«12 историй о любви» – это уникальная книга, на страницах которой читатель найдет шедевры мировой литературной классики, каждый из которых посвящен неувядающей теме любви. Каждый из представленных в книге авторов пишет о любви по-разному. Одни делают акцент на разрушительных страстях и муках неразделенного влечения, приводящих к трагедиям, другие – на романтическом восприятии любви, настоящей взаимной нежности и чистоте переживаний. Ну а третьи (и их, вероятно, большинство) – умеют совместить в своих повествованиях как светлые, так и теневые стороны любви, показать глубину этого самого необъятного и многогранного чувства

Роман представляет собой дневниковые записи и очерки немого путешественника Аякса, волею случая оказавшегося в Приморском Крае, в крае с автомобильным кодом региона – 125 RUS. Исходный сюжетный конфликт отцов и детей получает в тексте совершенно неожиданное разрешение, будучи рассмотрен сквозь призму мистических и детективных происшествий, в которые попадает главный герой в ходе повествования. В центре событий – бегство от отца-тирана, надежда укрыться от него в самых дальних уголках континента, на островах, в тайге, в море. Это своеобразная "Одиссея" Аякса по Приморью разрушает все границы времени и пространства, грань между миром живых и мертвых, между миром автора и рассказчика. Владивосток показан как в своей исторической ретроспективе, этот великий Город-Крепость на берегу Тихого Океана, форпост на Дальнем Востоке, так и с теневой стороны: "Город-Щупальца", владения Кракена, Дагона и прочих морских чудовищ. Следить за развитием событий, устанавливать их причинно-следственную связь, и, в итоге, находить ключ к разгадке, помогают вводные тексты, такие, как, например, чужие диктофонные записи или переведенные с других языков жизнеописания

Dazzling and ambitious, this hip, multi-voiced fusion of prose, playwriting, graphic art, and philosophy spins an epic tale of America’s struggle for civil rights as it played out in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Divided into ten novellas, one for each year, I Hotel begins in 1968, when Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated, students took to the streets, the Vietnam War raged, and cities burned. As Karen Yamashita’s motley cast of students, laborers, artists, revolutionaries, and provocateurs make their way through the history of the day, they become caught in a riptide of politics and passion, clashing ideologies and personal turmoil. And by the time the survivors unite to save the International Hotel—epicenter of the Yellow Power Movement—their stories have come to define the very heart of the American experience

Культовый роман-антиутопия Джорджа Оруэлла, стоящий в одном ряду с такими шедеврами мировой литературы, как «Мы», «О дивный новый мир» и «451° по Фаренгейту». Книга-пророчество, книга-предупреждение, которая никогда не утратит своей актуальности. Многое из того, о чем писал Оруэлл в середине ХХ века, покажется знакомым и в наши дни. Роман предлагается вниманию читателей в новом переводе

ВОЙНА – ЭТО МИР. СВОБОДА – ЭТО РАБСТВО. НЕЗНАНИЕ – СИЛА. Мрачное предсказание из далекого 1949 года. Стало ли оно пророческим? БОЛЬШОЙ БРАТ СЛЕДИТ ЗА ТОБОЙ

«Иностранный язык: учимся у классиков» – это только оригинальные тексты лучших произведений мировой литературы. Эти книги станут эффективным и увлекательным пособием для изучающих иностранный язык на хорошем «продолжающем» и «продвинутом» уровне. Они помогут эффективно расширить словарный запас, подскажут, где и как правильно употреблять устойчивые выражения и грамматические конструкции, просто подарят радость от чтения. В конце книги дана краткая информация о культуроведческих, страноведческих, исторических и географических реалиях описываемого периода, которая поможет лучше ориентироваться в тексте произведения. Серия «Иностранный язык: учимся у классиков» адресована широкому кругу читателей, хорошо владеющих английским языком и стремящихся к его совершенствованию

    Рассказ юной писательницы Стейс Крамер повествует о жизни обычного подростка Глории МакФинн из Флориды, которая столкнулась с типичными проблемами для ее сверстников. Она-тихая и мягкотелая девочка. Безответная любовь, развод родителей, предательство. Все это навалилось на бедную Глорию в одно время. Единственным выходом она видит лишь смерть. И ей ничего не остается, как отсчитывать дни до ее самоубийства.  

The mega-bestseller with more than 1.5 million readers that is soon to be a major television series "The book moves briskly from one crisp scene to the next, and ultimately casts a spell as captivating as Rules of Civility, a book that inhales you into its seductively Gatsby-esque universe." —Town & Country From the New York Times bestselling author of Rules of Civility—a transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel With his breakout debut novel, Rules of Civility, Amor Towles established himself as a master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction, bringing late 1930s Manhattan to life with splendid atmosphere and a flawless command of style. Readers and critics were enchanted; as NPR commented, "Towles writes with grace and verve about the mores and manners of a society on the cusp of radical change." In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel's doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him entry into a much larger world of emotional discovery. Brimming with humor, a glittering cast of characters, and one beautifully rendered scene after another, this singular novel casts a spell as it relates the count's endeavor to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be a man of purpose

Evelyn is a Creole woman who comes of age in New Orleans at the height of World War II. Her family inhabits the upper echelon of Black society and when she falls for Renard, she is forced to choose between her life of privilege and the man she loves. In 1982, Evelyn’s daughter, Jackie, is a frazzled single mother grappling with her absent husband’s drug addiction. Just as she comes to terms with his abandoning the family, he returns, ready to resume their old life. Jackie must decide if the promise of her husband is worth the near certainty he’ll leave again. Jackie’s son, T.C., loves the creative process of growing marijuana more than the weed itself. He finds something hypnotic about training the seedlings, testing the levels, trimming the leaves, drying the buds. He was a square before Hurricane Katrina, but the New Orleans he knew didn’t survive the storm. But fresh out of a four-month stint for drug charges, T.C. decides to start over—until an old friend convinces him to stake his new beginning on one last deal. For Evelyn, Jim Crow is an ongoing reality, and in its wake new threats spring up to haunt her descendants.A Kind of Freedomis an urgent novel that explores the legacy of racial disparity in the South through a poignant and redemptive family history

To Christina Olson, the entire world was her family’s remote farm in the small coastal town of Cushing, Maine. Born in the home her family had lived in for generations, and increasingly incapacitated by illness, Christina seemed destined for a small life. Instead, for more than twenty years, she was host and inspiration for the artist Andrew Wyeth, and became the subject of one of the best known American paintings of the twentieth century. As she did in her beloved smash bestseller Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline interweaves fact and fiction in a powerful novel that illuminates a little-known part of America’s history. Bringing into focus the flesh-and-blood woman behind the portrait, she vividly imagines the life of a woman with a complicated relationship to her family and her past, and a special bond with one of our greatest modern artists. Told in evocative and lucid prose, A Piece of the World is a story about the burdens and blessings of family history, and how artist and muse can come together to forge a new and timeless legacy

First on time his financial caper — NOT A PENNY MORE, NOT A PENNY LESS. Then a political thriller — SHALL WE TELL THE PRESIDENT? Then, in the autumn of 1979, KANE AND ABEL, the saga of two men from totally different backgrounds that topped the bestseller charts all round the world. Now Jeffrey Archer has taken up a new challenge with this first collection of short stories. The locations move from New York and London to Mexico and Nigeria, while the subjects are equally varied. In “One Night Stand” two friends fall under the spell of a New York beauty and decide between themselves which one will try to seduce her — with unexpected results. In “The Chinese Statue” a high-ranking British diplomat visits the workplace of a leading Chinese sculptor and finds that an off-hand remark is taken with total seriousness, and that he becomes the possessor of a priceless work of art. Different again in tone and subject, “Broken Routine” traces the journey home of an insurance claims advisor, one Septimus Horatio Cornwallace, and his encounter with a punk rocker on the 5.27 to Sevenoaks. In the final Story, “Old Love”, Jeffrey Archer gives us probably his finest piece of writing to date, with an account of two young undergraduates at Oxford in the thirties, whose biller rivalry turns to intense love, with an ending that will haunt you. Each of these tales shows Jeffrey Archer’s talents as a short story teller, and, as befits the form, Archer uses the stories to build up a small cast of characters and then shock the reader with an unexpected final twist. Few people will guess the endings to any of the tales, and everyone will have his own favourite; while one may safely prophecy that with this archer each story unerringly hits its mark

Чтение оригинальных произведений — простой и действенный способ погрузиться в языковую среду и совершенствоваться в иностранном языке. Серия «Бестселлер на все времена» — это возможность улучшить свой английский, читая лучшие произведения англоязычных авторов, любимые миллионами читателей. Для лучшего понимания текста в книгу включены краткий словарь и комментарии, поясняющие языковые и лингвострановедческие вопросы, исторические и культурные реалии описываемой эпохи. Роман Чарльза Диккенса посвящен эпохе Великой французской революции. В этой истории есть и тайные интриги, и невинные жертвы, и жестокие казни, и чудесные спасения. Но и в самое страшное время его герои сохраняют способность сострадать и сочувствовать, помогать ближним и жертвовать собой ради любимых. Книга предназначена для тех, кто изучает английский язык на продолжающем или продвинутом уровне и стремится к его совершенствованию

In the first century AD, Publius Ovidius Naso, the most urbane and irreverant poet of imperial Rome, was banished to a remote village on the edge of the Black Sea. From these sparse facts, one of our most distinguished novelists has fashioned an audacious and supremely moving work of fiction. Marooned on the edge of the known world, exiled from his native tongue, Ovid depends on the kindness of barbarians who impate their dead and converse with the spirit world. But then he becomes the guardian of a still more savage creature, a feral child who has grown up among deer. What ensues is a luminous encounter between civilization and nature, as enacted by a poet who once catalogued the treacheries of love and a boy who slowly learns how to give it

The Redford rail smash was a bad business. On that cold November morning, glittering with sunshine and a thin layer of snow on the fields, the London-Manchester express hit a wagon that had strayed on to the main line from a siding. Engine and two first coaches were derailed; scattered cinders set fire to the wreckage; and fourteen persons in the first coach lost their lives. Some, unfortunately, were not killed outright. A curious thing was that even when all the names of persons who could possibly have been travelling on that particular train on that particular morning, had been collected and investigated, there were still two charred bodies completely unaccounted for, and both of women

Эта книга – сборник произведений английского писателя Джорджа Оруэлла. Самый нашумевший его рассказ «Скотный двор», который по понятным причинам был запрещен к изданию во времена СССР, а также подборка самых ярких эссе открывают читателю интереснейшие моменты из жизни автора. Книга представляет собой неадаптированный текст для чтения. Предназначена для учащихся старших классов языковых школ, вузов, курсов иностранных языков и самостоятельного чтения. Тексты снабжены заданиями на понимание, примечаниями и словарем

Here is the slim, stunning debut novel from the acclaimed author of Geek Love. Attic follows a young woman named Kay who has joined a cult-like organization that sells magazine subscriptions in small towns. When Kay tries to cash a customer's bad check, she lands in jail, and Dunn's visceral prose gives us a vivid, stream-of-consciousness depiction of the space in which she's held. As Kay comes to know the other inmates, alliances and rivalries are formed, memories are recounted, and lives are changed. Based on Katherine Dunn's own formative coming-of-age experiences, Attic was critically lauded when it was first published in 1970. Now, it stands as an extraordinary, indelible work from one of our most celebrated writers

Elisabeth is a woman whose curiosity and passion far exceed the borders of her quiet middle-class life. She befriends a neighbor, organizes a small dinner party. And then, quite suddenly, finds herself embarked with him on an adventure that is one part vaudeville and one part high tragedy. A quiet novel of manners turns into a police procedural thriller. Her motivations for risking everything she has are never transparent. In a world where matters of life and death are nearly always transported to a clinical setting, whether it be a hospital or a courtroom, here each character must confront them unassisted. A truly original and masterful novel from one of the world's most inventive and daring artists

Beginning on August 9, 1945, in Nagasaki, and ending in a prison cell in the US in 2002, as a man is waiting to be sent to Guantanamo Bay, Burnt Shadows is an epic narrative of love and betrayal. Hiroko Tanaka is twenty-one and in love with the man she is to marry, Konrad Weiss. As she steps onto her veranda, wrapped in a kimono with three black cranes swooping across the back, her world is suddenly and irrevocably altered. In the numbing aftermath of the atomic bomb that obliterates everything she has known, all that remains are the bird-shaped burns on her back, an indelible reminder of the world she has lost. In search of new beginnings, two years later, Hiroko travels to Delhi. It is there that her life will become intertwined with that of Konrad's half sister, Elizabeth, her husband, James Burton, and their employee Sajjad Ashraf, from whom she starts to learn Urdu. With the partition of India, and the creation of Pakistan, Hiroko will find herself displaced once again, in a world where old wars are replaced by new conflicts. But the shadows of history-personal and political-are cast over the interrelated worlds of the Burtons, the Ashrafs, and the Tanakas as they are transported from Pakistan to New York and, in the novel's astonishing climax, to Afghanistan in the immediate wake of 9/11. The ties that have bound these families together over decades and generations are tested to the extreme, with unforeseeable consequences

A mesmerising novel about suffering and survival. It finds authority and powerful meaning in telling stories about the diaspora of the twentieth century: we hear of Moshe stalking the streets of Shanghai and Warsaw, of Laizer imprisoned in the Soviet city of Lvov, and of Zalman marooned in Vilna and Kobe

“It almost seemed as if winter had already come.”　 Those were the final words of Last Summer. In this, Evan Hunters new novel, winter has indeed arrived — and Sandy, David, and Peter are together again. Sandy, David, and Peter five years later. The searing summer of Rhoda is far behind them. More stylish and sophisticated than they were as adolescents, each complete in the presence of the other, they form a brilliant trio: handsome, intelligent, witty, humorous, impregnable — and deadly. Into their dazzling orbit come Foderman and Mary Margaret. What happens to them all, in the days before Christmas, is as chilling as the snow- covered terrain surrounding them, as terror-ridden as the trails they ski.　 COME WINTER is an unforgettable exploration into the nature of evil

Cometh the Hour opens with the reading of a suicide note, which has devastating consequences for Harry and Emma Clifton, Giles Barrington and Lady Virginia. Giles must decide if he should withdraw from politics and try to rescue Karin, the woman he loves, from behind the Iron Curtain. But is Karin truly in love with him, or is she a spy? Lady Virginia is facing bankruptcy, and can see no way out of her financial problems, until she is introduced to the hapless Cyrus T. Grant III from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who’s in England to see his horse run at Royal Ascot. Sebastian Clifton is now the Chief Executive of Farthings Bank and a workaholic, whose personal life is thrown into disarray when he falls for Priya, a beautiful Indian girl. But her parents have already chosen the man she is going to marry. Meanwhile, Sebastian’s rivals Adrian Sloane and Desmond Mellor are still plotting to bring him and his chairman Hakim Bishara down, so they can take over Farthings. Harry Clifton remains determined to get Anatoly Babakov released from a gulag in Siberia, following the international success of his acclaimed book, Uncle Joe. But then something unexpected happens that none of them could have anticipated

The corridors and committee rooms of Whitehall are the setting for the ninth in the Strangers and Brothers series. They are also home to the manipulation of political power. Roger Quaife wages his ban-the-bomb campaign from his seat in the Cabinet and his office at the Ministry. The stakes are high as he employs his persuasiveness

Short story about a man who comes to work on a ranch and years later is kicked out when the ranch owner goes into a nursing home… The old fella makes me go into the house in my stocking feet. The fat old lady's in a chair. The old man…

Кэти – писательница. Кэти выходит замуж. Это лето 2017 года и мир рушится. Оливия Лэнг превращает свой первый роман в потрясающий, смешной и грубый рассказ о любви во время апокалипсиса. Словно «Прощай, Берлин» XXI века, «Crudo» описывает неспокойное лето 2017 года в реальном времени с точки зрения боящейся обязательств Кэти Акер, а может, и не Кэти Акер. В крайне дорогом тосканском отеле и парализованной Брекситом Великобритании, пытаясь привыкнуть к браку, Кэти проводит первое лето своего четвертого десятка. Но меняется не только она. Политический, социальный и природный ландшафты – всё находится в опасности. Растет фашизм, правда умерла, а планета накалена. Стоит ли вообще учиться любить, когда конец света так близок? И как творить, не говоря уже о том, как жить, если один злобный твит может всему положить конец

When Jerusha Abbott, an eighteen-year-old girl living in an orphan asylum, was told that a mysterious millionaire had agreed to pay for her education, it was like a dream come true. For the first time in her life, she had someone she could pretend was "family." But everything was not perfect, for he chose to remain anonymous and asked that she only write him concerning her progress in school. Who was this mysterious gentleman and would Jerusha ever meet him?

Bei diesem Werk handelt es sich um eine urheberrechtsfreie Ausgabe. Der Kauf dieser Kindle-Edition beinhaltet die kostenlose, drahtlose Lieferung auf Ihren Kindle oder Ihre Kindle-Apps. Erstmals im Jahre 1902 erschienen. This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

Der Tunnel ist eine Kurzgeschichte von Friedrich Dürrenmatt, die 1952 erschien. Die Geschichte ist u. a. in dem Band Der Tunnel von 1964 veröffentlicht worden. Sie gehört zum Hauptwerk des Autors und zu den Klassikern unter den surrealen Kurzgeschichten

Herbjørg Wassmo (g. 1942) yra viena iš skaitomiausių autorių Norvegijoje. 1986 m. rašytoja apdovanota Šiaurės šalių tarybos premija. Jos kūriniai išversti į daugelį kalbų. Garsiausia iš jų - "Dinos knyga" - romanas apie išdavystę ir kaltę, gaivališką ir nepasotinamai juslingą moters prigimtį. Baisus sukrėtimas, patirtas ankstyvojoje vaikystėje, persekioja Diną visą gyvenimą, paveikia jos sąmonę. Rodos, šaltakraujiškai ji žaidžia aplinkinių žmonių gyvenimais. Tuo tarpu pačios likimą valdo griežti ir negailestingi Senojo Testamento dėsniai.  H. Wassmo romanas – nepaprasto originalumo ir įtaigumo saga apie demonišką moterį, kurios nežabotos aistros ir noras viską valdyti neša pražūtį visiems ir jai pačiai. Veiksmas vyksta XIX a. Norvegijoje. "Dinos knyga" tęsinys - "Likimo sūnūs" ir "Karnos kraitis", kur pasakojama Dinos sūnaus Benjamino, savo akimis išvydusio baisų motinos kerštą, gyvenimo istorija. Versta iš: Herbjørg Wassmo  DINAS BOK Iš norvegų k. vertė Eglė Išganaitytė

Garsus kinų dramaturgas, kritikas, prozininkas ir dailininkas Gao Singdzianis (Gao Xingjian, g.1940) – pirmasis ir kol kas vienintelis kinas gavęs Nobelio premiją už literatūrą (2000). 1983 m. rašytojui buvo diagnozuotas vėlyvos stadijos plaučių vėžys. Tačiau po šešių savaičių atlikus pakartotinus tyrimus ši diagnozė buvo atšaukta. „Mirties nuosprendžio vykdymo“ atidėjimas, represyvi kultūrinė bei politinė aplinka ir nuolat juntama grėsmė atsidurti priverstinio darbo stovykloje paskatino G. Singdzianį pabėgti iš Pekino ir pradėti neįtikėtiną 15 000 kilometrų odisėją per nuošalius kalnus ir senovę menančius Sičuanio miškus pietvakarių Kinijoje. Ši epinė, atradimų kupina kelionė, papasakota talentingo menininko, virto pasaulinę šlovę pelniusiu romanu „Dvasios kalnas“. „Dvasios kalnas“ – drąsus, lyriškas, magiškas ir labai savitas kūrinys. G. Singdzianis su neįprastu atvirumu, šmaikštumu ir susižavėjimu tyrinėja sudėtingus žmonių santykius, mėgina įminti „Aš ir Tu“ „Aš ir Kiti“ ryšių mįslę, duodamas visišką laisvę vaizduotei ir išplėsdamas individualumo suvokimo ribas, kelia klausimą: ar išsaugojęs dvasinę nepriklausomybę, bet netekęs galimybės bendrauti su panašiais į save individas nebus pasmerktas Himalajų Ječio egzistencijai? Švedijos Nobelio premijos komitetas „Dvasios kalną“ pavadino „vienu iš ypatingųjų literatūros kūrinių, kurių nėra su kuo palyginti, nebent su jais pačiais.“ Iš šiuolaikinės kinų kalbos vertė Agnė Biliūnaitė

Bromfield takes a close look at the Pentlands - a fictional rich family in New England - exposing the hypocrisy and ignorance behind their luxurious facade. Bromfield's eloquence when describing both his characters and their surroundings is breathtaking, and his accuracy in describing the characters' complicated emotions makes it apparent that he knows human nature very well. A fascinating study on the struggle of one woman to escape the stifling influence of her husband and in-laws

Estación… muestra ya en todo su esplendor las más brillantes facetas del talento de Rosa Chacel: la capacidad de reflexión -muy orteguiana también- sobre conceptos o actitudes (véase por ejemplo el hermoso párrafo que empieza: `Es cobarde temer las sorpresas`), y la emoción y belleza en las descripciones de objetos y paisajes cotidianos: un patio, el silencio, los abrigos…

In the first of the Strangers and Brothers series Lewis Eliot tells the story of George Passant, a Midland solicitor's managing clerk and idealist who tries to bring freedom to a group of people in the years 1925 to 1933

Two friends return home from the Korean War to find their world—and themselves—irrevocably altered in this novel hailed by Kurt Vonnegut as “gruesomely accurate and enchanting” and “wildly sexy”. Willard “Sonny” Burns and Tom “Gunner” Casselman, Korean War vets and former classmates, reunite on the train ride home to Indianapolis. Despite their shared history, the two young men could not be more different: Sonny had been an introverted, bookish student, whereas Gunner had been the consummate Casanova and athlete—and a popular source of macho pride throughout the high school. Reunited by the pains of war, they go in search of finding love, rebuilding their lives, and shedding the repressive expectations of their families. As Sonny and Gunner seek their true passions, the stage is set for a wounded, gripping account of disillusionment and self-discovery as seen through the lens of the conservative Midwest in the summer of 1954. Rendered in honest prose, national bestseller Going All the Way expertly and astutely captures the joys and struggles of working-class Middle America, and the risks of challenging the status quo. Author Dan Wakefield crafts this enduring coming-of-age tale with fluidity, grace, and deep humanity

Клая, главная героиня книги, — девушка образованная, эрудированная, с отличным чувством стиля и с большим чувством юмора. Знает толк в интересных людях, больших деньгах, хороших вещах, культовых местах и событиях. С ней вы проникнете в тайный мир русских «дорогих» клиентов. Клая одинаково легко и непринужденно рассказывает, как проходят самые громкие тусовки на Куршевеле и в Монте-Карло, как протекают «тяжелые» будни олигархов и о том, почему меняется курс доллара, не забывает о любви и простых человеческих радостях. Легкая ирония, с которой Клая повествует о перипетиях своих подруг, только оттеняет реальный юмор жизненных ситуаций

Mr. Hilton's classic story of an English schoolmaster. Mr. Chipping, the classics master at Brookfield School since 1870, takes readers on a beguiling journey through the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Sometimes Chips, as he is affectionately known, is an old man who dreams by the fire; then he's a difficult young taskmaster schooling his students, or a middle-aged man encountering the lovely Katherine, whose "new woman" opinions work far-reaching changes in him. As succeeding generations of boys march onward through Chips' mind, Hilton's narrative remains masterful. He seamlessly interweaves a poignant love story with the jokes and eccentricities of English public school life, while also chronicling a new, uncertain world full of conflict and upheaval that extends far beyond the turrets of Brookfield

“I felt something alive moving on my left leg … when bending my Eyes downwards as much as I could. I perceived it to be a human Creature not six inches high.” Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people, whose height makes their quarrels over fashion and fame seem ridiculous. His subsequent encounters—with the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the philosophical Houyhnhnms and the brutish Yahoos—give Gulliver new, bitter insights into human behaviour. Swift’s savage satire view mankind in a distorted hall of mirrors as a diminished, magnified and finally bestial species, presenting us with an uncompromising reflection of ourselves. This text, based on the first edition of 1726, reproduces all its original illustrations and includes an introduction by Robert Demaria, Jr, which discusses the ways Gulliver’s Travels has been interpreted since its first publication

Чтение оригинальных произведений — простой и действенный способ погрузиться в языковую среду и совершенствоваться в иностранном языке. Серия «Бестселлер на все времена» — это возможность улучшить свой английский, читая лучшие произведения англоязычных авторов, любимые миллионами читателей. Для лучшего понимания текста в книгу включены краткий словарь и комментарии, поясняющие языковые и лингвострановедческие вопросы, исторические и культурные реалии описываемой эпохи. «Сердца трех» — это настоящий приключенческий роман. В нем есть все: погони и перестрелки, опасные приключения и коварные злодеи, древние сокровища и давние преступления. И конечно, любовь, которая обязательно победит все. Книга предназначена для тех, кто изучает английский язык на продолжающем или продвинутом уровне и стремится к его совершенствованию

When his foxy professor/girlfriend kicks him out of her apartment, perennial college student Gene Barrett sets off on a road trip in search of a place he can call home. He ventures from Boston to Maine to Iowa City, ultimately making his way to the “last resort” of California’s Venice Beach. Experimenting with LSD, hash, and heroin, and encountering rock stars, draft dodgers, and natural food store proprietors living off the land, Gene zigzags through a cross-section of 1960s American counterculture. More than a freewheeling jaunt through the sixties, though,Home Freesheds light on the universal desire for love and belonging. Amidst the haze of drugs and free-loving hippies, Gene is forced to look inward and face his deeply human flaws—because eventually, his life will depend on it. With national bestselling author Dan Wakefield’s trademark fusion of gritty, journalistic prose and richly evocative language, Gene’s story is an engaging, somber meditation on self-awareness, responsibility, and growing up

Homecomings is the sixth in the Strangers and Brothers series and sequel to Time of Hope. This complete story in its own right follows Lewis Eliot's life through World War II. After his first wife's death his work at the Ministry assumes a larger role. It is not until his second marriage that Eliot is able to commit himself emotionally

Con il loro salotto artistico e letterario - che negli anni tra le due guerre era frequentato, tra gli altri, da Picasso, Picabia, Matisse, Braque, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Sherwood Anderson - Alice B. Toklas e Gertrude Stein hanno fatto un pezzo di storia. Ma quando, dopo la morte di Gertrude, un editore chiese ad Alice di scrivere le sue memorie, lei si schermì dicendo che al massimo sarebbe stata in grado di scrivere un libro di cucina. Lui promise di accontentarsi, ma lei fece molto di più. Uscito nel 1954 in America con il titolo "The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook", "I biscotti di Baudelaire" è una ricchissima raccolta di ricette e di ricordi non solo culinari, di aneddoti divertenti, di convinte opinioni su questioni gastronomiche ma anche artistiche, di viaggi tra Francia e America, di pranzi e cene a casa di artisti bohémien ma anche di ricchi e famosi. Un libro che si legge non solo per consultare le ricette e catturare i sapori amati da artisti e scrittori, ma soprattutto per rivivere l'atmosfera di un tempo e di un ambiente davvero speciali. E così ecco i piatti, le idee, gli spunti di ricette che Alice condivideva con gli amici: il branzino di Picasso, per esempio, decorato con uova sode, tartufi ed erbe tritate, le uova alla Francis Picabia, le mele glassate di Cecil Beaton, la crema di Josephine Baker, la minestra di alloro di Dora Maar, il caffé di James Joyce e quegli incredibili biscotti di Baudelaire

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden is the story of a sixteen-year-old who retreats from reality into the bondage of a lushly imagined but threatening kingdom, and her slow and painful journey back to sanity. Chronicles the three-year battle of a mentally ill, but perceptive, teenage girl against a world of her own creation, emphasizing her relationship with the doctor who gave her the ammunition of self-understanding with which to help herself

2011 m. dviems Lietuvos leidykloms nutiko įdomus dalykas – gal mėnesio skirtumu pasirodė dvi skirtingos «Į švyturį» versijos, viena Vagos (vertė Laimantas Jonušys), kita Versus Aureus (vertė Milda Keršienė-Dyke). Knygoje beveik nėra siužeto. Ją sudaro trys dalys. Pirmoje kalbama apie plaukimą į švyturį, o trečioje į jį plaukiama. Antroje dūlėja namas ir numiršta du asmenys. Dar viena dama pirmoje ir trečioje dalyje tapo paveikslą. Ir beveik viskas. Siužeto nėra, bet užtat turinio tiek, kad išeitų kelioms knygoms (grynai Woolf stilius). Į vieną sakinį gali sutilpti visas staiga žmogų apėmęs koks nors gyvenimo suvokimas ir panašiai. Daug apmąstymų, supratimų, pastebėjimų, analizių, įžvalgų, kontempliacijų, reminiscencijų ir taip toliau. Visa tai gali būti labai nuobodu. Jei tuo metu esi įpusėjęs kokį nors šaunų serialą, gali visai nesinorėti skaityti. Be to, sudėtinga (nors neįtikėtinai graži) kalba. Reikia susikaupti, kitaip vis pamesi mintį. Nepavyks skaityti, jei kaimynas darys remontą arba kambariokas už sienos šokinės atlikdamas Insanity treniruotę. Kitaip sakant, snobui čia aukso grynuolis, bet paprastam, nepretenzingam knygų vartotojui romanas gali pasirodyti tik laiko gaišimas. Tiesa, jo yra vos per 200 psl., tad net ir labai vengiant Į švyturį neįmanoma skaityti ilgiau nei savaitę. To the Lighthouse, romanas; iš anglų kalbos vertė Milda Keršienė-Dyke

Уже полвека каждое поколение торжественно именуется потерянным. Новая книга Алмата Малатова, смешными и грустными записями которого ежедневно зачитываются тысячи пользователей русского Интернета, посвящена нынешним тридцатилетним. Первому поколению, которое можно смело назвать поколением найденным

Born in 1896, Liam O'Flaherty is regarded as one of the most gifted writers Ireland has ever produced. His name is as much associated with recklessness and bravado as with literary achievement: he was handsome and daring, and by the time he was thirty his reputation was enviable. O'Flaherty's buccaneering spirit made him decide to join the Irish Guards: after being invalided out of the British Army in 1917 he travelled to various parts of the world taking all kinds of menial jobs, and it was not until he had been exiled from Ireland in 1922 for a wild escapade in 'The Troubles' that he began to write. He has the Irish gift for humour and vividness; for the basis of his stories he chooses simple situations which he evokes with insight and real charm

Чтение оригинальных произведений – простой и действенный способ погрузиться в языковую среду и совершенствоваться в иностранном языке. Серия «Бестселлер на все времена» – это возможность улучшить свой английский, читая лучшие произведения англоязычных авторов, любимые миллионами читателей. Для лучшего понимания текста в книгу включены краткий словарь и комментарии, поясняющие языковые и лингвострановедческие вопросы, исторические и культурные реалии описываемой эпохи. «Джейн Эйр» – это история о силе духа и твердости воли, о становлении личности и поиске своей дороги. Героине предстоит долгий и трудный путь к счастью, на котором будут и роковые тайны, и неожиданные повороты сюжета, и негаданные радости, и трудные решения. Великолепно написанная история не оставит читателей равнодушными и поможет им совершенствоваться в английском языке. Книга предназначена для тех, кто изучает английский язык на продолжающем или продвинутом уровне и стремится к его совершенствованию

Роберт Олен Батлер (род. в 1945 г.) — американский писатель, автор семи романов. Сборник рассказов «Приятный запах со странной горы» в 1993 году принес Батлеру Пулицеровскую премию и премию Американской академии искусства и литературы