Маргарет Дрэббл - циклы книг | Бумажные издания

Всеми силами Клара Моэм, героиня романа "Мой золотой Иерусалим", пытается вырваться из удушающей атмосферы родного городка, серой и скучной. Бегство не спасает. Только встреча с семьей Денэмов, где все талантливы и очаровательны, где все любят друг друга и умеют наслаждаться жизнью, открывает для Клары новый, искрящийся мир вокруг. Но как стать частью этого мира, как почувствовать себя живой, как отыскать свой собственный "золотой Иерусалим"?

One of the great reference books of the century is now revised and updated. It contains 60 new entries on contemporary writers, from Martin Amis and Bruce Chatwin, to Salman Rushdie and Gore Vidal. Comprehensive, authoritative, and up-to-date, this book offers the most complete reference guide to a marvelous literary heritage.

Barbara Halliwell, on a grant at Oxford, receives an unexpected package-a memoir by a Korean crown princess, written more than two hundred years ago. A highly appropriate gift for her impending trip to Seoul. But from whom? The story she avidly reads on the plane turns out to be one of great intrigue as well as tragedy. The Crown Princess Hyegyong recounts in extraordinary detail the ways of the Korean court and confesses the family dramas that left her childless and her husband dead by his own hand. Perhaps it is the loss of a child that resonates so deeply with Barbara . . . but she has little time to think of such things, she has just…

When circumstances compel her to start over late in her life, Candida Wilton moves from a beautiful Georgian house in lovely Suffolk to a two-room, walk-up flat in a run-down building in central London--and begins to pour her soul into a diary. Candida is not exactly destitute. So, is the move perversity, she wonders, a survival test, or is she punishing herself? How will she adjust to this shabby, menacing, but curiously appealing city? What can happen, at her age, to change her life?
In a voice that is pitch-perfect, Candida describes her health club, her social circle, and her attempts at risk-taking in her new life. She begins friendships of sorts with other women-widowed, divorced, never married, women straddled between generations. And then there is a surprise pension-fund windfall . . .
A beautifully rendered story, this is Margaret Drabble at her novelistic best.

From the great British novelist Dame Margaret Drabble comes a vital and audacious tale about the many ways in which we confront aging and living in a time of geopolitical rupture.

Francesca Stubbs has an extremely full life. A highly regarded expert on housing for the elderly who is herself getting on in age, she drives “restlessly round England,” which is “her last love . . . She wants to see it all before she dies.” Amid the professional conferences that dominate her schedule, she fits in visits to old friends, brings home cooked dinners to her ailing ex-husband, texts her son, who is grieving over the shocking death of his girlfriend, and drops in on her daughter, a quirky young woman who lives in a flood plain in the West Country. Fran cannot help but think of her mortality, but she is “not ready to settle yet, with a cat upon her knee.” She still prizes her “frisson of autonomy,” her belief in herself as a dynamic individual doing meaningful work in the world.

"The Dark Flood Rises" moves between Fran’s interconnected group of family and friends in England and a seemingly idyllic expat community in the Canary Islands. In both places, disaster looms. In Britain, the flood tides are rising, and in the Canaries, there is always the potential for a seismic event. As well, migrants are fleeing an increasingly war-torn Middle East.

Though "The Dark Flood Rises" delivers the pleasures of a traditional novel, it is clearly situated in the precarious present. Margaret Drabble’s latest enthralls, entertains, and asks existential questions in equal measure. Alas, there is undeniable truth in Fran’s insight: “Old age, it’s a fucking disaster!”

Современная английская писательница Маргарет Дрэббл (р. 1939 г.) широко известна как автор более десяти романов, героинями которых являются женщины. Книги М. Дрэббл отмечены престижными литературными премиями и переведены на многие языки. Романы `Камень на шее` (1965) и `Мой золотой Иерусалим` у нас в стране публикуются впервые.

Two sisters: beautiful, sophisticated Louise and attractive, witty and intelligent Sarah who has always felt left behind. Then Louise marries the wealthy but unappealing novelist Stephen Halifax, and Sarah, recently graduated from Oxford, is thrown back into family affairs. As Louise enters a high-profile world of glamour, parties and gossip columns, Sarah, drifting in London with her degree and new-found freedom, is only allowed glimpses into this new alien life. However, as the cracks begin to show in Louise's marriage and rumours of infidelity spread, Sarah discovers that, beneath her cool exterior, her sister is not quite the person she thought she was....

Действие романа происходит в Англии в начале шестидесятых годов. Героиня романа, Эмма Эванс, от лица которой ведется повествование, вспоминает о событиях, происшедших с ней несколькими месяцами раньше.Муж Эммы Дэвид — актер. Он снимается в основном на телевидении, но однажды известный театральный режиссер Уиндем Феррер приглашает его принять участие в театральном фестивале, который он организовывает в небольшом провинциальном городке Херефорде, где открывается новый театр.

Twenty five years ago Liz, Alix and Esther were leading lights at Cambridge. Now they meet as old friends at a glittering New Year's Eve party to welcome in the 1980s. It is the dawn of the Thatcher era, and Britain is on the brink of great social and political upheaval. How will these three ambitious and confident middle-aged women survive the personal and professional challenges, and the changing values of the next decade? The Radiant Way brilliantly explores their loves, losses, hopes and fears, and the strength of their friendship.

В настоящем путеводителе представлены статьи о ведущих авторах, родившихся до 1939 г. включительно, причем не только о прозаиках, драматургах и поэтах, но и историках, философах, филологах, критиках, издателях и журналистах. В путеводитель также включены сведения о сюжетах литературных произведений, персонажах книг и пьес, определения литературных и идеологических направлений, литературных жанров, литературоведческих терминов и др.

Издание предназначено для студентов-филологов, преподавателей и всех тех, кто интересуется английской литературой.