The stormcaller
Автор:
Lloyd TomЖанр:
Фэнтези;Серия:
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2013-09-29Язык книги:
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The Story of Gösta Berling
Автор:
Selma LagerlöfЖанр:
Научная фантастика;Дата добавления:
2022-03-18Язык книги:
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Set in the 1820s in central Sweden, The Story of Gösta Berling follows the saga of the titular character as he falls from the priesthood and is rescued by the owner of a local estate. Joining the other saved souls in the pensioners’ wing of the mansion, he embarks upon a series of larger-than-life stories that tell of adventure, revelry, romance and sadness.
Gösta Berling was the eventual Nobel Prize winner Selma Lagerlöf’s first published novel, and was written as an entry to a magazine competition. The richly detailed landscapes of Värmland were drawn from her own upbringing there, and the local folk tales inspired many of the individual stories in the...
The Story of the Amulet
Автор:
E. NesbitДата добавления:
2022-03-17Язык книги:
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68
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In this conclusion to the Psammead Trilogy, Cyril, Anthea, Robert, and Jane are reunited with the cantankerous Sand-fairy. While the old creature can’t grant them wishes anymore, it points them towards an old Egyptian amulet that can grant their hearts’ desire—in this case the return of their parents and baby brother. While their amulet is only half of a whole, it still acts as a time portal which they use to visit locales like Ancient Egypt, Babylon, Atlantis, and even a utopian future in search of the missing other half.
Perhaps one of E. Nesbit’s most personal works, The Story of the Amulet...
The Story of the Stone
Автор:
Hughart BarryЖанр:
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2013-11-26Язык книги:
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The abbot of a humble monastery in the Valley of Sorrows calls upon Master Li and Number Ten Ox to investigate the killing of a monk and the theft of a seemingly inconsequential manuscript from its library. Suspicion soon lands on the infamous Laughing Prince Liu Sheng—who has been dead for about 750 years. To solve this mystery and others, the incongruous duo will have to travel across China, outwit a half-barbarian king, and saunter into (and out of) Hell...
The Stowaway
Автор:
Metz MelindaЖанр:
Научная фантастика;Серия:
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2013-10-01Язык книги:
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Micheal: He's still having flashbacks of his escape from the underground compound. Only Cameron, the mysterious girl he met behind bars, seems to understand him--and understand that the sheriff may be gone but an even more dangerous enemy is out there…Cameron: She fell for Micheal in the compound…while spying on him for Sheriff Valenti. Now she feels guilty and wishes she could tell him the truth. But how can she be honest--without losing...
The Strain
Автор:
del Toro GuillermoЖанр:
Ужасы и Мистика;Серия:
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2013-11-16Язык книги:
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In one week, Manhattan will be gone. In one month, the country. In two months… the world. At New York’s JFK Airport an arriving Boeing 777 taxiing along a runway suddenly stops dead. All the shades have been drawn, all communication channels have mysteriously gone quiet. Dr. Eph Goodweather, head of a CDC rapid-response team investigating biological threats, boards the darkened plane… and what he finds makes his blood run cold. A terrifying contagion has come to the unsuspecting city, an unstoppable plague that will spread like an all-consuming wildfire—lethal, merciless, hungry… “vampiric.” And in a pawnshop in Spanish Harlem an aged Holocaust survivor knows that the war he has been dreading his entire life is finally...
The Straits of Galahesh
Автор:
Beaulieu BradleyЖанр:
Фэнтези;Серия:
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2013-12-01Язык книги:
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The strange affair of Spring-heeled Jack
Автор:
Hodder MarkЖанр:
Детективная фантастика;Серия:
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2013-11-16Язык книги:
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Автор:
Robert Louis StevensonДата добавления:
2022-03-19Язык книги:
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26
Description
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is the classic novella of split personality. Stevenson wrote it in just a few days while sick and bedridden, and famously burned the first draft after his wife suggested it should be written as an allegory and not as a story. He re-wrote it in three to six days, and after a few weeks of editing and revision he published what would become one of his most famous and best-selling works.
The story follows a London lawyer as he investigates the relationship between a brilliant scientist and a misshapen misanthrope. As the link between the two becomes clearer, Jekyll and Hyde develops into an...
The Strange Case of Finley Jayne
Автор:
Cross KadyЖанр:
Любовная фантастика;Серия:
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2013-11-27Язык книги:
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Finley Jayne knows she's not 'normal'. Normal girls don't lose time, or have something inside them that makes them capable of remarkably violent things. Her behavior has already cost her one job, so when she's offered the lofty position of companion to Phoebe, a debutante recently engaged to Lord Vincent, she accepts, despite having no experience. Lord Vincent is a man of science with his automatons and inventions, but Finley is suspicious of his motives where Phoebe is concerned. She will do anything to protect her new friend, but what she discovers is even more monstrous than anything she could have...
The Stranger
Автор:
Фрай МаксЖанр:
Фэнтези;Серия:
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2013-09-27Язык книги:
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Max Frei's novels have been a literary sensation in Russia since their debut in 1996, and have swept the fantasy world over. Presented here in English for the first time, The Stranger will strike a chord with readers of all stripes. Part fantasy, part horror, part philosophy, part dark comedy, the writing is united by a sharp wit and a web of clues that will open up the imagination of every reader.
Max Frei was a twenty-something loser-a big sleeper (that is, during the day; at night he can't sleep a wink, a hardened smoker, and an uncomplicated glutton and loafer. But then he got lucky. He contacts a parallel world in his dreams, where magic is a daily practice. Once a social outcast, he's now known in his new world as the 'unequalled Sir Max.' He's a member of the Department of...
The Street That Wasn't There
Автор:
Simak CliffordЖанр:
Научная фантастика;Серия:
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2014-01-07Язык книги:
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The Strength of the Strong
Автор:
London JackЖанр:
Социальная фантастика;Серия:
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2013-11-26Язык книги:
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The Subliminal Man
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Ballard JamesЖанр:
Социальная фантастика;Серия:
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2013-12-01Язык книги:
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J. G. Ballard is a British writer who has been called a “poet of death.” But Ballard, especially in the early part of his career, also wrote excellent extrapolative science fiction on social themes, and this haunting story is one of his finest. Here Ballard speaks of the enslavement of the unconscious, of an economic system that forces people to consume against their will through the use of technology. Ballard makes an important assumption-the belief (at least implicitly) that people would not want to consume at high rates if they were not “forced” to do so. In a profound sense, “The Subliminal Man” is a basic critique of the underlying dichotomy that pervades the concept of advertising-that of needs versus wants. We all have basic needs like food, sex, clothing, and...
The Summoning
Автор:
Denning TroyЖанр:
Фэнтези;Серия:
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2013-09-25Язык книги:
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The Sun Also Rises
Автор:
Ernest HemingwayЖанр:
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2022-03-17Язык книги:
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66
Description
The Sun Also Rises was Ernest Hemingway’s first published novel, and the novel that introduced the term “Lost Generation” to describe the generation that came to adulthood during World War I.
The novel follows Jake Barnes, an American expat living in the Parisian café society of the roaring 20s. A wound sustained during the war has left him unable to have sex, and that drives a wedge between him and the woman he loves: Brett Ashley, a twice-divorcée who has embraced the sexual freedom and independence of the age. As they drift through their lives in postwar Paris, they find themselves on a trip with some friends to Spain to witness the Festival of San...
The Sun Smasher
Автор:
Hamilton EdmondЖанр:
Боевая фантастика;Серия:
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2013-11-16Язык книги:
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ONLY THIS UNCROWNED KING COULD STOP THE ULTIMATE WEAPON! 'Poetic, moody, polished, genuinely sensitive!' says sf writer and critic James Gunn about the work of the grandmaster of space opera, Edmond Hamilton, who penned this haunting, lost classic of a man who found the stars too big a fit. When Neil Banning tries to visit his hometown, he discovers he needs a spaceship to get there. 'It can't be true! It must be some kind of hoax!'' These are the words that go spinning through Neil Banning's mind when the Greenville authorities tell him that the house he had grown up in, the aunt and uncle who had raised him, never existed. Soon Banning finds himself in jail, charged with disturbing the peace, and maybe insanity. But when a stranger from outer space visits his cell at midnight and hails...
The Sundering
Автор:
Williams WalterЖанр:
Боевая фантастика;Серия:
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2013-09-15Язык книги:
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The suns of Scorpio
Автор:
Akers AlanЖанр:
Героическая фантастика;Серия:
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2013-11-16Язык книги:
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The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Автор:
Rudolph Erich RaspeДата добавления:
2022-03-19Язык книги:
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53
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Baron Hieronymus Karl Friedrich, Freiherr von Münchhausen, was an actual baron living in 18th-century Hanover famous for entertaining his guests with outrageously-embellished tales of his wartime exploits—so much so that his nickname in German is Lügenbaron, or “Baron of Lies.” When Rudolph Eric Raspe, a writer and scientist living in England, heard of the Baron’s tales, he wrote his own versions centered around a fictional Baron Munchausen.
While the real Baron wasn’t amused to have his name attached to a silly character famous for his bald-faced lies, Raspe’s tales became hugely popular, reprinted for hundreds of years and illustrated just as...
