The Lollipop Shoes
Джоан Харис
Black Swan
Seeking refuge in the cobbled streets of Montmartre, Yanne and her daughters, Rosette and Annie, live peacefully, if not happily, above their chocolate shop. Nothing unusual marks them out; no red sachets hang by the door. The wind has ... [ още ] |
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The Master and Margarita
Михаил Булгаков
Vintage
One of the great imaginative novels of the century, a fierce political satire, filled with the most dazzling surreal humour. One hot spring, the devil arrives in Moscow, accompanied by two demons, a beautiful naked witch and a huge black ... [ още ] |
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A Farewell to Arms
Ърнест Хемингуей
Vintage
In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the 'war to end all wars'. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experience came A Farewell to Arms. Hemingway's description of war ... [ още ] |
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ърнест Хемингуей
Vintage
High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle the dynamiting. There, in the mountains, he finds the dangers and the ... [ още ] |
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Ape and Essence
Олдъс Хъксли
Vintage
In February 2108, the New Zealand Rediscovery Expedition reaches California at last. It is over a century since the world was devastated by nuclear war, but the blight of radioactivity and disease still gnaws away at the survivors. The ... [ още ] |
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Brave New World
Олдъс Хъксли
Vintage
Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill- ... [ още ] |
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The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell
Олдъс Хъксли
Vintage
In 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gramme of mescalin, sat down and waited to see what would happen. When he opened his eyes everything was transformed. Huxley described his experience in The Doors of Perception and its sequel Heaven and Hell. |
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Foucault's Pendulum
Умберто Еко
Vintage
Three book editors, jaded by reading far too many crackpot manuscripts on the mystic and the occult, are inspired by an extraordinary conspiracy story told to them by a strange colonel to have some fun. They start feeding random bits of ... [ още ] |
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Baudolino
Умберто Еко
Vintage
An extraordinary epic, brilliantly-imagined, new novel from a world-class writer and author of The Name of the Rose. Discover the Middle Ages with Baudolino - a wondrous, dazzling, beguiling tale of history, myth and invention. It is 1204, ... [ още ] |
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The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
Умберто Еко
Vintage
Yambo, a sixty-ish rare book dealer who lives in Milan has suffered a loss of memory; not the kind of memory neurologists call 'semantic' (Yambo remembers all about Julius Caesar and can recite every poem he has ever read), but ... [ още ] |
