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51MINUS , R. Senchin (2007)
Minus depicts post-Soviet Siberians as people with dormant inner power languishing in the cage of their circumstances. The narrator, a young man named Roman, and his friends are the losers in the new… 1093 руб52The Odd Women , George Gissing (1934)
Though Miss Barfoot had something less than a woman's average stature, the note of her presence was personal dignity. She was handsome, and her carriage occasionally betrayed a consciousness of the… 1318 руб53The Story of the Paris Churches , Jetta S. Wolff (1919)
1919. Wolff writes in the Preface: Paris Churches, many of them, have an entrancing historical as well as a precious architectural interest. Curiousold legends are often connected with their… 1775 руб54Unconscious Memory , Samuel Butler (1910)
Professor Hering's philosophy of the unconscious is of extreme simplicity. He rests upon a fact of daily and hourly experience, namely, that practice makes things easy that were once difficult, and… 1484 руб55My Friends At Brook Farm , John Van Der Zee Sears (1913)
Dr. Ripley gained my confidence by claiming old acquaintance, recalling a former meeting that I had quite forgotten. Several years previous, when Iwas a very small boy indeed, my father had taken me… 689 руб56Jane Eyre , Charlotte Bronte (2010)
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.'I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.'Bronte's infamous Gothic… 226 руб57The Rainbow , D. H. Lawrence (1995)
This novel chronicles the lives of three generations of the Brangwen family of Nottinghamshire. It is a metaphysical enquiry into the possibilities that human relationships hold amid the… 222 руб58The Necropolis Railway , Andrew Martin (2005)
When railwayman Jim Stringer moves to the garish and tawdry London of 1903, he finds his duties are confined to a mysterious graveyard line. Perplexingly, the men he works alongside have formed an… 684 руб59Coming Up Next , Smith Penny (2008)
A darkly comic novel about the fall and rise of a TV presenter. Written by an insider, it's a page-turning account of life on the sofa and in front of the cameras. When Katie Fisher, morning TV… 743 руб60White Heat , McGrath M.J. (2005)
Nothing on the tundra rotted... The whole history of human settlement lay exposed there, under that big northern sky. There was nowhere here for bones to hide. On Craig Island, a vast landscape of… 687 руб
