Джеймс Гордон Фаррелл - автор 5 книг. Из известных произведений можно выделить: The Siege of Krishnapur, Troubles, The Singapore Grip. Все книги можно читать онлайн и бесплатно скачивать на нашем портале.
Winner of the Booker Prize. India, 1857—the year of the Great Mutiny, when Muslim soldiers turned in bloody rebellion on their British overlords. This time of convulsion is the subject of J. G. Farrell’s The Siege of Krishnapur, widely considered one of the finest British novels of the last fifty years.
Winner of the Lost Man Booker Prize 1919: After surviving the Great War, Major Brendan Archer makes his way to Ireland, hoping to discover whether he is indeed betrothed to Angela Spencer, whose Anglo-Irish family owns the once-aptly-named Majestic Hotel in Kilnalough. But his fiancee is strangely altered and her family's fortunes have suffered a spectacular decline. The hotel's hundr...
Singapore just before the Japanese invasion in the Second World War: the Blackett family's prosperous world of tennis parties, cocktails and deferential servants seems unchanging. But it is poised on the edge of the abyss: This is the eve of the Fall of Singapore and, as we know, of much else besides. Not only the Blacketts, their friends and enemies, but many individuals are caught up in the...
Two stunning, Booker Prize-winning historical novels that vividly chronicle the crumbling edges of the British Empire in India and Ireland–in one Contemporary Classics hardcover. Inspired by historical events, The Siege of Krishnapur is the mesmerizing tale of a British outpost, under siege during the Indian Mutiny of 1857, whose residents find their smug assumptions of moral and military supe...
Перевод: Ю. Я. Гольдберг. — М.: Эксмо, 2009. — 368 с., ил. — (Тайны древних цивилизаций). — ISBN 975-5-699-34519-9.В новой книге известный физик и инженер Джозеф Фаррелл развивает свою сенсационную теорию о том, что египетские пирамиды были частью грандиозного военного эксперимента по созданию лучевого оружия невообразимой разрушительной силы. На сей раз автор выстраивает еще более неожиданную гип...