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Transgressive desires and sexual encounters are recounted in these four pieces from one of the greatest writers of erotic fiction. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems...
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| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2018 |
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize England, 1930s. Christopher Banks has become the country’s most celebrated detective, his cases the talk of London society. Yet one unsolved crime has always haunted him: the mysterious disappearance of his parents, in old Shanghai, when he was a small boy. Moving between London and Shanghai of the interwar years, When We Were Orphans is a remarkable story of memory, intrigue and the need to return. ‘You seldom read a novel that so convinces you it is...
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| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2013 |
'If I really don't like somebody, I kill him . . . You remember Malcolm McRae, don't you?' Melinda Van Allen is beautiful, headstrong and sexy. Unfortunately for Vic Van Allen, she is his wife. Their love has soured, and Melinda takes pleasure in flaunting her many affairs to her husband. When one of her lovers is murdered, Vic hints to her latest conquest that he was responsible. As rumours spread about Vic's vicious streak, fiction and reality start to converge....
| Автор | Highsmith Patricia |
| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2015 |
Tom Ripley detested murder. Unless it was absolutely necessary. Wherever possible, he preferred someone else to do the dirty work. In this case someone with no criminal record, who would commit 'two simple murders' for a very generous fee.
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| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2009 |
Opinions vary about who really counts as a classical economist: Marx thought it was everyone up to Ricardo. Keynes thought it was everyone up to Keynes. But there's a general agreement about who belongs to the heroic early phase of the discipline. Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Malthus, Mill, Marx: scarcely a day goes by without their names being publicly invoked to celebrate or criticise the state of the world or the actions of governments. Few of us, though, have read their works. Fewer still...
| Автор | C. Williams |
| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2021 |
HANNIBAL LECTER HAS BEEN ON THE RUN FOR SEVEN YEARS. And seven years after he helped FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling bring down Buffalo Bill, her career is collapsing after a disastrous drug bust. Meanwhile, seven years after violently escaping from custody, Hannibal Lecter is hunted by Mason Verger, a psychopathic former client obsessed with feeding him to wild boars. With the one-time partners at a low ebb, Hannibal is the one to reach out to Clarice, who has been plagued by dreams...
| Автор | T. Harris |
| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2019 |
Joy and Stan Delaney have four grown-up children, a successful family business and their golden years ahead of them. Then Joy vanishes. Questions are asked. The police get involved. Scratch the surface and this seemingly happy family has much to hide . . .
| Автор | L. Moriarty |
| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2022 |
'Everything about [this] book, which combines a healthy dose of lucid neuroscience with a dash of sensitive personal narrative, delights ... a beautifully balanced piece of popular-science writing' Boyd Tonkin, Independent 'For people interested in language, this is a must. You'll find yourself focusing on words in new ways. Read it slowly - it will take time to sink in.'William Leith, Sunday Telegraph 'An inspiring celebration of the science of reading.' P.D. Smith, Guardian 'We were...
| Автор | M. Wolf |
| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2008 |
Fragile, gritty, and vital to an extraordinary degree, St. Petersburg is one of the world’s most alluring cities—a place in which the past is at once ubiquitous and inescapably controversial. Yet outsiders are far more familiar with the city’s pre-1917 and Second World War history than with its recent past. In this beautifully illustrated and highly original book, Catriona Kelly shows how creative engagement with the past has always been fundamental to St. Petersburg’s residents. Weaving...
| Автор | C. Kelly |
| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2015 |
E il 1946 quando Amerigo lascia il suo rione di Napoli e sale su un treno. Assieme a migliaia di altri bambini meridionali attraversera l'intera penisola e trascorrera alcuni mesi in una famiglia del Nord; un'iniziativa del Partito comunista per strappare i piccoli alla miseria dopo l'ultimo conflitto. Con lo stupore dei suoi sette anni e il piglio furbo di un bambino dei vicoli, Amerigo ci mostra un'Italia che si rialza dalla guerra come se la vedessimo per la prima volta. E ci affida la storia...
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| Жанр | Итальянский язык |
| Год | 2019 |
MAJOR NEW NETFLIX SERIES FEB 2018 This must-read story is a confident, action-and-violence packed thriller, and future classic noir SF novel from a multi-award-winning author. Four hundred years from now mankind is strung out across a region of interstellar space inherited from an ancient civilization discovered on Mars. The colonies are linked together by the occasional sublight colony ship voyages and hyperspatial data-casting. Human consciousness is digitally freighted between the stars...
| Автор | Morgan R |
| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2008 |
This book is a Jeeves and Wooster novel. Trapped in rural Steeple Bumpleigh, a man less stalwart than Bertie Wooster would probably give way at the knees. For among those present were Florence Craye, to whom Bertie had once been engaged and her new fiance 'Stilton' Cheesewright, who sees Bertie as a snake in the grass. And that biggest blot on the landscape, Edwin the Boy Scout, who is busy doing acts of kindness out of sheer malevolence. All Bertie's forebodings are fully justified. For in his...
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| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2008 |
George R. R. Martin sold his first story in 1971 and has been writing professionally since then. He spent ten years in Hollywood as a writer-producer, working on The Twilight Zone, Beauty and the Beast, and various feature films and television pilots that were never made. In the mid '90s he returned to prose, his first love, and began work on his epic fantasy series, A Song of Ice and Fire. He has been in the Seven Kingdoms ever since. Whenever he's allowed to leave, he returns to Santa Fe, New...
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| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2019 |
Upper-class rogues, bohemians, dowagers, socialites, bureaucrats and delinquent evacuees prepare for England to change forever, in this hilarious and deadly serious 1942 satire on the 'phoney war' The hideous, then unfamiliar shriek of the air-raid sirens sang out over London What happened to the characters of Decline and Fall and Vile Bodies when the war broke out? Put Out More Flags shows them adjusting to the changing social pattern of the times. Some of them play a valorous part;...
| Автор | Evelyn Waugh, Waugh E |
| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2011 |
Una de las historias mas personales de Isabel Allende, repleta de emocion, amor y segundas oportunidades. Isabel Allende parte de la celebre cita de Albert Camus -«en medio del invierno aprendi por fin que habia en mi un verano invencible»- para urdir una trama que presenta la geografia humana de unos personajes propios de la America de hoy que se hallan «en el mas profundo invierno de sus vidas»: una chilena, una joven guatemalteca ilegal y un maduro norteamericano. Los tres sobreviven a un...
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| Жанр | Испанский язык |
| Год | 2021 |
The Swiss Family Robinson is a story of the happy discovery of the wonders of natural history by a family shipwrecked on a desert island, who remain united through all the adversities they encounter. Inspired by Robinson Crusoe, this joyful narrative by a Swiss pastor remains a classic tale to be enjoyed by all.
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| Год | 1993 |
La fascinante nueva novela de Isabel Allende. En plena Guerra Civil espanola, el joven medico Victor Dalmau, junto a su amiga pianista Roser Bruguera, se ven obligados a abandonar Barcelona, exiliarse y cruzar los Pirineos rumbo a Francia. A bordo del Winnipeg, un navio fletado por el poeta Pablo Neruda que llevo a mas de dos mil espanoles rumbo a Valparaiso, embarcaran en busca de la paz y la libertad que no tuvieron en su pais. Recibidos como heroes en Chile -ese «largo petalo de mar y...
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| Жанр | Испанский язык |
| Год | 2022 |
Si hay algo peor que una pesadilla es que esa pesadilla se repita. Y entre nuestros peores suenos, los de todos, pocos producen mas angustia que un nino desaparezca sin dejar rastro. Eso es precisamente lo que ocurre al principio de esta novela: en un centro comercial, en medio del bullicio de una tarde de compras, un depredador acecha, eligiendo la presa que esta a punto de arrebatar. Esas pocas lineas, esos minutos de espera, seran los ultimos instantes de paz para los protagonistas de una...
| Автор | C. Chaparro |
| Жанр | Испанский язык |
| Год | 2021 |