Vintage books An Accidental Man Мердок Айрис

"Неофициальная роза" Айрис Мердок - сложная шекспировская комедия о переплетенных отношениях, в которой девять тесно связанных персонажей ищут любовь • После смерти жены Хью подумывает о возвращении к своей бывшей любовнице. Его сын Рэндалл мечтает отказаться от своего бесформенного брака ради идеального партнера. Младшую дочь Рэндалла, Миранду, обожает ее австралийский кузен Пенн, но у нее есть привязанности в других местах. У ее матери Энн есть своя личная мечта, в то же время она берет на себя все тяготы и боль всех остальных. Движимые привязанностью, похотью и иллюзиями, эти персонажи ищут любовь в туго сплетенной паутине • Книга на английском языке • A complex Shakespearean comedy of intertwined relationships, as nine closely linked characters search for love • After his wife's death, Hugh contemplates returning to his former mistress

"Дитя слова" Айрис Мердок - история умного, но не обделённого изъянами обитателя пасмурного Лондона, который надеется на искупление • Хилари Берд мог стать уличной шпаной, но образование спасло его. Он намеревался продолжить свой путь в Оксфорде, но закончившаяся трагедией история любви лишила его места в Оксфорде. Теперь он зарабатывает себе на хлеб скучной работой чиновника, пока угрызения совести пожирают его душу • Когда пострадавший по его вине и преданный им мужчина становится начальником его отдела, перед Хилари маячит шанс на прощение, возможность загладить свою вину и начать новую жизнь. Но он рискует быть раздавленным ошибками прошлого • Книга на английском языке • Iris Murdoch conjures a murky London setting for a story of a brilliant and flawed man hoping for redemption • Saved from a delinquent childhood by education, cheated out of Oxford by a tragic love tangle, Hilary Burde cherishes his obsessive guilt and ekes out a living in a dull civil service job

A complicated and comic story of dangerous love affairs • Martin believes he can possess both a beautiful wife and a delightful lover. But when his wife, Antonia, suddenly leaves him for her psychoanalyst, Martin is plunged into an intensive emotional re-education. He attempts to behave beautifully and sensibly. Then he meets a woman whose demonic splendour at first repels him and later arouses a consuming and monstrous passion. How will he survive it?

Гертруда потеряла своего мужа, а Анна, бывшая монахиня, - своего Бога. Они планируют жить вместе и творить добрые дела. Тем временем вокруг собирается группа заинтересованных сторон. "Граф", поляк в изгнании, наблюдает за Гертрудой с любящим терпением. Тим, художник-неудачник, планирует со своей девушкой-панком жить за счет своих богатых друзей. Кто кого будет судить в этом запутанном узоре любви и обмана? Кто будет вести себя хорошо, а кто плохо? Кому повезет? • "Монахини и солдаты" - знаковый роман выдающейся британской писательницы, признанного мастера тонкого психологизма • Книга на английском языке • A romantic tangle, and a web of ideas and emotions from one of the twentieth century's greatest novelists • Gertrude has lost her husband and Anne, an ex-nun, her God

«Под сетью» — дебютный роман британской писательницы Айрис Мёрдок, написанный в 1954 году. Одно из самых известных и значительных произведений писательницы • Джейк, умный и ленивый, зарабатывает на жизнь тем, что пишет переводы и обирает своих друзей. Когда его выгоняют из его последнего жилья, он отправляется в серию фантастических и веселых приключений по Лондону с участием кинозвезд, величественных философов, букмекеров, певцов и знаменитой гончей по кличке Чудесный мистер Марс • Книга на английском языке • Jake, clever and lazy, makes a living out of writing translations and sponging off his friends. When he is kicked out of his latest lodgings he embarks on a series of fantastic and hilarious adventures around London involving movie stars, majestic philosophers, bookies, singers and a celebrity hound called the Marvellous Mister Mars

A witty, elegant comedy of errors to rival any of Shakespeare's • Edmund has escaped from his family into a lonely life. Returning for his mother's funeral he finds himself involved in the old, awful problems, together with some new ones. One by one his relatives reveal their secrets to a reluctant Edmund: illicit affairs, hidden passions, shameful scandals. And the heart of all, there is, as always, the family's loyal servant, the Italian girl

Discover a beautiful story of what it is to be human from Pulitzer prize-winning Sunday Times bestselling Anne Tyler • How does a man addicted to routine - a man who flosses his teeth before love-making - cope with the chaos of everyday life? • With the loss of his son, the departure of his wife and the arrival of Muriel, a dog trainer from the Meow-Bow dog clinic, Macon's attempts at ordinary life are tragically and comically undone

A transfixing parable of greed, goodness and an extraordinary miracle from the author of The Woman in Black • Tommy Carr was a kind man; Eve had been able to tell that after half an hour of knowing him. There had never been a day when he had not shown her some small kindness and even after the tragic death of their young daughter, their relationship remained as strong as before. Grief takes its toll however, and it’s not surprising that by the following Christmas, Tommy is a shadow of his former self, with the look of death upon him • But what happens next is entirely unexpected, not least for the kind man

'A masterpiece - tapped out in the lean, sharp prose that film work taught Greene to perfect' - Sunday Times • WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR • In a prison in Occupied France during the Second World War, the order is given that every tenth inmate is to be executed. Louis Chavel, a rich lawyer, draws the short straw and barters everything he owns to exchange places with another man and survive. Destitute but free, Chavel later returns to the house that he sold for his life, where he must face the consequences of his cowardice and seek redemption

In 1845, a Reading bookseller named John Snare came across the dirt-blackened portrait of a prince at a country house auction. Suspecting that it might be a long-lost Velazquez, he bought the picture and set out to discover its strange history - a quest that led from fame to ruin and exile • Fusing detection and biography, this book shows how and why great works of art can affect us, even to the point of mania. And on the trail of John Snare, Cumming makes a surprising discovery of her own. But most movingly, The Vanishing Man is an eloquent and passionate homage to the Spanish master Velazquez, bringing us closer to the creation and appreciation of his works than ever before

During the second world war Eric Lomax was forced to work on the notorious Burma-Siam Railway and was tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio • Left emotionally scarred and unable to form normal relationships Lomax suffered for years until, with the help of his wife Patti and the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, he came to terms with what had happened and, fifty years after the terrible events, was able to meet one of his tormentors • The Railway Man is an incredible story of innocence betrayed, and of survival and courage in the face of horror

Commissaire Adamsberg has left Paris for a police conference in London, accompanied by anglophile Commandant Danglard and Estalere, a young sergeant. The city offers a welcome change of scenery until a gruesome discovery is made - just outside the gates of Highgate Cemetery a pile of shoes, all containing severed feet, is found • Returning to Paris, the three men are then confronted with the violent killing and dismemberment of a wealthy, elderly man. Both the dead man's son and gardener have motives for murder, but soon another candidate for the killing emerges. As Adamsberg investigates the links between these two unsettling crimes, he puts himself at terrible risk