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11Red Bread , Genis Alexander (2008)
These literary pieces by one of Russia's foremost essayists reflect the author's bi-culturalism– Russian and American civilizations are compared in their various manifestations. Genis is a shrewd… 121 руб12Earthly Powers , Burgess A. (2004)
'Crowded, crammed, bursting with manic erudition, garlicky puns, omnilingual jokes... which meshes the real and personalised history of the twentieth century'(Martin Amis). Kenneth Toomey is an… 975 руб13The Incredulity of Father Brown , G. K. Chesterton (2014)
Ahead of a new series of the popular BBC adaptation starring Mark Williams, all five of Chesterton's original Father Brown books have been republished with charming and collectible Penguin covers… 579 руб14Gimme Danger: The Story of Iggy Pop , Joe Ambrose (2008)
In a career that begun in the late Sixties Iggy Pop always set out to shock. But his attention-grabbing tactics including self-mutilation always disguised a musician and artist more complex than the… 1289 руб15Far Eastern Tales , W. Somerset Maugham (2000)
Far Eastern Tales is a collection of short stories born of Maugham's experiences in Malaya, Singapore and other outposts of the former British Empire. Whether portraying a ship-borne flight from a… 889 руб16Bruegel , Keith Roberts (2007)
Pieter Bruegel was perhaps the greatest sixteenth-century Flemish painter and he is certainly the most popular today. Surprisingly, fewer than fifty of his works have survived, though his episodes… 1379 руб17Life's Little Ironies , Thomas Hardy (2002)
The proverbial phrase life s little ironies was coined by Hardy for his third volume of short stories. These tales and sketches possess all the power of his novels: the wealth of description, the… 232 руб18The Prince , Niccolo Machiavelli (2014)
Niccolo Machiavelli's brutally uncompromising manual of statecraft, The Prince is translated and edited with an introduction by Tim Parks in Penguin Classics. As a diplomat in turbulent… 1239 руб19Black Snow , Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov (2014)
After being saved from a suicide attempt by a literary editor, the journalist and failed novelist Sergei Maxudov has a book suddenly accepted for stage adaptation at a prestigious venue and finds… 474 руб20Яма: The Pit , А. И. Куприн (2015)
«Яма» — повесть Александра Куприна о проституции. The Pit (Yama) is a novel by Alexander Kuprin. The book, centering around middle class brothel, owned by a… 387 руб
