Composed between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries, these virtually unknown erotic and satiric poems lie at the root of the Western comic tradition. Passed down by the ...
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Книги, которые стоит перевести на русский
Duke Nukem947 книг
Duke NukemКниги, которые стоит перевести на русский
The concentration of power in the caudillo (leader) is as much a formative element of Mexican culture and politics as the historical legacy of the Aztec emperors, Cortez, ...
Acclaimed winner of the William Whitehead Memorial Award for a lifetime's contribution to gay and lesbian literature, Samuel R. Delany wrote Hogg three decades ago. Since ...
The final installment in the long awaited, internationally celebrated My Struggle series.
The full scope and achievement of Knausgaard's monumental work is evident in t...
Frederick Barbarossa, born of two of Germany’s most powerful families, swept to the imperial throne in a coup d’état in 1152. A leading monarch of the Middle Ages, he lega...
One of the most colorful and important figures of turn-of-the-century America, was William Randolph Hearst, fictionalized as Charles Foster Kane in Orson Welles' classic f...
A stunning account of life behind bars at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas, where the nation's hardest criminals do hard time.
"A page-turner, as compell...
Imagine a violent, global apocalypse in which billions die as the planet is cleansed of all who are deemed wicked. Then, once the dust has settled on the unfathomable deat...
The mind-bending miniature historical epic is Sjón's specialty, and Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was is no exception. But it is also Sjón's most realistic, accessible, and...
Custer's Last Stand is among the most enduring events in American history--more than one hundred years after the fact, books continue to be written and people continue to ...
The Greek War of Independence is a masterful work--the first comprehensive study in thirty years--of one of the most heroic and bloody struggles for independence any peopl...
For over three decades, Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. In his classic The Age of Spirit...
In this passionate and searching book, Anthony Kronman offers a third way—beyond atheism and religion—to the God of the modern world
“An astonishing, . . . epically am...
One of the great adventure classics. Victorian scholar-adventurer’s firsthand epic account of daring 1854 expedition to forbidden East African capital city. A treasury of ...
LATTICING one cherry pie after another, an Ohio housewife tries to bridge the gaps between reality and the torrent of meaningless info that is the United States of America...
Set in a Mexican prison in the late 1960s, The Hole follows three inmates as they plot to sneak in drugs under the noses of their ape-like guards. The inmates desperately ...
Set in the Gorbals, Glasgow in the late '60s. Christmas is approaching and Thomas Clay is beset by problems: his pregnant wife Rhoda is in the maternity hospital premature...
The police code for the cases was Zebra. The implication of black and white was a bitter irony. The victims - raped, mutilated or dead - were all white. The killers were a...
Organised around the idea that "you can't know what a magnetic field is like unless you're inside of it," Ron Loewinsohn's first novel opens from the disturbing perspectiv...
Rami, casada há vinte anos com Tony, um alto funcionário da polícia, de quem tem vários filhos, descobre que o partilha com várias mulheres, com as quais ele constituiu ou...