Set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality. With a sharp, probing imagination, James Baldwin`s now-classic narrative delves into the mystery of loving and creates a moving, highly controversial story of death and passion that reveals the unspoken complexities of the human heart.

Вместе с Крисом в жизнь Джиллиан Форрестер вошла любовь и иллюзия счастья. Ее возлюбленный красив и беспечен, серьезность и ответственность не для него, а тем более ответственность за будущего ребенка...

he book tells the story about adventure of Lemuel Gulliver in four different parts, his adventure in country of lilliiputs

Considered the greatest satire ever written in English, Jonathan Swift`s Gulliver`s Travels chronicles the fantastic voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, principally to four marvelous realms: Lilliput, where the people are six inches tall; Brobdingnag, a land inhabited by giants; Laputa, a wondrous flying island; and a country where the Houyhnhnms, a race of intelligent horses, are served by savage humanoid areatures called Yahoos

Uniquely capable of capturing a moment in time, the short story occupies a cherished place in the history of American literature. During the last 200 years, some of America`s greatest writers have produced exemplars of this art form, many of which are included in this volume

Данная книга представляет собой выдержки из романа В.Гюго " Отверженные". В книге описана история одного парижского беспризорного мальчугана во время восстания в Париже в 1832 году

This book is the single most popular book of the Hindus, which, for over four centuries, has greatly appealed equally to the rich and the poor, the educated and the illiterate, the old and the young, and the scholar and the common man

Das Buch zieht in eine packende Geschichte ueber Gewalt, wachsendes Selbstbewusstsein, Erschoepfung und Mut hinein.

All sixteen-year-old Cameron wants is to get through high school-and life in general-with a minimum of effort

When Garth is zapped into the ghost world by Frank, a washed-up ghost wrangler, he discovers that he has special powers