Vintage books On A Chinese Screen Моэм Уильям Сомерсет

"Дальневосточные сказки" - это сборник рассказов, родившихся на основе впечатлений Уильяма Сомерсета Моэма о Малайе, Сингапуре и других форпостах бывшей Британской империи. Изображают ли они бегство на корабле от проклятия возлюбленного, убийство в джунглях или брак, разрушенный прошлой неосторожностью, все они раскрывают Моэма с лучшей стороны - иногда едкого, иногда слегка комичного, но всегда проницательного и человечного судью характера и души • Книга на английском языке • Mesmerising short stories by this neglected 20th century master • Far Eastern Tales is a collection of short stories born of Maugham's experiences in Malaya, Singapore and other outposts of the former British Empire. Whether portraying a ship-borne flight from a lover's curse, murder in the jungle, or a marriage shattered by a past indiscretion, they all reveal Maugham at his best - sometimes caustic, sometimes gently comic, but always the shrewd and human judge of character and soul

'She was a fool and he knew it and because he loved her it had made no difference' • Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. Unsatisfied by her marriage, she starts an affair with charming, attractive and exciting Charles Townsend. But when Walter discovers her deception, he exacts a strange and terrible vengeance: Kitty must accompany him to his new posting in remote mainland China, where a cholera epidemic rages • VINTAGE DECO: Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on

Редкая и ценная возможность поближе взглянуть на жизнь и внутренний мир одного из самых загадочных писателей XX века • Эта книга, которую Уильям Сомерсэт Моэм написал в возрасте шестидесяти четырёх лет, не автобиография, но она рассказывает историю его жизни. Не исповедь, но она полна откровений. "Подводя итоги" - уникальное выражение личного кредо, не только рассказывающее о взглядах великого писателя на стиль, литературу, искусство, театр и философию, но и позволяющее по-новому оценить его мастерство • Книга на английском языке • A rare glimpse into the life and mind of one of the most enigmatic of 20th century authors • Autobiographical without being an autobiography, confessional without disclosing his private self, The Summing Up, written when Maugham was sixty-four, is an inimitable expression of a personal credo

Уильям Стайрон: выбор Софи • В этом необычном романе Стинго, неопытный двадцатидвухлетний южанин, переносит нас назад, в лето 1947 года, в пансионат в зеленом пригороде Бруклина. Там он знакомится с Натаном, пылким еврейским интеллектуалом, и Софи, красивой и хрупкой польской католичкой. Стинго оказывается втянутым в самое сердце их страстных и разрушительных отношений в качестве свидетеля, доверенного лица и просителя. В конечном счете, он добирается до темной сердцевины прошлого Софи: ее воспоминаний о довоенной Польше, концентрационном лагере и - суть ее ужасной тайны - ее выборе • Книга на английском языке • In this extraordinary novel, Stingo, an inexperienced twenty-two year old Southerner, takes us back to the summer of 1947 and a boarding house in a leafy Brooklyn suburb

On the Black Hill is an elegantly written tale of identical twin brothers who grow up on a farm in rural Wales and never leave home. They till the rough soil and sleep in the same bed, touched only occasionally by the advances of the twentieth century • In depicting the lives of Benjamin and Lewis and their interactions with their small local community Chatwin comments movingly on the larger questions of human experience

Reissued in new series style to match Faulks's most recent novel Where My Heart Used to Beat, which was a major Sunday Times bestseller in 2016 • A vividly evocative novel set in Cold War and New Frontier era America, from the bestselling author of Birdsong and Charlotte Gray • America, 1959. With two young children she adores, loving parents back in London, and an admired husband, Charlie, working at the British embassy in Washington, the world seems an effervescent place of parties, jazz and family happiness to Mary van der Linden. But the Eisenhower years are ending, and 1960 brings the presidential battle between two ambitious senators: John Kennedy and Richard Nixon. But when Frank, an American newspaper reporter, enters their lives Mary embarks on a passionate affair, all the while knowing that in the end she must confront an impossible decision

It is July 1962. Edward and Florence, young innocents married that morning, arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their private fears of the wedding night to come and, unbeknownst to them both, the events of the evening will haunt them for the rest of their lives

После окончания войны радиоактивное облако начинает уноситься ветром на юг, постепенно отравляя все на своем пути. Капитан американской подводной лодки находится среди выживших, оставшихся в живых в Австралии, готовясь вместе с местными жителями к неизбежному. Несмотря на свои воспоминания о жене, он сближается с молодой женщиной, изо всех сил пытающейся принять суровые реалии их положения. Затем принимается слабый сигнал азбукой Морзе, передаваемый из Соединенных Штатов, и подводная лодка должна отправиться в плавание по суровому океану в поисках признаков жизни • "На пляже" - самый сильный роман Невила Шюта. Одновременно захватывающий и сильно волнующий, его воздействие незабываемо • Книга на английском языке • After the war is over, a radioactive cloud begins to sweep southwards on the winds, gradually poisoning everything in its path

A collection of powerful short stories from a master of the form, W Somerset Maugham • From the love affair between a missionary and a drunkard to the mystery surrounding a death at sea, this collection gives a warm and humourous insight into life and history of life in the colonies and stands as a superbly entertaining and compelling testament to Maugham's skill and power as a short story writer

An enjoyable 19th century read following doomed happenings and grisly, secret premonitions • An eminent doctor is visited by a desperate woman with a question: am I evil, or insane? • When the letters from Italian servant to his wife in London suddenly cease, she is convinced he has been murdered • In the darkened bedroom of a mouldering palazzo by the Grand Canal, an English lord sickens and suddenly dies • How are these little mysteries connected? Spend the night in Room 14 of Venice’s finest hotel, and find out the truth – if you dare…

Four very different women have made their way from Africa to Brussels. They have come to claim for themselves the riches they believe Europe promises but when Sisi, the most enigmatic of the women, is murdered, their already fragile world is shattered • Drawn together by tragedy, the remaining three women - Joyce, a great beauty whose life has been destroyed by war; Ama, whose dark moods manifest a past injustice; Efe, whose efforts to earn her keep are motivated by a particular zeal - slowly begin to share their stories. They are stories of terror, of displacement, of love, and of a sinister man called Dele

A profoundly intelligent book about identity: how the individual defines it and how different cultures perceive and construct it • The notion of identity - personal, religious, ethnic or national - is one that has given rise to heated passions and crimes throughout the history of mankind. What it is that makes each one of us unique and dissimilar to any other individual has been one of the fundamental questions of philosophy from Socrates to Freud • In this important series of reflections, the author, a Lebanese who now lives in France, where he is a well-known writer and commentator, considers how we define ourselves and how identity is understood in the world's different cultures