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Жанр "Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке"
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1960,
показано 30,
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While at this time the previous day he had never heard of the Martons, the train set specialist was beginning to haunt his...
Maigret plunges into the murky Parisian underworld in book twenty-nine of the new Penguin Maigret series.
'That shoeless foot...
'You're a good soul, inspector, and when you're up against the second-rate criminals you get here in Paris, you're a crack...
'What else did they have to do with their days? They ambled around casually. From time to time, they paused, not because they...
'Maigret looked at him in some confusion, wondering if he waas dealing with a skilful actor or, on the contrary, with a sickly...
Standing here at the window in the middle of the morning, vaguely observing the comings and goings in the street, he had a...
For the first time in his career Inspector Maigret receives written summons to the Prefect's office where he learns that he has...
'He opened the door for her and watched her walk away down the huge corridor, then hesitate at the top of the stairs. Heads...
'Maigret had never been comfortable in certain circles, among the wealthy bourgeoisie where he felt clumsy and awkward ... Built...
When a tramp is recovered from the Seine, after being badly beaten, Maigret must delve into the man's personal circumstances to...
Maigret is called to the home of professional gambler, Felix Nahour, who has been found shot dead by his chambermaid. Maigret is...
'Once alone in his office, he went over and opened the window as if being in charge of this case made him gasp for a breath of...
'Leaning on the banisters, Madame Maigret watched her husband going heavily downstairs . . . what the newspapers didn't know was...
'She wanted to die, and she wanted to live in Paris.'
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Handsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and naive, but highly ambitious. Failing to make his name in his dull provincial...
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'Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? - You think wrong!'
This is the story...
Hayes's masterpiece is an exquisite depiction of a doomed love affair set in noirish, 1950s New York.
In a Manhattan bar, a...
From Li Bai's 'Bring in the Ale' to Ted Kooser's 'Beer Bottle'; from Robert Burns's' John Barleycorn' to Carol Ann Duffy's 'John...
Rediscover Gladys Mitchell – one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L....
The second play in Shakespeare's tetralogy dealing with the Hundred Years War and the Wars of the Roses, Henry VI Part Two is...
The culminating drama of the Wars of the Roses, Henry VI Part Three plays out the final breakdown of political and family...
The first of Shakespeare's four plays about the Wars of the Roses, dramatizing the rivalry between power-hungry noble houses,...
The old king Henry IV, sick and weary, must send out his forces - including the unruly Falstaff - to meet another rebellion that...
A unique and captivating collection of Hemingway's writings on war, including extracts from his unparalleled war novels, some...
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In his mind's eye he would see that slim figure in the striking clothes, those wide eyes the colour of forget-me-not, the pert...
John Updike was always as much a poet as a storyteller and the poems in this, his final collection, celebrate the everyday, even...
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