Обширный сборник «страшной» французской прозы дает довольно широкую панораму готической литературы. Его открывает неоднократно переводившийся и издававшийся «Влюбленный дьявол» Жака Казота, того самого, который знаменит своим пророчеством об ужасах Французской революции, а завершают две новеллы Ги де Мопассана. Среди авторов — как писатели, хорошо известные в России: Борель, Готье, Жерар де Нерваль, так и совсем неизвестные. Многие рассказы публикуются впервые. Хотелось бы обратить внимание читателей на два ранних произведения Бальзака, которые обычно теряются за его монументальными эпопеями.Составитель книги и автор вступительной статьи — С. Зенкин, один из крупнейших на сегодняшний день знатоков французской литературы в России; и это может послужить гарантией качества издания.Сборник включает лучшие «готические» произведения французской прозы прошлого века. Среди авторов: Ж. Казот, С. А. Берту, Ш. Нодье, П. Борель, Ш. Рабу, О. де Бальзак, Ж. де Нерваль, Т. Готье, П. Мериме, Ж. Барбе д’Оревильи, Ж. Буше де Перт, К. Виньон, О. Вилье де Лиль-Адан, Г. де Мопассан. Большую часть сборника составляют тексты, впервые переведенные на русский язык.

The story exposes the ways of thinking promulgated by the Communist propaganda in 1920s and 1930s and throws in quite a few realistic facts of everyday Soviet life in those times.

“He has an evening suit, but never an occasion to wear it, so he puts it on when he paints his pictures.”Insel, the only novel by the surrealist master Mina Loy, is a book like no other — about an impossible friendship amid the glamorous artistic bohemia of 1930s Paris.German painter Insel is a perpetual sponger and outsider — prone to writing elegant notes with messages like “Am starving to death except for a miracle — three o’clock Tuesday afternoon will be the end”—but somehow writer and art dealer Mrs. Jones likes him.Together, they sit in cafés, hatch grand plans, and share their artistic aspirations and disappointments. And they become friends. But as they grow ever closer, Mrs. Jones begins to realize just how powerful Insel’s hold over her is.Unpublished during Loy’s lifetime, Insel—which is loosely based on her friendship with the painter Richard Oelze — is a supremely surrealist, deliberately excessive creation: baroque in style, yet full of deft comedy and sympathy. Now, with an alternate ending only recently unearthed in the Loy archives, Insel is finally back in print, and Loy’s extraordinary achievement can be appreciated by a new generation of readers.

Рассказ вошёл в сборники:One More for the Road (На посошок)Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales (Сборник ста лучших рассказов)

From preface: In naming this second part of The Forsyte Chronicles "A Modern Comedy" the word Comedy is stretched, perhaps as far as the word Saga was stretched to cover the first part. And yet, what but a comedic view can be taken, what but comedic significance gleaned, of so restive a period as that in which we have lived since the war? An Age which knows not what it wants, yet is intensely preoccupied with getting it, must evoke a smile, if rather a sad one.

From preface: In naming this second part of The Forsyte Chronicles "A Modern Comedy" the word Comedy is stretched, perhaps as far as the word Saga was stretched to cover the first part. And yet, what but a comedic view can be taken, what but comedic significance gleaned, of so restive a period as that in which we have lived since the war? An Age which knows not what it wants, yet is intensely preoccupied with getting it, must evoke a smile, if rather a sad one.

Рассказ вошёл в сборники:The Golden Apples of the Sun (Золотые яблоки солнца)The Vintage Bradbury (Классический Брэдбери)S Is For Space (К значит Космос)The Stories of Ray Bradbury (И грянул гром: 100 рассказов)

Invisible Man is a milestone in American literature, a book that has continued to engage readers since its appearance in 1952.  A first novel by an unknown writer, it remained on the bestseller list for sixteen weeks, won the National Book Award for fiction, and established Ralph Ellison as one of the key writers of the century.  The nameless narrator of the novel describes growing up in a black community in the South, attending a Negro college from which he is expelled, moving to New York and becoming the chief spokesman of the Harlem branch of "the Brotherhood", and retreating amid violence and confusion to the basement lair of the Invisible Man he imagines himself to be.  The book is a passionate and witty tour de force of style, strongly influenced by T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, Joyce, and Dostoevsky.

In the summer of 1946, while secluded in August Strindberg’s small cabin in the Stockholm archipelago, Stig Dagerman wrote Island of the Doomed. This novel was unlike any other yet seen in Sweden and would establish him as the country’s brightest literary star. To this day it is a singular work of fiction — a haunting tale that oscillates around seven castaways as they await their inevitable death on a desert island populated by blind gulls and hordes of iguanas. At the center of the island is a poisonous lagoon, where a strange fish swims in circles and devours anything in its path. As we are taken into the lives of each castaway, it becomes clear that Dagerman’s true subject is the nature of horror itself.Island of the Doomed is a chilling profile of terror and guilt and a stunning exploration — written under the shadow of the Nuremberg Trials — of the anxieties of a generation in the postwar nuclear age.

This facsimile of Melville's historical novel appears in a paperback classroom edition, with a commentary by Hennig Cohen. "Israel Potter" is the story of a neglected hero of the American Revolution.

Nikolajs Gogolis Ivans Fjodorovics Špoņka un viņa krustmāmiņaIzlaseLatvijas Valsts Izdevniecība  1948Tulk. M. MencendorfaNoskannējis grāmatu un FB2 failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis

NIKOLAJS GOGOLIS IZLASELATVIJAS VALSTS IZDEVNIECĪBA  1948Tulk. M. MencendorfaNoskannējis grāmatu un FB2 failu izveidojis Imants LočmelisIVANS FJODOROVICS ŠPOŅKA UN VIŅA KRUSTMĀMIŅA

Gijs de MopasānsIveta. NovelesIveta ; Pērles jaunkundze ; Parisa kundze ; Mana sieva ; Gailis nodziedāja ; Satikšanās; ; Žēlsirdīgās māsas 25 franki ; Kniepadatas ; Veltīgs skaistums ; Vienībā spēks ; Ceļā ; Siltumnīca ; Atklājums ; Atzīšanās ; Idille ; Vecmāmiņas padomsNoveļu mākslinieciskā meistarība atklājas intonāciju dažādībā — no skumjas, elēģiskas, pat traģiskas līdz ļoti dzīvespriecīgai, humoris­tiskai.Dažās novelēs Mopasāna prasme atlasīt saistošus un spilgtus faktus, viņa stāstītāja meistarība kļūst par pašmērķi, un tad novele pārvēršas par uzjautrinošu anekdoti («Kniepadatas», «Saimniece», «Gailis no­dziedāja»).Būdams kaislīgs dabas cienītājs, mīlestības skaistuma un spēka apliecinātājs, Mopasāns ar ironiju un skumjām vairākās novelēs stāsta par mīlestības profanāciju, par šo jūtu pārvēršanu tigus precē un krāp­šanas līdzekli («Iveta», «Satikšanās», «Revanšs«).No franču valodas tulkojis Roberts KrodersNoskanējis grāmatu un failu izveidojis Imants LočmelisAlvīna 1993Iespiests pēc A. Raņķa grāmatu tirgotavas apgādā iznākušā 1928. gada izdevumaVāku zīmējis Georgs Krutojs