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Scoop: A Novel About Journalists
Автор: Evelyn Waugh Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2000 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 21 июля 20092002-07-18
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Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of the Daily Beast, has always prided himself on his intuitive flair for spotting ace reporters. That is not to say he has not made the odd blunder, however, and may in a moment of weakness make another. Acting on a dinner-party tip from Mrs Algernon Stitch, he feels convinced that he has hit on just the chap to cover a promising little war in the African Republic of Ishmaelia. One of Waugh's most exuberant comedies, Scoop is a brilliantly irreverent satire of Fleet Street and its hectic pursuit of hot news.
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The Twits: Plays for Children
Автор: Roald Dahl Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2009 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 21 августа 20112010-06-21
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A collection of six playlets, based on The Twits. They highlight the key points in the story and some can be acted by groups of children while others only need a couple of actors.
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Vile Bodies
Автор: Evelyn Waugh Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2008 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 26 мая 20112011-02-29
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The Bright Young Things of 1920s Mayfair, with their paradoxical mix of innocence and sophistication, exercise their inventive minds and vile bodies in every kind of capricious escapade, whether it is promiscuity, dancing, cocktail parties or sports cars. A vivid assortment of characters, among them the struggling writer Adam Fenwick-Symes and the glamorous, aristocratic Nina Blount, hunt fast and furiously for ever greater sensations and the hedonistic fulfilment of their desires. Evelyn Waugh's acidly funny and experimental satire shows a new generation emerging in the years after the First World War, revealing the darkness and vulnerability beneath the glittering surface of the high life.
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War and Peace
Автор: Leo Tolstoy Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2010 Страниц: 1408 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20122013-02-19
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Considered by many to be the greatest novel ever written, Tolstoy's masterpiece is a story of family life set against the backdrop of war. The novel begins in 1805 in the crowded and gossip-filled rooms of a St Petersburg party and follows the fortunes of the aristocratic Bolkonsky and Rostov families as Napoleon's armies sweep through Europe, culminating in the French invasion of Russia in 1812 and Napoleon's defeat. Tolstoy's vast novel takes in both the epic sweep of national events and the private experience of individuals, from the keen young soldier to Napoleon himself, and at the heart of it all the complicated triangle of affection that binds his central characters.
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The Worst Witch All at Sea
Автор: Jill Murphy Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2013 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 12 сентября 20182015-10-30
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'I think your work will improve no end if you accept my offer of Fenella's cat. And Tabby will have the time of his life down in the kitchen'. Poor Mildred is distraught. On the first day back at Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches her beloved but useless cat, Tabby, is banished to the kitchen. Then the class go for a week by the seaside and Mildred can bear the separation no longer. Stowing Tabby away, she takes him with her. But trying to keep him out of sight of Miss Hardbroom and prying Ethel Hallow leads Mildred from one disaster to another, and soon she really is all at sea. In this long-awaited fourth book about the endearing Worst Witch there's enough excitement to more than satisfy all her many fans.
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The Worst Witch Saves the Day
Автор: Jill Murphy Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2014 Страниц: 160 Дата загрузки: 26 декабря 20162018-03-08
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It's the start of a new term at Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches and Mildred Hubble is determined not to be the worst witch this year. Everything starts so well. Mildred's class has a new form teacher — no more Miss Hardbroom for Mildred and her friends! But then the new teacher, Miss Granite, starts acting fishy; Mildred has a very bad hair day when a hair growth spell goes wrong and she has to put up with know-it-all Ethel Hallow being 'helpful'. To top it all, her beloved cat Tabby is having a nervous breakdown and refuses to fly.
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The Sheltering Sky
Автор: Paul Bowles Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2006 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 24 сентября 20112008-10-17
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Some journeys are best left unmade. Kit and Port Moresby are Americans abroad. Struggling to save their marriage, they resolve to trade civilization for the wilderness of the Sahara. At first, the pair are seduced by the desert's beauty. But beneath the exquisite landscape lurk the dark undercurrents of an alien culture, and the relentless dangers of a hostile natural world. And as they travel deeper, they might not only lose their way. They could lose their lives ...
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The New Penguin Russian Course
Автор: Nicholas J. Brown Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2008 Страниц: 528 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20102009-12-30
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Whether you’re learning alone or attending classes, you’ll find this complete Russian language course for beginners both accessible and indispensable. Designed to provide the student with an excellent command of basic Russian (the equivalent of A’ level standard) the book features thirty lessons punctuated by revision exercises to ensure you have fully understood what you have learned. The emphasis is on acquiring vocabulary, experiencing conversational language and learning useful grammar. The book also includes a vocabulary of 1,500 words and a glossary of grammatical terms.
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Автор: Mark Twain Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2007 Страниц: 221 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20092009-07-24
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From the famous episodes of the whitewashed fence and the ordeal in the cave to the trial of Injun Joe, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is redolent of life in the Mississippi River towns in which Twain spent his own youth. A somber undercurrent flows through the high humor and unabashed nostalgia of the novel, however, for beneath the innocence of childhood lie the inequities of adult reality-base emotions and superstitions, murder and revenge, starvation and slavery.
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The Europeans
Автор: Henry James Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2007 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 15 июля 20082009-05-15
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Eugenia`s wit, guile and sophistication, and Felix`s debonair vivacity form an uneasy alliance with the Puritan morality and the frugal, domestic virtues of the Americans. A rich and delicately balanced comedy of manners, The Europeans weighs the values of the established order against those of New England society, but makes no simple judgements, only subtle contrasts and beautifully observed comparisons.
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A Clockwork Orange
Автор: Anthony Burgess Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2000 Страниц: 176 Дата загрузки: 11 июля 20092005-08-24
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In this nightmare vision of a not-too-distant future, fifteen-year-old Alex and his three friends rob, rape, torture and murder — for fun. Alex is jailed for his vicious crimes and the State undertakes to reform him — but how and at what cost?
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Decline and Fall
Автор: Evelyn Waugh Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2003 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 08 марта 20092005-05-28
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Sent down from Oxford in outrageous circumstances, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly unsurprised to find himself qualifying for the position of schoolmaster at Llanabba Castle. His colleagues are an assortment of misfits, rascals and fools, including Prendy (plagued by doubts) and Captain Grimes, who is always in the soup (or just plain drunk). Then Sports Day arrives, and with it the delectable Margot Beste-Chetwynde, floating on a scented breeze. As the farce unfolds and the young run riot, no-one is safe, least of all Paul.
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Diana
Автор: Sarah Bradford Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2010 Страниц: 496 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20132012-10-30
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Glamour. Duty. Tragedy: The Woman Behind the Princess. Sarah Bradford delivers an authoritative and explosive study of the greatest icon of the twentieth century: Diana. After more than a decade interviewing those closest to the Princess and her select circle, Sarah Bradford exposes the real Diana: the blighted childhood, the old-fashioned courtship which saw her capture the Prince of Wales, the damage caused by the spectre of Camilla Parker Bowles, through to the collapse of the royal marriage and Diana's final and complicated year as single woman. Diana paints an honest portrait of a woman riddled with contradictions and whose vulnerability and unique empathy with the suffering made her one of the most extraordinary figures of the modern age.
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Don't Stop Me Now
Автор: Jeremy Clarkson Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2008 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 24 августа 20102013-08-17
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Jeremy Clarkson knows there's more to life than cars. There is, after all, a whole world out there just waiting to be discovered. So, before he gets on with the job in hand, he'd like to take some time out to consider the bigger picture. Don't worry, he'll get on to the car bit eventually, but before he does, there's time to learn about: * Why Galapagos tortoises are all mental * France, reduced to the size of a small coconut * Why Jeremy Paxman and the bass guitarist of AC/DC aren't so very different * The problems of being English and God's most stupid creation And then there's the cars: whether it's the poxiest little runabout or an exotic, firebreathing supercar, anything on four wheels is approached without fear or favour. What emerges from the ashes is not always pretty. But it is, invariably, very, very funny.
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First Love and Other Novellas
Автор: Samuel Beckett Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2008 Страниц: 112 Дата загрузки: 05 июня 20102010-07-23
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'Yes, I loved her, it's the name I gave, still give alas, to what I was doing then. I had nothing to go by, having never loved before, but of course had heard of the thing, at home, in school, in brothel and at church, and read romances, in prose and verse, under the guidance of my tutor, in six or seven languages, both dead and living, in which it was handled at length'.
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Mansfield Park
Автор: Jane Austen Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2007 Страниц: 479 Дата загрузки: 10 сентября 20122010-09-12
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At the age of ten, shy, vulnerable Fanny Price leaves behind her impoverished family in Portsmouth to go and live with her rich relatives at Mansfield Park. Growing up with her cousins Tom, Edmund, Maria and Julia, she is aware that she is different from them and that her place in society cannot be taken for granted, although she is not treated unkindly. A dashing couple from London, Mary Crawford and her brother Henry, enter this stable, rural world. They succeed in dazzling everyone at Mansfield Park, except for Fanny, who sees through their shallow veneer. Throughout the dramatic events that follow it is she who is able to bring back some stability to the ruptured lives of those around her. One of the great novels of the nineteenth century, Mansfield Park echoes Jane Austen's fears and awareness of the dawn of a modern age, which was to bring about a complete break from the old country traditions and way of life.
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Автор: Wilde Oscar Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2007 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 25 июня 20092010-02-29
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Издание полностью на английском языке. Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения.
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Apt Pupil: Different Seasons (movie tie in)
Автор: Stephen King Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2004 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20092005-06-18
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«Todd Bowden is an apt pupil. Good grades, good family, a paper route. But he is about to meet a different kind of teacher: Mr. Dussander. Todd knows all about Dussander's darl past. The torture. The death. The decades-old manhunt Dussander has escaped to this day. Yet Todd doesn't want to turn him in. Todd wants to know more. Much more. He is about to learn the real meaning of power--and the seductive lure of evil. This acclaimed collection of four novellas by Stephen King also includes «Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption» (basis for the Academy Award nominated film The Shawshank Redemption), «The Body» (inspiration for the motion picture Stand By Me), and «The Breathing Method».»
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Christine
Автор: Stephen King Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 1997 Страниц: 528 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20092000-04-17
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She purrs like a kitten... but watch out when she roars.
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The Dead Zone
Автор: Stephen King Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2002 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20092003-12-30
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In his unequalled career, Stephen King has forged a place in publishing history as the most popular and recognized author of all time. Now, Signet is proud to reissue his most startling psychological thriller! After awakening from a four and a half year-long coma, a simple teacher finds himself irreparably altered — both blessed... and cursed — with precognative visions of the future. Driven by his altruistic nature, he decides to use his newfound powers to prevent tragic events yet to happen. But as word of his unique ability leads to unwanted fame, the gift he hoped to share with humanity inevitably separates him from it.
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