Overview: In the aftermath of the Civil War, an ageing itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multi-layered novel of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honour, and trust. In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his rootless, solitary existence.In Wichita Falls, he is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her relatives in San Antonio. Four years earlier, a band of Kiowa raiders killed Johanna’s parents and sister; sparing the little girl, they raised her as one of their own. Recently rescued by the U.S. army, the ten-year-old has once again been torn away from the only home she knows. Their 400-mile journey south through unsettled territory and unforgiving terrain proves difficult and at times dangerous. Johanna has forgotten the English language, tries to escape at every opportunity, throws away her shoes, and refuses to act “civilized.” Yet as the miles pass, the two lonely survivors tentatively begin to trust each other, forming a bond that marks the difference between life and death in this treacherous land. Arriving in San Antonio, the reunion is neither happy nor welcome. The captain must hand Johanna over to an aunt and uncle she does not remember—strangers who regard her as an unwanted burden. A respectable man, Captain Kidd is faced with a terrible choice: abandon the girl to her fate or become—in the eyes of the law—a kidnapper himself.

Предлагаем вниманию читателей роман замечательной английской писательницы Джейн Остин «Нортенгерское аббатство». Роман вышел в свет уже после смерти писательницы, в 1817 году. Неадаптированный текст на языке оригинала снабжен постраничным комментарием и словарем. Книга адресована студентам языковых вузов и всем любителям английской литературы.

What I meant was, what does the company do? What is British Albion in aid of? It was a very good question. Granted that British Albion was a very comfortable billet for Clement Gryce, but it had to be admitted that it was a rather peculiar company to work for.Even Gryce — a lifelong clerk with an almost total lack of ambition — can't help wondering why the telephones never ring.Soon he finds that some of his colleagues share his curiosity about the true purpose of the company that employs them — Pam Fawce in particular (introduced to him along with Mr Graph-paper and Mr Beastly, as 'Miss Divorce'). She also turns out to be the membership secretary of the Albion Players: a very exclusive amateur dramatics club…Office Life is both a comic satire on the British disease (or diseases) and an intriguing mystery story set in a horribly familiar nine-to-five world.

The basis for the movie There Will Be Blood. Based on the Teapot Dome scandal of the Harding administration, it is the story of Bunny Ross, the son of a wealthy California oil operator, who discovers that politicians are unscrupulous and that oil magnates are equally bad.

In Oil! Upton Sinclair fashioned a novel out of the oil scandals of the Harding administration, providing in the process a detailed picture of the development of the oil industry in Southern California. Bribery of public officials, class warfare, and international rivalry over oil production are the context for Sinclair's story of a genial independent oil developer and his son, whose sympathy with the oilfield workers and socialist organizers fuels a running debate with his father. Senators, small investors, oil magnates, a Hollywood film star, and a crusading evangelist people the pages of this lively novel.

It’s almost Christmas, but there is no joy in the house of terminally ill Jack and his family. With only a short time left to live, he spends his last days preparing to say goodbye to his devoted wife, Lizzie, and their three children. Then, unthinkably, tragedy strikes again: Lizzie is killed in a car accident. With no one able to care for them, the children are separated from each other and sent to live with family members around the country.

Just when all seems lost, Jack begins to recover in a miraculous turn of events. He rises from what should have been his deathbed, determined to bring his fractured family back together. Struggling to rebuild their lives after Lizzie’s death, he reunites everyone at Lizzie’s childhood home on the oceanfront in South Carolina. And there, over one unforgettable summer, Jack will begin to learn to love again, and he and his children will learn how to become a family once more.

In these eight tales, Munro evokes the devastating power of old love suddenly recollected. She tells of vanished schoolgirls and indentured frontier brides and an eccentric recluse who, in the course of one surpassingly odd dinner party, inadvertently lands herself a wealthy suitor from exotic Australia. And Munro shows us how one woman's romantic tale of capture and escape in the high Balkans may end up inspiring another woman who is fleeing a husband and lover in present-day Canada.

fiction, prose, Women Writers

A new tour de force from the bestselling author of Free Food for Millionaires, for readers of A Fine Balance and Cutting for Stone.Profoundly moving and gracefully told, PACHINKO follows one Korean family through the generations, beginning in early 1900s Korea with Sunja, the prized daughter of a poor yet proud family, whose unplanned pregnancy threatens to shame them. Betrayed by her wealthy lover, Sunja finds unexpected salvation when a young tubercular minister offers to marry her and bring her to Japan to start a new life.So begins a sweeping saga of exceptional people in exile from a homeland they never knew and caught in the indifferent arc of history. In Japan, Sunja's family members endure harsh discrimination, catastrophes, and poverty, yet they also encounter great joy as they pursue their passions and rise to meet the challenges this new home presents. Through desperate struggles and hard-won triumphs, they are bound together by deep roots as their family faces enduring questions of faith, family, and identity.

«Parerga und Paralipomena» – сочинение известного немецкого философа Артура Шопенгауэра (нем. Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860). *** Это систематические сведения о разного рода предметах, в частности о свободе как о сверхчувственном выражении. Другими произведениями А. Шопенгауэра являются «О воле в природе», «О свободе воли», «Об основе морали», «Две основные проблемы этики», «О четверояком корне закона достаточного основания» и «Мир как воля и представление». Артура Шопенгауэра называли «философом-пессимистом»: он считал существующий мир «наихудшим из возможных», в противоположность немецкому мыслителю Готфриду Лейбницу.

Paskutinės Šanchajaus kurtizanės išpažintis

Saulėta Kalifornija. San Fransiskas. Čia gyvenanti 98 m. senolė Siang Siang, geriau žinoma Bao Lan, Brangiosios Orchidėjos vardu, prieš „pradėdama kelionę į amžinybę“, provaikaitei ir jos sužadėtiniui pasakoja savo skausmingą ir kupiną netikėtų likimo vingių gyvenimo istoriją. Nedaug kas žino, kad ji – paskutinė Šanchajaus gėlių mergina, savo laiku buvusi turtingiausia, labiausiai šlovinama ming dzi: „gerbiama kurtizanė“. Tai išsilavinusi, daug pasiekusi visose meno srityse – literatūroje, muzikoje, tapyboje, kaligrafijoje ir poezijoje – moteris. Ji „regėjo visus šimtmečio džiaugsmus ir negandas“ ir nenori leisti „brangiam paveldui nugrimzti į lakųjį smėlį“. Senuose prisiminimuose atgyja 1918 metų Kinija.

Brangiosios Orchidėjos tėvas melagingai apkaltinamas ir nubaudžiamas mirtimi, jo artimuosius prislegia gėdos našta. Motinai nelieka nieko kita, kaip stoti į budistų vienuolyną, todėl dukrą ji patiki globoti tolimai giminaitei iš Šanchajaus.

Iš pradžių gyvenimas Persikų žiedų paviljone primena sapną. Egzotiškos gėlės, čiurlenantys fontanai, spalvingų karpių tvenkiniai – visa tai panašu į svajonę. Brangioji Orchidėja mokoma muzikos, literatūros, tapybos, kaligrafijos ir, nekaltos mergaitės nuostabai, meno teikti malonumą vyrams. Mat gražusis paviljonas turi kitą, tamsesnę paskirtį – čia įsikūręs elitinis viešnamis.

Originalo pavadinimas - Peach Blossom Pavillion

Vertėjas: Vytautas Petrukaitis

Элинор Портер (1868–1920) – американская детская писательница. Предлагаем вниманию читателей продолжение ее книги-бестселлера «Поллианна». Героиня книги выросла, но не забыла свою «игру в радость» и осталась такой же доброй и жизнерадостной, какой ее полюбили читатели во всем мире.

Книга адресована всем любителям англоязычной литературы.