Margaret Drabble Knihy

Margaret Drabblová patrí medzi významné súčasné anglické prozaičky, ktorej diela vychádzajú zväčša v niekoľkých vydaniach a získavajú si čoraz väčší okruh čitateľov svojím spracovaním a osobitým prístupom k téme. Jej romány sú psychologické a s obľubou sa koncentrujú na duševnýsvet ženy, ktorý autorka odhaľuje priam so zarážajúcou úprimnosťou, bez pretvárky, bez pátosu. V románe Vodopád ide konkrétne o problém manželskej nevery a v širšom kontexte o problém spolužitia muža a ženy. Hrdinka sa po narodení druhého dieťaťa odpúta od manžela a nadviaže nový vzťah s mužom svojej sesternice. Vtedy sa jej predošlý život, vzťah k deťom, k okoliu, začína javiť v inom, novom svetle a rozpráva. Na to, aby dosiahla väčšiu účinnosť svojich výpovedí, uchyľuje sa k netradičnému spôsobu: úvahy o novom partnerovi uvádza v tretej osobe, svoje výpovede zasa v prvej. Ide jej predovšetkým o objektívnosť pri zachytení svojich pocitov a pohnútok, ktoré chce takto podčiarknuť. Drabblová však veľmi vnímavo opisuje nielen vnútorný svet svojej hrdinky, ale aj spoločenské vzťahy v Anglicku, predsudky, falošnú nadradenosť a povýšenectvo, ktoré pomáhajú istým spoločenským vrstvám prežiť vlastnú bezvýznamnosť. Román je spracovaný na vysokej umeleckej úrovni a vnímavému čitateľovi prinesie hlboký zážitok.

Dotek lásky, jehož filmová verze byla uvedená i u nás. Zachycuje problémy určitého typu dnešní mladé ženy, problémy jaké ještě neznala generace našich babiček . Jde o dívku zaměřenou rozumově, ctižádostivou ve svém povolání a ve své vědecké práci. V citové oblasti je ostýchavá, neprůbojná a bedlivě si střeží své soukromí. Když se do jejího života vloudí hluboký cit a mladá žena zápasí se změněnou životní perspektivou, to je obsahem této nevšední knihy.

Rich in character and incident, A Natural Curiosity sweeps the reader from smart London townhouses to a run-down embassy in the Middle East, from the splendours of the Musée d’Orsay in Paris to drowsy afternoons in the hills of sunny Italy, as we re-encounter Alix, Liz, and Esther, three erudite, middle-aged, Cambridge-educated women living in Margaret Thatcher’s Britain. The story opens in 1987, when Alix, a conscientious social worker, befriends a convicted killer, when a dazed housewife begins an affair with a stranger after her husband’s suicide, and a comfort-loving TV executive undertakes to rescue a friend who’s been kidnapped by terrorists. A Natural Curiosity is wondrous and astute, and in Margaret Drabble’s hands, the seemingly improbable becomes vividly real.

The colorful, controversial life story of Angus Wilson--one of the most brilliant writers to emerge after World War II--is captured by acclaimed novelist Margaret Drabble. A master chronicler of the foibles of English life, Wilson emerges as an artist of enormous courage, one of the very few who, even in the 1940s, lived as an open homosexual.

Since Sir Paul Harvey's original Oxford Companion to English Literature was published in 1932 it has established itself as the standard source of reference for general readers, as well as an indispensable guide for students and specialists, on all aspects of English literary culture. In 1985, under the editorship of Margaret Drabble, with a team of distinguished contributors, the text was completely revised while retaining the essential characteristic of Sir Paul Harvey's much-loved volume. Since then, the Companion has continued to respond to the needs of contemporary readers. Now, in this new revision, nearly sixty completely new entries have been added on contemporary novelists, poets, and dramatists. Comprehensive, authoritative, and up to date, this new edition of The Oxford Companion to English Literature reasserts its position as the most complete reference guide to English literary culture currently available

Based on "The Oxford Companion to English Literature", this companion not only focuses on the English literature of the British Isles, but also the literature of other countries and disciplines influenced by literature. There are over 5000 entries, updated and including new essays.

The middle years of Kate Armstrong are caught between parents and children and are free of neither. Relentlessly good-natured, surprisingly successful, lapped by the affection of her children and friends and intidily folded into the clutter of her overflowing house, Kate is now suddenly in her forties. Margaret Drable takes Kate's predicament - when Kate is forced to make a reconnaissance of the middle ground of her life - and turns it into a wise, witty and ebullient novel.

Perec was a leading exponent of French literary surrealism who found humour - and pathos - in the human need for classification. Thoughts of Sorts is itself unclassifiable, a unique collection of philosophical riffs on his obsession with lists, puzzles, catalogues, and taxonomies. Introduced by Margaret Drabble.

Collects three lesser-known works by one of the nineteenth century's greatest authors: Lady Susan, The Watsons and Sanditon. This book examines the works in the context of her major novels and her life, and discusses the social background of her fiction.

Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, an intimate novel about human desire against the backdrop of the sexual liberation movement of the Sixties