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<P>H. G. Wells wasn't the only nineteenth-century writer to dream of a time machine. The Spanish playwright Enrique Gaspar published El anacron&#243;pete—"He who flies against time"—eight years before Wells's influential work appeared. The novel begins at the 1878 Paris Exposition, where Dr. Don Sindulfo unveils his new invention—which looks like a giant sailing vessel. Soon the doctor embarks on a voyage back in time, accompanied by a motley crew of French...
| Автор | Enrique Gaspar |
Folktale, memoir, fiction, literary hoax, The Yellow Briar is all of these. Ostensibly the charming remembrance of an Irish orphan who escapes the Great Famine of 1840s Ireland and comes to the New World to seek a fresh start on the streets of Toronto and in the pioneer hinterland of Canada West (Ontario), the book was actually a fictional humbug perpetrated by John Mitchell, a Toronto lawyer, who first published the tale in 1933. Patrick Slater, the protagonist of the «memoir,» is said to...
| Автор | Patrick Slater |
One of Canada’s most painful and breathtaking pictures of a soldier’s life during the First World War. Peregrine Acland’s novel All Else Is Folly is an irreplaceable depiction of the Canadian experience in the First World War. More than just a devastating portrayal of the terrors and hardships of trench warfare, the novel is also a profound meditation on the nature of man, one that draws on both the Nietzschean notion of man as warrior and Havelock Ellis’s idea of man as lover. Subtitled «a...
| Автор | Peregrine Acland |
Winner of France’s premier literary prize the Prix Goncourt, Patrick Modiano portrays a man in pursuit of the identity he lost in the murky days of the Paris Occupation, the black hole of French memory. For ten years Guy Roland has lived without a past. His current life and name were given to him by his recently retired boss, Hutte, who welcomed him, a onetime client, into his detective agency. Guy makes full use of Hutte’s files—directories, yearbooks, and papers of all kinds going back half a...
| Автор | Патрик Модиано |
When you hire C.Card, you have scraped the bottom of the private eye barrel. And when Card is hired to steal a body from the morgue, he needs to stop dreaming, find bullets for his gun and get there before someone else does. Not since Trout Fishing in America has Brautigan so successfully combined his wild sense of humour with his famous poetic imagination. In this parody of the hard-boiled crime novel, the adventures of seedy, not-too-bright C.Card are a delight to both the mind and the...
| Автор | Richard Brautigan |
In his compelling prequel to The Successor, Kadare draws us into a land deprived of choice, a country under a reign of terror. The spellbinding Agamemnon's Daughter was written in Albania in the 1980s and smuggled into France a few pages at a time. It reveals a world where fear is an instrument of power, but the individual survives despite the odds. From the winner of the first Man Booker International Prize comes a searing story of love denied, then shattered under the chilling wheels of...
| Автор | Ismail Kadare |
Introduced by Christopher Harvie. Sir Edward Leithen, lawyer, politician, sportsman and occasional philosopher, was probably the most autobiographical of John Buchan’s heroes. This collection of four novels, written over a span of thirty years, shows Leithen/Buchan in all his moods – from the urban menace of The Power House in which ‘the thin line between civilisation and barbarism’ runs through London’s West End; to the Highland exhilaration of John Macnab; the twists and turns of The...
| Автор | Buchan John |
Introduced by John Burns. Caught up in the strife between smugglers on the Solway Coast and the gypsies of Galloway, young Patrick Heron is flung into a society of social outcasts, outlaws and downright murderers. But this world of moonlit confusion and bloody horror offers a kind of freedom, too, as Patrick travels far beyond the conventions of his day to enter a world made anew by fear and desolation and courage and energy. Crockett’s raciest narrative is full of the wild Galloway...
| Автор | Samuel R. Crockett |
Self Condemned , originally published in 1954, tells the story of Professor Renarding and his wife, Essie, as they find themselves in Momaco, a fictionalized version of Toronto, following Ren resignation as an academic in London, England. Reduced to a position at the second-rate University of Momaco, Rennd Essie suffer through a bleak and oppressive isolation in a dreary and alien city. The novel, a devastating, disturbing satire of life in wartime Canada, explores the difficulty individuals...
| Автор | Wyndham Lewis |
Late in her life, acclaimed novelist Elizabeth Delamere makes a request of her therapist, Doctor Newman: she asks him to oversee the publication of her last book after she dies. It is a memoir in which she reveals that she is Evelyn Dick, the notorious «torso murderer» acquitted on appeal of dismembering her husband, and convicted of killing her infant son. In 1958 she was paroled, and disappeared into the mists of history. In Blue Moon , James King draws on the historical case of Evelyn Dick,...
| Автор | James King |
o Includes the authoritative texts for eleven pieces written between 1868 and 1902 o Publishes, for the first time, the complete text of «Villagers of 1840-3,» Mark Twain's astounding feat of memory o Features a biographical directory and notes that reflect extensive new research on Mark Twain's early life in Missouri Throughout his career, Mark Twain frequently turned for inspiration to memories of his youth in the Mississippi River town of Hannibal, Missouri. What has come to be...
| Автор | Mark Twain |
When Ariadne helped Theseus escape the MInotaur's labyrinth with the aid of a ball of thread, she led the way for the bewildered victims of a twenty-first century minotaur. Trapped in an endless maze of Internet chatrooms, a group of mystified strangers find themselves assigned obscure aliases and commanded by the Helmet of Horror, the Minotaur himself. As they fumble their way back to reality through a mesmerising world of abundant information but little knowledge, we are forced to wonder...
| Автор | Victor Pelevin |
Haunted by a sense that the living and the dead are separated by no more than a narrow and disputed borderland, the tales that Margaret Oliphant liked to call her 'stories of the seen and the unseen' are now recognised as among the most remarkable explorations of the supernatural to appear in Victorian times. A prolific writer with many novels to her name, Margaret Oliphant could produce her few supernatural tales 'only when they came to me'. And they came with the...
| Автор | Маргарет Олифант |
Tsotsi is an angry young gang leader in the South African township of Sophiatown. A man without a past, he exists only to kill and steal. But one night, in a moonlit grove of bluegum trees, a woman he attempts to rape forces a shoebox into his arms. The box contains a baby, and his life is inexorably changed. He begins to remember his childhood, to rediscover himself and his capacity for love. Turned into an Oscar-winning movie in 2006, Tsotsi's raw power and rare humanity show how...
| Автор | Athol Fugard |
Introduced by Margery Palmer McCulloch. In writing Just Duffy, a novel set amidst the urban decay of Lanarkshire, Robin Jenkins has created a modern-day Confession of a Justified Sinner. Convinced of his own rectitude, appalled at the moral squalor around him, Duffy declares war on society. Ridiculous, yet horrifying at the same time, his campaign builds to a terrifying conclusion. Beset with ambiguity, Duffy is a ferocious indictment of Calvinistic moral certainty, of a struggle for good...
| Автор | Robin Jenkins |
Five thousand years on – and the Minotaur, or M as he is known to his colleagues, is working as a line chef at Grub's Rib in Carolina, keeping to himself, keeping his horns down, trying in vain to put his past behind him. He leads an ordered lifestyle in a shabby trailer park where he tinkers with cars, writes and re-writes to-do lists and observes the haphazard goings on around him. Outwardly controlled, M tries to hide his emotional turmoil as he is transported deeper into the human world...
| Автор | Steven Sherrill |
In For KeepsHe can’t resist her…Rock star Dev Stone spent an electrifying night with gorgeous Kiki Becker weeks ago—and now she’s his new assistant. Their chemistry is so irresistible that Dev wants more than a fling. But his dark secret could crush Kiki… Should he just walk away?Under His TouchMake him a match…or make him mine?Find Alec Carson a wife. He's Manhattan's hottest billionaire bachelor. But Megan Williams knows the real Alec Carson and keeps her distance. Only, their fiery...
| Автор | Taryn Belle |
Four sexy stories from Mills & Boon Desire!The Christmas Baby Bonus by Yvonne LindsayGetting snowed in with his sexy assistant, Faye Darby, is difficult enough. But when an abandoned baby is found in the stables Piers Luckman has to step up, taking responsibility for the little one. But this die-hard bachelor soon finds himself yearning for a more permanent family this Christmas…Little Secrets: His Pregnant Secretary by Joanne RockAfter a heated argument with his secretary turns sexually...
| Автор | Elizabeth Bevarly |
Who did you find under the mistletoe this festive period?A Countess For Christmas by Christy McKellenThe Earl’s secret bride…Emma Carmichael is shocked when she sees who she’s waitressing for at a lavish party—Jack Westwood, the new Earl of Redminster. Her new life comes crashing down when Jack announces to the world that they’re married!Jack has never forgotten his first love, despite the tragedy that tore them apart. When the paparazzi cameras intrude he proposes they live as man and wife...
| Автор | Christy McKellen |
An ultimate collection of sexy stories for all romance readers!Including the Wedding Party and Holiday Escapes CollectionsThe Wedding Party Collection: Don’t Tell the BrideWhat the Bride Didn’t Know by Kelly HunterBlack Widow Bride by Tessa RadleyHis Valentine Bride by Cindy KirkMarrying the PrinceThe Prince She Never Knew by Kate HewittHis Bride for the Taking by Sandra HyattA Queen for the Taking? by Kate HewittAlways the BachelorBest Man’s Conquest by Michelle CelmerOne Night With the Best...
| Автор | Линн Грэхем |
Four phenomenal Modern Romances – international affairs, glamour and seduction guaranteed!Engaged to Her Ravensdale Enemy by Melanie Milburne Jasmine Connolly decides to make her ex-fiancé jealous by enlisting the help of her enemy, Jake Ravensdale! But behind their fake relationship tensions build as the line between love and hate increasingly blurs, teetering on the brink of explosion!A Diamond Deal with the Greek by Maya Blake Arabella Daniels would rather skydive naked than agree to Draco...
| Автор | Кейт Хьюит |
Шум океана никогда не менялся — но что произойдет, если это случится? И как должна звучать природа?
| Автор | Саша Ангел |
| Жанр | Современная русская и зарубежная проза, Контркультура, Морские приключения |
| Год | 2022 |
Сборник эзотерических стихов, в которых осмысляется нечто Божественное и мистическое, приуроченный к выходу реп альбома.
| Автор | Паша Киста |
| Жанр | Современная русская и зарубежная проза, Поэзия, Контркультура |
| Год | 2022 |
Я есть подобие того, что никогда не должно было существовать. Я есть ускользающее ощущение. Я есть тень страха. Я живу рядом с вами. Такими же, как я.
| Автор | Алексей Мекка |
| Жанр | Контркультура |
| Год | 2018 |