Ребекка Уэст - циклы произведений

Этот роман показывает нам жизнь семейства Обри — насколько одаренного, настолько же несчастливого. Мэри и Роуз, гениально играющие на фортепиано, их младший брат Ричард Куин и старшая сестра Корделия — все они становятся свидетелями того, как расточительство отца ведет их семью к краху, и мать, некогда известная пианистка, не может ничего изменить. Но, любящие и любимые, даже оказавшись в тяжелых условиях, Обри ищут внутреннюю гармонию в музыке, которой наполнена вся их жизнь, и находят поддержку друг в друге.

Rose Aubrey gives us an intimate, unforgettable picture of the Aubrey family, who now lead an idyllic, almost carefree, life in England in the years before World War I. The family has acquired some money. Rose and Mary, the twins, exist for their music. Their brother, Richard Quin, appears destined for literary greatness at Oxford. Brilliant conversation, their forte, is at a premium. The Aubreys do not perceive the dark foreshadowings contained in their father's rumored death, Cordelia's rejection of music for marriage, and their quiet cousin Rosamund's increasingly important…

The touching sequel to The Fountain Overflows and This Real Night, in which Rose and Mary are forced into maturity when Rosamund marries a man of dubious morals.

The soldier returns from the front to the three women who love him. His wife, Kitty, with her cold, moonlight beauty, and his devoted cousin Jenny wait in their exquisite home on the crest of the Harrow-weald. Margaret Allington, his first and long-forgotten love, is nearby in the dreary suburb of Wealdstone. But the soldier is shell-shocked and can only remember the Margaret he loved fifteen years before, when he was a young man and she an inn-keeper's daughter. His cousin he remembers only as a childhood playmate; his wife he remembers not at all. The women have a choice - to leave him where he wishes to be, or to 'cure' him. It is…