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Maugham: Collected Short Stories v: 4
Автор: W. Somerset Maugham Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2001 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 24 сентября 20092002-12-13
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These thirty stories — most set in the colonies at a time when the Empire was still assured, in a world in which men and women were caught between their own essentially European values and the richness and ambiguity of their unfamiliar surroundings — show a master of the genre at the peak of his power.
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Game Over
Автор: Adele Parks Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2011 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20132014-04-22
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Cas Perry doesn't want a relationship. When her father walked out on her and her mother she decided relationships, love, marriage, the whole shegang, simlpy weren't worth the heartache. But is Cas, immoral most of the time and amoral when it comes to business, going too far with her new TV programme, Sex with an Ex? Unfeeling and unscrupulous, she ruthlessly manipulates everyone she comes into contact with. Until she meets Darren. A babe. Trouble is, he's a highly principled babe. He believes in love, marriage, fidelity and constancy, so can he believe in Cas? Is it possible the world is a better place than she imagined? And if it is, after a lifetime of playing games, is this discovery too late?
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Eugene Onegin
Автор: Alexander Pushkin Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2008 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 22 марта 20112011-02-19
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«Eugene Onegin» is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountain head of their literature. Set in 1820s Russia, Pushkin's verse novel follows the fates of three men and three women. Engaging, full of suspense, and varied in tone, it contains a large cast of characters and offers the reader many literary, philosophical, and autobiographical digressions, often in a highly satirical vein. «Eugene Onegin» was Pushkin's own favorite work, and this new translation by Stanley Mutchell conveys the literal sense and the poetic music of the original.»
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Father Unknown
Автор: Lesley Pearse Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2002 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20092003-12-30
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When Daisy Buchan is 25, her beloved mother dies, and as she is reeling from this trauma, she is shocked to be told by her father that she is adopted — that her real mother was a poor young teenager from Cornwall. She does not know who her father is. Eventually Daisy finds out more about her mother, Ellen Pengelly, a farmer's daughter from a remote Cornish village, and as the layers of her family history are stripped away Daisy is horrified by what she learns. She is taken on a journey back to the past, a journey that uncovers a gripping story of innocence corrupted, and a family torn apart by greed and misery ...
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And Another Thing
Автор: Jeremy Clarkson Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2007 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 24 сентября 20122010-09-17
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Everyone knows that Jeremy Clarkson finds the world a perplexing place – after all, he wrote The World According to Clarkson. Yet despite this, things don’t seem to have improved much. However, Jeremy is not someone to give up easily and he’s decided to have another go. In And Another Thing, our exasperated hero discovers that: He inadvertently dropped a bomb on North Carolina... We’re all going to explode at the age of 62... Russians look bad in Speedos. But not as bad as Brits do... No one should have to worry about being Bill Oddie’s long lost sister... He should probably be nicer about David Beckham. Thigh-slappingly funny and – as ever – in your face, Jeremy Clarkson bursts the pointless little bubbles of the idiots while celebrating the special, the unique and the sheer bloody brilliant …
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News of Kidnapping
Автор: Gabriel Garcia Marquez Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2009 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20112012-09-14
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Pablo Escobar: billionaire drugs baron; ruthless manipulator, brutal killer and jefe of the infamous Medellín cartel. A man whose importance in the international drug trade and renown for his charitable work among the poor brought him influence and power in his home country of Colombia, and the unwanted attention of the American courts. Terrified of the new Colombian President’s determination to extradite him to America, Escobar found the best bargaining tools he could find: hostages. In the winter of 1990, ten relatives of Colombian politicians, mostly women, were abducted and held hostage as Escobar attempted to strong-arm the government into blocking his extradition. Two died, the rest survived, and from their harrowing stories Márquez retells, with vivid clarity, the terror and uncertainty of those dark and volatile months.
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In Evil Hour
Автор: Gabriel Garcia Marquez Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2009 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20112012-04-15
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‘César Montero was dreaming about elephants. He’d seen them at the movies on Sunday...’ Only moments later, César is led away by police as they clear the crowds away from the man he has just killed. But César is not the only man to be riled by the rumours being spread in his Colombian hometown – under the cover of darkness, someone creeps through the streets sticking malicious posters to walls and doors. Each night the respectable townsfolk retire to their beds fearful that they will be the subject of the following morning’s lampoons. As paranoia seeps through the town and the delicate veil of tranquility begins to slip, can the perpetrator be uncovered before accusation and violence leave the inhabitants’ sanity in tatters?
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Rumpole and Penge Bungalow Murders (Celebration Ed)
Автор: John Mortimer Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2007 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20092011-03-29
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Horace Rumpole — cigar-smoking, claret-drinking, Wordsworth-spouting defender of some unlikely clients — often speaks of the great murder trial which revealed his talents as an advocate and made his reputation down at the Bailey when he was still a young man. Now, for the first time, the sensational story of the Penge Bungalow Murders case is told in full: how, shortly after the war, Rumpole took on the seemingly impossible task of defending young Simon Jerold, accused of murdering his father and his father's friend with a German officer's gun. And how the inexperienced young brief was left alone to pursue the path of justice, in a case that was to echo through the Bailey for years to come.
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Leonardo Da Vinci
Автор: Charles Nicholl Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2007 Страниц: 640 Дата загрузки: 14 июля 20082012-08-23
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Leonardo is the greatest, most multi-faceted and most mysterious of all Renaissance artists, but extraordinarily, considering his enormous reputation, this is the first full-length biography in English for several decades. Prize-winning author Charles Nicholl has immersed himself in manuscripts, paintings and artefacts to produce an intimate portrait of Leonardo. He uses these contemporary materials — his notebooks and sketchbooks, eye witnesses and early biographies, etc — as a way into the mental tone and physical texture of his life and has made many discoveries about him, his work and his circle of associates. The book identifies what Nicholl argues is an unknown portrait of the artist hanging in a church near Lodi in northern Italy. It also contains new material on his eccentric assistant Tomasso Masini, his homosexual affairs in Florence, and his curious relationship with a female model and/or prostitute from Cremona. A masterpiece of modern biography.
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In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences
Автор: Truman Capote Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2000 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 22 марта 20092003-04-15
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«Controversial and compelling, «In Cold Blood» reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and both their children. Truman Capote's comprehensive study of the killings and subsequent investigation explores the circumstances surrounding this terrible crime and the effect it had on those involved. At the centre of his study are the amoral young killers Perry Smith and Dick Hickcock, who, vividly drawn by Capote, are shown to be reprehensible yet entirely and frighteningly human. The book that made Capote's name, In Cold Blood is a seminal work of modern prose, a remarkable synthesis of journalistic skill and powerfully evocative narrative.»
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The Diary of a Young Girl
Автор: Anne Frank Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2013 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 11 июля 20142017-03-28
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Since its publication in 1947, Anne Frank's Diary has been read by tens of millions of people. This Definitive Edition restores substantial material omitted from the original edition, giving us a deeper insight into Anne Frank's world. Her curiosity about her emerging sexuality, the conflicts with her mother, her passion for Peter, a boy whose family hid with hers, and her acute portraits of her fellow prisoners reveal Anne as more human, more vulnerable and more vital than ever.
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The Dharma Bums
Автор: Jack Kerouac Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2007 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 22 апреля 20112011-03-19
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Following the explosive energy of On the Road comes The Dharma Bums in which Kerouac charts the spiritual quest of a group of friends in search of Dharma or Truth. Ray Smith and his friend Japhy, along with Morley the yodeller, head off into the high Sierras to seek the lesson of solitude and experience the Zen way of life. But in wildly bohemian San Francisco, with its poetry jam sessions, marathon drinking bouts and experiments in 'yabyum', they find the ascetic route distinctly hard to follow.
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Hell's Angels
Автор: Hunter S. Thompson Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2003 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 13 февраля 20092006-04-22
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With ‘long hair in the wind, beards and bandanas flapping, earrings, chain whips … and Harleys flashing chrome’, the Hell’s Angels erupted into 1960s America, paralysing whole towns with fear. Determined to discover the truth behind the terrifying reputation of these marauding biker gangs, Hunter S. Thompson spent a year on the road with the Angels, documenting his hair-raising experiences with Charger Charley, Big Frank, Little Jesus and the Gimp. Hell’s Angels was the result: a masterpiece of underground reportage whose freewheeling, impressionistic style created the legend of Gonzo journalism, and made Thompson’s name as the wild man of American writing.
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The Complete Stories
Автор: Truman Capote Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2005 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 18 мая 20082006-12-10
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A complete collection of short fiction by one of the masters of twentieth-century American literature.
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Don't Look Now and Other Stories
Автор: Daphne du Maurier Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2006 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 27 августа 20082009-02-24
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John and Laura have come to Venice to try and escape the pain of their young daughter's death. But when they encounter two old women who claim to have second sight, they find that instead of laying their ghosts to rest they become caught up in a train of increasingly strange and violent events. The four other haunting, evocative stories in this volume also explore deep fears and longings, secrets and desires: a lonely teacher who investigates a mysterious American couple, a young woman confronting her father's past, a party of pilgrims who meet disaster in Jerusalem and a scientist who harnesses the power of the mind to chilling effect.
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Rabbit at Rest
Автор: John Updike Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2007 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 17 октрября 20102011-03-19
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It's 1989, and Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom is far from restful. Fifty-six and overweight, he has a struggling business on his hands and a heart that is starting to fail. His family, too, are giving him cause for concern. His son Nelson is a wreck of a man, a cocaine addict with shattered self-respect. Janice, his wife, has decided that she wants to be a working girl. And as for Pru, his daughter-in-law, she seems to be sending out signals to Rabbit that he knows he should ignore, but somehow can't. He has to make the most of life, after all. He doesn't have much time left.
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Rabbit Redux
Автор: John Updike Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2006 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 14 апреля 20102009-09-30
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It's 1969, and the times are changing. America is about to land a man on the moon, the Vietnamese war is in full swing, and racial tension is on the rise. Things just aren't as simple as they used to be — at least, not for Rabbit Angstrom. His wife has left him with his teenage son, his job is under threat and his mother is dying. Suddenly, into his confused life — and home — comes Jill, an eighteen-year-old runaway who becomes his lover. But when she invites her friend to stay, a young black radical named Skeeter, the pair's fragile harmony soon begins to fail...
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Rabbit is Rich
Автор: John Updike Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2006 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 19 февраля 20082007-06-25
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It's 1979 and Rabbit is no longer running. He's walking, and beginning to get out of breath. That's OK, though — it gives him the chance to enjoy the wealth that comes with middle age. It's all in place: he's Chief Sales Representative and co-owner of Springer motors; his wife, at home or in the club, is keeping trim; he wears good suits, and the cash is pouring in. So why is it that he finds it so hard to accept the way things have turned out? And why, when he looks at his family, is he haunted by regrets about all those lives he'll never live?
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The Flood
Автор: J.M.G. Le Clezio Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2008 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20102010-10-13
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Francois Besson listens to a tape recording of a girl contemplating suicide. Drifting through the days in a provincial city, he thoughtlessly starts a fire in his apartment, attends confession, and examines, with great intentness but without affection, a naked woman he wakes beside. And, as Besson moves through an ugly and threatening rain, his thoughts eventually lead to violence, first turned outward and then directed languidly against himself.
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Terra Amata
Автор: J.M.G. Le Clezio Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2008 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20102012-03-29
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For Chancelade, the world is teeming with beauty, wonder and possibilities. From a small boy playing on the beach, through his adolescence and his first love, to the death of his father and on to the end of his own life, he relishes the most minute details of his physical surroundings — whether a grain of sand, an insect or a blade of grass — as he journeys on a sensory adventure from cradle to grave. Filled with cosmic ruminations, lyrical description and virtuoso games of language and the imagination, Terra Amata brilliantly explores humankind's place in the universe, the relationship between us and the Earth we inhabit and, ultimately, how to live.
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