Partisan de la position allongée, Oblomov ne trouve le bonheur que dans le sommeil. Ni son ami Stolz, incarnation de l`énergie et de l`esprit d`entreprise, ni la belle Olga avec qui se nouera l`embryon d`une idylle, ne parviendront à le tirer de sa léthargie. Entreprendre et aimer sont décidément choses trop fatigantes. Grand roman de mœurs, Oblomov offre une satire mordante des petits fonctionnaires et des barines russes. La première partie du texte constitue un véritable morceau de bravoure, irrésistible de drôlerie, décrivant les multiples tentatives toutes vouées à l`échec d`Oblomov pour sortir de son lit. La profondeur du roman et la puissance du personnage...
ISBN: 978-2-07-042928-8
Издательство:
Gallimard
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Patty Bigelow thought she`d finally figured life out. Then her wayward sister Leila abandons her child, Tanya, on her doorstep. The aunt and troubled niece slowly learn to live together, with the help of Dr Alex Delaware`s counselling. Now, fifteen years later, Tanya is back in Alex`s office, a self-possessed Harvard student, about to enter graduate school in clinical psychology. Patty - the only real mother she`s ever known - has died and left Tanya with a chilling legacy: a deathbed confession that her aunt murdered a man years earlier. Tanya has tried to let go of the confession. But it soon becomes clear that nothing short of finding out the truth will do. And she needs Alex`s
ISBN: 978-0-345-50375-6
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Vampire hunter Anita Blake is forced into an uneasy alliance with Edward, a bounty hunter specializing in the preternatural, as she searches for a mysterious and evil force that maims, kills, and vanishes into the night without a trace.
ISBN: 0-515-13450-3
Издательство:
Penguin USA
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
From the son of bestselling author Rosamunde Pilcher comes this story of one man`s grief after the death of his young wife and the long road he must travel in order to love again. Pilcher crafts a fine and fulfilling novel that will please fans not only of his mother`s books but of Maeve Binchy`s as well.
ISBN: 978-0-312-97184-7
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
This title includes over 100 magical and exciting short stories to enjoy around the clock! Find out just how mischievous Twinkle the elf is when he paints the walls of a dragon`s Join Chitter the gnome as he discovers a Follow Edward the very brave pink teddy bear as he rescues his owner from a dark And laugh at Twisty the Brownie as he learns the hard way why it`s unwise to pull nasty faces.
ISBN: 978-1-4052-4847-1
Издательство:
Egmont Books Ltd
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
The British Secret Service has many enemies. Whether it`s a sniper in East Berlin, a Russian agent secretly bidding for a Faberge egg, or a retired major in Jamaica with a treacherous secret, it is down to James Bond to neutralize the threat. In these stories the dirty world of international espionage tests Bond`s skills to the extreme.
