"Hanns Heinz Ewers was born in Dusseldorf in 1871. He gained notoriety at an early age with a volume of satiric poetry and held onto it by forming a controversial itinerant theater company He produced several volumes of short stories and a series of remarkable novels, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice " "Alraune" (filmed in the 1920's) and "Vampire," between 1907 and 1922. He went on to achieve limited prominence as a Nazi, dying in Berlin in 1943.""Ewers rejected the literary conventions of his day, and is regarded as a minor literary figure in Germany today. His stories and novels are often regarded as works of fantasy, though there is really very little of the supernatural in them. They are more properly horror stories with an emphasis on the extremes of human experience, displaying an unhealthy, but fascinating, interest in pain, madness, and perversity. Ewers never forgot entirely the folk tales at the base of all Germanic fiction, and many of his stories resemble evil fables. The brief example that follows is typical."— William Wallace

До видання увійшли кращі твори талановитого українського письменника, блискучого новеліста, послідовника І. Франка, майстра слова Михайла Коцюбинського (1864—1913) – «Fata morgana», «Тіні забутих предків», «Коні не винні», «Intermezzo», «Сміх» та ін. Невеликі за обсягом, проте психологічно напружені твори, в яких письменник зобразив живі й правдиві образи, належать до найвищих досягнень української класичної прози.

Winner of the Scott Moncrieff Prize for Translation.1915: Jean Dartemont heads off to the Great War, an eager conscript. The only thing he fears is missing the action. Soon, however, the vaunted “war to end all wars” seems like a war that will never end: whether mired in the trenches or going over the top, Jean finds himself caught in the midst of an unimaginable, unceasing slaughter. After he is wounded, he returns from the front to discover a world where no one knows or wants to know any of this. Both the public and the authorities go on talking about heroes — and sending more men to their graves. But Jean refuses to keep silent. He will speak the forbidden word. He will tell them about fear.John Berger has called Fear “a book of the utmost urgency and relevance.” A literary masterpiece, it is also an essential and unforgettable reckoning with the terrible war that gave birth to a century of war.

Erzählung aus Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten (1795)

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Upon his return to Europe from fighting on the eastern front in World War I, Franz Tunda finds that the old order is gone and Europe has changed utterly. Disillusioned by the new ideologies, he is the archetypal modern man taken up by the currents of history.

v1.0 - eBook downloaded from http://torrents.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?t=463754and after that imported to fb2 by soshial (21.05.2008)Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye; and he who remembers this when he sees any one whose vision is perplexed and weak, will not be too ready to laugh; he will first ask whether that soul of man has come out of the brighter life, and is unable to see because unaccustomed to the dark, or having turned from darkness to the day is dazzled by excess of light. And he will count the one happy in his condition and state of being, and he will pity the other; or, if he have a mind to laugh at the soul which comes from below into the light, there will be more reason in this than in the laugh which greets him who returns from above out of the light into the den.—Plato, The RepublicA HARVEST BOOK | HARCOURT, INC.ORLANDO AUSTIN NEW YORK SAN DIEGO TORONTO LONDONCopyright © 1966,1959 by Daniel Keyes Copyright renewed 1994 1987 by Daniel KeyesAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.Requests for permission to make copies of any part of the work should be mailed to the following address: Permissions Department, Harcourt, Inc., 6277 Sea Harbor Drive, Orlando, Florida 32887-6777. www.HarcourtBooks.comLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataKeyes, Daniel.Flowers for Algernon/Daniel Keyes.—1st harvest ed. p. cm."A Harvest Book."ISBN 0-15-603008-XPS3561.E769F562004813'.54—dc22 2004005049Text set in Adobe Garamond Designed by Scott PieblPrinted in the United States of America First Harvest edition 2004K J I H

v0.0 — 21 jul 2002 — proofed for #bookzv1.0 — eBook downloaded from http://torrents.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?t=463754and after that imported to fb2 by soshial (21.05.2008)wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowers_for_AlgernonAny one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye; and he who remembers this when he sees any one whose vision is perplexed and weak, will not be too ready to laugh; he will first ask whether that soul of man has come out of the brighter life, and is unable to see because unaccustomed to the dark, or having turned from darkness to the day is dazzled by excess of light. And he will count the one happy in his condition and state of being, and he will pity the other; or, if he have a mind to laugh at the soul which comes from below into the light, there will be more reason in this than in the laugh which greets him who returns from above out of the light into the den.—Plato, The Republic

Flush es un `cocker spaniel` de orejas largas, cola ancha y unos `ojos atónitos color avellana`. A los pocos meses de su nacimiento es regalado a la ya famosa poestisa Elizabeth Barret. Fluxh se convertirá en su compañero inseparable y, posteriormente, en el cómplice de sus amoríos con el poeta Robert Browning, aunque primero debe superar la animadversión y los celos que siente ante su afortunado rival.

'Absolutely, definitively alone', a young Jewish student in Romania tries to make sense of a world that has decided he doesn't belong. Spending his days walking the streets and his nights drinking and gambling, meeting revolutionaries, zealots, lovers and libertines, he adjusts his eyes to the darkness that falls over Europe, and threatens to destroy him.Mihail Sebastian's 1934 masterpiece, now translated into English for the first time, was written amid the anti-Semitism which would, by the end of the decade, force him out of his career and turn his friends and colleagues against him. For Two Thousand Years is a prescient, heart-wrenching chronicle of resilience and despair, broken layers of memory and the terrible forces of history.

In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from "the good fight," For Whom the Bell Tolls. The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain, it tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal. In his portrayal of Jordan's love for the beautiful Maria and his suberb account of El Sordo's last stand, in his brilliant travesty of La Pasionaria and his unwillingness to believe in blind faith, Hemingway surpasses his achievement in The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms to create a work at once rare and beautiful, strong and brutal, compassionate, moving and wise. "If the function of a writer is to reveal reality," Maxwell Perkins wrote to Hemingway after reading the manuscript, "no one ever so completely performed it." Greater in power, broader in scope, and more intensely emotional than any of the author's previous works, it stands as one of the best war novels of all time.

Olivier Bertin, peintre célèbre et mondain, voit défiler dans son atelier parisien les plus belles femmes de la haute société. Il se montre « difficile et se fait payer fort cher ». Il tombe un jour très amoureux de l'une d'elles, Anne de Guilleroy, séduit par sa grâce et son élégance. Fille d'un riche commerçant, elle est mariée à un député enrichi de la petite noblesse normande et mère d'une fillette de six ans. Elle devient très vite sa maîtresse.Douze années passent, le peintre est aimé passionnément par cette femme mariée, maintenant d'âge mûr. Elle vit dans l'angoisse de le perdre, son attachement passionné grandit avec le temps ; elle consacre son existence à préserver leur amour, conservant sa coquetterie et son charme tout en sachant le flatter. Bertin lui voue quant à lui « une affection calmée, profonde, une sorte d'amitié amoureuse dont il avait pris l'habitude », sa passion originelle transformée avec le temps.La fille d'Anne, Annette de Guilleroy, réapparaît après trois ans d'absence totale. Elle est devenue une belle jeune fille de dix-huit ans, tout juste sortie de l'adolescence. Mais l'artiste vieillissant compare, un jour, l'image, jeune, de sa maîtresse qu'il avait représentée sur une toile, et sa fille. Il retrouve dans le visage d'Annette, puis dans les intonations de sa voix, sa maîtresse jeune. Cette ressemblance troublante fait basculer l'existence des deux amants. Anne, qui a d'abord joué de cette confusion, réalise qu'Olivier tombe, sans s'en rendre compte, amoureux de sa fille, ou plutôt de l'image jeune d'Anne qu'il retrouve en celle-ci, croyant revivre son amour de jeunesse avec sa maîtresse rajeunie… Elle le met en garde de ce danger mais il est déjà trop tard.Cette passion platonique et sans issue amène Bertin et son amie Anne à méditer sur la fuite du temps et la déchéance apportée par le vieillissement qui les atteint progressivement. Le peintre réalise sa propre déchéance, il a vieilli et perdu sa créativité, noyée par l'univers mondain trop conventionnel dans lequel il baigne, son art est considéré par la critique comme démodé. Le célibat, qui représentait pour lui la liberté quand il était jeune, devient une solitude insupportable. Il finit par envier la place du mari, pourtant trompé, et rêve d'une vie familiale.Bertin, marqué par cette confusion permanente entre la mère et la fille, en est fortement troublé. Son amour secret pour la jeune fille est devenu « quelque chose d'irrésistible, de destructeur, de plus fort que la mort ». Sa passion le mène à l'anéantissement. Le peintre est victime d'un accident ou peut-être d'un suicide. Agonisant, il exige de sa maîtresse qu'elle détruise ses lettres d'amour afin qu'on ne les trouve pas. Elles achèvent de se consumer dans le feu de la cheminée en laissant couler la cire des cachets, comme des gouttes de sang, qui « semblaient sortir du cœur même des lettres, comme d'une blessure ».L’œuvre s’achève sur la mort du peintre, plongé dans une profonde détresse morale. Il s'éteint « détendu, impassible, inanimé, indifférent à toute misère, apaisé soudain par l'Éternel Oubli ».