Selected short stories: Joseph Conrad
Джоузеф Конрад (Joseph Conrad)
WORDSWORTH
This specially commissioned selection of Conrad's short stories includes favourites such as Youth, a modern epic of the sea; The Secret Sharer, a thrilling psychological drama; An Outpost of Progress, a blackly comic prelude to Heart ... [ още ] |
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Атентатът
Ясмина Кадра
Прозорец
В претъпкан ресторант в Тел Авив влиза уж бременна жена и внезапно взривява бомба, която крие под роклята си. През целия зловещ ден доктор Амин, израелец от арабски произход, оперира една след друга многобройните жертви на кървавото ... [ още ] |
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The Street Lawyer
Джон Гришам
Arrow
Michael was in a hurry. He was scrambling up the ladder at Drake & Sweeney, a giant D. C. firm with 800 lawyers. The money was good and getting better; a partnership was three years away. He was a rising star, with no time to waste, no ... [ още ] |
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Star Wars: Outbound Flight
Тимъти Зан
Arrow
Before the start of the Clone Wars, the future Emperor was already maneuvering to destroy the Jedi. This is the tale of the doomed Outbound Flight Project, which began as a new hope for the galaxy...and ended in despair. A grand Jedi ... [ още ] |
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Pompeii
Робърт Харис
Arrow
A sweltering week in late August. Where better to enjoy the last days of summer than on the beautiful Bay of Naples? But even as Rome's richest citizens relax in their villas around Pompeii and Herculaneum, there are ominous warnings ... [ още ] |
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The Old Man and the Sea
Ърнест Хемингуей
Arrow
Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the story of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. It was The Old Man and the Sea that won for Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature. Here, in a ... [ още ] |
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Men Without Women
Ърнест Хемингуей
Arrow
Men Without Women was a milestone in Hemingway's career. Fiesta had already established him as a novelist of exceptional power, but with these short stories, his second collection, he showed that it is possible, within the space of a ... [ още ] |
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A Moveable Feast
Ърнест Хемингуей
Vintage
Hemingway's memories of his life as an unknown writer living in Paris in the 1920s are deeply personal, warmly affectionate and full of wit. He recalls the time when, poor, happy and writing in cafes, he discovered his vocation. |
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Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Харуки Мураками
Vintage
A young man accompanies his cousin to the hospital to check an unusual hearing complaint and recalls a story of a woman put to sleep by tiny flies crawling inside her ear; a mirror appears out of nowhere and a nightwatchman is unnerved as ... [ още ] |
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Lullaby
Чък Поланик
Vintage
Carl Streator is a reporter investigating Sudden Infant Death Syndrome for a soft-news feature. After responding to several calls with paramedics, he notices that all the dead children were read the same poem from the same library book the ... [ още ] |
