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William Stoner enters the University of Missouri at nineteen to study agriculture. A seminar on English literature changes his life, and he never returns to work on his fa...
A dazzling, provocative debut story collection from celebrated Indonesian writer Intan Paramaditha, putting fierce female characters centre stage in brilliantly funny and ...
A spaceship captain determined to gather a cupful of the sun… a nubile young witch who yearns to taste human love… an expedition that hunts dinosaurs across the fragile an...
В центре внимания великой трагедии Уильяма Шекспира (1564-1616) "Макбет" - непомерное честолюбие, которое превращает храброго воина и признанного героя в зловещего убийцу,...
Fatherland is set in an alternative world where Hitler has won the Second World War. It is April 1964 and one week before Hitler's 75th birthday. Xavier March, a detective...
HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. "I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my childre...
Действие романа Джона Ирвинга, современного классика американской литературы, начинается в Новой Англии в 1920-е годы. В сиротском приюте, который возглавляет доктор Ларч...
Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter: "He has a nose," people say. Engaged to track down a mysterious boy who disappeared three years earlier, Tracker ...
SHORTLISTED FOR THE HEARST BIG BOOK AWARDS 2019.Orchids are liars.They use pheromones to lure wasps in to become unwitting pollinators. In nature, such exploitative system...
Yet as the evening approaches, the unexpected arrival from India of her first lover Peter Walsh, triggers vivid memories of the past until, piece by piece, Clarissa brings...
In this unnamed city, to be interesting is dangerous. Middle sister, our protagonist, is busy attempting to keep her mother from discovering her maybe-boyfriend and to kee...
Главное детище Брэма Стокера, вампир-аристократ, ставший эталоном для последующих сочинений, причина массового увлечения «вампирским» мифом и получивший массовое же воплощ...
A masterpiece of modern fiction, James Joyce’s semiautobiographical first novel follows Stephen Dedalus, a sensitive and creative youth who rebels against his family, his ...
Энтони Берджесса - английского прозаика, поэта, литературоведа, лингвиста и композитора - по праву называют одним из величайших интеллектуалов своего времени. "Заводной ап...
Junot Daz's first book. Drown established him as a major new writer with the dispassionate eye of a journalist and the tongue of a poet (Newsweek) His first novel. The Bri...
A Guardian best history book of 2016
Eccentric, shy aristocrat … or mad, bad and dangerous to know?
Neighbour Jane Austen found the 3rd earl of Portsmouth a model gentlema...
Shocking, erotic and violent, The Monk is the story of Ambrosio, torn between his spiritual vows and the temptations of physical pleasure. His internal battle leads to sex...
The American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the century.
"A profoundly moving novel, and an honest and true one. It cuts right to the heart o...
The scene is the village of Lyme Regis on Dorset's Lyme Bay..."the largest bite from the underside of England's out-stretched southwestern leg." The major characters in th...
Tyrone Slothrop, a GI in London in 1944, has a big problem. Whenever he gets an erection, a Blitz bomb hits. Slothrop gets excited, and then (as Thomas Pynchon puts it in ...
