Brave New World
Oldys Hyksli
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- ... [ more ] |
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The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell
Oldys Hyksli
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
Umberto Eko
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 ... [ more ] |
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Baudolino
Umberto Eko
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, ... [ more ] |
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The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
Umberto Eko
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 ... [ more ] |
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The First Forty-Nine Stories
Yrnest Heminguej
From Ernest Hemingway's Preface: 'There are many kinds of stories in this book. I hope you will find some that you like- In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and ... [ more ] |
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Winner Take Nothing
Yrnest Heminguej
Written when Hemingway was at the height of his creative powers, the stories in Winner Take Nothing glow with the mark of his unique talent.
Hunters, wives, old men of wisdom, waiters, fighters, women loved, women lost: they are all here, ... [ more ] |
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True at First Light
Yrnest Heminguej
Written when Hemingway returned from his 1953 safari, and edited by his son Patrick, True at First Light is a rich blend of autobiography and fiction, a breathtaking final work from one of this century's most beloved and important ... [ more ] |
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Don Zhuan
Peter Handke
Riva
Peter Handke e edin ot naj-interesnite syvremenni avstrijski pisateli, avtor na nad deset romana, na poveche ot petnajset drami, na filmovi scenarii, na razkazi i noveli, na mnozhestvo prevodi, na mnogobrojni eseistichni tekstove i ... [ more ] |
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Primkata na sydbata
Dzhordzho Faleti
Prozorec
Minaloto e miastoto, kydeto e naj-trudno da se zavyrnesh. Dzhim Makkenzi, pilot na helikopter s indianska kryv, razbira tova, kogato sled mnogo godini se ozovava v zadriamalia grad na granicata s rezervata na plemeto navaho. Tam e prezhivial ... [ more ] |
