Аравинд Адига, който от дете мечтае за стане писател, е роден в Мадрас през 1974 г. Учи в университетите Колумбия и Окфорд. Бивш кореспондент на Time Magazine за Индия. Публикувал е статии също в издания като Financial Times, The Independent и Sunday Times. В момента живее в Мумбай."Белият тигър" е първият му роман и четвъртият дебютен роман, спечелил "Букър" в 40-годишната история на наградата. Адига стана петият индийски автор, носител на "Букър", нареждайки се сред автори като В. С. Найпол, Салман Рушди, Арундати Рой и Киран Десаи. Романът показва и двете страни на най-населената държава в ...![](/b-images/quad-transp.gif) |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... An impenetrable fog has descended on the streets of post-war London and, lurking in the shadows, a violent murderer is on the rampage. Gentleman detective, Albert Campion, is on the trail of a mysterious man posing as the dead husband of a war widow with a wealthy new fiancé, but his expedition into the city's criminal underworld reveals something far more sinister than blackmail... Set in the atmospheric midst of a London "pea souper", "The Tiger in the Smoke" is Margery Allingham's most sophisticated Golden Age crime ...![](/b-images/quad-transp.gif) |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... The inspiration behind BBC1's sensational psychological thriller mini series. 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. This beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition of "The Woman in White" by Wilkie Collins features an afterword by writer, editor and playwright David Stuart Davies. On a moonlit London night, art teacher Walter Hartwright meets a young woman - ...![](/b-images/quad-transp.gif) |
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The book is part of "Ladybird tales" collection. Illustration by Yunhee Park. ... "Ladybird" has published fairy tales for over forty-five years, bringing the magic of traditional stories to each new generation of children. This hardback version of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" is based on the original Ladybird retelling by Vera Southgate , with beautiful pictures of the kind children like best - full of richness and detail. ...![](/b-images/quad-transp.gif) |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... "The Call of the Wild" tells the story of Buck, a domestic dog who is kidnapped from his home in California and forced to pull sleds in the Arctic wasteland. White Fang, by contrast, is the tale of a crossbreed who is three-quarters wolf and a quarter dog, and who must endure considerable suffering in the wilderness before being tamed by an American and taken to live in California. Extraordinary both for the vividness of their descriptions and the success with which they imagine life from a non-human perspective, Jack London's classics of ...![](/b-images/quad-transp.gif) |
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The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906) are world famous animal stories. Set in Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush of the late 1890s, The Call of the Wild is about Buck, the magnificent cross-bred offspring of a St Bernard and a Scottish Collie. Stolen from his pampered life on a Californian estate and shipped to the Klondike to work as a sledge dog, he triumphs over his circumstances and becomes the leader of a wolf pack. The story records the "decivilisation" of Buck as he answers 'the call of the wild', an inherent memory of primeval origins to which he instinctively responds. In contrast, ...![](/b-images/quad-transp.gif) |
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Life is good for Magnus Bane and Alec Lightwood. That is, until the night that two old acquaintances break into Magnus's apartment and steal the powerful Book of the White. Now Magnus and Alec will have to drop everything to follow the thieves to Shanghai. And Magnus has been stabbed with a strange magical weapon that is changing the very nature of his powers. Fortunately, they have backup in the form of Clary, Jace, Isabelle and Simon. In Shanghai, they learn that a much darker threat awaits them. Magnus's magic is growing unstable, and if they can't stop the demons flooding into the city, they might have ...![](/b-images/quad-transp.gif) |
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Книга 8 от поредицата "Bulgarian Academic Monographs". ... Reconstructing the head by the skull is based on certain established correlations between the thickness of the soft tissues, the shapes, dimensions and structures of the parts of the face, on the one hand, and the anatomic peculiarities of the bones of the skull and the relief of their surface, on the other. ...![](/b-images/quad-transp.gif) |
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Картонената табелка от "Simetro" е прекрасен начин да се мотивирате всеки ден - подходяща е за дома, офиса или любимото заведение; за вас, за подарък или просто така. На гърба на табелката има специално място за надписване, което я превръща в оригинална поздравителна картичка. Към нея е прикрепена и връвчица, с която може да се закача на най-различни места. Табелката е с размери 22 x 12 cm. ...![](/b-images/quad-transp.gif) |
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Имате уникалната възможност да се срещнете с една наистина необичайна, зашеметяваща и завладяваща творба. Робърт Грейвс - вдъхновеният поет и неуморен търсач - ще ви поведе през лабиринта на средиземноморските (египетски, юдейски, елински и италийски) митове, за да ви покаже не само общите им корени с келтските сказания и германо-скандинавските саги, а оттам и с цялата западноевропейска литература, но и нещо далеч по-важно за него самия - начина, по който се е зародила истинската Поезия. Въпросните общи корени намират най-нагледно олицетворение в Бялата богиня на Раждането, Любовта и смъртта, чиито „ипостаси” съвпадат с ...![](/b-images/quad-transp.gif) |
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Award-winning readers series of original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities. Carl begins to worry when his wife Linda does not arrive for the weekend at their seaside house in the east of England. When he asks local people whether they have seen her, they appear helpful, but he soon begins to wonder whether they are hiding information from him about his missing wife. ...![](/b-images/quad-transp.gif) |
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Award-winning readers series of original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities. Is it coincidence or is he losing his mind? While researching a new programme, John, a successful television producer, comes across a story about a ghostly hitch-hiker. Soon he realises that the story of the Lady in White bears many similarities to part of his own life. Returning to London from a holiday in Ireland, John begins to ask himself some uncomfortable questions. ...![](/b-images/quad-transp.gif) |