This collection contains fifteen of O. Henry's short stories. "The Gift of the Magi" is the most famous of his classic tales, but the stories that follow here give the reader a deeper and richer sample of O. Henry's storytelling art. The text has been simplified and made easier to read for the enjoyment of readers who study English. It is appropriate for intermediate to advanced learners. О.Henry (1862 - 1910) was a widely popular American short story writer, famous for his dry humor, wordplay and clever surprise endings. "O. Henry's finest work... reveal such a depth of understanding of the ... |
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Original story by Hirokatsu Kihara and Ichiro Nakayama. Experience real-life chills as Junji Ito brings these true horror series to life! University student Mimi and her boyfriend Naoto encounter one chilling mystery after another. There's the enigmatic neighbor woman dressed in black from head to toe - but if she's so odd, why does it seems like there are many others like her? Then, whose eyes track Mimi's movements from the cemetery next door? And why does a bizarre red circle drawn on a basement wall change with each passing day? Nine scary stories that really happened, drawn from the famed collecton ... |
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From the artistic genius and esoteric research of Fabio Listrani, an important deck, obscure and very rich in symbolism, which transposes with its dark atmospheres the esoteric and kabbalistic thought of Aleister Crowley and the other great masters of the occult. This deck moves the deep waters of the sea of the human unconscious, in search of the light that is hidden even in the darkest abyss. Artwork by Fabio Listrani. 78 cards with dimensions 6.6 x 12 cm and multilingual instruction booklet included. ... |
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James Joyce's astonishing masterpiece, Ulysses, tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on 16 June 1904, during which Bloom's voluptuous wife, Molly, commits adultery. Initially deemed obscene in England and the USA, this richly-allusive novel, revolutionary in its Modernistic experimentalism, was hailed as a work of genius by W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot and Ernest Hemingway. Scandalously frank, wittily erudite, mercurially eloquent, resourcefully comic and generously humane, Ulysses offers the reader a life-changing experience. ... |
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The perfect crime doesn't exist. The perfect getaway... that's another story. Billy Summers is a killer for hire. He's among the best snipers in the world, a decorated Iraq war vet who can blend into any neighborhood and disappear after the shot is taken. But he'll only agree to a contract if the target is a truly bad guy. Now Billy wants out. But first he's offered one final job - an offer which is just too big to refuse. As the days count down to the hit, Billy senses something is wrong. He doesn't yet know just how wrong, or about the woman who will help him try to set things right. Part ... |
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What happens when America's First Son falls in love with the Prince of Wales? When his mother became President, Alex Claremont-Diaz was promptly cast as the American equivalent of a young royal. Handsome, charismatic, genius - his image is pure millennial-marketing gold for the White House. There's only one problem: Alex has a beef with the actual prince, Henry, across the pond. And when the tabloids get hold of a photo involving an Alex-Henry altercation, U.S./British relations take a turn for the worse. Heads of family, state, and other handlers devise a plan for damage control: staging a truce between the two ... |
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"Поезия, която дръзва да разкаже своята истина с рима и ритъм. "Отказвам да се движа наобратно", твърди Нели Станева в стихосбирката си "Другото време" и завърта сезоните. Читателите на тази книга разбират, че след преминаването през целостта на този времеви цикъл, нищо в живота на лирическия герой няма да е същото." Катерина Стойкова "Поезията на Нели Станева е жизнено зелена като пролет, топла като лято, ярка и богата като есен, изпепеляващо бяла като зима. Бих искал да мога да пиша така "възхитително и леко" за дълбоко вярващите в светлото и приемащите мрака. Поезия, ... |
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Настоящият сборник включва избрани разкази на К. А. Смит. Действието в тях се развива в древните Хиперборея и Атлантида, в митичната средновековна област Авероан, на последния континент на Земята - Зотик, на Марс, Венера, в алтернативни светове и други измерения - места, населени с могъщи некроманти и храбри воини, крадци, търсачи на приключения или забранени познания, причудливи същества, богове, демони, извънземни и безименни чудовища. Ще станете свидетели на невиждани ритуали, заклинания, болести и проклятия, ще се разходите в загадъчни градове, храмове, гробници и градини и ще се докоснете до чистото, абсолютно зло, ... |
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New York Times bestseller. ... A brilliant, penetrating examination of the roller-coaster life of silicon valley's most audacious businessman, sending shock waves throughout business and industry. "Musk is a visionary genius: the man most likely to solve our addiction to carbon, save the planet from global warming, and set us on course for our interplanetary destiny." London Review of Books "An essential read... a riveting portrait of Silicon Valley's most driven entrepreneur since Steve Jobs" Financial Times "An entertaining read for anybody who wants to get into the mind of this ... |
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"Модерността е феномен, който има минимум два аспекта: обективен (свързан със социално-икономическото развитие, познато още като модернизация) и субективен (свързан с преживяванията на аза, с всички негови драми и тегоби, с артистичните, теоретични и индивидуалистични измерения на понятието). Пеньо Столаров е човек, който се поставя сам срещу света. Той е като Дон Жуан, който иска да общува директно с Бога, ми каза през един дъждовен октомврийски предиобед Георгий Станишев . В крайна сметка светът страда не по-малко от сблъсъците с него, колкото самият Пеньо. А той, Пеньо, лепи черупките от строшеното по време на ... |
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One of the most accomplished human beings who ever lived, Leonardo da Vinci remains the quintessential Renaissance genius. Creator of the world’s most famous paintings, this scientist, artist, philosopher, inventor, builder, and mechanic epitomized the great flowering of human consciousness that marks his era. "Leonardo da Vinci. The Graphic Work" features top-quality reproductions of 663 of Leonardo's drawings, more than half of which reside in the Royal Collection of Windsor Castle. From anatomical studies to architectural plans, from complex engineering designs to pudgy infant portraits, delve in and ... |
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The Bomber Mafia is a case study in how dreams go awry. When some shiny new idea drops from the heavens, it does not land softly in our laps. It lands hard, on the ground, and shatters. In the years before the Second World War, in a sleepy air force base in central Alabama, a small group of renegade pilots put forth a radical idea. What if we made bombing so accurate that wars could be fought entirely from the air? What if we could make the brutal clashes between armies on the ground a thing of the past? This book tells the story of what happened when that dream was put to the test. The Bomber Mafia follows the stories ... |
