Пълно луксозно издание на един от най-четените романи за XX век. ... Рим по време на управлението на Нерон е привидно бляскаво място. Организират се богати пирове и поетични състезания, а забавленията в Циркус Максимус сякаш нямат край. От другата страна на монетата обаче са развратът и липсата на морал, бедността на народа и лудостта на императора, който подпалва собствения си град. В тези мрачни дни на упадъка на Римската империя младият войник Марк Виниций се влюбва в Лигия - пленената дъщеря на варварски цар. Но той не подозира, че любимата му изповядва християнската вяра, заради която мнозина вече са загубили живота ... |
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Палми в снега е роман с голям успех в Испания и чужбина, претърпял 42 издания, преведен на 7 езика. Филмът по едноименния роман е с 5 номинации за награди Гоя, 2015 г. Получава две от тях: за най-добър дизайн на продукция и за най-добра песен от филм. Главната героиня - млада испанка на име Кларънс - намира сред документите на баща си писмо, което събужда любопитството ѝ и я отвежда на остров Фернандо По, в Екваториална Гвинея, бивша испанска колония. Там, сред екзотиката на тропика, тръгва по следите на дълго пазена семейна тайна и разкрива историята на вълнуваща забранена любов на фона на редица исторически ... |
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Bestselling author of "Red Queen". ... I was born to kill a King, to end a reign of terror before it can truly begin. Mare's blood is red - the colour of common folk - but her Silver ability, the power to control lightning, has turned her into a weapon that the royal court wants to control. Pursued by the vengeful Silver king, Mare sets out to find and recruit other Red-and-Silver fighters to join the rebellion. But Mare finds herself on a deadly path, at risk of becoming exactly the kind of monster she is trying to defeat. Will she shatter under the weight of the lives that are the cost of rebellion? Or ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... "The Sonnets" of William Shakespeare, a cycle of 154 linked poems, were first published in 1609. Filled with ideas about love, beauty and mortality, the sonnets are written in the same beautiful and innovative language that we have come to know from Shakespeare's plays. The first 126 sonnets are addressed to a young man known as the "Fair Youth", while others are directed at a "Rival Poet", and a "Dark Lady". This "Macmillan Collector's Library" edition contains all of the poems, which explore many ... |
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Моят дар е бъдещето. Моят дар е спасението. Моят дар е адът. ... "Търсете и ще намерите." Тези думи отекват в съзнанието на видния харвардски професор по религиозна символика Робърт Лангдън, когато се свестява в болница, без спомен къде се намира и как се е озовал там. Не може да обясни и произхода на страховития предмет, открит сред вещите му. Заплаха за живота ще запрати Лангдън и младата лекарка Сиена Брукс на главоломна гонитба из Флоренция. Единствено познаването на тайни проходи и древни загадки, спотайващи се зад историческата фасада, може да ги спаси от неизвестните им преследвачи. Водени само от ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Shipwrecked off the coast of Trinidad, Robinson Crusoe - a young man with a thirst for adventure - finds himself washed up on a remote tropical island with nothing but a few tools and animals for company. Cast away for thirty years, he must battle cannibals, mutineers and the elements in a tale so convincing that many readers at the time believed it to be non-fiction. A true page-turner, "Robinson Crusoe" is one of the most enduring novels in the English language and its unique blend of extraordinary realism and brilliant drama continues to ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Jane Austen's final novel is her most mature and wickedly satirical. It follows the story of Anne Elliott, who as a teenager, was engaged to a seemingly ideal man, Frederick Wentworth. But after being persuaded by her friend Lady Russell that he is too poor to be a suitable match, Anne ends their engagement. When they are reacquainted eight years later, their circumstances are transformed: Frederick is returning triumphantly from the Napoleonic War, while Anne's fortunes are floundering. Will their past regrets prevent them from finding future ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Brilliant anti-heroine Becky Sharp will do anything to climb to society's loftiest heights and couldn't be more different from her rich, sweet-natured schoolmate, Amelia Sedley. Their parallel lives are marked by love, lust, marriage, fortune and loss, in all their different guises, as they navigate the corrupt circus of upper-class Regency England. Hailed as a literary masterpiece upon first publication, William Makepeace Thackeray's "Vanity Fair" has never waned in popularity and remains a highly entertaining satire of early ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... "Les Misérables" is a magnificent, sweeping story of revolution, love and the will to survive set amidst the poverty stricken streets of nineteenth-century Paris. Escaped convict Jean Valjean turns his back on his criminal past to build his fortunes as an honest man. He takes in abandoned orphan Cosette and raises her as his own daughter. But Jean Valjean is unable to free himself from his previous life and is pursued to the end by ruthless policeman Javert. As Cosette grows up, young idealist Marius catches a glimpse of her and falls ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... On board the whaling ship Pequod a crew of wise men and fools, renegades and seeming phantoms is hurled through treacherous seas by crazed Captain Ahab, a man hell-bent on hunting down the mythic White Whale. Herman Melville transforms the little world of the whale ship into a crucible where mankind's fears, faith and frailties are pitted against a relentless fate. Teeming with ideas and imagery, and with its extraordinary intensity sustained by mischievous irony and moments of exquisite beauty, Moby-Dick is both a great American epic and a profoundly ... |
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Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. ... A plane crashes on a desert island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land of bright fantastic birds and dark blue seas, but at night their dreams are haunted by the image of a terrifying beats. As the boys' delicate sense of order fades, so their childish dreams are transformed into something more primitive, and their behaviour starts to take on a murderous, savage significance. First published in 1954, "Lord of the Flies" is one of the most celebrates and widely read of modern ... |
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И един въпрос продължава да отеква в тишината: Какво цените най-много в живота? ... Преподавателката по марксизъм Бора Найденова прекарва свободното си време в провеждане на едно малко странно социологическо проучване. За да разбере нагласите на съвременното общество, тя задава въпроса "Какво цените най-много в живота?". Получава различни отговори: някои - шаблонни, други - искрени. В процеса на работа тя среща Кирил, един от нейните изключени студенти. Двамата си приличат по тревожното им минало, свързано с налагането на комунизма. Но се разминават в позициите си спрямо идеологията му. Техните спорове ... |
