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Еще до того, как мир охватил интерес к произведениям о людях, застрявших в пограничных состояниях, Сюзанна Кейсен решила поделиться своей личной драмой. "Прерванная жизнь"...
My English comp teacher Mr. Glicksberg says if you want to be a writer you have to—quote—sit on a window sill and get all pensive and stuff and jot down descriptions. Unqu...
They misunderestimated me."
Or did they?
Judge for yourself. Here are over 100 memorable misstatements by our syntactically challenged president, collected, annotate...
Since its publication in 1990, Gender Trouble has become one of the key works of contemporary feminist theory, and an essential work for anyone interested in the study of ...
"Галапагосы" – роман, в котором Воннегут со свойственной ему тонкой сверкающей иронией продолжает истории многих героев и антигероев своей ранней прозы – и делает это со з...
Book Description Annabel thinks her mom has the best life. If she were a grown-up, she could do whatever she wanted! Then one morning she wakes up to find she's turned int...
J.D. Salinger, author of the classic Catcher in the Rye (1951), wrote the stories Franny and Zooey for publication in the New Yorker magazine in 1955 and 1957 respectively...
Первая книга начинающего автора, которому к тому же исполнилось лишь 19 лет, весьма редко становится достоянием национальной литературы и приобретает мировую известность. ...
The Fountainhead has become an enduring piece of literature, more popular now than when published in 1943. On the surface, it is a story of one man, Howard Roark, and his ...
If there still remains any doubt, this novel confirms Lethem's status as the poet of Brooklyn and of motherless boys. Projected through the prism of race relations, black ...
Describes the history, facilities, atmosphere, and location of five hundred European hotels, and lists the address, telephone number, rates, and season for each establishment
Научно-фантастический роман американского писателя Даниэла Киза, претерпевший более сорока изданий на родине автора и широко известный во всем мире. Поизведение посвящено ...
He’s an investigative reporter whose methods are a little unorthodox. Currently he’s living on the beach with the strung-out trying to find to the source of the drugs they...
'And low, stole o'er the stillness the heartbeats of sleep'
In Chapelizod, a suburb of Dublin, an innkeeper and his family are sleeping. Around them and their dreams th...
Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, a tra...
(Limelight). The full text and complete lyrics, as well as photographs from the original production. "One of the great works of the American musical theatre. It is darling...
The Fellowship of the Ring is the first part of J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic adventure, The Lord of the Rings.
Sauron, the Dark Lord, has gathered to him all the Rings of Powe...
'We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like, "I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you shoul...
Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World (2003) is a nonfiction book by Greg Critser describing how 60% of Americans came to be overweight, and explo...
In the fourth and final volume of his magisterial history of the Peloponnesian War, Donald Kagan examines the period from the destruction of Athens' Sicilian expedition in...