Bostoncy

Vpervye na russkom yazyke - znamenityy roman klassika amerikanskoy literatury. Genri Dzheyms, kak vydayuschiysya psiholog, sozdal ochen' yarkie i realistichnye portrety geroev s bogatym vnutrennim mirom, zhivuschih v intellektual'noy atmosfere Bostona, - samyh bezrassudnyh romantikov, samyh naivnyh idealistov, vyraziteley samyh yarkih idey. Chto mozhet byt' trogatel'nee i pechal'nee, chem zhizn' bogatoy staroy devy Oliv Chansellor, kotoraya mechtaet pogibnut' v bor'be za vseobschee zhenskoe osvobozhdenie i zhdet tol'ko znaka ot mirozdaniya, chtoby nachat' svoy pohod protiv muzhchin? Chto mozhet byt' beznadezhnee poslevoennogo suschestvovaniya ee kuzena Bezila Rensoma, molodogo krasivogo yuzhanina, kotoryy poteryal v grazhdanskoy voyne ne tol'ko svoe sostoyanie i polozhenie v obschestve, no i nadezhdu na procvetanie? Tol'ko yumor i starye dobrye konservativnye idealy podderzhivayut na plavu ego yuzhnuyu gordost'. I eti dvoe vdrug stalkivayutsya s chem-to sovershenno novym, s chem-to, chto mozhet spasti ih oboih. Eto yunaya Verena Tarrant, obladayuschaya udivitel'nym darom publichnyh vystupleniy i ne menee udivitel'noy krasotoy...