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More Far Eastern Tales
Автор: W. Somerset Maugham Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2000 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 17 августа 20092002-05-06
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From the love affair between a missionary and a drunkard to the mystery surrounding a death at sea, this collection gives a warm and humourous insight into life and history of life in the colonies and stands as a superbly entertaining and compelling testament to Maugham's skill and power as a short story writer.
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The Quiet Girl
Автор: Peter Hoeg Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 05 июня 20102009-06-11
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Centres around Kaspar Krone, a world-renowned circus clown with a deep love for the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, and an even deeper gambling debt. Wanted for tax evasion and on the verge of extradition, Krone is drafted into the service of a mysterious order of nuns who promise him reprieve from the international authorities.
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The Red House Mystery
Автор: A. A. Milne Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2009 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20112012-02-29
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Far from the gentle slopes of the Hundred Acre Wood lies The Red House, the setting for A.A Milne's only detective story, where secret passages, uninvited guests, a sinister valet and a puzzling murder lay the foundations for a classic crime caper. And when the local police prove baffled, it is up to a guest at a local inn to appoint himself 'Sherlock Holmes' and, together with his friend and loyal 'Watson', delve deeper into the mysteries of the dead man. The Red House Mystery is a lost gem from a time before Tigger and a perfectly crafted whodunit with witty dialogue, deft plotting and a most curious cast of characters.
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The Secret Life of War: Journeys Through Modern Conflict
Автор: Peter Beaumont Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 14 августа 20122013-09-24
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War has changed. In the past, states clashed and battles were fought between armies. Superpowers are pitted against warlords. The author takes readers into the guts of modern conflict. He visits the bombed and abandoned home of Mullah Omar and discovers a deserted Al Qaeda camp where he finds documents describing a plan to attack London.
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Shake Hands For Ever
Автор: Ruth Rendell Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 14 августа 20122013-09-24
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Angela Hathall is found strangled in her bed but shockingly the death of this meek and solitary woman sparks little emotion from her husband. Called in to investigate, Wexford's curiosity only deepens when he discovers that the Hathall household has been meticulously cleaned but for a single distinctive palm print.
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The Vampire Armand
Автор: Anne Rice Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 528 Дата загрузки: 12 сентября 20152013-09-10
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The leader of the vampire coven, the Theatre des Vampires in Paris was snatched from the steppes of Russia as a child, and sold as a slave in Renaissance Venice. From there Armand's story spans several hundred years, culminating in a visit to New Orleans at the end of the twentieth century. Here his victims await either death or immortality.
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75 Short Masterpieces: Stories from the World's Literature
Автор: Roger Goodman Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 1985 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 14 апреля 20091987-05-26
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Seventy-five short masterpieces of fiction.
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Ada or Ardor a Family Chronicle
Автор: Vladimir Nabokov Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 624 Дата загрузки: 19 апреля 20122013-08-17
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Published two weeks after his seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of Nabokov's greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist. It tells a love story troubled by incest. But more: it is also at once a fairy tale, epic, philosophical treatise on the nature of time, parody of the history of the novel, and erotic catalogue. Ada, or Ardor is no less than the supreme work of an imagination at white heat. This is the first American edition to include the extensive and ingeniously sardonic appendix by the author, written under the anagrammatic pseudonym Vivian Darkbloom.
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American Short Story Masterpieces
Автор: Raymond Carver Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 1989 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 11 июля 20091993-03-12
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This collection of thirty-six classic short stories from the fifties to the eighties features works by authors such as James Baldwin, Barry Hannah, Bernard Halamud, Flannery OConnor, Philip Roth, Anne Beattie, and Tobias Wolff.
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Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Автор: Anne Lamott Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 1995 Страниц: 239 Дата загрузки: 19 февраля 20091998-04-15
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»Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he'd had three months to write. It was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books on birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him, put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, 'Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.'»
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The Case of Comrade Tulayev
Автор: Victor Serge Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2004 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 13 августа 20092007-02-26
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A high government official is shot on the street, and the hunt for the ki ller begins. The search leads all over the world, netting a series of suspects whose only connection is their innocence — at least of this crime. But «The Case of Comrade Tulayev, the best novel about the Stalinist purges, is also a classic tale of risk and adventure that stands beside» For Whom the Bell Tolls.
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Children of the Vampire: The Diaries of the Family Dracul
Автор: Jeanne Kalogriois Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 1996 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 23 августа 20091998-07-14
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The battle waged in the heart of the Family Dracul continues, as the innocent take up arms against the monster. As his loved ones indulge in forbidden crimes with a legendary passion, Vlad the Impaler's heir, Arkady, cries out to his sons» «Let the curse end with me!»
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The Cinderella Deal
Автор: Jennifer Crusie Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 278 Дата загрузки: 06 мая 20132014-03-28
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An unlikely duo teams up in a charade of love, never expecting that they'll find happily-ever-after, in this Loveswept debut by award-winning Jennifer Crusie, who has earned high praise for her fast-paced and hilarious Harlequin romances.
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The Clan of the Cave Bear
Автор: Jean M. Auel Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 1997 Страниц: 528 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20092000-04-17
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A stunning epic that has stirred the imagination of millions of readers, «The Clan of the cave Bear» tells the story of the orphaned Ayla and her struggle to fit in and survive after her own tribe is killed by an earthquake.
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The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
Автор: Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 1999 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 23 октрября 20092003-03-12
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This collection contains Gogols finest tales — from the demon-haunted St Johns Eve and Viy to the surrealism of The Nose, from the trials of the copyist in The Overcoat to those of the delusional clerk in The Diary of a Madman.
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The Color of Law
Автор: Mark Gimenez Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2006 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 03 августа 20082008-07-11
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The ne'er-do-well son of a Texas millionaire presidential hopeful winds up murdered, apparently by a heroin-addicted hooker. Assigned to defend the prime suspect, Dallas attorney Scott Fenney must choose between his lifestyle and doing what he knows is right.
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The Complete Short Novels
Автор: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2005 Страниц: 576 Дата загрузки: 26 декабря 20092009-03-12
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Aanton Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story, also wrote five works long enough to be called short novelshere brought together in one volume for the first time, in a masterly new translation by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. The Steppethe most lyrical of the fiveis an account of a nine-year-old boy's frightening journey by wagon train across the steppe of southern Russia. The Duel sets two decadent figuresa fanatical rationalist and a man of literary sensibilityon a collision course that ends in a series of surprising reversals. In The Story of an Unknown Man, a political radical spying on an important official by serving as valet to his son gradually discovers that his own terminal illness has changed his long-held priorities in startling ways. Three Years recounts a complex series of ironies in the personal life of a rich but passive Moscow merchant. In My Life, a man renounces wealth and social position for a life of manual labor. The resulting conflict between the moral simplicity of his ideals and the complex realities of human nature culminates in a brief apocalyptic vision that is unique in Chekhov's work. From the Hardcover edition.
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Covenant With the Vampire: The Diaries of the Family Dracul
Автор: Jeanne Kalogridis Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 1995 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 21 июня 20092000-08-14
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Honoring a family pact that compels him to return to Transylvania to take part in a secret ceremony, young Arkady Tsepesh of the family Dracul learns a devastating truth about his ancestor, Prince Vlad.
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The Da Vinci Code
Автор: Dan Brown Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 597 Дата загрузки: 21 августа 20132015-03-12
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PREMIUM MASS MARKET EDITION #1 Worldwide Bestseller — More Than 80 Million Copies Sold. As millions of readers around the globe have already discovered, The Da Vinci Code is a reading experience unlike any other. Simultaneously lightning-paced, intelligent, and intricately layered with remarkable research and detail, Dan Brown's novel is a thrilling masterpiece — from its opening pages to its stunning conclusion.
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Darkly Dreaming Dexter
Автор: Jeff Lindsay Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2009 Страниц: 341 Дата загрузки: 11 июля 20102010-06-05
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This is where it all begins for Dexter Morgan, the darkly funny character who is the inspiration for the hit Showtime series. Dexter is a forensics blood-spatter expert for the Miami police department, who is also a serial killer with a golden rule: he only kills bad people.
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