«Мой роман — не сатира, а простое свидетельство. Я ничего не выдумал. Присцилла (гл. героиня) ничем не отличается от современных девушек, во всяком случае тех, которых я встречаю ежедневно», — так Франк Рюзе (27 лет, 50 кг, 1,78 м) характеризует свой первый роман, в котором с упоительной легкостью и без всяких моральных оценок описывает закулисную жизнь блестящего и притягательного мира моды. Повествование от «первого лица» знакомит читателя с реальной жизнью девочек, зарабатывающих своей внешностью

Культовый роман-антиутопия Джорджа Оруэлла, стоящий в одном ряду с такими шедеврами мировой литературы, как «Мы», «О дивный новый мир» и «451° по Фаренгейту». Книга-пророчество, книга-предупреждение, которая никогда не утратит своей актуальности. Многое из того, о чем писал Оруэлл в середине ХХ века, покажется знакомым и в наши дни. Роман предлагается вниманию читателей в новом переводе

The mega-bestseller with more than 1.5 million readers that is soon to be a major television series "The book moves briskly from one crisp scene to the next, and ultimately casts a spell as captivating as Rules of Civility, a book that inhales you into its seductively Gatsby-esque universe." —Town & Country From the New York Times bestselling author of Rules of Civility—a transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel With his breakout debut novel, Rules of Civility, Amor Towles established himself as a master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction, bringing late 1930s Manhattan to life with splendid atmosphere and a flawless command of style. Readers and critics were enchanted; as NPR commented, "Towles writes with grace and verve about the mores and manners of a society on the cusp of radical change." In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel's doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him entry into a much larger world of emotional discovery. Brimming with humor, a glittering cast of characters, and one beautifully rendered scene after another, this singular novel casts a spell as it relates the count's endeavor to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be a man of purpose

The award-winning and internationally acclaimed author of the To the End of the Land now gives us a searing short novel about the life of a stand-up comic, as revealed in the course of one evening's performance. In the dance between comic and audience, with barbs flying back and forth, a deeper story begins to take shape — one that will alter the lives of many of those in attendance. In a little dive in a small Israeli city, Dov Greenstein, a comedian a bit past his prime, is doing a night of stand-up. In the audience is a district court justice, Avishai Lazar, whom Dov knew as a boy, along with a few others who remember Dov as an awkward, scrawny kid who walked on his hands to confound the neighborhood bullies. Gradually, as it teeters between hilarity and hysteria, Dov's patter becomes a kind of memoir, taking us back into the terrors of his childhood: we meet his beautiful flower of a mother, a Holocaust survivor in need of constant monitoring, and his punishing father, a striver who had little understanding of his creative son. Finally, recalling his week at a military camp for youth — where Lazar witnessed what would become the central event of Dov's childhood — Dov describes the indescribable while Lazar wrestles with his own part in the comedian's story of loss and survival. Continuing his investigations into how people confront life's capricious battering, and how art may blossom from it, Grossman delivers a stunning performance in this memorable one-night engagement (jokes in questionable taste included)

Evelyn is a Creole woman who comes of age in New Orleans at the height of World War II. Her family inhabits the upper echelon of Black society and when she falls for Renard, she is forced to choose between her life of privilege and the man she loves. In 1982, Evelyn’s daughter, Jackie, is a frazzled single mother grappling with her absent husband’s drug addiction. Just as she comes to terms with his abandoning the family, he returns, ready to resume their old life. Jackie must decide if the promise of her husband is worth the near certainty he’ll leave again. Jackie’s son, T.C., loves the creative process of growing marijuana more than the weed itself. He finds something hypnotic about training the seedlings, testing the levels, trimming the leaves, drying the buds. He was a square before Hurricane Katrina, but the New Orleans he knew didn’t survive the storm. But fresh out of a four-month stint for drug charges, T.C. decides to start over—until an old friend convinces him to stake his new beginning on one last deal. For Evelyn, Jim Crow is an ongoing reality, and in its wake new threats spring up to haunt her descendants.A Kind of Freedomis an urgent novel that explores the legacy of racial disparity in the South through a poignant and redemptive family history

To Christina Olson, the entire world was her family’s remote farm in the small coastal town of Cushing, Maine. Born in the home her family had lived in for generations, and increasingly incapacitated by illness, Christina seemed destined for a small life. Instead, for more than twenty years, she was host and inspiration for the artist Andrew Wyeth, and became the subject of one of the best known American paintings of the twentieth century. As she did in her beloved smash bestseller Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline interweaves fact and fiction in a powerful novel that illuminates a little-known part of America’s history. Bringing into focus the flesh-and-blood woman behind the portrait, she vividly imagines the life of a woman with a complicated relationship to her family and her past, and a special bond with one of our greatest modern artists. Told in evocative and lucid prose, A Piece of the World is a story about the burdens and blessings of family history, and how artist and muse can come together to forge a new and timeless legacy

First on time his financial caper — NOT A PENNY MORE, NOT A PENNY LESS. Then a political thriller — SHALL WE TELL THE PRESIDENT? Then, in the autumn of 1979, KANE AND ABEL, the saga of two men from totally different backgrounds that topped the bestseller charts all round the world. Now Jeffrey Archer has taken up a new challenge with this first collection of short stories. The locations move from New York and London to Mexico and Nigeria, while the subjects are equally varied. In “One Night Stand” two friends fall under the spell of a New York beauty and decide between themselves which one will try to seduce her — with unexpected results. In “The Chinese Statue” a high-ranking British diplomat visits the workplace of a leading Chinese sculptor and finds that an off-hand remark is taken with total seriousness, and that he becomes the possessor of a priceless work of art. Different again in tone and subject, “Broken Routine” traces the journey home of an insurance claims advisor, one Septimus Horatio Cornwallace, and his encounter with a punk rocker on the 5.27 to Sevenoaks. In the final Story, “Old Love”, Jeffrey Archer gives us probably his finest piece of writing to date, with an account of two young undergraduates at Oxford in the thirties, whose biller rivalry turns to intense love, with an ending that will haunt you. Each of these tales shows Jeffrey Archer’s talents as a short story teller, and, as befits the form, Archer uses the stories to build up a small cast of characters and then shock the reader with an unexpected final twist. Few people will guess the endings to any of the tales, and everyone will have his own favourite; while one may safely prophecy that with this archer each story unerringly hits its mark

Чтение оригинальных произведений — простой и действенный способ погрузиться в языковую среду и совершенствоваться в иностранном языке. Серия «Бестселлер на все времена» — это возможность улучшить свой английский, читая лучшие произведения англоязычных авторов, любимые миллионами читателей. Для лучшего понимания текста в книгу включены краткий словарь и комментарии, поясняющие языковые и лингвострановедческие вопросы, исторические и культурные реалии описываемой эпохи. Роман Чарльза Диккенса посвящен эпохе Великой французской революции. В этой истории есть и тайные интриги, и невинные жертвы, и жестокие казни, и чудесные спасения. Но и в самое страшное время его герои сохраняют способность сострадать и сочувствовать, помогать ближним и жертвовать собой ради любимых. Книга предназначена для тех, кто изучает английский язык на продолжающем или продвинутом уровне и стремится к его совершенствованию

Эрих Мария Ремарк – один из самых известных немецких писателей ХХ века. Роман «На Западном фронте без перемен» рассказывает о поколении, которое погубила война, о тех, кто стал ее жертвой, даже если спасся от пуль. Это отчет о реальных событиях Первой мировой войны, рассказ о солдатском товариществе. Книга предназначена для широкого круга читателей, владеющих английским языком, для студентов языковых вузов, а также может быть рекомендована всем, кто самостоятельно изучает английский язык

In the first century AD, Publius Ovidius Naso, the most urbane and irreverant poet of imperial Rome, was banished to a remote village on the edge of the Black Sea. From these sparse facts, one of our most distinguished novelists has fashioned an audacious and supremely moving work of fiction. Marooned on the edge of the known world, exiled from his native tongue, Ovid depends on the kindness of barbarians who impate their dead and converse with the spirit world. But then he becomes the guardian of a still more savage creature, a feral child who has grown up among deer. What ensues is a luminous encounter between civilization and nature, as enacted by a poet who once catalogued the treacheries of love and a boy who slowly learns how to give it

The Redford rail smash was a bad business. On that cold November morning, glittering with sunshine and a thin layer of snow on the fields, the London-Manchester express hit a wagon that had strayed on to the main line from a siding. Engine and two first coaches were derailed; scattered cinders set fire to the wreckage; and fourteen persons in the first coach lost their lives. Some, unfortunately, were not killed outright. A curious thing was that even when all the names of persons who could possibly have been travelling on that particular train on that particular morning, had been collected and investigated, there were still two charred bodies completely unaccounted for, and both of women

A collection of short, inspirational stories drawn from the author's life and experience

Here is the slim, stunning debut novel from the acclaimed author of Geek Love. Attic follows a young woman named Kay who has joined a cult-like organization that sells magazine subscriptions in small towns. When Kay tries to cash a customer's bad check, she lands in jail, and Dunn's visceral prose gives us a vivid, stream-of-consciousness depiction of the space in which she's held. As Kay comes to know the other inmates, alliances and rivalries are formed, memories are recounted, and lives are changed. Based on Katherine Dunn's own formative coming-of-age experiences, Attic was critically lauded when it was first published in 1970. Now, it stands as an extraordinary, indelible work from one of our most celebrated writers

Elisabeth is a woman whose curiosity and passion far exceed the borders of her quiet middle-class life. She befriends a neighbor, organizes a small dinner party. And then, quite suddenly, finds herself embarked with him on an adventure that is one part vaudeville and one part high tragedy. A quiet novel of manners turns into a police procedural thriller. Her motivations for risking everything she has are never transparent. In a world where matters of life and death are nearly always transported to a clinical setting, whether it be a hospital or a courtroom, here each character must confront them unassisted. A truly original and masterful novel from one of the world's most inventive and daring artists

Чтение оригинальных произведений — простой и действенный способ погрузиться в языковую среду и совершенствоваться в иностранном языке. Серия «Бестселлер на все времена» — это возможность улучшить свой английский, читая лучшие произведения англоязычных авторов, любимые миллионами читателей. Для лучшего понимания текста в книгу включены краткий словарь и комментарии, поясняющие языковые и лингвострановедческие вопросы, исторические и культурные реалии описываемой эпохи. В этой книге собраны рассказы британских и американских авторов — веселые и грустные, о жизни, о любви, об удаче и о том, из каких пустяков порой возникают важные решения и непоправимые поступки. Вместе они складываются в причудливый калейдоскоп — неожиданный и удивительный, как сама жизнь. Но каждый рассказ, написанный выдающимся автором, поможет читателям улучшить свой английский. Книга предназначена для тех, кто изучает английский язык на продолжающем или продвинутом уровне и стремится к его совершенствованию

A mesmerising novel about suffering and survival. It finds authority and powerful meaning in telling stories about the diaspora of the twentieth century: we hear of Moshe stalking the streets of Shanghai and Warsaw, of Laizer imprisoned in the Soviet city of Lvov, and of Zalman marooned in Vilna and Kobe

“It almost seemed as if winter had already come.”　 Those were the final words of Last Summer. In this, Evan Hunters new novel, winter has indeed arrived — and Sandy, David, and Peter are together again. Sandy, David, and Peter five years later. The searing summer of Rhoda is far behind them. More stylish and sophisticated than they were as adolescents, each complete in the presence of the other, they form a brilliant trio: handsome, intelligent, witty, humorous, impregnable — and deadly. Into their dazzling orbit come Foderman and Mary Margaret. What happens to them all, in the days before Christmas, is as chilling as the snow- covered terrain surrounding them, as terror-ridden as the trails they ski.　 COME WINTER is an unforgettable exploration into the nature of evil

Cometh the Hour opens with the reading of a suicide note, which has devastating consequences for Harry and Emma Clifton, Giles Barrington and Lady Virginia. Giles must decide if he should withdraw from politics and try to rescue Karin, the woman he loves, from behind the Iron Curtain. But is Karin truly in love with him, or is she a spy? Lady Virginia is facing bankruptcy, and can see no way out of her financial problems, until she is introduced to the hapless Cyrus T. Grant III from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who’s in England to see his horse run at Royal Ascot. Sebastian Clifton is now the Chief Executive of Farthings Bank and a workaholic, whose personal life is thrown into disarray when he falls for Priya, a beautiful Indian girl. But her parents have already chosen the man she is going to marry. Meanwhile, Sebastian’s rivals Adrian Sloane and Desmond Mellor are still plotting to bring him and his chairman Hakim Bishara down, so they can take over Farthings. Harry Clifton remains determined to get Anatoly Babakov released from a gulag in Siberia, following the international success of his acclaimed book, Uncle Joe. But then something unexpected happens that none of them could have anticipated

The corridors and committee rooms of Whitehall are the setting for the ninth in the Strangers and Brothers series. They are also home to the manipulation of political power. Roger Quaife wages his ban-the-bomb campaign from his seat in the Cabinet and his office at the Ministry. The stakes are high as he employs his persuasiveness

Short story about a man who comes to work on a ranch and years later is kicked out when the ranch owner goes into a nursing home… The old fella makes me go into the house in my stocking feet. The fat old lady's in a chair. The old man…

Кэти – писательница. Кэти выходит замуж. Это лето 2017 года и мир рушится. Оливия Лэнг превращает свой первый роман в потрясающий, смешной и грубый рассказ о любви во время апокалипсиса. Словно «Прощай, Берлин» XXI века, «Crudo» описывает неспокойное лето 2017 года в реальном времени с точки зрения боящейся обязательств Кэти Акер, а может, и не Кэти Акер. В крайне дорогом тосканском отеле и парализованной Брекситом Великобритании, пытаясь привыкнуть к браку, Кэти проводит первое лето своего четвертого десятка. Но меняется не только она. Политический, социальный и природный ландшафты – всё находится в опасности. Растет фашизм, правда умерла, а планета накалена. Стоит ли вообще учиться любить, когда конец света так близок? И как творить, не говоря уже о том, как жить, если один злобный твит может всему положить конец

When Jerusha Abbott, an eighteen-year-old girl living in an orphan asylum, was told that a mysterious millionaire had agreed to pay for her education, it was like a dream come true. For the first time in her life, she had someone she could pretend was "family." But everything was not perfect, for he chose to remain anonymous and asked that she only write him concerning her progress in school. Who was this mysterious gentleman and would Jerusha ever meet him?

Bei diesem Werk handelt es sich um eine urheberrechtsfreie Ausgabe. Der Kauf dieser Kindle-Edition beinhaltet die kostenlose, drahtlose Lieferung auf Ihren Kindle oder Ihre Kindle-Apps. Erstmals im Jahre 1902 erschienen. This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

Der Tunnel ist eine Kurzgeschichte von Friedrich Dürrenmatt, die 1952 erschien. Die Geschichte ist u. a. in dem Band Der Tunnel von 1964 veröffentlicht worden. Sie gehört zum Hauptwerk des Autors und zu den Klassikern unter den surrealen Kurzgeschichten

Herbjørg Wassmo (g. 1942) yra viena iš skaitomiausių autorių Norvegijoje. 1986 m. rašytoja apdovanota Šiaurės šalių tarybos premija. Jos kūriniai išversti į daugelį kalbų. Garsiausia iš jų - "Dinos knyga" - romanas apie išdavystę ir kaltę, gaivališką ir nepasotinamai juslingą moters prigimtį. Baisus sukrėtimas, patirtas ankstyvojoje vaikystėje, persekioja Diną visą gyvenimą, paveikia jos sąmonę. Rodos, šaltakraujiškai ji žaidžia aplinkinių žmonių gyvenimais. Tuo tarpu pačios likimą valdo griežti ir negailestingi Senojo Testamento dėsniai.  H. Wassmo romanas – nepaprasto originalumo ir įtaigumo saga apie demonišką moterį, kurios nežabotos aistros ir noras viską valdyti neša pražūtį visiems ir jai pačiai. Veiksmas vyksta XIX a. Norvegijoje. "Dinos knyga" tęsinys - "Likimo sūnūs" ir "Karnos kraitis", kur pasakojama Dinos sūnaus Benjamino, savo akimis išvydusio baisų motinos kerštą, gyvenimo istorija. Versta iš: Herbjørg Wassmo  DINAS BOK Iš norvegų k. vertė Eglė Išganaitytė

Garsus kinų dramaturgas, kritikas, prozininkas ir dailininkas Gao Singdzianis (Gao Xingjian, g.1940) – pirmasis ir kol kas vienintelis kinas gavęs Nobelio premiją už literatūrą (2000). 1983 m. rašytojui buvo diagnozuotas vėlyvos stadijos plaučių vėžys. Tačiau po šešių savaičių atlikus pakartotinus tyrimus ši diagnozė buvo atšaukta. „Mirties nuosprendžio vykdymo“ atidėjimas, represyvi kultūrinė bei politinė aplinka ir nuolat juntama grėsmė atsidurti priverstinio darbo stovykloje paskatino G. Singdzianį pabėgti iš Pekino ir pradėti neįtikėtiną 15 000 kilometrų odisėją per nuošalius kalnus ir senovę menančius Sičuanio miškus pietvakarių Kinijoje. Ši epinė, atradimų kupina kelionė, papasakota talentingo menininko, virto pasaulinę šlovę pelniusiu romanu „Dvasios kalnas“. „Dvasios kalnas“ – drąsus, lyriškas, magiškas ir labai savitas kūrinys. G. Singdzianis su neįprastu atvirumu, šmaikštumu ir susižavėjimu tyrinėja sudėtingus žmonių santykius, mėgina įminti „Aš ir Tu“ „Aš ir Kiti“ ryšių mįslę, duodamas visišką laisvę vaizduotei ir išplėsdamas individualumo suvokimo ribas, kelia klausimą: ar išsaugojęs dvasinę nepriklausomybę, bet netekęs galimybės bendrauti su panašiais į save individas nebus pasmerktas Himalajų Ječio egzistencijai? Švedijos Nobelio premijos komitetas „Dvasios kalną“ pavadino „vienu iš ypatingųjų literatūros kūrinių, kurių nėra su kuo palyginti, nebent su jais pačiais.“ Iš šiuolaikinės kinų kalbos vertė Agnė Biliūnaitė

Bromfield takes a close look at the Pentlands - a fictional rich family in New England - exposing the hypocrisy and ignorance behind their luxurious facade. Bromfield's eloquence when describing both his characters and their surroundings is breathtaking, and his accuracy in describing the characters' complicated emotions makes it apparent that he knows human nature very well. A fascinating study on the struggle of one woman to escape the stifling influence of her husband and in-laws

Estación… muestra ya en todo su esplendor las más brillantes facetas del talento de Rosa Chacel: la capacidad de reflexión -muy orteguiana también- sobre conceptos o actitudes (véase por ejemplo el hermoso párrafo que empieza: `Es cobarde temer las sorpresas`), y la emoción y belleza en las descripciones de objetos y paisajes cotidianos: un patio, el silencio, los abrigos…

In the first of the Strangers and Brothers series Lewis Eliot tells the story of George Passant, a Midland solicitor's managing clerk and idealist who tries to bring freedom to a group of people in the years 1925 to 1933

Two friends return home from the Korean War to find their world—and themselves—irrevocably altered in this novel hailed by Kurt Vonnegut as “gruesomely accurate and enchanting” and “wildly sexy”. Willard “Sonny” Burns and Tom “Gunner” Casselman, Korean War vets and former classmates, reunite on the train ride home to Indianapolis. Despite their shared history, the two young men could not be more different: Sonny had been an introverted, bookish student, whereas Gunner had been the consummate Casanova and athlete—and a popular source of macho pride throughout the high school. Reunited by the pains of war, they go in search of finding love, rebuilding their lives, and shedding the repressive expectations of their families. As Sonny and Gunner seek their true passions, the stage is set for a wounded, gripping account of disillusionment and self-discovery as seen through the lens of the conservative Midwest in the summer of 1954. Rendered in honest prose, national bestseller Going All the Way expertly and astutely captures the joys and struggles of working-class Middle America, and the risks of challenging the status quo. Author Dan Wakefield crafts this enduring coming-of-age tale with fluidity, grace, and deep humanity

Клая, главная героиня книги, — девушка образованная, эрудированная, с отличным чувством стиля и с большим чувством юмора. Знает толк в интересных людях, больших деньгах, хороших вещах, культовых местах и событиях. С ней вы проникнете в тайный мир русских «дорогих» клиентов. Клая одинаково легко и непринужденно рассказывает, как проходят самые громкие тусовки на Куршевеле и в Монте-Карло, как протекают «тяжелые» будни олигархов и о том, почему меняется курс доллара, не забывает о любви и простых человеческих радостях. Легкая ирония, с которой Клая повествует о перипетиях своих подруг, только оттеняет реальный юмор жизненных ситуаций