More than a year ago John Bryan began his underground paper Open City in the front room of a small two story house that he rented. Then the paper moved to an apartment in front, then to a place in the business district of Melrose Ave. Yet a shadow hangs. A helluva big gloomy one. The circulation rises but the advertising is not coming in like it should. Across in the better part of town stands the Press which has become established. And runs the ads. Bryan created his own enemy by first working for the Press and bringing their circulation from 16000 to more than three times that. It`s like building up the National Army and then joining the Revolutionaries. Of course, the battle isn`t simply Open City vs. Free Press. If you`ve read Open...
ISBN: 978-0-7535-1382-8
Издательство:
Virgin Publishing
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson, the acclaimed author of such bestsellers as "The Mother Tongue" and "Made in America", decided it was time to move back to the United States for a while. This was partly to let his wife and kids experience life in Bryson`s homeland - and partly because he had read that million Americans believed that they had been abducted by aliens at one time or another. It was thus clear to him that his people needed him. But before leaving his much-loved home in North Yorkshire, Bryson insisted on taking one last trip around Britain, a sort of valedictory tour of the green and kindly island that had so long been his home. His aim was to take stock of modern-day Britain, and to analyze what he loved so...
ISBN: 978-0-552-99600-6
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
This is the startling beginning to Notes from the Underground, one of the most profound works of nineteenth-century literature. A probing, speculative book, often regarded as a forerunner of the Existentialist movement, it examines the important political and philosophical questions current in Russia and Europe at the time. The Gambler explores the compulsive nature of gambling, one of the author`s own vices and a subject he describes with extraordinary acumen and drama. Both Dostoevsky`s first wife and his brother died in the year that Notes was published, and he wrote The Gambler when he was deeply in debt and pursued by creditors. As with most of Dostoevsky`s important works, these two were written as he underwent acute personal...
ISBN: 978-0-19-953638-2
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: июль 2011
When the new teacher first arrives, Barbara immediately senses that this woman will be different from the rest of her staff-room colleagues. But Barbara is not the only one to feel that Sheba is special, and before too long Sheba is involved in an illicit affair with a pupil. Barbara finds the relationship abhorrent, of course, but she is the only adult in whom Sheba can properly confide. So when the liaison is found out and Sheba`s life falls apart, Barbara is
ISBN: 978-0-14-103518-5
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: август 2011
"Notes from Underground" (1864) is a study of a single character, `the real man of the Russian majority`, and a revelation of Dostoyevsky`s own deepest beliefs. One of his best critics has said of the first part that it forms his `most utterly naked pages. Never after wards was he so fully and openly to reveal the inmost recesses, unmeant for display, of his heart`. "The Double" (1846) is the nightmarish story of Mr Golyadkin, a man who is haunted or possessed by his own double. Is `Mr Golyadkin junior` really a double or simply a fearful side of his own nature? This uncertainty is what gives urgency and horror to a tale which may be read as a classic study of human breakdown.
Top Gear presenter and columnist for the "Daily Telegraph" James May brings together another brilliant collection of his most controversial and humorous writing. From tales of motoring adventures through India, Russia and Iceland, to classic articles on essential subjects such as driving songs and haunted car parks, these gems from the number one car connoisseur will take readers on a motoring journey that will amuse and entertain in equal measure.
ISBN: 978-0-7535-1202-9
Издательство:
Virgin Publishing
Дата выхода: август 2011
