Издания и произведения

The May of Teck Club "exists for the Pecuniary Convenience and Social Protection of Ladies of Slender Means below the age of Thirty Years". Nevertheless, and though there is a war on, they find the time between elocution lessons to jostle one another over suitors (some more suitable than others) and a single Schiaparelli gown. But can a love of literature, fine clothes and amorous young men save these young ladies from the horrors of the real world?

Like the May of Teck Club itself, "three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit," the young women of London after WWII do their best to act as if the world were back to normal: practicing elocution, jostling over suitors and a single Schiaparelli gown. Chosen by Anthony Burgess as one of the Best Modern Novels in the Sunday Times of London, The Girls of Slender Means is a taut and eerily perfect novel by an author The New York Times has called "one of this century's finest creators of comic-metaphysical entertainment."

Мюриэл Спарк — одна из известнейших современных английских писательниц, лауреат многих престижных литературных премий, о ее творчестве с восторгом отзывались Ивлин Во и Грэм Грин. Многие ее романы экранизированы. «Девушки со скромными средствами» — роман-трагифарс. В нем соединились ирония и философская глубина. Действие романа происходит в пансионе для девушек из хороших семей. У них ограничены средства к существованию, но не ограничены амбиции...

Мюриэл Спарк - одна из известнейших современных английских писательниц, лауреат многих престижных литературных премий, о ее творчестве с восторгом отзывались Ивлин Во и Грэм Грин. Многие ее романы экранизированы. Роман "Девушки со скромными средствами" - настоящий трагифарс. В нем соединились ирония и философская глубина. Действие романа происходит в пансионе для девушек из хороших семей. У них ограничены средства к существованию, но не ограничены амбиции...

Like the May of Teck Club itself―"three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit"―its lady inhabitants do their best to act as if the world were back to normal: practicing elocution, and jostling over suitors and a single Schiaparelli gown. The novel's harrowing ending reveals that the girls' giddy literary and amorous peregrinations are hiding some tragically painful war wounds. Chosen by Anthony Burgess as one of the Best Modern Novels in the Sunday Times of London, The Girls of Slender Means is a taut and eerily perfect novel by an author The New York Times has called "one of this century's finest creators of…

London, 1945. The war is grinding to a halt and the city begins to embrace the hordes who gather to hear the political speeches of the day. And in the tightly-knit community of a Kensington hostel, a bevy of well-bred girls of slender means and intriguing morals are leading lives of ritual and femininity, plotting among themselves for the suitors who call to confer favours of clothing coupons, meals and more – and the interlude of innocence is destroyed by the tragedy and horror of the times.

“Long ago in 1945 all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions…” Thus begins Muriel Spark’s tragic and rapier-witted portrait of a London ladies’ hostel just emerging from the shadow of World War II. Like the May of Teck Club building itself—“three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit”—its lady inhabitants do their best to act as if the world were back to normal, practicing elocution and jostling over suitors and a single Schiaparelli gown. But the novel’s harrowing ending reveals that the girls’ giddy literary and amorous peregrinations are hiding some tragically painful war wounds.