Clarissa, Delphine, and Auroraare the titles of three short stories that Paul Morand composed during the First World War and set in London, a city of constant fascination to him. Stylish, poetic, and highly original, these urbane and witty stories boast a foreword by Marcel Proust.

MIHAILS BULGAKOVSJAUNA ĀRSTA PIEZĪMESTĒRAUDA RĪKLE

"Соглядатай" - роман, занимающий особое место в многообразном, многоуровневом творчестве В. Набокова. Практически впервые здесь набоковская проза, обычно - холодно-изящная, становится нервной, захлебывающейся, угловатой. Экспрессионистская ли эстетика довлеет здесь над "вечной" для писателя темой эмигрантской трагедии - или, напротив, тоска выломившейся из прошлого и утратившей надежду на будущее "России в изгнании" задает неровный, "дерганный" ритм повествования? Мнений может быть много, но - какое из них верное? Решите сами...

Tomass HārdijsTesa no d'Erbervilu ciltsTīra sieviete, patiesīgi aprakstītaRomāns ir par jaunu un nepieredzējušu meiteni vārdā Tesa Darbeifīlda. Uzsākt patstāvīgu dzīvi viņa ir spiesta agri, bet tā iesākas nelāgi un viņa apkaunota atgriežas mājās. Tomēr viņa saņemas jaunam mēģinājumam, kas ir daudz veiksmīgāks. Savā jaunajā dzīvē viņa iepazīstas arī ar mīlu, tomēr viņas pārlieku lielais godīgums draud to izjaukt…Liesma 1968No angļu valodas tulkojusi Anna Bauga

Рассказ вошёл в сборники:One More for the Road (На посошок)

For the 150th anniversary of the birth of the “Jewish Mark Twain,” a new translation of his most famous worksTevye the Dairyman and Motl the Canto’s Son are the most celebrated characters in all of Jewish fiction. Tevye is the lovable, Bible-quoting father of seven daughters, a modern Job whose wisdom, humor, and resilience inspired the lead character in Fiddler on the Roof. And Motl is the spirited and mischievous nine-year-old boy who accompanies his family on a journey from their Russian shtetl to New York, and whose comical, poignant, and clear-eyed observations capture with remarkable insight the struggles and hopes and triumphs of Jewish immigrants to America at the turn of the twentieth century.

Of all the characters in modern Jewish fiction, the most beloved is Tevye, the compassionate, irrepressible, Bible-quoting dairyman from Anatevka, who has been immortalized in the writings of Sholem Aleichem and in acclaimed and award-winning theatrical and film adaptations.And no Yiddish writer was more beloved than Tevye’s creator, Sholem Rabinovich (1859–1916), the “Jewish Mark Twain,” who wrote under the pen name of Sholem Aleichem. Beautifully translated by Hillel Halkin, here is Sholem Aleichem’s heartwarming and poignant account of Tevye and his daughters, together with the “Railroad Stories,” twenty-one tales that examine human nature and modernity as they are perceived by men and women riding the trains from shtetl to shtetl.

Thaïs était née de parents libres et pauvres, adonnés à l'idolâtrie. Du temps qu'elle était petite, son père gouvernait, à Alexandrie, proche de la porte de la Lune, un cabaret que fréquentaient les matelots. Certains souvenirs vifs et détachés lui restaient de sa première enfance. Elle revoyait son père assis à l'angle du foyer, les jambes croisées, grand, redoutable et tranquille, tel qu'un de ces vieux Pharaons que célèbrent les complaintes chantées par les aveugles dans les carrefours…Thaïs, courtisane d'Alexandrie, est convertie au christianisme par le moine Paphnuce. Mais est-ce vraiment l'amour divin qui inspire cet homme de Dieu?

Рассказ вошёл в сборники:Quicker Than The Eye (В мгновение ока)Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales (Сборник ста лучших рассказов)

An insightful story of cat-ology and the life of homeless cats told as a small boy’s strange dream.

In the tradition of Sándor Márai, Mihail Sebastian is a captivating Central European storyteller from the first half of the twentieth century whose work is being rediscovered by new generations of readers throughout Europe, Latin America, and the United States. The 2000 publication of his Journal 1935–1944: The Fascist Years introduced his writing to an English-speaking audience for the first time, garnering universal acclaim. Philip Roth wrote that Sebastian's Journal "deserves to be on the same shelf as Anne Frank's Diary and to find as huge a readership."Outside of the English-speaking world, Sebastian's reputation rests on his fiction. This publication of The Accident marks the first appearance of the author's fiction in English. A love story set in the Bucharest art world of the 1930s and the Transylvanian mountains, it is a deeply romantic, enthralling tale of two people who meet by chance. Along snowy ski trails and among a mysterious family in a mountain cabin, Paul and Nora, united by an attraction that contains elements of repulsion, find the keys to their fate.

“What you have loved remains yours.” Thus speaks the irresistible rogue Sindbad, ironic hero of these fantastic tales, who has seduced and abandoned countless women over the course of centuries but never lost one, for he returns to visit them all — ladies, actresses, housemaids — in his memories and dreams. From the bustling streets of Budapest to small provincial towns where nothing ever seems to change, this ghostly Lothario encounters his old flames wherever he goes: along the banks of the Danube; under windows where they once courted; in churches and in graveyards, where Eros and Thanatos tryst. Lies, bad behavior, and fickleness of all kinds are forgiven, and love is reaffirmed as the only thing worth persevering for, weeping for, and living for.The Adventures of Sindbad is the Hungarian master Gyula Krúdy’s most famous book, an uncanny evocation of the autumn of the Hapsburg Empire that is enormously popular not only in Hungary but throughout Eastern Europe.

The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell Justine first published in 1957Balthazar first published in 1958Mountolive first published in 1958Clea first published in 1960