Жанр "Художественная литература на английском языке"

An old man arrives at the offices of the lawyer Derville, claiming to be Colonel Chabert, a hero of the Napoleonic Wars who was...

A distressed young man murders the woman he loves in a cafe, watched by a large crowd. Fascinated by the crime she has witnessed,...

A major work by one of France's most important authors of the twentieth century, London Bridge is a riotous novel about the...

Beautiful Emma Rouault yearns for the life of wealth, passion and romance she has encountered in popular sentimental fiction, and...

Celine’s third novel, first published in 1944 but dealing with events taking place during the First World War, Guignol’s Band...

While spending the summer in the resort of Grand Isle with her husband and children, Edna Pontellier begins a process of...

Baron Eduard and his second wife Charlotte enjoy a quiet, humdrum existence in their opulent castle, but when he invites his...

Set on a canal linking Glasgow and Edinburgh, Young Adam is the masterly literary debut by one of the most important British...

Nellie March and Jill Banford manage an ailing Berkshire farm at the time of the First World War, a task which is made all the...

In the summer of 1348, the plague ravages Florence, and ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside, where they...

First published in 1797, The Italian, with its archetypal villain Schedoni, its intense romance and its sublime depiction of...

Now bankrupt after some failed gambles, Aristide Saccard, the former kingpin of the Paris Stock Exchange, desperately wants to...

Set against the beautiful backdrop of the Vosges mountains, Lenz tells the tale of the real-life writer J.M.R. Lenz’s...

Babel, Alan Burns’s fourth critically acclaimed novel, contains all the hallmarks of the aleatoric style he helped to define –...

Dreamerika!, Alan Burns’s fourth novel, first published in 1972, provides a satirical look at the Kennedy political dynasty,...

Fully annotated edition with over 300 notes.

In the Midwestern city of Zenith, the middle-aged real-estate agent George F....

Candide is an innocent young nobleman who leads an idyllic, sheltered life and has adopted the optimistic mindset promoted by his...

Compiled and published after Fitzgerald’s death by his friend, the prominent critic and editor Edmund Wilson, The Crack-Up is a...

When the orphaned William refuses his uncles' proposal to become a clergyman and angrily leaves his job in the counting-house of...

In Thomas More’s hugely influential Utopia, a traveller recounts his discovery of an island nation in which the inhabitants enjoy...

Micromegas is a six-hundred-and-fifty-year-old, thirty-nine-kilometre-high giant from the planet Sirius who can speak a thousand...

Contains the original 1928 illustrations, notes and an updated extra material.
Orlando, a young nobleman and one of Queen...

When the ambitious but inept clerk Frans Laarmans is offered a job managing an Edam distribution company in Antwerp, he jumps at...

On his thirtieth birthday, the bank clerk Josef K. is suddenly arrested by mysterious agents for an unspecified crime. He is told...

Although ranging considerably in tone, mood and milieu, the fifteen short stories included in this collection all centre around...

When Paul d'Aspremont travels to Naples to join Alicia Ward, his beautiful fiancee, he is surprised to see her grow pale under...

Written after Woolf had finished her emotionally draining work on The Waves, Flush purports to be an autobiography of Elizabeth...

Having frittered away his family’s fortune in Paris, the profligate Guido, driven by his ungovernable passions, is forced out of...

Роман "Ребенок Розмари" — классика хоррора — входит во все списки лучших триллеров. В этой истории нет привидений и монстров, но...

Эта книга представляет собой облеченные в художественную форму воспоминания о детстве шотландского писателя Кеннета Грэма,...