the feel of life in the wild as seen through the otter's own eyes.
Vita Sackville-West0.0 Vita Sackville-West is known as much for her creation of the gardens at Sissinghurst Castle as for her numerous novels, poems and gardening articles. Written in 1926, The Land is a nostalgic celebration of the Kentish countryside through the seasons. It won the Hawthornden Prize and sold over 100,000 copies.
Seán O'Casey3.5 Three early plays by Sean O'Casey — arguably his three greatest — demonstrate vividly O'Casey's ability to convey the reality of life and the depth of human emotion, specifically in Dublin before and during the Irish civil war of 1922-23, but, truly, throughout the known universe.
In mirroring the lives of the Dublin poor, from the tenement dwellers in The Shadow of a Gunman and Juno and the Paycock to the bricklayer, street vendor, and charwoman in The Plough and the Stars, Sean O'Casey conveys with urgency and eloquence the tiny details that create a total character as well as the terrors, large and small, that the constant threat of political violence inevitably brings.
As Seamus Heaney has written, "O'Casey's characters are both down to earth and larger than life... His democratic genius was at one with his tragic understanding, and his recoil from tyranny and his compassion for the oppressed were an essential — as opposed to a moral and thematic — part of his art."
