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Marina and Lee: The Tormented Love and Fatal Obsession Behind Lee Harvey Oswald's Assassination of John F. Kennedy
Биографии и мемуары, История

Marina and Lee: The Tormented Love and Fatal Obsession Behind Lee Harvey Oswald's Assassination of John F. Kennedy

Язык: английский
Год: 2013
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Reissued to mark the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination, Marina and Lee is an indispensable account of one of America’s most traumatic events, and a classic work of narrative history. In her meticulous, at times even moment by moment,...
The Jukebox And Other Essays On Storytelling
Публицистика, Современная русская и зарубежная проза

The Jukebox And Other Essays On Storytelling

Язык: английский
Год: 1994
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In The Jukebox and Other Essays on Storytelling, Peter Handke offers three intimate, eloquent meditations that map a self-reflexive journey from Alaska to the Austria of his childhood, while illuminating the act of writing itself. In his "Essay...
Memoirs of an Anti-Semite
Биографии и мемуары, Современная русская и зарубежная проза

Memoirs of an Anti-Semite

Язык: английский
Год: 2007
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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,...
The Snows of Yesteryear
Биографии и мемуары, Современная русская и зарубежная проза

The Snows of Yesteryear

Язык: английский
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Gregor von Rezzori was born in Czernowitz, a onetime provincial capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that was later to be absorbed successively into Romania, the USSR, and the Ukraine — a town that was everywhere and nowhere, with a population...
The Shipwreck Cannibals: Captain John Dean and the Boon Island Flesh Eating Scandal
Биографии и мемуары, История

The Shipwreck Cannibals: Captain John Dean and the Boon Island Flesh Eating Scandal

Автор: Nightingale Adam
Язык: английский
Год: 2013
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In the fierce winter of 1710, in a North American port, a boat ferried ten shipwreck survivors to the safety of shore. Fourteen Englishmen had taken refuge on Boon Island, a sparse 100-yard long stretch of rock, without food or adequate shelter,...