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This is the last of three volumes of collected shorter prose to be published in the Faber edition of the works of Samuel Beckett - which already includes a volume of early stories (The Expelled/The Calmative/The End/First Love) and of late stories (Company/Ill Seen I... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:02 | Julius Winsome lives in a cabin in the hunting heartland of the Maine woods, with only his books and his dog for company. That is until the morning he finds that his dog has been shot dead - and not by accident. Gerard Donovan weaves an extraordinary tale of revenge ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:02 | Gerald Samper is a ghost writer to the stars: rock singers, racing drivers and ski champions. And to Millie Cleat, the monstrous one-armed sailor, whose round the world voyage has made her the toast of Britain, and who has become the poster-girl for the Deep Blues... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:03 | A sister is for life: your best friend, or your worst enemy. She is the yardstick by which you measure how well you're doing and the keeper of your family secrets. She may be the first person you rush to when something wonderful happens or the one whose shoulder you ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:03 | A magisterial work of gripping history, City of Fortune tells the story of the Venetian ascent from lagoon dwellers to the greatest power in the Mediterranean - an epic five hundred year voyage that encompassed crusade and trade, plague, sea battles and colonial adve... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:03 | This collection of eleven evocative, accessible and funny stories for children of 5+ tells how a particular animal came to be as it is now. The Whale grew up in God's vegetable patch but was banished to sea when he became too large and crushed all His carrots; the Po... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:03 | An unusually brilliant generation of film-makers emerged from British television drama in the 1960-70s - none more formidable than Alan Clarke. Yet Clarke enjoyed only a vague renown among the public, even though some of his most incendiary productions - ScumПолное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:03 | Steven Spielberg is responsible for some of the most successful films of all time: Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T. and the 'Indiana Jones' series. Yet for many years most critics condescendingly regarded Spielberg as a child-man incapable of dealing ma... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:04 | Dear friends, I LOVE-LOVE-LOVE sharing my adventures as a classroom hamster with all my friends. But sometimes my paw gets tired from so much writing! To give it a rest, I've written someshorter tales that are every bit as funny and exciting as my According to Humphr... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:04 | I can't escape it. I can't forget it. And I can't begin again.Bill Maitland, a middle aged lawyer, struggles to avoid the harsh truths of his life. As those closest to him draw away, he puts himself on trial to fight for his sanity. John Osborne's poignant, witty and... 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 Revolt of Aphrodite consists of two novels, Tunc ('then', 'next') and its sequel Numquam ('never').When Felix Charlock, an inventor, is approached by Merlin's, an influential and successful firm with interests everywhere, something about the extremely generous of... 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, 5:05 | 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 | On April 2 1982 Argentine forces seized the British-dependent Falkland Islands. Within 48 hours a British task force was sailing for the South Atlantic. One in five Britons opposed this war; but Argentina's surrender 74 days later set Margaret Thatcher on course for ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:05 | Based on a true story, Meira Chand's The Painted Cage explores the tragedy of a Victorian woman who becomes the victim of her own sensuality. In Yokohama, Japan, on the morning of January 5th 1897, the trial begins of Amy Redmore, charged with the murder of her husba... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:05 | 'A hilarious book of bad times, bedtimes and benders. It is a kind of cool parody of On the Road.' New Statesman No Particular Place to Go (first published in 1981) relates Hugo Williams' journey across the USA on a three-month poetry-reading tour wherein he also hop... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:05 | Attributed to Valmiki, thought to be India's first poet, the Ramayana's origins date back thousands of years when it was first committed to Sanskrit. Since then, generations of children the world over have grown up with its story of Rama's quest to recover his wife S... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:05 | Happy Days was written in 1960 and first produced in London at the Royal Court Theatre in November 1962.WINNIE: [ . . .] Well anyway - this man Shower - or Cooker - no matter - and the woman - hand in hand - in the other hands bags - kind of big brown grips - standin... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:05 | In this visionary book, Neil Turok explores the great discoveries of the past three centuries - from the classical mechanics of Newton; to the nature of light; to the bizarre world of the quantum; to the evolution of the cosmos; and even the recent findings of Higgs ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:05 | An eye-opening survey of cricket, from the crowd violence and blatant match-rigging of the eighteenth century, down to the twentieth century's glaring abuses of the spirit of the game.Written in the same lively style that won such praise for his W.G. Grace: A Life, S... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:05 | At fifteen, Sally Tuttle and Rowena Cresswell were firm friends, until a shocking event changed their lives. Now in their late thirties, they are estranged, both single mothers, both haunted with memories of their intense friendship. Sally is an embroiderer, a needle... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:05 | Nothing is more important to a modern political party than fund-raising. But the values of the donors can't always coincide with the professed beliefs of the party. And family scandal within the cabinet has the potential to throw both the money-raisers and the money-... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:05 | The First World War holds a unique place in the nation's history; the poetry it produced, a unique place in the nation's hearts. To mark the centenary of the First World War in 2014, the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, has engaged the most eminent poets of the presen... Полное описание |
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