Жанр "Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке"

It is 1939, the last summer before the outbreak of war. French actress Angele Maury abandons a group of friends travelling...

Nanda Gray, the daughter of a Catholic convert, is nine when she is sent to the Convent of Five Wounds. Quick-witted, resilient...

A rich and suggestive work which contrasts the middle-aged disillusion of Professor St Peter with his memories of his favourite...

Willa Cather's best known novel; a narrative that recounts a life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert.

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Edith Wharton (1862-1937), the grande dame of American literature, was also a subtle and spirited critic of its...

In the faded coastal village of Newby, everyone looks out for - and in on - each other, and beneath the deceptively sleepy...

Two sisters: Madeleine and Dinah. One husband: Rickie Masters. For many years now, Dinah, exotic and sensual, has conducted a...

Mrs Lippincote's house, with its mahogany furniture and yellowing photographs, stands as a reminder of all the certainties that...

A finely nuanced exploration of responsibility, snobbery and culture clash from one of the twentieth century's finest...

A diary for her innermost thoughts, a china ornament, a ten-shilling note, and a roll of flame-coloured silk for her first...

Frank Wentworth, Perpetual Curate of St Roque’s, has basked in the popularity of Carlingford, beloved in the gracious homes of...

'The iron of the bridge felt hot under my hand. The sun had been upon it all day. Gripping hard with my hands I lifted myself on...

The cult novel of fin de siecle decadence that inspired Oscar Wilde

‘It will be biggest fiasco of the year – but I don’t give...

This unique edition presents the complete span of Thomas' short stories, from his urgent hallucinatory visions of the dark forces...

The classic novel of the London Blitz, Darkness Falls from the Air captures the chaos, absurdity and ultimately the tragedy of...

Paris, 1792. The Terror has begun. Every day, scores of the French nobility are delivered to the guillotine. Trapped in the...

Sonia Riccardi, impetuous and sensual, is a woman no man could resist. And Larry Astell, heir to a champagne fortune, knows their...

When cathedral dean Adam Ayscough encounters clockmaker Isaac Peabody, their unlikely friendship touches the lives of the entire...

The third in the classic trilogy of novels about the Eliots of Damerosehay. David Eliot finds his career as a successful and much...

Still tormented by the failure of her love affair with David Eliot, Nadine has misgivings about bringing her family to the...

Lucilla Eliot has spent a lifetime making the Hampshire estate of Damerosehay a tranquil haven for her family. When her favourite...

Edward Prendick is shipwrecked and finds himself stranded on an island in the Pacific. Here he meets the sinister Dr Moreau, a...

A determined young Lancashire girl arrives in London intent on a stage career - this tale from the author of I Capture the Castle...

Big Brother is Watching You

War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength

Winston Smith is a good worker. He...

Set during the Jacobite Risings of 1715 and 1745, this is the story of Charles Radcliffe, a brave and devoted follower of the...

Set partly in Florence, partly in the Surrey hills, A Room With A View depicts the struggle for the soul of its enchanting...

Dr Aziz is a young Muslim physician in the British Indian town of Chandrapore. One evening he comes across an English woman, Mrs...

When Sarah Burton returns to her hometown as headmistress she is full of ambition, determined to create a great school and to...

Dedmayne Rectory is quietly decaying, its striped chintz and darkened rooms are a bastion of outmoded Victorian values. Here Mary...

Cousin Rosamund unfolds the final chapters of the saga that began with The Fountain Overflows, Rebecca West's acknowleged...