Pictures from Italy
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Dickens CharlesЖанр:
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41Проза стр.24 - книги на английском
Pioneers and Founders
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Йондж ШарлоттаЖанр:
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Pitch
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Eaton JillianЖанр:
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Sixteen-year-old Lola is a daredevil. She likes playing hooky, making out with bad boy Everett James, and stealing cars. The reason behind all of her rebellious antics? Because she can. But what can one girl do against a horde of murderous vampires? Aided by her sometimes sober father, her best friend Travis, and Maximus, the mysterious stranger who appeared out of no where to save her life, Lola must accomplish what the rest of the human race has failed to do in the aftermath of the world wide massacre: survive. But how do you survive when everything you know has been destroyed… and the one person you thought you could trust ends up being the most dangerous person of...
Plain Tales from the Hills
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Kipling RudyardЖанр:
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Players
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Delillo DonЖанр:
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In Players DeLillo explores the dark side of contemporary affluence and its discontents. Pammy and Lyle Wynant are an attractive, modern couple who seem to have it all. Yet behind their 'ideal' life is a lingering boredom and quiet desperation: their talk is mostly chatter, their sex life more a matter of obligatory 'satisfaction' than pleasure. Then Lyle sees a man killed on the floor of the Stock Exchange and becomes involved with the terrorists responsible; Pammy leaves for Maine with a homosexual couple… And still they remain untouched, 'players' indifferent to the violence that surrounds them, and that they have helped to create.
Originally published in 1977 (before his National Book Award-winning White Noise and the recent blockbuster Underworld), Players is a fast-moving yet...
Popcorn
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Elton BenЖанр:
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Dagger AwardsBruce shoots movies. Wayne and Scout shoot to kill. In a single night they find out the hard way what's real and what's not, who's the hero and the villain. A nation watches in awe as Bruce and Wayne resolve the serious questions. Does art imitate life? And does Bruce use erection...
Portnoy’s Complaint
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Roth PhilipЖанр:
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2013-11-26Язык книги:
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'Touching as well as hilariously lewd…Roth is vibrantly talented…as marvelous a mimic and fantasist as has been produced by the most verbal group in human history.' Alfred Kazin, New York Review of Books'Deliciously funny…absurd and exuberant, wild and uproarious…a brilliantly vivid reading experience.' The New York Times Book Review'Roth is the bravest writer in the United States. He's morally brave, he's politically brave. And Portnoy is part of that bravery.' Cynthia Ozick, Newsday'Simply one of the two or three funniest works in American fiction.' Chicago Sun-TimesPortnoy’s Complaint, a long monologue narrated by a young Jewish man while in analysis, is prefaced by a definition of “Portnoy’s Complaint” as a disorder in which “strongly felt ethical and altruistic...
Post Office
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Bukowski CharlesЖанр:
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“It began as a mistake.” By middle age, Henry Chinaski has lost more than twelve years of his life to the U.S. Postal Service. In a world where his three true, bitter pleasures are women, booze, and racetrack betting, he somehow drags his hangover out of bed every dawn to lug waterlogged mailbags up mud-soaked mountains, outsmart vicious guard dogs, and pray to survive the day-to-day trials of sadistic bosses and certifiable coworkers. This classic 1971 novel—the one that catapulted its author to national fame—is the perfect introduction to the grimly hysterical world of legendary writer, poet, and Dirty Old Man Charles Bukowski and his fictional alter ego, Chinaski.
About the Author
Charles Bukowski is one of America’s best-known contemporary writers of poetry and...
Power Play
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Pearson RidleyЖанр:
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For the five teens who modeled as Disney Hologram Imaging hosts, life is beginning to settle down when an intriguing video arrives to Philby's computer at school. It's a call for action: the Overtakers, a group of Disney villains, seem to be plotting to attempt a rescue of two of their leaders, both of whom the Disney Imagineers have hidden away somewhere following a violent encounter in Epcot. A staged attack by new Overtakers at Downtown Disney, startles the group.One of their own, Charlene, is acting strange of late. Has she tired of her role as a Kingdom Keeper or is there something more sinister at play? When caught sneaking into Epcot as her DHI, acting strictly against the group's rules, Finn and Philby take action.Has the 'impossible' occurred? Have the Overtakers created their...
Prayer-Cushions of the Flesh
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Irwin RobertЖанр:
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“The virginal hero of the tale, Prince Orkhan, escapes from the Cage of the Imperial Harem, in which the sons of the sultan are imprisoned, and finds himself hailed by the Harem’s concubines as their new Sultan. He is immediately caught up in the excesses and perversions of the harem.” But evil flourishes in a bed of boredom and, after allowing the Viper to drink at the Tavern of the Perfume-Makers, Orkhan enters a maze of complicated relationships, all orchestrated by the devotees of the Prayer-Cushion movement. Temptation, seduction, story-telling, and magic are used to lure the Sultan towards a climax which is designed to be both ecstatic and...
Pride
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Wasserman RobinЖанр:
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Everyone's got something to brag about:Kaia's getting it on with bachelor #1, though scruffball Reed's gotten to be quite an interesting distraction.Kane and Harper got exactly what they planned:Namely, Beth and Adam. (Though to keep gettin' it, their secrets – and pasts – best stay forgotten.)Miranda got her heart broken, but now she's all decked with a new look and strategy.Sometimes, though, you only think you've got...
Pride and Prejudice
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Austen JaneЖанр:
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At the turn of eighteenth-century England, spirited Elizabeth Bennet copes with the suit of the snobbish Mr. Darcy while trying to sort out the romantic entanglements of two of her sisters, sweet and beautiful Jane and scatterbrained...
Prologue: The Illustrated Man
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Брэдбери РэйЖанр:
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Рассказ вошёл в сборники: The Illustrated Man (Человек в картинках) The Vintage Bradbury (Классический...
Psmith in the City
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P. G. WodehouseЖанр:
Юмористическая проза;Дата добавления:
2022-03-18Язык книги:
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Description
Mike Jackson is a rising cricket star who finds his dreams of studying and playing at Cambridge upset by news of his father’s financial troubles. He takes a job with the New Asiatic Bank in London. He arrives to find that his dapper and verbose young friend Psmith is also a new employee, and together they navigate early twentieth century office life, make the best of their position and squeeze in a little cricket from time to time.
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse was an English author and one of the most widely read humorists of the twentieth century. After leaving school, he was employed by a bank but disliked the work and turned to writing in his spare time. His early...
Psmith, Journalist
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P. G. WodehouseЖанр:
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Growing bored while accompanying his Cambridge chum Mike on a cricket tour of the United States, Psmith seeks adventure in New York City. He finds it in the form of the weekly newspaper Cosy Moments, a completely bland and inoffensive publication at which, through charm and sheer force of personality, Psmith appoints himself an unpaid subeditor, fires the entire contributing staff, and embarks on a crusade against the slumlords, gangs, and boxing managers of his holiday destination.
Psmith, Journalist is the second of Wodehouse’s Psmith novels, and is a marked departure from the author’s usual settings...
Purge
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Oksanen SofiЖанр:
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2013-09-24Язык книги:
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'A truly stunning novel, both heartbreaking and optimistic.' – Lara Vapnyar
Soon to be published in twenty-five languages, Sofi Oksanen's award-winning novel Purge is a breathtakingly suspenseful tale of two women dogged by their own shameful pasts and the dark, unspoken history that binds them.
When Aliide Truu, an older woman living alone in the Estonian countryside, finds a disheveled girl huddled in her front yard, she suppresses her misgivings and offers her shelter. Zara is a young sex-trafficking victim on the run from her captors, but a photo she carries with her soon makes it clear that her arrival at Aliide's home is no coincidence. Survivors both, Aliide and Zara engage in a complex arithmetic of suspicion and revelation to distill each other's motives; gradually, their...
Pygmy
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Palahniuk ChuckЖанр:
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Palahniuk's 10th novel (after Snuff) is a potent if cartoonish cultural satire that succeeds despite its stridently confounding prose. A gang of adolescent terrorists trained by an unspecified totalitarian state (the boys and girls are guided by quotations attributed to Marx, Hitler, Augusto Pinochet, Idi Amin, etc.) infiltrate America as foreign exchange students. Their mission: to bring the nation to its knees through Operation Havoc, an act of mass destruction disguised as a science project. Narrated by skinny 13-year-old Pgymy, the propulsive plot deconstructs American fixtures, among them church (religion propaganda distribution outlet), spelling bees (forced battle to list English alphabet letters) and TV news reporters (Horde scavenger feast at overflowing anus of world history),...
Rabbit Remembered
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Updike JohnЖанр:
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The stunning novella that concludes John Updike's acclaimed Rabbit series is now available on audio.Set 10 years after Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom's death, Rabbit Remembered returns listeners to the small Pennsylvania town where Harry's widow, Janice, and his son, Nelson, still reside. They are faced with a surprise when Annabelle, Harry's 39-year-old illegitimate daughter, arrives on the scene, bringing with her ghosts from the...
Rasputin's Daughter
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Alexander RobertЖанр:
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In an endeavor similar to his debut novel, The Kitchen Boy, Alexander couples extensive research and poetic license, this time turning his enthusiasm toward perhaps the most intriguing player in the collapse of the Russian dynasty: Rasputin. This eyebrow-raising account of the final week of the notorious mystic's life is set in Petrograd in December 1916 and narrated by Rasputin's fiery teenage daughter, Maria. The air in the newly renamed capital is thick with dangerous rumors, many concerning Maria's father, whose close relationship with the monarchy-he alone can stop the bleeding of the hemophiliac heir to the throne-invokes murderous rage among members of the royal family. Maria is determined to protect her father's life, but the further she delves into his affairs, the more she...
Rasselas
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Джонсон СэмюэльЖанр:
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2013-12-02Язык книги:
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Samuel Johnson...
