Penguin The Moon is Down Стейнбек Джон

Первоначально опубликованный в зените могущества нацистской Германии, роман "Луна зашла" исследует последствия вторжения как для побежденных, так и для завоевателей. Оккупированный вражескими войсками, маленький мирный городок сталкивается лицом к лицу со злом, навязанным извне, и предательством внутри сплоченного сообщества. Вникая в мотивы и эмоции врага, Стейнбек раскрывает глубокие и часто тревожные истины как о войне, так и о природе человека • Книга на английском языке • Originally published at the zenith of Nazi Germany's power, The Moon Is Down explores the effects of invasion on both the conquered and the conquerors. Occupied by enemy troops, a small, peaceable town comes face-to-face with evil imposed from the outside and betrayal from within the close-knit community

Each of these delightful interconnected tales is devoted to a family living in a fertile valley on the outskirts of Monterey, California, and the effects that one particular family has on them all. Steinbeck tackles two important literary traditions here; American naturalism, with its focus on the conflict between natural instincts and the demand to conform to society's norms, and the short story cycle. Set in the heart of 'Steinbeck land', the lush Californian valleys

The eighth of John le Carre's espionage novels to feature his most enduring and well-loved character, George Smiley, and a gripping feat of narrative brilliance, The Secret Pilgrim is published in Penguin Modern Classics with an afterword by the author • The Cold War is over and Ned has been demoted to the training academy. He asks his old mentor, George Smiley, to address his passing-out class. There are no laundered reminiscences; Smiley speaks the truth - perhaps the last the students will ever hear. As they listen, Ned recalls his own painful triumphs and inglorious failures, in a career that took him from the Western Isles of Scotland to Hamburg and from Israel to Cambodia. He asks himself: Did it do any good? What did it do to me? And what will happen to us now? In this late Smiley novel, the great spy gives his own humane and unexpected answers

The eighth of John le Carre's espionage novels to feature his most enduring and well-loved character, George Smiley, The Secret Pilgrim is a gripping feat of narrative brilliance • The Cold War is over and Ned has been demoted to the training academy. He asks his old mentor, George Smiley, to address his passing-out class. There are no laundered reminiscences; Smiley speaks the truth - perhaps the last the students will ever hear. As they listen, Ned recalls his own painful triumphs and inglorious failures, in a career that took him from the Western Isles of Scotland to Hamburg and from Israel to Cambodia. He asks himself: Did it do any good? What did it do to me? And what will happen to us now? In this late Smiley novel, the great spy gives his own humane and unexpected answers

While fulfilling his dead father's dream of creating a prosperous farm in California, Joseph Wayne comes to believe that a magnificent tree on the farm embodies his father's spirit. His brothers and their families share in Joseph's prosperity andthe farm flourishes - until one brother, scared by Joseph's pagan belief, kills the tree and brings disease and famine on the farm. Set in familiar Steinbeck country, To a God Unknown is a mystical tale, exploring one man's attempt to control theforces of nature and to understand the ways of God

As an interpreter of African languages, Bruno Salvador is much in demand. He makes it a principle to remain neutral - no matter what he hears. But when he is summoned on a secret job for British Intelligence, he is told he will have to get his hands dirty. His mission is to help bring democracy to the Congo - democracy that will be delivered at the end of a gun barrel • The Mission Song is an excoriating depiction of a corrupt world where loyalty can be bought and war is simply an opportunity to settle old scores

John le Carre's first post-glasnost spy novel, The Russia House captures the effect of a slow and uncertain thaw on ordinary people and on the shadowy puppet-masters who command them • Barley Blair is not a Service man: he is a small-time publisher, a self-destructive soul whose only loves are whisky and jazz. But it was Barley who, one drunken night at a dacha in Peredelkino during the Moscow Book Fair, was befriended by a high-ranking Soviet scientist who could be the greatest asset to the West since perestroika began, and made a promise. Nearly a year later, his drunken promise returns to haunt him. A reluctant Barley is quickly trained by British Intelligence and sent to Moscow to liaise with a go-between, the beautiful Katya. Both are lonely and disillusioned

Henry Bech, the celebrated author of Travel Light, has been scrutinized, canonized and vilified by critics and readers across the world. Here, the experiences of this bemused literary icon, one of Updike's greatest creations, are described in hilarious detail, as he travels the world struggling to break his writer's block; returns to his native America to find new success with Think Big, his all-time blockbuster; and visits communist Czechoslovakia, where he is greeted by a dizzyingly adoring public. Brilliantly comic and deeply poignant, The Complete Henry Bech is one of the greatest of all explorations of the writing life and of what happens when an writer becomes a literary celebrity

From his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War to a career as a writer, John le Carre has lived a unique life • In this, his first memoir, le Carre is as funny as he is incisive - reading into the events he witnesses the same moral ambiguity with which he imbues his novels. Whether he's interviewing a German terrorist in her desert prison or watching Alec Guinness preparing for his role as George Smiley, this book invites us to think anew about events and people we believed we understood • Best of all, le Carre gives us a glimpse of a writer's journey over more than six decades, and his own hunt for the human spark that has given so much life and heart to his fictional characters

In The Night Manager, an ex-soldier helps British Intelligence penetrate the secret world of ruthless arms dealers • At the start of it all, Jonathan Pine is merely the night manager at a luxury hotel. But when a single attempt to pass on information to the British authorities - about an international businessman at the hotel with suspicious dealings - backfires terribly, and people close to Pine begin to die, he commits himself to a battle against powerful forces he cannot begin to imagine • In a chilling tale of corrupt intelligence agencies, billion-dollar price tags and the truth of the brutal arms trade, John le Carre creates a claustrophobic world in which no one can be trusted

Джордж Смайли, ныне исполняющий обязанности главы разведывательной службы Ми-6, должен восстановить влияние своей организации после одного из крупнейших предательств в её истории. Воспользовавшись талантами Джерри Уэстерби, журналиста, иногда занимающегося шпионажем в пользу британской разведки, Смайли даёт ход рискованной операции, призванной вывести на чистую воду схему отмывания денег на Дальнем Востоке • Его цель? Отомстить Карле - высокопоставленному агенту советской разведки и виновнице всех его проблем • "Достопочтенный школяр" - вторая часть "трилогии Карлы" Джона ле Карре, в которой противостояние Смайли и его соперницы из СССР принимает ещё более опасный оборот • Книга на английском языке • George Smiley, now acting head of the Circus, must rebuild its shattered reputation after one of the biggest betrayals in its history

В романе Ле Карре "Ночной менеджер" после окончания холодной войны Джонатан Пайн, бывший солдат британской армии и ночной менеджер каирского отеля, помогает британской разведке проникнуть в тайный мир безжалостных торговцев оружием • В начале всего этого Джонатан Пайн был всего лишь ночным менеджером в роскошном отеле. Но когда единственная попытка передать британским властям информацию - о международном бизнесмене в отеле с подозрительными сделками - приводит к ужасным последствиям, и близкие Пайну люди начинают умирать, он вступает в битву с могущественными силами, которые он даже представить себе не может • В леденящей душу истории о коррумпированных спецслужбах, миллиардных ценниках и правде о жестокой торговле оружием Джон Ле Карре создает клаустрофобный мир, в котором никому нельзя доверять