Захватывающий рассказ о победителе популярных реалити-шоу, завоевавшем право выступить в шоу ужасов и «за хорошую копейку» поставить на кон самый дешёвый товар молодости – собственную жизнь. Текст читает заслуженный артист Украины Олег Лепенец.
История любви одного из величайших писателей ХХ века к темнокожей девушке, опередившей своё время на несколько десятилетий, разворачивается перед нами в ритме спонтанной прозы на фоне гремящих тусовок бит-поколения в Сан-Франциско пятидесятых.
The English writer George Orwell (1903—1950) gained worldwide fame for his works written in the last years of his life. The political allegory «Animal Farm» depicts the rebirth of revolutionary principles and programs, the gradual transition from the ideas of general equality and the construction of utopia to dictatorship and totalitarianism.
Brüder Grimm – Jacob (1785—1863) und Wilhelm (1786—1859) – deutsche Linguisten und weltberühmte Geschichtenerzähler. Seit ihrer Studienzeit sammeln sie Volksgeschichten, Legenden und verarbeiten sie für ihre Zeitgenossen. Die Märchen der Brüder Grimm sind so realistisch und höchst moralisch, dass selbst Erwachsene sie mit großer Freude lesen.
Seven short stories of Mr. Chipping and his days as a schoolmaster. The book, however, begins with an account of Chipping’s own experience with the English public school system.
"Last Tales" is a collection of twelve of the last tales that Karen Blixen wrote under the pen name Isak Dinesen, before her death in 1962. They include seven tales from Albondocani, a projected novel that was never completed; “The Caryatids,” an unfinished Gothic tale of a couple bedeviled by an old letter and a gypsy’s spell; and three tales of winter, including “Converse at Night in Copenhagen,” a drunken, allnight conversation between a boyking, a prostitute, and a poor young poet.
Предлагаем любителям немецкой литературы роман знаменитого писателя Германа Гессе, лауреата Нобелевской премии по литературе за 1946 год.
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The English writer George Orwell (1903—1950) gained worldwide fame for his works written in the last years of his life. The anti-utopia novel 1984 tells the story of Winston Smith and his degradation under the influence of the totalitarian state in which he lives.
Marra's body burned with desire. It was Wild time, the first week of spring, when Lynx from all over North America gathered in the Sierra Nevada foothills to mate. The time when every Lynx female went into heat. But Wild is bittersweet for Marra. She's past the age when most Lynx find their mate. She only comes to Wild for sex and always leaves as she came: alone.Yet this year is different. A new male Lynx has come to Wild, a foreigner who will claim her in ways she only imagined. . .
"The practice of genuine virtue leads to a life of odious boredom. " So feels widowed young countess Anna von Esslin, who is denied her normal erotic pursuits while staying with relatives in Paris. Without her usual opportunities for pleasure, the countess resorts to visiting a local brothel but not as a client. To get the satisfaction she craves, the countess must masquerade as one of the girls. . . .