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Catch Me When I Fall
Автор: French Nicci Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2011 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 07 апреля 20152015-03-12
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You're a whirlwind — a success. You're living life on the edge. But who'll catch you when you fall? Holly Krauss is a city girl burning the candle at both ends. Despite a comfortable home life, a tough job and friends who admire her, she secretly enjoys taking reckless, dangerous walks on the wild side. But Holly can't keep those worlds separate forever. Soon enough her secret life bleeds into her safe one and everything spirals out of control. She's making mistakes at home and at work, owes money to the wrong people — and now it seems that someone's stalking her. Could it just be paranoia or is she in very real danger? And who can you trust when you can no longer trust yourself?
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Assassin's Creed: Forsaken
Автор: Bowden Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2013 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 27 сентября 20182016-09-17
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'I am an expert swordsman. And I am skilled in the business of death. I take no pleasure in my skill. Simply, I am good at it.' 1735 — London. Haytham Kenway has been taught to use a sword from the age he was able to hold one. When his family's house is attacked — his father murdered and his sister taken by armed men — Haytham defends his home the only way he can: he kills. With no family, he is taken in by a mysterious tutor who trains him to become a deadly killer. Consumed by his thirst for revenge Haytham begins a quest for retribution, trusting no one and questioning everything he has ever known. Conspiracy and betrayal surround him as he is drawn into the centuries old battle between the Assassins and the Templars. The world of the Assassin's has become far more lethal than ever before. Assassin's Creed: Forsaken is based on the phenomenally successful gaming series. Fans of the game will love these stories.
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Short Stories on Italian
Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2008 Страниц: 174 Дата загрузки: 9 февраля 20102011-04-22
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This is an all new version of the popular PARALLEL TEXT series, containing eight pieces of contemporary fiction in the original Italian and in English translation. Including stories by Calvino, Benni, Sciascia and Levi, this volume gives a fascinating insight into Italian culture and literature as well as providing an invaluable educational tool.
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Spanish Short Stories: Cuentos En Espanol
Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2010 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 27 апреля 20142011-12-30
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This is an all new version of the popular PARALLEL TEXT series, containing eight pieces of contemporary fiction in the original Spanish and in English translation. Including stories by Fuentes, Molinas, Marquez and Cortazar, this volume gives a fascinating insight into Spanish and Latin American culture and literature as well as providing an invaluable educational tool.
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Vintage Postcards from Vanity Fair: One Hundred Classic Covers
Автор: Fair Vanity Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2011 Страниц: 100 Дата загрузки: 20 сентября 20162013-10-13
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In 1913, publisher Condé Nast launched Vanity Fair, a magazine that would celebrate the culture, politics, lifestyle and humour of the world's 'smart set'. In the publication's mission statement, editor Frank Crowninshield clearly revelled in that world: 'Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with.' The magazine discovered or lent invaluable support to such varied names as Dorothy Parker, E. E. Cummings, Noël Coward, Gertrude Stein, P. G. Wodehouse, Cecil Beaton and Man Ray, and frequently reproduced works by the likes of Matisse and Picasso long before anyone in the mainstream press would dare. Vanity Fair's famous philosophy of mixing up classes, races and sexes — as long as they were innovative, gorgeous or talented — was reflected in the dazzling and elegant magazine covers from such hugely influential designers as Paolo Garretto, William Cotton and Eduardo Garcia Benito. These covers are now a memorial to a world of glamour and excitement, gone — but not forgotten.
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The Woman in White: Clothbound Classics
Автор: Collins Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2013 Страниц: 720 Дата загрузки: 11 октрября 20162014-06-28
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Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter is drawn into the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival Glyde and his 'charming' friend Count Fosco, who has a taste for white mice, vanilla bonbons and poison. Pursuing questions of identity and insanity along the paths and corridors of English country houses and the madhouse, The Woman in White is the first and most influential of the Victorian genre that combined Gothic horror with psychological realism.
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The Yellow House
Автор: Gayford Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2012 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 11 июля 20132015-04-27
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The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles is art critic Martin Gayford's account of the tumultuous nine weeks in which the famous nineteenth century artists Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin shared a house in the small French town of Arles.
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The Odyssey
Автор: Homer Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2013 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 08 марта 20162014-12-13
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Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. The epic tale of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after the Trojan War forms one of the earliest and greatest works of Western literature. Confronted by natural and supernatural threats — shipwrecks, battles, monsters and the implacable enmity of the sea-god Poseidon — Odysseus must use his wit and native cunning if he is to reach his homeland safely and overcome the obstacles that, even there, await him.
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When China Rules The World
Автор: Jacques M. Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2012 Страниц: 848 Дата загрузки: 24 июля 20132015-02-16
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Soon China will rule the world. But in doing so, it will not become more 'Western'. Martin Jacques' groundbreaking book overturns conventional thinking about the ascendancy of China, showing how its impact will not just be economic, but cultural. As China's powerful civilization reasserts itself, it will signal the end of the global dominance of the Western nation-state, and the start of a future of 'contested modernity'. This profound, far-sighted book explains for the first time the deeper meaning of China's rise to power.
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Martin Lukes: Who Moved My BlackBerry?
Автор: Kellaway L. Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2011 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 15 октрября 20142014-04-24
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Lucy Kellaway is the FT's management columnist. She lives in London and is married with four children. Her second novel, In Office Hours, is available from Penguin now.
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Big Sur
Автор: Kerouac J. Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2012 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20152015-02-16
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In 1960 Jack Kerouac was near breaking point. Driven mad by constant press attention in the wake of the publication of On the Road, he needed to 'get away to solitude again or die', so he withdrew to a cabin in Big Sur on the Californian coast. The resulting novel, in which his autobiographical hero Jack Duluoz wrestles with doubt, alcohol dependency and his urge towards self-destruction, is one of Kerouac's most personal and searingly honest works. Ending with the poem 'Sea: Sounds of the Pacific Ocean at Big Sur', it shows a man coming down from his hedonistic youth and trying to come to terms with fame, the world and himself.
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Desolation Angels
Автор: Kerouac J. Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2012 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 15 сентября 20172016-03-24
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Desolation Angels is the wild and soulful story of the legendary road trip that Jack Kerouac took before the publication of On the Road, told through the persona of Jack Duluoz and accompanied by his thinly-disguised Beat cohorts Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and William Burroughs. As they hitch, hop freight trains, walk and talk their way across the world, from California to Mexico, London to Paris and on to opium-ridden Tangiers, Kerouac chronicles their poetry, partying, mountain vigils and spiritual contemplation with unsurpassable energy and humanity.
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Doctor Sax
Автор: Kerouac J. Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2012 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 12 сентября 20172013-12-30
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Jack Kerouac called Doctor Sax, the enigmatic figure who haunted his boyhood imagination, 'my ghost, personal angel, private shadow, secret lover'. In this extraordinary autobiographical account of growing up in Lowell, Massachussetts, told through his fictional alter ego Jack Duluoz, he mingles real people and events with fantastical figures to capture the accents, scents, sights and texture of his childhood: playing among the river weeds and railroad tracks, going to church, witnessing life and death on the street corners. Written when he was staying with William Burroughs in Mexico in 1952, Doctor Sax was Kerouac's favourite of all his books: a dark, vivid and magical evocation of a boy's vibrant inner life.
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Real life of Sebastian Knight
Автор: Nabokov Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2008 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 15 июля 20092011-04-15
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Spurred on by admiration for his novelist half-brother and irritation at the biography written about him by Mr Goodman ('his slapdash and very misleading book'), the narrator, V, sets out to record Sebastian Knight's life as he understands it. But buried amid the extensive quoting, digressions, seeming explanations and digs, Sebastian's erratic and troubled persona remains as elusive as ever. Nabokov's first novel written in English, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight is a nuanced, enigmatic potrayal of the conflict between the real and the unreal, and the futile quest for human truth.
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Chance of a Lifetime
Автор: Thomas Jodi Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2012 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 18 марта 20152013-06-28
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Harmony, Texas, librarian Emily has started a writing group. But Emily suddenly has other things on her mind when a friend from her past shows up in Harmony's library. Now she must deal with a secret she's kept for 15 years Na secret that changed her life and threatens to shatter her future.
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Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde
Автор: Wilde Oscar Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2008 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 22 марта 20112011-02-19
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The master of wit and irony Published here alongside their evocative original illustrations, these fairy tales, as Oscar Wilde himself explained, were written partly for children, and partly for those who have kept the childlike faculties of wonder and joy.
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Oz the Great and Powerful
Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2013 Страниц: 160 Дата загрузки: 26 декабря 20152016-04-07
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Small-time circus magician Oscar Diggs' life suddenly changes when he's hurled away in a hot air balloon from uneventful Kansas into the enchanting Land of Oz. The inhabitants there see Oscar as the Great Wizard, and they shower him with the fame and fortune he has always imagined would be his. That is, until three very powerful witches start to question Oscar's abilities. Drawn into an increasingly dangerous world, Oscar must quickly figure out who is good and who is evil in order to combat the wicked forces at large. Putting his limited magical arts to use through illusion, ingenuity — and even a bit of wizardry — Oscar transforms himself not only into the great and powerful Wizard of Oz but into a better man as well.
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On Dublin Street
Автор: Young Samantha Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2013 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 08 марта 20162014-12-13
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Four years ago, Jocelyn left her tragic past behind in the States and started over in Scotland, burying her grief, ignoring her demons, and forging ahead without attachments. Her solitary life is working well — until she moves into a new apartment on Dublin Street, where she meets a man who shakes her carefully guarded world to its core.
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There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself: Love Stories
Автор: Petrushevskaya Ludmilla Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2013 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20162016-02-16
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In these dark, dreamlike love stories with a twist, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya tells of strange encounters in claustrophobic communal apartments, ill-fated holiday romances, office trysts, schoolgirl crushes, tentative courtships, rampant infidelity, tender devotion and terrifying madness. By turns sly and sweet, earthy and sublime, these fables of flawed love blend black humour and macabre spectacle with transformative moments of grace.
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Down and Out in Paris and London
Автор: Orwell George Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2013 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 12 сентября 20182015-10-30
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Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950), better known by his pen-name, George Orwell, was born in India, where his father worked for the Civil Service. An author and journalist, Orwell was one of the most prominent and influential figures in twentieth-century literature. In this title, he documents his time living among the desperately poor and destitute.
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