Скачать книгу (размер 521Kb , формат fb2) Жанр : Классическая проза , Язык : en Аннотация: A mystical Javan prince and a promiscuous wife are twin challenges to Commissioner Van Oudijck s seemingly impregnable authority. As he struggles to maintain control of his district in the Dutch East Indies, as well as of his family, …
Скачать книгу (размер 552Kb , формат fb2) Жанр : Классическая проза , Язык : en Аннотация: «Cornelie De Retz Van Loo, a twenty-three-year-old divorcee from an upper-class Hague milieu, tries with mixed feelings to begin a new life in Italy in 1900. After some time in Rome, she discovers that Italy itself can never bring …
Скачать книгу (размер 1582Kb , формат fb2) Жанр : Классическая проза , Язык : en Аннотация: Louis Couperus was catapulted to prominence in 1889 with Eline Vere, a psychological masterpiece inspired by Flaubert and Tolstoy. Eline Vere is a young heiress: dreamy, impulsive, and subject to bleak moods. Though beloved among her large coterie of …
Скачать книгу (размер 257Kb , формат fb2) Жанр : Классическая проза , Язык : en Аннотация: Ecstasy is the story of young widow roused out of the torpor of her solitude by a dalliance with a courtly womanizer. It is written in a dreamily impressionistic style whose primary concern is to capture its heroine s …