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'This is a very personal book, about being alone and lost'. In 1975 Kapuscinski's employers sent him to Angola to cover the civil war that had broken out after independence. For months he watched as Luanda and then the rest of the country collapsed into a civil war that was in the author's words 'sloppy, dogged and cruel'. In his account, Kapuscinski demonstrates an extraordinary capacity to describe and to explain the individual meaning of grand political...
| Автор | Kapuscinski Ryszard |
| Год | 2001 |
Роже Шартье (р. 1945) - один из виднейших представителей современной французской исторической науки, руководитель исследований в Высшей школе социальных наук в Париже. Его обобщающие работы вносят ценный вклад в изучение истории XVIII века, обозначая новые пути развития знания о прошлом. В настоящей книге прослеживается формирование общественного сознания, сделавшего возможным Великую французскую революцию 1789 года.
| Автор | Шартье Роже |
| Год | 2001 |
Ошо, также известный как Бхагван Шри Раджниш, - просветленный мастер нашего времени. «Ошо» означает «океанический», «растворенный в океане»...«Гость» - беседы Ошо по песням индийского мистика Кабира. «Гость приходит не извне, он появляется в вас. Бог - это гость. Но сначала вам надо стать хозяином, вам надо научиться искусству быть хозяином. Вам надо стать радушным приятием, вам надо стать молитвой, вам надо стать приглашением, вам надо стать ожиданием, бесконечным ожиданием».
| Автор | Ошо |
| Год | 2001 |
"From fruit eating bats to smart chimpanzees, from moles in their holes to seals in the seas", Dr. Seuss' famous Cat in the Hat takes young readers on a fun-filled tour of the world of mammals. This title forms part of a series of books that takes a look at natural history through a fun combination of Seussian rhymes and zany illustrations. Aimed at beginning readers - from four to seven years old - the books are designed to bridge the gap between concept books written for preschoolers...
| Автор | Тиш Рабе |
| Год | 2001 |
Heinrich Bolls Erzahlung Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum oder: Wie Gewalt entstehen und wohin sie fuhren kann sorgte bei ihrem Erscheinen im Jahr 1974, das von einem Vorabdruck im Spiegel flankiert wurde, fur eine heftige Auseinandersetzung um die Methoden des Boulevardjournalismus. Die Hauswirtschafterin Katharina Blum, die nebenbei bei Empfangen und Festlichkeiten die kalten Buffets besorgt und sich davon eine Appartementwohnung und einen Volkswagen leisten kann, gerat zufallig in den...
| Автор | Boll Heinrich |
| Год | 2001 |
Heinrich Bolls Briefe aus dem Zweiten Weltkrieg – ein einmaliges DokumentHeinrich Bolls Briefe aus dem Zweiten Weltkrieg sind, als Aufzeichnungen des Soldaten und werdenden Schriftstellers Boll, ahnlich wie Victor Klemperers Tagebucher einzigartige Zeugnisse des Alltags aus Zeiten des Krieges und der Not.Heinrich Boll, 1917 geboren, hat als Gefreiter der deutschen Wehrmacht von 1939 an den ganzen Zweiten Weltkrieg bis zur Kapitulation der Deutschen 1945 mitgemacht, in verschiedenen Kasernen und...
| Автор | Boll Heinrich |
| Год | 2001 |
Selection includes The Portrait of Mr W.H., Wilde's defence of Dorian Gray, reviews, and the writings from 'Intentions' (1891): 'The Decay of Lying, 'Pen, Pencil, Poison', and 'The Critic as Artist'. Wilde is familiar to us as the ironic critic behind the social comedies, as the creator of the beautiful and doomed Dorian Gray, as the flamboyant aesthete and the demonised homosexual. This volume presents us with a different Wilde. Wilde emerges here as a...
| Автор | Oscar Wilde |
| Год | 2001 |
In these three exotic, steamy dramas Tennessee Williams portrays loss, faded lives and passionate love affairs. The Rose Tattoo is set in a bustling, Sicilian-American community, where newly widowed Serafina is paralysed by grief. But when she has her romantic illusions about her dead husband shattered, she rediscovers her true nature as a fiery prima donna, in a life-affirming celebration of love and sex. Tennessee Williams explored a new 'wild and unrestricted' theatrical form in...
| Автор | Williams T |
| Год | 2001 |
Somerset Maugham's success as a writer enabled him to indulge his adventurous love of travel, and he recorded the sights and sounds of his wide-ranging journeys with an urbane, wry style all his own. The Gentleman in the Parlour is an account of the author's trip through what was then Burma and Siam, ending in Haiphong, Vietnam. Whether by river to Mandalay, on horse through the mountains and forests of the Shan States to Bangkok, or onwards by sea, Maugham's vivid descriptions...
| Автор | Maugham William |
| Год | 2001 |
Maugham's studies of the lives and masterpieces of ten great novelists are outstanding examples of literary criticism at its finest. Afforded here are some of the formulae of greatness in the genre, as well as the flaws and heresies which enfeeble it. Written by a master of fiction, Ten Novels and Their Authors is a unique and invaluable guide.
| Автор | Maugham William |
| Год | 2001 |
Class Three has got a new computer and while exploring it, Mr Majeika manages to get the whole class trapped in the school website. Many adventures follow and Class Three meet bizarre characters before they can get out.
| Автор | Humphrey Carpenter |
| Год | 2001 |
Gemma is the bored, pretty second wife of Charlie Bovery, the reluctant stepmother of his children and the bete-noire of his ex-wife. Gemma's sudden windfall and distaste for London take them across the Channel to Normandy, where the charms of French country living soon wear off. Is it a coincidence that Gemma Bovery has a name rather like Flaubert's notorious heroine? Is it by chance that, like Madame Bovary, Gemma is bored, adulterous, and a bad credit risk? Is she inevitably...
| Автор | Posy Simmonds |
| Год | 2001 |
A bouncing, read-aloud rhyme about a very special friend, from the nation's favourite llustrator, Quentin Blake! Meet Fantastic Daisy Artichoke. She's got three fat cats we like to stroke and a pond in which she likes to soak. . . . She isn't quite like other folk! "Blake is beyond brilliant . . . I've never met a child who doesn't love Quentin Blake" - Daily Telegraph Quentin Blake is one of Britain's best-loved and most successful author-illustrators, and was...
| Автор | Quentin Blake |
| Год | 2001 |
A vivid, believable love story between an older woman and a younger man. Lea de Lonval is a magnificent and aging courtesan facing the end of her career. She has devoted the last six years to the amorous education of the exquisitely handsome and spoilt Cheri – a playboy half her age. When an advantageous marriage is arranged for Cheri, Lea reluctantly decides their relationship must end. But neither lover can foresee how deeply they are connected, or how much they will have to give up. First...
| Автор | Colette |
| Год | 2001 |
Chris, Ikem and Beatrice are like-minded friends working under the military regime of His Excellency, the Sandhurst-educated President of Kangan. In the pressurized atmosphere of oppression and intimidation they are simply trying to live and love - and remain friends. But in a world where each day brings a new betrayal, hope is hard to cling on to. Anthills of the Savannah (1987), Achebe's candid vision of contemporary African politics, is a powerful fusion of angry voices. It continues the...
| Автор | Чинуа Ачебе |
| Год | 2001 |
The explosion over Hiroshima of the first nuclear bomb reduced, in an instant, an entire city to rubble and killed over 100,000 men, women and children. It also announced a new era in human history: the Atomic Age. Written only a year after the event, John Hersey's Hiroshima was an immediate phenomenon. Originally published in the New Yorker magazine - the only single article to ever fill an entire edition - it quickly became a bestseller and established itself as the definitive account of...
| Автор | John Hersey |
| Год | 2001 |
Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, regarded by many to be first novel in English, is also the original tale of a castaway struggling to survive on a remote desert island. The sole survivor of a shipwreck, Robinson Crusoe is washed up on a desert island. In his journal he chronicles his daily battle to stay alive, as he conquers isolation, fashions shelter and clothes, enlists the help of a native islander who he names 'Friday', and fights off cannibals and mutineers. Written in an...
| Автор | Daniel Defoe |
| Год | 2001 |
James Baldwin's electrifying first novel. 'I had to deal with what hurt me most. I had to deal with my father.' Drawing on James Baldwin's own boyhood in a religious community in 1930s Harlem, his first novel tells the story of young Johnny Grimes. Johnny is destined to become a preacher like his father, Gabriel, at the Temple of the Fire Baptized, where the church swells with song and it is as if 'the Holy Ghost were riding on the air'. But he feels only...
| Автор | James Baldwin |
| Год | 2001 |