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‘My Secret Life’ is a dark work of Victorian erotica, and an explicit memoir of unspoken desires in the English class system – encapsulating the joy of hidden sins in an age of moral fervour.Would you undress with the curtains open?A champagne-drinking Victorian traveller, Walter is lascivious, obnoxious and possessed of an insatiable sexual appetite. Through a bawdy catalogue of indecent scenarios with maids, widows and wenches, he solicits an indulgent exploration of the flesh. His obsessions,...
| Автор | Walter |
Какими мы видим наших друзей и знакомых? Такими, какие они есть? Или мы выстраиваем образы, не имеющие к ним никакого отношения? А какими они видят нас? И есть ли хоть доля истины в этих бесконечных отражениях. Простая история о двух подругах, их любимых мужчинах, предательствах и изменах.
| Автор | Ю_ШУТОВА |
Вскоре после начала Крымской войны молодой поручик Лев Толстой по личной просьбе был переведен в Севастополь, где участвовал в защите осажденного города, проявляя редкое бесстрашие. Был награжден орденом св. Анны «За храбрость» и медалями «За защиту Севастополя». Армейский быт и эпизоды Крымской войны дали писателю обширный материал для творчества. Сначала это были художественные очерки, написанные на фронте, после войны они были обработаны и получили название «Севастопольских рассказов»....
| Автор | Лев Толстой |
Табун лошадей и жизнь одной лошади среди других в рассказе «Холстомер» – метафора современного общества. Лошади очеловечены, наделены людскими чувствами: жестокостью и жалостью, весельем и грустью, завистью и гордостью, беспечностью молодости и угрюмым сознанием своей дряхлой старости. Более всего очеловечен главный персонаж – Холстомер, печальная история жизни которого перед вами…
| Автор | Лев Толстой |
"Философические письма" написаны по-французски и обращены в проповеднической манере к некоей даме. В них сосредоточена система взглядов Чаадаева. За них «высочайшим повелением» он был объявлен сумасшедшим. Почему?.. "Апология сумасшедшего" – это и анализ странного положения, в котором оказался Чаадаев, «пораженный безумием по приговору верховного судии страны», и определение целей, которые он преследовал, напечатав «Философическое письмо»: из любви к Отечеству, к истине, а не ради «милости...
| Автор | П Чаадаев |
Главный труд русского мыслителя и писателя Александра Николаевича Радищева «Путешествие из Петербурга в Москву» – правдивое и резкое обличение системы государственной власти – был конфискован и 115 лет распространялся в списках…
| Автор | Александр Радищев |
A powerful, involving new novel, following on from the author’s much-praised debut novel ‘Mary George of Allnorthover’.‘An Irresponsible Age’, Lavinia Greenlaw's extraordinary new novel, is set in London in 1990, with Thatcher still in power but the country unwilling to 'abandon an idea just because it proved to be a bad one'. In these hesitant times we follow the life of Juliet Clough and her three siblings, all of them interdependent in a not-quite enviable way, clinging together after the...
| Автор | Lavinia Greenlaw |
A warm, humane, and sharply observed tale of small town life that is by equal turns hilarious and moving.Big Davey Jones is coming home. He's been gone almost 20 years now, but nobody's forgotten him. Davey's a local hero – his miracle birth as the seventh son of a seventh son brought fame to this little town and they've been grateful ever since. But Davey's home town has changed much in the intervening years. The traditional family business like Billy Finlay's Auto-Supplies and Calton's Bakery...
| Автор | Ian Sansom |
Bernard Samson returns to Berlin in the first novel in the classic spy trilogy, FAITH, HOPE and CHARITYBernard has known that he is not getting the full picture from London Central ever since discovering that his wife Fiona was a double agent.Werner Volkmann has been cast out by London Central as untrustworthy. Yet Werner still seems able to pick up information that Bernard should have been told…This reissue includes a foreword from the cover designer, Oscar-winning filmmaker Arnold Schwartzman,...
| Автор | Len Deighton |
A story from Sophie Hannah to stir the heart and awaken vital conversations about love.TV scientist Sonia tries to find a new school for her daughter. To escape the obsessional eyes of a class mate, Kitty does a taster day at The Morrow school. But the school is still shaking off rumours after a child fell out of a window. And a pupil accosts Sonia with a file of evidence saying she knows the truth. And it all started with the Wuthering Heights school musical.
| Автор | Sophie Hannah |
An unnamed spy – perhaps the same reluctant hero of The Ipcress File – is sent to Paris to deliver a file of nuclear secrets to a French doctor, but soon finds himself sucked into a twilight world of sex, blackmail and hidden motive, where friend and enemy become indistinguishable.A ‘clinic’ on Paris’s Avenue Foch designed to cater lavishly for multiple perversions, staffed by a group of sexually and intellectually high-powered girls and equipped with devices ranging from an Iron Maiden to...
| Автор | Len Deighton |
David Nobbs’ classic is now available as an ebook .Why should up-and-coming, thirty-two-year-old executive Robert Bellamy get himself the sack? What made him draw a caricature of the Exports Manager on the wall of the non-executive gents? Why is he his own worst enemy?Is it because he nearly ran away from boarding school on his third day or because, when he was fourteen, his mother developed a fatal friendship for a man who looked like Hitler? Does his sense of inadequacy stem from his once...
| Автор | David Nobbs |
The classic follow-up to A Bit of A Do, about the comedy of Yorkshire life, told through seven more do’s is now available in ebook format.Life is still a social minefield in this small Yorkshire town. From the opening of a vegetarian restaurant to the inauguration of the Outer Inner Relief Ring Road, join Ted and Liz as they struggle through another series of excruciatingly funny ‘do’s’ in this sequel to A BIT OF A DO.Can Ted find happiness with a waitress, now that he and Liz are no longer an...
| Автор | David Nobbs |
