Little, Brown and Company, 1956. — 317 p.
В романе "Памятник крестоносцу" ("A Thing of Beauty") известный английский писатель А. Дж. Кронин обращается к конфликту между творческой личностью и косной средой, не способной оценить ее новаторских дерзаний.
Главный герой — художник, стремящийся по-новому отобразить действительность, настойчиво ищущий новые пути в искусстве,...
Chicago: Peoples Book Club, 1952. — 336 p.
В автобиографии «Приключения в двух мирах» Кронин рассказывает о собственной медицинской практике и своей писательской жизни.
A. J. Cronin was a Scottish physician and novelist. His best-known works are Hatter's Castle, The Stars Look Down, The Citadel, The Keys of the Kingdom and The Green Years, all of which were adapted to film. He...
Little, Brown and Company, 1969. — 254 p.
Роман "Карман полный ржи" был написан А.Крониным в 1969 году. В нем рассказывается о жизни молодого шотландского доктора Кэрролла в Швейцарии. В ней Кронин использует свой опыт работы врачом. Это продолжение книги "Песня за шесть пенсов". Названия обеих книг взяты из детской песенки "Песня за шесть пенсов".
Bello: 2012. Впервые опубликовано в 1947. Over the course of six episodes, the early years of Dr. Finlay are explored, as he gets to grips with the locals in the Scottish Highland town of Levenford. But the new doctor is full of surprises; caring, stub-born, idealistic and clever, but he proves to be more than a match for the local residents
Bello: 2012. Опубликовано первоначально в 1956. Paul Mathry, a student about to graduate and embark upon a teaching career, finds out that his father was convicted for murder, a secret that his mother had hidden from him since his childhood. Driven by an intense desire to see his father, Paul sets out to visit him in prison, only to find out that visitors are never allowed there....
Bello: 2007. Книга первоначально вышла в 1956 году. Cronin draws vivid, if sometimes exaggerated characters. It focuses on love, loss and the sadness that it leaves in its wake. Yet in the end there is a sense of hope. It tells about a young man, a son of an English vicar. He interrupts his studies of theology, turns a painter, moves first to Paris, later to Spain and refuses to...
Edingburgh: Birlinn Ltd, 2012. Dr Finlay’s Casebook is a delightful collection of episodic stories of Dr Finlay and his life in the fictional Scottish village of Tannochbrae during the inter-war years and based on A.J. Cronin’s own experiences as a doctor. Содержание: Dr Finlay of Tannochbrae A Delicate Matter Professional Etiquette The Shepherd of the Far Hills Janet Is Not...
Bello: 2013. Gracie is a young woman who, after 'getting in trouble' as a teenager, left town to have her baby, gave it up and moved to India and marriage. This story picks up in 1911 with Gracie back in town newly widowed and quickly raising eyebrows and setting tongues to clicking over her friendly manner with the men.
Bello: 2012 Grand Canary is a novel by author A. J. Cronin, initially published in 1933. It tells the story of Dr. Harvey Leith, an English physician who is wrongfully blamed for the deaths of three patients and leaves his country in disgrace, ultimately finding redemption when thrust into the middle of a yellow fever epidemic in the Canary Islands. (Goodreads)
Hatter's Castle (1931, Замок Броуди) is the first novel of author A. J. Cronin. The story is set in 1879, in the fictional town of Levenford, on the Firth of Clyde. The plot revolves around many characters and has many subplots, all of which relate to the life of the hatter, James Brodie, whose narcissism and cruelty gradually destroy his family and life. The book was made into a...
Hatter's Castle (1931, Замок Броуди) is the first novel of author A. J. Cronin. The story is set in 1879, in the fictional town of Levenford, on the Firth of Clyde. The plot revolves around many characters and has many subplots, all of which relate to the life of the hatter, James Brodie, whose narcissism and cruelty gradually destroy his family and life. The book was made into a...
Hatter's Castle (1931, Замок Броуди) is the first novel of author A. J. Cronin. The story is set in 1879, in the fictional town of Levenford, on the Firth of Clyde. The plot revolves around many characters and has many subplots, all of which relate to the life of the hatter, James Brodie, whose narcissism and cruelty gradually destroy his family and life. The book was made into a...
Bello: 2013. Первоначально было опубликовано в 1931. Первая книга Арчибальда Кронина. Hatter's Castle is the story of a meglomaniac, James Brodie, who lives in Scotland during the Victorian era. He's vile to his wife, his children and anyone who he believes is beneath him in the pecking order, and full of his own self importance. Of course, as in all good novels, he gets his...
Bello: 2012. It's difficult to read this in modern times... but as someone else said, "a good old-fashioned love story". Lady with Carnations is not only the traditional name of a famous Holbein miniature which unexpectedly comes into a London salesroom in the mid-thirties: it is also the soubriquet by which some of her close friends think of the antique-dealer who buys it....
Bello: 2012. Sequel to The Green Years. Первоначально опубликовано в 1948. Dr. Robert Shannon is a dedicated medical scientist who must learn to master his own temptations before he can vanquish human suffering. So Shannon has finally got his medical licence with all the extras that are important to a man wishing to go into medical research. He lands several good jobs but manages...
Bello: 2012. Первоначально опубликовано в 1964. This is the story of a teenage boy, Laurence Carroll. His father dies of tuberculosis or some type of lung disease that he has ignored for so long that his condition is beyond hope. Poor Laurence and his mother are left penniless. But a wonderful neighbor, Miss Greville takes them in as boarders in her home. She is quite a character....
Bello: 2012. Первоначально опубликовано в 1969. The poignant sequel to "A Song of Sixpence." The clinic stood high on an Alpine slope. Lush meadows, studded with autumn crocus, sloped steeply down. Across the valley, above the pinewoods, the high peaks were already dusted with snow. Like a toy railway, the line to Davos twisted and turned up along the mountain side. (GR review)
М.: Foreign languages publishing house , 1963. — 477 с. — OCR с ошибками
"The Citadel" (1937) is a fine collection of portraits in the medical world of England. The action in the novel begins in 1924 and ends in the middle of the 30's. The main character of the novel is Andrew Manson who after graduating from the university starts working as a general practitioner in a small...
М.: Foreign languages publishing house , 1963. — 477 с. "The Citadel" (1937) is a fine collection of portraits in the medical world of England. The action in the novel begins in 1924 and ends in the middle of the 30's. The main character of the novel is Andrew Manson who after graduating from the university starts working as a general practitioner in a small town in South...
"Цитадель" - одно из лучших произведений известного английского писателя А. Дж. Кронина. Главный герой - Эндрью Мэйсон - молодой талантливый врач, натура ищущая и творческая, вступает в конфликт с косным миром корыстолюбцев.
Bello, 2012.
"Цитадель" - одно из лучших произведений известного английского писателя А. Дж. Кронина. Главный герой - Эндрью Мэйсон - молодой талантливый врач, натура ищущая и творческая, вступает в конфликт с косным миром корыстолюбцев.
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"Цитадель" - одно из лучших произведений известного английского писателя А. Дж. Кронина. Главный герой - Эндрью Мэйсон - молодой талантливый врач, натура ищущая и творческая, вступает в конфликт с косным миром корыстолюбцев.
Bello: 2007. Книга первоначально вышла в 1944 году. This book is the autobiographical account of Cronin's coming of age in Scotland in the early 20th Century. The superb, honest characterization of his various family members coupled with Cronin's eye for detail, skill in plot construction, and depth of focus make this an excellent read. This book looks squarely at life and...
Bello: 2007. Книга первоначально вышла в 1944 году. This book is the autobiographical account of Cronin's coming of age in Scotland in the early 20th Century. The superb, honest characterization of his various family members coupled with Cronin's eye for detail, skill in plot construction, and depth of focus make this an excellent read. This book looks squarely at life and...
Bello: 2012. Впервые было опубликовано в 1957. Here now is the alternative story of Christmas, narrated with great skill, by the author of The Citadel, Hatter’s Castle and The Stars Look Down.
A. J. Cronin’s latest novel is a devastating one—more realistic than any he has ever written. In The Judas Tree, the author of The Stars Look Down, The Citadel, The Keys of the Kingdom and The Green Years tells an engrossing story of a man beset by a supreme egoism which affects his entire life—particularly his relations with women. Rich, charming and accomplished, David Moray is...
The very model of a humane, warm Catholic priest from a humble background who struggles with his own doubts, the idea of miracles, the Catholic hierarchy and his issionary colleagues, yet retains a humility, poise and generosity of spirit that his more worldly contemporaries, particularly the prelates and members of religious orders, lack. Though not in the anguished introspective...
The very model of a humane, warm Catholic priest from a humble background who struggles with his own doubts, the idea of miracles, the Catholic hierarchy and his issionary colleagues, yet retains a humility, poise and generosity of spirit that his more worldly contemporaries, particularly the prelates and members of religious orders, lack. Though not in the anguished introspective...
The very model of a humane, warm Catholic priest from a humble background who struggles with his own doubts, the idea of miracles, the Catholic hierarchy and his issionary colleagues, yet retains a humility, poise and generosity of spirit that his more worldly contemporaries, particularly the prelates and members of religious orders, lack. Though not in the anguished introspective...
Bello: 2012. Впервые опубликовано 1975. The story concerns the life of a young priest called Desmonde Fitzgerald. In his seminary he is noted for his magnificent singing voice, his practical jokes and his good looks which make him inordinately attractive to women. In his first clerical posting in Ireland, the lady of the manor falls in love with him, but he is seduced by her...
Bello: 2012 This is a timeless novel about a narcissist who attempts to control everyone around him, and ends up destroying his personal relationships. Like all narcissists, he's unable to comprehend the destruction and damage he creates, and instead puts the blame on others. He's a snobbish man with no understanding of human behavior, and ends up suffering the consequences of...
Rosetta Books: 2012. This is A.J. Cronin's fourth novel, published in 1935, and this tale of a North country mining family was a great favourite with his readers. Robert Fenwick is a miner, and so are his three sons. His wife is proud that all her four men go down the mines. But David, the youngest, is determined that somehow he will educate himself and work to ameliorate the...
First published in 1935, The Stars Look Down tells the story of a North Country mining community as its inhabitants make their way through the various social and political challenges of the early 20th century. Digging into workers’ rights, social change, and the relationship between labor and capitalism, the struggles of the novel’s trifecta of protagonists — politically minded...
Bello: 2012. Three loves is a about the story of Lucy Moore who loves her dear ones too much that her love takes up some sort of destructive nature. Think of a love which is all possessive and which makes you do things which you think are absolutely great for your loved ones... Does all things that you do with love in your mind be actually good for others? But before you write off...
Bello: 2012 Первоначально повесть была опубликована в 1939 году в журнале "Housekeeping Magazine". Vigil in the Night represents something of an event for fans of A. J. Cronin. Here, published for the first time in book form, is his poignant and moving tale of two nurses—of Anne, who devoted herself to serving others, and of her younger sister, Lucy, who meant to get everything in...
Bello: 2012. Впервые опубликовано в 1958. The editor of a daily paper fights a commercial pressure group on behalf of independence, decent standards, and to protect the people he loves.
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