Penguin The Anthropocene Reviewed Грин Джон

Красный пони» — эпизодическая новелла, написанная американским писателем Джоном Стейнбеком в 1933 году • Юный Джоди Тифлин живет на ранчо своего отца в Калифорнии. Он в восторге, когда отец дарит ему красного пони, а позже обещает жеребенка гнедой кобылы. Оба эти подарка приносят радость в жизнь Джоди, но вскоре за этим следует трагедия. По мере того, как Джоди начинает усваивать суровые уроки жизни и смерти, он начинает понимать, что на самом деле означает взросление • Книга на английском языке • Masterful linked short stories by Nobel prizewinner John Steinbeck, author of The Grapes of Wrath. The Red Pony is one of The Originals from Penguin - iconic, outspoken, first • Young Jody Tiflin lives on his father's California ranch. He is thrilled when his father gives him a red pony, and later promises him the colt of a bay mare

At the Diamond County Home for the Aged, the inmates prepare for the annual ritual of the Poorhouse Fair, a summer celebration at which the old and infirm sell their produce on stalls to the people of the local town. Bitter, resentful and edging towards senility, the elderly residents of the Home take pride every year in the responsibility and self-respect they gain from this one day. But when the fair goes less well than the old folks had hoped, they are in no doubt who to blame: Conner, the new prefect of the home. Together, they begin to revolt against the younger man, and reassert their own independence

Jody Tiflin has the urge for rebellion, but he also wants to be loved. In The Red Pony, Jody begins to learn about adulthood - its pain, its responsibilities and its problems - through his acceptance of his father's gifts. First he is given a red pony, and later he is promised the colt of a bay mare. Yet both of these gifts bring him tragedy as well as joy, and Jody is taught not only the harsh lessons of life and death, but made painfully aware of the fallibilty of adults

"Внемлите, судари, со тщанием • Сей притчи мудрым увещаниям…" • Джон Стейнбек не зря предварил блестящий, простой и глубоко психологичный роман "Заблудившийся автобус" эпиграфом из старинного моралите. Пассажиры обветшалого автобуса, которым предстоит провести в обществе друг друга один день, словно сошли со страниц средневековой пьесы, - настолько четко каждый из них соответствует одному из типичных образов провинциальной Америки середины прошлого века • Преуспевающий предприниматель, так и не избавившийся от кошмарных воспоминаний о войне. Некрасивая юная мечтательница, пытающаяся оживить серые будни сиропными сказками Голливуда. Крайне благопристойная семья, которая "несчастна по-своему". Грубиян подросток со смешными надеждами и мечтами… И еще люди

Что за удивительная вещь - мобильный телефон. Шесть унций металла, стекла и пластика, превращенные в гладкий, блестящий, драгоценный предмет. Это врата в другие миры - и коварное оружие для неосторожных • Семья Клеверли живет роскошной жизнью, почти не осознавая, насколько ненадежна их привилегия, всего в одном твите от катастрофы. Джорджа, патриарха, обожающего давать телевизионные интервью, "национальное достояние" (по его словам), его жену Беверли, знаменитую писательницу (хотя и не такую знаменитую, как ей хотелось бы), и их детей, Нельсона, Элизабет и Ахиллеса, ожидают катастрофы различной степени тяжести • Вместе они отправятся в путешествие открытий по хогартовским джунглям современной жизни, где прошлые предположения ничего не значат, а тщательно созданная репутация может быть разрушена в одно мгновение

Джон Стейнбек, один из величайших писателей Америки, считал "К востоку от Эдема" своим самым важным произведением. Действие романа разворачивается в Калифорнии, и это история о любви и ревности, прощении и мести - и о том, что значит быть человеком • Книга на английском языке • Classic / American English • "All novels ...are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves between good and evil." John Steinbeck, one of America's greatest writers, considered East of Eden to be his most important work. Set in California, the novel is a story of love and jealousy, forgiveness and revenge--and what it means to be human

"Видение предшествует словам. Ребенок смотрит и распознает прежде, чем сможет говорить" • Но есть и другой смысл, в котором видение предшествует словам. Именно видение определяет наше место в окружающем мире; мы объясняем этот мир словами, но слова никогда не смогут отменить тот факт, что мы окружены им. Связь между тем, что мы видим, и тем, что мы знаем, никогда не устанавливается • "Способы видения" Джона Бергера - одна из самых вдохновляющих и влиятельных книг по искусству на любом языке • Книга на английском языке • Based on the BBC television series, John Berger's Ways of Seeing is a unique look at the way we view art, published as part of the Penguin on Design series in Penguin Modern Classics • 'Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak

John Berger's writings on photography are some of the most original of the twentieth century. This selection contains many groundbreaking essays and previously uncollected pieces written for exhibitions and catalogues in which Berger probes the work of photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson and W. Eugene Smith - and the lives of those photographed - with fierce engagement, intensity and tenderness • The selection is made and introduced by Geoff Dyer, author of the award-winning The Ongoing Moment • How do we see the world around us? This is one of a number of pivotal works by creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision for ever • John Berger was born in London in 1926. His acclaimed works of both fiction and non-fiction include the seminal Ways of Seeing and the novel G

Both a fast-paced story of social unrest and strike, and the tale of one young man's struggle for identity, IN DUBIOUS BATTLE is a novel about the apocalyptic violence that breaks out when the masses become the mob. Set in California apple country, a strike by migrant workers spirals out of control, as principled defiance turns into blind fanaticism. Caught in this upheaval is Jim Nolan, a once aimless man who finds himself briefly becoming the leader of the strike before being crushed in its service. IN DUBIOUS BATTLE explores and dramatises many of the ideas and themes key to Steinbeck's writing

Why was an English lawyer shot dead in Turkey by his firm's top client? How can a down-at-heel magician in Devon explain the vast fortune that has mysteriously appeared in his daughter's trust fund? With customs officer Nat Brock on the trail, the answers point to the House of Single - once a respectable finance company, now entangled with a Russian crime syndicate • West is pitted against East, and the British establishment against a labyrinthine criminal superpower, in le Carre's searing novel of lives built upon lies

It's 1979 and Rabbit is no longer running. He's walking, and beginning to get out of breath. That's OK, though - it gives him the chance to enjoy the wealth that comes with middle age. It's all in place: he's Chief Sales Representative and co-owner of Springer motors; his wife, at home or in the club, is keeping trim; he wears good suits, and the cash is pouring in. So why is it that he finds it so hard to accept the way that things have turned out? And why, when he looks at his family, is he haunted by regrets about all those lives he'll never live?

Broke and working as a tour guide in Germany, rootless Englishman Ted Mundy catches a glimpse of an old friend hiding in the shadows. A friend he thought was lost to him. A friend who took him from radical 1960s Berlin to life as a double agent. Now, decades later, the Cold War is over and the war on terror has begun. Sasha has another mission for them both, but this time it is impossible to tell the difference between allies - and enemies • Set in a world of lies and shifting allegiances, Absolute Friends is a savage fable of our times