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|  | ENGLISH GOTHIC PROSE. XIX-XX Английская таинственная проза XIX-XX вековМ.:"АСТ", 2008, 416 c., тв., русск./англ. (Литературный Альбион) 5-17-025064-9Daniel Defoe. A Relation of the Apparition of Mrs. Veal
Sir Walter Scott. The Tapestried Chamber
John William Polidori. The Vampyre
Charles Dickens. The Mortals in the House
William Makepeace Thackeray. Bluebeard's Ghost
George MacDonald. The Gray Wolf
Montague Rhodes James. Casting the Runes
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|  | FROM IMPRESSIONISM TO CUBISM. ОТ ИМПРЕССИОНИЗМА ДО КУБИЗМАМ."Иван Федоров", 2003, 256с., тв., ув.ф. илл., суперобл., англ.яз. 5-93893-190-8Собрание французских импрессионистов и постимпрессионистов в составе Государственного музея изобразительных искусств имени А. С. Пушкина в Москве пользуется мировой известностью.
В этом музее представлено творчество ведущих мастеров новой французской живописи.
The collection of French painting of ... | |
|  | BARTLETT R., BENN A. Literary Russia: a Guide to the Authors, Characters, Scenes and Streets New York: Overlook Duckworth, 2007, 494pp., hardcover
978-1-58567-444-2Russian writers have always played a special role in the spiritual, intellectual, and political lives of their readers. This book reveals the warmth and energy with which their legacy is cherished. The authors take the reader on a tour of sites of the most important scenes of Russian literature. Rea... | |
|  | BERLIN I., БЕРЛИН И. Russian Thinkers. Русские мыслителиNew York: Penguin Group (USA), 2007, 412pp., paperback, (Penguin Classics). ISBN 978-0-141-44220-4Few, if any, English-language critics have written as perceptively as Isaiah Berlin about Russian thought and culture. Russian Thinkers is his unique meditation on the impact that Russia's outstanding writers and philosophers had on its culture. In addition to Tolstoy's philosophy of history, which ... | |
|  | BROWN D. БРАУН Д. The Lost Symbol New York: Doubleday Books, 2009, 510 pp., hardcover 978-0385504225Nothing is as it seems in a Robert Langdon novel, and The Lost Symbol itself is no exception--a page-turner to be sure, but Brown also challenges his fans to open their minds to new information. ... | |
|  | BROWN S. БРАУН С. Hello, DarknessNYC: Pocket Books, 2008, 548 pp., paperback. ISBN 978-1-4165-3777-9 (Simon & Schuster)For Paris Gibson, her popular late night radio show is both an escape and her one real contact with the outside world. Her world of isolation is brutally threatened when one listener—a man who identifies himself only as "Valentino"—tells her that her on-air advice to the girl he loves has caused her... | |
|  | CHABON M., ЧАБОН М. Wonder BoysRandom House, 2008, 368 pp., paperback, 9780812979213A modern classic, now in a welcome new edition, Wonder Boys firmly established Michael Chabon as a force to be reckoned with in American fiction. At once a deft parody of the American fame factory and a piercing portrait of young and old desire, this novel introduces two unforgettable characters: Gr... | |
|  | CHRISTIE A. КРИСТИ А. After the Funeral. После похоронNY: Berkley Mystery, 2000, 242 pp., paperback 978-0-425-17390-9Agatha Christie is the most popular mystery writer of all time. With over two billion copies of her books in print, her genius for detective fiction is unparalleled. She is truly the one and only Queen of Crime...In a vast Victorian mansion, the Abernethie family has gathered for the reading of a... | |
|  | CHRISTIE A. КРИСТИ А. Nemesis. Немезида NY: Signet Mystery, 2000, 214p., paperback ISBN 978-0-451-20018-1Miss Jane is in line for a generous inheritance from her late friend Jason if she grants his final wish and solves a crime. She doesn't know what happened, or when, or where. The only clue the sleuth has to work with is one code word: "nemesis."
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|  | CHRISTIE A. КРИСТИ А. Partners in Crime. Партнеры по преступлению NY: Signet Mystery, 2000, 218p., paperback ISBN 978-0-451-20117-1Tommy and Tuppence Beresford were restless for adventure, so when they were asked to take over Blunt's International Detective Agency, they leapt at the chance. After their triumphant recovery of a pink pearl, intriguing cases kept on coming their way.
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|  | DELINSKY B. Family TreeNY: Anchor, 2007, 416 pages, mass-market paperback edition. (Random House). ISBN 978-0-307-38846-9An unforgettable novel about family, race, and the choices people make in times of crisis.
Dana Clarke has just given birth to her first child. The little girl is lovely but no one can help noticing how little she resembles her parents. Dana's husband, among others, suspects that she may have had a... | |
|  | DIAZ J. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar WaoNYC: Riverhead, 2007, 336 pp., trade paperback. ISBN 978-1-59448-329-5 (Penguin Boooks)The long-awaited-and thrillingly satisfying, genuinely original-first novel from the unmistakable voice behind the story collection Drown.
Winner of the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2008 Pulitzer Prize, for Fiction
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|  | FEINSTEIN E. ФАЙНШТЕЙН Э. Anna of All the Russias: A Life of Anna Akhmatova. Анна Ахматова NY: Vintage Books, 2007, 332 pages, paperback, 978-1-4000-3378-2By the time the famed Russian poet Anna Akhmatova died in 1966, at the age of 77, she had witnessed the colossal changes that overtook Russia, from the last days of the czarist regime through revolution to Stalin's Terror and subsequent Soviet rule. Though born into a comfortable situation, she ofte... | |
|  | GERRITSEN T. ГЕРРИТСЕН Т. The Bone Garden. Сад костейNY: Ballantine Books, 504 pages, paperback. ISBN 978-0-345-49761-1An old mystery is crossed with a modern story in the latest from Gerritsen (The Mephisto Club, 2006, etc.). Julia Hamill, newly divorced and still smarting, purchases an old house outside Boston. Determined to dig a garden, she instead finds the bones of a long-dead woman-the apparent victim of murd... | |
|  | GERSTEIN E. ГЕРШТЕЙН Э. Moscow Memoirs: Memories of Anna Akhmatova, Osip Mandelstam, and Literary Russia under Stalin New York : The Overlook Press, 2004, 482 pp., hardcover 978-1-585-675-951Born to a man who became a high-ranking Soviet physician, Gerstein (1903–2002) rebelled against her father’s political affiliations early on. After a string of unsatisfying jobs, she followed a desire to write, establishing herself as a literary scholar and ensconcing herself among the literati of S... | |
|  | GRISHAM J. ГРИШЭМ Д. Playing for PizzaNY: Bantam Dell, 308 pages, paperback mass-market edition. (Random House). ISBN 978-0-440-24471-4Third-string Cleveland Browns quarterback Rick Dockery becomes the greatest goat ever by throwing three interceptions in the closing minutes of the AFC championship game. Fleeing vengeful fans, he finds refuge in the grungiest corner of professional football, the Italian National Football League as ... | |
|  | HOSSEINI K., ХОССЕЙНИ Х. The Kite Runner. Бегущий за ветромPenguin Group, 2004, 400 pp., trade paperback, 9781594480003Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable and beautifully told story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul. Raised in the same household and sharing the same wet nurse, Amir and Hassan grow up in different world... | |
|  | MALKOVYCH I., USS S. A Small Bunny in the Big City or Honey for Mommy. Мёд для мамыKyiv:"Ababahalamaha", 2007, 32 pages, hardcover, color illustrations. ISBN 966-7047-56-3When Bunny Rabbit's mommy catches a cold, he sets out to buy her some honey. But it's a big city, and he is still very small, and he gets lost... A touching story with touching illustrations and a happy ending.
For children ages 2 to 102, translated from Ukrainian by Kateryna Yushchenko.... | |
|  | MARQUEZ G. G. МАРКЕС Г.Г. Memories of my melancholy whores. Воспоминания моих печальных шлюхNY: Vintage Books, 2006, 118 pp., trade paperback edition. (Random House).
ISBN 978-1-4000-9594-0The first work of fiction in ten years from Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez!
... On the eve of his ninetieth birthday, the unnamed narrator of Memories of My Melancholy Whores is seized by an inspiration: to give himself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin.
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|  | MONK KIDD S., МОНК КИДД С. The Secret Life of Bees. Тайная жизнь пчелPenguin Group, 2008, 336 pp., paperback, 9780142001745Fourteen-year-old Lily Owens lost her beloved mother when she was only four—under tragic circumstances clouded by time and secrecy. She later found a fiercely protective "stand-in," her abusive father's outspoken housekeeper, Rosaleen. Ignoring differences in age and color—and the fact that racial h... | |
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