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Hearts and Crosses. О. Генри Для облегчения понимания оригинального текста даны комментарии с объяснением сложных языковых конструкций и вопросы к тексту. |
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Ravishing Of Lol Stein. Marguerite Duras 2005. Lol Stein is a beautiful young woman, securely married, settled in a comfortable life, and a voyeur. |
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Other Stories and Other Stories. Ali Smith In examining the distances and connections between ourselves and others, and lightly and expertly inching us closer to the bone, storytelling itself has never seemed so necessary, so moving or so joyous. Individually lucid and luminous, these |
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On the Road. Jack Kerouac Now recognized as a modern classic, its American Dream is nearer that of Walt Whitman than Scott Fitzgerald, and it goes racing towards the sunset with unforgettable exuberance, poignancy and autobiographical passion. On the Road swings to the |
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Separate Beds. Elizabeth Buchan But all is not well. On the surface, they have everything - a lovely house, rewarding careers and three healthy grown-up children. As Annie and Toms family rally together for the first time in years, their home is filled with people, conversation, |
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Between Shades Of Gray. Ruta Sepetys They are being deported to Siberia. One night fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother and young brother are hauled from their home by Soviet guards, thrown into cattle cars and sent away. Lina doesn?t know if she?ll ever see her father or her friends |
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Bonjour Tristesse Ne. Francoise Sagan And none are more beautiful than Cecile, a precocious seventeen-year-old, and her father Raymond, a vivacious libertine. The French Riviera: home to the Beautiful People. But then, one long, hot summer Raymond decides to marry, and Cecile and her |
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View From Bridge. Arthur Miller For Eddie, it?s a privilege to take in his wife?s cousins, straight off the boat from Italy. Eddie Carbone is a longshoreman and a straightforward man, with a strong sense of decency and of honour. Something which threatens the happiness of their |
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Eva Luna. Isabel Allende. Isabel Allende I was born in the back room of a shadowy house, and grew up amidst ancient furniture, books in Latin, and human mummies, but none of those things made me melancholy, because I came into the world with a breath of the jungle in my memory". "My name |
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Lonesome Traveller. Jack Kerouac Standing on the engine of a train as it rushes past fields of prickly cactus; witnessing his first bullfight in Mexico while high on opium; catching up with the beat nightlife in New York; burying himself in the snow-capped mountains of north-west |
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Empty Family. Colm Toibin In his new book Colm Toibin delineates with a tender and unique sensibility lives of unspoken or unconscious longing, of individuals, often willingly, cast adrift from their history. From the Irish woman returning to Dublin and discovering a city |
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Dharma Bums. Jack Kerouac Ray Smith and his friend Japhy, along with Morley the yodeller, head off into the High Sierras to seek the lesson of solitude and experience the Zen way of life. Following the explosive energy of On the Road comes "The Dharma Bums", in which |
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Clockwork Orange. Anthony Burgess Alex is jailed for his vicious crimes and the State undertakes to reform him - but how and at what cost? 2000. In this nightmare vision of a not-too-distant future, fifteen-year-old Alex and his three friends rob, rape, torture and murder - for |
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Brooklyn. Colm Toibin So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York, Eilis knows she must go, leaving behind her family and her home for the first time. t is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities |
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Animal Farm. George Orwell "It is the history of a revolution that went wrong - and of the excellent excuses that were forthcoming at every step for the perversion of the original doctrine", wrote Orwell for the first edition of Animal Farm in 1945. Penguin Student Editions |
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Ballad of Peckham Rye. Muriel Spark He succeeds, but not quite in the way his employer intended. A man of devilish charm and enterprising spirit, Dougal Douglas is employed to revitalize the ailing firm of Meadows, Meade & Grindley. Из серии: Penguin Modern Classics 2006. |
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Year of Wonders. Novel of the Plague. Geraldine Brooks 2002. |
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Bleeding Kansas. Sara Paretsky Set in the Kaw River Valley where Paretsky grew up, BLEEDING KANSAS is the story of the Schapens and the Grelliers, two farm families whose histories have been entwined since the 1850s, when their ancestors settled the valley as antislavery |
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Wedding Babylon (B). Imogen Edwards-jones Following a week in the life of a busy wedding planner, and based entirely on true but anonymous stories, "Wedding Babylon" takes you to the heart of an industry where emotions run high, money flows like champagne and GBP3,000 cakes are made. 2010. |
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Holy Fools. Joanne Harris But times are changing: the murder of Henri IV. Forced by circumstance to seek refuge with Fleur, her young daughter, in the remote abbey of Sainte Marie-de-la-Mer, Juliette reinvents herself as Soeur Auguste under the tutelage of the kindly |
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Woman in the Dunes. K. Abe In a remote seaside village, Niki Jumpei, a teacher and amateur entomologist, is held captive with a young woman at the bottom of a vast sand pit where, Sisyphus-like, they are pressed into shoveling off the ever-advancing sand dunes that threaten |
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The Red Badge of Courage. Stephen Crane, Стивен Крейн Dreaming of heroism, but shamefully discovering his own mortal fear of danger and death - and of fear itself - he flees from his first encounter with Confederate troops. Two days of fighting on a woodland battlefield are focused through the excited |
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Theatre. W.Somerset Maugham In "Theatre", W.Somerset Maugham – the author of the classic novels "Of Human Bondage" and "Up at the Villa"– introduces us to Julia Lambert, a woman of breathtaking poise and talent whose looks have stood by her. 2001. |
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I love dollars. Zhu Wen In the title story, a young man, acutely aware of his filial duty, sets out to secure a prostitute for his father, only to haggle his old man out of a good time. An immediate sensation upon publication in China, I Love Dollars is a hilarious |
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Coming Up for Air. George Orwell He fears modern times - since, in 1939, war is imminent - foreseeing food queues, soldiers, secret police and tyranny. George Bowling, forty-five, mortgaged, married with children, is an insurance salesman with an expanding waistline, a new set of |
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Dial a Ghost. Eva Ibbotson But there is a horrible mix-up at the agency that specialises in matching ghosts to suitable homes, and they are sent to Fulton Hall, where the ghastly Fulton and Frieda Snodde-Brittle have asked for a ghost that will frighten their nephew Oliver |
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Selections From Don Quixote. A Dual-Language. Saavedra Miguel De Cervantes Excellent new literal English translations on facing pages of the original Spanish text cover carefully selected passages that capture the wonderful flavor and romance of the complete work. Carefully selected passages from one of the great |
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Gold-Bug and Other Tales. Edgar Allan Poe Из серии: Dover Thrift Editions Series 2000. Nine gripping tales of psychological terror and the supernatural, by the undisputed master of the American Gothic horror story: The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Fall of the House of Usher, The |
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The Importance Of Being Earnest (+ CD). Оскар Уайльд, Oscar Wilde To avoid family duties, Algernon Moncrieff, a bachelor-about-town, has invented Bunbury, a sick relative who frequently calls him away. This is how Oscar Wilde described the philosophy of "The Importance of Being Earnest", his most sparkling, witty |
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M Bl McCann C. Let the Great World Spin. McCann Colum A man is walking the sky. New York, August 1974. Between the newly built Twin Towers the man is striding, twirling and showboating his way through the air. The city stands still in awe. Set against a time of sweeping political and social change, |
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M Bl Eyre L. If Minds had Toes. Lucy Eyre Then Lila arrives. Fifteen-year-old Ben Warner has a mundane summer job working in the local fish-and-chip shop. So begins a mind-bending guided tour of the big and small questions in life, but will Socrates and Lila be able to convince Ben that |
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Washington Square. Henry James Her adored father suspects the would-be fiance of fortune-hunting and threatens her with disinheritance, forcing Catherine to choose between lover and father. The shy and sweet daughter of a well-to-do physician, Catherine Sloper seems destined for |
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Great American Short Stories. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, Mark Twain, Jack London, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, Ernest Hemingway Из серии: Dover Thrift Editions Series 2002. Featuring 19 of the finest works in the American short-story tradition, this compilation includes: The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe, Bartleby by Herman Melville, To Build a Fire by Jack |
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The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ. Philip Pullman In this ingenious and spell-binding retelling of the life of Jesus, Philip Pullman revisits the most influential story ever told. This is a story. For, above all, this book is about how stories become stories. Charged with mystery, compassion and |
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Short Stories. Theodore Dreiser Из серии: Dover Thrift Editions Series 1995. Five powerful and original stories: Free, The Second Choice, Married, Nigger Jeff, and The Lost Phoebe. |
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An Enemy of the People. Henrik Ibsen Thomas Stockmann learns that the famous and financially successful baths in his home town are contaminated, he insists they be shut down for expensive repairs. When Dr. " A powerful drama by the "father of modern drama. Ridiculed and persecuted by |
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House on Strand. Du Maurier Daphne During his stay he agrees to serve as a guinea pig for a new drug that Magnus has discovered in his biochemical researches. Dick Young is lent a house in Cornwall by his friend Professor Magnus Lane. There, in the manor of Tywardreath, the domain |
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When Will There Be Good News?. Кейт Аткинсон Thirty years later the man convicted of the crime is released from prison. In rural Devon, six-year-old Joanna Mason witnesses an appalling crime. Across town, Detective Chief Inspector Louise Monroe is also looking for a missing person, unaware |
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Son of the Circus. Irving John Periodically, the doctor returns to India; in Bombay, most of his patients are crippled children. Born a Parsi in Bombay, sent to university and medical school in Vienna, Dr Farrokh Daruwalla is a Canadian citizen - a 59-year-old orthopedic |
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Pawn of Prophecy. David Eddings Long ago the evil God Torak sought dominion and drove men and Gods to war. This is the first book of "The Belgariad" series. So long as it lay at Riva, the prophecy went, the men would be safe. But Belgarath the Sorcerer led men to reclaim the |
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Prep. Curtis Sittenfeld Lee Fiora is a shy fourteen-year-old when she leaves small-town Indiana for a scholarship at Ault, an exclusive boarding school in Massachusetts. This is a stunning novel in the great tradition of American coming-of-age novels from "Catcher in the |
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Villages. John Updike His life and relationships are shaped by three villages, warm-lit communities that keep the darkness at bay from within and without. In this wry novel of sentimental education and sexual pursuit, we follow Owen Mackenzie, a representative man of |
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The Vagrant Mood. W.Somerset Maugham From Kant to Raymond Chandler; from the legend of Zurbaran to the art of the detective story; and, from Burke to Augustus Hare, Somerset Maugham brings his inimitable mastery of the incisive character sketch to the genre of literary criticism. "The |
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The Rainmaker. John Grisham The sweat is sticking to Rudy Baylor’s shirt and creditors are nipping at his heels. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER It’s summer in Memphis. Now he doesn’t have a job or a prayer—except for one: an insurance dispute that leaves a family |
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The Pelican Brief. John Grisham In a seedy D.C. porno house, a patron is swiftly garroted to death. In suburban Georgetown, a killer’s Reeboks whisper on the floor of a posh home. And in New Orleans, a young law student prepares a legal brief. The next day America learns |
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The Remains of the Day. Kazuo Ishiguro At the end of his three decades of service at Darlington Hall, Stevens embarks on a country drive, during which he looks back over his career to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving “a great gentleman. The Remains of the Day is |
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The Lost Symbol HB. Dan Brown The Lost Symbol is a masterstroke of storytelling--a deadly race through a real-world labyrinth of codes, secrets, and unseen truths . In this stunning follow-up to the global phenomenon The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown demonstrates once again why he |
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The Client. John Grisham A US State Senator is dead, and Mark Sway is the only one who knows where the body is hidden. An eleven-year-old has discovered a secret that not even an adult should know. The killer wants him silenced forever. The FBI wants him to tell them |
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Seeing. Jose Saramago Puzzlement swiftly escalates to shock when eventually, after an extension, the final count reveals seventy per cent of the votes are blank - not spoiled, simply blank. Despite the heavy rain, the presiding officer at Polling Station 14 finds it |
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Shopaholic Takes Manhattan. Sophie Kinsella … With her shopping excesses (somewhat) in check and her career as a TV financial guru thriving, Becky’s biggest problem seems to be tearing her entrepreneur boyfriend, Luke, away from work for a romantic country weekend. The irresistible |
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