As the civil war rages in 1980s Mozambique, an old man and a young boy, refugees from the war, seek shelter in a burnt-out bus. Among the effects of a dead passenger, they come across a set of notebooks that tell of his life. As the boy reads the story to...
Серия: Classical literature 2008 г.; Изд-во: СПб: Антология
В романе повествуется о роли случая в жизни любого, даже самого незаметного человека. Загадочная гибель одного из постояльцев отеля открыла для ночного портье дверь в другую жизнь. В книге представлен неадаптированный текст на языке оригинала.
Afterword by: Craig Rain.
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, fastidious college professor. He also likes little girls. And none more so than Lolita, who he'll do anything to possess. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tort...
In the fall of 1869 Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, lately a resident of Germany, is summoned back to St. Petersburg by the sudden death of his stepson, Pavel. Half crazed with grief, stricken by epileptic seizures, and erotically obsessed with his ste...
In a South Africa turned by war, Michael K. sets out to take his ailing mother back to her rural home. On the way there she dies, leaving him alone in an anarchic world of brutal roving armies. Imprisoned, Michael is unable to bear confinement and esca...
With the same electrical intensity of language and insight that he brought to Waiting for the Barbarians , J.M. Coetzee reinvents the story of Robinson Crusoe-and in so doing, directs our attention to the seduction and tyranny of storytelling itself
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Coetzee grew up in a new development north of Cape Town, tormented by guilt and fear. With a father he despised, and a mother he both adored and resented, he led a double life-the brilliant and well-behaved student at school, the princely despot at hom...
Серия: Original reading English. Книга для чтения на английском языке 2004 г.; Изд-во: СПб: Корона
Неадаптированное издание.
Энтони Берджесс - английский писатель, литературовед, композитор, переводчик и журналист. До конца 50-х годов занимался преподавательством, изучал теорию музыки и уделял мало времени писательству.Скандально-извест ный дебютн...