Джеймс Солтър "може да ви разбие сърцето само с едно изречение". ... За този роман важи правилото на студената вода - за да го усетиш, трябва да се гмурнеш в него. Тук няма шеметно действие, което да те завърти във вихрушката си, няма резки сюжетни обрати, няма цял легион герои с имена, които трудно ще запомниш. Има само чувства, чувственост, еротика, любов, обреченост, осветени така, че прогарят като с мощна лупа хартията. Трима души поемат на дълго пътешествие из провинциална Франция, за да открият географията на страстта. Младият американец Филип Дийн, загърбил нехайно щедрите дарове на доброто обществено ... |
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"The love story" to end all love stories. The multi-million-copy international bestseller. ... Noah Calhoun has just returned from World War Two. Attempting to escape the ghosts of battle, he tries to concentrate on restoring an old plantation home to its former glory. And yet he is haunted by images of the beautiful girl he met there fourteen years before, a girl who captured his heart like no other. But when these distant memories begin to slide into reality, the passion that had lain still is ignited once more. Though so much is in their way, the miraculous force of their love refuses to fade. "They don& ... |
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+ 29 recipes. ... "Nine Rabbits" tells two stories, that of a six-year-old girl, and of her grown-up self: Manda grows up on the Black Sea coast during the height of socialism in the 1960s, raised by her tyrannical grandmother along with her young aunts and uncles. While Grandma Nikula wages open and covert wars with life, Manda lives out the adventures of her childhood under the shadow of her absent grandfather. Forty years later on, we find that same child has become a woman, now living in a democratic Bulgaria and racked by an identity crisis. Manda has swallowed up her tyrannical grandmother, turning that ... |
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George Orwell 's dystopian masterpiece, Nineteen Eighty-Four is perhaps the most pervasively influential book of the twentieth century, making famous Big Brother, newspeak and Room 101. 'Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past' Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, which demands absolute obedience and controls him through the all-seeing telescreens and the watchful eye of Big Brother, ... |
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Afghanistan, 1975: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him. But neither of the boys can foresee what will happen to Hassan that afternoon, an event that is to shatter their lives. After the Russians invade and the family is forced to flee to America, Amir realises that one day he must return to Afghanistan under Taliban rule to find the one thing that his new world cannot grant him: redemption."Devastating!" Daily Telegraph "Unforgeable." Isabel Allende "Heartbreaking." The Times "Hosseini is a ... |
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Anna Karenina is one of the most loved and memorable heroines of literature. Her overwhelming charm dominates a novel of unparalleled richness and density. Tolstoy considered this book to be his first real attempt at a novel form, and it addresses the very nature of society at all levels, of destiny, death, human relationships and the irreconcilable contradictions of existence. It ends tragically, and there is much that evokes despair, yet set beside this is an abounding joy in life's many ephemeral pleasures, and a profusion of comic relief. ... |
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Begun when the author was only eighteen and conceived from a nightmare, Frankenstein is the deeply disturbing story of a monstrous creation which has terrified and chilled readers since its first publication in 1818. The novel has thus seared its way into the popular imagination while establishing itself as one of the pioneering works of modern science fiction. ... |
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The Hound of the Baskervilles is the classic detective chiller. It features the world's greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes, in his most challenging case. The Baskerville family is haunted by a phantom beast "with blazing eyes and dripping jaws" which roams the mist-enshrouded moors around the isolated Baskerville Hall on Dartmoor. Now the hound seems to be stalking young Sir Henry, the new master of the Baskerville estate. Is this devilish spectre the manifestation of the family curse? Or is Sir Henry the victim of a vile and scheming murderer? Only Sherlock Holmes can solve this devilish affair. The ... |
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The Best of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twenty of the very best tales from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s fifty-six short stories featuring the arch sleuth. Basing his selection around the author’s own twelve personal favourites, David Stuart Davies has added a further eight sparkling stories to Conan Doyle’s "Baker Street Dozen", creating a unique volume which distils the pure essence of the world’s most famous detective. Within these pages the reader will encounter the greatest collection of villains and the weirdest and most puzzling mysteries ever seen in print. And there at the centre, in a London ... |
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The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906) are world famous animal stories. Set in Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush of the late 1890s, The Call of the Wild is about Buck, the magnificent cross-bred offspring of a St Bernard and a Scottish Collie. Stolen from his pampered life on a Californian estate and shipped to the Klondike to work as a sledge dog, he triumphs over his circumstances and becomes the leader of a wolf pack. The story records the "decivilisation" of Buck as he answers 'the call of the wild', an inherent memory of primeval origins to which he instinctively responds. In contrast, ... |
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Високопоставен ирански военен е взривен в колата си при опит да избяга на Запад. Разследваща журналистка е арестувана в Истанбул заради статия, критикуваща правителството. Водещ ядрен специалист е убит на улицата в Техеран. На пръв поглед трите случая нямат нищо общо помежду си, но всъщност са свързани. И трите жертви работят за западни разузнавателни служби. Пол Уолинджър, резидент на МИ6 в Турция, също загива при съмнителна самолетна катастрофа. Загубила човек, когото много е обичала, шефката на МИ6 пренебрегва обичайните канали и изпраща агент Томас Кел да проведе свое разследване. Той скоро осъзнава, че подозренията ... |
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Дийн Робилард, куотърбек от "Чикаго Старс", е най-големият късметлия на света: истинска спортна суперзвезда и с доходна кариера на модел. Но късметът му започва да помръква и Дийн се отправя на пътешествие из страната, за да разбере какво се е объркало в живота му. Когато поема по самотна дълга отсечка на магистрала в щата Колорадо, той забелязва нещо, което ще промени бляскавия му живот по начин, който дори не е и сънувал. Една млада жена, облечена в костюм на бобър... Блу Бейли е тръгнала на мисия - да убие предишното си гадже. Или поне да го нарани сериозно. А колкото до бобърския костюм, в който се е ... |