Lucky Number
Автор:
Milne JohnЖанр:
Классическая проза;Серия:
3Дата добавления:
2013-12-05Язык книги:
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Macmillan Readers Starter...
Проза стр.20 - книги на английском
Lust
Автор:
Wasserman RobinЖанр:
Проза: прочее;Серия:
3Дата добавления:
2013-11-28Язык книги:
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Alpha girl Harper is used to getting what she wants,and that means Adam,Beth's all-American boytoy.Blond, boring Beth, who Kane,the charming playah, secretly wants too.Miranda thinks Kane is out of her league,but she wants him all the same.And then there's the new girl.Kaia. Who only wants trouble -and he's definitely on his way.Want to know...
Lustrum
Автор:
Harris RobertЖанр:
Историческая проза;Серия:
3Дата добавления:
2013-11-27Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
86
Magnum Bonum
Автор:
Йондж ШарлоттаЖанр:
Проза: прочее;Серия:
3Дата добавления:
2013-11-28Язык книги:
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144
Main Street
Автор:
Sinclair LewisДата добавления:
2022-03-18Язык книги:
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164
Description
Carol Milford grows up in a mid-sized town in Minnesota before moving to Chicago for college. After her education, during which she’s exposed to big-city life and culture, she moves to Minneapolis to work as a librarian. She soon meets Will Kennicott, a small-town doctor, and the two get married and move to Gopher Prairie, Kennicott’s home town.
Carol, inspired by big-city ideas, soon begins chafing at the seeming quaintness and even backwardness of the townsfolk, and their conservative, self-satisfied way of life. She struggles to try to reform the town in her image, while finding meaning in the seeming cultural desert she’s found herself in and in her increasingly cold marriage.
Gopher Prairie is a detailed, satirical take...
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
Автор:
Simonson HelenЖанр:
Современная проза;Серия:
3Дата добавления:
2013-11-17Язык книги:
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When retired Major Pettigrew strikes up an unlikely friendship with Mrs. Ali, the Pakistani village shopkeeper, he is drawn out of his regimented world and forced to confront the realities of life in the twenty-first century. Brought together by a shared love of literature and the loss of their respective spouses, the Major and Mrs. Ali soon find their friendship on the cusp of blossoming into something more. But although the Major was actually born in Lahore, and Mrs. Ali was born in Cambridge, village society insists on embracing him as the quintessential local and her as a permanent foreigner. The Major has always taken special pride in the village, but will he be forced to choose between the place he calls home and a future with Mrs....
Man and Superman
Автор:
George Bernard ShawДата добавления:
2022-03-18Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
85
Description
Following the death of her father, Ann Whitefield becomes the ward of Jack Tanner and Roebuck Ramsden; Jack is a childhood friend, author of The Revolutionist’s Handbook, and descendant of Don Juan, while Roebuck Ramsden is a respectable friend of her father’s entirely opposed to Jack’s philosophy. Also in mourning are Octavius Robinson, who is openly in love with Ann, and his sister Violet, who is secretly pregnant. So begins a journey that will take them across London, Europe, and to Hell.
George Bernard Shaw wrote Man and Superman between 1901 and 1903. It was first performed in 1905 with the third act excised; a part of that third act, Don...
Man Descending
Автор:
Vanderhaeghe GuyЖанр:
Современная проза;Серия:
3Дата добавления:
2013-11-28Язык книги:
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A collection of storiesThese superbly crafted stories reveal an astonishing range, with settings that vary from a farm on the Canadian prairies to Bloomsbury in London, from a high-rise apartment to a mine-shaft. Vanderhaeghe has the uncanny ability to show us the world through the eyes of an eleven-year-old boy as convincingly as he reveals it through the eyes of an old man approaching senility. Moving from the hilarious farce of teenage romance all the way to the numbing tragedy of life in a ward for incurables, these twelve stories inspire belief, admiration, and enjoyment, and come together to form a vibrant chronicle of human experience from a gifted observer of life's joys and tribulations. This is Guy Vanderhaeghe's brilliant first book of...
Mansfield Park
Автор:
Austen JaneЖанр:
Классическая проза;Серия:
3Дата добавления:
2013-11-16Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
59
Mao II
Автор:
DeLillo DonЖанр:
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2013-11-06Язык книги:
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Don DeLillo's follow-up to Libra, his brilliant fictionalization of the Kennedy assassination, Mao II is a series of elusive set-pieces built around the themes of mass psychology, individualism vs. the mob, the power of imagery and the search for meaning in a blasted, post-modern world. Bill Gray, the world's most famous reclusive novelist, has been working for many years on a stalled masterpiece when he gets the chance to aid a hostage trapped in a basement in war-torn Beirut. Gray sets out on a doomed, quixotic journey, and his disappearance disrupts the cloistered lives of his obsessed assistant and the assistant's companion, a former Moonie who has also become Bill's lover. This haunting, masterful novel won the PEN/Faulkner Award.
This tale of a reclusive novelist drawn back into...
Marcovaldo or The Seasons in the City
Автор:
Calvino ItaloЖанр:
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3Дата добавления:
2013-11-28Язык книги:
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'Marcovaldois an enchanting collection of stories, both melancholy and funny, about an Italian peasant's struggle to reconcile country habits with urban life. Oblivious to the garish attractions of the town, Marcovaldo is the attentive recorder of natural phenomenon. The reader's heart bleeds for Marcovaldo in his tenacious pursuit of lost domains, but the stories are full of mirth and fun. They lie between farce and fantasy, combining comical disasters with a surrealistic view of city life through the eyes of an outsider…Nothing, as always with Calvino, is quite as it seems. Books and...
Marine Sniper
Автор:
Henderson CharlesЖанр:
Военная проза;Серия:
3Дата добавления:
2013-12-02Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
65
In the chaos of the combat zone, there are the living, the dead, and the Ghost. In the ongoing Iraq conflict, there are no battle lines, no direct offensives, no ground won or lost—just the daily fight against an enemy who hits and runs, hides and sneaks. If the enemy shows himself, it’s only for a moment. But for a Marine Sniper, that is all that is needed. Readers now have the opportunity, from these warriors’ perspective, to peer into the killing zone through a telescopic lens, down the barrel of a high-powered rifle, and into the very heart of the enemy. The training, the techniques, and the steel will necessary to survive as a sniper are all described in vivid detail. Charles Henderson also delves into the core of the enemy—the maniacal ideology, and the tactics that...
Master Humphrey's Clock
Автор:
Dickens CharlesЖанр:
Классическая проза;Серия:
3Дата добавления:
2013-11-16Язык книги:
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27
Maybe This Time
Автор:
Hotschnig AloisЖанр:
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2013-12-02Язык книги:
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'Hotschnig's stories have the weird, creepy, and ambiguous quality of disturbing dreams… It is, though, very refreshing to be confronted by stories which so firmly refuse to yield to conventional interpretation.' Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian 'Hotschnig's prose dramatizes the voice of conscience and the psychological mechanisms we use to face reality or, just as often, to avoid it.' World Literature Today 'Literary precision that has become rare in today's gossipy, discursive fiction.' Neue Zuricher Zeitung 'He is one of the best writers of his generation.' – Suddeutsche Zeitung?'Not since Julio Cortazar's game of Hopscotch… has an author so daringly undertaken to challenge the reader.' Amanda Hopkinson, The Independent 'Hotschnig's stories have the weird, creepy and ambiguous...
McTEAGUEA Story of San Franciscoby
Автор:
Norris FrankЖанр:
Классическая проза;Серия:
3Дата добавления:
2013-11-19Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
73
Memoirs of Hadrian
Автор:
Юрсенар МаргеритЖанр:
Классическая проза;Серия:
3Дата добавления:
2013-11-18Язык книги:
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Memories of my Melancholy Whores
Автор:
Marquez GabrielЖанр:
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2013-11-29Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
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Amazon.com Review 'The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin.' So begins Memories of My Melancholy Whores, and it becomes even more unlikely as the novel unfolds. This slim volume contains the story of the sad life of an unnamed, only slightly talented Colombian journalist and teacher, never married, never in love, living in the crumbling family manse. He calls Rosa Cabarcas, madame of the city's most successful brothel, to seek her assistance. Rosa tells him his wish is impossible-and then calls right back to say that she has found the perfect girl. The protagonist says of himself: 'I have never gone to bed with a woman I didn't pay… by the time I was fifty...
Messiah
Автор:
Vidal GoreЖанр:
Современная проза;Серия:
3Дата добавления:
2013-11-17Язык книги:
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Gore Vidal's satirical fantasy, with a new introduction by the author. From his long-time hiding-place in provincial Egypt, Eugene Luther tells the story of John Cave, a former Californian undertaker, his rise to power and the subsequent global impact of his new...
Microserfs
Автор:
Coupland DouglasЖанр:
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3Дата добавления:
2013-10-04Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
84
Microserfs is not about Microsoft--it's about programmers who are searching for lives. A hilarious but frighteningly real look at geek life in the '90's, Coupland's book manifests a peculiar sense of how technology affects the human race and how it will continue to affect all of us. Microserfs is the hilarious journal of Dan, an ex-Microsoft programmer who, with his coder comrades, is on a quest to find purpose in life. This isn't just fodder for techies. The thoughts and fears of the not-so-stereotypical characters are easy for any of us to relate to, and their witty conversations and quirky view of the world make this a surprisingly thought-provoking book.
' ... just think about the way high-tech cultures purposefully protract out the adolescence of their employees well into their...
Midaq Alley
Автор:
Mahfouz NaguibЖанр:
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3Дата добавления:
2013-12-02Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
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Considered by many to be Mahfouz's best novel, Midaq Alley centers around the residents of one of the hustling, teeming back alleys of Cairo. No other novel so vividly evokes the sights and sounds of the city. The universality and timelessness of this book cannot be...
