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The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
Автор: Jonasson Jonas Жанр: Hesperus Издательство: Hesperus Год: 2012 Страниц: 396 Дата загрузки: 11 июня 20142014-10-17
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It all starts on the one-hundredth birthday of Allan Karlsson. Sitting quietly in his room in an old people's home, he is waiting for the party he-never-wanted-anyway to begin. The mayor is going to be there. The press is going to be there. But, as it turns out, Allan is not... Slowly but surely Allan climbs out of his bedroom window, into the flowerbed (in his slippers) and makes his getaway. And so begins his picaresque and unlikely journey involving criminals, several murders, a suitcase full of cash, and incompetent police. As his escapades unfold, we learn something of Allan's earlier life in which — remarkably — he helped to make the atom bomb, became friends with American presidents, Russian tyrants, and Chinese leaders, and was a participant behind the scenes in many key events of the twentieth century. Already a huge bestseller across Europe, The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared is a fun, feel-good book for all ages.
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My Discovery of America
Автор: Mayakovsky Vladimir Жанр: Hesperus Издательство: Hesperus Год: 2005 Страниц: 144 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20092007-07-11
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First complete translation of one of the most fascinating accounts of the leading poet of the Russian Revolutionary period; Touring the United States, by way of an enforced sojourn in Mexico, Russian poet and indefatigable traveller, Vladimir Mayakovsky was able to observe first hand what he considered to be the model for Soviet development. Although ideologically at odds with much of American culture, and taking every opportunity to propound his own political beliefs en route, he delighted in the creativity and advancement he saw, believing it to be the future for mankind. His impressions, presented in full here for the first time in the English language, form an inspired series of sketches, thoughts, jottings and poems.
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The Tales of Belkin
Автор: Pushkin Alexander Жанр: Hesperus Издательство: Hesperus Год: 2009 Страниц: 100 Дата загрузки: 20 октрября 20122011-10-13
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The Tales of Belkin were the first work of prose fiction to be completed by Russia's greatest poet, Alexander Pushkin. Written over a short period in the autumn of 1830, and sometimes referred to as 'the little parodies', the five stories reflect a number of the key interests of European writers of the time, such as the Byronic hero, the Gothic novel, and the tale of the supernatural. Perhaps the key element in each of these sparkling vignettes is surprise, as they provide some familiar literary themes with a range of unexpected twists. At the same time they suggested fruitful new avenues for Russian writers to explore, and the country's literature would simply not have been the same without them. The volume is completed by Pushkin's other prose work of the same time, The History of the Village of Goryukhino, an amusing parody of a contemporary history of Russia.
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The Three Fat Men
Автор: Olesha Yuri Жанр: Hesperus Издательство: Hesperus Год: 2011 Страниц: 156 Дата загрузки: 21 июня 20132014-02-29
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Revolution is brewing outside the palace walls, and the Three Fat Men who rule the land with an iron fist are getting fatter as the news gets worse. Led by the tightrope walker Tibul, the revolutionary forces, made up of ordinary citizens and the palace guard, embark on a mission to rescue Prospero the gunsmith from his imprisonment in the tyrants' zoo, and to save the life of brave young circus girl Suok, who has been unmasked from her disguise as the favourite doll of the childless Fat Men's heir, Tutti.
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Three Years
Автор: Chekhov Anton Pavlovich Жанр: Hesperus Издательство: Hesperus Год: 2004 Страниц: 112 Дата загрузки: 04 июля 20092009-08-31
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Three Years is Anton Chekhov's heartfelt attempt to create a 'novel of Moscow life'. In it, he paints a poignant portrait of the struggles and frustrations that go hand in hand with human relationships. Away from his native Moscow to care for his ailing sister, Laptev falls instantly in love with Yulia Sergeyevna, the daughter of the local doctor. She in turn feels nothing for him, but convinces herself it would be doing him a gross disservice to refuse his proposal. So begins the unequal marriage between the two, a marriage that will bring a bitter and desperate sorrow to them both. Yet as the years go by, and as they face and overcome tragedy together, they learn to value each other in new ways — and so restore their faith in the redemptive power of time.
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A Hero of Our Time
Автор: Mikhail Lermontov Жанр: Hesperus Издательство: Hesperus Год: 2005 Страниц: 169 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20092007-07-14
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Despite his obvious talents and natural abilities, Pechorin is restless and bored. Travelling from the civilised world of society drawing rooms, to the wilds of the Southern Caucasus, he embarks upon a quest for motivation and stimulation. But rather than finding the impetus he so craves, he instead becomes increasingly alienated from those around him. Sickened by the condition of his times, he chooses to reject a life of morality. This study of a man — and a society — in crisis was to become one of the most important books of its time
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Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Автор: Nikolai Leskov Жанр: Hesperus Издательство: Hesperus Год: 2004 Страниц: 66 Дата загрузки: 12 марта 20092005-12-30
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Stifled by her marriage of convenience to a man twice her age, the young Katerina Lvovna goes yawning about the house, missing the barefoot freedom of her childhood, until she meets the feckless steward Sergei Filipych. Sergei proceeds to seduce Katerina, as he has done half the women in the town, not realising that her passions, once awoken, will attach to him so fiercely that Katerina will stop at nothing to keep hold of him. Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk is an unsettling tale of a woman's struggle for happiness and control in the midst of a society that watches, constrains and judges her. The simple and dramatic plot inspired Shostakovich's acclaimed opera of the same name, whilst in Katerina herself, whose unselfconscious passion and calculating brutality is narrated in startlingly detached detail, Leskov has created an anti-heroine of almost superhuman stature and compelling intensity who now stands as one of the archetypes of European literature.
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