Selected short stories: Joseph Conrad
Dzhouzef Konrad (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 ... [ more ] |
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Atentatyt
Iasmina Kadra
Prozorec
V pretypkan restorant v Tel Aviv vliza uzh bremenna zhena i vnezapno vzriviava bomba, koiato krie pod rokliata si. Prez celia zlovesht den doktor Amin, izraelec ot arabski proizhod, operira edna sled druga mnogobrojnite zhertvi na kyrvavoto ... [ more ] |
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The Street Lawyer
Dzhon Grisham
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 ... [ more ] |
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Star Wars: Outbound Flight
Timyti Zan
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 ... [ more ] |
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Pompeii
Robyrt Haris
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 ... [ more ] |
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The Old Man and the Sea
Yrnest Heminguej
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 ... [ more ] |
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Men Without Women
Yrnest Heminguej
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 ... [ more ] |
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A Moveable Feast
Yrnest Heminguej
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
Haruki Murakami
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 ... [ more ] |
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Lullaby
Chyk Polanik
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 ... [ more ] |
