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Joyce is about as challenging as they come in the literary world. However, since it seemed like Ulysses or Finnegans Wake would be a bit much to start with, you will find yourself reading A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man as an introduction to his work. <p> And although you will find this book about as easy to get into as Princeton, it was about as rewarding as well. Portrait is certainly anything but a light read. Joyces meandering narrative and serpentine prose can be confusing...
| Автор | James Joyce |
Joyce is about as challenging as they come in the literary world. However, since it seemed like Ulysses or Finnegans Wake would be a bit much to start with, you will find yourself reading A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man as an introduction to his work. <p> And although you will find this book about as easy to get into as Princeton, it was about as rewarding as well. Portrait is certainly anything but a light read. Joyces meandering narrative and serpentine prose can be confusing...
| Автор | James Joyce |
'A Rogue's Life' was published in a magazine some twenty years before it was made into a book. It is a very clever story, and the interest is well sustained throughout. There is just about enough of it, inasmuch as a short tale like this is more interesting than some of the author's longer works, wherein the complicated plots and lengthened mysteries are too apt to weary the reader before his curiosity is satisfied. We cannot help feeling quite an affection for the «Rogue,»...
| Автор | Уилки Коллинз |
'A Rogue's Life' was published in a magazine some twenty years before it was made into a book. It is a very clever story, and the interest is well sustained throughout. There is just about enough of it, inasmuch as a short tale like this is more interesting than some of the author's longer works, wherein the complicated plots and lengthened mysteries are too apt to weary the reader before his curiosity is satisfied. We cannot help feeling quite an affection for the «Rogue,»...
| Автор | Уилки Коллинз |
The novel follows four characters' rural lives in the fictional community of Hayslope—a rural, pastoral, and close-knit community in 1799. The novel revolves around a love «rectangle» among the beautiful but self-absorbed Hetty Sorrel; Captain Arthur Donnithorne, the young squire who seduces her; Adam Bede, her unacknowledged suitor; and Dinah Morris, Hetty's cousin, a fervent, virtuous and beautiful Methodist lay preacher. Adam, a local carpenter much admired for his integrity and...
| Автор | George Eliot |
Новейший роман Зазы Бурчуладзе написан по следам событий августа 2008 года. «Маленькая победоносная война», выгодная политикам обеих стран, обернулась глубокой травмой для простых людей. Нет, ни в реальности, ни на страницах книги не дымятся развалины и не валяются груды трупов. Эта странная война остается как бы за кадром, но незримо присутствует в мыслях как навязчивый невроз. Расслабленная жизнь южного города, dolce far niente золотой тбилисской молодежи, бокал холодного белого вина, забытый...
| Автор | Заза Бурчуладзе |
Bafana Kuzwayo is a young man with a weight on his shoulders. After flunking his law studies at the University of Cape Town, he returns home to Soweto, where he must decide how to break the news to his family. But before he can confess, he is greeted as a hero by family and friends. His uncle calls him “Advo,” short for Advocate, and his mother wastes no time recruiting him to solve their legal problems. In a community that thrives on imagined realities, Bafana decides that it’s easiest to...
| Автор | Niq Mhlongo |
Bafana Kuzwayo is a young man with a weight on his shoulders. After flunking his law studies at the University of Cape Town, he returns home to Soweto, where he must decide how to break the news to his family. But before he can confess, he is greeted as a hero by family and friends. His uncle calls him “Advo,” short for Advocate, and his mother wastes no time recruiting him to solve their legal problems. In a community that thrives on imagined realities, Bafana decides that it’s easiest to...
| Автор | Niq Mhlongo |
Два враждующих санитарных инспектора Дэнни Скиннер и Брайан Кибби работают в эдинбургской ресторанной инспекции. Скиннер – пьяница и футбольный фанат, ненавидит и терроризирует Кибби, а в свободное время читает Рембо, Верлена и Шопенгауэра и смотрит фильмы Феллини. Кибби, тихий и стеснительный, собирает модельки паровозиков, фанатеет от «Стар-Трека», всего боится и в итоге попадает в больницу с болезнью печени – притом что никогда ни капли не пил. А Скиннер решает излечиться от алкоголизма, едет...
| Автор | Ирвин Уэлш |
"Anthem" by Ayn Rand. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a...
| Автор | Ayn Rand |
"Anthem" by Ayn Rand. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a...
| Автор | Айн Рэнд |
"Anthem" by Ayn Rand. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a...
| Автор | Ayn Rand |
"Armadale" is a mystery novel. The novel has a convoluted plot about two distant cousins both named Allan Armadale. The father of one had murdered the father of the other (the two fathers are also named Allan Armadale). The story starts with a deathbed confession by the murderer in the form of a letter to be given to his baby son when he grows up. Wilkie Collins (1824 – 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories. His best-known works are The Woman in White, No...
| Автор | Уилки Коллинз |
In her own time, the works of Kate Chopin (1851–1904) shocked readers and critics with their challenge to contemporary mores. Her stories and novels reveal unsparing truths about the interior lives of women, some of whom experienced profound disillusionment with the rigid yoke of marriage, combined with an unfulfilled longing for self-realization. Celebrated today as a precursor of twentieth-century feminism, Chopin's fiction is considered to be among the masterpieces of American...
| Автор | Kate Chopin |
Город Нью-Вавилон на первый взгляд мало чем отличается от современных мегаполисов. Но привычные для нас вещи соседствуют здесь с проявлениями дикой фантастической магии и сошедших с ума божественных сил. На улицах разворачивается война между Орденом Единого Бога, стремящимся к возврату цивилизации к ценностям Средневековья, и Конторой – организацией, цель которой состоит в объединении современной науки с древними религиозными традициями. Содержит нецензурную брань.
| Автор | Игорь Журавель |
Вторая часть трилогии, в которую вошли также «Мягкая машина» и «Нова экспресс». Агент Ли продолжает борьбу со зловещей организацией «Банда Нова», разрабатывающей методы тайного контроля над человеческим сознанием.
Придуманная Берроузом техника cut-up, «нарезка фрагментов», с помощью которой он писал свои романы, оказала огромное влияние на становление жанра киберпанка и вдохновила десятки популярных исполнителей, от Дэвида Боуи до Игги Попа и Брайана Ино.
| Автор | Уильям Берроуз |
От Ксении Фроловой ушел муж, и все пошло наперекосяк. Пытаясь устроить свою личную жизнь, она постоянно попадает в трагикомичные ситуации, и лишь через несколько лет встречает свою любовь. Но увы, эти отношения сильно отличаются от привычной классической истории. Стоило ли так долго искать?
| Автор | Лидия Раевская |
Это – самая потрясающая и самая скандальная книга 1990-х.
Книга, в которой устами Чака Паланика заговорило не просто «поколение икс», но – «поколение икс» уже озлобленное, уже растерявшее свои последние иллюзии.
Вы смотрели фильм «Бойцовский клуб»?
Тогда – читайте книгу, по которой он был снят!
| Автор | Чак Паланик |
Это – самая потрясающая и самая скандальная книга 1990-х.
Книга, в которой устами Чака Паланика заговорило не просто «Поколение Икс», но – «Поколение Икс» уже озлобленное, уже растерявшее свои последние иллюзии.
Вы смотрели фильм «Бойцовский клуб»?
Тогда – читайте книгу, по которой он был снят!
| Автор | Чак Паланик |
Однозначно, после прочтения этой контркультурной книжки у всякого читателя останутся двоякие впечатления. С одной стороны, это грязь. С другой стороны, это правда. И чтобы совсем не было грустно от повседневности, автор добавляет в рассказы сатиру и чёрный юмор. В итоге остаётся лишь сожалеть, что рассказы не очень большие.
| Автор | Виктор Мельников |
""Captains Courageous"" by Rudyard Kipling. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible...
| Автор | Редьярд Киплинг |
First published in England in 1791 and the United States in 1794, Susanna Rowson’s “Charlotte Temple” was America’s first best-selling novel. The story is an example of the seduction novel genre, which was wildly popular in early American literature and focuses on the dangers to young ladies of being seduced by unscrupulous men. In Rowson’s novel, the main character is Charlotte Temple, a lovely and naïve young British girl who falls for the overwhelming charm of a handsome soldier, Lieutenant...
| Автор | Susanna Rowson |
First published in England in 1791 and the United States in 1794, Susanna Rowson’s “Charlotte Temple” was America’s first best-selling novel. The story is an example of the seduction novel genre, which was wildly popular in early American literature and focuses on the dangers to young ladies of being seduced by unscrupulous men. In Rowson’s novel, the main character is Charlotte Temple, a lovely and naïve young British girl who falls for the overwhelming charm of a handsome soldier, Lieutenant...
| Автор | Susanna Rowson |
"Colomba" by Prosper Mérimée (translated by Lady Mary Loyd). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly...
| Автор | Prosper Merimee |