Современная проза — Muriel Spark

В однотомник включены лучшие сатирические романы одной из крупнейших современных писательниц Великобритании: «Memento mori», «Мисс Джин Броди в расцвете лет», «Умышленная задержка»; антирасистская повесть «Птичка-„уходи“» и рассказы разных лет.

The May of Teck Club "exists for the Pecuniary Convenience and Social Protection of Ladies of Slender Means below the age of Thirty Years". Nevertheless, and though there is a war on, they find the time between elocution lessons to jostle one another over suitors (some more suitable than others) and a single Schiaparelli gown. But can a love of literature, fine clothes and amorous young men save these young ladies from the horrors of the real world?

From a fraudulent psychiatrist grappling with two equally fraudulent clients in Aiding and Abetting, to the dirty dealings of The Abbess of Crewe's band of corrupt nuns, to the three plane crash survivors of Robinson eking out an existence on an Atlantic island after its resident mystic disappears, these three satires probe the recesses of human fallibility with formidable precision.Spanning five decades, the glittering, sharp and sinister works of Spark's Satire confirm their author as one of...