Книги издательства Random House, Inc.
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 1993
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Russian playwright and historian Radzinsky mines sources never before available to create a fascinating portrait of the monarch, and a minute-by-minute account of his terrifying last days.
Название: The Late Romances
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 1988
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An exciting new edition of the complete works of Shakespeare with these features: Illustrated with photographs from New York Shakespeare Festival productions, vivid readable introductions for each play by noted scholar David Bevington, a lively personal foreword by Joseph Papp, an insightful essay on the play in performance, modern spelling and pronunciation, up-to-date annotated bibliographies, and convenient listing of key passages.
Название: Leaves of Grass
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 1983
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Presents the major literary works of America's poet of democracy including: Song of Myself, Starting from Paumanok, and Children of Adam.
Название: Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 2007
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Tim Weiner offers the first definitive history of the CIA — and everything is on the record. Legacy of Ashes is based on more than 50,000 documents, primarily from the archives of the CIA itself, and hundreds of interviews with CIA veterans, including ten directors of central intelligence. It takes the CIA from its creation after World War II, through its battles in the cold war and the war on terror, to its near-collapse after 9/11. Here is the hidden history of the CIA: why eleven presidents and three generations of CIA officers have been unable to understand the world, why nearly every CIA director has left the agency in worse shape than he found it, and how these failures have profoundly jeopardized our national security.
Название: Lolita
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 1999
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When it was published in 1955, Lolita immediately became a cause celebre because of the freedom and sophistication with which it handled the unusual erotic predilections of its protagonist. But Vladimir Nabokov's wise, ironic, elegant masterpiece owes its stature as one of the twentieth century's novels of record not to the controversy its material aroused but to its author's use of that material to tell a love story almost shocking in its beauty and tenderness. Awe and exhilaration — along with heartbreak and mordant wit — abound in this account of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America, but most of all, it is a meditation on love — love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 2007
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Fraser, acclaimed historian and author of «Marie Antoinette», casts new light on the splendor and the scandals of the reign of Louis XIV in this dramatic, illuminating look at the women in his life.
Название: Lunar Park
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 2006
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Bret Ellis is a writer whose first novel, Less than Zero, catapulted him to international stardom. In the wake of his third novel, American Pyscho, he was vilified mercilessly. In the midst there is the loss of his father and his dissolution in a world of drugs and booze. Now, ten years later, the time has come for Bret to reconnect with his son and his mother and try to have a more sedate life. Unfortunately his newly found family and stability is immediately threatened by a freak sequence of events and a bizarre series of murders that seem all to be connected to Bret. As he struggles to defend his family, his very sanity is called into question. In this chilling tale fantasy and reality combine to create an alternate version of the author's life, one that that is as shocking as it is haunting.
Название: The Main Enemy
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 2004
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A landmark collaboration between a thirty-year veteran of the CIA and a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, The Main Enemy is the dramatic inside story of the CIA-KGB spy wars, told through the actions of the men who fought them. Based on hundreds of interviews with operatives from both sides, The Main Enemy puts us inside the heads of CIA officers as they dodge surveillance and walk into violent ambushes in Moscow. This is the story of the generation of spies who came of age in the shadow of the Cuban missile crisis and rose through the ranks to run the CIA and KGB in the last days of the Cold War. The clandestine operations they masterminded took them from the sewers of Moscow to the back streets of Baghdad, from Cairo and Havana to Prague and Berlin, but the action centers on Washington, starting in the infamous «Year of the Spy»--when, one by one, the CIA’s agents in Moscow began to be killed, up through to the very last man. Behind the scenes with the CIA's covert operations in Afghanistan, Milt Bearden led America to victory in the secret war against the Soviets, and for the first time he reveals here what he did and whom America backed, and why. Bearden was called back to Washington after the Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan and was made chief of the Soviet/East Euro-pean Division—just in time to witness the fall of the Berlin Wall, the revolutions that swept across Eastern Europe, and the implosion of the Soviet Union. Laced with startling revelations--about fail-safe top-secret back channels between the CIA and KGB, double and triple agents, covert operations in Berlin and Prague, and the fateful autumn of 1989--The Main Enemy is history at its action-packed best.
Название: The Martian Chronicles
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 1994
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The tranquility of Mars is disrupted by the earthmen who have come to conquer space, colonize the planet, and escape a doomed earth.
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 1988
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An exciting new edition of the complete works of Shakespeare with these features: Illustrated with photographs from New York Shakespeare Festival productions, vivid readable introductions for each play by noted scholar David Bevington, a lively personal foreword by Joseph Papp, an insightful essay on the play in performance, modern spelling and pronunciation, up-to-date annotated bibliographies, and convenient listing of key passages.
Название: Memoria de Mis Putas Tristes
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 2004
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An elderly journalist decides to celebrate 90th year in a grand way, giving himself a present that will make him feel like he's still alive: a young virgin. In the brothel of a picturesque town, the moment comes where he sees the girl from the back, completely naked, and his life changes radically. Now that he meets her he finds himself close to dying, not of old age, but rather of love. This moving new novel celebrates the joys of being in love and meditates on the misfortunes of old age, radiantly written in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's unparalleled style.
Название: Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 2011
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Age has not diminished Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel-winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude. His most recent novel, Memories of My Melancholy Whores is slight in physical stature only because of the remarkable compression of style Marquez has achieved. It is his first novel in 10 years not because he has retired but because he has been apparently working on a screenplay of his epic One Hundred Years and fighting lymphatic cancer, which is bound to distract anyone.
Название: Men in Black
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 1997
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While much of the world waits and watches the skies for signs of alien civilizations, there is a select group of men who know the truth. That alien beings are here — now — walking among us in human form. These men are members of an agency dedicated to tracking and policing the movements of these aliens — a top secret organization known only as...Men in Black. James Edwards is a tenacious, streetwise NYPD cop who's recruited by Agent Kay of the Men in Black. He will step into a world where his identity will be erased, where nothing is what it seems on the surface. His first case will threaten to make Earth the battleground for two warring races...and end humanity's rule in a fiery apocalypse.
Название: Metamorphosis
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 2011
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Writings by and about Kafka and textual notes accompany this translation of his early-twentieth-century work.
Название: Miracle
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 2006
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It is New Year's Eve when the storm of the century hits northern California. In a quiet neighborhood in San Francisco, amid the chaos of fallen trees and damaged homes, the lives of three strangers are about to collide in Steel's latest №1 bestseller.
Название: Mistral's Kiss
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 2007
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The time has come for Meredith Gentry to put aside her detective work and fulfill her ultimate obligation to the world of Faerie where her efforts to conceive an heir to the throne of the Unseelie Court are crucial to restoring magic, and life itself, to the fey kingdom in this fifth volume of Hamiltons bestselling series.
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 2007
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In 1941 close to one million Russian soldiers died defending Moscow from German invasion-more causalities than that of the United States and Britain during all of World War II. Many of these soldiers were in fact not soldiers at all, but instead ordinary people who took up arms to defend their city. Students dropped their books for guns; released prisoners exchanged their freedom for battle; and women fought alongside men on the bloody, mud-covered frozen road to Moscow. By the time the United States entered the war the Germans were already retreating and a decisive victory had been won for the Allies. With extensive research into the lives of soldiers, politicians, writers, artists, workers, and children, Rodric Braithwaite creates a richly detailed narrative that captures this crucial moment. «Moscow 1941» is a dramatic, unforgettable portrait of an often overlooked battle that changed the world.
Название: My Life: The Presidential Years
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 2005
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Former President Bill Clinton's №1 «New York Times» bestselling memoir continues with Volume II of the mass market release, in which he recalls his years in the White House, from 1993-2001.
Название: My Life: The Early Years
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 2005
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The №1 «New York Times» bestselling memoir by President Clinton — he top-selling presidential memoir of all time — arrives in a two-volume mass market release. Concentrating on his early life, this first volume contains new photographs and new material by the author.
Название: Never Let Me Go
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 2008
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From The Booker Prize-Winning Ruthor of The Remains of the Day comes a devastating new novel of innocence, knowledge, and loss. As children Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were. Now, years later, Kathy is a young woman. Ruth and Tommy have reentered her life. And for the first time she is beginning to look back at their shared past and understand just what it is that makes them special-and how that gift will shape the rest of their time together. Suspenseful, moving, beautifully atmospheric. Never Let Me Go administers its revelations as precisely as drops of acid
