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Рік видання: 2007 Категорія: Класика дитячої літератури
Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people, whose height makes their quarrels over fashion and fame seem ridiculous. His subsequent encounters - with the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the philosophical Houyhnhnms and brutish
Рік видання: 2023 Категорія: Сучасна література
A story of mix-ups, mess-ups and making the most of second chances, this is the new novel from international sensation Jojo Moyes, author of Me Before You and The Giver of Stars Who are you when you are forced to walk in someone else's shoes? Meet Sam . . . She's not got much, but she's
Рік видання: 2007 Категорія: Класика
At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome naval captain with neither fortune nor rank. What happens when they encounter each
Рік видання: 2022 Категорія: Non-fiction іноземними мовами
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When the crash of the U. S. stock market became public knowledge in the fall of 2008, it was already old news. The real crash, the silent crash, had taken place over the previous year, in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesn’t shine, and the SEC doesn’t dare, or bother, to
Рік видання: 2022 Категорія: Іноземна класика
THE WORLD'S GREATEST WAR NOVEL Humans and gods wrestling with towering emotions. Men fighting to the death amid devastation and destruction. Perhaps the Western world's first and best storyteller, Homer draws the reader in with bated breath. His masterful tale contains some of the most famous
Рік видання: 2023 Категорія: Сучасна література
The Davenports are one of the few Black families of immense wealth and status in a changing United States, their fortune made through the entrepreneurship of William Davenport, a formerly enslaved man who founded the Davenport Carriage Company years ago. Now it's 1910, and the Davenports live
Рік видання: 2021 Категорія: Non-fiction іноземними мовами
From planning an assassination attempt on Hitler in Switzerland, to spying on the Japanese in Manchuria, to preventing nuclear war (or so she believed) by stealing the science of atomic weaponry from Britain to give to Moscow, Ursula Kuczynski Burton conducted some of the most dangerous espionage
Рік видання: 2019 Категорія: Non-fiction іноземними мовами
The dead do not hide the truth and they never lie. Through me the dead can speak ... Dr Richard Shepherd is the UK's foremost forensic pathologist, his job to understand the deaths which may have no natural cause. From crime scene to court room, his findings are crucial to the pursuit of justice.
Рік видання: 2019 Категорія: Сучасна література
There are Heroes - and then there are Greek Heroes. Few mere mortals have ever embarked on such bold and heart-stirring adventures, overcome myriad monstrous perils, or outwitted scheming vengeful gods, quite as stylishly and triumphantly as Greek heroes. In this companion to his bestselling
Рік видання: 2019 Категорія: Non-fiction іноземними мовами
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'Bristles with pure, crystalline intelligence, deep knowledge and human sympathy' Richard Dawkins
Is modernity really failing? Or have we failed to appreciate progress and the ideals that make it possible?
If you follow the headlines, the world in the
Рік видання: 2022 Категорія: Non-fiction іноземними мовами
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On Anarchism is an essential introduction to the Noam Chomsky's political theory.
On Anarchism sheds a much needed light on the foundations of Chomsky's thought, specifically his constant questioning of the legitimacy of entrenched power. The book gathers his essays and interviews
Рік видання: 2022 Категорія: Сучасна література
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I have this dream that, secretly, all teenage girls feel exactly like me. And maybe one day, when we realize that we all feel the same, we can all stop pretending we're something we're not... But until that day, I'm going to keep it real on this blog and keep it unreal in real life.
Рік видання: 1991 Категорія: Класика
1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell's prophetic, nightmare vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever. "1984" is still the great modern classic "negative Utopia" - a startling original and haunting novel that creates an imaginary world that is completely convincing
Рік видання: 2014 Категорія: Non-fiction іноземними мовами
His most enjoyable book so far. It is a feel-good extravaganza, nourishing both heart and mind. Each of its stories...has an ending that is both happy and surprising. What ostensibly unites the stories are the twin ideas that an advantage can sometimes be a disadvantage and that a disadvantage can
Рік видання: 2022 Категорія: Сучасна література
Welcome to the enormous pleasure that is The Lincoln Highway . . . in which the miles fly by and the pages turn fast' ANN PATCHETTIn June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett returns home to his younger brother Billy after serving fifteen months in a juvenile facility for involuntary manslaughter. They
Рік видання: 2007 Категорія: Класика
When her family becomes impoverished after a disastrous financial speculation, Agnes Grey determines to find work as a governess. This is a personal perspective on the desperate position of unmarried, educated women in Victorian society. "Agnes Grey" is undoubtedtedly a deeply personal novel, in
Рік видання: 2012 Категорія: Класика
The Penguin English Library Edition of Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
"I would be content, ay, glad, to live with you as your servant, if I may not as your wife; so that I could only be near you, and get glimpses of you, and think of you as mine ... I long for only one thing in heaven
Рік видання: 2000 Категорія: Класика
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Five decades after it was first published, Jack Kerouac's seminal Beat novel On the Road finally finds its way to the big screen, in a production from award-winning director Walter Salles (Motorcycle Diaries) starring Sam Riley (Control, Brighton Rock), Garret Hedlund (Friday Night
Рік видання: 2023 Категорія: Сучасна література
A college sports romance about a women's soccer star and her surly lumberjack lookalike classmate, complete with a matchmaking professor, juvenile pranks, and a smoking slow burn... RyderWhy she hates me, I don't know. What I do know is that Willa Sutter is the kind of chaos I do not need in my
Рік видання: 2011 Категорія: Класика
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Pitching an extraordinary battle between cruel authority and a rebellious free spirit, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a novel that epitomises the spirit of the sixties. This Penguin Classics edition includes a preface, never-before published illustrations by the
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За роки діяльності було опубліковано тисячі книг англійською та іншими мовами, серед них переважає класична та сучасна література, нонфікшн, твори для дітей. Популярними у читачів є книжки Дженні Хан, Ріка Ріордана, Тейлор Дженкінс Рід, Айн Ренд, Джорджа Орвелла, Емілі Генрі, Джоджо Мойєс, Донни Тартт, Ребекки Яррос, Річарда Османа, Лінн Пейнтер, Кетрін Стокетт, Рейвен Кеннеді та інших. Видавництво вирізняється також жанровим розмаїттям: від романтичних історій для підлітків, захопливих мемуарів до гостросюжетних трилерів та детективів, «темного» фентезі. 2016-го року у видавничому домі вийшла друком праця Сергія Плохія «The Gates of Europe. A History of Ukraine».
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