Зарубежная классика
Различные книги в жанре Зарубежная классикаBuddenbrooks
Buddenbrooks is a 1901 novel by Thomas Mann, chronicling the decline of a wealthy north German merchant family over the course of four generations, incidentally portraying the manner of life and mores of the Hanseatic bourgeoisie in the years from 1835 to 1877. Mann drew deeply from the history of his own family, the Mann family of Lübeck, and their milieu. It was Mann's first novel, published when he was twenty-six years old. With the publication of the second edition in 1903, Buddenbrooks became a major literary success. Its English translation by Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter was published in 1924. The work led to a Nobel Prize in Literature for Mann in 1929; although the Nobel award generally recognises an author's body of work, the Swedish Academy's citation for Mann identified «his great novel Buddenbrooks» as the principal reason for his prize.
Italo Svevo: Opere Complete - Romanzi, Racconti e Frammenti
Italo Svevo, pseudonimo di Aron Hector Schmitz (1861–1928), è stato uno scrittore e drammaturgo italiano, autore di tre romanzi, numerosi racconti brevi e opere teatrali. Di cultura mitteleuropea, ebbe in Italia riconoscimenti tardivi e fama postuma.
~ ROMANZI ~ Una vita Senilità La coscienza di Zeno
~ RACCONTI ~ Una lotta L’assassinio di Via Belpoggio La tribù Lo specifico del dottor Menghi Argo e il suo padrone Corto viaggio sentimentale La novella del buon vecchio e della bella fanciulla Una burla riuscita La madre Vino generoso Il malocchio La buonissima madre Orazio Cima Giacomo Argo e il suo padrone Marianno Cimutti In Serenella L’avvenire dei ricordi Incontro di vecchi amici La morte Proditoriamente
~ GLI ULTIMI GRANDI FRAMMENTI ~ Le confessioni del vegliardo [El vegliardo I] –[Prefazione] –I [Alfio] –II [Antonia] –[III] Umbertino –[IV] [Carlo e la servitù] [El vegliardo II] –[Un contratto] –[Il mio ozio] Il vecchione
The World of Aluna: Volume 2
Catch up on Aluna's adventures in the 2nd trade paperback with a cover by Witchblade artist Randy Green and a foreword by actress/creator Paula Garces. Tossed overboard and into the ocean, Aluna wakes up in what she thinks is a foreign land. She will quickly learn that this land is not so foreign after all and that both good and bad awaited her arrival. Soon to be a video game!
Earthlings
Praise for Earthlings : “I loved this book! It easily converted me to being an alien. A radical, hilarious, heartbreaking look at the crap we have all internalized in order to fit in and survive.” —Elif Batuman, author of The Idiot “ Earthlings takes the mood of colorful disquiet she honed in Convenience Store Woman and pushes it further out. The boy and a girl at the heart of her latest believe they have landed on earth from outer space. Raised by separate families, treated badly, they tack toward each other in this immensely charming, strange and heart-stomping tale. The imagination of this writer grows and grows like outer space. Earthlings should be one of the main fictional events of 2020.” —John Freeman, Literary Hub “From the author of 2018’s comic gem about a Japanese misfit, Convenience Store Woman , a new novel featuring a young woman who is convinced she is an alien.” — Guardian “This is one that should be on everyone’s wish list.” — Japan Times “In 2020, we finally get our hands on Sayaka Murata’s newest novel . . . A new statement by Murata that finding your own freedom is a struggle against family and society which takes sacrifice.” — Books and Bao Praise for Convenience Store Woman : “Keiko, a defiantly oddball 36-year-old woman, has worked in a dead-end job as a convenience store cashier in Tokyo for half her life. She lives alone and has never been in a romantic relationship, or even had sex. And she is perfectly happy with all of it . . . Written in plain-spoken prose, the slim volume focuses on a character who in many ways personifies a demographic panic in Japan.” —Motoko Rich, New York Times (profile) “A small, elegant and deadpan novel . . . Casts a fluorescent spell . . . A thrifty and offbeat exploration of what we must each leave behind to participate in the world.” —Dwight Garner, New York Times “Alienation gets deliciously perverse treatment in Convenience Store Woman . . . The book’s true brilliance lies in Murata’s way of subverting our expectations . . . With bracing good humor . . . Murata celebrate[s] the quiet heroism of women who accept the cost of being themselves.” —John Powers, NPR’s Fresh Air “The novel borrows from Gothic romance, in its pairing of the human and the alluringly, dangerously not. It is a love story, in other words, about a misfit and a store . . . Keiko’s self-renunciations reveal the book to be a kind of grim post-capitalist reverie: she is an anti-Bartleby, abandoning any shred of identity outside of her work . . . Tranquil—dreamy, even—rooting for its employee-store romance from the bottom of its synthetic heart.” —Katy Waldman, New Yorker “An exhilaratingly weird and funny Japanese novel about a long-term convenience store employee. Unsettling and totally unpredictable—my copy is now heavily underlined.” —Sally Rooney, Guardian “As intoxicating as a sake mojito . . . A literary prize-winner that’s also a page-turner.” —John Powers, Vogue “It’s the novel’s cumulative, idiosyncratic poetry that lingers, attaining a weird, fluorescent kind of beauty all of its own.” —Julie Myerson, Guardian “Brilliant, witty, and sweet in ways that recall Amélie and Shopgirl . . . Murata’s sparkly writing and knack for odd, beautiful details are totally her own.” — Vogue , “13 Books to Thrill, Entertain, and Sustain You This Summer” “A quiet masterpiece . . . Seldom has a narrator been so true to a lack of self, and so triumphantly other.” —David Wright, Seattle Times “A spare, quietly brilliant novel . . . Like being lulled into a soft calm.” —Arianna Rebolini, BuzzFeed “This magical little book performs this neat accordion track in sentences so clean and crisp it’s like they were laminated and placed before you, one at a time, in a well-windex’d cooler . . . The 7-11 Madame Bovary .” —John Freeman, Literary Hub “A personal favorite . . . The prose is as crisp as is the aesthetic of [Japan]” —Lauren Christensen, CBS This Morning “Knock-you-off-your-feet good, sucking you wholesale into the strange brain of its narrator . . . Like being beamed down onto a foreign planet, which turns out to be your own . . . May we buy out bookstores’ stocks of Convenience Store Woman , and yell Sayaka Murata’s name from the rooftops.” —Alison Tate Lewis, Electric Literature “A novel that proves sylphlike; spare in its contents, with a masterfully deceptive comic veneer that keeps the reader turning the page.” — Zyzzyva “Quirky, memorable.” — Times (UK) “Engaging . . . A sure-fire hit of the summer.” — Irish Times “Smart and sly . . . Moving, funny, and unsettling.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Dazzling.” — Booklist (starred review) “A unique and unexpectedly revealing English language debut.” — Kirkus Reviews “A gem of a book. Quirky, deadpan, poignant, and quietly profound, it is a gift to anyone who has ever felt at odds with the world—and if we were truly being honest, I suspect that would be most of us.” —Ruth Ozeki, author of A Tale for the Time Being “What a weird and wonderful and deeply satisfying book this is. Sayaka Murata is an utterly unique and revolutionary voice. I tore through Convenience Store Woman[/i] with great delight.” —Jami Attenberg, New York Times bestselling author of The Middlesteins and All Grown Up “A darkly comic, deeply unsettling examination of contemporary life, of alienation, of capitalism, of identity, of conformity. We’ve all been to this convenience store, whether it’s in Japan or somewhere else.” —Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer “This is a story about what’s normal and not, a drama played on a stage so violently plain it becomes as vivid and surprising as an alien planet. I loved Convenience Store Woman: its brevity, its details, its opinions about life.” —Robin Sloan, author of Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore “I picked up this novel on a trip to Japan and couldn’t put it down. A haunting, dark, and often hilarious take on society’s expectations of the single woman. As an extra bonus, it totally transformed my experience of going to convenience stores in Tokyo.” —Elif Batuman, author of The Idiot “ Convenience Store Woman is a mighty fine book, completely charming. Sayaka Murata is a wonderful writer.” —Rabih Alameddine, author of An Unnecessary Woman “Instructions: Open book. Consume contents. Feel charmed, disturbed, and weirdly in love. Do not discard.” —Jade Chang, author of The Wangs Vs. the World “Murata creates an original and surreal world in the most unlikely places. Furukura, the convenience store woman, is a strange, complex, gripping protagonist who inadvertently propels her own story forth through a series of subtle actions yet it is through these actions and also the spareness of the author’s prose that we see what a master Murata truly is. This book is not only readable, it is fun, thought provoking and at times outrageous and outrageously funny. It is sure to be a standout of the year.” —Weike Wang, author of Chemistry “This novel made me laugh. It was the first time for me to laugh in this way: it was absurd, comical, cute . . . audacious, and precise. It was overwhelming.” —Hiromi Kawakami, author of The Nakano Thrift Shop
Braised Pork
One autumn morning, Jia Jia walks into the bathroom of her lavish Beijing apartment to find her husband dead. One minute she was breakfasting with him and packing for an upcoming trip, the next, she finds him motionless in their half-full bathtub. Like something out of a dream, next to the tub Jia Jia discovers a pencil sketch of a strange watery figure, an image that swims into Jia Jia’s mind and won’t leave.<p>The mysterious drawing launches Jia Jia on an odyssey across contemporary Beijing, from its high-rise apartments to its hidden bars, as her path crosses some of the people who call the city home, including a jaded bartender who may be able to offer her the kind of love she had long thought impossible. Unencumbered by a marriage that had constrained her, Jia Jia travels into her past to try to discover things that were left unsaid by the people closest to her. Her journey takes her to the high plains of Tibet, and even to a shadowy, watery otherworld, a place she both yearns and fears to go.<p>Exquisitely attuned to the complexities of human connection, and an atmospheric and cinematic evocation of middle-class urban China, An Yu’s <i>Braised Pork</i> explores the intimate strangeness of grief, the indelible mysteries of unseen worlds, and the energizing self-discovery of a newly empowered young woman.
Garthowen
“Garthowen” is a 1900 novel by Welsh author Allen Raine. Set in the eponymous Welsh village, this charming Victorian romance focuses on provincial Welsh life, exploring the lives of the villagers and their relationships with nature, their families, and religion. Full of beautiful descriptive prose, “Garthowen” is a fantastically uplifting tale that is not to be missed by discerning readers with an interest in Welsh history and culture. Anne Adalisa Beynon Puddicombe (1836–1908), also known under her pen name Allen Raine, was a Welsh best-selling writer whose novels had sold over two million copies by 1912. She won the National Eisteddfod for her first book “Ynysoer” (1894). Other notable works by this author include: “Hearts of Wales” (1905), “Queen of the Rushes” (1906), and “Neither Storehouse nor Barn” (1908). Contents include: “A Turn of the Road”, “'Garthowen'”, “Morva of the Moor”, “The Old Bible”, “The Sea Maiden”, “Gethin's Presents”, “The Broom Girl”, “Garthowen Slopes”, “The North Star”, etc. Read & Co. Classics is proudly republishing this classic novel now in a new edition complete with an introductory biography by Daniel Lleufer Thomas.
The Story of an African Farm
This early work by Olive Schreiner was originally published in 1883 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. «The Story of an African Farm» details the lives of three characters, first as children and then as adults, and when published caused significant controversy over its frank portrayal of freethought, feminism, premarital sex, and transvestitism. Olive Emilie Albertina Schreiner was born on 24th March 1855 at the Wesleyan Missionary Society station at Wittebergen in the Eastern Cape, near Herschel in South Africa. In 1880, Olive set sail for the United Kingdom with the goal of taking a position as a trainee nurse at the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh in Scotland. Unfortunately ill-health prevented her from studying and she was forced to concede that writing would and could be her only work in life. She became increasingly involved with the politics of the South Africa, leading her to make influential acquaintances such as Cecil John Rhodes, with whom she eventually became disillusioned and wrote a scathing allegory in his honour.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Read & Co. Classics presents this brand new edition of Oscar Wilde's classic Gothic novel, «The Picture of Dorian Gray» (1890). Perhaps Wilde’s most famous and celebrated of works, the story follows a young man’s hedonistic journey through high society and the depths of depravity. Seduced by the spoils of greed, narcissism and lust, he pays a ghoulish price for his actions. Oscar Wilde (1884-1900) was an Irish author, playwright and poet. He moved from Dublin to Oxford where he studied under renowned art critics Walter Pater and John Ruskin and became associated with the literary and philosophical movement of Aestheticism.