Със спомените си за София по времето, когато тя е "все още тристахиляден град" с "тихи периферни улички", Драган Тенев ни повежда на вълнуваща разходка из нейните емблематични кътчета. От прочутите кафе-сладкарници "Сан Суси" и "Роял", през оживената ул. "Търговска" с красивите ѝ фасади, бирарията на братя Прошек и ресторант "Батенберг", до кино "Модерен театър". Пътешествието е придружено и от пленяващи съзнанието истории. Сред тях са запознанството на автора с легендарния спортист, но скромен по душа човек Дан Колов, Стоян Михайловски, написал ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Roger Chillingworth arrives in New England after two years' separation from his wife, Hester Prynne, to find her on trial for adultery. She refuses to reveal her lover and is sentenced to wear a scarlet letter 'A' sewn onto her clothes. Resolving to discover the man's identity, Roger sets out to destroy his rival, while Hester desperately tries to protect her illegitimate daughter from a society determined to condemn them both. A smash hit in its day, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is the gripping tale of three New England ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Inspired by his experiences as a reporter during the Spanish Civil War, Ernest Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls" tells the story of Robert Jordan, an American volunteer in the International Brigades fighting to defend the Spanish Republic against Franco. After being ordered to work with guerrilla fighters to destroy a bridge, Jordan finds himself falling in love with a young Spanish woman and clashing with the guerrilla leader over the risks of their mission. One of the great novels of the twentieth century, "For Whom the Bell ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Classic Locked-Room Mysteries is a fascinating collection of ingenious mysteries which all pose the question "howdunnit?" Featuring well-known sleuths such as Sherlock Holmes and Father Brown, as well as the less familiar, including Jacques Futrelle's Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, in each story the reader is invited to play detective and is presented with a challenge: can you solve the mystery before the solution is revealed? Locked-room mysteries reached their height of popularity in the Victorian and Edwardian eras; this collection, ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Set in the South of France in the decade after the First World War, "Tender is the Night" explores the new world of moneyed leisure found by the first generation of idle-rich Americans to take refuge in the French Riviera, bracketed between the horrors of the Great War and the Great Depression to come. It is the story of a brilliant and magnetic psychiatrist named Dick Diver; the bewitching, wealthy, and dangerously unstable mental patient, Nicole, who becomes his wife; and the beautiful, harrowing ten-year pas de deux they act out along the ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... "Tales of the Jazz Age" features eleven of F. Scott Fitzgerald's best-loved short stories and "novelettes" including "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" and "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz". Set in the Jazz Age, Fitzgerald's own term for the Roaring Twenties of newly confident, post-war America, this collection shows a comic genius at work, fashioning every genre from low farce to shrewd social insight, along with fantasy of extraordinary invention. These stories illuminate the unique talent who went on to ... |
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В училище Конъл е търсен, популярен, обичан. Мариан е самотница, едновременно отхвърлена и недопускаща достъп до вътрешния си живот. Майката на Конъл е чистачка. Мариан живее в богат дом, където привидно всичко е "както трябва". Скритата абитуриентска връзка прераства в една дълга и болезнена любовна история - разказ за опитите на младите хора да намерят своето място в обществото, без да предават идеалите си, за да извоюват социална приемливост. Конъл и Мариан се намират и разделят, повлечени от течението на налаганата отвън "нормалност", от скрити болки и стремеж към признание - емоционално и ... |
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"Няма АЗ, няма ИМАМ, няма СЪМ." Самюъл Бекет "Под отчаянието у Сам се таеше нещо, което той пожела да премълчи и което навярно бе свързано с дълбоката жалост, която той изпитваше към човешкото страдание. Той го изрази по начин, който всеки може да тълкува по своя воля - като открит бунт или като смирена отстъпчивост." Робер Пенже Борхес "Корозивната сила на Бекет не е свързана нито с идеология, нито с философска доктрина. Той не онагледява, той показва. Показва човека, лишен от илюзии, убеждения, вярвания и разсъждения, които служат само за прикритие на същностната му болка - да страда, оголен ... |
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Тифани е изключително изискан, скъп и прочут бижутериен магазин в Ню Йорк, разположен на Пето Авеню номер 727, който се превръща в истинска легенда, и то в световен мащаб, след романа на Труман Капоти Закуска в Тифани (публикуван през 1958 г.). Книгата става знаково произведение за големия писател и го превръща в жив класик. Романът получава такава известност, че сега бижутерийният магазин се рекламира чрез него и чрез едноименния филм по сценарий на Капоти. Изпълнението на Одри Хепбърн в Закуска в Тифани се смята за най-доброто в цялата ѝ кариера. Филмът пожънва невероятен успех, отнася голям брой номинации и ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. A rich, comic and illuminating portrait of life in a small town, Cranford has moved and entertained readers for generations. This edition features illustrations by the celebrated Hugh Thomson, and an introduction by Dr Josie Billington, a specialist in Victorian literature. The women of the small country town of Cranford live in genteel poverty, ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. The French Revolution is in full swing and the aristocracy are being sent to the guillotine in their hundreds. In the shadows, English dandy Sir Peter Blakeney - working under his alter ego, the Scarlet Pimpernel - is breaking the condemned out of prison and leaving his distinctive calling card, a picture of a red flower, to torment the French ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. One of the great Victorian novels, "The Moonstone" has engrossed, entertained and enraptured readers since its first publication in 1868. This edition features an introduction by the renowned historian, journalist and author, Judith Flanders. Lady Verinder's uncle gives her the Moonstone - a magnificent diamond as large as an egg - ... |
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