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A collection of chilling tales, ironic, unsettling, imbued with dread and with droll humour • A dapper Paris doctor dispenses a treatment for dissatisfied wives. A mother auditions for her first porn movie. A writer working on a study of pain makes himself the subject of his experiments. A voyeur mistakes a murderer for a fellow peeping tom ... these are some of the characters observed by the narrator of these chilling stories. Ironic, unsettling, imbued with dread and with droll humour, Javier Marias' short tales cast a shrewd, sardonic eye on humanity

"Такое белое сердце" - захватывающий международный бестселлер и шедевр, удостоенный премии IMPAC Хавьера Мариаса, чей долгожданный новый роман "Влюбленности" был опубликован в 2013 году. Это издание Penguin Modern Classics содержит новое введение Джонатана Коу • "Такое белое сердце" начинается с того, что в середине семейного обеда Тереза, только что вышедшая замуж, идет в ванную, расстегивает блузку и стреляет себе в сердце. Что заставило ее покончить с собой сразу после медового месяца? Годы спустя эта тайна завораживает молодого новобрачного Хуана, чей отец был женат на Терезе до того, как женился на матери Хуана. По мере того как Хуан приближается к истине, он начинает сомневаться в своих собственных отношениях и в том, действительно ли он хочет знать, что произошло

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online • Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content • The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning (CEFR). Exercises at the back of each Reader help language learners to practise grammar, vocabulary, and key exam skills. Before, during and after-reading questions test readers' story comprehension and develop vocabulary

Meg's father has disappeared, and her family wants him back. One day, Meg and her little brother meet three strange women. The women know about Meg's father, and they want to help her • Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online • Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content • The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning (CEFR). Exercises at the back of each Reader help language learners to practise grammar, vocabulary, and key exam skills

The Keeper of Lost Causes (originally published in the UK as Mercy) is the nail-biting first book in the internationally bestselling Department Q series • At first the prisoner scratches at the walls until her fingers bleed. But there is no escaping the room. With no way of measuring time, her days, weeks, months go unrecorded. She vows not to go mad. She will not give her captors the satisfaction. She will die first • Copenhagen detective Carl Mørck has been taken off homicide to run a newly created department for unsolved crimes. His first case concerns Merete Lynggaard, who vanished five years ago. Everyone says she's dead. Everyone says it's a waste of time. He thinks they're right • The voice in the dark is distorted, harsh and without mercy

In both time and space, the cosmos is astoundingly vast, and yet is governed by simple, elegant, universal mathematical laws • On this cosmic timeline, our human era is spectacular but fleeting. Someday, we know, we will all die. And, we know, so too will the universe itself • "Until the End of Time" is Brian Greene's breathtaking new exploration of the cosmos and our quest to understand it. Greene takes us on a journey across time, from our most refined understanding of the universe's beginning, to the closest science can take us to the very end. He explores how life and mind emerged from the initial chaos, and how our minds, in coming to understand their own impermanence, seek in different ways to give meaning to experience: in story, myth, religion, creative expression, science, the quest for truth, and our longing for the timeless, or eternal

«Сомнамбулы» Кристофера Кларка стали одной из самых влиятельных и известных книг об истории, вышедших в нашем столетии. В ней историк пытается переосмыслить первопричины Первой мировой войны, которая оказала огромное влияние на наше восприятие прошлого и настоящего • Читателям, которые высоко оценили повествовательные навыки и оригинальность стиля Кларка, обязательно понравится собрание эссе Prisoners of Time. Помимо нового взгляда на прошлое, книга предлагает оценку достоинств и недостатков исторической науки • Книга Prisoners of Time содержит эссе, в котором рассказывается о попытках обратить прусских евреев в христианскую веру, а также рассуждения о Брексите и о битвах. Самая важная часть книги – это эссе The Dream of Nebuchadnezzar о природе политической власти, обязательное к прочтению всем, кто интересуется историей

The Turn of the Screw, James's great masterpiece of haunting atmosphere and unbearable tension, tells of a young governess sent to a country house to take charge of two orphans, Miles and Flora. Unsettled by a dark foreboding of menace within the house, she soon comes to believe that something, or someone, malevolent is stalking the children in her care. Is the threat to her young charges really a malign and ghostly presence, or a manifestation of something else entirely?

Роман Марка Твена "Приключения Гекльберри Финна" - это история о бесшабашном американском мальчишке Гекльберри Финне, друге известного во всем мире веселого и озорного Тома Сойера. После того как два проказника разбогатели, Геку стало слишком скучно вести размеренную жизнь, и он не смог усидеть на месте. В компании своего верного товарища, беглого негра Джима, Гек отправляется в полное невероятных приключений путешествие мимо диких берегов Миссисипи • Книга на английском языке • Mark Twain's witty, satirical tale of childhood rebellion against hypocritical adult authority, the Penguin Classics edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is edited with a critical introduction by Peter Coveney • Mark Twain's story of a boy's journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed the voice and experience of the American frontier as no other work had done before

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Dark Star Safari is Paul Theroux's now classic account of a journey from Cairo to Cape Town • Travelling across bush and desert, down rivers and across lakes, and through country after country, Theroux visits some of the most beautiful landscapes on earth, and some of the most dangerous. It is a journey of discovery and of rediscovery -- of the unknown and the unexpected, but also of people and places he knew as a young and optimistic teacher forty years before • Safari in Swahili simply means "journey", and this is the ultimate safari. It is Theroux in his element -- a trip where chance encounter is everything, where departure and arrival times are an irrelevance, and where contentment can be found balancing on the top of a truck in the middle of nowhere

Penguin Readers is a graded reading series for English Language Teaching (ELT) markets, designed for teenagers and young adults learning English as a foreign or second language • In Yukon, Canada during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, strong sled dogs are in high demand. Buck is stolen from his comfortable home in California and sold into service as a sled dog in Alaska. Will he survive life in the wild? • Penguin Readers is a series of the best new fiction, essential non-fiction and popular classics written for learners of English as a foreign language. Beautifully illustrated and carefully adapted, the series introduces language learners around the world to the bestselling authors and most compelling content from Penguin Random House. The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework and include language activities that help readers to develop key skills