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The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell
Олдъс Хъксли
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| In 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gramme of mescalin, sat down and waited to see what would happen. When he opened his eyes everything was transformed. Huxley described his experience in The Doors of ... [ още ] |
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Brave New World
Олдъс Хъксли
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| Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined ... [ още ] |
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Island
Олдъс Хъксли
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| For over a hundred years the Pacific island of Pala has been the scene of a unique experiment in civilisation. Its inhabitants live in a society where western science has been brought together with eastern philosophy and humanism to create a ... [ още ] |
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Foucault's Pendulum
Умберто Еко
Vintage |
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| Three book editors, jaded by reading far too many crackpot manuscripts on the mystic and the occult, are inspired by an extraordinary conspiracy story told to them by a strange colonel to have some fun. They start feeding random bits of information ... [ още ] |
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Baudolino
Умберто Еко
Vintage |
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| An extraordinary epic, brilliantly-imagined, new novel from a world-class writer and author of The Name of the Rose. Discover the Middle Ages with Baudolino - a wondrous, dazzling, beguiling tale of history, myth and invention. It is 1204, and ... [ още ] |
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The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
Умберто Еко
Vintage |
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| Yambo, a sixty-ish rare book dealer who lives in Milan has suffered a loss of memory; not the kind of memory neurologists call 'semantic' (Yambo remembers all about Julius Caesar and can recite every poem he has ever read), but rather his &# ... [ още ] |
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The First Forty-Nine Stories
Ърнест Хемингуей
Arrow |
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| From Ernest Hemingway's Preface: 'There are many kinds of stories in this book. I hope you will find some that you like- In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the ... [ още ] |
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Winner Take Nothing
Ърнест Хемингуей
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| Written when Hemingway was at the height of his creative powers, the stories in Winner Take Nothing glow with the mark of his unique talent.
Hunters, wives, old men of wisdom, waiters, fighters, women loved, women lost: they are all here, living on ... [ още ] |
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True at First Light
Ърнест Хемингуей
Arrow |
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| Written when Hemingway returned from his 1953 safari, and edited by his son Patrick, True at First Light is a rich blend of autobiography and fiction, a breathtaking final work from one of this century's most beloved and important writers.
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Да раснеш на топло
Андрей Рубанов
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| "Прибраха ме рано сутринта на 15 август 1996 година."- Рубанов ни праща зад решетките още с първото изречение. За да ни преведе през изпитанието, наречено "лишаване от свобода". Заедно с автора ще узнаем може ли човек да остане свободен в затвора, ... [ още ] |
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