"Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven." Blind, broken by the death of his wife and bitterly disappointed by the Restoration, Milton dictated his sweeping biblical epic Paradise Lost to a series of helpers. While the struggle between God and Satan rages across the cosmos, the human tragedy of Adam and Eve - the temptation and fall - is movingly depicted in language unsurpassed in its musicality and beauty. A staggering and audacious undertaking - seeking, in Milton's words, to justify the ways of God to men - Paradise Lost has been revered since its initial publication, inspiring writers from Mary ... |
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The continuation and the ending the story from the book Heartless Hunter. ... Love has never been so deadly. A witch... Rune Winters is on the run. Ever since the boy she loved, Gideon Sharpe, revealed who she was and delivered her into enemy hands, everyone wants her dead. If Rune hopes to survive, she must ally herself with the cruel and dangerous Cressida Roseblood, who's planning to take back the Republic and reinstate a Reign of Witches-something Cressida needs Rune to accomplish. A witch hunter... Apparently it wasn't enough for Rune to deceive Gideon; she's now betrayed him by allying herself with ... |
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Wealth. Power. Murder. Magic. Alex Stern is back and the Ivy League is going straight to hell. Find a gateway to the underworld. Steal a soul out of hell. A simple plan, except people who make this particular journey rarely come back. But Galaxy Alex Stern is determined to break Darlington out of purgatory even if it costs her a future at Lethe and at Yale. Forbidden from attempting a rescue, Alex and Dawes can't call on the Ninth House for help, so they assemble a team of dubious allies to save the gentleman of Lethe. Together, they will have to navigate a maze of arcane texts and bizarre artifacts to uncover the ... |
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In the ancient city of Nineveh, on the bank of the River Tigris, King Ashurbanipal of Mesopotamia, erudite but ruthless, built a great library that would crumble with the end of his reign. From its ruins, however, emerged a poem, the Epic of Gilgamesh, that would infuse the existence of two rivers and bind together three lives. In 1840 London, Arthur is born beside the stinking, sewage-filled River Thames. With an abusive, alcoholic father and a mentally ill mother, Arthur's only chance of escaping destitution is his brilliant memory. When his gift earns him a spot as an apprentice at a leading publisher, Arthur' ... |
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Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek. The story of a hero's descent to the underworld. Grad student Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become the brightest mind in the field of analytic magic. But the only person who can make her dream come true is dead and - inconveniently - in Hell. And Alice, along with her biggest rival Peter Murdoch, is going after him. But Hell is not as the philosophers claim, its rules are upside-down, and if she's going to get out of there alive, she and Peter will have to work together. That's if they can agree on anything. Will they triumph, or kill each other trying? 2025's ... |
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Пътят към Ада е осеян с добри намерения! Когато решава да се върне в родния си Видин, Шарки има простичък план - да отвори свой нощен клуб, с който да намери една изгубена част от себе си. Какво може да се обърка? Оказва се - всичко! Попада в стари истории и нови взаимоотношения между някогашните ѝ съученици. Нещата излизат от контрол. Преди да се усети, е изправена пред необходимостта да нарушава човешки и божии закони - заради собствените си разбирания или заради очите на един свещеник. Нищо чудно, че през повечето време има нужда от двойна водка в Ада, за да понася себе си и да не крещи по другите. А когато се ... |
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Виното е много повече от напитка – то е жив летопис на човешката цивилизация. В съвременния свят неговата идентичност се простира далеч отвъд чашата, преплитайки в себе си изкуство, история, икономика, право и много други аспекти на човешката мисъл. Зад всяка бутилка вино стои сложен път, в който традициите се срещат с иновациите, а творчеството – с прецизния мениджмънт и правото. Книгата изследва един често пренебрегван, но жизненоважен аспект на винарската индустрия: интелектуалната собственост. Връзката между виното и този изключително динамичен дял на правото е дълбока и многопластова. Тя обхваща всичко – от ... |
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Award-winning readers series of original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities. Reporter Kate Jensen investigates the death of a karate master in a 'dojo', a karate training room in London. Another death quickly follows and Kate finds herself drawn into the mystery. The trail takes her to Japan, back to London, and back in time to a crime committed over thirty years earlier. ... |
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1980. Llewelyn Moss, a Vietnam veteran, is hunting antelope near the Rio Grande when he stumbles upon a transaction gone horribly wrong. Finding bullet-ridden bodies, several kilos of heroin, and a caseload of cash, he faces a choice - leave the scene as he found it, or cut the money and run. Choosing the latter, he knows, will change everything. And so begins a terrifying chain of events, in which each participant seems determined to answer the question that one asks another: how does a man decide in what order to abandon his life? Savage violence and cruel morality reign in the backwater deserts of Cormac McCarthy' ... |
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"За него никой не знае нищо. Той предпочита да остане такъв - невидим, незабележим, встрани от комплиментите и бурните реакции, на разстояние от суетата, която е сграбчила ежедневието ни. Защото знае кое е по-важно за него - да бъде съпруг, баща, приятел. А поет в света на другите. А как бих искал всъщност да го видим повече хора, за да му се усмихнем, за да му благодарим. За да поздравим автора, а да не притесняваме човека. За да поговорим за езика на философията, която той смело демонстрира в книгата си "Три стръкчета нежност". Притеглящо и запомнящо се заглавие, зад което като нанизи се движат думите, с ... |
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The first novel in Lee Child's Jack Reacher series. Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is a drifter. He's just passing through Margrave, Georgia, and in less than an hour, he's arrested for murder. Not much of a welcome. All Reacher knows is that he didn't kill anybody. At least not here. Not lately. But he doesn't stand a chance of convincing anyone. Not in Margrave, Georgia. Not a chance in hell."From its jolting opening scene to its fiery final confrontation, Killing Floor is irresistible." People "A rip-roaring thriller... One of the truly memorable tough-guy heroes in recent ... |
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Retold by Joan Collins, illustrated by Ester Garcia-Cortes. ... When Alice follows a White Rabbit in a waistcoat down a hole, she finds herself in a mixed-up world where nothing is as she expected it to be! Alice meets a pipe-smoking caterpillar, a grinnig cat, a Mad Hatter and the Formidable Queen of Hearts. This beautiful hardback "Ladybird Classic" edition of "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll is a perfect first illustrated introduction to the classic story for younger readers. It has been sensitively abridged and retold to make it suitable for sharing with young children, whilst retaining ... |
