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51Le Tartuffe , Jean Baptiste Moliere (2005)
Moliere's satirical examination of religious hypocricy: a controversial classic. This text refers to an alternate Mass Market Paperback edition 323 руб52Persuasion , Jane Austen (2010)
She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning. Anne Elliot is persuaded by her friends and family to reject a… 259 руб53Vanity Fair , William Makepeaсе Thackeray (2012)
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Vanity Fair" by William Makepeace Thackeray. "Vanitas Vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is… 349 руб54Mr Bridge , Evan S. Connell (2012)
Walter Bridge, husband to India and father to three, is a successful lawyer in a Kansas suburb. The daily dramas of his life only serve to illuminate his prejudice, self-doubts and dreary existence … 569 руб55The Master and Margarita , Bulgakov M. (2010)
The devil himself appears in Stalin's Moscow, disguised as a magician and accompanied by various demons (including a naked girl and a huge black cat who packs a gun), in Mikhail Bulgakov's acidly… 419 руб56Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters , Riordan Rick (2013)
Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters is the second exciting adventure in Rick Riordan's bestselling Percy Jackson series - now with a brand new cover look. Half Boy. Half God. All Hero. You can't… 531 руб57The Moor's Last Sigh , Salman Rushdie (1996)
Moraes "Moor" Zogoiby is a 'high-born crossbreed', the last surviving scion of a dynasty of Cochinise spice merchants and crime lords. He is also a compulsive storyteller and an exile. As he travels… 1349 руб58The Gambler , Dostoevsky Fyodor (2014)
Inspired by Dostoevsky's own gambling addiction and written under pressure in order to pay off his creditors and retain his rights to his literary legacy, The Gambler is set in the casino of the… 474 руб59The Yellow Wall-Paper , Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015)
'The color is hideous enough, and unreliable enough, and infuriating enough, but the pattern is torturing.'Written with barely controlled fury after she was confined to her room for'nerves'and… 96 руб60The Tell-Tale Heart , Edgar Allan Poe (2015)
'Presently I heard a slight groan, and I knew it was a groan of mortal terror... the low stifled sound that arises from the bottom of the soul.'Stories about murder, mystery and madness, portraying… 101 руб
