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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 |
It is 1938 and Sigmund Freud, suffering from the debilitating effects of cancer, has been permitted by the Nazis to leave Vienna. He seeks refuge in England, taking up residence in the house in Hampstead in which he will die only fifteen months later. But his last months are made vivid by the arrival of a stranger, who comes and goes according to Freud's state of health. Who is the mysterious visitor and why has he come to tell the famed proponent of the Oedipus complex his strange story? ...
| Автор | Salley Vickers |
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 |
This selection of J M Barrie's work covers three different genres and all the most telling themes found in his writing: Scotland, childhood, fantasy and sentimentality, sexual anxiety, theatrical invention, social comedy and proto-feminism. The disturbing prose fable of The Little White Bird contains the first and most original exploration of the Peter Pan theme, properly set in the wider context of a middle-aged man's engagement with creation, fantasy and loneliness-a theme which...
| Автор | J.M. Barrie |
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 |
Teach Me‘Ask me for what you want…’Socialite Erika Vanderberg has finally gained access to Berlin's most exclusive sex club. She’s here for one person: Dorian Alexande, who wants her complete, delicious surrender. But can a stubborn socialite submit to the one man she's always wanted…and risk unleashing her true self?Getting DirtyGetting deliciously dirty…Ash Livingston works for the good guys. His job was simple: get the dirt on Coco Lauren, a princess of a socialite who talks—and...
| Автор | Rachael Stewart |
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 |
Пассажиры прибывали и не торопились сесть в вагон, у каждого была своя причина… Они стояли и разглядывали других пассажиров, скопившихся на перроне станции. У каждого из нас есть одна минута сорок пять секунд…
| Автор | Эрос Гед |
| Жанр | Контркультура |
| Год | 2021 |
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 |
Собрание избранных стихотворений таких жанров, как любовная, философская и гражданская лирика.
| Автор | Константин Антипин |
| Жанр | Современная русская и зарубежная проза, Поэзия, Контркультура |
| Год | 2018 |
Одна история, которая произошла со мной давным давно, но до сих пор иногда заставляет задуматься.
| Автор | Виктор Абезин |
| Жанр | Социально-психологическая фантастика, Контркультура |
| Год | 2023 |
Данный текст был написан в бессознательном и медитативном состоянии. Надеюсь на понятливость запутанной темы, обитающей в моей голове.
| Автор | Арсений Соломонов |
| Жанр | Современная русская и зарубежная проза, Эзотерика, эзотерическая литература, Контркультура |
| Год | 2018 |
Небольшой рассказ о дне маргинальной части нашего общества. Главный герой сталкивается с экзистенциальной проблемой.
| Автор | Вектор Ротский |
| Жанр | Контркультура |
| Год | 2020 |
Город, отражающий пороки его жителей. Краткая, но живописная картина лицемерия и лжи в одном диалоге.
| Автор | Артур Мусаев |
| Жанр | Современная русская и зарубежная проза, Контркультура |
| Год | 2023 |