About the book: year / Irwin Shaw is an American novelist, short story writer, playwright. Irwin Shaw became one of the few writers capable of distilling high literature into the deceptively simple form of entertaining fiction. Irwin Shaw's novels not only invariably became bestsellers, were reprinted and filmed many times, and entered the golden fund of twentieth-century literature. The polished prose so typical of Irwin Shaw fully shone in his later, larger works. However, it also sounds great in early short stories, which, as we know, are one of the most complex literary genres. In the 50-60s, Shaw created many excellent examples of “small prose”. Shaw's short stories are distinguished by the elegance of their style and the accuracy of their characteristics - both psychological and social. Shaw's first collection of short stories, The Sailor of Bremen, was followed by Welcome to the City! (1942), "Act of Faith" (1946), "The Motley Company" (1950), "Bet on a Dead Jockey" (1957), "Love on a Dark Street" (1965), "God Was Here, But He Didn't Stay Long" (1973). While living in Europe, Shaw wrote a number of books: “Lucy Crown” (1956), “Two Weeks in Another Town” (1960), “Acceptable Losses” (1982). A classic of American literature and Shaw's best work, the novel Rich Man, Poor Man (1970) is considered a family chronicle of the post-war years, depicting the American national character and individual human destinies against the backdrop of significant social events. The novel has been filmed more than once by filmmakers from various countries. The film, produced at the Riga studio based on the novel “Rich Man, Poor Man,” enjoyed enormous audience success in Russia. Shaw returned to continue the saga only seven years later, in the novel “Beggar, Thief.” In between, he created two novels: “Evening in Byzantium” (1973) and “The Night Porter” (1975). “Beggar, Thief” is the second part of the Jordah duology. Built in the form of a traditional family chronicle, the dilogy traced the inevitable disintegration of ties between people who had chosen opposite life orientations for themselves: conformist, like the “rich man” Rudolf, and rebellious, like the “poor man” Thomas, and then his son, Wesley, avenging the death of his father . After the release of the novels “Rich Man, Poor Man” and “Beggar, Thief” in Russian, the name of Irwin Shaw took almost the first line of popularity in our country among foreign writers. In the novel An Evening in Byzantium, Shaw sought to recreate the origins of the spiritual crisis experienced by American society in the 60s. Talking about a film director experiencing a state of creative impasse, Shaw managed to create an expressive image of an era marked by mass disillusionment with the original American ideals and, which grew out of this soil, a “youth revolution” that turned out to be untenable for all its radicalism. Contents:1. Rich man, poor man... Volume 1 (Translation: Lev Kanevsky)2. Rich man, poor man... Volume 2 (Translation: Lev Kanevsky)3. Beggar, thief (Translation: Nina Emelyannikova, Irina Yakushkina)4. Bread on the waters (Translation: Natalia Rein)5. Night Porter (Translation: Grigory Lev, Alexander Sanin)6. Acceptable losses (Translation: Gleb Kosov)7. Evening in Byzantium (Translation: Konstantin Chugunov)8. Two weeks in another city (Translation: Andrey Gerasimov)9. Lucy Crown (Translation: Andrey Gerasimov)10. Top of the Hill (Translation: Andrey Gerasimov)