Set in Europe in the aftermath of the Second World War, the nine stories in this glittering collection reflect on the foibles and dilemmas of human relationships. An English family goes to the south of France for the sake of the father’s health,...
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Язык: английский
Год: 2011
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The year is 1635. Iceland is a world darkened by superstition, poverty, and cruelty.
Men of science marvel over a unicorn's horn, poor folk worship the Virgin in secret, and both books and men are burnt.
Jonas Palmason, a poet and...
ANNOTATIONIan meets Death in a dream. He is promised the answer to any question. Failure to understand the answer will cost him his life. Unhappy Arlen gives up everything and moves halfway around the world and discovers the man she's been...
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Публицистика, Современная русская и зарубежная проза
From Where You Dream: The Process of Writing Fiction
Robert Olen Butler, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, teaches graduate fiction at Florida State University — his version of literary boot camp. In From Where You Dream, Butler reimagines the process of writing as emotional rather than...
Роман написан в электронных письмах. В этих письмах за целый год — вся жизнь героини, ее отношения с близкими людьми, с которыми она...
We are the scum and the scrapings of the Empire. They tipped out the garbage-bin of the Eagles to make us what we are.'
In disgrace after a mistake that cost the lives of half his men, Alexios arrives in Castellum. It's his first command, but it...
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Sniper Caje Cole thought he was done with war after the victory in Europe, but a violent act of justice back home in the mountains forces him into the Army once more to fight in the Korean War. Cole just wants to lay low and get through this war so...