Маргарет Дрэббл – лучшие книги

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"?

Вот уже более трех десятилетий Маргарет Дрэббл, «английская Француаза Саган», как ее окрестили критики, занимает видное место в современной английской литературе, являясь одним из интереснейших авторов, появившихся в начале 60-х годов ХХ века. Продолжая традиции своих великих предшественников — Джейн Остин, Джордж Элиот, Томаса Гарди, Генри Джеймса, Арнольда Беннета и других классиков английской литературы, Маргарет Дрэббл зарекомендовала себя умным и вдумчивым писателем с самобытным стилем, тонким исследователем человеческих душ и взаимоотношений. Роман «Камень на шее», увидевший свет в 1965 году и отмеченный британской литературной премией Джона Ллевелина-Риза, принес Дрэббл первый настоящий успех и открыл миру нового талантливого автора.

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.

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…

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.

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.

Margaret Drabble’s affecting novel, set in London during the 1960s, is about a casual love affair, an unplanned pregnancy, and one young woman’s decision to become a mother. Rosamund Stacey is young and inexperienced at a time when sexual liberation is well on its way. She conceals her ignorance beneath a show of independence, and becomes pregnant as a result of a one night stand. Although single parenthood is still not socially acceptable, she chooses to have the baby rather than to seek an illegal abortion, and finds her life transformed by motherhood.

Anthony Keating is a middle-aged property developer in Yorkshire in the mid-seventies. Having escaped London's hustle-bustle and survived a heart attack aged just thirty eight, he awaits the return of his lover Alison, who is trying to help her daughter incarcerated in a draconian Eastern bloc country. With debts spiralling out of control, Anthony realises that he and his friends are bound to the engine driving the society in which they live and that should it falter, so will they. The Ice Age is a portrait of a Britain of boom and bust, and greed - and uncannily predicts the Thatcher years.

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.

On dit que ce n'est pas la destination qui compte, mais le voyage... Ailsa est dans l'avion, Humphrey dans le train. Ils doivent se retrouver au bout du chemin, à Finsterness, le petit village au bord de la mer du Nord où ils se sont connus, enfants, dans l'immédiat après-guerre. Ils ne se sont pas revus depuis des décennies. La dernière fois que leurs routes se sont croisées, au début des années soixante, Ailsa, la féministe avide de publicité, la fantasque, l'outrancière, et Humphrey, le tran-quille doctorant en biologie marine, se sont follement aimés... et déchirés. Une rupture qui a imprimé leurs vies futures. On dit qu'on n'oublie jamais son premier amour... Le hasard ¿ si c'est bien lui ¿ veut que les deux sexagénaires soient aujourd'hui invités par la même université pour se voir remettre un doctorat honoris causa. Alors qu'ils se rapprochent de ce Nord de légende où tout a commencé, les souvenirs et les interrogations affleurent. Qu'est-ce qui les attend à la fin du voyage ?Naviguant entre passé et présent, entre fantaisie et émotion, la piquante Margaret Drabble matérialise le royaume d'enfance, les sables mouvants de l'existence et la fuite du temps.

Anna is a child of special, unknowable qualities. She is a happy child, always willing to smile at the world around her. But she also presents profound challenges. For her mother Jess, still in her early twenties, living alone in North London and hoping to embark on an adventurous career, her arrival will prove life-transforming. Over the course of decades, in ways large and small, Anna will affect the lives and loves of those around her. While Anna herself will remain largely unaltered by the passing years, she will live through a period of dramatic change, her journey illuminating our shifting attitudes towards motherhood, responsibility and the way we care for one another. Both personal and political, The Pure Gold Baby is a remarkable portrait of a family, a friendship, and a neighbourhood. It is a novel of great beauty, wisdom and stealthy power by one of our country's foremost and acclaimed writers.

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.

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…

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,…

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.

Simon Camish, an embittered, diffident lawyer in a loveless marriage, would not have particularly noticed Rose Vassiliou had he not been asked to drive her home one night after a dinner party. Yet at one time she had been notorious-her name constantly in the news.
Now, separated from her Greek husband, she lives alone with her three children. Despite all the efforts and sneers of her friends, she refuses to move from her slum house in a decaying neighborhood to which she has become attached. Gradually, Simon becomes aware that Rose is a woman of remarkable integrity and courage. He is drawn into her affairs when her husband takes legal action to reopen the question of custody of the children-a scheme for getting his wife back. And, while the precise nature of their ties eludes him, Simon comes to realize that Rose and her Greek ex-husband are forever and inextricably bound to each other.

Humphrey and Ailsa meet as children by a grey, northern sea. Humphrey is quiet, serious - and will in time explore the sea's mysteries; Ailsa is angry, a freckled cobra ready to strike. Yet they fascinate one another and when they meet again years later they fall briefly - and disastrously - in love.

Half a lifetime passes before Humphrey and Ailsa's paths finally re-cross. What will each make of their past? And of the future?

The Sea Lady tells the a story of first and last love, of evolution and the ebb and flow of time that gives shape to our lives.