50 th anniversary edition. Over 30 million copies sold worldwide. ... "Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the thirties. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina of ... |
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Set in Hardy's Wessex, Tess is a moving novel of hypocrisy and double standards. Its challenging sub-title, A Pure Woman, infuriated critics when the book was first published in 1891, and it was condemned as immoral and pessimistic. It tells of Tess Durbeyfield, the daughter of a poor and dissipated villager, who learns that she may be descended from the ancient family of d'Urbeville. In her search for respectability her fortunes fluctuate wildly, and the story assumes the proportions of a Greek tragedy. It explores Tess's relationships with two very different men, her struggle against the social mores of ... |
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Пърси Джаксън е на път да бъде изхвърлен от училище... отново. И това е най-малкият от всичките му проблеми. Напоследък чудовища и древногръцки богове се пръкват навсякъде, вместо да си стоят по страниците на учебника му по литература. А за капак на всичко, изглежда, че е успял да ядоса някои от тях. Истинската мълния на Зевс е открадната и познайте кой е главният заподозрян. Сега Пърси има десет дена, за да открие и върне задигнатата собственост на повелителя на небето. За да се увенчае с успех подвигът му обаче, момчето ще трябва да направи малко повече от това просто да разбере кой е истинският крадец. "Ако си ... |
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Като самопровъзгласил се "поборник за правата на дребните грозници" Джералд Даръл (1925 - 1995) посвещава живота си на съхраняването на природата и животинския свят, без значение дали става въпрос за розовия гълъб от остров Мавриций или за плодовия прилеп на Родригес. Но освен че защитава животните, той и пише забавно и информативно за своя опит и преживелици, докато обикаля света в издирване на животински видове. Намерението му точно преди 60 години при написването на "Моето семейство и други животни" е било да сподели знанията си за дивата природа на остров Корфу, но в крайна сметка се оказва ... |
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As Mrs Dalloway works on the preparations for a dinner party, her thoughts throughout the day wander from memories of the past to interrogations about the present and lead her to assess the choices she has made in life and love. Her monologue interweaves with the account of the distress, on that same day, of the shell-shocked veteran Septimus Warren Smith, whose trauma and hallucinations end in tragedy, as the links between the two characters unfold. One of Virginia Woolf's most famous novels, Mrs Dalloway is a triumph of experimentation, a cornerstone of Modernism and a subtle examination of love, freedom, mental ... |
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The year is 1984. The country is impoverished and permanently at war, people are watched day and night by Big Brother and their every action and thought is controlled by the Thought Police. Winston Smith works in the department of propaganda, where his job is to rewrite the past. Spurred by his longing to escape, Winston rebels. He breaks the law by falling in love with Julia and, as part of the clandestine organization the Brotherhood, they attempt the unimaginable - to bring down the Party. George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is one of the most famous and influential novels of the 20th century. This terrifying ... |
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Многото стаи на сърцето е история, която дописва обикновения делник и с оперна страст го превръща в магически реализъм. Дария и Богомил се срещат в лятото на живота си. Той е важен и вечно зает адвокат, свикнал да командва всички наоколо и нещата да стават по неговия начин. Тя е разведена, физиотерапевт с вълшебни ръце и огнен нрав. Първата среща е служебна, ала в страстта, която лумва помежду им, няма нищо делово. Любовта им е знойна като тропическо лято и упоителна като магически реализъм. Но никоя извънмерна любов и страст не може да устои на времето и ежедневието. Дария заминава за Мексико, а страниците на дневника & ... |
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Complete and unabridged. ... As well as being one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century and the recipient of the 1923 Nobel Prize for Literature, William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939) is the greatest lyric poet that Ireland has produced. His early work includes the beguiling When You are Old, The Cloths of Heaven and The Lake Isle of Innisfree but, unusually for a poet, Yeats's later works, including Parnell's Funeral, surpass even those of his youth. All are present in this volume, which reproduces the 1933 edition of W. B. Yeats's Collected Poems and also contains an illuminating ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Shooting stars tear across the night sky, then a gigantic artificial cylinder descends from Mars to land near London. Inquisitive locals gather round, only to be struck down by a murderous Heat-Ray. Giant destructive machines disgorge from the cylinder, destroying everything in their path on a merciless march towards the capital. Can humanity survive this Martian onslaught? A gripping adventure written in semi-documentary style, "The War of the Worlds" by H. G. Wells is the seminal man versus machine adventure which has inspired countless ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... In "The Great Gatsby", F. Scott Fitzgerald captures the flamboyance, the carelessness and the cruelty of the wealthy during America's Jazz Age. "The Great Gatsby" lives mysteriously in a luxurious Long Island mansion, playing lavish host to hundreds of people. And yet no one seems to know him or how he became so rich. He is rumoured to be everything from a German spy to a war hero. People clamour for invitations to his wild parties. But Jay Gatsby doesn't heed them. He cares for one person alone - Daisy Buchanan, the woman he ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... "To love makes one solitary, she thought." On a perfect June morning, Clarissa Dalloway - fashionable, worldly, wealthy, an accomplished hostess - sets off to buy flowers for the party she will host that evening. She is preoccupied with thoughts of the present and memories of the past, and from her interior monologue emerge the people who have touched her life. On the same day, Septimus Warren Smith, a shell-shocked survivor of the Great War, commits suicide, and casual mention of his death at the party provokes in Clarissa thoughts of her own ... |
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Пълното издание на прочутия роман на Габриел Гарсия Маркес, донесъл му Нобелова награда през 1982 година. Сто години самота не е обикновен роман. Това е роман паметник на рода Буендия, който обхваща 100, 200 или повече години (вие решете колко) от създаването както на него, така и на легендарното селище Макондо, което обитава, до неговия край. Не е възможно да се опише това произведение в няколко реда. Книгата е пълна със събития, житейски и обществени случки, страсти и подробности. Героите в нея са много и поведението им е най-разнообразно. Има и много хумор, както и много прочути изречения, които ще останат завинаги в ... |
