Vintage books Arthur & George Барнс Джулиан

From the winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction comes the highly entertaining sequel to Talking it Over • In Talking it Over Gillian and Stuart were married until Oliver - witty, feckless Oliver - stole Gillian away. In Love, etc Julian Barnes revisits the three of them, using the same intimate technique of allowing the characters to speak directly to the reader, to whisper their secrets, to argue for their version of the truth. Darker and deeper than its predecessor, Love, etc is a compelling exploration of contemporary love and its betrayals

George Gissing's best-known novel shows us the literary underbelly of Victorian England, and the writers striving to forge their reputations in 'the street of no shame' • ‘As a study in the pathology of the literary life it is unequalled, and still surprisingly relevant’ David Lodge, Independent • Grub Street - where would-be writers aim high, publishers plumb the depths and literature is a trade, never a calling. In a literary world disfigured by greed and explotation, two very different writers rise and fall: Edward Reardon, a novelist whose high standards prevent him from pandering to the common taste, and Jasper Milvain, who possesses no such scruples. Gissing's dark and darkly funny novel presents a little-seen but richly absorbing slice of nineteeth-century society

Arthur Conan Doyle leaves Baker Street far behind in this ripping yarn about a undiscovered land where dinosaurs and ape-men roam • The notorious Professor Challenger claims that dinosaurs still walk the earth. When the press and the scientific community ridicule him, Challenger vows to show them proof. And so he sets off for South America, accompanied by a big game hunter, a scientist and a young reporter eager to impress the woman he loves. On a remote plateau in the middle of impenetrable jungle, they discover the impossible truth, but must battle monsters and men before they can bring their testimony home

«Шум времени» — новейшее сочинение прославленного Джулиана Барнса • В мае 1937 года мужчина лет тридцати с небольшим ждет у лифта в ленинградском многоквартирном доме. Он ждет всю ночь, ожидая, что его заберут в Большой дом. Любая знаменитость, с которой он был знаком в предыдущее десятилетие, сейчас ему ни к чему. И немногие из тех, кого забирают в Большой дом, когда-либо возвращаются • Книга на английском языке • In May 1937 a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now. And few who are taken to the Big House ever return

«Одна история» — это новейший роман прославленного Джулиана Барнса • Итак, познакомьтесь с Полом; ему девятнадцать лет. В теннисном клубе в тихом лондонском пригороде он встречает миссис Сьюзен Маклауд; ей сорок восемь. С этого и начинается их единственная история — ведь «влюбленным свойственно считать, будто их история не укладывается ни в какие рамки и рубрики»… • Книга на английском языке • Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less? That is, I think, finally, the only real question • First love has lifelong consequences, but Paul doesn't know anything about that at nineteen. At nineteen, he's proud of the fact his relationship flies in the face of social convention • As he grows older, the demands placed on Paul by love become far greater than he could possibly have foreseen

Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011 • Graham Hendrick, an historian, has left his wife Barbara for the vivacious Ann, and is more than pleased with his new life. Until, that is, the day he discovers Ann's celluloid past as a mediocre film actress. Soon Graham is pouncing on old clues, examining her books for inscriptions from past lovers, frequenting cinemas and poring over the bad movies she appeared in. It's not that he blames Anne for having a past before they met, but history has always mattered to him

Иэн Макьюэн - один из "правящего триумвирата" современной британской прозы (наряду с Джулианом Барнсом и Мартином Эмисом), лауреат Букеровской премии за роман "Амстердам" • "Искупление" - это поразительная в своей искренности "хроника утраченного времени", которую ведет девочка-подросток, на свой причудливый и по-детски жестокий лад переоценивая и переосмысливая события "взрослой" жизни. Став свидетелем изнасилования, она трактует его по-своему - и приводит в действие цепочку роковых событий, которая аукнется самым неожиданным образом через много-много лет • Книга на английском языке • The publication of Atonement cemented Ian McEwan’s reputation as one of the most exciting and accomplished writers of his generation. From its breath-taking opening section, telling the events of a fateful summer’s day in 1935, McEwan unravels a tale of love and war that breaks the heart, even as the master novelist’s provocative twists of form dazzle the senses

The prequel to The Crown: the first truly candid portrait of George V and Mary, the Queen's grandparents and creators of the modern monarchy • The lasting reputation of George V is for dullness. However throughout his reign, the monarch navigated a constitutional crisis, the First World War, the fall of thirteen European monarchies and the rise of Bolshevism. The suffragette Emily Davison threw herself under his horse at the Derby, he refused asylum to his cousin the Tsar Nicholas II and he facilitated the first Labour government • How this supposedly limited man steered the Crown through so many perils is a gripping tale. With unprecedented access to the Royal archives, Jane Ridley has been able to reassess the many myths associated with this dramatic period for the first time

A powerful, heart-breaking story about tempting fate and living with the consequences • Arthur and Jake are brothers yet worlds apart • Arthur is older, shy, dutiful and set to inherit his father's farm. Jake is younger, handsome and reckless, a dangerous man to know • When Laura arrives in their rural community, the fragile balance of the brothers' rivalry is pushed to the edge of catastrophe

Вы можете думать, что знаете все о короле Артуре, маленьком мальчике, который вытащил меч из камня. Вы, наверное, слышали истории о волшебной силе Мерлина и рыцарях круглого стола... это истории, которые мы изучаем в школе • Но это только начало. В книге Розмэри Сатклиф "Трилогия о короле Артуре" собраны истории о человеческих жертвоприношениях, драконах, смертельных схватках на мечах, благородных поисках, трагедиях и великом мужестве: это реальный мир короля Артура • Достаточно ли вы храбры, чтобы войти? • Книга на английском языке • ‘Traitor! Now is your death-time upon you!’ • You may think you know all about King Arthur, the young boy who plucked the sword from the stone. You’ve probably heard stories about Merlin's magic powers and the Knights of the round table…these are the stories we learn at school

Новый уникальный формат издания - флипбук. Книга раскрывается как блокнот, она очень маленького размера, на очень тонкой, но очень хорошей бумаге. Идеальный вариант для дороги.Когда большая часть жизни позади, людям приятно мысленно возвращаться в прошлое. Вот и герой Барнса, Тони Уэбстер, наслаждаясь заслуженным покоем, с удовольствием вспоминает дела давно минувших дней. Но неожиданно он получает письмо, которое переворачивает его безмятежную жизнь. Тони осознает, что в его прошлом была страница, которую он старательно хотел вымарать, и ему это даже удалось… Но прошлое неумолимо — пришло время эту страницу вновь открыть

Acclaimed National Book Award-winning author George Packer diagnoses America's descent into a failed state, and envisions a path toward overcoming injustices, paralyses, and divides • How, in a few decades, did the United States transform from a broadly prosperous middle-class country, with relatively healthy institutions and competent leaders, to a nation defined by discredited elites, hollowed-out institutions, and blatant inequalities-feared and pitied by our friends, mocked and sabotaged by our adversaries, first in the world in Covid cases and deaths, and led in recent years by an incompetent authoritarian bigot? Last Best Hope is a bracing account of our current crisis and of how a new era of civic revitalization may bring it to an end • Combining reportage with historical narrative, autobiography, and political analysis, Packer depicts and assesses the four inadequate narratives that dominate American public life: Libertarian America, which imagines a nation of individuals responsible for their own fate, and serves the interests of corporations and the wealthy; Cosmopolitan America, the ideology of Silicon Valley and the professional elite,which celebrates globalization and leaves many American communities behind; Diverse America, which defines citizens as members of large identity groups that have inflicted or suffered oppression; and White America, a shallow nationalism that fears the contamination of non-whites and treachery of coastal elites, and poses the greatest threat to democracy in our lifetime