Regarding the Pain of Others. S. Sontag
Regarding the Pain of Others is Susan Sontag`s searing analysis of our numbed response to images of horror. From Goya`s Disasters of War to news footage and photographs of the conflicts in Vietnam, Rwanda and Bosnia,...
The bestselling, brilliant young chef is back with a second book to accompany a major BBC TV series. There is no doubt that Jamie Oliver has captured the heart of the nation with his passion for simple, delicious,...
Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman
Rose Lloyd was the last to suspect that Nathan, her husband of over twenty years, was having an affair, and that he was planning to leave her. But the greatest shock was yet to come; for his mistress was Rose's...
A collection of comic and often gory versions of popular fairy tales. Meet Cinderella, a young woman who wants to marry a nice ordinary man; and Goldilocks, that house-breaker who gobbles up your porridge and then...
When Jeeves suggests dreamy, soulful Gussie Fink-Nottle don scarlet tights and a false beard in his bid to capture the affections of soppy Madeline Bassett, Wooster decides matters have definitely got out of hand....
A searing account of George Orwell?s observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s, The Road to Wigan Pier is a brilliant and bitter polemic that has...
Roald Dahl`s Book of Ghost Stories
"Spookiness is the real purpose of the ghost story. It should give you the creeps and disturb your thoughts..." Who better to hand-pick the ultimate in spine-chillers than Roald Dahl, a writer whose own stories have...
"Robinson Crusoe" has captured the imagination of countless readers with its vivid evocation of one man`s survival on a remote island, far from the civilization he knows. Thought to be one of the first English novels,...
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Romeo and Juliet. Ромео и Джульетта
Love, sex and death are the components of Shakespeare`s classic story of the love of two young people which reaches across the barriers of family and convention. It encompasses great love, high drama, low comedy and a...
Издание полностью на английском языке. Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения. The Arden Shakespeare is the established edition of Shakespeare's work. Justly celebrated for its authoritative scholarship and...
Forster`s brilliant social comedy is a witty observation of the English middle classes as they holiday abroad in Florence. One of these tourists is Lucy Honeychurch, a young girl whose `undeveloped heart` is awakened...
When Rose Daniels sees the drop of blood on the bedsheet, she knows she must escape her marriage and her savage husband before it`s too late. But escape is not that easy. Norman isn`t willing to let her go without a...
Rosie Parker is no more than a child when her mother dies during the war. Left to the less-than-tender mercies of her father Cole and her brutish step-brothers Seth and Norman, she sees the arrival of housekeeper...
