Set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow South and the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of NASA’s African-American female mathematicians who played ...
IN AWARDING John Steinbeck the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Nobel committee stated that with The Winter of Our Discontent, he had ?resumed his position as an indepe...
Once, in a house on Egypt Street, there lived a china rabbit named Edward Tulane. The rabbit was very pleased with himself, and for good reason: he was owned by a girl nam...
The novel's narrator, Stevens, is a perfect English butler who tries to give his narrow existence form and meaning through the self-effacing, almost mystical practice of h...
Airport is a bestselling 1968 novel by Arthur Hailey about a large metropolitan airport and the personalities of the people who use, rely and suffer from its operation. Th...
"Все огни - огонь" - пожалуй, самый загадочный сборник рассказов великого Кортасара. Каждое произведение этой книги - не просто жемчужина магического реализма, но и соверш...
Импрессионизм — живопись впечатления, мгновения, выхваченного из монотонности будней. Хотя зародилось это течение в Париже еще во второй половине XIX века, по сию пору оно...
Наслушавшись в доме своего хозяина умных разговоров о новых течениях современной мысли, в первую очередь о модном индивидуализме и о "сверхчеловеке", кот возомнил себя сущ...