Two girls who grow up to become women. Two friends who become something worse than enemies. In this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison tells the story of Nel Wright...
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Берлин перед приходом к власти нацистов.
Здесь пока еще бурлит знаменитая на всю Европу ночная жизнь, рыдает джаз, горят огни кабаре и клубов. Здесь пока еще царят вольны...
"Прощай, Берлин", впервые опубликованный в 1939 году, — самое, пожалуй, известное произведение Кристофера Ишервуда, широкой популярности которого немало послужил снятый по...
The canoe was now approaching the land. The bay opened out, and a gap in the white surf of the reef marked where the little river ran out to the sea; the thicker and deepe...