Книги издательства Random House, Inc.
Название: The Four Essential Plays
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 2003
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Includes such plays as «The Seagull» and «Three Sisters», with universal themes of humor and the general lifelong struggles experienced by the middle class.
Название: Coming Out
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 2007
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With twin daughters finishing high school, a son at Dartmouth, and a kindergartner from her second marriage, there seems to be nothing Olympia can't handle…until one sunny day in May when she opens an invitation for her daughters to attend the most exclusive coming-out ball in New York.
Название: The Complete Short Stories
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 2000
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Evelyn Waugh's short stories are the marvelous, concentrated riffs of his comic genius, revealing in miniaturized perfection all the elements that made him the greatest comic writer of our century. We find in them Waugh's almost superhuman technical skill as a writer and his quicksilver attentiveness to the minutiae of human absurdity, as well as his worldly knowledge, his tenderness, his perceptive compassion, and his sophisticated, disabused, but nevertheless forceful idealism. The thirty-nine stories collected here include such small masterpieces as «Mr. Loveday's Little Outing» and «Scott-King's Modern Europe»; an alternative ending to Waugh's novel A Handful of Dust; a «missing chapter» in the life of Charles Ryder, the hero of Brideshead Revisited; and two linked stories, remnants of an abandoned novel that Waugh considered his best writing. This edition contains the original illustrations to «Love Among the Ruins», as well as more than thirty graphics produced by the author as an Oxford undergraduate in the 1920s.
Название: The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 1984
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For deft plotting, riotous inventiveness, unforgettable characters, and language that brilliantly captures the lively rhythms of American speech, no American writer comes close to Mark Twain. This sparkling anthology covers the entire span of Twain's inimitable yarn-spinning, from his early broad comedy to the biting satire of his later years. Every one of his sixty stories is here: ranging from the frontier humor of «The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County», to the bitter vision of humankind in «The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg», to the delightful hilarity of «Is He Living or Is He Dead?» Surging with Twain's ebullient wit and penetrating insight into the follies of human nature, this volume is a vibrant summation of the career of — in the words of H. L. Mencken — «the father of our national literature.»
Название: The Cossacks
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 1994
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This novel of love, adventure, and male rivalry on the frontiers of nineteenth-century Russia — completed in 1862, when Tolstoy was in his early thirties — has always surprised readers who know Tolstoy best through the vast, panoramic fictions of his middle years. Unlike those works, The Cossacks is lean and supple, economical in design and execution.
Название: Crazy Kisses
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 2008
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Janzen's sexy Special Forces series continues with an adventure to South America where murder, revenge, and a little romance combine in this sizzling new thriller.
Название: Crime and Punishment
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 1993
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Dostoevsky's drama of sin, guilt, and redemption transforms the sordid story of an old woman's murder into the nineteenth century's profoundest and most compelling philosophical novel. Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in the St. Petersburg of the tsars, is determined to overreach his humanity and assert his untrammeled individual will. When he commits an act of murder and theft, he sets into motion a story that, for its excruciating suspense, its atmospheric vividness, and its depth of characterization and vision is almost unequaled in the literatures of the world. The best known of Dostoevsky's masterpieces, «Crime and Punishment» can bear any amount of rereading without losing a drop of its power over our imaginations. Award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky render this elusive and wildly innovative novel with an energy, suppleness, and range of voice that do full justice to the genius of its creator.
Название: Cronica de Una Muerte Anunciada
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 2003
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This mysterious and haunting tale of romance and murder begins with the marriage of a man and a woman in love. But when he inexplicably mistreats his beloved on the night of the wedding, he is in turn murdered by her brothers, and readers are left with a strange sense of inevitability and passions gone terribly awry.
Название: Crusader Gold
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 2007
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From the author of «Atlantis» comes a mesmerizing new action-adventure thriller, concerning an astonishing search for one of the world’s greatest lost Templar treasures. What marine archaeologist Jack Howard and his team discover could change the world forever.
Название: Dandelion Wine
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 1998
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In the unusual world of Green Town, Illinois, a twelve-year-old discovers the wonders of reality and the power of imagination during the summer of 1928.
Название: Dead and Dateless
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 2007
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The bitingly funny paranormal romance series that began with «Dead End Dating» continues in this second book which finds the sassy proprietor of a vampire dating service mixed up with murder, a pack of lovelorn lady werewolves, and her own undead ex.
Название: Death in Venice and Other Stories
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 2006
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This superb new translation of «Death in Venice» and six other stories by Thomas Mann is a tour de force, sure to establish itself as the definitive text for English-speaking readers. The seven stories in this collection represent the early part of Mann's literary career, beginning with work he produced in 1896 at the age of 21, and culminating in his most celebrated novella, «Death in Venice» (1912). Although Mann continued working until the end of his life in 1955, he despaired of ever matching the quality of his early writing. In these stories, Mann began to grapple with themes that were to recur throughout his work. In the first piece, «Little Herr Friedemann», as in «Death in Venice», a character's carefully structured way of life is suddenly and unexpectedly threatened by sexual passion. In «Gladius Dei», puritanical intellect clashes with beauty. In «Tristan», Mann presents an ironic and comical account of tension between an artist and bourgeois society. All seven of these stories are accomplished and memorable, but it is «Death in Venice» that truly forms the centerpiece of the collection. Themes that weave their way through many of the shorter stories come to a climax in this novella, out century's most haunting, magnificent tale of art and self-destruction.
Название: Death of a Doxy
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 1995
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With a rich man footing the bills and a handsome lover on the side, Isabel Kerr was taken care of well. When someone takes care of her in a more final sense, her murder is pinned on a detective friend of Nero Wolfe's. Agreeing to help clear his buddy's name, Wolfe winds up entertaining a party of fools and lovers connected with the doxy's death.
Название: Decline and Fall
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 1993
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Decline and Fall (1928) was Evelyn Waugh's immensely successful first novel, and it displays not only all of its author's customary satiric genius and flair for unearthing the ridiculous in human nature, but also a youthful willingness to train those weapons on any and every thing in his path. In this fractured picaresque comedy of the hapless Paul Pennyfeather stumbling from one disaster to another, Waugh manages the delicious task of skewering every aspect of the society in which he lived. With an Introduction by Frank Kermode Sir Frank Kermode, formerly Lord Northcliffe Professor at London University, is now Professor at Cambridge and Columbia Universities. His books include The Uses of and Continuities.
Название: Demons
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 2000
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Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horrified Russians in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived of Demons as a 'novel-pamphlet' in which he would say everything about the plague of materialist ideology that he saw infecting his native land. What emerged was a prophetic and ferociously funny masterpiece of ideology and murder in pre-revolutionary Russia.
Название: Disclosure
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 2004
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A brutal struggle in the cutthroat computer industry... A shattering psychological game of cat and mouse... A shocking accusation that threatens to derail a brilliant career... These are the electrifying elements of the novel by the author of The Lost World and Jurassic Park. It is Michael Crichton at his galvanizing best. An up-and-coming executive at the computer firm DigiCom, Tom Sanders is a man whose corporate future is certain. But after a closed-door meeting with his new boss — a woman who is his former lover and has been promoted to the position he expected to have — Sanders finds himself caught in a nightmarish web of deceit in which he is branded the villain. As Sanders scrambles to defend himself, he uncovers an electronic trail into the company's secrets — and begins to grasp that a cynical and manipulative scheme has been devised to bring him down...
Название: Duel
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 2006
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Casanova, the Prince of Italian adventurers, is remembered as a libertine and rogue. Few know the true story of his remarkable life — and of the duel he once fought with a Polish Count. On the run from the Venetian authorities, Casanova was forced to become an exile. Far from destitute, however, his reputation afforded him shelter throughout Europe, and gained him admission into society's highest circles. Yet there, he soon found himself implicated, insulted, and forced to enter into a duel over a ballerina — a lady in whom neither he nor his Polish rival had the slightest interest. Describing the dramatic encounter and its surprising outcome with sardonic and even blase humour, Casanova creates a work of thrilling adventure, and proves his literary prowess.
Название: The Eternal Husband and Other Stories
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 2000
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Five classic short stories by Dostoevsky are collected in a single anthology for the first time, showcasing the author's strange and intoxicating literary genius.
Название: Eugene Onegin and Other Poems
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 1999
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Eugene Onegin (1833) is a comedy of manners, written in exquisitely crafted verse, about two young members of the Russian gentry, the eponymous hero and the girl Tatyana, who don't quite connect. It is also the greatest masterpiece of Russian literature — the source of the human archetypes and the attitudes that define and govern the towering fictional creations of nineteenth century Russia and one of the most celebrated poems of the world. Before Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) wrote Eugene Onegin, his nation's literature was a parochial one; after he wrote it, due in no small part to its power and influence, the Russian tradition became one of the central traditions of Western civilization.
Название: Fahrenheit 451
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 1995
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Nowadays firemen start fires. Fireman Guy Montag loves to rush to a fire and watch books burn up. Then he met a seventeen-year old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid, and a professor who told him of a future where people could think. And Guy Montag knew what he had to do...
