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71Caravaggio , Vodret Rossella (2010)
400 years after the death of Caravaggio, some of the worlds most illustrious art historians comment on an extraordinary collection of 25 of his works. How is it possible that an artist who lived over… 4223 руб72The Unencumbered Spirit: Reflections of a Chinese Sage , Ying-ming Hung (2010)
We know almost nothing of Hung Ying-ming, except that he lived around the end of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) and that he was extraordinarily well-read and cultured. The Unencumbered Spirit is his… 857 руб73The Reluctant Fundamentalist , Hamid Mohsin (2013)
The Reluctant Fundamentalist is Mohsin Hamids thrillingly provocative international bestseller. It is shortlisted for the Man Booker prize in 2007. Now a major film directed by Mira Nair and starring… 626 руб74The Golden Age of Detective Fiction. Part 5 (аудиокнига MP3) , Erskine Childers (2009)
"The Riddle of the Sands" by Erskine Childers is one of the best spy novels in the world. Written in 1902 "The Riddle of the Sands" is an astonishing work. Not only is it an exciting adventure story… 164 руб аудиокнига75The Housekeeper and the Professor , Yoko Ogawa (2010)
He is a brilliant maths professor with a peculiar problem - ever since a traumatic head injury seventeen years ago, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory. She is a sensitive but… 929 руб76Egon Schiele. The Egoist , Jean-Louis Gaillemin (2007)
Egon Schiele lived in Vienna during its last years as capital of the declining Habsburg Empire. Rejected by his family and hounded by society for his interest in young girls, he expressed through his… 817 руб77Michael Faraday , Frank A.J.L. James (2010)
Michael Faraday is one of the best known scientific figures of all time. Known as the discoverer of electro-magnetic induction, the principle behind the electric generator and transformer, he has… 555 руб78Communism , Holmes Leslie (2009)
The collapse of communism was one of the most defining moments of the twentieth century. At its peak, more than a third of the world's population had lived under communist power. What is communism… 493 руб79Perfume. The Story of a Murderer , Suskind Patrick (2015)
Patrick Suskind's Perfume is a classic novel of death and sensuality in Paris, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. In eighteenth-century France there lived a man who was one of the… 655 руб80Katherine Mansfield: Selected Stories , Katherine Mansfield (2015)
Powerful and evocative, each of Katherine Mansfield's short stories is a masterclass in the form that made her name. Born in New Zealand in 1888, she defied the conventions of the times and lived a… 171 руб
