Книгата е част от колекция "Върхове" на издателство "Изток - Запад". ... "Всеки знае името на английския корабопритежател, индустриалеца Кунард, който през 1840 г. основа пощенска служба между Ливърпул и Халифакс с три дървени кораба с колела, с мощност 400 конски сили и с вместимост 1162 тона всеки един. След осем години имуществото на дружеството се бе увеличило с още четири кораба по 650 конски сили и 1820 тона, а две години по-късно - с други два, по-мощни и по-големи по тонаж. През 1853 г. дружеството "Кунард", което току-що бе подновило правото за превоз на пощата, увеличи ... |
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The unnamed narrator of the novel, a former government official, has decided to retire from the world and lead a life of inactivity and contemplation. His fiercely bitter, cynical and witty monologue ranges from general observations and philosophical musings to memorable scenes from his own life, including his obsessive plans to exact revenge on an officer who has shown him disrespect and a dramatic encounter with a prostitute. Seen by many as the first existentialist novel and showcasing the best of Dostoevsky's dry humour, Notes from Underground was a pivotal moment in the development of modern literature and has ... |
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Непримирими, свободолюбиви и любопитни към света - такива са героите на британския писател Алън Силитоу в неговата най-популярна книга Самотният бегач на дълго разстояние. По страниците на този литературен шедьовър в девет разказа живеят пълнокръвен живот обикновените хора от покрайнините на английския индустриален град: автомобилни механици и пощенски раздавачи, работници, продавачки и домакини, безработни и момчета от изправителни домове. Тях Силитоу представя крайно реалистично и без излишна романтика. Той не спестява и не разкрасява, а единствено среща читателя с борбените представители на едно сурово общество, които ... |
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"Модата е взета вместо цивилизацията." Това послание отправя Добри Войников в предговора на своята комедия "Криворазбраната цивилизация", завършена в Букурещ през май 1871 г. Тя разглежда тема, която е актуална и днес - за сблъсъка между традиционната и външната култура, за отношенията между родното и чуждото. В произведението авторът порицава онова разбиране за цивилизованост и култура, което се изчерпва с механичното подражаване на последните моди и тенденции, заради които човек дори е склонен да забрави своя род и обичаи. Така тази "мнима цивилизация" се оказва способна да заблуди ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Dorian Gray is young, arrogant, and devastatingly handsome. Confronted by his beauty in the form of a portrait, and struck by the terrible realization that he will age, Dorian wishes to retain his charms forever and finds his desire granted. He abandons himself to a life of hedonism, vice and murder, yet his face remains unmarked by his evil. But, hidden in his attic, the painting ages and corrupts, and one day Dorian must stand face to face with the man he has become. A perfect depiction of fin-de-siècle decadence, Oscar Wilde's only novel ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... In this hugely influential, groundbreaking work of science fiction, a brilliant scientist constructs a machine, which, with the pull of a lever, propels him to the year AD 802,701. The Time Traveller finds himself in a verdant, seemingly idyllic landscape where he is greeted by the diminutive Eloi people. The Eloi are beautiful, but weak and indolent, and the explorer is perplexed by their fear of the dark. He soon discovers the reason for their fear - the Eloi are not the only race to have inherited the earth. When his time machine disappears, the Time ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... When the chance discovery of an ancient cryptogram reveals a path to the Underworld, the adventurous Professor Otto Lidenbrock sets off to Iceland, determined to reach the centre of the earth. But nothing can prepare him and his nephew Axel for what they will find beneath the ground; measureless caverns and vast subterranean seas reveal all of the earth's known history and more, while dinosaurs do battle, giant men herd mastodons, and danger and excitement wait around every corner. Richly illustrated by Édouard Riou, the French painter and ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... One wild, snowy night on the Yorkshire moors, a gentleman asks about Wuthering Heights, the remote farmhouse inhabited by his mysterious landlord. He is told about the tragic romance of the beautiful, headstrong Cathy and the orphan Heathcliff, who - although desperately in love her - is rejected in favor of a rich suitor. But Cathy cannot forget him, and he develops a lust for revenge that will take over his life as he attempts to win her back, and to destroy everyone, and everything, he considers responsible for his loss. One of the great novels of the ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... On a seemingly normal day at the exclusive Reform Club, Phileas Fogg, a gentleman of great wealth and exacting tastes, makes an extraordinary £20,000 wager; he will perform an impossible feat and circumnavigate the globe in just eighty days. Accompanied only by his new French valet, the steady Passepartout, he sets off on a thrilling journey. Adventure, chaos and romance ensue as the daring pair harness the new power of steam to escape their ever-increasing enemies and beat the clock. The exciting adventures of Fogg and Passepartout in Jules Verne' ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... "Frankenstein" is the most famous novel by Mary Shelley: a dark parable of science misused. Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but wayward scientist, builds a human from dead flesh. Horrified at what he has done, he abandons his creation. The hideous creature learns language and becomes civilized but society rejects him. Spurned, he seeks vengeance on his creator. So begins a cycle of destruction, with Frankenstein and his "monster" pursuing each other to the extremes of nature until all vestiges of their humanity are lost. In 1831, Mary ... |
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Complete and unabridged with an afterword by Oliver Francis. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... A compelling story of a brutal double murder and its aftermath. An impoverished ex-student, Rodion Raskolnikov, kills a pawnbroker and her sister, apparently for financial gain. But as he encounters friends and family, strangers and adversaries, Raskolnikov is compelled to face the true forces that have led him to murder. His struggle with himself and those around him becomes a battle of the individual against society, radicalism against tradition, and ultimately the will of man against the mysteries of divine providence. ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Three adventurers set out to kill a sea monster, but all is not as it seems. Out in the vast expanse of the Pacific they find not a beast but a submarine - the Nautilus, an advanced craft captained by the enigmatic Captain Nemo. Captured and hauled aboard, they accompany him through coral reefs, shipwrecks, and ancient ruins. There they hunt sharks, and battle giant squid, not realizing that the greatest danger is Nemo himself, who will stop at nothing in his quest for vengeance. Beautifully illustrated by the French painter Édouard Riou, who worked ... |
