Everyman

Stories of Art and Artists gathers two centuries of stories from around the world. From Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Artist of the Beautiful and Albert Camus’s The Artist at Work to Bernard Malamud’s Rembrandt’s Hat and Aimee Bender’s The Color Master, the tales collected here range from haunting

This wide-ranging anthology pays tribute to fathers young and old. At one end of the spectrum, a touching story by Ann Packer tells of a man preparing for the wonder and terror of his first child's birth, and from Frank O'Connor's comes a hilarious tale of a small boy's war against his paternal

ПРО КНИЖКУ Northern Lights introduces Lyra, an orphan, who lives in a parallel universe in which science, theology and magic are entwined. Lyra's search for a kidnapped friend uncovers a sinister plot involving stolen children and turns into a quest to understand a mysterious phenomenon called

In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the English countryside and into his past . . . A haunting tale of lost causes and lost love, The Remains of the Day, winner of the Booker Prize, contains Ishiguro's