Fyodor Dostoevsky's later novels, The Adolescent occupies a very special place: published three years after The Devils and five years before his final masterpiece, The Karamazov Brothers, the novel charts the story of nineteen-year-old Arkady - the illegitimate son of the landowner Versilov and the maid Sofia Andreyevna - as he struggles to find his place in society and become a Rothschild against the background of 1870s Russia, a nation still tethered to its old systems and values but shaken up by the new ideological currents of socialism and nihilism. Both a Bildungsroman and a novel of ideas, dealing with themes ... |
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Russia's literary world is shaken to its foundations when a mysterious gentleman - a professor of black magic - arrives in Moscow, accompanied by a bizarre retinue of servants. It soon becomes clear that he is the Devil himself, come to wreak havoc among the cultural elite of a disbelieving capital. But the Devil's mission quickly becomes entangled with the fate of the Master - a man who has turned his back on his former life and taken refuge in a lunatic asylum - and his past lover, Margarita. Both a satirical romp and a daring analysis of the nature of good and evil, innocence and guilt, The Master and ... |
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Второ издание. ... 40 рецепти. Това е второ издание на книгата Българска кухня, наградена за Най-добра книга за регионална кухня от престижната международна фондация Gurman със седалище в Мадрид. Раймонд Вагенщайн е работил 15 години като кинокритик, журналист и киносценарист. Автор е на няколкостотин статии и рецензии. От 1990 г. е управител на издателство Колибри. Директор е на Международния панаир на книгата в София. Книгата се предлага на английски и френски език. ... |
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The sequel to the book Taming 7. ... A love that couldn't be broken, except by the truth. A love that couldn't be broken, except by the truth. Lizzie Young has always felt she was too much everything. Diagnosed with bipolar disorder at a young age, she's never fit in with her family, her friends, her community. Lizzie wants to be accepted and understood, but with few people in her corner, she's carried her burdens and her trauma on her own. But when she meets a kind boy on the school bus, things start to look bright for the first time in her life. Hugh Biggs has an old soul and the wisdom of someone far ... |
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The sequel to the book Binding 13. ... Can their love survive the greatest test? Following a devastating injury that has left him sidelined and stripped of his beloved number 13 jersey, Johnny Kavanagh is struggling to hold onto his dreams. Lost, insecure, and desperately seeking comfort, he sets his sights on unravelling the mystery of the girl with the midnight-blue eyes, who haunts his every waking hour. Keeping secrets has never been a problem for Shannon Lynch. The life she was born into demands nothing less. She knows that demons and evil men don't just exist in fairytales. They exist in her world, too. ... |
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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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Рина е разтърсващ роман! Безцеремонно откровен, главозамайващ. Драстичният му реализъм ви запраща в дълбините на най-немислимите, стъписващи прояви, на които дори не сте си представяли, че е способен човекът като биологичен вид. Едновременно с това този зашеметяващ текст ви издига до висините на най-облагородяващата хуманност. Сюжетът е свръхнаситен с приковаващи вниманието брутални сцени и вихрени обрати. С елементите на митичен разказ и гротеска, но и с адекватен за днешното време темпоритъм Рина е динамична, многопластова пионерска творба на корейския постмодернизъм. На пръв поглед това е история за бежанци (тема, ... |
