What Maisie Knew
Автор:
Henry JamesЖанр:
Классическая проза;Серия:
3Дата добавления:
2020-08-15Язык книги:
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99Проза стр.49 - книги на английском
What You Do Not Know You Want
Автор:
Mitchell DavidЖанр:
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2013-09-16Язык книги:
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Wheels
Автор:
Hailey ArthurЖанр:
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2013-12-04Язык книги:
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103
A story of the supercharged world of the American car industry. From the grime and crime of a Detroit assembly line, through to the top-secret design studios and executive boardrooms and bedrooms, the author gives the reader a study of the motor...
When God Laughs
Автор:
London ackЖанр:
Классическая проза;Серия:
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2013-11-26Язык книги:
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33
When The World Screamed
Автор:
Doyle ArthurЖанр:
Классическая проза;Серия:
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2013-12-05Язык книги:
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7
Where Angels Fear to Tread
Автор:
E. M. ForsterДата добавления:
2022-03-17Язык книги:
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49
Description
Soon after the widowed Lilia Herriton arrives at the dusty Tuscan town of Monteriano with her friend Caroline Abbott, she falls in love with Gino Carella, a handsome—and younger—man. When her overbearing in-laws hear of the engagement, they panic, believing a marriage like that would dishonor their family and the memory of Lilia’s late husband and their child.
Lilia’s brother-in-law, Philip Herriton, rushes to Italy to stop the marriage and “rescue” Lilia from Gino. He soon discovers that he’s too late, and that they’ve already married. Their impulsive decision will have major consequences—not just for the couple itself, but also for Caroline, Philip, and everyone else in their orbit.
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White Fang
Автор:
London JackЖанр:
Классическая проза;Серия:
3Дата добавления:
2013-12-05Язык книги:
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44
White Noise
Автор:
DeLillo DonЖанр:
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2013-11-06Язык книги:
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76
Amazon.com Review
Better than any book I can think of, White Noise captures the particular strangeness of life in a time where humankind has finally learned enough to kill itself. Naturally, it's a terribly funny book, and the prose is as beautiful as a sunset through a particulate-filled sky. Nice-guy narrator Jack Gladney teaches Hitler Studies at a small college. His wife may be taking a drug that removes fear, and one day a nearby chemical plant accidentally releases a cloud of gas that may be poisonous. Writing before Bhopal and Prozac entered the popular lexicon, DeLillo produced a work so closely tuned into its time that it tells the future.
From Publishers Weekly
Chairman of the department of Hitler studies at a Midwestern college, Jack Gladney is accidently exposed to a cloud...
White Oleander
Автор:
Fitch JanetЖанр:
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3Дата добавления:
2013-09-29Язык книги:
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114
White Teeth
Автор:
Smith ZadieЖанр:
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2013-09-11Язык книги:
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125
Zadie Smith's White Teeth is a delightfully cacophonous tale that spans 25 years of two families' assimilation in North London. The Joneses and the Iqbals are an unlikely a pairing of families, but their intertwined destinies distill the British Empire 's history and hopes into a dazzling multiethnic melange that is a pure joy to read. Smith proves herself to be a master at drawing fully-realized, vibrant characters, and she demonstrates an extraordinary ear for dialogue. It is a novel full of humor and empathy that is as inspiring as it is enjoyable.
White Teeth is ambitious in scope and artfully rendered with a confidence that is extremely rare in a writer so young. It boggles the mind that Zadie Smith is only 24 years old, and this novel is a clarion...
Who Are You?
Автор:
Kavan AnnaЖанр:
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2013-11-16Язык книги:
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Depicting the hopeless, emotional polarity of a young couple, this novel follows their doomed marriage spent in a remote, tropical hell. She—described only as “the girl”—is young, sophisticated and sensitive. He, “Mr. Dog-Head,” is an unreconstructed thug and heavy drinker who rapes his wife, otherwise passing his time bludgeoning rats with a tennis racket. Together with a visiting stranger, “Suede Boots”—who urges the woman to escape until he is banished by her husband—these characters live through the same situations twice. Their identities are equally real—or unreal—in each case. With slight variation in the background and the novel’s atmosphere, neither the outcome nor the characters themselves are quite the same the second time. The constant question of the...
Wife 22
Автор:
Gideon MelanieЖанр:
Современная проза;Серия:
3Дата добавления:
2013-12-02Язык книги:
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91
Maybe it was my droopy eyelids. Maybe it was because I was about to turn the same age my mother was when I lost her. Maybe it was because after almost twenty years of marriage my husband and I seemed to be running out of things to say to each other.But when the anonymous online study called 'Marriage in the 21st Century' showed up in my inbox, I had no idea how profoundly it would change my life. It wasn't long before I was assigned both a pseudonym (Wife 22) and a caseworker (Researcher 101).And, just like that, I found myself answering questions.7. Sometimes I tell him he's snoring when he's not snoring so he'll sleep in the guest room and I can have the bed all to myself.61. Chet Baker on the tape player. He was cutting peppers for the salad. I looked at those hands and thought, I am...
Wild Child: Girlhoods in the Counterculture
Автор:
Cain ChelseaЖанр:
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2013-09-15Язык книги:
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Tofu casseroles, communes, clothing-optional kindergarten, antiwar proteststhese are just a few of the hallmarks of a counterculture childhood. What became of kids who had been denied meat, exposed to free love, and given nouns for names? In Wild Child, daughters of the hippie generation speak about the legacy of their childhoods. The writers present a rearview mirror to contemporary culture; with an eye on the past they remind us that there is more than one path through the present. Contributors include Lisa Michaels (Split) and Ariel Gore (Hip...
Winger
Автор:
Smith AndrewЖанр:
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2014-01-07Язык книги:
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76
A teen at boarding school grapples with life, love, and rugby in a heartbreakingly funny novel. Ryan Dean West is a fourteen-year-old junior at a boarding school for rich kids. He’s living in Opportunity Hall, the dorm for troublemakers, and rooming with the biggest bully on the rugby team. And he’s madly in love with his best friend Annie, who thinks of him as a little boy. With the help of his sense of humor, rugby buddies, and his penchant for doodling comics, Ryan Dean manages to survive life’s complications and even find some happiness along the way. But when the unthinkable happens, he has to figure out how to hold on to what’s important, even when it feels like everything has fallen apart. Filled with hand-drawn infographics and illustrations and told in a...
Winter's Bone
Автор:
Woodrell DanielЖанр:
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2013-11-19Язык книги:
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Ree Dolly’s father has skipped bail on charges that he ran a crystal meth lab, and the Dollys will lose their house if he doesn’t show up for his next court date. With two young brothers depending on her, 16-year-old Ree knows she has to bring her father back, dead or alive. Living in the harsh poverty of the Ozarks, Ree learns quickly that asking questions of the rough Dolly clan can be a fatal mistake. But, as an unsettling revelation lurks, Ree discovers unforeseen depths in herself and in a family network that protects its own at any...
Without Prejudice
Автор:
Зангвилл ИзраэльЖанр:
Историческая проза;Серия:
3Дата добавления:
2013-11-28Язык книги:
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79
Wolf Hall
Автор:
Mante HilaryЖанр:
Историческая проза;Серия:
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2013-12-04Язык книги:
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143
England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and most of Europe opposes him. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell: a wholly original man, a charmer and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people, and implacable in his ambition. But Henry is volatile: one day tender, one day murderous. Cromwell helps him break the opposition, but what will be the price of his...
Woman in the Fifth
Автор:
Kennedy DouglasЖанр:
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2013-11-16Язык книги:
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88
Douglas Kennedy's new novel demonstrates once again his talent for writing serious popular fiction. The Pursuit of Happiness and A Special Relationship were both Sunday Times bestsellers in paperback. That was the year my life fell apart, and that was the year I moved to Paris. When Harry Ricks arrives in Paris on a bleak January morning he is a broken man. He is running away from a failed marriage and a dark scandal that ruined his career as a film lecturer in a small American university. With no money and nowhere to live, Harry swiftly falls in with the city's underclass, barely scraping a living while trying to finish the book he'd always dreamed of writing. A chance meeting with a mysterious woman, Margit Kadar, with whom Harry falls in love, is his only hope of a brighter...
Wrath
Автор:
Wasserman RobinЖанр:
Проза: прочее;Серия:
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2013-11-28Язык книги:
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43
Tensions at Haven High have been simmering under the surface for quite some time. Now they're about to burst through. In WRATH, our seven teens turn deliciously devilish as they plot revenge against those who have wronged them – in other words, each other. But while everyone gets angry now and then, surely no one is angry enough to kill…Still, revenge is the name of the game. And for one of our seven teens – Adam, Beth, Harper, Kaia, Kane, Miranda, or Reed – it's game...
Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
Автор:
Saramago JoseЖанр:
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2013-11-26Язык книги:
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The year: 1936. Europe dances while an invidious dictator establishes himself in Portugal. The city: Lisbon-gray, colorless, chimerical. Ricardo Reis, a doctor and poet, has just come home after sixteen years in Brazil. Translated by Giovanni...
