LoveStar
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Novelty
If art and science have one thing in common, it's a hunger for the new - new ideas and innovations, new ways of seeing and depicting the world. But that desire for novelty carries with it a fundamental philosophical problem: If everything has to c...
Novelty
If art and science have one thing in common, it's a hunger for the new-new ideas and innovations, new ways of seeing and depicting the world. But that desire for novelty carries with it a fundamental philosophical problem: If everything has to com...
Avesta
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Summer Novella
Novellas by Stefan Zweig. Golden classics of European psychological realism of the begging of XX century. They were filmed by geniuses of European and American cinematograph of the times of its «golden age»: Robert Land and Max Ophüls, ÿtienne...
Exiled (Novella)
Passion comes with its own set of rules. New York Times bestselling author Maya Banks now proves that breaking them is half the fun…Enticed to the island paradise where an enigmatic prince is living in exile, beautiful, virginal Talia is...
Ubijstvo nevesty
Tonko skonstruirovan i legko chitaetsja. V glavnoj roli - detektiv Khillari Grin. Dva milliona prodannykh ekzempljarov Ponravitsja poklonnikam Agaty Kristi, serii detektivov Aleksandry Marininoj pro Anastasiju Kamenskuju i seriala 'Mejr iz Isttauna'. Zakhvatyvajuschij kriminalnyj detektiv, polnyj neozhidannykh povorotov- Etalon zhanra chisto anglijskogo detektivaU detektiva Khillari Grin chute na pravdu i talant pritjagivat neprijatnosti.V zhivopisnykh okrestnostjakh Oksforda, v samyj razgar veselja na ferme 'Tri duba', v korovnike nakhodjat mertvuju nevestu. Moloduju krasivuju ryzhevolosuju devushku, odetuju v roskoshnoe beloe svadebnoe plate, javno zadushili. No ne vse tak ochevidno: zhertva okazyvaetsja v tsentre pautiny revnosti i intrig splochennoj derevni. U mnogikh zhitelej est motiv ubit ee, no oni nelegko vydajut svoi sekrety.Smozhet li Khillari raskryt istinnuju prichinu etogo zhestokogo prestuplenija? I spravitsja li so shkvalom sobstvennykh problem, navalivshikhsja na nee
Peterburgskie povesti
«Vse my vyshli iz gogolevskoj „Shineli“, – spravedlivo govorjat russkie pisateli… » – zametil frantsuzskij kritik E.-M. de Vogjue v 1885 godu. S etim utverzhdeniem i segodnja malo kto ne soglasitsja. Kakim zhe obrazom istorija ob ukradennoj shineli obespechila proizvedenijam Gogolja takoe pochetnoe mesto v literature? Na etot vopros kazhdoe pokolenie chitatelej, otkryvaja dlja sebja zagadochnyj, strannyj, fantasticheskij gogolevskij mir – «vechno tot zhe, vechno novyj», – otvechaet po-raznomu. «Peterburgskie povesti», vkljuchaja «Shinel», «Nevskij prospekt», «Nos», «Portret», «Zapiski sumasshedshego», pod odnoj oblozhkoj vpervye byli opublikovany v tretem tome sobranija sochinenij 1842 goda. Avtor ne obedinjal ikh v osobyj tsikl napodobie «Vecherov na khutore bliz Dikanki» ili «Mirgoroda», tem ne menee v istoriju russkoj literatury oni voshli kak odno tseloe. V nastojaschee izdanie vkljuchena takzhe statja V. M. Markovicha i podrobnye kommentarii.
Barren (Novella)
A new Demon Cycle novella from internationally bestselling author Peter V. Brett Each night, the world is overrun by bloodthirsty demons. For centuries, humanity survived only by hiding behind defensive wards magical symbols of power. Now, though,...
Endless Novelty
Flexibility, specialization, and niche marketing are buzzwords in the business literature these days, yet few realize that it was these elements that helped the United States first emerge as a global manufacturing leader between the Civil War and ...
Novelty Fair
Novelty fair examines mid-nineteenth-century people, things and places generally understood to be discrete and unrelated: urban fairs and the Great Exhibition, daguerreotypes and ballads, satirical shilling books and government-backed design refor...