Жанр "Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке"

Published posthumously, The Red Notebook is an account of the youth of the author of the seminal Romantic novel Adolphe, relating...

Travelling to Italy on their honeymoon, Erszi and Mihaly are ready to take in all the beauties and pleasures of the country. But...

Trapped in an unhappy marriage with a boorish, inattentive and socially ambitious husband, Julie de Chaverny enjoys a flirtatious...

The mysterious Griffin arrives at a picturesque English inn during a snowstorm, swaddled in bandages which cover his face and...

First published in French magazines in the 1960s, the essays and interviews collected in this volume tackle two of Sartre’s most...

When Mrs Ramsay tells her guests at her summer house on the Isle of Skye that they will be able to visit the nearby lighthouse...

When shop-owner Julia Segovia decides that she’s going to marry the handsome if exceedingly young and naive soldier Valentin Bru,...

Basil and Josephine charts the coming of age of two privileged youths from quiet Midwestern towns, Basil Duke Lee and Josephine...

Having moved into an abandoned haunted house, the narrator, undaunted by the warnings of the locals, invites a party of friends...

With his birth itself a monumental exploit in itself, it is clear that the giant Pantagruel is destined to great things, and the...

These inventive and entertaining pieces display the early sparkles of wit and imagination of Jane Austen’s mature fiction....

The lowly, downtrodden Paris civil servant Jean Folantin seeks respite from the boredom and isolation of his life in the small...

After a traumatic early childhood spent living in poverty in a Preston cellar, the suddenly orphaned George Silverman grows up...

Proust's only other work of fiction published in his lifetime apart from the monumental novel cycle In Search of Lost Time,...

Dante is known to most readers outside Italy for his gritty descriptions of the Inferno, but there is another, gentler side to...

The heir to his grandfather’s considerable fortune, Anthony Patch is led astray from the path to gainful employment by the...

Happily engaged to the poet Amandus, Fraulein Anna is horrified to discover that a beautiful ring, mysteriously deposited upon...

Based on a true story, The Jew's Beech centres on two brutal murders in rural Westphalia – the first of a local forester and the...

It is a variable early summer’s day, and there is an unusual bustle in the grounds of Pointz Hall, a country house in a remote...

Travelling salesman Enrico Gaia decides to play a trick on the conceited ageing litterateur Mario Samigli: he dupes him into...

This anthology – which contains writings from well-known figures such as John Knox and James VI through to the many lesser-known...

When the peaceful atmosphere of Barchester is destroyed by a scandal concerning the financial affairs of an almshouse, Septimus...

When the young nobleman Des Grieux lays eyes on the beautiful and charming Manon Lescaut, he immediately falls in love with her,...

The well-educated daughter of a penniless clergyman, Agnes Grey is treated like a child by her family and so sets out to prove...

Under the pressure of his boss, the intransigent Riviere, the airmail pilot Fabien attempts a perilous flight during a heavy...

When Rachel Verinder's legacy of a priceless Indian diamond is stolen, all the evidence indicates that it is her beloved,...

It is 1880: after visiting his mistress in the London suburbs, Colonel Pargiter returns home to his children and his dying wife....

The Wallace is a historical play dramatizing the life of one of Scotland’s greatest heroes, William Wallace, whose revolt against...

Shipwrecked on an unknown island, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself surrounded by its six-inch-tall natives, the...

Stephen Glennard is in desperate need of money. So when he becomes aware of the potential value of a series of passionate love...