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. ... "Frankenstein" is the most famous novel by Mary Shelley: a dark parable of science misused. Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but wayward scientist, builds a human from dead flesh. Horrified at what he has done, he abandons his creation. The hideous creature learns language and becomes civilized but society rejects him. Spurned, he seeks vengeance on his creator. So begins a cycle of destruction, with Frankenstein and his "monster" pursuing each other to the extremes of nature until all vestiges of their humanity are lost. In 1831, Mary ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Life in pre-revolutionary Cuba is not easy and James Wormold, a failing vacuum cleaner salesman, is struggling to fund the increasingly lavish lifestyle of his manipulative sixteen year-old daughter, Milly. So when an enigmatic Englishman offers him an extra income in return for a little spying, he is sorely tempted... But when the fake reports he's been sending to London start to come true, Havana suddenly becomes a very dangerous place indeed. Both a brilliant Cold War thriller and hilarious work of satire, "Our Man in Havana" is Graham ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... One of the first great spy novels, "The Riddle of the Sands" is set during the long, suspicious years leading up to the First World War. In spite of good prospects in the Foreign Office, sardonic civil servant Carruthers is finding it hard to endure the boredom of his life in London. He accepts an invitation from a college friend, Davies, a shyly intrepid yachtsman, and joins him on a sailing holiday in the Baltic, and there, amidst the sunshine and bright blue seas, they discover a German plot to invade England... Like much contemporary British ... |
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"За мишките и хората" (1937) се радва на голям успех още с появата си. Това е невероятно затрогващ разказ за сложната спойка между двама мигриращи селскостопански работници - Джордж Милтън и Лени Смол. Те пътуват от ферма на ферма в търсене на временна работа и мечтаят един ден да си имат собствена ферма. Лени е едър и тромав, умствено изостанал мъж, който по детски се радва на всичко пухкаво и меко. Джордж бащински го закриля и внимава Лени да не направи някоя беля поради извънредно голямата си физическа сила, която не умее да контролира... Джон Стайнбек (1902 - 1968) е роден в калифорнийския град Салинас, ... |
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В това издание са включени пет от най-известните новели на Томас Ман (1875 - 1955) - един от най-големите германски писатели и носител на Нобелова награда за литература: Дребният господин Фридеман (1897), Тристан (1903), Тонио Крьогер (1903), Смърт във Венеция (1911), определяно като най-доброто произведение, написано на немски език, и Марио и фокусникът (1930). И петте произведения се отличават с размисли за противоречивия и мъчителен процес на творчеството, както и с финия анализ на чувствата, с дълбок до болезненост психологизъм, с разсъждения за желанието за смърт и за смъртта като безсмъртие. С тези новели, подбрани ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... In "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", one of the best-known and best-loved poems in the English language, a grizzled old sailor stops a man on his way to a wedding and tells a terrifying story. He speaks of how he doomed the crew of his ship by shooting dead an albatross, awakened the wrath of ocean spirits, met Death himself, and must now walk the earth for ever and share his tragic tale of sin, guilt and - ultimately - redemption. This Macmillan Collector's Library edition of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s longest major poem features ... |
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Complete and unabridged with an afterword by Jonty Claypole. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... This collection of Poe's work contains some of the most exciting and haunting stories ever written. They range from the poetic to the mysterious to the darkly comic, yet all possess the genius for the grotesque that defines Poe's writing. They are peopled with neurotics and social outcasts, obsessed with nameless terrors or preoccupied with seemingly unsolvable mysteries. "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Fall of the House of Usher" are key works in the horror canon, while in the "The Murders ... |
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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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"Когато една сутрин след неспокойни сънища Грегор Замза се събуди в леглото си, установи, че се е превърнал в гигантско насекомо." Така започва знаменитата новела на Франц Кафка Метаморфозата, в която преобразеният герой става, поради своята различност, бреме и обект на срам и отвращение дори за най-близките си, чужденец в собственият си дом. Ужасяваща и абсурдна картина на отхвърлеността и вината, Метаморфоза се нарежда сред най-четените и с най-мощно влияние белетристични творби, въплътили страховете и кошмарите на XX век. "Кафка умееше да открои скритата яркост. При него сякаш се разбулва море от ... |
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Роман за избора между справедливостта и безчестието. Началото на XIII век Вратите на Царевец се отварят и ставаме свидетели на време, когато един цар е безсилен да осъзнае, че не може да бележи летописа на отечеството със свой знак, защото е недостоен. Един цар, който гони богомилите като беззаконници, а сам изпада в беззакония. Цар Борил - узурпаторът, който иска да укрепи царството, опирайки се не на своя народ, а на неговите врагове. Време, когато трябва да се избира между честта и безчестието, когато трябва да се отстояват принципи и идеали, да се воюва за справедливост и хармония на човешките отношения. Време на ... |
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The №1 International Bestseller. ... Here is a small fact - you are going to die. 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier. Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. Her parents have been taken away to a concentration camp. Liesel steals books. This is her story and the story of the inhabitants of her street when the bombs begin to fall. Some important information - this novel is narrated by Death. It's a small story, about: a girl; an accordionist; some fanatical Germans; a Jewish fist fighter; and quite a lot of thievery. ... |
