«Незнакомая дочь» – это тонкая и психологически выверенная проза, роман одновременно мрачный и вдохновляющий. У главной героини, профессора итальянского университета, внешне все неплохо – взрослые дочери живут отдельно, но регулярно звонят ей, бывший муж адекватен, она отдыхает в приятном местечке у моря… Но все ли благополучно в ее прошлом? Что заставляет эту красивую сорокалетнюю женщину вмешиваться (причем с опасностью для себя) в жизнь совер ...
Феноменальный успех романа современного немецкого писателя Бернхарда Шлинка «Чтец» (1995) сопоставим разве что с популярностью вышедшего двадцатью годами ранее романа Патрика Зюскинда «Парфюмер». «Чтец» переведен на тридцать девять языков мира, книга стала международным бестселлером и собрала целый букет престижных литературных премий в Европе и Америке. Внезапно вспыхнувший роман между пятнадцатилетним подростком, мальчиком из профессорской се ...
Eva Voller Leg dich nicht mit Mutti an gelesen von Dana Geissler Annabell, 45, alleinerziehende Teilzeitjournalistin, hat ein Problem: ihr sehr marodes altes Haus. Als sie sich endlich dazu uberwindet, bei der Bank um einen Kredit fur die dringend notige Sanierung zu bitten, gerat sie in einen Bankuberfall. Im Tumult wird sie angeschossen – zum Gluck! Denn als gefeierter Heldin wird ihr prompt der Kredit gewahrt. Doch jetzt fangt der Stress e ...
NORTHANGER ABBEY was the first of Jane Austen's novels to be completed for public¬cation, though she had previously made a start on Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. According to Cassandra Austen's Memorandum, Susan (as it was first called) was written circa 1798-99. Seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland is one of ten children of a country clergyman. Although a tomboy in her childhood, by the age of 17 she is «in training ...
THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. Commonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English, characterized by local color regionalism. It is told in the first person by Huckleberry «Huck» Finn, a friend of Tom Sawyer and narrato ...
Thomas «Tom» Sawyer is the title character of the Mark Twain novel <em>THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER</em> (1876). He appears in three other novels by Twain: ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN (1884), TOM SAWYER ABROAD (1894), and TOM SAWYER, DETECTIVE (1896). Sawyer also appears in at least three unfinished Twain works, HUCK AND TOM AMONG THE INDIANS, SCHOOLHOUSE HILL and TOM SAWYER'S CONSPIRACY. While all three uncompleted works wer ...
Widely regarded as Sadegh Hedayat's masterpiece, the Blind Owl is the most important work of literature to come out of Iran in the past century. On the surface this work seems to be a tale of doomed love, but with the turning of each page basic facts become obscure and the reader soon realizes this book is much more than a love story. Although the Blind Owl has been compared to the works of the Kafka, Rilke and Poe, this work defies categor ...
Sex was his weapon. Joan Larke is everything a Tudor virgin should be; she has beauty, innocence and piety. But her ambitious brother throws all this away without a moment’s hesitation when the up-and-coming Tom Wolsey casts his lustful eyes on her. Being little more than a mere chattel to the men who should protect her, Joan is thrust into the intrigues of the salacious Tudor court, where virtue has no value and ambition is the or ...
"Bernice L. McFadden is one of the best contemporary literary writers out there today…Her brilliance, her talent as a novelist, is the very life she breathes into all of her characters."–Terry McMillan, from the Introduction"Bernice L. McFadden was one of the best writers to emerge in the post-Waiting to Exhale explosion that introduced at least a dozen Black female novelists. Loving Donovan has generated near-cult status among readers. Aft ...
