To the sacred river Ganges come four Japanese: ostensibly tourists, but each is on an important quest. And among the poor, sick and dying, one woman in the group finds the...
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Дебютный роман глашатая "поколения Икс", автора знаменитых бестселлеров "Американский психопат", "Информаторы" и "Гламорама". Уже в своей первой книге, написанной в неполн...
<p>В романе «Даниель Деронда» (1876) английская писательница Джордж Элиот выступила против антисемитизма и расовых предрассудков, что вызвало бурное негодование английских...
"Адам Бид" - дебютный роман знаменитой английской писательницы Джордж Элиот. Одно из самых известных произведений в мировой литературе, мгновенно ставшее популярным с моме...
'All the men I did get to know, every single man of them, has filled me with but one desire: to lift my hand and bring it smashing down on his face. But because I am a wom...
Мэй Холланд крупно повезло. Она работает в идеальной компании "Сфера" - союз блистательных умов поколения, где все прислушиваются ко всем и все вдохновенно совершенствуют ...
"Julius was born in a mansion on Salaverry Avenue, directly across from the old San Felipe Hippodrome." Life-size Disney characters and cowboy movie heroes romp across the...
An intricate and self-reflective novel about that most delicate of relationships--meaning the one between writers and readers. The narrator, an anonymous graduate student,...
"While she was in the warehouse S. feared uncertainty. Any kind of certainty seemed preferable to her. Now she was at least rid of that fear. There was no more uncertainty...
Twenty five years ago Liz, Alix and Esther were leading lights at Cambridge. Now they meet as old friends at a glittering New Year's Eve party to welcome in the 1980s. It ...
Myrsini Panayotou, an Athenian girl about to start university, learns of the coup d'etat that brought to power the infamous dictatorship of the "Colonels" in her country i...
"DESTROY," H.D. had pencilled across the title page of this autobiographical novel. Although the manuscript survived, it has remained unpublished since its completion in t...
Перед вами - новый роман Эдгара Л. Доктороу.
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The central figure of this novel is a young man whose parents were executed for conspiring to steal atomic secrets for Russia.
His name is Daniel Isaacson, and as the s...
A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spar...
Shashi Deshpande's latest novel explores the lives of two women, one obsessed with music and the other a passionate believer in Communism, who break away from their famili...
Wildly funny and wonderfully bizarre, All About H. Hatterr is one of the most perfectly eccentric and strangely absorbing works modern English has produced. H. Hatterr is ...
Set in India's Old Delhi, CLEAR LIGHT OF DAY is Anita Desai's tender, warm, and compassionate novel about family scars, the ability to forgive and forget, and the trials a...
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfec...