Контркультура
19049 кн.
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 |
"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 |
Honore de Balzac “Cousin Bette” is generally considered to be one of the writer’s most famous novels, his last great work before his death. It is a classic novel of revenge, passion, and vices. Along with her friend Valérie, the title character Bette strategizes for the overwhelming destruction of men in general and her cousin-in-law Baron Hector Hulot specifically. Hulot sacrifices his family and fortune on a series of extramarital seductions, and when he becomes interested in Valérie, she and...
| Автор | Оноре Бальзак |
Honore de Balzac “Cousin Bette” is generally considered to be one of the writer’s most famous novels, his last great work before his death. It is a classic novel of revenge, passion, and vices. Along with her friend Valérie, the title character Bette strategizes for the overwhelming destruction of men in general and her cousin-in-law Baron Hector Hulot specifically. Hulot sacrifices his family and fortune on a series of extramarital seductions, and when he becomes interested in Valérie, she and...
| Автор | Оноре Бальзак |
Despite a decreasing popularity throughout his career, Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) has become one of the most notable and respected English novelists of the Victorian Era. His penetrating novels on political, social and gender issues of his day have placed him among such nineteenth century literary icons as Jane Austen, Charles Dickens and George Eliot. Trollope penned 47 novels in his career, in addition to various short stories, travel books and biographies. «Cousin Henry» was first published...
| Автор | Anthony Trollope |
Despite a decreasing popularity throughout his career, Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) has become one of the most notable and respected English novelists of the Victorian Era. His penetrating novels on political, social and gender issues of his day have placed him among such nineteenth century literary icons as Jane Austen, Charles Dickens and George Eliot. Trollope penned 47 novels in his career, in addition to various short stories, travel books and biographies. «Cousin Henry» was first published...
| Автор | Anthony Trollope |
The most common phrase in print is «cover before striking,» a warning to those about to innocently strike a match to be careful not to burn their fingers.<br> <br> Uppal's characters in <i>Cover Before Striking</i> are all people pushing their lives to new levels of intensity, danger, or passion as they test their limits and those of the world. The pyromaniac at the heart of the title story – winner of the Gloria Vanderbilt Short Fiction Prize – desperately uses...
| Автор | Priscila Uppal |
The most common phrase in print is «cover before striking,» a warning to those about to innocently strike a match to be careful not to burn their fingers.<br> <br> Uppal's characters in <i>Cover Before Striking</i> are all people pushing their lives to new levels of intensity, danger, or passion as they test their limits and those of the world. The pyromaniac at the heart of the title story – winner of the Gloria Vanderbilt Short Fiction Prize – desperately uses...
| Автор | Priscila Uppal |