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Hugh Mechta has hallucinations, and he is determined to find a cure for them. After visiting unhelpful doctors, he stumbles across Masha the Mystic and her advice to remedy his curious ailment. She determines that Hugh must connect with others. In the search to rid the theatre of his mind from projecting fanciful visions onto reality, Hugh meets an eccentric young girl whose hidden emotional agony mirrors the struggles of his own childhood. Unbeknownst to Hugh, this girl leads him down the path to understanding not only his hallucinations, but his past. Tasya is a story with hints of humor, traces of absurdity, and pinches of tragedy that all coalesce into the theme of letting go of the past and connecting with those in the here and now. Содержит нецензурную брань.

Ватару Шитцу - семнадцатилетний подросток, тихий и спокойный парень, который знакомится с необычным человеком - Дарэмо Инаи. Казалось бы, Дарэмо такой же подросток, но с каждой новой историей от Дарэмо, Ватару понимает, что это не так. Так кто такой Дарэмо?

Exciting adventures of a smart mouse named Fly. This book with colorful illustrations by the author will capture the attention of the youngest readers and introduce them to the planet Mercury.

An hilarious and sinister tale of dark secrets and secret forces in suburban England from the critically-acclaimed author of 'Giving Up the Ghost'.Alison Hart is a medium by trade: dead people talk to her, and she talks back. With her flat-eyed, flint-hearted sidekick, Colette, she tours the dormitory towns of London's orbital road, passing on messages from dead ancestors: 'Granny says she likes your new kitchen units.'Alison's ability to communicate with spirits is a torment rather than a gift. Behind her plump, smiling and bland public persona is a desperate woman. She knows that the next life holds terrors that she must conceal from her clients. Her days and nights are haunted by the men she knew in her childhood, the thugs and petty criminals who preyed upon her hopeless, addled mother, Emmie. They infiltrate her house, her body and her soul; the more she tries to be rid of them, the stronger and nastier they become.This tenth novel by Hilary Mantel is a witty and deeply sinister story of dark secrets and forces, set in an England that jumps at its own shadow, a country whose banal self-absorption is shot through by fear of the engulfing dark.

"The Picture of Dorian Gray is a Gothic and philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde, first published complete in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. Fearing the story was indecent, the magazine's editor deleted roughly five hundred words before publication without Wilde's knowledge. Despite that censorship, The Picture of Dorian Gray offended the moral sensibilities of British book reviewers, some of whom said that Oscar Wilde merited prosecution for violating the laws guarding public morality. In response, Wilde aggressively defended his novel and art in correspondence with the British press, although he personally made excisions of some of the most controversial material when revising and lengthening the story for book publication the following year. The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only novel written by Wilde. It exists in several versions: the 1890 magazine edition (in 13 chapters), with important material deleted before publication by the magazine's editor, J. M. Stoddart; the «„uncensored“» version submitted to Lippincott's Monthly Magazine for publication (also in 13 chapters), with all of Wilde's original material intact, first published in 2011 by Harvard University Press; and the 1891 book edition (in 20 chapters). As literature of the 19th century, The Picture of Dorian Gray «„pivots on a gothic plot device“» with strong themes interpreted from Faust. Oscar Wilde is called the «„Prince of Paradox“» – a game of the mind and an incredible sharpened thought he perfected in each of his plays."

he story is about a family who moves to a castle haunted by the ghost of a dead nobleman, who killed his wife and was starved to death by his wife's brothers. The home of the Canterville Ghost was the ancient Canterville Chase, which has all the accoutrements of a traditional haunted house. Descriptions of the wainscoting, the library panelled in black oak, and the armour in the hallway characterise the setting. Wilde mixes the macabre with comedy, juxtaposing devices from traditional English ghost stories such as creaking floorboards, clanking chains, and ancient prophecies.

An hilarious and sinister tale of dark secrets and secret forces in suburban England from the critically-acclaimed author of 'Giving Up the Ghost'.Alison Hart is a medium by trade: dead people talk to her, and she talks back. With her flat-eyed, flint-hearted sidekick, Colette, she tours the dormitory towns of London's orbital road, passing on messages from dead ancestors: 'Granny says she likes your new kitchen units.'Alison's ability to communicate with spirits is a torment rather than a gift. Behind her plump, smiling and bland public persona is a desperate woman. She knows that the next life holds terrors that she must conceal from her clients. Her days and nights are haunted by the men she knew in her childhood, the thugs and petty criminals who preyed upon her hopeless, addled mother, Emmie. They infiltrate her house, her body and her soul; the more she tries to be rid of them, the stronger and nastier they become.This tenth novel by Hilary Mantel is a witty and deeply sinister story of dark secrets and forces, set in an England that jumps at its own shadow, a country whose banal self-absorption is shot through by fear of the engulfing dark.

Незамысловатые будни молодого писателя могут обернуться совершенно неожиданным поворотом с приходом в его жизнь необычных сил, обречённых помогать ему, а быть может, и навредить. Содержит нецензурную брань.

Этот рассказ повествует о последних днях трёх друзей. Кирилл, Вова и Серёга являются опытными пионерами, работа которых заключается в поисках припасов и выполнения миссий, одна из которых стала их последней, ведь она стала ловушкой, а все из-за того, что они сделали за год до описанных событий.

Для большинства убийство и тюремный срок – это конец всему. А для кого-то это новое начало.

Аудиокнига предназначена для развития навыков аудирования и чтения и адресована учащимся 9–10 классов школ с углубленным изучением английского языка, лицеев, гимназий, студентам колледжей и неязыковых вузов, а также лицам, изучающим английский язык самостоятельно или под руководством преподавателя (базовый словарь около 2000 слов). Аудиокнига содержит отрывки из знаменитого романа Оскара Уайльда «ПОРТРЕТ ДОРИАНА ГРЕЯ» (“THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY”) [1891], информацию о творчестве писателя (материалы для топика), вопросы и задания, позволяющие контролировать понимание содержания произведения и развивать навыки устной речи, а также словарь и комментарии. Книга прочитана носителем языка. Наряду с фонограммой на диске представлен текст книги, который может быть использован для облегчения восприятия аудиозаписи.