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41Slaughterhouse 5 , Kurt Vonnegut (1991)
Prisoner of war, optometrist, time-traveller - these are the life roles of Billy Pilgrim, hero of this miraculously moving, bitter and funny story of innocence faced with apocalypse. "Slaughterhouse… 764 руб42Men Cry in the Dark , Michael Baisden (2001)
Derrick has a thriving business, good looks, and charisma to spare, but his success seems empty without a special lady to share it with. Tony was an unredeemable ladies'man until Tracie caught his… 579 руб43White Corridor , Christopher Fowler (2008)
The unthinkable has happened at London’s Peculiar Crimes Unit. In the bitter depths of winter, a member of the team has been murdered, and everyone who works there is a suspect. With the exception… 764 руб44Fathers and Sons , Ivan Turgenev (1996)
Fathers and Sons is one of the greatest nineteenth century Russian novels, and has long been acclaimed as Turgenev's finest work. It is a political novel set in a domestic context, with a universal… 203 руб45The Forsyte Saga , John Galsworthy (2002)
When The Forsyte Saga was shown on television in 1967 it was hugely successful. The nation was gripped by the masterful visual telling of the Forsyte family's troubled story and adapted its… 212 руб46Maggie: A Girl of the Streets&Other Stories , Stephen Crane (1995)
Maggie is an astonishing novel of social realism, which parallels many of today's ills. Set in the urban squalor of New York in the 1890s, it follows the careers of the innocent Maggie and her… 212 руб47The Trumpet-Major , Thomas Hardy (1995)
Thomas Hardy's only historical novel, "The Trumpet Major" is set in Wessex during the Napoleonic Wars. Hardy skilfully immerses us in the life of the day, making us feel the impact of historical… 212 руб48Money for Nothing , P.G. Wodehouse (2008)
The peaceful slumber of the Worcester village of Rudge-in-the-Vale is about to be rudely disrupted. First there’s a bitter feud between peppery Colonel Wyvern and the Squire of Rudge Hall, rich but… 570 руб49A Storm of Swords: Book Three of A Song of Ice and Fire , George R.R. Martin (2003)
Here is the third volume in George R. R. Martin’s magnificent cycle of novels that includes "A Game of Thrones" and" A Clash of Kings" . As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of… 705 руб50The Closed Circle , Jonathan Coe (2010)
Jonathan Coe’s previous novel, "The Rotters’ Club", was a novel of innocence: a nostalgic, humorous evocation of adolescent life in 1970s Britain." The Closed Circle" is its mirror image: a novel… 805 руб
