Viktors IgoCilvēks kas smejasAnglijā viss ir dižens, pat tas, kas nav labs, pat oligarhija. Angļu patriciāts ir patriciāts šā vārda vispilnīgākajā nozīmē. Nekur pasaulē nav bijis spo­žākas, nežēlīgākas un tik dzīvotspējīgas feodālās iekārtas ka Anglijā. Tiesa, šī feodālā iekārta savā laikā bijusi lietderīga. Tieši Anglijā būtu jāpēta feo­dāļu vara, tāpat ka Francijā jāpēta karaļu vara.īstenībā šās gramatas nosaukumam vajadzētu būt «Aristokrātija». Nakamo grāmatu, kas būs šas turpi­nājums, varēs nosaukt — «Monarhija». Un šīs abas gramatas, ja autoram būs lemts darbu pabeigt, ieva­dīs vēl vienu grāmatu, kas tam sekos un sauksies «Deviņdesmit trešais gads».No franču valodas tulkojusi Milda Grīntāle Mākslinieks Gunvalds ElvisNoskannējis grāmatu un FB2 failu izveidojis Imants LočmelisOtvilhauzē 1869 gada aprīlīLiesma 1971

Johanness Mario ZimmelsCilvēks nav vientuļa salaRomans. 2. izdevums.Populārā bestselleru autora Johannesa Mario Zimmela (dz. 1921. g.) ro­mānā spilgtās krāsās attēlota Rietumu kinematogrāfijas raibā pasaule ar tajā valdošo nežēlīgo ekspluatāciju un cietsirdību. Saistoši stāstīdams par talantīgas kinoaktrises Silvijas Moranas un viņas mazās, meitiņas Barbaras bēdīgo likteni, autors aizved lasītāju uz visdažādākajām zemeslodes vietām.No vācu valodas tulkojusi Ilga MelnbārdeNoskanējis grāmatu un failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis imantslochmelis@inbox.lvJohannes Mario Simmel Niemand ist eine insel Roman;C; Droemer Knaur Verlag Schoeller & Co., Locarno 1975Redaktore Silvija Tītmane Mākslinieks Juris PetraškevičsRiga «Liesma» 1992

Clair de lune est un recueil de nouvelles de Guy de Maupassant, publié en 1883 aux éditions Monnier, puis dans une édition augmentée en 1888 chez Paul Ollendorff.La plupart des contes ont fait l'objet d'une publication antérieure dans des journaux comme Le Gaulois ou Gil Blas, parfois sous le pseudonyme de Maufrigneuse.

Claude Gueux, condamné à de la prison pour le vol d'un pain, se retrouve persécuté par un gardien de prison. La seule issue que trouve Claude Gueux à cette injustice est le meurtre de cet homme…Victor Hugo s'est déjà engagé dans le combat contre la peine de mort dans un roman précédent, Les Derniers Jours d'un condamné à mort. C'est en lisant, dans la gazette des tribunaux, le procès de Claude Gueux que Victor Hugo décide d'en écrire la vie depuis son entrée en prison jusqu'à son exécution, avant de conclure par un plaidoyer contre cette société implacable avec les victimes de la misère humaine.

Paris in the 1920s — dizzy and decadent. Where a young man can make a fortune with his wits … unless he is led into temptation. Cocaine’s dandified hero Tito Arnaudi invents lurid scandals and gruesome deaths, and sells these stories to the newspapers. But his own life becomes even more outrageous than his press reports when he acquires three demanding mistresses. Elegant, witty and wicked, Pitigrilli’s classic novel was first published in Italian in 1921 and charts the comedy and tragedy of a young man’s downfall and the lure of a bygone era. The novel’s descriptions of sex and drug use prompted church authorities to place it on a list of forbidden books, while appealing to filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder who wrote a script based on the tale. Cocaine retains its venom even today.

«Cold Hand in Mine» was first published in the UK in 1975 and in the US in 1977. The story «Pages from a Young Girl's Journal» won Aickman the World Fantasy Award in 1975. It was originally published in «The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction» in 1973 before appearing in this collection.«Cold Hand in Mine» stands as one of Aickman's best collections and contains eight stories that show off his powers as a «strange story» writer to the full, being more ambiguous than standard ghost stories. Throughout the stories the reader is introduced to a variety of characters, from a man who spends the night in a Hospice to a German aristocrat and a woman who sees an image of her own soul. There is also a nod to the conventional vampire story («Pages from a Young Girl's Journal») but all the stories remain unconventional and inconclusive, which perhaps makes them all the more startling and intriguing.«Of all the authors of uncanny tales, Aickman is the best ever…His tales literally haunt me; his plots and his turns of phrase run through my head at the most unlikely moments.» — Russell Kirk.

Collages is Anaïs Nin’s last work of fiction, and is, as the title suggests, a collection of interwoven stories, opening and closing with the passage: “Vienna was the city of statues. They were as numerous as the people who walked the streets. They stood on the top of the highest towers, lay down on stone tombs, sat on horseback, kneeled, prayed, fought animals and wars, danced, drank wine and read books made of stone.”The central character, Renate, is a sort of “master of ceremonies” for Nin’s modern fairy tales, as she floats through the narrative and communes, in one way or another, with each of the “storytellers.” Among them are: Varda, the artist whose interaction with his daughter causes him to spin story upon story in order to win her over to his artistic way of thinking; Henri the chef, who names each of his dishes after celebrities and has stories for the most interesting of them; Nina, a young woman whose spontaneous musings lead casual observers to believe she is insane; Nobuko, the Japanese actress whose charming commentaries and letters are laden with magical yet incorrect English; Bruce, whose betrayals to Renate with boys are written in story form hidden in Chinese puzzle boxes; Count Laudromat, the exiled royal whose father-in-law is an owner of laudromats; the French Consul and his wife, who are writers with extremely different outlooks on love and passion; John Wilkes, the “millionaire patron of the arts” who is actually a gardener; Dr. Mann, an Israeli with the unusual pastime of meeting and kissing famous women authors; and the enigmatic Judith Sands, who may have actually “written” Collages.Collages is Nin’s most light-hearted writing, and, in that sense, is perhaps her most entertaining book. As Henry Miller commented, “The best of collages fall apart with time; these will not.”

This magisterial collection of short works by Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner reminds readers of his ability to compress his epic vision into narratives as hard and wounding as bullets. Among the 42 selections in this book are such classics as “A Bear Hunt, ” “A Rose for Emily,” “Two Soldiers,” and “The Brooch.”

This collection of Raja Rao’s short fiction traverses the entire span of his literary career. These vibrant stories reveal his deep understanding of village life and his passion for India’s freedom struggle, and showcase his experimentation with form and style. They range from ones written by a struggling young writer to those of later years, displaying a mature, stylistic formalism.

An American millionaire builds a Christian seminary in India, furthering his spiritual mission — and setting into motion a generations-spanning cycle of miscommunication and fracture within his family.Beginning in the 1890s, Come, My Beloved describes an American family’s involvement with India over four generations. Touched by the poverty he encounters in Bombay, self-made millionaire David MacArd establishes a seminary for Christian missionary workers, and in so doing shapes the fates of his son and grandson. The choices made by each generation parallel one another, distinctly marked by the passage of time — though the patriarch remains in New York, the second David becomes a missionary in India himself, while his own son, Ted, goes even further, opting to live in a remote village — and these choices come with unforeseen sacrifices. Nor does their religious journey necessarily mean any growing harmony with their surroundings — something that is powerfully brought home when Ted refuses to let his daughter marry across racial lines. Featuring an unforgettable rendering of India during Gandhi’s rise to power, Come, My Beloved is a family saga of rare power and sensitivity.

George Bowling, the hero of this comic novel, is a middle-aged insurance salesman who lives in an average English suburban row house with a wife and two children. One day, after winning some money from a bet, he goes back to the village where he grew up, to fish for carp in a pool he remembers from thirty years before. The pool, alas, is gone, the village has changed beyond recognition, and the principal event of his holiday is an accidental bombing by the RAF.

“I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.” These words of Maupassant to Jose Maria de Heredia on the occasion of a memorable meeting are, in spite of their morbid solemnity, not an inexact summing up of the brief career during which, for ten years, the writer, by turns undaunted and sorrowful, with the fertility of a master hand produced poetry, novels, romances and travels, only to sink prematurely into the abyss of madness and death…..This book contains all thirteen volumes of his original short stories.

Sir James Matthew Barrie (1860 – 1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. He was born and educated in Scotland but moved to London, where he wrote a number of successful novels and plays. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys, who inspired him to write about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens (included in The Little White Bird), then to write Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a "fairy play" about an ageless boy and an ordinary girl named Wendy who have adventures in the fantasy setting of Neverland. Although he continued to write successfully, Peter Pan overshadowed his other work.

The Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde is the only truly complete and authoritative single-volume edition of Oscar Wilde’s works. Continuously in print since 1948, the Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde has long been recognised as the most comprehensive and authoritative single-volume collection of Wilde’s texts available, containing his only novel, The Portrait of Dorian Gray, as well as his plays, stories, poems, essays and letters, all in their most authoritative texts. Also included is a comprehensive bibliography of works by and about Oscar Wilde, and a chronological table of his life and work.

92 pp., México, Siglo XXI Editores, 1974, en, Novelas y relatos. «Carpentier en la maestría de sus novelas y relatos breves», por Salvador Bueno, La Habana, UNEAC, 1974 (Letras Cubanas)La concepción de `lo real maravilloso` de Alejo Carpentier (La Habana, 1904-1980), uno de los más destacados intelectuales contemporáneos, marcó toda una época de producción y crítica literarias. Esta edición incluye un estudio preliminar de Federico Acevedo que ubica y analiza la obra de tal manera que el nuevo lector se anime a leerla y el que ya la conoce la relea con renovado placerConcierto barroco es una novela deliciosa, propositiva, liberadora. En ella, el escritor utiliza los recursos propios del barroco: la parodia, el artificio, la hipérbole, la enu- meración proliferante, con mayor liberalidad, rompe con las ataduras de la cronología histórica y adquiere un extraordinario sentido del humor. Concierto barroco cuenta la historia de la puesta en escena de una ópera de Antonio Vivaldi, estrenada en el teatro Sant`Angelo de Venecia en el. otoño de 1733, en la cual se nana la derrota de Moctezuma por las fuerzas espa- ñolas que capitanea Hernán Cortés. El tema no puede ser más propicio para la pluma de Carpentier, pues se trata de una ópera barroca, que permite, además, enfrentar dos historias, dos culturas, dos mundos -América y Europa-, de cuya contraposición surge, en la óptica carpenteriana, precisamente lo real maravilloso. Novela que da cuenta del gusto de Alejo Carpentier. por la música, una segunda vocación que, junto con la arquitec- tura, subyace en toda su obra y que ya se había manifes- tado con singular vehemencia en Los pasos perdidos.

In a Russian restaurant on Paris's Left Bank, Russian exile Golubchik alternately fascinates and horrifies a rapt audience with a wild story of collaboration, deception, and murder in the days leading up to the Russian Revolution. “Worthy to sit beside Conrad and Dostoevsky’s excursions into the twisted world of secret agents. Joseph Roth is one of the great writers in German of this century; and this novel is a fine introduction to this view of intrigue, necessity, and moral doubt.” The London Times