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Айн Рэнд (1905–1982) – наша бывшая соотечественница, ставшая крупнейшей американской писательницей. Автор четырех романов-бестселлеров и многочисленных статей. Создатель философской концепции, в основе которой лежит принцип свободы воли, главенство рациональности и «„нравственность разумного эгоизма“». На протяжении десятилетий роман «„Источник“» держится в списке мировых бестселлеров, став классикой для миллионов читателей. Главные герои романа – архитектор Говард Рорк и журналистка Доминик...
| Автор | Айн Рэнд |
“Wuthering Heights,” the only novel written by Emily Bronte, is a classic of 19th century literature and is considered by many as one of the greatest romantic novels ever written. Set in Northern England, at the moorland farmhouse known as “Wuthering Heights,” it is the story of Catherine Earnshaw and the love that she shares with Heathcliff. Catherine and Heathcliff are brought together as children when her father brings the young foundling home, following a trip to Liverpool. Meanwhile...
| Автор | Эмили Бронте |
What if everything your family ever told you was a lie?Frankfurt, 1963 At the war’s end, Frankfurt was a smoldering ruin, severely damaged by the Allied bombings. But that was two decades ago. Now it is 1963, and the city’s streets, once cratered are smooth and paved. Shiny new stores replace scorched rubble. For twenty-four-year-old Eva Bruhn, World War II is a foggy childhood memory. Eager for her wealthy suitor, Jürgen Schoorman, to propose, Eva dreams of starting a new life away from her...
| Автор | Annette Hess |
The Most Scandalous Ravensdale by Melanie Milburne Hotshot lawyer Flynn Carlyon is determined to get feisty Kat Winwood to accept her rightful place as a Ravensdale heir. Charming and deeply cynical, Flynn relishes a challenge. He will use any means he can to get Kat to bend to his will, including spine-tingling seduction!The Sheikh’s Last Mistress by Rachael Thomas When Sheikh Zafir Al Asmari seduces Destiny Richards, he never anticipates she'll hold the title of his last mistress. But...
| Автор | Дженнифер Хейворд |
В романе «Вдали от безумной толпы» Гарди раскрывает великую и вечную драму отношений мужчины и женщины. В свое время яркая, непростая история любовного треугольника независимой и гордой Батшебы, унаследовавшей ферму в глуши Северной Англии, крестьянина Габриэля Оука и «пришельца из городской цивилизации» сержанта Троя стала настоящим литературным скандалом. Что интересно, роман Гарди по-прежнему считается скандальным и нарушающим «основы основ» уже нынешнего общества. Так как же удалось Гарди...
| Автор | Томас Харди |
Experience a wonderfully complex world of characters and cultures as you explore modern Damascus with a spirited teenage boy.Amid the turmoil of modern Da­mascus, one teenage boy finds his political voice in a message of re­bellion that echoes throughout Syria and as far away as Western Europe. Inspired by his dearest friend, old Uncle Salim, he begins a journal to record his thoughts and impressions of family, friends, life at school, and his growing feelings for his...
| Автор | Rafik Schami |
Everything Good Will Come introduces an important new voice in contemporary fiction. With insight and a lyrical wisdom, Nigerian-born Sefi Atta has written a powerful and eloquent story set in her African homeland. It is 1971, a year after the Biafran War, and Nigeria is under military rule–though the politics of the state matter less than those of her home to Enitan Taiwo, an eleven-year-old girl tired of waiting for school to start. Will her mother, who has become deeply religious since the...
| Автор | Sefi Atta |
The story of three different young women marks the literary debut of an amazing writer from LebanonAlways Coca-Cola is the story of three very different young women attending university in Beirut: Abeer, Jana, and Yasmine. The narrator, Abeer Ward (fragrant rose, in Arabic), daughter of a conservative family, admits wryly that her name is also the name of her father’s flower shop. Abeer’s bedroom window is filled by a view of a Coca-Cola sign featuring the image of her...
| Автор | Alexandra Chreiteh |
Final graphic novel with the iconic Adam West! It all comes to a close here. Mis-Adventuring through infinite imaginations and parallel universes is all very well, but the real world is calling for Adam West. Bills must be paid and pets fed, so Adam hangs up his magical amulet and returns to the now tame seeming life of a jobbing actor. Little does he know that things are about to take a turn for the apocalyptic, and the real world will be the setting for his most death deifying adventure yet!
| Автор | Richard Elms |
"An unforgettable novel, written with pride and anger, with rebellion and tears." — Herald Tribune Book Review"Passionate, compelling . . . an impressive accomplishment." — Saturday Review"Remarkable for its courage, its color, and its natural control." — The New YorkerSelina's mother wants to stay in Brooklyn and earn enough money to buy a brownstone row house, but her father dreams only of returning to his island home. Torn between a romantic nostalgia...
| Автор | Paule Marshall |
Juliet, a young woman frozen in time by ancient magics, is woken in a strange and modern world. As she struggles to reclaim who she once was, she must contend with over 500 years of cultural change. New friends, a new career, and a budding romance are all threatened by a secret organization, and it monsters, intent on destroying her. Is the only chance she has of saving herself is a love from her past who may be the biggest monster of them all? Can Juliet free herself from the burdens of her...
| Автор | Zach Hunchar |
A joy ride set on a crash course with the past. Audrey Cole has always loved to drive. Anytime, anywhere, any car: a questionable rustbucket, a family sedan, the SUV she was paid to drive around the oil fields. From the second she learned to drive, she’s always found a way to hit the road. Years ago, when she abandoned her oil field job, she found herself chauffeuring around the Lever Men, a B-list band relegated to playing empty dive bars in far-flung towns. That’s how...
| Автор | Andrew Wedderburn |
Самое личное произведение Симоны де Бовуар и, вероятно, это одна из причин того, почему при жизни она так и не решилась его опубликовать. В его основу легла полная страсти и трагизма история дружбы самой Симоны и Элизабет Лакуэн по прозвищу Заза, которая, безусловно, во многом определила характер и мировоззрение писательницы. Сильви было всего девять, когда она впервые увидела Андре – миниатюрную темноволосую девочку с блестящими глазами, впалыми щеками и чернильным пятном на подбородке. С...
| Автор | Симона де Бовуар |
Romāna galvenais varonis ir Žoržs Diruā, kurš prot dzīvē lieliski tikt uz priekšu, izmantojot sievietes. Reljefi un dzīvi autors zīmē visas šīs Mīluļa draudzenes – prostitūtu Rašeli, sabiedrības dāmu Marela kundzi, reportiera sievu Madlenu Forestjē, avīzes izdevēja sievu Valtera kundzi un šefa meitu Sizannu, kuras visas palīdz viņam “taisīt” karjeru. “Ko tā vecā pūce atkal grib no manis?” viņš domāja. Varu saderēt, ka viņai nav nekā ko sacīt. Viņa tikai atkārtos, ka dievina mani. Tomēr...
| Автор | Gijs de Mopasans |
Following her critically acclaimed narration of Little Women Part One, narrator Anne Undeland picks up the story from where it left off with Good Wives aka Little Women Part Two. Three years after the curtain closed on the first book, we're brought back into the March family fold, opening with Meg's wedding. No longer little girls dreaming of «castles in the air,» Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy are now young women, each with her own share of joy and heartache, and each with her own path to...
| Автор | Louisa May Alcott |
The award-winning narrator of Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass brings the beloved classic The Secret Garden to sparkling new life in this delightful, highly accessible production. When her parents die from cholera in India, orphan Mary Lennox is sent to live with her uncle in a cold, dark mansion in England. Then she discovers a secret garden that has been locked since her Aunt died ten years earlier… Frances Hodgson Burnett was a British born American playwright...
| Автор | Frances Hodgson Burnett |
The Life and Adventures of Santa Clause is a 1902 children's book, written by L. Frank Baum, author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The book is the origin story of Santa Claus and persuasively explains how he began to deliver toys to children, why he arrives via chimney at night, and how he came to travel by a sleigh pulled by reindeer. Santa Claus appears in several other L. Frank Baum Oz stories, including A Kidnapped Santa Clause, queen Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz, and The Road...
| Автор | Лаймен Баум |
In A Pair of Silk Stockings, Mrs. Sommers, a once wealthy woman who has fallen on hard times comes into possession of a small fortune of $15. Planning to spend the money on clothing for her children, she becomes sidetracked at a shop counter, entranced by the smoothness of a pair of silk stockings. She goes on to spend the money on the stockings as well as new boots and gloves for herself. In succumbing to «mechanical impulses that direct her action», Mrs. Sommers resembles Edna Pontellier, the...
| Автор | Kate Chopin |
Based on Melville's real-life experiences after having jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands, his first novel was extremely popular, provoking public skepticism until the events within were corroborated by a fellow castaway. Typee is properly considered a work of fiction, as the three weeks stay on which the author based his story is here extended to four months, and the book is supplemented with imaginative reconstruction and adaptation of material from other Pacific exploration books of...
| Автор | Herman Melville |
First published in 1853 amidst rumors that Thomas Jefferson fathered children with one of his slaves, Clotel is a fictional chronicle of one such child. After Jefferson's death, his mistress and her two daughters are auctioned. One daughter, Clotel, is purchased by a white man from Virginia who impregnates her. Despite the promise of marriage, Clotel is instead sold to another man and separated from her daughter. After escaping from the slave dealer, Clotel returnss to Virginia to reunite...
| Автор | William Wells Brown |
Considered to be the least characteristic of Melville's stories, somewhat resembling the work of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe, The Bell-Tower is a dark literary work that explores, though never fully reveals, its central mystery. An eccentric artist and architect dreams up plans for a magnificent bell tower. After receiving approval from the city, he happily begins construction. When city residents begin to notice strange occurrences associated with the project, their complaints...
| Автор | Herman Melville |
Siddhartha, a 1922 novel by Hermann Hesse, deals with the spiritual journey of self-discovery of a man named Siddhartha during the time of the Gautama Buddha. After learning what he can from Goutama, the young man decides to go off into the busy city, and leads a life of greed and lust. When he realizes that the lifestyle is not fulfilling, he reflects on his life and goes to a river to contemplate suicide. However, it is here that Siddhartha meets a man who will change his life and help lead...
| Автор | Герман Гессе |
Chosen for inclusion in William Evans Burton's Cyclopediae of Wit and Humor of 1857, with an illustration by Henry Louis Stephens, The Lightning-Rod Man was the one Melville tale to be available throughout his lifetime, thanks to reissues of this volume. More a parable than a character-driven story, The Lightning-rod man is a charlatan who tries to profit by selling fearful people lightning-rods during thunderstorms. The narrator has a difficult encounter with the Lightning-Rod man in this...
| Автор | Herman Melville |
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 him further insight into human behavior. Presented through Swift's satiric hall of distorting mirrors, mankind is cast as diminished, magnified, and bestial-the composite of which is...
| Автор | Jonathan Swift |