A. S.1936 Byatt
24) Detskai͡a kniga
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A tale spanning the end of the Victorian era through World War I finds famous children's book author Olive Wellwood taking in a runaway and exposing the boy to dark truths about her family's summer bacchanals at their rambling country house.
25) Ragnarok
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Russian
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Ragnarok» - kniga iz serii drevnikh mifov, pereosmyslennykh sovremennymi pisatelyami iz raznykh stran, sredi kotorykh Antoniya S'yuzen Bayyett, Ali Smit, David Grossman, Su Tun, Ol'ga Tokarchuk, Viktor Pelevin i dr. Ostraya, liricheskaya, avtobiograficheskaya kniga o pyatiletney devochke, evakuirovannoy vo vremya Vtoroy mirovoy voyny iz Londona v sel'skuyu mestnost'. Ona perezhivayet za ottsa, voyennogo letchika, ch'ya sud'ba tragicheski ne yasna,...
26) Darkness visible
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Hideously scarred and orphaned during the bombing of London, Matty sees himself as set apart from others, and his wanderings bring him into contact with Mr. Pedigree, a respected teacher and obsessed pederast, and Sophy and Toni, angelic-looking terrorist twins.
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The works assembled here introduce George Eliot's incisive views on religion, art, and science, and the nature and purpose of fiction. Essays show her rejecting her earlier religious beliefs, questioning conventional ideas about female virtues and marriage, and setting out theories of idealism and realism that she developed further in her famous novels. Also included are selections from Eliot's translations of works by Strauss and Feuerbach, excerpts...
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While attending a conference in Istanbul, Dr. Alithea Binnie happens to encounter a djinn who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom. This presents two problems: first, she doubts that he's real, and second, because she's a scholar of story and mythology, she knows all the cautionary tales of wishes gone wrong. The djinn pleads his case by telling her fantastical stories of his past. Eventually, she's beguiled and makes a wish that surprises...