The elusive narrator of this beautifully written, complex, and powerfully disconcerting novel is the scion of a decayed aristocratic family from the farther reaches of the defunct Austro-Hungarian Empire. In five psychologically fraught episodes,...
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Нина Ивановна Гаген-Торн занимает видное место среди авторов женской «лагерной» прозы (наряду с Е. Керсновской, Е. Гинзбург, Т. Петкевич),...
Нина Ивановна Гаген-Торн занимает видное место среди авторов женской «лагерной» прозы (наряду с Е. Керсновской, Е. Гинзбург, Т. Петкевич),...
Considered Teffi’s single greatest work, Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea is a deeply personal account of the author’s last months in Russia and Ukraine, suffused with her acute awareness of the political currents churning around her, many...
From this renowned philosopher comes a debut work of fiction, at once a brilliant précis of the history of philosophy, a semiautobiographical meditation on the absurd relationship between knowledge and memory, and a very funny story.
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“We saw the lightning and that was the guns; and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped.”...
Gerald Durrell was born in India in 1925. His family settled on Corfu when he was a boy and he spent his time studying its wildlife. He relates these experiences in the trilogy beginning with My Family and Other Animals, and continuing with...
"L'?uvre po?tique de Mistral est un monument… Ce qui, gr?ce ? lui, ne p?rira point de son pays est incommensurable" (L?on Daudet). Au terme de sa vie, Mistral, pour faire revivre la Provence de sa jeunesse, illustrer ses beaut?s et...
Необыкновенная история группы Metallica, которая рассказывает о создании всех девяти студийных альбомов и лучших композициях, о событиях,...
Бескомпромиссная биография группы с почти сорокалетней историей и более чем 110 миллионами проданных копий альбомов «Metallica» от одного...