Лучшие книги Джин Рис

Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys’s return to the literary center stage. She had a startling early career and was known for her extraordinary prose and haunting women characters. With Wide Sargasso Sea, her last and best-selling novel, she ingeniously brings into light one of fiction’s most fascinating characters: the madwoman in the attic from Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. This mesmerizing work introduces us to Antoinette Cosway, a sensual and protected young woman who is sold into marriage to the prideful Mr. Rochester. Rhys portrays Cosway amidst a society so driven by hatred, so skewed in its sexual…

Роман известной английской писательницы Джин Рис (1890-1979) "Путешествие во тьме" (1934) был воспринят в свое время как настоящее откровение. Впервые трагедия вынужденного странничества показана через призму переживаний обыкновенного человека, а не художника или писателя. Весьма современно звучит история девушки, родившейся на одном из Карибских островов, которая попыталась обрести приют и душевный покой на родине своего отца, в промозглом и туманном Лондоне. Внутренний мир героини передан с редкостной тонкостью и точностью, благодаря особой, сдержанно-напряженной интонации. На русском языке роман публикуется впервые.

Действие романов охватывает конец XIX - начало ХХ веков. Истории нескольких поколений, их взаимоотношений, вечные человеческие проблемы, связанные с любовью поисками своего места в жизни, создают атмосферу непростого человеческого бытия.

Jean Rhys was a talent before her time with an impressive ability to express the anguish of young, single women. In GOOD MORNING, MIDNIGHT Rhys created the powerfully modern portrait of Sophia Jansen, whose emancipation is far more painful and complicated than she could expect, but whose confession is flecked with triumph and elation. One of the most honest and distinctive British novelists of the 20th Century, Jean Rhys wrote about women with perception and sensitivity in an innovative and often controversial way. In GOOD MORNING MIDNIGHT (1939) she creates an unforgettable portrait of a woman forced to confront her inevitable loneliness and despair.

В сборник вошли две известнейшие английские мелодрамы. "Антуанетта" Джин Рис — это вариация на тему знаменитого романа Ш.Бронте "Джен Эйр", история детства, юности и замужества загадочной жены мистера Рочестера; "Круглая башня" — мелодрама классика этого жанра Кэтрин Куксон, именем которой в Англии названа премия, ежегодно присуждаемая за лучший любовный роман.

Tigers are Better-Looking incorporates selections from Jean Rhys's first book of stories, The Left Bank, published in 1927, and later stories written after 1939. In them she encompasses within a few pages both the gaiety and charm of youth and love, and an awareness of all that threatens them.

Writing in The New York Times, A. Alvarez has called these stories "extraordinary." The early stories have added value in that they illuminate Jean Rhys's development as a writer. Those written later, when her art was mature, are on the level of her novels and demonstrate that she is one of the most distinguished writers of our time, "the best living English novelist," again to quote Alvarez.

The title of this collection comes from the opinion which many of Jean Rhys's characters share, that respectable people are as alarming as tigers, but "tigers are better-looking, aren't they?" It also reflects the astringent humor in her work; an explanation that however sad or even sordid her subject, she is never depressing.

Set in a superficially romantic, between-wars Paris, QUARTET is a poignant tale of a lonely woman. Set against a background of winter-wet streets, Pernod in smoky cafes and cheap hotel rooms with mauve- flowered wallpaper, Marya tries to make something substantial of her life in order to withstand the unreality of her surroundings. Alone, her Polish husband in prison, she is taken up by an English couple who slowly overwhelm her with their passions. Jean Rhys's first novel is both poignant anddisturbingly intimate in its vivid depiction of a woman on her own.

In stories that span the course of a lifetime - from childhood in the Caribbean to adolescent modelling in Paris; and from lonely adulthood to old age and beyond - here are women adrift, at sea, down but not quite out.

В этот сборник вошли рассказы лучших писательниц поколения.
На протяжении долгого времени считалось, что война – исключительно мужское занятие. Но углубившись в эти истории, вы поймете, что женщины также героически сражались, хотя и на совершенно другом фронте. Здесь война не столько успехи на передовой, сколько ежедневная борьба за сохранение дома, семьи и взаимоотношений. Эти рассказы о том, как женщины прощаются с мужьями, возлюбленными, братьями и сыновьями – и как спустя годы пытаются начать новую жизнь.
В этот сборник входят рассказы Джин Рис, Берил Бейнбридж, Элизабет Боуэн, Стиви Смит, Розамунд Леманн, Барбары Пим, Анджелы Тиркелл, Сильвии Таунсенд Уорнер, Дороти Паркер, Дорис Лессинг, Оливии Мэннинг и Розы Маколей.
Сборник Джин Рис, Берил Бейнбридж «Помаши мне на прощанье» заинтересует тех читателей, кому по душе драматические произведения и истории о сильных женщинах.
Книга на английском языке.
Published to mark the 80th anniversary of the start of the Second World War, these are powerful wartime stories written by the finest women writers of that generation.
This collection of wartime stories includes some of the finest writers of a generation. War had traditionally been seen as a masculine occupation, but these stories show how women were equal if different participants. Here, war is less about progress on the frontline of battle than about the daily struggle to keep homes, families and relationships alive; to snatch pleasure from danger, and strength from shared experience. The stories are about saying goodbye to husbands, lovers, brothers and sons - and sometimes years later trying to remake their lives anew. By turn comical, stoical, compassionate, angry and subversive, these intensely individual voices bring a human dimension to the momentous events that reverberated around them and each opens a window on to a hidden landscape of war.
Writers include: Jean Rhys, Beryl Bainbridge, Elizabeth Bowen, Elizabeth Taylor, Stevie Smith, Rosamond Lehmann, Barbara Pym, Angela Thirkell, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Dorothy Parker, Doris Lessing, Olivia Manning, Rose Macaulay and Stevie Smith

Julia Martin is at the end of her rope in Paris. Once beautiful, she was taken care of by men. Now after leaving her last lover, she is running out of luck and chances. A visit to London to see her ailing mother and distrustful sister bring her stark life into full focus. A masterful and terrifying tale from one of the truest voices in twentieth-century fiction.

A collection of 16 short stories by the author of "Wide Sargasso Sea", "Voyage in the Dark" and "Good Morning, Midnight".