Ребекка Уэст – лучшие книги

Ставший классическим, 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.

После исчезновения супруга и продажи нескольких ценных картин, Клэр Обри удается наладить дела семьи. Роуз и Мэри совершенствуют свои навыки в музыкальном колледже, в то время как их старшая сестра Корделия становится помощницей арт-дилера. Ричард Куин, любимый младший брат, подумывает об Оксфорде. Взросление детей, учащихся принимать любовь и горе, становится все более острым по мере того, как события Первой мировой войны набирают обороты…

"The Return of the Soldier" is Rebecca West's 1918 novel of the struggle of a WWI veteran, Chris Baldry, who is shell-shocked with amnesia, to return home and make sense of the life that he had before he went to war, a life that now he can't entirely remember. This dramatic novel shows with great heart, that the horrors of war are not always left on the battlefield.

Isabelle, a wealthy American widow, arrives in France to restart her life and discovers she has her choice of eligible suitors. Torn between a placid liaison with a southerner and a tortuous affair with a Frenchman, Isabelle’s plans suddenly take an unexpected turn that will ultimately lead her to a love that will force her to reconsider the implications of her affluent existence.

With her signature wit and wisdom, West presents a captivating ode to marriage’s depth and the romance of the bond between husband and wife.

One afternoon, in an early summer of this century, eighteen-year-old Laura Rowan sits on the garden steps of her house embroidering a handkerchief. She overhears a conversation between her father, an English Member of Parliament, and her mother, Tania, the daughter of an exiled Russian royalist. Tania's decision to take Laura to Paris to visit her grandfather, Count Nikilai Diakonov, means that Laura will unwittingly become a witness to the momentous events leading up to the Russian Revolution...Through a vivid canvas layered with intrigue, conspiracy and murder, Rebecca West has created a story that is at once a family saga, a political thriller, a philosophical drama and an historical novel.

Part travelogue, part history, part love letter on a 1000-page scale, Rebecca West's Black Lamb & Grey Falcon is a genre-bending masterwork written in elegant prose. But what makes it so unlikely to be confused with any other book of history, politics or culture--with, in fact, any other book--is its unashamed depth of feeling: think The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire crossed with Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. West visited Yugoslavia for the 1st time in 1936. What she saw there affected her so much that she had to return--partly, she writes, "because it most resembled the country I have always seen between sleeping & waking, & partly because it was like picking up a strand of wool that would lead me out of a labyrinth in which, to my surprise, I had found myself immured." Black Lamb is the chronicle of her travels, but above all it's West following that strand of wool: thru countless historical digressions; thru winding narratives of battles, slavery & assassinations; thru Shakespeare & Augustine & into the very heart of human frailty.

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.