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Издание на английском языке • Эпидемии, войны, корумпированные элиты? Всё это было и у Оруэлла! • Джордж Оруэлл — британский писатель и публицист, социалист, воевавший в Испании против Франко. В эту книгу вошли несколько его произведений. Автобиографическая повесть "Памяти Каталонии" рассказывает от первого лица об участии Оруэлла в Гражданской войне в Испании. Роман "Глотнуть воздуха", наполненный предчувствиями грядущей войны, посвящен тоске по уходящей эпохе, которая наверняка теперь знакома и вам, дорогой читатель. Наконец, "Скотный двор" едва ли нуждается в представлении. Эта повесть аллегорически описывает противостояние Сталина и Троцкого в СССР. Этот конфликт напрямую затронул и самого Оруэлла, обвиненного в троцкзиме в Испании, и вынужденного спасаться бегством

Страховщику Джорджу Боули 45 лет. У него есть жена и дети, да и в целом дела его идут неплохо: не так давно он выиграл приличную сумму, а ещё его дожидается новый набор вставных зубов. Только вот его жизнь зашла в тупик: он лишь толстеет и задыхается под гнётом рутины. А сегодня у него ещё и шея в мыле, которое он забыл смыть утром • Джордж понимает, что привычная жизнь в пригороде Лондона и работа ему опротивели, и решает ненадолго вернуться в родную деревню, надеясь на глоток свежего воздуха. Но эта поездка рискует кончиться крушением его надежд… • «Глотнуть воздуха» – четвёртый роман Джорджа Оруэлла, написанный в преддверии Второй мировой войны и пронизанный осознанием её неизбежности • На его страницах читателя ждёт полный юмора и проницательных мыслей портрет межвоенной Британии – мира, который вот-вот должен был исчезнуть

Страховщику Джорджу Боули 45 лет. У него есть жена и дети, да и в целом дела его идут неплохо: не так давно он выиграл приличную сумму, а ещё его дожидается новый набор вставных зубов. Только вот его жизнь зашла в тупик: он лишь толстеет и задыхается под гнётом рутины. А сегодня у него ещё и шея в мыле, которое он забыл смыть утром • Джордж понимает, что привычная жизнь в пригороде Лондона и работа ему опротивели, и решает ненадолго вернуться в родную деревню, надеясь на глоток свежего воздуха. Но эта поездка рискует кончиться крушением его надежд… • «Глотнуть воздуха» – четвёртый роман Джорджа Оруэлла, написанный в преддверии Второй мировой войны и пронизанный осознанием её неизбежности • На его страницах читателя ждёт полный юмора и проницательных мыслей портрет межвоенной Британии – мира, который вот-вот должен был исчезнуть

Like Water For Chocolate tells the captivating story of the De la Garza family. As the youngest daughter, Tita is forbidden by Mexican tradition to marry. Instead, she pours all of her emotions into her delicious recipes, which she shares with readers along the way.When Tita falls in love with Pedro, he is seduced by the magical food she cooks. Unfortunately, he's married to her sister • Filled with recipes, longing and bittersweet humour, this charming story of one family's life in turn-of-the-century Mexico has captivated readers all over the world and was made into an award-winning film

'If you care about something you have to protect it. If you're lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.' • Summer, 1953. In the small town of Gravesend, New Hampshire, eleven-year-old John Wheelwright and his best friend Owen Meany are playing in a Little League baseball game. When Owen hits a foul ball which kills John's mother, their lives are changed in an instant • It is dismissed as a tragic accident but Owen disagrees. He believes that he is God's instrument, put on Earth for a higher purpose. And as the boys come into adulthood to the background of the Vietnam War, a series of remarkable events show that perhaps Owen's divine plan was not imagined after all • Discover the funny yet poignant classic by the bestselling author of The World According to Garp

An early memoir from the world's most famous atheist, and scientist • Born to parents who were enthusiastic naturalists, and linked through his wider family to a clutch of accomplished scientists, Richard Dawkins was bound to have biology in his genes. But what were the influences that shaped his life? And who inspired him to become the pioneering scientist and public thinker now famous (and infamous to some) around the world? • In An Appetite for Wonder we join him on a personal journey from an enchanting childhood in colonial Africa, through the eccentricities of boarding school in England, to his studies at the University of Oxford’s dynamic Zoology Department, which sparked his radical new vision of Darwinism, The Selfish Gene. Through Dawkins’s honest self-reflection, touching reminiscences and witty anecdotes, we are finally able to understand the private influences that shaped the public man who, more than anyone else in his generation, explained our own origins

For amiable City trader Jimmy Corby money was the new Rock n' Roll. His whole life was a party, adrenalin charged and cocaine fuelled. If he hadn't met Monica he would probably have ended up either dead or in rehab • But Jimmy was as lucky in love as he was at betting on dodgy derivatives, so instead of burning out, his star just burned brighter than ever. Rich, pampered and successful, Jimmy, Monica and their friends lived the dream, bringing up their children with an army of domestic helps • But then it all came crashing down. And when the global financial crisis hit, Jimmy discovers that anyone can handle success. It's how you handle failure that really matters

For centuries, scientists had only one way to study the brain: wait for misfortune to strike - strokes, seizures, infections, lobotomies, horrendous accidents, phantom limbs, Siamese twins - and see how the victims changed afterwards. In many cases their survival was miraculous, and observers marvelled at the transformations that took place when different parts of the brain were destroyed. Parents suddenly couldn't recognise their children. Pillars of the community became pathological liars and paedophiles. Some people couldn't speak but could still sing. Others couldn't read but could write • The stories of these people laid the foundations of modern neuroscience and, century by century, key cases taught scientists what every last region of the brain did

For eight-year-old Rufus life has become complicated. His parents, Josie and Tom, have divorced and are setting off on separate paths. But now, other people have had to become involved, like his mother's new husband Matthew and his father's new friend Elizabeth. What's even worse is that there are other children too, Matthew's three teenagers, who have been conditioned by their mother Nadine to hate his mother Josie • Matthew's children come to their father for weekends and make it clear how much they loathe Josie. Rufus secretly prefers to be with his father, in his peaceful flat in Bath, where he realises that he doesn't actually hate the idea of a stepmother, if she is peaceful and sane like Elizabeth. But where other people's children are concerned, neat solutions seldom occur

Here is a truth that can’t be escaped: for Mia ‘Rabbit’ Hayes, life is coming to an end • Rabbit Hayes loves her life, ordinary as it is, and the extraordinary people in it • She loves her spirited daughter, Juliet; her colourful, unruly family; the only man in her big heart, Johnny Faye • But it turns out the world has other plans for Rabbit, and she’s OK with that. Because she has plans for the world too, and only a handful of days left to make them happen • Here is a truth that won’t be forgotten: this is a story about laughing through life’s surprises and finding the joy in every moment

When Tamsin Calidas first arrives on a remote island in the Scottish Hebrides, it feels like coming home. Disenchanted by London, she and her husband left the city and high-flying careers to move the 500 miles north, despite having absolutely no experience of crofting, or of island life. It was idyllic, for a while. But as the months wear on, the children she'd longed for fail to materialise, and her marriage breaks down, Tamsin finds herself in ever-increasing isolation • Injured, ill, without money or friend she is pared right back, stripped to becoming simply a raw element of the often harsh landscape. But with that immersion in her surroundings comes the possibility of rebirth and renewal. Tamsin begins the slow journey back from the brink