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Haarlem, Holland, seventeenth-century: The city’s chief magistrate commissions a family portrait from Dutch master painter Johannes Miereveld. But when the artist sees the magistrate’s daughter… 518 руб22The Art of War_The Book of Lord Shang , Sun Tzu (1998)
The two political classics in this book are the product of a time of intense turmoil in Chinese history. Dating from the Period of the Warring States (403-221BC), they anticipate Machiavelli's The… 353 руб23Measure for Measure , William Shakespeare (1995)
In the hope of saving her brother's life, should a woman submit to rape? Should the law be respected when its administrator is corrupt? How powerful in the state should religion become? Although… 222 руб24The Merchant of Venice , William Shakespeare (2000)
The Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies, but it remains deeply controversial. The text may well seem anti-Semitic; yet repeatedly, in performance, it has revealed a… 203 руб25Othello , William Shakespeare (1992)
This is an intense drama of love, deception, jealousy and destruction. Desdemona’s love for Othello, the Moor, transcends racial prejudice; but the envious Iago conspires to devastate their lives… 206 руб26The Winter's Tale , William Shakespeare (1995)
"The Winter's Tale", one of Shakespeare's later romantic comedies, offers a striking and challenging mixture of tragic and violent events, lyrical love-speeches, farcical comedy, pastoral song and… 203 руб27Wuthering Heights , Emily Bronte (1992)
"Wuthering Heights" is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. After Mr Earnshaw's death… 212 руб28Sagittarius Is Bleeding (Battlestar Galactica 3) , Peter David (2007)
President Laura Roslin bears a heavy burden. Since becoming the president of the twelve human colonies when the Cylons brutally attacked and destroyed all but a small remnant of humanity's billions… 485 руб29Grave Sight , Charlaine Harris (2007)
Harper Connelly had a lucky escape when she was hit by lightning: she didn't die. But sometimes she wishes she had died, because the lightning strike left her with an unusual talent: she can find… 532 руб30The Karamazov Brothers , Fyodor Dostoevsky (2008)
Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel, "The Karamazov Brothers" (1880) is both a brilliantly told crime story and a passionate philosophical debate. The dissolute landowner Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov… 555 руб
