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The Great Gatsby
Автор: Fitzgerald F.Scott Жанр: Alma/Oneworld Год: 2012 Страниц: 210 Дата загрузки: 20 октрября 20152016-03-28
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Invited to an extravagantly lavish party in a Long Island mansion, Nick Carraway, a young bachelor who has just settled in the neighbouring cottage, is intrigued by the mysterious host, Jay Gatsby, a flamboyant but reserved self-made man with murky business interests and a shadowy past. As the two men strike up an unlikely friendship, details of Gatsby's impossible love for a married woman emerge, until events spiral into tragedy.
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Love Poems
Автор: Pushkin Alexander Жанр: Alma/Oneworld Год: 2013 Страниц: 200 Дата загрузки: 25 июня 20152015-07-28
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One of the many aspects of Alexander Pushkin's immense contribution to Russian language and literature, and perhaps the one he is most popular for, is his mastery of the love poem, a genre which he perfected like few others before or after him. This volume contains a selection of his most famous and enduring verse explorations of love, such as I Loved You, Night, and A Magic Moment I Remember, pieces which are crowning achievements of the European canon and still have the same timeless emotional resonance today.
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Tender is the Night
Автор: Fitzgerald F. Scott Жанр: Alma/Oneworld Год: 2012 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20142013-06-15
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While holidaying at a villa on the French Riviera, Dick and Nicole Diver, a wealthy American couple, meet the young film star Rosemary Hoyt. Her arrival causes a stir in their social circle and exposes the cracks in their fragile marriage. As their relationship unravels, the glimpses of their troubled past emerge, and a series of disturbing events unfolds.
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This Side of Paradise
Автор: Fitzgerald F. Scott Жанр: Alma/Oneworld Год: 2012 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20142013-06-15
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This Side of Paradise charts the life of Amory Blaine, an ambitious young man loosely based on Fitzgerald himself, as he moves from his well-heeled Midwest home to study at Princeton and then starts frequenting the circles of high society as an aspiring writer. Experiencing failure and frustration in love and in his career, Blaine finds his youthful enthusiasm gradually giving way to disillusionment, cynicism and a life of dissolution.
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The Beautiful and Damned
Автор: Fitzgerald F. Scott Жанр: Alma/Oneworld Год: 2012 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 15 сентября 20172016-03-24
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The heir to his grandfather's considerable fortune, Anthony Patch is led astray from the path to gainful employment by the temptations and distractions of the 1920s Jazz Age. His descent into dissolution and profligacy is accelerated by his marriage to the attractive but turbulent Gloria, and the couple soon discover the dangerous flip side of a life of glamour and debauchery.
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The Pink Hotel
Автор: Stothard A. Жанр: Alma/Oneworld Год: 2013 Страниц: 280 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20152017-03-12
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A seventeen-year-old London girl flies to Los Angeles for the funeral of her mother Lily, from whom she was separated in her childhood. After stealing a suitcase of letters, clothes and photographs from her mum's bedroom at the top of a hotel on Venice Beach, the girl spends her summer travelling around Los Angeles in a bid to track down the men who knew her mother. As she discovers more about Lily's past and tries to re-enact her life, she comes to question the foundations of her own personality.
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Pushkin Hills
Автор: Dovlatov Sergei Жанр: Alma/Oneworld Год: 2013 Страниц: 160 Дата загрузки: 26 декабря 20152016-04-07
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An unpublished writer and a chronic alcoholic, Boris Alikhanov is short of cash, at odds with the government and divorced from his wife Tatyana, who intends to emigrate to the West with their daughter Masha. The prospect of a summer job as a tourist guide at the Pushkin Hills preserve offers him hope of bringing back some balance into his existence, but during his stay in the rural estate of Mikhaylovskoye, Alikhanov s life continues to unravel and all his problems come to a head. Populated with unforgettable characters, such as Alikhanov s fellow guides Mitrofanov and Pototsky or the KGB officer Belyaev, and presented here for the first time in the English language, Pushkin Hills is arguably Dovlatov s most personal work and a poignant metaphor on the Russian attitude towards life and art.
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Diaries and Selected Letters
Автор: Bulgakov Mikhail Жанр: Alma/Oneworld Год: 2013 Страниц: 276 Дата загрузки: 7 октрября 20162015-10-21
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The career of Mikhail Bulgakov, the author of Master and Margarita — now regarded as one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century literature — was characterized by a constant and largely unsuccessful struggle against state censorship. This suppression did not only apply to his art: in 1926 his personal diary was seized by the authorities. From then on he confined his thoughts to letters to his friends and family, as well as to public figures such as Stalin and his fellow Soviet writer Gorky, while also encouraging his wife Yelena to keep a diary, with many entries influenced or even dictated by him.
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The Double
Автор: Dostoevsky Fyodor Жанр: Alma/Oneworld Год: 2013 Страниц: 208 Дата загрузки: 18 июля 20142014-12-20
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Constantly rebuffed from the social circles he aspires to frequent, the timid clerk Golyadkin is confronted by the sudden appearance of his double, a more brazen, confident and socially succesful version of himself, who abuses and victimizes the original. As he is increasingly persecuted, Golyadkin finds his social, romantic and professional life unravelling, in a spiral that leads to a catastrophic denouement.
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The Last Tycoon
Автор: Fitzgerald F Scott Жанр: Alma/Oneworld Год: 2013 Страниц: 200 Дата загрузки: 25 июня 20152015-07-28
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Monroe Stahr is a film producer at the height of his career, revered by the industry and in control of every aspect of his business empire. In his ruthless rise to the top, the young widower has had little time for sentiment, until he meets the beguiling Kathleen Moore, and the two embark on an intense but ill-fated relationship.
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Tales of the Jazz Age
Автор: Fitzgerald S. Жанр: Alma/Oneworld Год: 2014 Страниц: 276 Дата загрузки: 7 октрября 20172016-10-21
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Part of Alma Classics Fitzgerald's mini-series. Lavishly produced edition with flaps and b&w plates. A collection of early short stories which helped make Fitzgerald's name, Tales of the Jazz Age combines period pieces — the most notable of which is the novella-length 'May Day' — with more fanciful creations, such as the fantastical 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button', recently made into a Hollywood film.
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Smoke
Автор: Turgenev Жанр: Alma/Oneworld Год: 2014 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 28 марта 20172019-08-11
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New translation of one of the most celebrated novels by the author of Fathers and Children. On his way back to Russia after some years spent in the West, Grigory Mikhailovich Litvinov, the son of a retired official of merchant stock, stops over in Baden-Baden to meet his fiancee Tatyana. However, a chance encounter with his old flame, the manipulative Irina — now married to a general and a prominent figure in aristocratic expatriate circles — unearths feelings buried deep inside the young man's heart, derailing his plans for the future and throwing his life into turmoil.
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Winter Notes on Summer Impressions
Автор: Dostoyevsky Fyodor Жанр: Alma/Oneworld Год: 2013 Страниц: 160 Дата загрузки: 26 декабря 20152016-04-07
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In June 1862, Dostoevsky left Petersburg on his first excursion to Western Europe. Ostensibly making the trip to consult Western specialists about his epilepsy, he also wished to see firsthand the source of the Western ideas he believed were corrupting Russia. Over the course of his journey he visited a number of major cities, including Berlin, Paris, London, Florence, Milan, and Vienna. His impressions on what he saw, Winter Notes on Summer Impressions, were first published in the February 1863 issue of Vremya (Time), the periodical he edited.
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Petersburg Tales
Автор: Gogol Nikolai Жанр: Alma/Oneworld Год: 2014 Страниц: 188 Дата загрузки: 27 сентября 20192017-09-10
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Written in the 1830s and early 1840s, these comic stories tackle life behind the cold and elegant facade of the Imperial capital from the viewpoints of various characters, such as a collegiate assessor who one day finds that his nose has detached itself from his face and risen the ranks to become a state councillor ('The Nose'), a painter and a lieutenant whose romantic pursuits meet with contrasting degrees of success ('Nevsky Prospect') and a lowly civil servant whose existence desperately unravels when he loses his prized new coat ('The Overcoat'). Also including the 'Diary of Madman', this new translation of Petersburg Tales paint a critical yet hilarious portrait of a city riddled with pomposity and self-importance, masterfully juxtaposing nineteenth-century realism with madcap surrealism, and combining absurdist farce with biting satire.
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The Fatal Eggs
Автор: Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov Жанр: Alma/Oneworld Год: 2014 Страниц: 160 Дата загрузки: 26 декабря 20162018-03-08
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Professor Persikov, an eccentric zoologist, stumbles upon a new light ray that accelerates growth and reproduction rates in living organisms. In the wake of a plague that has decimated the country's poultry stocks, Persikov's discovery is exploited as a means to correct the problem. As foreign agents, the state and the Soviet media all seize upon the red ray, matters get out of hand.
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Notes on a Cuff and Other Stories
Автор: Bulgakov Mikhail Жанр: Alma/Oneworld Год: 2014 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20172017-02-16
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Written between 1920 and 1921 while Bugakov was working in a hospital in the remote Caucasian outpost of Vladikavkaz, Notes on a Cuff is a series of journalistic sketches which show the young doctor trying to embark on a literary career among the chaos of war, disease, politics and bureaucracy.
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Virgin Soil
Автор: Turgenev Ivan Жанр: Alma/Oneworld Год: 2014 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 20 октрября 20172016-05-16
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«Turgenev's final novel, Virgin Soil traces the destinies of several middle-class revolutionaries who seek to «go to the people» by working on the land and instilling democratic ideas in the countryside's locals. They include the daydreaming impoverished young tutor Nezhdanov — employed by the liberal councillor Sipyagin and his vain and beautiful wife Valentina — the naive young radical Maryanna and the progressive factory manager Solomin. Their liaisons, intrigues and conspiracies, set against the backdrop of Tsarist Russia, form the matter of Turgenev's most ambitious and elaborate work, which cemented the author's place in the West as Russia's foremost novelist while at the same time proving controversial at home — culminating in the arrest of fifty-two real-life revolutionaries barely a month after it was published.»
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Black Snow
Автор: Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov Жанр: Alma/Oneworld Год: 2014 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 12 сентября 20192016-10-30
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After being saved from a suicide attempt by a literary editor, the journalist and failed novelist Sergei Maxudov has a book suddenly accepted for stage adaptation at a prestigious venue and finds himself propelled into Moscow's theatrical world. In a cut-throat environment tainted by Soviet politics, censorship and egomania — epitomized by the arrogant and incompetent director Ivan Vasilyevich — absurdity gradually gives way to tragedy. Unpublished in Bulgakov's own lifetime, Black Snow (also known as A Theatrical Novel) — here presented in a new translation — is peppered with darkly comic set pieces and draws on its author's own bitter experience as a playwright with the Moscow Arts Theatre, showcasing his inimitable gift for shrewd observation and razor-sharp satire.
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Heart of Darkness and the Complete Congo Diary
Автор: Conrad Joseph Жанр: Alma/Oneworld Год: 2015 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 16 апреля 20192016-12-16
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On a boat in the Thames estuary, Marlow tells his travelling companions of his reconnaissance expedition for a Belgian trading company to its most remote outpost in central Africa, which brought him on the trail of the elusive Kurtz, a brilliant idealist gone rogue. His account relates not only the perils he encounters on his quest, but also the deterioration of his state of mind as he is confronted with a world that is hostile and alien to him.
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George Silverman's Explanation
Автор: Dickens Charles Жанр: Alma/Oneworld Год: 2015 Страниц: 144 Дата загрузки: 22 сентября 20202018-04-12
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After a traumatic early childhood spent living in poverty in a Preston cellar, the suddenly orphaned George Silverman grows up convinced that he is at fault for all the misfortunes in his life. Hoodwinked by hypocritical clergymen and exploited by his employer, he finds himself forsaking love and facing professional ruin. One of Dickens's very last writings, 'George Silverman's Explanation' is a dark and psychologically insightful investigation of failure and guilt. This volume also includes two other lesser-known pieces of fiction: the novella for children 'Holiday Romance' and the detective story 'Hunted Down'.
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