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Plan ahead to get the best from your stars. Don't wait to read about them on the day. Old Moore identifies your key days - weeks in advance. And he tells you what best to plan into them, so you get the most out of their active influences. Over a million readers trust... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:02 | These four last prose fictions by Samuel Beckett were originally published individually, and their composition spanned the final decade of his life. In Company a solitary hearer lying in blackness calls up images from the far-off past. Ill Seen Ill Said meditates upo... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:02 | Jo Shapcott's award-winning first three collections, gathered in Her Book: Poems 1988-1998, revealed her to be a writer of ingenuous, politically acute and provocative poetry, and rightly earned her a reputation as one of the most original and daring voices of her ge... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:02 | My God, Russian soldiers being shot with Chinese bullets. Sometimes the world is so beautiful.
1981. As the Soviet army burns its way through Afghanistan and toward the critical Pakistani border, CIA operative Jim Warnock is sent ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:03 | This is the first life of Napoleon, in any language, that makes full use of the new version of his Correspondence compiled by the Fondation Napoleon in Paris to replace the sanitized compilation made under the Second French Empire as a propaganda exercise by his neph... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:03 | David Greig: Plays 1 brings together four key plays by the playwright described by the Daily Telegraph as 'one of the most interesting and adventurous British dramatists of his generation'. In Outlying Island two young Cambridge ornithologists are sent to a remote is... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:03 | The Great Cellists is a comprehensive and authoritative history of the lives and work of the cello's great performers and teachers, from the emergence of the solo instrument in the seventeenth century to the present day.In its early history, the cello was a genuine '... Полное описание |
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{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:03 | In the period covered by this richly detailed collection, which brings the poet to the age of forty, T.S. Eliot was to set a new course for his life and work. Forsaking the Unitarianism of his American forebears, he was received into the Church of England and natural... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:04 | 'There is the puzzle which it is the purpose of this book to try to elucidate. On the one hand, we have the alleged deficiencies of suburban taste; on the other we have the appeal it holds for ninety out of a hundred Englishmen, an appeal which cannot be explai... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:04 | A man is banished in a soldier's hearing. His daughter is left to wander. In a rash moment, Beatriz offers to take the child back to her father, and so starts an unimaginable journey across continents and in and out of war zones. But in their need to survive, the wom... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:04 | Alan Hackney's first novel, Private's Progress tells the story of the hapless Stanley Windrush. Called up in 1942 after his first year at Oxford, and despite his best efforts to avoid any kind of work or action, Stanley wanders from one mishap to the next, causing ma... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:04 | John Donne (1572-1631) forfeited his Parliamentary seat and was briefly imprisoned when his secret marriage to Ann More was uncovered in 1601. He spent the subsequent decade in poverty, trying to rehabilitate his reputation. He entered the Church in 1615, and become ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:04 | Morna works as a cleaner in Edinburgh. She spends her time drinking, attempting affairs and trying to work out the mind of the twenty-year-old son with whom she shares her flat. Her elder brother, Athol, lives near Glasgow airport with his wife. The owner of a floor-... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:04 | Rodmoor is, unusually for a John Cowper Powys novel, set in East Anglia, Rodmoor itself being a coastal village.The protagonist, Adrian Sorio, is a typically Powys-like hero, highly-strung with only precarious mental stability. He is in love with two women - Nance He... Полное описание |
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{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:04 | A tragedy of maritime decline, Bound follows the fortunes of six trawlermen from Devon as they embark on one final voyage. Compelled by the threat of bankruptcy, the ageing fishing trawler The Violet is forced out into treacherous weather. Risking storms, friendships... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:04 | The British Foreign Office is a timeless institution. Antrobus is the embodiment of everything that makes it what it is. His tales of diplomatic misadventure, accompanied by memorable and witty drawings, make a collection to cherish, for as long as the Foreign Off... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:04 | 1878: Pope Pius IX dies, after a misguided papacy that has stamped out liberalism, centralized papal power and witnessed the Pope's declaration of Infallibility. The Judas Cloth is told from the standpoint of Pius's son Nicola Santi, an orphan unaware of his scandalo... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:04 | A rollicking and hugely enjoyable contemporary novel describing the outrageous mid-winter tour around Scotland of a group of musicians called 'The Ossians'. The band's driving force is twenty-four-year-old lead singer, Connor - intelligent but self-destructive, prete... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:05 | Published to tie in with Mick Jackson's appointment as the first writer-in-residence at the Science Museum, Junior Science comprises three stories - 'Zero Gravity', 'The Answering Machine', and 'Back to School'. Commissioned by BBC Radio 4, they were originally broad... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:05 | Salvage is the final part of Tom Stoppard's trilogy The Coast of Utopia. It is 1852. Alexander Herzen, who left Russia five years earlier, has arrived in London in retreat from a series of public and private calamities. Revolution in Europe has hit the rocks. 'I have... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:05 | 'You have to keep your ears open for Alan Bennett's Insurance Man. It had visual impact so powerful that you were in danger of missing some very good lines simply because nobody spoke them in close up; you had to catch them on the wing. And if there was one line that... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:05 | This third collection of John Osborne's dramatic work includes three classic plays for the stage which confirm his reputation as one of the greatest British playwrights of the twentieth century. A Patriot for Me 'It is a landmark play in its open treatment of homosex... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:05 | This third collection of plays by Tom Stoppard contains his television plays, written between 1965 and 1984. They show that Stoppard's writing for the small screen is comparable to his more celebrated stage work, as the masterly Professional Foul demonstrates. In his... Полное описание |
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