17 книг
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Eva Trout Elizabeth Bowen
ISBN: 0385721315, 9780385721318 Год издания: 2003 Издательство: Anchor Язык: Английский Eva Trout, Elizabeth Bowen’s last novel, epitomizes her bold exploration of the territory between the comedy of manners and cutting social commentary.
Orphaned at a young age, Eva has found a home of sorts in Worcestershire with her former schoolteacher, Iseult Arbles, and Iseult's husband, Eric. From a safe distance in London, her legal guardian, Constantine, assumes that all's well. But Eva's flighty, romantic nature hasn't entirely clicked with the Arbles household, and Eva is plotting to escape. When she sets out to hock her Jaguar and disappear without a trace, she unwittingly leaves a paper trail for her various custodians–and all kinds of trouble–to follow. -
Iris Murdoch As I Knew Her Э. Н. Уилсон
ISBN: 978-0099723103 Год издания: 2004 Издательство: Arrow Язык: Английский A brilliant, controversial and insightful biography. Fifteen years ago, Iris Murdoch asked A. N. Wilson to be her biographer. This book is a tribute to the novelist he knew for thirty years. This is not Iris Murdoch the Alzheimer's patient, but Iris Murdoch the witty conversationalist, the emotional chaotic and, above all, the writer. Both sad and farcical, this completely personal attempt to set the record straight gives us back the fiercely intelligent novelist and professional philosopher, and will cause amusement as it ruffles feathers. (20031017)
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Flesh Brigid Brophy
ISBN: 978-0747405795 Год издания: 1990 Издательство: Cardinal Язык: Английский A young man suffers pain from beauty and is particularly affected by the beauty of Rubens's painting. His relationship as pupil of an experienced woman goes wrong as he begins to exceed his teacher, first on the dance floor and then in bed. The author has also written "The Snow Ball".
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The Ha-ha Jennifer Dawson
ISBN: 978-0860685753 Год издания: 2000 Издательство: Virago Press Ltd Язык: Английский РазвернутьWinner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize ‘A very fine first novel. Dawson writes very well, with a tender awareness of the ironies of her theme and a poetic perception of how tremulous is the distinction between the mad world and the sane.’ - Glasgow Herald ‘A remarkably talented first novel ... Miss Dawson is neither sentimental nor sensational ... Her heroine is a convincing and sympathetic character, and when her mind begins to shift into the nightmare perspective of schizophrenia the writing creates an atmosphere of quiet terror.’ - Observer ‘Cool, short, tender and occasionally as prettily ruthless as the impact of a…
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Спасённый язык. История одного детства Элиас Канетти
ISBN: 978-3-87667-436-0 Год издания: 2016 Издательство: Райхль Язык: Русский Развернуть"Спасенный язык. История одного детства" - опубликованная в 1977 году первая часть автобиографической трилогии (другие книги - "Факел в ухе", 1980, и "Перемигивание", 1985) будущего лауреата Нобелевской премии по литературе (1981). Первые годы своей жизни еврейский мальчик Элиас проводит в болгарском городке Рущук на границе с Румынией. В большой сефардской семье все подчиняется воле грозного деда Канетти. В стремлении вырваться из-под его влияния семья Элиаса перебирается в Англию, в деловой и практичный Манчестер. Начало Первой мировой войны застает героя в имперской Вене, конец ее он встречает в Цюрихе, где витает пьянящий дух свободы. И…
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С факелом в голове. История жизни 1921-1931 Элиас Канетти
ISBN: 978-5-6041547-4-8 Год издания: 2020 Издательство: Райхль Язык: Русский Вторая часть автобиографической трилогии будущего лауреата Нобелевской премии по литературе (1981 г.) Опубликована в 1980 году.
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The Cuckoo Rudolf Nassauer
ISBN: 978-0720614152 Год издания: 1962 Издательство: Peter Owen The theme of this novel, by the acclaimed author of The Hooligan, is the subtle and cancerous process by which a relationship between a man and his wife is destroyed.
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Iris: A memoir of Iris Murdoch John Bayley
ISBN: 978-0349112152 Год издания: 1999 Издательство: Abacus Язык: Английский РазвернутьJohn Bayley's account of his long and loving marriage to the great novelist Iris Murdoch takes us on a journey, from their love affair's comically inauspicious beginnings in the Oxford of the early fifties (Bayley courted Iris on account of her unchallenging plain looks and their first date consisted of a revolting dinner followed by a disastrous dance when Iris sprained her ankle) to its slow and painful closure when the onset of Alzheimer's more than forty years later, which should be devastating. Yet as Bayley charts the gradual dissolution of Iris's remarkable intellect side by side with the detail of their gloriously eccentric and…
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Iris Murdoch: A Life: The Authorized Biography Peter J. Conradi
ISBN: 9780006531753 Год издания: 2002 Издательство: HarperCollins Язык: Английский РазвернутьA full and revealing biography of one of the century’s greatest English writers and an icon to a generation. Dame Iris Murdoch has played a major role in English life and letter for nearly half a century. As A.S.Byatt notes, she is ‘absolutely central to our culture’. As a novelist, as a thinker, and as a private individual, her life has significance for our age. There is a recognisable Murdoch world, and the adjective ‘Murdochian’ has entered the language to describe situations where a small group of people interract intricately and strangely. Her story is as emotionally fascinating as that of Virginia Woolf, but far less well known;…
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The Three Arrows and The Servants and the Snow Iris Murdoch
ISBN: 0701129662 Год издания: 1973 Издательство: Chatto & Windus Язык: Английский Iris Murdoch's witty and provocative dramas concern the nature of political power and sovereignty, and the magical, jealous properties of love.
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The Finishing Touch Brigid Brophy
ISBN: 978-0571304660 Год издания: 2013 Издательство: Faber & Faber Язык: Английский РазвернутьThe tweedy Miss Hetty Braid worships the lovely but selfish Miss Antonia Mount, her co-proprietor at the most exclusive finishing school on the French Riviera. The girls they teach are quite remarkable, though hardly in the sense of academic distinction. But trouble looms when Antonia announces that 'Royalty is coming.' The great day arrives, and though at first things go tolerably well, disaster springs from good intentions. This Faber Finds edition includes a 1987 introduction by Brigid Brophy and a new preface by Sir Peter Stothard. 'A wicked little entertainment... plaubly not meant for the moralists or naive.' Evening…
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Baroque 'n' Roll Brigid Brophy
ISBN: 978-0241120378 Год издания: 1987 Издательство: Hamish Hamilton Ltd -
Party in the Blitz Elias Canetti
ISBN: 1843432048, 978-1843432043 Год издания: 2005 Издательство: Harvill Press Язык: Английский Развернуть"It is time for me to turn to England again, for I sense how these memories gradually fade, and it would be a pity if nothing remained of forty years in that country" Exceedingly perceptive, at times amusing and always unpredictable, this autobiography of Nobel Prize winner Elias Canetti is a fascinating and enjoyable read.Canetti spent many years in London, beginning in 1939, and during which time he moved in elite circles, numbering the great writers, artists, thinkers and politicians of the time among his friends and acquaintances.In this beautifully written and often sensational collection of portraits of those who were meaningful in…
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Мёрфи Сэмюэль Беккет
ISBN: 5-7516-0306-0 Год издания: 2006 Издательство: Текст Язык: Русский Роман `Мёрфи`, написанный Беккетом в 1938 году, ещё до окончательного переезда из Ирландии во Францию, завершает первый период его творчества. `Маленький человек` Мёрфи болезненно переживает агрессивность мира по отношению к себе и к человеческой личности вообще и пытается сохранить свою индивидуальность, однако попытка эта заканчивается крахом.
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In Another Country (Twentieth Century Classics) John Bayley
ISBN: 978-0192851796 Год издания: 1986 Издательство: Oxford University Press -
With Love and Rage: A Friendship with Iris Murdoch David Morgan
ISBN: 978-1899999422 Год издания: 2010 Издательство: Kingston University Press РазвернутьThis memoir is both David Morgan's final farewell to Iris Murdoch and his loving preservation of her memory. They met while he was studying at the Royal College of Art in London in the 1960s when, he says, something clicked . It was an unlikely alliance: he was a rebel from Birmingham who had been hospitalized against his will at 17 and was now a fierce autodidact; she was a famous writer who had come to London as grandee from Oxford to teach philosophy to a wilder bunch of students than she had ever encountered before. But their friendship was to endure for more than thirty years. A deep mutual affection transcended both the liberties and…
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Something Special Iris Murdoch
ISBN: 9780099422655, 0099422654 Год издания: 2001 Издательство: Vintage Books Язык: Английский РазвернутьSomething Special was previously unpublished except in a 1950s anthology and in Japan, and rediscovered after her death. It is the only short story that Iris Murdoch ever wrote for publication.Set in Dublin, against the vividly recognisable backdrop of the writer's native city in the late fifties, Something Special is the story of Yvonne, an ordinary, bold young Irish woman who believes there's more to life than marriage to Sam, the respectable young man who's courting her. Written with verve and characteristic sly humour, it moves to a surprising climax and conclusion - a poignant, strangely haunting story about the incompatibility of…
