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Àííîòàöèÿ: At an Irish wedding, a wife-swapping party or a boarding-school; with a gesture or a deceptively casual observation, William Trevor can open up secret lives. Drawing us into other people's worlds - and into their seedy, comic underworlds - here he proves himself an enthralling interpreter of the human heart and a master storyteller.

Àííîòàöèÿ: Designed as a series to provide a comprehensive introductionto nglish, American and European literature, each title examies one particular form and period, discussing in detail the important writers andtheir major works in the contextto their times.

Àííîòàöèÿ: This book provides a descriptive historical survey of technology from the earliest times until 1900. It covers developments in agricultural techniques, mining and metal work, domestic crafts, transport, building, and methods of communication, among a host of other subjects.

Àííîòàöèÿ: Ñáîðíèê ñòàâèò ñâîåé öåëüþ ïîçíàêîìèòü ÷èòàòåëÿ ñ ëó÷øèìè îáðàçöàìè òâîð÷åñòâà àíãëèéñêèõ íîâåëèñòîâ 50-õ - 60-õ ãã.  íåì ïðåäñòàâëåíû ïèñàòåëè íåñêîëüêèõ ïîêîëåíèé, ñîçäàâàÿ êðàñî÷íóþ, ìíîãîëèêóþ êàðòèíó ñåãîäíÿøíåé Àíãëèè. Êíèãè ïðåäñòàâëÿåò ðàçíîîáðàçíûå òåìàòèêè è ñòèëèñòèêè ñîâðåìåííîãî àíãëèéñêîãî ðàññêàçà.

Àííîòàöèÿ: The short story has become one of the major forms of modern literary expression - in some ways the most modern of them all'. The story of the British short story since the Second World War is one of change and revolution and this powerful and moving collection brilliantly demonstrates the evolution of the form. Containing thirty-four of the most widely regarded postwar British writers, it features tales of love and crime, comedy and the supernatural, the traditional as well as the experimental. This many-storied, many-splendored collection is a brilliant portrait of the generation of writers who have immediately influenced the brightest, sharpest and most intriguing writers who continue to emerge today

Àííîòàöèÿ: At an Irish wedding, a wife-swapping party or a boarding-school; with a gesture or a deceptively casual observation, William Trevor can open up secret lives. Drawing us into other people's worlds - and into their seedy, comic underworlds - here he proves himself an enthralling interpreter of the human heart and a master storyteller.

Àííîòàöèÿ: Irresistible to all women was Septimus Tuam, especially women aged fifty in and around Wimbledon. He lay in wait for them and with the aid of a rolled umbrella made them fall in love with him, and some of them died of it. That is why Edward Blakeston-Smith - who knew nothing of love - was sent by Lady Dolores's love department to track Tuam down and discover the secrets of his ensarements. He couldn't put a stop to it, but he found out all about the friends and enemies of love.

Àííîòàöèÿ: What was the tragedy that turned O'Neill's Hotel from a plush and prosperous establishment into a dingy house of disrepute? Ivy Eckdorf is determined to find out. A professional photographer, brash and hard by admission, she has come to Dublin convinced that a tragic and beautiful tale lurks behind the facade of this crumbling bordello. Mrs Eckdorf's unprincipled probings take her deep into the secret lives of O'neill's assorted satellites: a deaf-and-dumb old woman whose silence invites the confidences of all around her; her feckless son, drowning in sherry and dreams; a lonely pimp given to desperate deceptions. Yet it is Mrs Eckdorf alone who is the victim of the truth she seeks to exploit, for the elusive mystery of O'Neill's Hotel turns out to be her own.

Àííîòàöèÿ: Other People's Worlds by William Trevor - a classic early novel by one of the world's greatest writers. What chance has a nice middle-class woman got against a determined conman? 47-year-old widow, Julia, is about to remarry, much to the delight and relief of her daughters. But her mother has suspicions about Francis which she keeps to herself. Perhaps wrongly: if she'd shared her feelings with her daughter the disaster might have been avoided. Meanwhile there are two other women who have a claim on the would-be bridegroom - and the way things are shaping up it might be one of them, rather than Julia, who comes off worst out of the situation. William Trevor's brilliant novel explores the small horrors that lie close to the surface of ordinary life.