Caribbean Fiction

En av nobelpristagarens Kiplings mest älskade verk, nästefter Djungelboken, kretsar kring den föräldralösa Kim som lever ett kringströvande liv i Indien i början av 1900-talet som då låg under brittiskt styre. Han får sitt levebröd av att tigga och göra ärenden på gatorna i staden Lahore (idag i Pakistan) och läsaren får ta del av färgstarka skildringar av bazarernas vimmel, den religiösa och kulturella mångfalden. Kim blir snart lärjunge till en tibetansk lama och tar därefter värvning i underrättelsetjänsten i kriget mot Ryssland.

"Lord Jim" is a novel by Joseph Conrad originally published as a serial in "Blackwood's Magazine" from October 1899 to November 1900. An early and primary event is the abandonment of a ship in distress by its crew including the young British seaman Jim. He is publicly censured for this action and the novel follows his later attempts at coming to terms with his past. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked "Lord Jim" #85 on its list of the 100 best English language novels of the 20th century.

In this first book of "The Forsyte Saga", Galsworthy paints a vivid portrait of a wealthy and ambitious London family at the turn of the century. Interwoven with this is the ill-fated romance of Irene and Bossiny.

Cece Rios thought saving her sister would be the end of her adventures in the world of criaturas. But part of Juana’s soul is still trapped in Devil’s Alley. As Cece tries to find a way to get it back using her new curandera abilities, Juana takes her fate in her own hands and sets off alone, intent on restoring her soul and getting revenge on El Sombrerón.

This collection contains 21 reviews of artistic events and artifacts which originally appeared between 1877 and 1889. Clearly on display is Wilde's comprehensive knowledge of contemporary painting, fashion, and literature, as well as his capacity to create paradoxical aphorisms, which is such a feature of more substantial works like The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest.

Cece Rios and her friends have escaped Devil’s Alley, but the fight to save their world is just beginning. Despite her growing comfort with her curandera abilities, Cece is worried that she won’t be strong enough to stop her most dangerous enemy yet: her tía, Catrina. Desperate for power and revenge, Catrina has seized the throne of Devil’s Alley and set her sights on the living world.

Перед вами знаменитый цикл рассказов Джека Лондона о Смоке Беллью, которого жажда приключений толкнула на полный смертельных опасностей путь отчаянных золотоискателей, покорителей Клондайка.

Роман Оскара Уайльда "ПОРТРЕТ ДОРИАНА ГРЕЯ" [1891], снискавший скандальную славу и вызвавший разноречивые оценки современников, позднее был признан шедевром английской художественной прозы и стал одним из самых известных романов мировой литературы.

Белый клык - приключенческая повесть Джека Лондона, главным героем которой является волк по кличке Белый Клык. Впервые произведение было опубликовано в нескольких номерах журнала The Outing Magazine с мая по октябрь 1906 года.

Тарзан - вымышленный персонаж, созданный писателем Эдгаром Райсом Берроузом и впервые появившийся в книге "Тарзан, приёмыш обезьян". Журнальная публикация романа состоялась в 1912 году, а в 1914 г. он вышел отдельной книгой. Тарзана называют самым узнаваемым литературным персонажем в мире.

Впервые роман был опубликован в 1883 году в журнале "Young Folks" под псевдонимом капитан Джордж Норс. Отдельной книгой издан лишь спустя пять лет, в 1888 году. Действие романа происходит в Англии во второй половине XV в., во время войны Алой и Белой Розы. Англия горит в огне междоусобных войн.

Роман "Зеленые холмы Африки" увидел свет в 1935 году и еще больше упрочил славу писателя. Книга стала очередной отметкой в его послужном списке настоящего мужчины. Эта автобиографическая история основана на воспоминаниях Хемингуэя о сафари в африканских степях.

On retrouve ici Olivia, l'héroïne de l'Invitation à la valse : elle a vieilli, s'est mariée. A nouveau son chemin croise celui du séduisant Rollo. Vont-ils céder à leur commune passion ? Dans l'état intermédiaire qui sépare le vert paradis de l'enfance de l'âge de raison, l'invitation à l'amour sera cette fois plus grave, presque dramatique.

Londra, anni Sessanta. Sono trascorsi vent'anni dalla morte di Julius, ma il suo ultimo gesto eroico ha lasciato un segno indelebile nelle vite dei suoi cari. Emma, la figlia minore, lavora nella casa editrice di famiglia e rifugge spaventata dagli uomini. Al contrario, Cressida, la maggiore, cerca di placare la sua brama d'amore con una girandola di uomini sposati. Nel frattempo Esme, la vedova di Julius, ancora attraente alla soglia dei sessant'anni, vive sprofondata nella routine domestica della sua bellissima casa color rosa pesca.

Trentacinquenne appassionato di musica pop, ex dj e attualmente proprietario di un negozio di dischi in cattive acque, Rob Fleming è pieno di interrogativi che lo inquietano. La ragazza lo ha appena lasciato; se per caso ritornasse, sarebbe capace di amarla totalmente, disperatamente come adesso? E inoltre: non farebbe meglio a smettere una buona volta di vivere in mezzo ai cd e a trovarsi un vero lavoro, a farsi una vera casa, una vera famiglia?

Après avoir purgé 20 ans de prison pour un meurtre qu'il n'a pas commis, un homme rentre chez lui pour se venger d'un pasteur local (le Doyen Maitland) qui savait qu'il était innocent mais qui n'a rien fait pour le défendre. Roman très réussi de Maxwell Gray en 1886. Le best-seller de l'époque, "The Silence of Dean Maitland", associe des descriptions évocatrices du paysage rural anglais, à l'image de George Eliot et de Thomas Hardy, à un scénario captivant, qui rappelle les meilleurs romans à sensation de l'époque.

Evan MacIan is a tall, dark-haired, blue-eyed Scottish Highlander and a devout Roman Catholic. James Turnbull is a short, red-haired, gray-eyed Lowlander and a devout but naïve atheist. The two meet when MacIan smashes the window of the street office where Turnbull publishes an atheist journal. This act of rage occurs when MacIan sees posted on the shop's window a sheet that blasphemes the Virgin Mary, presumably implying she was an adulteress who gave birth to an illegitimate Jesus.

Kale Hunt has been her best friend since childhood. But it was never that simple. He was Lane's reason for leaving home and moving to New York. Seeing him with someone else, in love with someone else, shouldn't have hurt. But it did. It really, really did. So she upped sticks and left, started a new life and cut herself off from her past.

The son of a notorious outlaw is adopted into a wealthy, law-abiding family as an infant after his father is killed in an attempted robbery. Will he follow in the footsteps of his outlaw father, or will his life be guided by the respectable woman who nurtured him to manhood?

Aya Daniels is a thirty-six-year-old woman at her breaking point after never recovering from the loss of the man who broke her heart several years before. She spends and eats to compensate, becoming overweight, depressed, bored, lonely, and deeply in debt. When she is invited to return to the Caribbean island of her heritage, she thinks she has been offered a lifeline.