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Pygmalion and My Fair Lady
Автор: George Bernard Shaw Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2006 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 22 апреля 20102010-03-19
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Based upon the Greek myth of the sculptor Pygmalion who fell in love with his own statue of a woman, George Bernard Shaw's celebrated play-and the musical adaptation by Alan Jay Lerner-feature phonetics professor Henry Higgins who transformed cockney flower girl Eliza into a lady.
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Regulators
Автор: King Stephen Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 1997 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 14 сентября 20092000-04-15
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Call him Bachman or call him King, the bard of Bangor is going to hit the charts hard and vast with this white-knuckler knockout. The action is fierce and Bachman's imagination proves boundless. Everything is normal on a summer day in Wentworth, Ohio — the paperboy is making his rounds, frisbees are flying, barbecues are being contemplated. The only thing that doesn't quite fit is the red van idling up the hill on Poplar Street. Soon it will roll and the killing will begin. And by the time night falls, the survivors of Poplar Street will find themselves in another world...
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Roadwork
Автор: King Stephen Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 1999 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 17 сентября 20092000-06-05
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Originally written under the Richard Bachman pseudonym, this novel has been repackaged under King's name. In this gritty narrative, a lone man takes on the wheels of progress in a showdown of cataclysmic proportions. When a highway project puts him out of work and threatens to destroy his home, he has more than enough time on his hands to plot his revenge.
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Rose Madder
Автор: King Stephen Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 1996 Страниц: 480 Дата загрузки: 26 мая 20091997-06-05
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«This is the story of Rose Daniels, «the most richly portrayed female King's ever created» («Detroit Free Press»). Escape from her macabre marriage is not as easy as fleeing to a new city, picking a new name, finding a new job, and lucking out with a new man. Not with a husband like Norman...»
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Starship Troopers
Автор: Heinlein Robert A. Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 1987 Страниц: 263 Дата загрузки: 13 октрября 20091991-03-16
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«Starship Troopers» is a classic novel by one of science fiction's greatest writers of all time and is now a Tri-Star movie. In one of Heinlein's most controversial bestsellers, a recruit of the future goes through the toughest boot camp in the universe -- and into battle with the Terran Mobile Infantry against mankind's most frightening enemy.»
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Stranger in Strange Land
Автор: Heinlein Robert A. Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 1987 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 03 августа 20091989-05-18
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Here at last is the complete, uncut version of Heinlein's all-time masterpiece, the brilliant novel that grew from a cult favorite to a bestseller to a classic in a few short years. It is the story of Valentine Michael Smith, the man from Mars who taught humankind grokking and water-sharing. And love.
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Thinner
Автор: King Stephen Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 1992 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20091993-12-07
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When an old gypsy man curses Billy Halleck for sideswiping his daughter, six weeks later he's ninety-three pounds lighter. Now Billy is terrified. And desperate enough for one last gamble... that will lead him to a nightmare showdown with the forces of evil melting his flesh away.
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This Side of Paradise
Автор: F. Scott Fitzgerald Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2006 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 13 декабря 20082009-02-23
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The debut of an American original. Here is the accomplished first novel that catapulted F. Scott Fitzgerald to literary fame-at the age of 23. It follows the education-intellectual, spiritual, and sexual-of young Amory Blaine.
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Tommyknockers
Автор: King Stephen Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 1994 Страниц: 752 Дата загрузки: 7 октрября 20091995-06-23
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Don't open the door... Bobbi Anderson and the other good folks of Haven, Maine, have sold their souls to reap the rewards of the most deadly evil this side of hell.
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Ward No: 6 and Other Stories
Автор: Chekhov Anton Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2004 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 28 марта 20092005-12-20
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Contains: Ward No. 6, The Black Monk, The Grasshopper, The Two Volodyas, A Woman's Kingdom, The Student, Three Years, Murder, Ariadna Chekhov believed that a writer should not provide solutions but should describe a situation so truthfully that the reader can no longer evade it. These stories depict extreme forms of mental experience — depression, religious fanaticism, megalomania — and more everyday feelings of boredom, frustration, and alienation. In each story, the characters experience moments of insight or spiritual epiphany in which they come face to face with the truth of their existence.
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Thirty-nothing
Автор: Jewell Lisa Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2008 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20102011-04-25
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Have you ever wondered what happened to your first love? Imagine bumping into her twelve years after you last saw her and realising you still fancy her rotten. This is what happens to Dig Ryan when he sees Delilah again. Now imagine you're Nadine. You've been Dig's best friend for the last fifteen years, and you've just realised that you're in love with him. Delilah was your nemesis at school and it turns out she stills is. When she resurfaces, you might find yourself feeling extremely jealous and start doing really childish things. Like phoning your first love, Phil, just to get your own back.... This is a story about ex-boyfriends and ex-girlfriends and what happens when you start messing with the past. And how sometimes what you're looking for isn't in the past or in the future, but right under your nose.
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Emma
Автор: Austen Jane Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2005 Страниц: 367 Дата загрузки: 25 июня 20092008-04-17
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Emma is the culmination of Jane Austen's genius, a sparkling comedy of love and marriage. Emma Woodhouse is introduced to us as 'handsome, clever and rich' and, according to Jane Austen, a heroine 'which no one but myself would like'. Yet such is Emma's spirited wit that, despite her superior airs and egotism, few readers have failed to succumb to her charm. The comedy turns on Emma's self-appointed role as energetic match-maker for her sweet, silly friend immune to the charms of the male sex. Her emotional coming of age is woven into what Ronald Blythe has called 'the happiest of love stories, the most fiendishly difficult of detective stories and a matchless repository of English wit'.
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The English
Автор: Jeremy Paxman Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2007 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 апреля 20112009-10-11
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Jeremy Paxman is to many the embodiment of Englishness yet even he is sometimes forced to ask: who or what exactly are the English? And in setting about addressing this most vexing of questions, Paxman discovers answers to a few others. Like: • Why do the English actually enjoy feeling persecuted? • What is behind the English obsession with games? • How did they acquire their odd attitudes to sex and to food? • Where did they get their extraordinary capacity for hypocrisy? Covering history, attitudes to foreigners, sport, stereotypes, language and much, much more, The English brims over with stories and anecdotes that provide a fascinating portrait of a nation and its people.
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A Handful of Dust
Автор: Evelyn Waugh Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2013 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 14 июля 20142015-07-24
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After seven years of marriage the beautiful Lady Brenda Last is bored with life at Hetton Abbey, the Gothic mansion that is the pride and joy of her husband, Tony. She drifts into an affair with the shallow socialite John Beaver and forsakes Tony for the Belgravia set. Brilliantly combining tragedy, comedy and savage irony, A Handful of Dust captures the irresponsible mood of the 'crazy and sterile generation' between the wars, The breakdown of the Last marriage, is a painful, comic re-working of Waugh's own divorce and a symbol of the disintegration of society.
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How Language Works
Автор: David Crystal Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2007 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 17 октрября 20102011-03-19
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In this fascinating survey of everything from how sounds become speech to how names work, David Crystal answers every question you might ever have had about the nuts and bolts of language in his usual highly illuminating way. Along the way, we find out about eyebrow flashes, whistling languages, how parents teach their children to speak, how politeness travels across languages and how the way we talk show not just how old we are but where we're from and even who we want to be.
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The Islamist
Автор: Ed Husain Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2008 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20102010-10-13
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When I was sixteen I became an Islamic fundamentalist. Five years later, after much emotional turmoil, I rejected fundamentalist teachings and returned to normal life and my family. I tried to put my experiences behind me, but as the events of 7/7 unfolded it became clear to me that Islamist groups pose a threat to this country that we — Muslims and non-Muslims alike — do not yet understand. Why are young British Muslims becoming extremists? What are the risks of another home-grown terrorist attack on British soil? By describing my experiences inside these groups, the reasons I joined them and how, after leaving I recovered my faith and mind, I hope to explain the appeal of extremist thought, how fanatics penetrate Muslim communities and the truth behind their agenda of subverting the West and moderate Islam. Writing candidly about life after extremism, I illustrate the depth of the problem that now grips Muslim hearts and minds. I will lay bare what politicians and Muslim 'community leaders' do not want you to know. This is the first time an ex-member openly discusses life within radical Islamic organisations. This is my story.
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Lolita
Автор: Vladimir Nabokov Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2006 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20082009-09-22
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Humbert is a middle-aged, fastidious college professor. He also likes little girls. And none more so than Lolita, who he'll do anything to possess. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? Or is he all of these?
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Mr: Clarinet
Автор: Nick Stone Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2006 Страниц: 576 Дата загрузки: 27 октрября 20092009-02-13
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It was a job Miami private investigator Max Mingus found hard to refuse: $10 million to locate billionaire’s son Charlie Carver – missing now for over three years. Young Charlie disappeared on the island of Haiti, where over the decades scores of children have vanished. In a country dominated by voodoo, rumours abound of black magic and a mythical figure called ‘Mr Clarinet’, who for years has been tempting children away from their families. But could the truth be even more shocking than the legend? To find out, Max will have to succeed where previous detectives have not only failed – but where some have died. And suddenly, this job isn’t all about finding Charlie or his killers for the money – it’s just about staying alive …
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Rage
Автор: Jonathan Kellerman Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2010 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 18 июля 20112012-10-20
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'On a slow chilly Sunday in January, shortly after the Lakers overcame a sixteen point halftime deficit and beat New Jersey, I got a call from a murderer'. Eight years ago, psychologist Alex Delaware evaluated two teenage boys charged with the shocking murder of young Kristal Malley. Now one of the killers is out of prison — and wants to meet up with Alex. But by the time the pair do come face to face again, one of them is dead. Was Rand Duchay just another victim of an LA street crime? Or is something more sinister going on here? Alex and Detective Milo Sturgis mean to find out. To do so, they will follow a trail of blood that will lead them to the depths of cruelty — and straight to the heart of murderous betrayal.
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Rosie
Автор: Lesley Pearse Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 1998 Страниц: 640 Дата загрузки: 04 июля 20091999-12-10
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Rosie Parker is no more than a child when her mother dies during the war. Left to the less-than-tender mercies of her father Cole and her brutish step-brothers Seth and Norman, she sees the arrival of housekeeper Heather Farley as a possible replacement mother and her salvation. But when Thomas Farley comes looking for his sister several years later, he discovers Heather has left the Parkers in mysterious circumstances, abandoning her small son. As the terrible truth about Heather's disappearance comes to light, Rosie is compelled to leave the farm and make her own way in the world. And if that means being exposed as the daughter of a murderer, that's a risk she'll have to take ... Rosie is the compelling story of how love and tenderness can grow, like wild roses, out of the most barren ground.
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