fb2В однотомник включены лучшие сатирические романы одной из крупнейших современных писательниц Великобритании: «Memento mori», «Мисс Джин Броди в расцвете лет», «Умышленная задержка»; антирасистская повесть «Птичка-„уходи“» и рассказы разных лет.
В однотомник включены лучшие сатирические романы одной из крупнейших современных писательниц Великобритании: «Memento mori», «Мисс Джин Броди в расцвете лет», «Умышленная задержка»; антирасистская повесть «Птичка-«уходи» и рассказы разных лет.
A reissue of the 1960 novel which revolves around Dougal Douglas, evil genius and charmer who turns an entire South London community on its head. Murial Spark is the author of more than 15 novels including "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" and "Girls of Slender Means".
Contents
The Go-Away Bird
The Curtain Blown by the Breeze
Bang-Bang You’re Dead
The Seraph and the Zambezi
The Pawnbroker’s Wife
The Snobs
A Member of the Family
The Fortune-Teller
The Fathers’ Daughters
Open to the Public
The Dragon
The Leaf Sweeper
Harper and Wilton
The Executor
Another Pair of Hands
The Girl I Left Behind Me
Miss Pinkerton’s Apocalypse
The Pearly Shadow
Going Up and Coming Down
You Should Have Seen the Mess
Quest for Lavishes Ghast
The Young Man Who Discovered the Secret of Life
Daisy Overend
The House of the Famous Poet
The Playhouse Called Remarkable
Chimes
Ladies and Gentlemen
Come Along, Marjorie
The Twins
‘A Sad Tale’s Best for Winter’
Christmas Fugue
The First Year of My Life
The Gentile Jewesses
Alice Long’s Dachshunds
The Dark Glasses
The Ormolu Clock
The Portobello Road
The Black Madonna
The Thing about Police Stations
A Hundred and Eleven Years Without a Chauffeur
The Hanging Judge
Like the May of Teck Club itself—"three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit"—its lady inhabitants do their best to act as if the world were back to normal: practicing elocution, and jostling over suitors and a single Schiaparelli gown. The novel's harrowing ending reveals that the girls' giddy literary and amorous peregrinations are hiding some tragically painful war wounds.
Chosen by Anthony Burgess as one of the Best Modern Novels in the Sunday Times of London, The Girls of Slender Means is a taut and eerily perfect novel by an author The New York Times has called "one of this century's finest creators of comic-metaphysical entertainment."