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Richard Bentley and Son. Лондон. 1893 год.
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Вашему вниманию предлагается издание на английском языке "Joan".

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Richard Bentley and Son. Лондон. 1893 год.
Владельческий переплёт. Сохранность хорошая. Корешок книги не самая хорошо сохранившаяся часть. Некоторые страницы имеют желтоватые…

Huge collection of fairy and folk tales with sixteen charming color illustrations by Hungarian painter Rona Emy.

Edited and introduced by Linden Peach, Professor and Dean of Arts and Humanities, University of Wales, Cardiff.

This volume brings together Virginia Woolf’s last two novels, The Years (1937) which traces the lives of members of a dispersed middle-class family between 1880 and 1937, and Between the Acts (1941), an account of a village pageant in the summer preceding the Second World War which successfully interweaves comedy, satire and disturbing observation.

Rewriting the traditional family saga and the pageant, these unsettling novels provide extraordinary critiques of Englishness and English identity while pursuing compelling existentialist and psychological themes such as the nature of time, memory, personal relationships and sexual desire. Their tightly constructed narratives enable the reader to experience the fragmented lives of their characters and the difficulties that they have in communicating with each other and even understanding themselves. Read together, these novels illuminate each other in ways that will engage both the student and the general reader.

Edited and introduced by Linden Peach, Professor and Dean of Arts and Humanities, University of Wales, Cardiff.

This volume brings together Virginia Woolf’s last two novels,…

Plain Tales from the Hills, Rudyard Kipling's first collection of short stories, established his reputation and brought India to the British imagination. Including the stories "Lispeth", "Beyond the Pale" and "In the Pride of His Youth", they tell of soldiers, wise children, exiles, forbidden romances and divided identities, creating a rich portrait of Anglo-Indian society. Originally published for a newspaper in Lahore when Kipling was a journalist, the tales were later revised by him to re-create as vividly as possible the sights and smells of India for readers at home. Far from being a celebration of empire, these stories explore the barriers between races, classes and sexes, and convey all the tensions and contradictions of colonial life.

Plain Tales from the Hills, Rudyard Kipling's first collection of short stories, established his reputation and brought India to the British imagination. Including the stories…

Роман (часто называют повесть) Джеймса Хилтона «Прощай, мистер Чипс» (Goodbye, Mr. Chips) добился всемирной славы и разошёлся тиражом в миллионы экземпляров. Это трогательная история о жизни Артура Чиппинга, известного своим ученикам как мистер Чипс, рассказывает о его работе учителем латыни в уединённой провинциальной школе для мальчиков. С момента выхода в 1934 году книга завоевала сердца читателей по всему миру и легла в основу нескольких экранизаций, включая знаменитый фильм 1939 года. В течение сорока трёх лет мистер Чипс был неотъемлемой частью учебного заведения, став его сердцем и душой. Его преданность, искренняя любовь к детям и обаятельный юмор оказали глубокое влияние на множество жизней, изменив их навсегда. Эта книга — трогательная история о скромном человеке, чья доброта и мудрость коснулись так многих, оставив неизгладимый след в их судьбах. Перед вами — новый перевод этой классической повести на русский язык, бережно сохраняющий тепло и лёгкий юмор оригинала.

Роман (часто называют повесть) Джеймса Хилтона «Прощай, мистер Чипс» (Goodbye, Mr. Chips) добился всемирной славы и разошёлся тиражом в миллионы экземпляров. Это трогательная…

A powerful new novel, heart-breaking but ultimately uplifting, from the author of the classic Twopence to Cross The Mersey.
Life in a Liverpool tenement block during the Great Depression is a grim struggle for Martha Connelly and her poverty-stricken family, as every day renews the threat of homelessness, hunger and disease.
Family warmth remains constant however, despite the misery and disquiet of the slum surroundings, and the indomitible neighbourhood puts up a relentless fight for survival.
Helen Forrester’s poignant novel relays bleakness and hardships, but celebrates also the spirit of unified hope and the restorative values of the close-knit community.

A powerful new novel, heart-breaking but ultimately uplifting, from the author of the classic Twopence to Cross The Mersey.
Life in a Liverpool tenement block during the…

50 Great Short Stories is a comprehensive selection from the world’s finest short fiction. The authors represented range from Hawthorne, Maupassant, and Poe, through Henry James, Conrad, Aldous Huxley, and James Joyce, to Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter, Faulkner, E.B. White, Saroyan, and O’Connor. The variety in style and subject is enormous, but all these stories have one point in common–the enduring quality of the writing, which places them among the masterpieces of the world’s fiction.

50 Great Short Stories is a comprehensive selection from the world’s finest short fiction. The authors represented range from Hawthorne, Maupassant, and Poe, through Henry James,…

The present new edition of Victor Astafiev's work contains ten already well-known stories and the short novel "Shepherd and Shepherdess". In 1975 Astafiev was awarded the Russian Federation's Gorky State Prize for Literature.

The present new edition of Victor Astafiev's work contains ten already well-known stories and the short novel "Shepherd and Shepherdess". In 1975 Astafiev was awarded the Russian…

"Bruce Chatwin's death from AIDS in 1989 brought a meteoric career to an abrupt end. His reputation as a storyteller has grown over the last decade, and his exquisite, subtle texts continue to inspire readers all over the world. 'Of my contemporaries he had the most erudite and possibly the most brilliant mind I ever came across, 'says Salman Rushdie. The books that followed his first success with IN PATAGONIA confirmed his statue as a major writer able to reinvent himself constantly. Bruce Chatwin was different things to different people: a director at Sotheby's, an archeaologist, a journalist, photographer and art-collector. Married for 23 years, he was also an active homosexual. He was at once a socialite, mixing with the rich and famous, and a loner who explored the limits of extreme solitude. In 1991, Nicholas Shakespeare was given unrestricted access to Chatwin's private notebooks, diaries and letters. Across five continents he gathered evidence from Chatwin's friends, family, hosts, enemies and lovers. Looking for Chatwin behind the masks, he has written the definitive biography of one of the mossot charistmatic and elusive literary figures of our time."--publisher website.

"Bruce Chatwin's death from AIDS in 1989 brought a meteoric career to an abrupt end. His reputation as a storyteller has grown over the last decade, and his exquisite, subtle…

This book is worthy of being called a classic not only for the wonderful writing, but for the presentation: How to Tell a Story and Other Essays is a facsimile edition of the original first edition published in 1897 under the direction of Mark Twain himself. It is but one volume in the wondrous 29-volume Oxford Mark Twain. The essays, which, besides the title essay, include the devilishly brilliant "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences," "Traveling With a Reformer," and others, were written a century ago, but they bristle with energy and wit. At times we take the great Twain for granted, but this volume of essays serves as a wonderful reminder of what a fine and funny writer he was.

This book is worthy of being called a classic not only for the wonderful writing, but for the presentation: How to Tell a Story and Other Essays is a facsimile edition of the…

Лондон, 1915 год. Ward Lock & Co Limited.
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THE CUB is a war story about two Australian families. It begins with the invasion of Belgium and the enthusiasm to enlist and fight the Germans, as well as discussing doubts about participation in the war.

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Лондон, 1915 год. Ward Lock & Co Limited.
Издательский переплет. Сохранность хорошая. Сохранена оригинальная обложка.

THE CUB is a war story about two Australian families. It…

Нью Йорк, 1907. A. L. Burt.
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"It is some time ago since I told my children the story of THE WILD PIGS and I find that now they crave for stronger food, and that I cannot set such a simple dish before them. It is a comfort, however, to think of the many homes with little people who are not yet too old to take an interest in the adventures of Chunk, Fusky, and Snout, and who, even if they cannot read, can anyhow point with their little pink fingers to the pictures Mr. Parkinson has drawn with so much skill. To these little unknown friends I commend the fortunes of THE WILD PIGS."
Gerald Young.

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Нью Йорк, 1907. A. L. Burt.
Издательский переплет, сохранность хорошая, на обложке небольшие потертости.

"It is some time ago since I told my children the story of THE WILD…

Mr. Joyboy, an embalmer, and Aimee Thanatogenos, crematorium cosmetician, find their romance complicated by the appearance of a young English poet.

From internationally bestselling author Nikki Gemmell comes a tantalizing story of love within marriage—and alongside it.

Under her Chanel suit and designer lingerie, Connie Carven is no longer the typical banker's wife. When Cliff's horrible skiing accident shifts the balance of their relationship, Connie becomes a willing submissive to her husband's every desire. Cliff is eager to explore new, and troubling, avenues of passion. Connie, ever the dutiful wife, follows wherever he leads. While at first she enjoys a perverse sense of freedom within the ever-tightening bonds of her marriage, Cliff's dark desires soon consume her entirely. She finds herself surrendering to an act that will forever remind her that she belongs to her husband alone—to be unlocked only by him, whenever he pleases.

But it is also this act that awakens Connie from the numbness that has taken over her life. And when she encounters someone new in the communal garden of her Notting Hill home, she discovers the thrill of true intimacy . . . and the price of risking everything for it.

The author of the bestselling phenomenon The Bride Stripped Bare and the exquisite With My Body, Nikki Gemmell brings erotic writing into the twenty-first century. In I Take You she looks to the classic Lady Chatterley's Lover for inspiration, reimagining D. H. Lawrence's celebrated tale as a brutally honest and deeply sensual modern love story.

From internationally bestselling author Nikki Gemmell comes a tantalizing story of love within marriage—and alongside it.

Under her Chanel suit and designer lingerie, Connie…

"The Hurricane Years" is a gripping novel at once powerful, artfully told and a thought-provoking revelation of the straines and tensions induced by a society that is driving more and more of us to become runners blindly pursuing pointless goals - until we suddenly stumble into some eye-opening persinal crisis.

"The Hurricane Years" is a gripping novel at once powerful, artfully told and a thought-provoking revelation of the straines and tensions induced by a society that is driving more…

It is 1939. Despite a law banning him from performing surgery, Ravic--a German doctor and refugee living in Paris--has been treating some of the citys most elite citizens for two years on the behalf of two less-than-skillful French physicians.Forbidden to return to his own country, and dodging the everyday dangers of jail and deportation, Ravic manages to hang on--all the while searching for the Nazi who tortured him back in Germany. And though he's given up on the possibility of love, life has a curious way of taking a turn for the romantic, even during the worst of times. . . .

It is 1939. Despite a law banning him from performing surgery, Ravic--a German doctor and refugee living in Paris--has been treating some of the citys most elite citizens for two…

The brilliant new novel from the bestselling author of ‘Mr Golightly's Holiday’ and ‘Miss Garnet’s Angel’.
'There is no cure for being alive.' Thus speaks Dr David McBride, a psychiatrist for whom death exerts an unusual draw. As a young child he witnessed the death of his six-year-old brother and it is this traumatic event which has shaped his own personality and choice of profession. One day a failed suicide, Elizabeth Cruikshank, is admitted to his hospital. She is unusually reticent and it is not until he recalls a painting by Caravaggio that she finally yields up her story.
We learn of Elizabeth Cruikshank's dereliction of trust, and the man she has lost, through David's narration. As her story unfolds David finds his own life being touched by her account and a haunting sense that the 'other side' of his elusive patient has a strange resonance for him, too.
Set partly in Rome, ‘The Other Side of You’ explores the theme of redemption through love and art, which has become a hallmark of Salley Vickers's acclaimed work. As with her other highly popular novels this is a many-layered and subtly audacious story, which traces the boundaries of life and death and the difficult possibilities of repentance.

The brilliant new novel from the bestselling author of ‘Mr Golightly's Holiday’ and ‘Miss Garnet’s Angel’.
'There is no cure for being alive.' Thus speaks Dr David McBride, a…

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.

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…

The four books which make up this volume were first published individually. "As the stories grow into one story, so one's awareness of the emblems and symbols deepens! Garner binds the reader to him and he shows us the author working with language to make his book as his characters worked with stone and iron. Not a word is wasted." - "Times Literary Supplement".

The four books which make up this volume were first published individually. "As the stories grow into one story, so one's awareness of the emblems and symbols deepens! Garner…

From the writer who shocked and delighted the world with his novels Lolita, Pale Fire,
and Ada, or Ardor, and so many others, comes a magnificent collection of stories. Written between the 1920s and 1950s, these sixty-five tales--eleven of which have been translated into English for the first time--display all the shades of Nabokov's imagination. They range from sprightly fables to bittersweet tales of loss, from claustrophobic exercises in horror to a connoisseur's samplings of the table of human folly. Read as a whole, The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov offers and intoxicating draft of the master's genius, his devious wit, and his ability to turn language into an instrument of ecstasy.

From the writer who shocked and delighted the world with his novels Lolita, Pale Fire,
and Ada, or Ardor, and so many others, comes a magnificent collection of stories. Written…

Valley of Exile consists of three novellettes revolving around life in a remote Carpathian village. The characters are Jews - orthodox Jews of the old school, and their reaction to the occasional penetration of modern life into the isolated valley - Olbracht's Valley of Exile.
The first story, Julie and the Miracle, tells of a somewhat enterprising Jew, and his old horse.
The second story, The Affair of the Mikvah, rests on old Jewish religious customs and traditions, spiced with human nature.
The third story, The Sorrowful Eyes of Hannah Karajich, is that of a young Jewish girl from the Valley who goes to the city, and of the Valley's response to her husband-to-be - a Jew who has turned away from Jehovah.

Valley of Exile consists of three novellettes revolving around life in a remote Carpathian village. The characters are Jews - orthodox Jews of the old school, and their reaction…

In a small town in the American South, four men, young and old, consider their pasts and their futures. J.T.Malone, a lonely middle-aged drugstore owner, discovers he is dying and tries to atone for his misspent life. The aged Judge Clane resists integration and longs for the old ways of the South, while his idealistic grandson, Jester, is drawn to Sherman, a volatile, blue-eyed, black orphan in search of his own identity. Gradually they will discover that their lives are inextricably bound together. Through their interlocking stories Carson McCullers explores prejudice, secrets and redemption with both humour and poignancy.

In a small town in the American South, four men, young and old, consider their pasts and their futures. J.T.Malone, a lonely middle-aged drugstore owner, discovers he is dying and…

"Never a dull moment... Vivid and deft." - "New York Review of Books" Maude Pratt is a legend, a photographer famous for her cutting-edge techniques and uncanny ability to strip away the masks of the world's most recognizable celebrities and luminaries. Now in her seventies, Maude has been in the public eye since the 1920s, and her unparalleled portfolio includes intimate portraits of Gertrude Stein, Hemingway, and Picasso. While Maude possesses a singular capability to expose the inner lives of her subjects, she is obsessive about protecting her own, hiding her deepest secret in the "picture palace" of her memory. But when a young archivist comes to stay in Maude's Cape Cod home and begins sorting through her fifty years of work, Maude is forced to face her past and come to terms, at last, with the tragedies she's buried. "A breathtaking tale... Intangibly, intricately brilliant." - " Telegraph".

"Never a dull moment... Vivid and deft." - "New York Review of Books" Maude Pratt is a legend, a photographer famous for her cutting-edge techniques and uncanny ability to strip…

STRANGE FRUIT is a 1944 bestselling novel debut by American author Lillian Smith that dealt with the then-forbidden and controversial theme of interracial romance. The title was originally Jordan is so Chilly, with Smith later changing the title to Strange Fruit. In her autobiography, singer Billie Holiday wrote that Smith chose to name the book after her song "Strange Fruit", which was about the lynching and racism against African-Americans, although Smith maintained that the book's title referred to the "damaged, twisted people (both black and white) who are the products or results of our racist culture."

STRANGE FRUIT is a 1944 bestselling novel debut by American author Lillian Smith that dealt with the then-forbidden and controversial theme of interracial romance. The title was…

"The Hill" gives an idealised view of life at Harrow and of the friendship between two boys.