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Быть любимым. Это все, к чему стремится герой романа молодого французского писателя Акселя Сандра. Не зная, кто его родители, он с детства привык оказываться в разных прие...
Старик Оттавиано посадил вишневое дерево, которое стало лучшим другом его внуку. И так появилась на свет история о необычном дедушке, который умел слушать растения и верил...
Эрнст Теодор Амадей Гофман - классик мировой литературы, знаменитый немецкий писатель, композитор, художник. В своем творчестве Гофман отдал дань романтизму и оккультизму,...
Оливер Сакс - известный британский невролог и нейропсихолог, автор ряда популярных книг, переведенных на двадцать языков, две из которых - "Человек, который принял жену за...
Что делать в августовскую жару одинокой девочке, если взрослые не дают ей даже спокойно поиграть во дворе: "Не сиди на траве.., ступай в дом... пора обедать..."?
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Like Michael Cunningham in The Hours, Colm Tóibín captures the extraordinary mind and heart of a great writer. Beautiful and profoundly moving, The Master tells the story ...
Gabriella Mondini is a rarity in 16th century Venice: a woman who practices medicine. Her father, a renowned physician, has provided her entrée to this all-male profession...
Frederica Potter, "doomed to be intelligent", plunges into Cambridge University life greedy for knowledge, sex and love. In Yorkshire her Stephanie has abandoned academe f...
An apocalyptic cult member carries out a gas attack on a rush-hour metro, but what links him to a jazz buff in downtown Tokyo? Or to a Mongolian gangster, a woman on a hol...
A modern classic, Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of ...
Ten superb new stories by one of our most beloved and admired writers, the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize.
In the first story a young wife and mother ...
Memories define us.
So what if you lost yours every time you went to sleep?
Your name, your identity, your past, even the people you love - all forgotten overnight.
And...
High in his attic bedroom, twelve-year-old David mourns the death of his mother. He is angry and alone, with only the books on his shelf for company. But those books have ...
A wild, often horrifying, novel about freaks, geeks and other aberrancies of the human condition who travel together (a whole family of them) as a circus. It's a solipsist...
In 1886, a mysterious travelling circus becomes an international sensation. Open only at night, constructed entirely in black and white, Le Cirque des Rêves delights all w...
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat, Calico Pie and The Pobble Who Has No Toes, together with Edward Lear's crazy limericks, have entertained adults and children alike for over 100 ...
Джон Апдайк - знаменитый американский писатель, поэт, критик. Неоднократный обладатель Пулитцеровской премии.
"Rubbit, Run" ("Кролик, беги") - первый из серии романов пр...
P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) is an English-born storyteller and journalist who came to America before World War I and sold a serial to the Saturday Evening Post, where most...
Shakespeare's sonnets reconsidered, and in part rearranged with introductory chapters, notes, and a reprint of the original 1609 edition.