Скачать книгу (размер 651Kb , формат fb2) Жанр : Классическая проза , Язык : en Аннотация: A witty and erudite love letter to a bygone age, from one of Europe s last great humanists. «A sparkling slice of eighteenth-century life» Paul Bailey, Independent In August 1785 Paris buzzed with scandal. It involved an eminent churchman, …

Скачать книгу (размер 366Kb , формат fb2) Жанр : Классическая проза , Язык : en Аннотация: The restless King Oliver VII of Alturia, an obscure Central European state whose only notable exports are wine and sardines, wants nothing more than an easy life: so, plotting a coup against himself, King Oliver VII escapes to Venice …

Скачать книгу (размер 434Kb , формат fb2) Жанр : Классическая проза , Язык : en Аннотация: This selection of stories, set in mythical times and in 1920s and 1930s London and Paris, reflects Antal Szerb’s love of life and irrepressible irony that has become his trademark: from Szerb’s earliest stories, driven by his intense political …

Скачать книгу (размер 631Kb , формат fb2) Жанр : Классическая проза , Язык : en Аннотация: At an end-of-London-season soiree, the young Hungarian scholar-dilettante Janos Batky is introduced to the Earl of Gwynedd, a reclusive eccentric who is the subject of strange rumors. Invited to the family seat — Pendragon Castle in North Wales — …

Скачать книгу (размер 532Kb , формат fb2) Жанр : Классическая проза , Язык : en Аннотация: «No one who has read it has failed to love it.» — Nicholas Lezard, Guardian «Szerb belongs with the master novelists of the twentieth century.» — Paul Bailey, Daily Telegraph ANXIOUS TO PLEASE his bourgeois father, Mihaly has joined the family …

Скачать книгу (размер 532Kb , формат fb2) Жанр : Классическая проза , Язык : en Аннотация: «No one who has read it has failed to love it.» — Nicholas Lezard, Guardian «Szerb belongs with the master novelists of the twentieth century.» — Paul Bailey, Daily Telegraph ANXIOUS TO PLEASE his bourgeois father, Mihaly has joined the family …