The Optimist's Daughter is the story of Laurel McKelva Hand, a young woman who, after leaving the South, returns a year later to New Orleans, where her fathe...

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This short story is a mystery both in terms of its construction and in terms of content and meaning. Salinger's novel does not fit well into the framework of...

Franz Kafka. Lock. Novel, stories, parables. / Comp., intro. article by E. L. Voiskunsky. - M.: RIF, 1991 - 411 pp. The collection of one of the greatest pro...

The confession is written in the form of a letter and addressed to Wilde's close friend Lord Alfred Douglas. Wilde worked on it in 1897 during his last month...

This book contains letters from Oscar Wilde: the first of them was written by a thirteen-year-old child and addressed to his mother, the last by an infinitel...

Jerome David Salinger (b. 1919) is one of the most mysterious American writers of the 20th century, who became a voluntary recluse at the very crest of liter...

Through the Eyes of a Clown (1963) First published in 1963, Böll’s novel, which critics called “the German Catcher in the Rye,” takes place over just one day...

The second volume contains the novel “Babbitt” translated by R. Wright-Kovalyova and the story “The Man Who Knew Coolidge” translated by M. Landor.