Книги жанра классическая проза
A short story by Salley Vickers from the collection Reader, I Married Him: Stories inspired by Jane Eyre.In ‘Reader, She Married Me’ Mr Rochester reveals a long-kept secret.Edited by Tracy Chevalier, the full collection, Reader I Married Him, brings together some of the finest and most creative voices in fiction today, to celebrate and salute the strength and lasting relevance of Charlotte Brontë’…
«Цветочки святого Франциска Ассизского» – название классического собрания народных легенд о жизни святого Франциска Ассизского и его первых сподвижников. Франциск Ассизский (1182–1226) – один из крупнейших христианских святых, проповедник, основатель ордена францисканцев. Образ святого притягивает к себе внимание людей самых разных взглядов: церковных иерархов и мыслителей, королей и революционеро…
Комитет состоит из одной девушки… Всех остальных посадили… © FantLab.ru
Герой находит мудреца, поведавшего ему Смысл Жизни. © FantLab.ru
A short story by Helen Dunmore from the collection Reader, I Married Him: Stories inspired by Jane Eyre.In ‘Grace Poole Her Testimony’, Grace Poole defends Bertha Mason and calls the general opinion of Jane Eyre into question.Edited by Tracy Chevalier, the full collection, Reader, I Married Him, brings together some of the finest and most creative voices in fiction today, to celebrate and salute t…
A short story by Jane Gardam from the collection Reader, I Married Him: Stories inspired by Jane Eyre.In ‘It’s a Man’s Life, Ladies’, a young woman tells the story of her grandmother’s memories of married life.Edited by Tracy Chevalier, the full collection, Reader, I Married Him, brings together some of the finest and most creative voices in fiction today, to celebrate and salute the strength and …
A short story by Emma Donoghue from the collection Reader, I Married Him: Stories inspired by Jane Eyre.‘Since First I Saw Your Face’ reimagines a relationship between two notable Victorian women.Edited by Tracy Chevalier, the full collection, Reader, I Married Him, brings together some of the finest and most creative voices in fiction today, to celebrate and salute the strength and lasting releva…
A short story by Joanna Briscoe from the collection Reader, I Married Him: Stories inspired by Jane Eyre.In ‘To Hold’, a woman looks back on her life, which has been defined by three marriages.Edited by Tracy Chevalier, the full collection, Reader, I Married Him, brings together some of the finest and most creative voices in fiction today, to celebrate and salute the strength and lasting relevance…
A wonderful comic novel from the bestselling author of ‘Eats Shoots & Leaves’.Belinda Johansson is a woman frantic, overwhelmed by the demands of work and home. Having it all? Pah. Belinda doesn't want any of it. Deep in research for her magnum opus – a definitive account of the doppelgänger in classic gothic fiction – she fails to notice the echoes of these ghoulish tales disturbingly close at ha…
A short story by Francine Prose from the collection Reader, I Married Him: Stories inspired by Jane Eyre.‘The Mirror’ boldly imagines Jane Eyre’s married life after the novel ends.Edited by Tracy Chevalier, the full collection, Reader, I Married Him, brings together some of the finest and most creative voices in fiction today, to celebrate and salute the strength and lasting relevance of Charlotte…
One of the great hidden gems of the past decade.Written in brief entries from ‘Ambition’ to ‘Zzzzz’ Salway's confident debut novel chronicles the existential ups and downs of British 20-something Verity Bell.The alphabetically arranged mini-chapters make for an inventive and episodic narrative, as Verity muses on her career (A is for Attitude: «I work as a secretary in the media… something I don't…