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Carmilla is a Gothic novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. First published in 1872, it tells the story of a young woman's susceptibility to the attentions of a female vampir...
Waterstones Children's Book of the Month for February & March 2019
‘For as long as I can remember, stories about enchanted objects have fascinated me. From the comb whi...
Agnieszka loves her village, set in a peaceful valley. But the nearby enchanted forest casts a shadow over her home. Many have been lost to the Wood and none return unchan...
Сборники стихотворений Иосифа Бродского (1940-1996) «Остановка в пустыне» (1970), «Конец прекрасной эпохи» (1977), «Часть речи», «Новые стансы к Августе» (1983), «Урания» ...
«1984». Своеобразный антипод второй великой антиутопии XX века — «О дивный новый мир» Олдоса Хаксли. Что, в сущности, страшнее: доведенное до абсурда «общество потребления...
Эта книга по праву носит титул величайшего англоязычного романа XX века.
Без нее просто не состоялись бы ни модернистская, ни постмодернистская литература.
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Awe and exhiliration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in Lolita, Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Hu...
A penetrating psychological study with all the haunting power of Rebecca.
I threw the piece of paper on the fire. She saw it burn...
Orphaned at an early age, Philip...
Fanny Price’s rich relatives offer her a place in their home so that she can be properly brought up. However, Fanny’s childhood is a lonely one as she is never allowed to ...
Mary Shelley began writing Frankenstein when she was only eighteen. At once a Gothic thriller, a passionate romance, and a cautionary tale about the dangers of science, Fr...
Wilkie Collins’s classic thriller took the world by storm on its first appearance in 1859, with everything from dances to perfumes to dresses named in honor of the “woman ...
"Анну Каренину" Толстой называл "романом широким и свободным". В основе этого определения - пушкинский термин "свободный роман". Не фабульная завершенность положений, а тв...
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(3)A struggling novelist travels the world to avoid an awkward wedding in this hilarious Pulitzer Prize-winning novel full of "arresting lyricism and beauty" (The New York Ti...
On a world supported on the back of a giant turtle (sex unknown), a gleeful, explosive, wickedly eccentric expedition sets out. There's an avaricious but inept wizard, a n...
Reality, it turns out, is often not what you perceive it to be—sometimes, there really is someone out to get you. Made You Up tells the story of Alex, a high school senior...
Athene Forster embraced the Sixties like few others. Nicknamed the Last Deb, she was spoiled, beautiful, and out of control. And within two years of her marriage, the rumo...
Перавыданне кнігі Вацлава Ластоўскага «Кароткая гісторыя Беларусі» — унікальная знаходка як для вучоных-даследчыкаў, так і для ўсіх тых, каго і сёння хвалюе гісторыя родна...
Катерина Измайлова, молодая красавица, по расчету выданная за нелюбимого, годами томится в удушливой чопорной атмосфере богатого купеческого дома, изнывая от скуки... и вн...
Представьте: в вашу жизнь врывается призрак и просит помочь исполнить его самое заветное желание. Готовы ли вы бросить все дела, вскочить в самолет и отправиться вместе с ...
