Книги в жанре «Проза» (16438 книг)Показаны книги с 71 по 8071. The Stepford Wives Читать →Автор: Levin Ira The wives in Stepford are not exactly what you might call feisty, but they do keep nice homes. They wax and vacuum, and clean and dust all day long and late into the evenings, but they never complain. They are rather pleasing to look at too these Stepford ladies. They are round and shapely in… 72. Suite FranГ§aise Читать →Автор: Nemirovsky Irene – WINNER OF FRANCE's PRIX RENAUDOT - “A book of exceptional literary quality… it has the kind of intimacy found in the diary of Anne Frank.”-The Times Literary Supplement “Heroic… a novel about a nightmare in which the author is… 73. Concrete island Читать →Автор: Ballard James A 35-year-old architect is driving home from his London office when his car swerves and crashes onto a traffic island lying below three converging motorways. Uninjured, he climbs the embankment to seek help, but no one will stop for him and he is trapped on the island, where he remains. … 74. Crash Читать →Автор: Ballard James This powerful and often terrifying novel, the fruit of J. G. Ballard's obsession with the motor-car, will shock and disturb many readers. Few products of modern technology excite as much fascination and interest as the automobile, but each year hundreds of thousands of people die in car crashes throughout the world, millions are injured. Yet… 75. High Rise Читать →Автор: Ballard James J.G. Ballard's 1975 novel “High Rise” contains all of the qualities we have come to expect from this author: alarming psychological insights, a study of the profoundly disturbing connections between technology and the human condition, and an intriguing plot masterfully executed. Ballard, who wrote the tremendously troubling “Crash,” really knows how to dig deep into… 76. Age of Iron Читать →Автор: Coetzee J. M. From Publishers Weekly Harsh, unflinching and powerful, Coetzee's (Waiting for the Barbarians) new novel is a cry of moral outrage at the legacy that apartheid has created in South Africa. In scenes of stunning ferocity, he depicts the unequal warfare waging between the two races, a conflict… 77. Life & Times Of Michael K Читать →Автор: Coetzee J. M. One of the two books that J. M. Coetzee won the Booker Prize for (he was also awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize for Literature), The Life and Times of Michael K. is the story of a simple man attempting to survive (from without) in a society that has seen its humanity perverted by war into… 78. Slow Man Читать →Автор: Coetzee J. M. One day while cycling along the Magill road in Adelaide Paul Rayment is knocked down by a car, resulting in the amputation of his leg. Humiliated, he retreats to his flat and a succession of day-care nurses. After a series of carers who are either “unsuitable” or just temporary, he happens upon Marijana, with whom… 79. Waiting For The Barbarians Читать →Автор: Coetzee J. M. “[A] distinguished piece of fiction…[Its] power of historical immediacy gives the novel its thrust, its larger and, if you wish, "universal" value.” The New York Times “I have known few authors who can evoke such a wilderness in the heart of man. He is an artist of… 80. Cocaine Nights Читать →Автор: Ballard James There’s something wrong with Estrella Del Mar, the lazy, sun-drenched retirement haven on Spain’s Costa Del Sol. Lately this sleepy hamlet, home to hordes of well-heeled, well-fattened British and French expatriates, has come alive with activity and culture; the previously passive, isolated residents have begun staging boat races, tennis competitions, revivals of Harold Pinter plays,… 81. Super-Cannes Читать →Автор: Ballard James Super-Cannes – a Sunday Times bestseller in hardback – was the winner of the 2001 Commonwealth Writers Prize for the Eurasian region. 'sublime: an elegant, elaborate trap of a novel, which reads as a companion piece to Cocaine Nights but takes ideas from that novel and runs… 82. The Master of Petersburg Читать →Автор: Coetzee J.M. From Publishers Weekly South African novelist Coetzee takes Fyodor Dostoyevski as his protagonist in a novel set amidst the political ferment of 19th-century Russia. From Library Journal St. Petersburg is poised… 83. On The Road Читать →Автор: Kerouac Jack Jack Kerouac's On the Road is one of the most controversial American novels of the 20th century. When critics concede that the book and its author were instrumental in triggering the rucksack revolution, this is to damn with praise, as Kerouac is reduced to a one-book author (though he published some twenty volumes containing a… 84. The Dharma Bums Читать →Автор: Kerouac Jack One of the best and most popular of Kerouac's autobiographical novels, The Dharma Bums is based on experiences the writer had during the mid-1950s while living in California, after he"d become interested in Buddhism's spiritual mode of understanding. One of the book's main characters, Japhy Ryder, is based on the real poet Gary Snyder, who… 85. Adventure Читать →Автор: London Jack He was a very sick white man. He rode pick-a-back on a woolly– headed, black-skinned savage, the lobes of whose ears had been pierced and stretched until one had torn out, while the other carried a circular block of carved wood three inches in diameter. The torn ear had been pierced again, but this time… 86. Martin Eden Читать →Автор: London Jack FROM THE PUBLISHER Martin Eden, Jack London's semiautobiographical novel about a struggling young writer, is considered by many to be the author's most mature work. Personifying London's own dreams… 87. The Call of the Wild Читать →Автор: London Jack Tells the story of the magnificent dog Buck, who is a loyal pet until cruel men make him a pawn in their search for the gold of the Klondike, where he breaks free and becomes the leader of a ferocious wolf pack. 88. White Fang Читать →Автор: London Jack Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway. The trees had been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and they seemed to lean towards each other, black and ominous, in the fading light. A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without… 89. A Death In The Family Читать →Автор: Agee James THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK To all persons to whom these presents may come greeting be it known that JAMES AGEE has been awarded THE PULITZER PRIZE IN LETTERS FICTION for A DEATH IN THE FAMILY in accordance with the provisions… 90. Billennium Читать →Автор: Ballard James All day long, and often into the early hours of the morning, the tramp of feet sounded up and down the stairs outside Ward's cubicle. Built into a narrow alcove in a bend of the staircase between the fourth and fifth floors, its plywood walls flexed and creaked with every footstep like the timbers of… |