Автор:

Жанр:

Современная проза;

Серия:

3

Дата добавления:

2013-12-02

Язык книги:

English

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43

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The novelist's camera pans from the dome of King Fuad University (now Cairo University) to students streaming out of the campus, focusing on four students in their twenties, each representing a different trend in Egypt in the 1930s. Finally the camera comes to rest on Mahgub Abd al-Da'im. A scamp, he fancies himself a nihilist, a hedonist, an egotist, but his personal vulnerability is soon revealed by a family crisis back home in al-Qanatir, a dusty, provincial town on the Nile that is also a popular destination for Cairene day-trippers. Mahgub, like many characters in works by Naguib Mahfouz, has a hard time finding the correct setting on his ambition gauge. His emotional life also fluctuates between the extremes of a street girl, who makes her living gathering cigarette butts, and his...

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Cakes and Ale

Автор:

Maugham W.

Жанр:

Старинная литература: Прочее;

Серия:

3

Дата добавления:

2013-11-25

Язык книги:

English

Кол-во страниц:

57

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Cakes and Ale

Автор:

W. Somerset Maugham

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Дата добавления:

2026-03-14

Язык книги:

English

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70

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W. Somerset Maugham skillfully weaves an engaging and sometimes humorous satire of London’s literary society. Originally published as a serial, Cakes and Ale drew attention for its unflattering portrayals of London literary..." data-title="Книга Cakes and Ale">

Description When social climber Alroy Kear is given a plum commission to write the biography of recently deceased and highly regarded author Edward Driffield by Driffield’s second wife, Kear needs background on Driffield’s early years. Kear reaches out to an acquaintance, fellow author William Ashenden, who knew Driffield and his first wife Rosie while Driffield was early in his career and still largely unknown. Set in London during interwar years, W. Somerset Maugham skillfully weaves an engaging and sometimes humorous satire of London’s literary society. Originally published as a serial, Cakes and Ale drew attention for its unflattering portrayals of London literary...

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Calamity

Автор:

Warren J.T.

Жанр:

Старинная литература: Прочее;

Серия:

3

Дата добавления:

2013-11-18

Язык книги:

English

Кол-во страниц:

79

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In the middle of a cold winter night on March 26, 1951, two earthen dams in the hills above Sidney, Montana, collapsed. Millions of gallons of water and gigantic blocks of ice were sent roaring downhill into the unwary town as it lay sleeping. The only apparent fatalities were members of one family, the family of Herman and Ruth Foell who lived in a basement home on the outskirts of town nearest to the dams. Their home was totally destroyed, transformed into a tomb beneath the icy flood waters in a matter of minutes. This story is about that family, gleaned from the pages of Ruth Foell’s own journal, recovered after her untimely death. Her unfinished chronicle contained entries up to only a few weeks before this catastrophe nearly swept their town into...

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Calamity Town

Автор:

Queen Ellery

Жанр:

Старинная литература: Прочее;

Серия:

3

Дата добавления:

2013-11-17

Язык книги:

English

Кол-во страниц:

65

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Looking for trouble, Ellery Queen descends on a small town. At the tail end of the long summer of 1940, there is nowhere in the country more charming than Wrightsville. The Depression has abated, and for the first time in years the city is booming. There is hope in Wrightsville, but Ellery Queen has come looking for death. The mystery author is hoping for fodder for a novel, and he senses the corruption that lurks beneath the apple pie facade. He rents a house owned by the town’s first family, whose three daughters star in most of the local gossip. One is fragile, left at the altar three years ago and never recovered. Another is engaged to the city’s rising political star, an upright man who’s already boring her. And then there’s Lola, the divorced, bohemian black sheep....

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Calculated Entrapment

Автор:

K.T. Lee

Жанр:

Старинная литература: Прочее;

Дата добавления:

2021-05-06

Язык книги:

English

Кол-во страниц:

67

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Calculated Risk

Автор:

Doyle Stephanie

Жанр:

Остросюжетные любовные романы;

Серия:

3

Дата добавления:

2013-12-01

Язык книги:

English

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50

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At the ripe old age of twenty, girl genius Sabrina Masters was booted from the CIA for 'willful insubordination.' Now, ten years later, they want her back for a mission only she has the brains to complete-breaking a twisted code to flush out a terrorist. Too bad the mission comes with her former trainer and ex-lover-Quinlan-attached.With national security at risk, Sabrina doesn't have time for rules or distractions. Especially from Quinlan. A decade out of the spy game means the odds are against her-but they don't call her a genius for...

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CALDE OF THE LONG SUN

Автор:

Wolfe Gene

Жанр:

Эпическая фантастика;

Серия:

3

Дата добавления:

2013-12-05

Язык книги:

English

Кол-во страниц:

116

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The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996) is a series of four science fantasy novels. A young priest Patera Silk tries to save his manteion (neighborhood church and school) from destruction by a ruthless crime lord. As he learns more about his world, a vast generation ship called the Whorl, he learns to distrust the gods he has worshiped and to revere the supposedly minor god known as The Outsider who has enlightened him. He becomes a revolutionary leader and prophet. It is a second book of...

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