Серия книг «Fiction» — 7 книг

Wildly funny and wonderfully bizarre, All About H. Hatterr is one of the most perfectly eccentric and strangely absorbing works modern English has produced. H. Hatterr is the son of a European merchant officer and a lady from Penang who has been raised and educated in missionary schools in Calcutta. His story is of his search for enlightenment as, in the course of visiting seven Oriental cities, he consults with seven sages, each of whom specializes in a different aspect of “Living.” Each teacher delivers himself of a great “Generality,” each great Generality launches a new great “Adventure,” from each of which Hatter escapes not so much greatly edified as by the skin of his teeth. The book is a comic extravaganza, but as Anthony Burgess writes in his introduction, “it is the language that makes the book. . . . It is not pure English; it is like Shakespeare, Joyce, and Kipling, gloriously impure.”

Wildly funny and wonderfully bizarre, All About H. Hatterr is one of the most perfectly eccentric and strangely absorbing works modern English has produced. H. Hatterr is the son…

When Vic Wilcox, MD of Pringle`s engineering works, meets English lecturer Dr Robyn Penrose, sparks fly as their lifestyles and ideologies collide head on. But, in time, both parties make some surprising discoveries about each other`s worlds - and about themselves.

When Vic Wilcox, MD of Pringle`s engineering works, meets English lecturer Dr Robyn Penrose, sparks fly as their lifestyles and ideologies collide head on. But, in time, both…

Barnes told a friend that Nightwood was written with her own blood 'while it was still running.' That flowing wound was the breakup of an eight-year relationship with the love of her life.

Nightwood, Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that small class of books that somehow reflect a time or an epoch" (TLS). That time is the period between the two World Wars, and Barnes' novel unfolds in the decadent shadows of Europe's great cities, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna—a world in which the boundaries of class, religion, and sexuality are bold but surprisingly porous. The outsized characters who inhabit this world are some of the most memorable in all of fiction. Barnes' depiction of these characters and their relationships (Nora says, "A man is another person—a woman is yourself, caught as you turn in panic; on her mouth you kiss your own") has made the novel a landmark of feminist and lesbian literature.

Most striking of all is Barnes' unparalleled stylistic innovation, which led T. S. Eliot to proclaim the book "so good a novel that only sensibilities trained on poetry can wholly appreciate it." Recognised as a twentieth-century classic, the influence of Djuna Barnes's novel has been, and continues to be, exceptional.

Now with a new preface by Jeanette Winterson, Nightwood still crackles with the same electric charge it had on its first publication in 1936.

Barnes told a friend that Nightwood was written with her own blood 'while it was still running.' That flowing wound was the breakup of an eight-year relationship with the love of…

Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtime captures the spirit of America in the era between the turn of the century & the First World War. The story opens in 1906 in New Rochelle, NY, at the home of an affluent American family. One lazy Sunday afternoon, the famous escape artist Harry Houdini swerves his car into a telephone pole outside their house. Almost magically, the line between fantasy & historical fact, between real & imaginary characters, disappears. Henry Ford, Emma Goldman, J.P. Morgan, Evelyn Nesbit, Sigmund Freud & Emiliano Zapata slip in & out of the tale, crossing paths with Doctorow's imagined family & other fictional characters, including an immigrant peddler & a ragtime musician from Harlem whose insistence on a point of justice drives him to revolutionary violence.

Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtime captures the spirit of America in the era between the turn of the…

En 1833, à la suite d'un duel, le capitaine hongrois Alexander Korvanyi quitte brutalement l'armée impériale pour épouser une jeune autrichienne, Cara von Amprecht. Avec elle il rejoint, aux confins de l'Empire, les terres de ses ancêtres. La Transylvanie de 1833 est une mosaïque complexe, peuplée de Magyars, de Saxons et de Valaques. D'un village à l'autre, on parle hongrois, allemand ou roumain ; on pratique différentes religions, on est soumis à des juridictions différentes. Le régime féodal y est toujours en vigueur et les crimes anciens sont parés de vertus nouvelles. La région est une poudrière où fermentent les injustices, les vieilles haines, les trafics clandestins, les légendes malléables et les rêves nouveaux. A leur arrivée, Alexander et Cara sont immédiatement confrontés à une série de crises allant bien au-delà de la gestion d'un vaste domaine longtemps abandonné aux intendants. Avec leurs ambitions et leur caractère, ils atteindront les frontières incertaines de la puissance et du crime.

En 1833, à la suite d'un duel, le capitaine hongrois Alexander Korvanyi quitte brutalement l'armée impériale pour épouser une jeune autrichienne, Cara von Amprecht. Avec elle il…

Энн Грэнджер известна у себя на родине и за ее пределами сериями увлекательных детективных романов. Она много лет проработала в британских консульствах и посольствах по всему миру. Начала свою литературную деятельность как автор исторических романов, а с 1991 года переключилась на детективный жанр. Она является членом престижного лондонского «Детектив- клуба», в котором некогда состояли Г.К.Честертон, А.Кристи, Дж.Д.Карр, Д.Фрэнсис, Д.Сэйерс, Н.Марш и многие другие корифеи жанра.

Энн Грэнджер известна у себя на родине и за ее пределами сериями увлекательных детективных романов. Она много лет проработала в британских консульствах и посольствах по всему…