Жанр "Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке"

I can still see Simenon coming into my office the next day, pleased with himself, displaying even more self-confidence, if...

The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers with its...

Los Angeles, the late 1940's. A serial killer stalks the foggy streets at night ...


Dix Steele, a former fighter pilot,...

Maigret finds himself back on the Rue des Acacias just ten days after cracking another case there. This time it is the murder of...

They suddenly found themselves in an impersonal world, where everyday words no longer seemed to mean anything, where the most...

They ran into cloud cover as they approached the French coast and flew up above it. Through a break in the clouds a little later,...

In everyone's eyes, even the old ladies hiding behind their quivering curtains, even the kids just now who had turned to stare...

What Maisie Knew is Henry James's damning portrait of adultery, jealousy and possession on the decadent fringe of English...

After the restoration of King Charles II to the British throne in 1660, dramatists experienced new freedom in an age that broke...

One of Poland's most engrossing twentieth-century epics, by the 1924 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

In the village...

A small, thin man, rather dull to look at, neither young nor old, exuding the stale smell of a bachelor who does not look after...

Niels Lyhne is an aspiring poet, torn between romanticism and realism, faith and reason. Through his relationships with six...

'This was natural. It is the same everywhere. Rarely, however, had Maigret had such a strong sense of a clique. In a small town...

'It was I who removed de P- this morning.' With these chilling words Victor Haldin shatters the solitary, industrious existence...

In this unnerving fable from one of Japan's greatest novelists, a recluse known as 'Mole' retreats to a vast underground bunker,...

A post-humous, autobiographical collection of poetry from John Updike, one of the most celebrated American writers of the...

Monsieur Goriot is one of a disparate group of lodgers at Mademe Vauquer's dingy Parisian boarding house. At first his wealth...

Hailed as the greatest modern lyrical poet of Germany, Rainer Maria Rilke’s genius lies in his passion for perfection, artistic...

'Maigret would have found it difficult to formulate an opinion of him. Intelligent, yes, certainly, and highly so, as far as one...

Georges Simenon's chilling portrayal of tragic love, persecution and betrayal.

'One sensed in him neither flesh nor bone,...

A comic masterpiece that has never been out of print since it was first published in 1889, Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat...

'To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom' - Andre Gide

Michel had...

Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, regarded by many to be first novel in English, is also the original tale of a castaway struggling...

Erasmus of Rotterdam (c. 1466-1536) is one of the greatest figures of the Renaissance humanist movement, which abandoned medieval...

The profession he had always yearned for did not actually exist ... he imagined a cross between a doctor and a priest, a man...

'He lay crumpled on his back. Very lonely, very dead. The safe door was wide open. A metal drawer was pulled out. It was empty...

'High up in Montmartre, there was a festive atmosphere, people were crowding round the little tables where rose wine was being...

'What he thought he had discovered, in place of the joyful candour that she usually displayed, was an irony which was neither...

What was it about him that had struck Maigret so forcefully? . . . Little John had cold eyes! . . . Four or five times in his...

He went out, lit his pipe and walked slowly to the harbour. He could hear scurrying footsteps behind him. The sea was becoming...