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Гилберт Кийт Честертон

The Ballad of the White Horse

The Ballad of the White Horse is one of the last great epic poems in the English language. On the one hand it describes King Alfred’s battle against the Danes in 878. On the other hand it is a timeless allegory about the ongoing battle between Christianity and the forces of nihilistic heathenism. Filled with colorful characters, thrilling battles and mystical visions, it is as lively as it is profound. Chesterton incorporates brilliant imagination, atmosphere, moral concern, chronological continuity, wisdom and fancy. He makes his stanzas reverberate with sound, and hurries his readers into the heart of the battle.<

Гилберт Кийт Честертон

Heretics

G. K. Chesterton, the “Prince of Paradox”, is at his witty best in this collection of twenty essays and articles from the turn of the twentieth century. Focusing on “heretics” — those who pride themselves on their superiority to conservative views — Chesterton appraises prominent figures who fall into that category from the literary and art worlds. Luminaries such as Rudyard Kipling, George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, and James McNeill Whistler come under the author’s scrutiny, where they meet with equal measures of his characteristic wisdom and good humor. In addition to incisive assessments of well-known individuals (“Mr. Rudyard Kipling and Making the World Small” and “Mr. H. G. Wells and the Giants”), these essays contain observations on the wider world. On Sandals and Simplicity, Science and the Savages, On Certain Modern Writers and the Institution of the Family, On Smart Novelists and the Smart Set, and Slum Novelists and the Slums, reflect the main themes of Chesterton’s life’s work. Heretics roused the ire of some critics for censuring contemporary philosophies without providing alternatives; the author responded a few years later with a companion volume, Orthodoxy.<

Гилберт Кийт Честертон

Orthodoxy

This book is meant to be a companion to “Heretics,” and to put the positive side in addition to the negative. Many critics complained of the book called “Heretics” because it merely criticised current philosophies without offering any alternative philosophy. This book is an attempt to answer the challenge. It is unavoidably affirmative and therefore unavoidably autobiographical. The writer has been driven back upon somewhat the same difficulty as that which beset Newman in writing his Apologia; he has been forced to be egotistical only in order to be sincere. While everything else may be different the motive in both cases is the same. It is the purpose of the writer to attempt an explanation, not of whether the Christian Faith can be believed, but of how he personally has come to believe it. The book is therefore arranged upon the positive principle of a riddle and its answer. It deals first with all the writer’s own solitary and sincere speculations and then with all the startling style in which they were all suddenly satisfied by the Christian Theology. The writer regards it as amounting to a convincing creed. But if it is not that it is at least a repeated and surprising coincidence.<

Гилберт Кийт Честертон

Robert Browning

Chesterton declares that it is fashionable to boast that one cannot understand Browning but he reveals in this fascinating literary biography how Browning ‘combines the greatest brain with the simplest temperament’. This is a multi-faceted biography and critique of Browning’s work. Chesterton takes us from his early life to his early poems and shows us how his life impacted on his work to produce a biography of great depth and sensitivity.<

Иван Гаврилович Чигринов

Плач перапёлкі

Иван Гаврилович Чигринов

Апраўданне крыві

Картер Шольц

Bad Pennies

Картер Шольц

Clod, Pebble

Джеймс Хэдли Чейз

Believe This... You’ll Believe Anything

Out of the past comes a woman Clay Burden had loved and idolized. Believing she was lost to him, he has married. He finds she too has married. To him the situation presents no problem: a double divorce and the problem is solved. It doesn’t work out like that. There are many complications which include hypnotism and murder. Set against the opulent background of Paradise City with hurricane ‘Hermes’ providing a roaring and lethal back-drop, Believe This... You’ll Believe Anything lives up to its title. The magic of James Hadley Chase’s story telling is your guarantee of a non-stop, compulsive read.<

Лесли Чартерис

Capture the Saint

Saint

Simon Templar is driving leisurely through the French countryside on his way from Avignon to the Riviera. He who are going to work at Château Ingare, a small vineyard on the site of a former stronghold of the Knights Templar, a society of medieval adventurers who began by protecting pilgrims to the Holy Land and were later believed to have become corrupt and immensely wealthy in the process, although their reputed treasure has never been found. The coincidence of this association with his own name intrigues Simon enough for him to take his passengers all the way to the château. They arrive on the estate to find a fire in the barn, apparently the work of arsonists. Simon’s hand is slightly injured, and Mimette, the attractive young daughter of the owner, insist on taking him to the chateau to have it dressed. He learns that the burning of the barn is only the latest of many misfortunes that have afflicted the vineyard since a cryptic ancient tombstone was discovered on the property: These have revived all the old legends about the curse of the Templars and their treasure. When Simon attempts to leave, another apparent accident obliges Mimette and her father to invite him to stay a few days as their guest. It is not long before a real and indisputable murder proves that he has involved himself in something very sinister but certainly not supernatural.<

Іван Шамякін

Ахвяры

Новую кнігу народнага пісьменніка Беларусі Івана Шамякіна склалі аповесці «Ахвяры», «Драма» і п'еса «Стратэгія». У «Ахвярах» расказваецца пра трагічны лёс падпольшчыка Шабовіча, які трапіў у рукі сталінскага энкавэдыста. «Драма» — пра складанасці перабудовы, пра ломку псіхалогіі людзей ва ўмовах дэмакратыі і галоснасці. У цэнтры «Стратэгіі» — рэвалюцыйныя падзеі ў Петраградзе напярэдадні перамогі Кастрычніка.<

Іван Шамякін

Гандлярка і паэт

Простая жанчына з аповесці «Гандлярка i паэт», якая да вайны толькі i ведала гандляваць на базары, пабачыўшы жахі фашысцкае акупацыі, актыўна ўключаецца ў падпольную работу…<

Джеймс Хэдли Чейз

You're Dead Without Money

In the Crowded, smoky Neptune Tavern Al Barney tells of four ill-assorted people — Don Elliot, ex movie star; Joey Luck and his daughter, Cindy, small time ‘dips’ and Vin Pinna, a vicious gunman — in search of 8 Russian stamps worth a million Dollars.<

Кэролайн Дж Черри

Fortress in the Eye of Time

Fortress

Deep in an abandoned, shattered castle, an old man of the Old Magic muttered almost forgotten words. His purpose — to create out of the insubstance of the air, from a shimmering of light and a fluttering of shadows. that most wonderous of spells, a . A Shaping in the form of a, young man who will be sent east on the road the old was to old to travel. To right the wrongs of a long-forgotten wizard war, and call new wars into being. Here is the long-awaited major new novel from one of the brightest stars in the fantasy and science fiction firmament. C.J.Cherryh's haunting story of the wizard Mauryl, kingmaker for a thousand years of Men, and Tristen, fated to sow distrust between a prince and his father being. A tale as deep as legend and a intimate as love, it tells of a battle beyond Time, in which all Destiny turns on the wheel of an old man's ambition, a young man's innocence, and the unkept promised of a king to come.<

Линкольн Чайлд

Crooked River

Pendergast

A STARTLING CRIME WITH DOZENS OF VICTIMS. A GHASTLY ENIGMA WITH NO APPARENT SOLUTION. Called away from vacation elsewhere in the state, Agent Pendergast reluctantly agrees to visit the crime scene — and, despite himself, is quickly drawn in by the incomprehensible puzzle. An early pathology report only adds to the mystery. With an ocean of possibilities confronting the investigation, no one is sure what happened, why, or from where the feet originated. And they desperately need to know: are the victims still alive? A WORTHY CHALLENGE FOR A BRILLIANT MIND. In short order, Pendergast finds himself facing the most complex and inexplicable challenge of his career: a tangled thread of evidence that spans seas and traverses continents, connected to one of the most baffling mysteries in modern medical science. Through shocking twists and turns, all trails lead back to a powerful adversary with a sadistic agenda and who — in a cruel irony — ultimately sees in Pendergast the ideal subject for their malevolent research.<

Кэролайн Дж Черри

Goblinų veidrodis

Niūru ir gūdu Magijaros karalystėje. Siaubas lediniais nagais kausto žmonių sielas bei širdis. Nes piktieji goblinai pasklebė karą. Žmonės bejėgiai prieš goblinų kliautis ir burtus. Vienintelė viltis — nedidelė goblinų veidrodžio šukė, spinduliuose spinduliuojanti magišką galią…<

Антон Павлович Чехов

The Cherry Orchard / Вишневый сад. Книга для чтения на английском языке

Русская классическая литература на иностранных яз

В книгу вошли знаменитые и полюбившиеся читателю пьесы А. П. Чехова «Вишневый сад», «Чайка» и «Дядя Ваня» в переводе на английский язык.<

Антон Павлович Чехов

The darling / Душечка. Сборник рассказов

Русская классическая литература на иностранных яз

Предлагаем вниманию читателей сборник рассказов великого русского писателя А. П. Чехова (1860–1904). Перевод Констанс Гарнетт дополнен комментарием.<

Лесли Чартерис

Manhunt. Volume 1, Number 3, March, 1953

Джеймс Хэдли Чейз

Do Me a Favour Drop Dead

Keith Devery arrived in the small town of Wicksteed with a criminal record and a lot of ambition. And when he met Frank Marshall. a local drunk who was about to inherit a million dollars, he knew that here was a golden opportunity to get back into the big league. Marshall’s mysterious wife Beth agreed with him... and together they ruthlessly plotted the perfect murder. Then Keith found that he had himself been setup... and that Beth has plans of her own once the money was hers.<

Ли Чайлд

Past Tense

Jack Reacher

A Jack Reacher Novel – #23 Jack Reacher plans to follow the autumn sun on an epic road trip across America, from Maine to California. He doesn’t get far. On a country road deep in the New England woods, he sees a sign to a place he has never been – the town where his father was born. He thinks, what’s one extra day? He takes the detour. At the very same moment, close by, a car breaks down. Two young Canadians are trying to get to New York City to sell a treasure. They’re stranded at a lonely motel in the middle of nowhere. It’s a strange place … but it’s all there is. The next morning in the city clerk’s office, Reacher asks about the old family home. He’s told no one named Reacher ever lived in that town. He knows his father never went back. Now he wonders, was he ever there in the first place? So begins another nail-biting, adrenaline fuelled adventure for Reacher. The present can be tense, but the past can be worse. That’s for damn sure.<

Валерій Шевчук

На полі смиренному

<p>Роман «На полі смиренному» — це вікно в далеку епоху, своєрідна психологічна травестія відомої літературної пам’ятки Київської Русі «Патерика печерського».</p><p>Художник Оксана Лисенко</p><

Ли Чайлд

Blue Moon

Jack Reacher

A Jack Reacher Novel – #24 Jack Reacher is back in a brand new white-knuckle read from Lee Child. It's a random universe, but once in a blue moon things turn out just right. In a nameless city, two rival criminal gangs are competing for control. But they hadn’t counted on Jack Reacher arriving on their patch. Reacher is trained to notice things. He’s on a Greyhound bus, watching an elderly man sleeping in his seat, with a fat envelope of cash hanging out of his pocket. Another passenger is watching too ... hoping to get rich quick. As the mugger makes his move, Reacher steps in. The old man is grateful, yet he turns down Reacher’s offer to help him home. He’s vulnerable, scared, and clearly in big, big trouble. What hold could the gangs have on the old guy? Will Reacher be in time to stop bad things happening? The odds are better with Reacher involved. That's for damn sure. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY EVENING STANDARD “Jack Reacher is today’s James Bond, a thriller hero we can’t get enough of.” – Ken Follett “Reacher is so irresistible a character that he draws fans from every demographic.” – Booklist (starred review) “Child is at the top of his game in this nail-biter.” – Publishers Weekly (starred review)<

Картер Шольц

The Menagerie of Babel

Антон Павлович Чехов

Ein Heiratsantrag / Scherz in einem Aufzug

Джена Шоуолтер

Enslave Me Sweetly

Alien Huntress

<p>Eden Black walks among humans, protecting them from the murderous evil of other-worlders who abduct and enslave. And though she appears to be human herself, Eden is an alien, a Raka, distinguished by her golden hair and skin, and gifted with the ominous ability to kill without remorse — and with total accuracy. That is, until the fateful night she has one shot to eliminate her target, a human slaver — and misses.</p><p>"Failure" is not in Eden's vocabulary. Neither is "partner" — but that's what she is forcibly assigned after recovering from her disastrous mission. A sexy, steely-nerved human agent, Lucius Adaire enjoys nothing more than sparking the fury — and rousing the desire — of the fiery female assassin too proud to admit defeat. Locked in an assignment they cannot afford to lose, Lucius and Eden find themselves bound in two high-stakes, heart-pounding games: the sensual web of kill or be killed, and the erotic dance of seduction.</p><

Александр Иванович Шатравка

Побег из Рая

<p>Только одному из четырех друзей, решивших вырваться из СССР и бежать в США, удалось попасть в Америку после того, как все они были задержаны в 1974 г. на территории Финляндии и возвращены Советам. Что ждало их?</p><p>За желание быть свободными, жить в другой стране их ждали суды, лагеря, психиатрические больницы, где они встречали людей с разными удивительными и трагическими судьбами.</p><p>Через 30 лет автор (единственный, кому повезло осуществить мечту и жить в США) приезжает с киносъемочной группой в Финляндию, Карелию и на Украину, чтобы вспомнить о тех событиях и встретить живых свидетелей всего происходившего.</p><p>Эта книга написана так искренне и правдиво, что, начав читать, вы не сможете ее отложить, не дочитав до конца и не рассмотрев множество интереснейших фотографий.</p><

Ли Чайлд

The Midnight Line

Jack Reacher

A Jack Reacher Novel – #22 A bad day. For someone. Jack Reacher takes an aimless stroll past a pawn shop in a small Midwestern town. In the window he sees a West Point class ring from 2005. It’s tiny. It’s a woman cadet’s graduation present to herself. Why would she give it up? Reacher’s a West Pointer too, and he knows what she went through to get it. Reacher tracks the ring back to its owner, step by step, down a criminal trail leading west. Like Big Foot come out of the forest, he arrives in the deserted wilds of Wyoming. All he wants is to find the woman. If she’s OK, he’ll walk away. If she’s not … he’ll stop at nothing. He’s still shaken by the recent horrors of Make Me, and now The Midnight Line sees him set on a raw and elemental quest for simple justice. Best advice: don’t get in his way.<

Ли Чайлд

No Middle Name

Jack Reacher Novellas

Published together for the first time, and including a brand-new adventure, the complete Jack Reacher short story collection Jack ‘No Middle Name’ Reacher, lone wolf, knight errant, ex-military cop, lover of women, scourge of the wicked and righter of wrongs, is the most iconic hero of our age. A new Reacher novella, Too Much Time, is included, as are those previously only published as individual ebooks: Second Son, Deep Down, High Heat, Not a Drill and Small Wars; and so is every Reacher short story that Child has written so far. Read together, they shed new light on Reacher’s past, illuminating how he grew up and developed into the wandering avenger who has captured the imagination of millions around the world.<

Джеймс Хэдли Чейз

There’s Always A Price Tag

Steve Harmas

All are familiar with the well-known plot of the man who commits murder and then attempts to make the crime appear to be suicide. In There’s Always a Price Tag, James Hadley Chase turns this old plot inside out and gives us a new and electrifying reverse of the coin: the man who attempts to make a suicide appear to be murder, in order to lay his hands on the victim’s insurance money. Here is a thriller that will quicken your heart-beats. It is by far the most ingenious story that this “Master of the art of deception” has yet given us.<

Лілія Черен

Марта

Юна Марта прагне кохання і мріє про кар’єру модистки. Але чи можуть здійснитися дівочі мрії у кривавому 1918-му, чи голодному 1920-му?.. Шістнадцять років з життя молодої жінки припадають на складний період в житті України (1918 — 1934 рр.): це і війна, і виживання в умовах продрозкладки, і багатокультурне повсякдення Києва, і літературно-мистецьке середовище, і колорит комунальних квартир, і еміграція... І, звичайно, заплутані манівці кохання. 978-966-8910-82-1 (серія) 978-966-8910-85-2 © ПП Дуліби, 2014 © Лілія Черен, текст, 2014 © Альона Гнатюк, художнє оформлення, 2014<

Джена Шоуолтер

Темнейшее поражение

Повелители Преисподней

Одержимый демоном поражения Страйдер не может проиграть брошенный ему вызов не страдая при этом невообразимой болью. До этого ничего не стояло на пути к его победе. До Кайи, очаровательной гарпии, искусившей его к капитуляции на крае бритвы.  Известная среди своего народа, как Разочарование, Кайя просто обязана привезти домой золото в Играх Гарпий или же умереть. Страйдер - отвлечение, которое она не может себе позволить, поскольку на его повестке дня стоит собственная кража главного приза, древнего божественного артефакта, прежде чем будет назван победитель. Но так как конкуренция накаляется, то только один приз будет иметь значение - никакая любовь не невозможна...<

Наталка Шевченко

Кривава осінь в місті Лева

Довгий чорний плащ, лезо сокири, «беретта», труп у багажнику та привабливі жертви, яким бракує очей і сердець. Жанр джіалло (що в перекладі з італійської означає «жовтий») здобув своє ім’я з жовтих обкладинок кримінальних романів, що друкувались у м’якій палітурці в Італії в 1930-х роках. Вони й породили той особливий кіножанр, який досяг шаленого успіху в другій половині ХХ сторіччя в кінострічках видатних італійських режисерів. Відтепер і українські читачі можуть насолодитися усією принадністю джіалло. У романі літературного подружжя Наталки та Олександра Шевченків витримані всі канони жанру – в ньому є і карколомна детективна інтрига, і сумнозвісний вбивця на прізвисько Окозбирач, і сюрреалістичні картини його жорстоких вбивств, божевільня, безумні гонитви, а ще – загадкові вулочки стародавнього Львова…<

Наталка Шевченко

Бранці мороку

Наталка Шевченко

Оксамитовий перевертень

<p>Наталка та Олександр Шевченки – талановитий тандем у сучасній українській літературі, яскраве відкриття конкурсу «Коронація слова» та поки ще єдині письменники, котрі наполегливо розвивають жанр «хоррор» на рідних теренах.</p><p>У харківському видавництві «Фоліо» вийшли їхні романи  «Бранці мороку» (2007) та «Кривава осінь у місті Лева» (2008).</p><p>«Оксамитовий перевертень» - це знову суміш жахів, містики, вибухового екшену та гумору в класичних пропорціях подружжя Шевченків за рецептурою, що гарантує насолоду.</p><p>Двох переможців тут бути не може…</p><

Ли Чайлд

The Sentinel

Jack Reacher

A Jack Reacher Novel – #25 Jack Reacher is back! The “utterly addictive” (The New York Times) series continues as acclaimed author Lee Child teams up with his brother, Andrew Child, fellow thriller writer extraordinaire. As always, Reacher has no particular place to go, and all the time in the world to get there. One morning he ends up in a town near Pleasantville, Tennessee. But there’s nothing pleasant about the place. In broad daylight Reacher spots a hapless soul walking into an ambush. “It was four against one” . . . so Reacher intervenes, with his own trademark brand of conflict resolution. The man he saves is Rusty Rutherford, an unassuming IT manager, recently fired after a cyberattack locked up the town’s data, records, information . . . and secrets. Rutherford wants to stay put, look innocent, and clear his name. Reacher is intrigued. There’s more to the story. The bad guys who jumped Rutherford are part of something serious and deadly, involving a conspiracy, a cover-up, and murder – all centered on a mousy little guy in a coffee-stained shirt who has no idea what he’s up against. Rule one: if you don’t know the trouble you’re in, keep Reacher by your side.<

Віктар Шніп

Пугачоўскі цырульнік

«Мы да смерці гліна, і нас жыццё ўсё лепіць і лепіць, пакуль не абрадне...» — гэта асноўны лейтматыў новай кнігі паэта Віктара Шніпа... 27.05.2009. Мама першы раз за месяц, які жыве ў мяне, выйшла са мной на вуліцу. Вяду за руку, як малое дзіця. Каля кожнага дрэва, каля кожнай кветачкі мама спыняецца і разглядае, што расце. Нешта сама сабе шэпча, радуецца. Радуюся і я. Як мала трэба чалавеку для шчасця!<

Джулия Чернеда

Changing vision

Webshifters

The first book in **Julie Czerneda** 's acclaimed Web Shifters series made the Nebula preliminary nomination list in 1998. **Changing Vision** continues the story of Esen, the last survivor of an alien race with the ability to assume the form of any creature. Now Esen must break her species' rule of noninterference—to keep interspecies tension from escalating into all-out war....<

Тарас Григорович Шевченко

Тарас Шевченко. Твори у п'яти томах. Том 1

Тарас Шевченко. Твори в п'яти томах

У  першому  томі  вміщені  всі  відомі  нам  поетичні  твори  Т.  Шевченка,  написані  до  його  арешту  5  квітня  1847  р.<

Ли Чайлд

Without Fail

Jack Reacher

A Jack Reacher Novel – #6 The secretive, closed organization that invites Jack Reacher in is the Secret Service, the organization that protects the Presidency. Someone who was once close to Reacher’s brother, needs help in her new job. Her new job? Saving the Vice President of the United States from being assassinated.<

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