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An extraordinarily vivid and beautifully written first novel exploring the hidden world of the geisha.
Memoirs of a Geisha is a rare and utterly engaging experience. Th...
Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the f...
<p>When the animals take over the farm, they think it is the start of a better life. Their dream is of a world where all animals are equal and all property is shared. But ...
During one hot summer on Long Island, Jay Gatsby throws an amazing party every weekend. He is an extremely wealthy man, although no one knows where he or his money have co...
He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt
Set in Italy during World War II, this is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian, a hero who is furious becaus...
Classic / British English
Emma Bovary is a dreamer. She escapes from her boring life with her father by marrying Charles, a doctor, but married life does not bring her...
Scarlet is the colour of sin, and the letter 'A' stands for 'Adultery'. In the 1600s, in Boston, Massachusetts, love was allowed only between a husband and a wife. A child...
When Ella Turner moves with her husband to Lisle-sur-Tarn, a small town in southwestern France, she hopes to qualify to practice as a midwife as well as to start a family ...
Написанный в 1932 году роман Уильяма Фолкнера "Свет в августе", принадлежащий к "йокнапатофскому циклу", считается одним из лучших произведений великого прозаика. Незатей...
Splendid early novel (1918) evokes the Nebraska prairie life of the author's childhood, and touchingly commemorates the spirit and courage of the immigrant pioneers who se...
Иллюминаты. Древний таинственный орден, прославившийся в Средние века яростной борьбой с официальной церковью. Легенда далекого прошлого? Возможно… Но — почему тогда на гр...
"Над пропастью во ржи" - это первый и единственный роман Джерома Сэлинджера. Изданный в послевоенное время, он завоевал писателю безоговорочное признание критиков и любовь...
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...
This novel of awesome beauty and power is a moving saga about people, relationships, and the boundaries of love. Through Jean M. Auel's magnificent storytelling we are tak...
They came after the Diseray. Some were terrors ripped from our collective imaginations, remnants of every mythology across the world. And some were like nothing anyone had...
‘There are a dozen soldiers hiding in that maze. All hunting you. All looking to kill you.’
To the outside world Ember Hill is an ordinary girl, but Ember has a deadly se...