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Forgotten Realms: Hunters Blades 2: The Lone Drow
Автор: R.A. Salvatore Жанр: Сказочная фантастика (фэнтези) Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2004 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 28 мая 20092006-10-30
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Continues the adventures of the Dark Elf hero, Drizzt Do-Urden, and his companions.
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Forgotten Realms: Hunters Blades 3: The Two Swords
Автор: R.A. Salvatore Жанр: Сказочная фантастика (фэнтези) Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2005 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 14 апреля 20092008-09-30
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Continues the adventures of the Dark Elf hero, Drizzt Do-Urden, and his companions.
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Forgotten Realms: The Sellswords 2: Promise of the Witch-King
Автор: R.A. Salvatore Жанр: Сказочная фантастика (фэнтези) Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2006 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 14 апреля 20102009-09-30
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Follows the power-hungry dark elf Jarlaxle and his assassin compatriot, Artemis Entreri, as they battle evil forces, in the second volume in a series chronicling the adventures of two characters from the Forgotten Realms universe. Reprint.
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Forgotten Realms: The Sellswords 3: Road of the Patriarch
Автор: R.A. Salvatore Жанр: Сказочная фантастика (фэнтези) Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2007 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 14 марта 20102012-08-31
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Explore the mind of an assassin in R.A. Salvatore's exciting conclusion to The Sellswords Trilogy! The drow mercenary Jarlaxle and his companion, the human assassin Artemis Entreri, have begun to make a home for themselves in the rugged Bloodstone Lands. But not everyone is ready to trust a man who's spent his life killing for coin, much less a member of a race of subterranean elves known for their fanatical devotion to a demon goddess. If they want to make it out of the Bloodstone Lands alive, they'll have to learn to trust their enemies, and be suspicious of their friends.
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The Funeral Party
Автор: Ludmila Ulitskaya Жанр: Современная российская литература Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2002 Страниц: 160 Дата загрузки: 25 апреля 20092004-07-04
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August 1991. In a sweltering New York City apartment, a group of Russian émigrés gathers round the deathbed of an artist named Alik, a charismatic character beloved by them all, especially the women who take turns nursing him as he fades from this world. Their reminiscences of the dying man and of their lives in Russia are punctuated by debates and squabbles: Whom did Alik love most? Should he be baptized before he dies, as his alcoholic wife, Nina, desperately wishes, or be reconciled to the faith of his birth by a rabbi who happens to be on hand? And what will be the meaning for them of the Yeltsin putsch, which is happening across the world in their long-lost Moscow but also right before their eyes on CNN? This marvelous group of individuals inhabits the first novel by Ludmila Ulitskaya to be published in English, a book that was shortlisted for the Russian Booker Prize and has been praised wherever translated editions have appeared. Simultaneously funny and sad, lyrical in its Russian sorrow and devastatingly keen in its observation of character, «The Funeral Party» introduces to our shores a wonderful writer who captures, wryly and tenderly, our complex thoughts and emotions confronting life and death, love and loss, homeland and exile.
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Medea and Her Children
Автор: Ludmila Ulitskaya Жанр: Современная российская литература Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 апреля 20122011-09-12
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Medea Georgievna Sinoply Mendez is an iconic figure in her Crimean village, the last remaining pure-blooded Greek in a family that has lived on that coast for centuries. Childless Medea is the touchstone of a large family, which gathers each spring and summer at her home. There are her nieces (sexy Nike and shy Masha), her nephew Georgii (who shares Medea’s devotion to the Crimea), and their friends. In this single summer, the languor of love will permeate the Crimean air, hearts will be broken, and old memories will float to consciousness, allowing us to experience not only the shifting currents of erotic attraction and competition, but also the dramatic saga of this family amid the forces of dislocation, war, and upheaval of twentieth-century Russian life.
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Irish Fairy and Folk Tales
Автор: William Butler Yeats Жанр: Сказки (издания для взрослых) Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2003 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 14 августа 20092004-12-20
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Gathered by the renowned Irish poet, playwright, and essayist William Butler Yeats, the sixty-five tales and poems in this delightful collection uniquely capture the rich heritage of the Celtic imagination. Filled with legends of village ghosts, fairies, demons, witches, priests, and saints, these stories evoke both tender pathos and lighthearted mirth and embody what Yeats describes as “the very voice of the people, the very pulse of life”. “The impact of these tales doesn’t stop with Yeats, or Joyce, or Oscar Wilde”, writes Paul Muldoon in his Foreword, “for generations of readers in Ireland and throughout the world have found them flourishing like those persistent fairy thorns”.
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Taras Bulba
Автор: Nikolai Gogol Жанр: Российская литература 19 — начала 20 веков (до 1918 г.) Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2003 Страниц: 176 Дата загрузки: 11 июня 20092005-07-24
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The First New Translation in Forty Years Set sometime between the mid-sixteenth and early-seventeenth century, Gogol’s epic tale recounts both a bloody Cossack revolt against the Poles (led by the bold Taras Bulba of Ukrainian folk mythology) and the trials of Taras Bulba’s two sons. As Robert Kaplan writes in his Introduction, “[Taras Bulba] has a Kiplingesque gusto... that makes it a pleasure to read, but central to its theme is an unredemptive, darkly evil violence that is far beyond anything that Kipling ever touched on. We need more works like Taras Bulba to better understand the emotional wellsprings of the threat we face today in places like the Middle East and Central Asia”. And the critic John Cournos has noted, “A clue to all Russian realism may be found in a Russian critic’s observation about Gogol: ‘Seldom has nature created a man so romantic in bent, yet so masterly in portraying all that is unromantic in life’. But this statement does not cover the whole ground, for it is easy to see in almost all of Gogol’s work his ‘free Cossack soul’ trying to break through the shell of sordid today like some ancient demon, essentially Dionysian. So that his works, true though they are to our life, are at once a reproach, a protest, and a challenge, ever calling for joy, ancient joy, that is no more with us. And they have all the joy and sadness of the Ukrainian songs he loved so much”.
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Putin's Labyrinth: Spies, Murder, and the Dark Heart of the New Russia
Автор: Steve Levine Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2009 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 22 марта 20122012-02-19
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In «Putin’s Labyrinth», acclaimed journalist Steve LeVine, who lived in and reported from the former Soviet Union for more than a decade, provides a gripping account of modern Russia. President Dmitri Medvedev and the country’s real power, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, are posing a resolute challenge to the West. In a penetrating narrative that recounts the lives and deaths of six Russians, LeVine portrays the growth of a “culture of death”—from targeted assassinations of the state’s enemies to the Kremlin’s indifference when innocent hostages are slaughtered. Interviews with eyewitnesses and the families and friends of these victims reveal how Russians manage to negotiate their way around the ever-present danger of violence and the emotional toll that this lethal maze is exacting on ordinary people. The result is a fresh way of assessing the forces that are driving this major new confrontation with the West.
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The Finishing School
Автор: Muriel Spark Жанр: Современная зарубежная литература Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2005 Страниц: 181 Дата загрузки: 17 августа 20092008-04-24
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From Muriel Spark, the grande dame of literary satire, comes this swift, deliciously witty tale of writerly ambition that recalls her beloved «The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie». College Sunrise is a somewhat louche and vaguely disreputable finishing school located, for now, in Lausanne, Switzerland. Rowland Mahler and his wife, Nina, run the school as a way to support themselves while he works, somewhat falteringly, on his novel. Into Rowland’s creative writing class comes seventeen-year-old Chris Wiley, a red-haired literary prodigy whose historical novel-in-progress, on Mary Queen of Scots, has already excited the interest of publishers. The inevitable result: keen envy, and a game of cat and mouse fraught with jealousy and attraction, both literary and sexual.
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The Magical Chorus: A History of Russian Culture from Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn
Автор: Solomon Volkov Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2009 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 10 сентября 20142011-07-24
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From the reign of Tsar Nicholas II to the brutal cult of Stalin to the ebullient, uncertain days of perestroika, nowhere has the inextricable relationship between politics and culture been more starkly illustrated than in twentieth-century Russia. In the first book to fully examine the intricate and often deadly interconnection between Russian rulers and Russian artists, cultural historian Solomon Volkov brings to life the experiences that inspired artists like Tolstoy, Stravinsky, Akhmatova, Nijinsky, Nabokov, and Eisenstein to create some of the greatest masterpieces of our time. Epic in scope and intimate in detail, «The Magical Chorus» is the definitive account of a remarkable era in Russia's complex cultural life.
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The Da Vinci Code (Movie tie-in)
Автор: Dan Brown Жанр: Кинороманы Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2006 Страниц: 489 Дата загрузки: 22 апреля 20102007-06-18
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A murder in the silent after-hour halls of the Louvre museum reveals a sinister plot to uncover a secret that has been protected by a clandestine society since the days of Christ. The victim is a high-ranking agent of this ancient society who, in the moments before his death, manages to leave gruesome clues at the scene that only his granddaughter, noted cryptographer Sophie Neveu, and Robert Langdon, a famed symbologist, can untangle. The duo become both suspects and detectives searching for not only Neveu's grandfather's murderer but also the stunning secret of the ages he was charged to protect. Mere steps ahead of the authorities and the deadly competition, the mystery leads Neveu and Langdon on a breathless flight through France, England, and history itself. Brown has created a page-turning thriller that also provides an amazing interpretation of Western history. Brown's hero and heroine embark on a lofty and intriguing exploration of some of Western culture's greatest mysteries — from the nature of the Mona Lisa's smile to the secret of the Holy Grail. Though some will quibble with the veracity of Brown's conjectures, therein lies the fun. «The Da Vinci Code» is an enthralling read that provides rich food for thought.
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Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere
Автор: Mike Carey Жанр: Комиксы, манга (издания для взрослых) Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2007 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20092011-03-29
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The complete comics adaptation of the acclaimed novel by New York Times best-selling author Neil Gaiman is now available in one volume! Neverwhere follows the adventures of an ordinary Londoner who stops to help an enigmatic girl and is drawn into a battle to save the strange underworld kingdom of London Below from destruction.
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Vertigo: First Cut
Жанр: Комиксы, манга (издания для взрослых) Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 15 июля 20092011-04-15
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Collecting the premiere issues of seven different Vertigo series, this low-priced graphic novel makes it easier than ever to see why Vertigo has become synonymous for quality comics that challenge the norm. «Vertigo: First Cut» features stories by some of comics' most popular writers and artists including Brian Wood (DMZ), Bill Willingham (FABLES), Brian Azzarello (100 BULLETS) and many others.
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The Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam
Автор: Osip Mandelstam Жанр: Классическая русская поэзия Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2004 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 15 августа 20092005-06-15
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Osip Mandelstam is a central figure not only in modern Russian but in world poetry, the author of some of the most haunting and memorable poems of the twentieth century. A contemporary of Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetayeva, and Boris Pasternak, a touchstone for later masters such as Paul Celan and Robert Lowell, Mandelstam was a crucial instigator of the «revolution of the word» that took place in St. Petersburg, only to be crushed by the Bolshevik Revolution. Mandelstam's last poems, written in the interval between his exile to the provinces by Stalin and his death in the Gulag, are an extraordinary testament to the endurance of art in the presence of terror. This book represents a collaboration between the scholar Clarence Brown and W. S. Merwin, one of contemporary America's finest poets and translators. It also includes Mandelstam's «Conversation on Dante», an uncategorizable work of genius containing the poet's deepest reflections on the nature of the poetic process.
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The Slynx
Автор: Tatyana Tolstaya Жанр: Современная российская литература Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2007 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 13 октрября 20102008-12-23
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Two hundred years after civilization ended in an event known as the Blast, Benedikt isn’t one to complain. He’s got a job—transcribing old books and presenting them as the words of the great new leader, Fyodor Kuzmich, Glorybe—and though he doesn’t enjoy the privileged status of a Murza, at least he’s not a serf or a half-human four-legged Degenerator harnessed to a troika. He has a house, too, with enough mice to cook up a tasty meal, and he’s happily free of mutations: no extra fingers, no gills, no cockscombs sprouting from his eyelids. And he’s managed—at least so far—to steer clear of the ever-vigilant Saniturions, who track down anyone who manifests the slightest sign of Freethinking, and the legendary screeching Slynx that waits in the wilderness beyond. Tatyana Tolstaya’s «The Slynx» reimagines dystopian fantasy as a wild, horripilating amusement park ride. Poised between Nabokov’s «Pale Fire» and Burgess’s «A Clockwork Orange», «The Slynx» is a brilliantly inventive and shimmeringly ambiguous work of art: an account of a degraded world that is full of echoes of the sublime literature of Russia’s past; a grinning portrait of human inhumanity; a tribute to art in both its sovereignty and its helplessness; a vision of the past as the future in which the future is now.
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The Queue
Автор: Vladimir Sorokin Жанр: Современная российская литература Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20102012-03-29
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Vladimir Sorokin’s first published novel, «The Queue», is a sly comedy about the late Soviet “years of stagnation”. Thousands of citizens are in line for... nobody knows quite what, but the rumors are flying. Leather or suede? Jackets, jeans? Turkish, Swedish, maybe even American? It doesn’t matter–if anything is on sale, you better line up to buy it. Sorokin’s tour de force of ventriloquism and formal daring tells the whole story in snatches of unattributed dialogue, adding up to nothing less than the real voice of the people, overheard on the street as they joke and curse, fall in and out of love, slurp down ice cream or vodka, fill out crossword puzzles, even go to sleep and line up again in the morning as the queue drags on.
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The Good Angel of Death
Автор: Andrey Kurkov Жанр: Современная российская литература Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2009 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 15 декабря 20112010-06-23
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When Kolya moves into a new flat in Kiev, he finds a book hidden within a volume of War and Peace. Intrigued by the annotations that appear on every page, Kolya sets out to discover more about the scribbler. His investigations take him to a graveyard, and more specifically to the coffin of a Ukrainian nationalist who died in mysterious circumstances and was buried with a sealed letter and a manuscript. An exhumation under cover of darkness reveals that an item of great national importance is buried near a fort in Kazakhstan. As nightwatchman at a baby-milk factory, Kolya exposes himself to the attentions of a criminal gang, and so he decides to leave Kiev for a while. Armed with only three cases of baby milk, which have unexpected hallucinogenic properties, he sets off on what turns out to be a very bizarre journey: crossing the Caspian Sea and traversing the deserts of Kazakhstan. He meets a host of unlikely characters on the way, including Bedouins, ex-KGB officers and a spirit-like companion in the form of a chameleon… «The Good Angel of Deat»h is a classic, first-rate Kurkov yarn which is sure to delight old and new fans alike.
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Tales of Belkin
Автор: Alexander Pushkin Жанр: Российская литература 19 — начала 20 веков (до 1918 г.) Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2009 Страниц: 112 Дата загрузки: 05 июня 20112011-07-23
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First published anonymously in 1830, Alexander Pushkin's «The Tales of Belkin» contains his first prose works, comprised of an introductory note and five linked stories, ostensibly collected by the scholar Ivan Belkin. Centering variously around military figures, the wealthy, and businessmen; this beautiful novella gives a vivid portrait of nineteenth century Russian life. It has become, as well, one of the most beloved books in Russian literary history, and symbolic of the popularity of the novella form in Russia. In fact, it has become the namesake for Russia's most prestigious annual literary prize, the Belkin Prize, given each year to a book voted by judges to be the best novella of the year. It is presented here in a sparkling new translation by Josh Billings.
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Kuss der Nacht
Автор: Jeaniene Frost Жанр: Сказочная фантастика (фэнтези) Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2009 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 10 сентября 20142011-07-24
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Düster, gefährlich, erotisch! Cat jagt im Auftrag der Regierung Untote. Ihren ebenso verführerischen wie gefährlichen Exfreund Bones hat sie schon lange nicht mehr gesehen – schließlich ist Bones ein Vampir und damit eigentlich ihre Beute. Doch als ein Unbekannter ein Kopfgeld auf Cat aussetzt, ist Bones ihre einzige Chance, lebend aus der Sache herauszukommen. Aber kaum steht sie ihm gegenüber, lodert das Verlangen wieder in ihr auf – und so wird Cat beinahe zu spät klar, dass Bones ganz eigene Pläne für sie hat ... Ein fesselnder Vampir-Roman mit einem unwiderstehlichen Liebespaar! Der neue Shooting Star der Dark Fantasy aus den USA!
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