THE EBONY TOWER is a series of novellas, rich in imagery, exploring the nature of art. The story of the title - which the OBSERVER described as `the finest thing Fowles has written` - concerns a journalist visiting a...
At the heart of the ruined city of Arcopolis is the Fortress. It`s a brutalstructure placed here by one of the sides in a devastating intergalactic warthat`s long ended. Fifteen years ago, the entire population of the...
Sam Vimes is a man on the run. Yesterday he was a duke, a chief of police and the ambassador to the mysterious, fat-rich country of Uberwald. Now, he has nothing but his native wit and the gloomy trousers of Uncle...
Most of us grow up having always known to touch wood or cross our fingers, and what happens when a princess kisses a frog or a boy pulls a sword from a stone, yet sadly some of these things are now beginning to be...
A translation by Robert & Elizabeth Chandler and Olga Meerson of Platonov`s dystopian novel. It describes the lives of a group of Soviet workers who believe they are laying the foundations for a radiant future.
August 1991. In a sweltering New York City apartment, a group of Russian emigres gathers round the deathbed of an artist named Alik, a charismatic character beloved by them all, especially the women who take turns...
The Family is the belated fruit of Mario Puzo`s life-long obsession with the Borgias, whom the creator of Don Corleone saw as just another family whose family business happened to involve killing people. He never got...
CIA agent John Wells has been undercover so long that his bosses are no longer sure he’s still loyal – or even still alive. For years Wells has been building his cover in the mountains of Afghanistan, his existence...
The Future History of the Arctic
`For most of us the Arctic is, above all, an idea. It cannot be mapped, it can only be described. Cold, isolation, emptiness, white, pristine - these are the words it evokes; these are the preconceptions through which...
Hard to believe, but there was a time when the word "lawyer" wasn\'t synonymous with "criminal," and the idea of a law firm controlled by the Mafia was an outlandish proposition. This intelligent, ensnaring story came...
From Ernest Hemingway`s Preface: `There are many kinds of stories in this book. I hope you will find some that you like - In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see,...
In a tale of brutality and betrayal that crowns Mario Puzo`s remarkable career, he brings us the story of the greatest crime family in Italian history - the Borgias. Формат: 13 см x 19,5 см.
