A Love Episode
Автор:
Золя ЭмильЖанр:
Историческая проза;Серия:
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2013-11-28Язык книги:
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Skipped Parts
Автор:
Sandlin TimЖанр:
Современная проза;Серия:
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2013-11-17Язык книги:
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Newly arrived in the backwater town of GroVont, Wyoming, teenager Sam Callahan is initiated into adulthood when he embarks on a period of intense sexual experimentation with sassy, smart Maurey...
Fear and Loating in Las Vegas. A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
Автор:
Thompson HunterЖанр:
Контркультура;Серия:
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2013-09-09Язык книги:
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Heralded as the “best book on the dope decade” by the New York Times Book Review, Hunter S. Thompson’s documented drug orgy through Las Vegas would no doubt leave Nancy Reagan blushing and D.A.R.E. founders rethinking their motto. Under the pseudonym of Raoul Duke, Thompson travels with his Samoan attorney, Dr. Gonzo, in a souped-up convertible dubbed the “Great Red Shark.” In its trunk, they stow “two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half-full of cocaine and a whole galaxy of multicolored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers.... A quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls,” which they manage to consume during their short tour. On assignment from a...
A Boy in France
Автор:
Salinger Jerome DavidЖанр:
Классическая проза;Серия:
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2013-09-15Язык книги:
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A Christmas Carol
Автор:
Dickens CharlesЖанр:
Классическая проза;Серия:
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2013-10-24Язык книги:
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A Christmas Memory
Автор:
Capote TrumanЖанр:
Классическая проза;Серия:
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First published in 1956, this much sought-after autobiographical recollection of Truman Capote’s rural Alabama boyhood has become a modern-day classic. We are proud to be reprinting this warm and delicately illustrated edition of A Christmas Memory—“a tiny gem of a holiday story” (School Library Journal, starred review). Seven-year-old Buddy inaugurates the Christmas season by crying out to his cousin, Miss Sook Falk: “It’s fruitcake weather!” Thus begins an unforgettable portrait of an odd but enduring friendship between two innocent souls—one young and one old—and the memories they share of beloved holiday...
A common story
Автор:
Гончаров ИванЖанр:
Русская классика;Серия:
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2013-11-16Язык книги:
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A Cumberland Vendetta
Автор:
Fox JohnЖанр:
Классическая проза;Серия:
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2013-09-30Язык книги:
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A Damsel in Distress
Автор:
P. G. WodehouseДата добавления:
2022-03-17Язык книги:
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Description
An American composer, George Bevan, falls in love with a mysterious young lady who takes refuge in his taxicab one day. He tracks her down to an English country manor, where a case of mistaken identity leads to all manner of comedy and excitement.
The novel was first serialized in The Saturday Evening Post in 1919. It was later adapted into a silent film, a stage play, and a musical starring Fred...
A Desperate Character and Other Stories
Автор:
Тургенев ИванЖанр:
Русская классика;Серия:
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2013-11-17Язык книги:
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A Fable
Автор:
Twain MarkЖанр:
Классическая проза;Серия:
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2013-09-15Язык книги:
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Введите сюда краткую...
A Faraway Island
Автор:
Thor AnnikaЖанр:
Современная проза;Серия:
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2013-09-15Язык книги:
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Mildred L. Batchelder Award
Torn from their homeland, two Jewish sisters find refuge in Sweden.
It's the summer of 1939. Two Jewish sisters from Vienna -12-year-old Stephie Steiner and 8-year-old Nellie-are sent to Sweden to escape the Nazis. They expect to stay there six months, until their parents can flee to Amsterdam; then all four will go to America. But as the world war intensifies, the girls remain, each with her own host family, on a rugged island off the western coast of Sweden.
Nellie quickly settles in to her new surroundings. She’s happy with her foster family and soon favors the Swedish language over her native German. Not so for Stephie, who finds it hard to adapt; she feels stranded at the end of the world, with a foster mother who’s as cold and unforgiving as the...
A farewell to arms
Автор:
Hemingway ErnestЖанр:
Классическая проза;Серия:
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2013-11-28Язык книги:
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The greatest American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms cemented Ernest Hemingway’s reputation as one of the most important novelists of the twentieth century. Drawn largely from Hemingway’s own experiences, it is the story of a volunteer ambulance driver wounded on the Italian front, the beautiful British nurse with whom he falls in love, and their journey to find some small sanctuary in a world gone mad with war. By turns beautiful and tragic, tender and harshly realistic, A Farewell to Arms is one of the supreme literary achievements of our...
A Gentle Spirit
Автор:
Достоевский ФедорЖанр:
Русская классика;Серия:
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2013-11-16Язык книги:
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A Gentleman of Leisure
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P. G. WodehouseДата добавления:
2022-03-17Язык книги:
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67
Description
After inheriting a fortune, and just back to New York from a cruise on which he spotted an intriguing young woman, Jimmy Pitt is drifting. So after seeing a blockbuster play about a gentleman thief, he’s ready to bet his friends at the Strollers’ Club that he could pull off a burglary himself. That night he makes friends with a real-life “Bowery Boy” thief, who helps him break into a corrupt police captain’s house, and everyone gets way more than they bargained for. Later, the action moves to the Earl of Dreever’s castle in England. There, the misunderstandings, threats, cheating, and confusion only multiply, requiring all of Jimmy’s wits and daring to clear up.
In this short novel, ...
A Good Year
Автор:
Mayle PeterЖанр:
Современная проза;Серия:
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2013-10-01Язык книги:
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From Publishers Weekly
Mayle's breezy, uncomplicated fifth novel (Chasing Cezanne, etc.) and ninth book follows 30-something Max Skinner from a sabotaged financial career in London to his adoption of the Provencal lifestyle on an inherited vineyard in France. Max spent holidays at his Uncle Henry's vineyard as a child, so when he inherits the place, the prospect of returning is tempting; a generous 'bridging loan' from ex-brother-in-law Charlie seals the deal. The estate, Le Griffon, is in a dire state of disrepair and the wine cellar is filled with bottles of a dreadful-tasting swill, but it's nothing that vineyard caretaker Claude Roussel and prim housekeeper Madame Passepartout can't resolve. Max settles into his new life easily thanks to the attentions...
A Home at the End of the World
Автор:
Cunningham MichaelЖанр:
Современная проза;Серия:
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2013-12-01Язык книги:
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From Michael Cunningham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours, comes this widely praised novel of two boyhood friends: Jonathan, lonely, introspective, and unsure of himself; and Bobby, hip, dark, and inarticulate. In New York after college, Bobby moves in with Jonathan and his roommate, Clare, a veteran of the city's erotic wars. Bobby and Clare fall in love, scuttling the plans of Jonathan, who is gay, to father Clare's child. Then, when Clare and Bobby have a baby, the three move to a small house upstate to raise “their” child together and, with an odd friend, Alice, create a new kind of family. A Home at the End of the World masterfully depicts the charged, fragile relationships of urban life today. The film adaptation of A Home at the End of the World premiered in...
A Lear of the Steppes and Other Stories
Автор:
Тургенев ИванЖанр:
Русская классика;Серия:
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2013-11-17Язык книги:
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A Little Cloud
Автор:
Joyce JamesЖанр:
Классическая проза;Серия:
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2013-12-05Язык книги:
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A Midsummer Masquerade
Автор:
Henry O.Жанр:
Классическая проза;Серия:
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2013-09-11Язык книги:
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