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"Трое в лодке, не считая собаки" - самая известная книга английского прозаика и драматурга Джерома Клапки Джерома. Изданная в Англии в 1889 году, она имела оглушительный успех • Трое друзей вместе со своим любимцем фокстерьером Монморанси отправляются в плавание на лодке по Темзе • Путешествие джентльменов сопровождается множеством неурядиц и происшествий, но они и не думают унывать • Автор видит иронию в любой ситуации и не перестает радовать читателя тонкими и остроумными описаниями • Книга на английском языке • A comic masterpiece that has never been out of print since it was first published in 1889, Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat includes an introduction and notes by Jeremy Lewis in Penguin Classics • Martyrs to hypochondria and general seediness, J

'That summer we bought big straw hats. Maria's had cherries around the rim, Infanta's had forget-me-nots, and mine had poppies as red as fire. . .' • Three Summers is a warm and tender tale of three sisters growing up in the countryside near Athens before the Second World War. Living in a ramshackle old house with their divorced mother are flirtatious, hot-headed Maria, beautiful but distant Infanta, and dreamy and rebellious Katerina, through whose eyes the story is mostly observed. Over three summers, the girls share and keep secrets, fall in and out of love, try to understand the strange ways of adults and decide what kind of adults they hope to become

Пятьдесят новых книг, воспевающих новаторский дух серии Penguin Modern Classics, от вдохновляющих эссе до новаторской художественной литературы и поэзии • - О жестокость времени, которое разрушает все сущее! • "Соблазнительные, странные и вызывающие трепет истории из Японии начала 20-го века: "За тюрьмой" Нагаи, "Доктор философии в чулане" Уно и "глубоко жуткий генерал Ким" Акутагавы • Книга на английском языке • Fifty new books, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry • 'Oh the cruelty of time, that destroys all things! • 'Beguiling, strange and hair-raising tales from early 20th century Japan: Nagai's Behind the Prison, Uno's Closet LLB and Akutagawa's deeply macabre General Kim

Two hours to cover twenty-six miles and 385 yards. An exceptional feat of speed, mental strength and endurance. The sub-two-hour marathon is running's Everest, a feat once seen as impossible for the human body. But now we have reached the mountaintop • In this spellbinding book Ed Caesar takes us into the world of the elite of the elite: the greatest marathoners on earth. Through the stories of these rich characters, and their troubled lives, he traces the history of the marathon as well as the science, physiology and psychology involved in running so fast, for so long. And he shows us why this most democratic of races retains its savage, enthralling appeal - why we are drawn to test ourselves to the limit • Now with a new afterword telling the inside story of how Eliud Kipchoge achieved the impossible, with exclusive access to Nike's #Breaking2 project, and the Ineos159 event at which the barrier was finally broken

First published in 1877, these three stories are dominated by questions of doubt, love, loneliness and religious experience, and together form a triumphant conclusion to Flaubert's literary career. With elegant simplicity, 'A Simple Heart' relates the story of Felicite - an uneducated serving-woman who retains her Catholic faith despite a life of desolation and loss. Inspired by a stained-glass window in Rouen cathedral, 'The Legend of Saint Julian Hospitator' describes the fate of Julian, a sadistic hunter destined to murder his own parents. The blend of faith and cruelty that dominates this story may also be found in 'Herodias' - a reworking of the tale of Salome and John the Baptist

After the restoration of King Charles II to the British throne in 1660, dramatists experienced new freedom in an age that broke from the strict morality of puritan rule and in which elegance and wit became the chief virtues. Irreverent, licentious and cynical, the three plays collected here hold up a mirror to this dazzling era and satirize the gulf between appearances and reality. In Etherege's The Man of Mode (1676), the womanizing Dorimant meets his match when he falls in love with the unpretentious Harriet, while Wycherley's The Country Wife (c. 1675) depicts the rakish Horner who fakes impotence to fool trusting husbands into giving him easy access to their wives. And in Congreve's Love for Love (1695), the extravagant Valentine can only win his beloved Angelica if he loses his inheritance

Вашему вниманию предлагаются знаменитые романы Джерома К. Джерома: "Трое в лодке, не считая собаки" и "Трое на велосипедах" • Идет время, сменяются эпохи, но читатели по-прежнему не могут оторваться от совершенно невероятной истории путешествия троих беззаботных английских джентльменов, пустившихся в плавание по Темзе вместе со своим любимцем - фокстерьером Монморанси • Забавные недоразумения, веселые коллизии и полные комизма ситуации, из которых герои выходят, сохраняя истинно британское чувство собственного достоинства, и сегодня поражают своей оригинальностью и неувядающим юмором • Более того, джентльмены честно пытаются идти в ногу с прогрессом - и овладеть последним достижением современной техники • Джером К. Джером - писатель, которого будут с наслаждением читать всегда

In this heartfelt memoir, Yan Lianke brings the reader into his boyhood home in Song County, Henan Province, painting a richly detailed portrait of rural China during the Cultural Revolution • It is a hard but loving childhood. Yan’s family carve out a modest existence, though food is often so scarce they have to find edible bark and clay for sustenance. Working sixteen-hour shifts in a quarry, Yan’s hands become as crooked as twigs, but the satisfaction of hard physical labour and earning money to support his family proves intoxicating. Reading novels is an escape for Yan, and he yearns to become a writer after hearing about a woman who was allowed to remain in the city of Harbin after publishing her first novel • Caught between his obligations as a son and a brother, and his longing for a new life, Yan eventually joins the army

Two people who didn't know each other and who had come together by a miracle in the great city, and who now clung desperately to each other, as if already they felt a chilly solitude settling in • A divorced actor and a lonely woman, both adrift in New York, meet by chance in an all-night diner. It is the start of something, though neither is sure what. As they move through neon-lit streets, bars, rented rooms and cheap motels, these two lost souls struggle to understand what it is that has brought them, in spite of themselves, inexorably together

January 1945. Spring is in the air. And so is victory • Wedding bells are ringing at long last for Gloria and her soon-to-be husband Jack. But she can't rest until her youngest son is safely home • Head welder Rosie is delighted her own husband has returned from enemy territory. But the promise of victory brings more change... Her squad has come so far - what will happen when the war ends? • Meanwhile Helen is caught between two men - but must hide her true feelings from the one she loves. Can her fellow women welders help Helen follow her heart? • Only by working together will the Shipyard Girls win the day!

Stephanie Plum's fast becoming the most unpopular woman in New Jersey. Even her own mother can't love her for taking on the job of tracking down Uncle Mo, everybody's favourite candy store owner. Cursed with a disastrous new hair colour and an increasing sense that it's time to get a new job, the world's favourite bounty hunter sets off on her latest adventure, with a little 'help' for her new sidekick, hooker turned file clerk Lula, who's just itching to get a felon in the back of her racy redfirebird

Жанр готического романа, особенно популярный в период между 1765 и 1825 годами, основывается на ужасных сверхъестественных явлениях и событиях, экзотике и напряжении • В этом издании, дополненном вступительной статьёй от историка литературы Марио Праца, собраны три особенно важных готических романа • «Замок Отранто» Хораса Уолпола, опубликованный анонимно в 1765 году, является первым произведением своего жанра и, пожалуй, самым готическим в подборке • «Ватек», повесть эксцентричного миллионера Уильяма Бекфорда, опубликованная в 1786 году, добавляет в готический романтизм пламенные мотивы «1000 и 1 ночи» • «Франкенштейн, или Современный Прометей», написанный Мэри Шелли в 1818 году, сегодня вызывает мурашки так же, как и в день своей публикации • Книга на английском языке