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The Virgin and the Gipsy
Автор: Lawrence D.H. Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2002 Страниц: 96 Дата загрузки: 15 мая 20092005-09-22
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«The Virgin and the Gipsy» affirms the powers of instinct and intuition in their struggle against the constraints of civilisation and anticipates «Lady Chatterley's Lover» in its theme. Lawrence tells the reverent tale of a young girl's emotional awakening in the elemental presence of a gypsy. This title was first published in 1930.»
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Therese Desqueyroux
Автор: Mauriac Francois Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2013 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 21 июля 20142015-05-22
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Nobel-prize winner Francois Mauriac's masterpiece is Therese Desqueyroux, the story of a complex woman trapped by provincial life. First published in 1927, this astonishing and daring novel has echoes of Madame Bovary and has recently been made into a ravishing film starring Amelie actress Audrey Tautou. Therese Desqueyroux walks free from court, acquitted of trying to poison her husband. Everyone knew she'd tried to do it, but family honour was more important than the truth. As she travels home to the gloomy forests of Argelouse, Therese looks back over the marriage that brought her nothing but stifling darkness, and wonders, has she really escaped punishment or is it only just about to begin? Francois Mauriac was born in Bordeaux in 1885. He left his university studies to devote himself to writing, and published a collection of poems, Les Mains jointes (Clasped Hands), in 1909. He married in 1913 and the following year was mobilized to serve in the First World War with the Auxilliary Medical Squad in Thessalonica. Mauriac's major literary breakthrough came in 1922 with a novel called Le Baiser au lepreux (A Kiss for the Leper). His most famous work, Therese Desqueroux, appeared in 1927 and has been made into a film twice: first in 1962, with Emmanuelle Riva in the lead role, and more recently in 2012, in a version starring Audrey Tautou. In 1933 Mauriac was elected a Member of the French Academy and in 1952 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. He died in Paris in 1970. A great novel... the brilliance of its structure and the elegance of its prose never fail to take my breath away. (Beryl Bainbridge).
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Little Lies
Автор: Moriarty Liane Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2014 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 27 августа 20162019-08-17
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Jane hasn't lived anywhere longer than six months since her son was born five years ago. She keeps moving in an attempt to escape her past. Now the idyllic seaside town of Pirriwee has pulled her to its shores and Jane finally feels like she belongs. She has friends in the feisty Madeline and the incredibly beautiful Celeste — two women with seemingly perfect lives... and their own secrets behind closed doors. But then a small incident involving the children of all three women occurs in the playground causing a rift between them and the other parents of the school. Minor at first but escalating fast, until whispers and rumours become vicious and spiteful. It was always going to end in tears, but no one thought it would end in murder...
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The News Where You are
Автор: O'Flynn Catherine Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2010 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 марта 20132015-08-13
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Set in Birmingham, The News Where You Are tells the funny, touching story of Frank, a local TV news presenter. Beneath his awkwardly corny screen persona, Frank is haunted by disappearances: the mysterious hit and run that killed his predecessor Phil Smethway; the demolition of his father's post-war brutalist architecture; and, the unmarked passing of those who die alone in the city. Frank struggles to make sense of these absences while having to report endless local news stories of holes opening up in people's gardens and trying to cope with his resolutely miserable mother. The result is that rare thing: a page-turning novel which asks the big questions in an accessible way, and is laugh-out-loud funny, genuinely moving and ultimately uplifting.
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Time and Chance
Автор: Penman Sharon Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2006 Страниц: 496 Дата загрузки: 15 сентября 20112008-05-28
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TIME AND CHANCE, the second part of the trilogy about Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, opens during the glory years of their reign. While Henry redefined the role of medieval kingship, Eleanor gave birth to their children, founding a dynasty that would endure for 300 years. But even in these happy times, shadows were lurking. Battles on two borders. The disastrous appointment of Thomas Becket as Archbishop of Canterbury. And when Henry took lovely young Rosumund Clifford into his bed, little did he realise that in making an enemy of his proud, passionate queen he was making the gravest mistake of all...
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Voyage in the Dark
Автор: Rhys Jean Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2000 Страниц: 176 Дата загрузки: 11 июля 20092005-08-24
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Voyage In The Dark was first published in 1934, but it could have been written today. It is the story of an unhappy love affair, a portrait of a hypocritical society, and an exploration of exile and breakdown; all written in Jean Rhys' hauntingly simple and beautiful style. Eighteen, on her own and independent as much through circumstance as character, Anna has exchanged the West Indies of her childhood for the cold greyness of England, with its narrow streets and narrower rules. As she drifts towards the demi-monde of 1914 London, she comes to realise that life will never be so free and easy again. Her childish dreams have been replaced by the harsher reality of living in a man's world, where all charity has its price.
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Fall from Grace
Автор: Weaver Tim Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2014 Страниц: 592 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20172015-12-20
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Fall From Grace is the best-selling thriller by Tim Weaver — featuring missing persons investigator David Raker, a man with a gift for finding the lost and bringing them home, alive or dead. No Goodbye. When Leonard Franks and his wife Ellie leave London for their dream retirement in the seclusion of Dartmoor, everything seems perfect. But then their new life is shattered. Leonard heads outside to fetch firewood from the back of the house — and never returns. No Trace. Nine months later, with the police investigation at a dead end, Leonard's family turn to David Raker — a missing persons investigator with a gift for finding the lost. But nothing can prepare Raker for what he's about to uncover. Nowhere To Hide Because, at the heart of this disappearance lies a devastating secret. And by the time Raker realises what it is, and how deep the lies go, it's not just him in danger — it's everyone he cares about. Praise for Tim Weaver: I couldn't put it down (Sun). His books get better each time — tense, complex, sometimes horrific, written with flair as well as care. (Guardian). Weaver has delivered another cracking crime thriller. (Daily Mail).
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The Complete Fables
Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 1998 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 12 мая 20092000-07-21
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A translation of the complete Aesopian corpus of fables. The introduction pays particular attention to the transmission of fable stock from sanscrit to Aesop. It also attends to the precise nature of the animals themselves who appear in these fables, and tries to rescue the fables both from a tradition of moralistic interpretation and from the academic perception of the genre as an exclusively populist one.
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She
Автор: H. Rider Haggard Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2001 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 26 мая 20092005-03-18
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On his twenty-fifth birthday, Leo Vincey opens the silver casket that his father has left to him. It contains a letter recounting the legend of a white sorceress who rules an African tribe and of his father's quest to find this remote race. To find out for himself if the story is true, Leo and his companions set sail for Zanzibar. There, he is brought face to face with Ayesha, She-who-must-be-obeyed: dictator, femme fatale, tyrant and beauty. She has been waiting for centuries for the true descendant of Kallikrates, her murdered lover, to arrive, and arrive he does in an unexpected form. Blending breathtaking adventure with a brooding sense of mystery and menace, She is a story of romance, exploration discovery and heroism that has lost none of its power to enthrall.
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Penguin English Library a Room with a View
Автор: Forster E.M. Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2012 Страниц: 208 Дата загрузки: 18 июля 20132015-02-19
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«The Penguin English Library Edition of A Room with a View by E. M. Forster '»But you do,» he went on, not waiting for contradiction. «You love the boy body and soul, plainly, directly, as he loves you, and no other word expresses it ...» Lucy has her rigid, middle-class life mapped out for her until she visits Florence with her uptight cousin Charlotte, and finds her neatly ordered existence thrown off balance. Her eyes are opened by the unconventional characters she meets at the Pension Bertolini: flamboyant romantic novelist Eleanor Lavish, the Cockney Signora, curious Mr Emerson and, most of all, his passionate son George. Lucy finds herself torn between the intensity of life in Italy and the repressed morals of Edwardian England, personified in her terminally dull fiancé Cecil Vyse. Will she ever learn to follow her own heart? The Penguin English Library — 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.»
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The Harvest Man
Автор: Grecian Alex Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2015 Страниц: 389 Дата загрузки: 12 сентября 20202018-09-22
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«Murder Squad 4: Alongside Jack the Ripper there is another brutal serial killer roaming the streets of Victorian London. Spring 1890. The spectre of Jack the Ripper still haunts Inspector Walter Day, his injured leg a daily reminder of his violent brush with London's most feared killer. He alone is convinced that the Ripper remains at large. But, worse is to come for Scotland Yard's Murder Squad. A new killer is terrorizing the citizens of London. They call him the Harvest Man; he hides away in the attics of the unsuspecting, emerging at night to terrorize his victims. This macabre new threat requires Inspector Day to confront his demons, but he soon discovers that the Ripper himself continues to toy with Scotland Yard's finest. The game has only just begun... Praise for Alex Grecian's Scotland Yard Murder Squad Series: «Will keep you riveted from page one.» (Jeffery Deaver). «CSI: Victorian London.» (Daily Express). «Throw in deranged prostitutes, poisonings and throat slittings galore, amidst lashings of London fog. Gory, lurid and tons of guilty fun.» (Guardian). «Lusciously rich.» (Jeffery Deaver). «Shiver-inducingly creepy. A racy read.»
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Lie down with Lions
Автор: Follett Ken Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 1998 Страниц: 392 Дата загрузки: 11 октрября 20092000-10-21
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A riveting tale of international intrigue-and a dangerous Cold War love triangle-set in Afghanistan.
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The Pearl
Автор: Cameron Marsaili Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 1999 Страниц: 64 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20092001-10-27
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In the PENGUIN STUDY NOTES series and originally published in 1986 as part of STEINBECK'S OF MICE AND MEN AND PEARL, a study guide to the latter, aimed at those preparing for the GCSE examination. It includes character studies and summaries of the plot with discussions of the major themes, as well as a background to John Steinbeck.
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Richard II
Автор: Shakespeare William Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 1981 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 27 апреля 20091986-08-17
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The times have forced changes in the way we look at Richard II more than any other of Shakespeare's plays. What to his contemporaries was a balanced dramatisation of the central political and constitutional issue of the time, how to cope with an unjust ruler, has in the last century or so been translated into the poetic fall of a tragic hero.
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A Hero of Our Time
Автор: Lermontov Mikhail Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2009 Страниц: 208 Дата загрузки: 17 сентября 20142013-03-18
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A masterpiece of Russian prose, Lermontov's only novel was influential for many later nineteenth-century authors, including Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky and Chekhov. Lermontov's hero, Pechorin, is a dangerous man, Byronic in his wasted gifts and his cynicism, and desperate for any kind of action that will stave off boredom. In five linked episodes, Lermontov builds up a portrait of a man caught in and expressing the sickness of his times.
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Home of the Gentry
Автор: Turgenev Ivan Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2007 Страниц: 208 Дата загрузки: 17 сентября 20122010-04-17
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On one level the novel is about the homecoming of Lavretsky, who, broken and disillusioned by a failed marriage, returns to his estate and finds love again — only to lose it. The sense of loss and of unfulfilled promise, beautifully captured by Turgenev, reflects his underlying theme that humanity is not destined to experience happiness except as something ephemeral and inevitably doomed. On another level Turgenev is presenting the homecoming of a whole generation of young Russians who have fallen under the spell of European ideas that have uprooted them from Russia, their home, but have proved ultimately superfluous. In tragic bewilderment, they attempt to find reconciliation with their land.
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Spring Torrents
Автор: Ivan Turgenev Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2006 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 22 апреля 20102010-03-19
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This is an exquisitely written, partly autobiographical treatment of one of Turgenev's favorite themes — man's inability to learn about love without first losing his innocence.
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Regarding the Pain of Others
Автор: Sontag Susan Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2004 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 20 сентября 20092009-08-21
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From Goya's Disasters of War to news footage and photographs of the conflicts in Vietnam, Rwanda and Bosnia, pictures have been charged with inspiring dissent, fostering violence or instilling apathy in us, the viewer. Regarding the Pain of Others will alter our thinking not only about the uses and meanings of images, but about the nature of war, the limits of sympathy, and the obligations of conscience.
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Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony
Автор: Colfer Eoin Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2011 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 07 апреля 20152015-03-12
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Ten millennia ago, the fairy People were defeated in a great battle with mankind, forcing them to move underground. Only the eighth family of fairies remained undefeated: the demons. But now one demon has discovered the secrets of the fairy world, and if humans get hold of this information the fairies are in BIG trouble. Only one person can prevent this disaster — teenage criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl. Action packed and full of humour — this is a must-read for boys and girls aged 10+.
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Personal: (Jack Reacher 19)
Автор: Child Жанр: Penguin Group Страниц: 480 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20092002-12-10
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Jack Reacher walks alone. Once a go-to hard man in the US military police, now he’s a drifter of no fixed abode. But the army tracks him down. Because someone has taken a long-range shot at the French president. Only one man could have done it. And Reacher is the one man who can find him.
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