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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: 2018 Категорія: Сучасна література
No one loves and quarrels, desires and deceives as boldly or brilliantly as Greek gods and goddesses.
In Stephen Fry's vivid retelling, we gaze in wonder as wise Athena is born from the cracking open of the great head of Zeus and follow doomed Persephone into the dark and lonely realm of 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: Детектив. Трилер
From the internationally bestselling author of Netflix's hottest new show, One of Us is Lying , comes a new, page-turning thriller . . .True crime can leave a false trail.Four years ago, Brynn left Saint Ambrose School following the shocking murder of her favourite teacher. The case was never
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: 2021 Категорія: Фантастика. Фентезі
The story of Troy speaks to all of us - the kidnapping of Helen, a queen celebrated for her beauty, sees the Greeks launch a thousand ships against that great city, to which they will lay siege for ten whole and very bloody years. It is Zeus, the king of the gods, who triggers war when he asks
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: 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: 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: 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: 2023 Категорія: Сучасна література
oshua Park never expected to be a widower at the age of thirty. Given his solitary job, small circle of friends and family, and the social awkwardness he's always suffered from, he has no idea how to negotiate this new, unwanted phase of life. But Lauren, his wife, had a plan to keep him moving
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
Рік видання: 2018 Категорія: Фантастика. Фентезі
Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice’s life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels. But when Alice’s grandmother, the reclusive author of a cult-classic book of pitch-dark fairy tales, dies alone on her estate, the Hazel Wood,
Рік видання: 2016 Категорія: Класика
'Then he saw the barrel of a gun aimed dead on target - not at him, as he might have expected, but at the clergyman's back.' Set in a crumbling Spanish mansion, this gloriously comic and gothic novel follows the fortunes of an innocent young priest as he enters a world of moral decadence, sexual
Рік видання: 2022 Категорія: Сучасна література
From New York Times bestselling author Monica Murphy comes a dark and twisted bully romance full of secrets and lies... Whit Lancaster is the cold, heartless, and devastatingly handsome bad boy at Lancaster Prep. Beautiful Summer Savage has no time for Whit. But his intense gaze traps her under
Рік видання: 2018 Категорія: Non-fiction іноземними мовами
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'Is it the world that's busy, or my mind?' The world moves fast, but that doesn't mean we have to. In this timely guide to mindfulness, Haemin Sunim, a Buddhist monk born in Korea
Рік видання: 2007 Категорія: Іноземна класика
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"All animals are equal - but some are more equal than others"
When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless elite
Рік видання: 2022 Категорія: Класика
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In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences is considered by many to be the first work of the true crime genre. In this groundbreaking book, Truman Capote reconstructs the murder of the Clutter family from information provided by newspaper articles and
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