Angel Pavement

J. B. Priestley

За особеностите на екземпляра

Състояние:: Много добро
Забележка:: Отлично книжно тяло, забележки по корицата и гръбчето.
Език:: Английски и Руски
Наличност:: 1 бр. - в това състояние и цена в този щанд. Други екземпляри от книгата

За изданието

Издателство:: Прогресс
Град на издаване:: Moscow
Година:: 1974 г.
Език:: Английски и Руски
Страници:: 504
Корици:: Твърди
Художник:: Н. Гришин
Категория:: Чужда проза

Автор послесловия М. Тугушева Автор комментария Э. Полиенко Tucked away in the City of London, lies a dingy, almost forgotten side street known as Angel Pavement. Here can be found the headquarters of Twigg & Dersingham, suppliers of veneers and inlays to the cabinet-making trade. Business is bad and getting worse. The firm is fighting for its life and its staff are gripped by the fear of insolvency and redundancy. Into their midst descends the mysterious and charming Mr. Golspie and his beautiful daughter, Lena. Together they set in train a sequence of events that will transform the lives of everyone who works there. Shot through with Priestley’s trademark social conscience, Angel Pavement is one of the great London novels; a vivid evocation of the 1930s metropolis in an age of recession. It is also a brilliant and startlingly relevant examination of what happens to a group of workers when the destructive force of a rapacious financial predator is unleashed among them. Angel Pavement is one of the great London novels. First published in 1930, it is a social panorama of the city of London seen largely through the eyes of the employees of the firm Twigg & Dersingham, on the first floor of No. 8, Angel Pavement (a small cul-de-sac in the heart of London’s commercial district). The novel provides readers with a vivid picture of ordinary London life before the war and the blitz changed everything dramatically and is set against the background of the great depression.

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