Джин Рис

В сборник вошли две известнейшие английские мелодрамы. "Антуанетта" Джин Рис - это вариация на тему знаменитого романа Ш.Бронте "Джен Эйр", история детства, юности и замужества загадочной жены мистера Рочестера; "Круглая башня" - мелодрама классика этого жанра Кэтрин Куксон, именем которой в Англии названа премия, ежегодно присуждаемая за лучший любовный роман.

Julia Martin is at the end of her rope in Paris. Once beautiful, she was taken care of by men. Now after leaving her last lover, she is running out of luck and chances. A visit to London to see her ailing mother and distrustful sister bring her stark life into full focus. A masterful and terrifying tale from one of the truest voices in twentieth-century fiction.

A collection of 16 short stories by the author of "Wide Sargasso Sea", "Voyage in the Dark" and "Good Morning, Midnight".

Tigers are Better-Looking is a collection of short stories written by famed Dominican author Jean Rhys, published in 1968 by Andre Deutsch and reissued by Penguin ten years later. This collection combines eight stories written by Rhys during the 1950s (her period of obscurity) with another nine from her previous efforts in 1927's The Left Bank and Other Stories. In 1979, the title story from ...

Tigers are Better-Looking incorporates selections from Jean Rhys's first book of stories, The Left Bank, published in 1927, and later stories written after 1939. In them she encompasses within a few pages both the gaiety and charm of youth and love, and an awareness of all that threatens them. Writing in The New York Times, A. Alvarez has called these stories "extraordinary." The early stories ...

Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys?s return to the literary center stage. She had a startling early career and was known for her extraordinary prose and haunting women characters. With Wide Sargasso Sea, her last and best-selling novel, she ingeniously brings into light one of fiction?s most fascinating characters: the madwoman in the attic from Charlotte Bronte?s Ja...

Aperitifs in smoky Montparnasse cafes, cheap hotel rooms, and Marya Zelli, trying to make of her life something substantial to withstand the unreality which surrounds her. Alone, stranded in Paris after her Polish husband is jailed, Marya is befriended by an English couple who take her home with them. Slowly they overwhelm her with their passions as Marya drifts into an affair with the husband, an...

Роман известной английской писательницы Джин Рис (1890–1979) «Путешествие во тьме» (1934) был воспринят в свое время как настоящее откровение. Впервые трагедия вынужденного странничества показана через призму переживаний обыкновенного человека, а не художника или писателя. Весьма современно звучит история девушки, родившейся на одном из Карибских островов, которая попыталась обрести приют и душевн...

Sasha Jensen has returned to Paris, the city of both her happiest moments and her most desperate. A friend has rescued her from the room in London where she had been trying to drink herself to death. Now her past lies in wait for her in cafes, bars, and dress shops coming to life again as vividly for the reader as it does for her, blurring all distinctions between nightmare and reality. The pas...