Книги в жанре «Проза» (16438 книг)

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81. The Dead Astronaut Читать →

Автор: CAPE KENNEDY has gone now, its gantries rising from the deserted dunes. Sand has come in across the Banana River, filling the creeks and turning the old space complex into a wilderВ­ness of swamps and broken concrete. In the summer, hunters build their blinds in the wrecked staff cars; but by early November, when Judith…

82. The Garden Of Time Читать →

Автор: Towards evening, when the great shadow of the Palladian villa filled the terrace, Count Axel left his library and walked down the wide rococo steps among the time flowers.В  A tall, imperious figure in a black velvet jacket, a gold tie-pin glinting below his George V beard, cane held stiffly in a white-gloved hand, he…

83. The Siege of Krishnapur Читать →

Автор: The Man Booker Prize Winner—1973 India, 1857—the year of the Great Mutiny, when Muslim soldiers turned in bloody rebellion on their British overlords. This time of convulsion is the…

84. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Читать →

Автор: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a nearly complete rewrite of the abandoned Stephen Hero novel, the original manuscript of which was partially destroyed in a fit of rage during an argument with Nora. A kunstlerroman, or story of the development…

85. Dubliners Читать →

Автор: Joyce's Irish experiences are essential to his writings, and provide all of the settings for his fiction and much of their subject matter. The early volume of short stories, Dubliners, is a penetrating analysis of the stagnation and paralysis of Dublin society. The stories incorporate…

86. Emma Читать →

Автор: Emma Woodhouse is the lovely, lively, willful, and fallible heroine of Jane Austen's fourth published novel. Confident that she knows best, Emma schemes to find a suitable husband for her pliant friend Harriet, only to discover that she understands the feelings of others as little as she does her own heart. As Emma puzzles and…

87. Lady Susan Читать →

Автор: Beautiful, flirtatious, and recently widowed, Lady Susan Vernon seeks an advantageous second marriage for herself, while attempting to push her daughter into a dismal match. As the provocative plot unfolds, characters are revealed and the suspense builds – all through letters exchanged among Lady Susan, her family, friends, and enemies. A magnificently crafted novel of…

88. Love And Friendship And Other Early Works Читать →

Автор: “Love and Friendship” collects Jane Austen's earliest writings, the “Juvenilia,” not published in her lifetime. Immensely funny and remarkably sophisticated, their unerring accuracy has not diminished in 200 years.

89. Mansfield Park Читать →

Автор: At the age of ten, Fanny Price leaves the poverty of her Portsmouth home to be brought up among the family of her wealthy uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram, in the chilly grandeur of Mansfield Park. She gradually falls in love with her cousin Edmund, but when the dazzling and sophisticated Crawfords arrive, and amateur theatricals…

90. Northanger Abbey Читать →

Автор: Though Northanger Abbey is one of Jane Austen's earliest novels, it was not published until after her death – well after she"d established her reputation with works such as Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Sense and Sensibility. Of all her novels, this one is the most explicitly literary in that it is primarily concerned with…

91. Persuasion Читать →

Автор: Persuasion celebrates romantic constancy in an era of turbulent change. Written as the Napoleonic Wars were ending, the novel examines how a woman can at once remain faithful to her past and still move forward into the future. Anne Elliot seems to have given up on present happiness and has resigned herself to living off…

92. Pride and Prejudice Читать →

Автор: At the turn of eighteenth-century England, spirited Elizabeth Bennet copes with the suit of the snobbish Mr. Darcy while trying to sort out the romantic entanglements of two of her sisters, sweet and beautiful Jane and scatterbrained Lydia.

93. Sense and Sensibility Читать →

Автор: Originally titled “Elinor and Marianne”, “Sense and Sensibility” was the first of Jane Austen's novels to be published. The contrasting personalities of two sisters are the centre of the story, supported by a wealth of satirically portrayed minor characters.

94. Братик Читать →

Автор: «- Почему киты выбрасываются на сушу? Может быть, по той же причине, по которой люди летают в космос?» Высказывание неизвестного студента, покурившего угадайте-чего. Я вошел в квартиру под аккомпанемент ритмичных ровных ударов и тонких усталых всхлипов, долетающих из дальней комнаты даже сквозь закрытую дверь.  Фазер опять бил братика. Морщась от начинающейся мигрени, гнусно скривилась мне из…

95. Middlesex Читать →

Автор: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction—2003 “I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as…

96. The catcher in the rye Читать →

Автор: Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with “cynical adolescent.” Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book…

97. Chocolat Читать →

Автор: Vianne Rocher and her six-year-old daughter Anouk arrive in the small village of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes–”a blip on the fast road between Toulouse and Bourdeaux”–during the carnival. Three days later, Vianne opens a luxuriant chocolate shop crammed with the most tempting of confections and offering a mouth-watering variety of hot chocolate drinks. It's Lent, the shop is…

98. Kepler Читать →

Автор: In a brilliant illumination of the Renaissance mind, acclaimed Irish novelist John Banville re-creates the life of Johannes Kepler and his incredible drive to chart the orbits of the planets and the geometry of the universe. Wars, witchcraft, and disease rage throughout Europe. For this court mathematician, vexed by domestic strife, appalled by the religious…

99. Shroud Читать →

Автор: One part Nietzsche, one part Humbert Humbert, and a soupcon of Milton's Lucifer, Axel Vander, the dizzyingly unreliable narrator of John Banville's masterful new novel, is very old, recently widowed, and the bearer of a fearsome reputation as a literary dandy and bully. A product of the Old World, he is also an escapee from…

100. The Book Of Evidence Читать →

Автор: The Book of Evidence is a 1989 novel by the Irish author John Banville. The book is narrated by Freddie Montgomery, a 38 year old scientist, who murders a servant girl during an attempt to steal a painting from a neighbor. Freddie is an aimless drifter, and though he is a perceptive observer of himself…