Literature & Fiction

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Keshav has set up an investigation agency with his best friend, Saurabh. Can the two amateur detectives successfully solve another murder case that affects them personally? And where will it leave their friendship? Find out....

The Midnight Library is a gloriously relatable novel about life, death and the in-between. It is about finding hope, playing chess, dumping regrets and picking the right people around you....

India, 3400 BCE. A land in tumult, poverty and chaos. Most people suffer quietly. A few rebel. Some fight for a better world. Some for themselves. Some don’t give a damn. Raavan. Fathered by one of the most illustrious sages of the time....

Twenty-five fascinating stories from the inimitable Gulzar....

HBO’s hit series A Game of Thrones is based on George R. R. Martin’s internationally best-selling series A Song of Ice and Fire, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age....

Origin thrusts Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon into the dangerous intersection of humankind's two most enduring questions - and the earth-shaking discovery that will answer them....

William Warwick has always wanted to be a detective and decides, much to his father’s dismay, that rather than become a barrister like his father, Sir Julian Warwick QC, and his sister Grace, he will join London’s Metropolitan Police Force....

Kafka Tamura runs away from home at 15, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy....

Hidden in Plain Sight is the second brilliant and captivating novel featuring William Warwick by the master storyteller and best-selling author of the Clifton Chronicles, Jeffrey Archer....

The three Theban plays by Sophocles - Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone - are great landmarks of Western theatre....

The Unusual Billionaires tells the story of eight, truly outstanding companies which delivered 10 percent revenue growth over the last 10 years and 15 percent return on capital employed. These companies defeated 5000 other public listed companies to deliver high growth....

Die 39-jährige Magd Crescentia Anna Aloisia Finkenhuber lässt sich aus ihrem Zillertaler Gebirgsdorf abwerben. Der höheren Entlohnung wegen nimmt die unehelich geborene, verknöcherte Jungfer Dienst im Wiener Hause des jungen Lebemannes Freiherr von F. an. Zwar hat das bigotte, strenge alte Mädchen seit Jahren schon das Lachen verlernt, doch nach einem Klaps auf den Hintern, verabreicht vom Hausherrn, ist die dürre Tirolerin dem Freiherrn geradezu hündisch ergeben. Der Baron ahnt nicht, welche unheilvolle Liaison er damit besiegelt hat.

Der Weg zurück ins Leben. Ein Paar trifft sich zum Mittagessen. Er erzählt dies und das, bis er die Bombe platzen lässt: Er hat sich in eine jüngere Frau verliebt. Eine der ältesten Geschichten der Welt. Doch dann, nur wenige Stunden später, wird Mauro bei einem Verkehrsunfall getötet. Schockstarre. Fassungslosigkeit. Paula steht vor den Trümmern ihrer Liebe. Über zehn Jahre war sie mit Mauro zusammen: Mit einem Schlag ist das vorbei. Wie trauern um den Mann, der einen kurz vor seinem Tod verlassen hat?

Jamie MacFarlane has returned a hero from the Great War but with a stubborn chest wound. The government has sent him to their new thermal springs hospital in California "where it was hoped that the brilliant sunshine, the fruits, and the clean air, the eternal summer of a beneficent land" would heal him. But nothing has worked, and with his parents now deceased and no one to care for him, it seems the next step is a camp rife with tuberculosis. Realizing this, Jamie begins his great adventure on foot toward the ocean.

Christopher Smart (1722-1771) was an English poet and scholar. This extraordinary poem, which is a florid display of Smart's opinions on a variety of theological, historical, and scientific subjects, was written between 1759 and 1763, while the author was confined in a lunatic asylum. His condition was diagnosed as religious mania, as evidenced by his compulsion to break into spontaneous prayer in public.

The Power of Darkness is a very spooky tale, and not for the faint of heart. A man who is afraid of the dark is tricked into a bet that forces him to spend the night in a Parisian wax museum.

Замок Персмон - повесть Жорж Санд, жанр зарубежная классика, зарубежный любовный роман.