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A hilarious and cutting critique of what not to do, this deliciously wicked essay lays out what writers should and must do if they want their fiction to live and breathe ? as Twain's own fiction always does. In "How to Tell a Story," the title piece, Twain takes on such mysteries as the perfectly-timed pause and the uses of the dead-pan mask, and candidly describes his own efforts to hone his platform skills.

Exercises in Loneliness is a collection of philosophical essays on a common topic of solitude that started as a series of blog posts. “There is something romantic and legendary about loneliness because every knight searches for the Holy Grail on his own. Even the best fairytales are born out of an extreme loneliness. So the secret is to stop asking to be saved and to start saving others. Before long you will see how your own loneliness subsides – like a tide that runs away with sunrise”.

"What is Man?" was Twain's most serious, philosophical and private book. He kept it locked in his desk, considered it to be his Bible, and spoke of it as such to friends when he read them passages. He had written it, rewritten it, was finally satisfied with it, but still chose not to release it until after his death. It appears in the form of a dialogue between an old man and a young man who discuss who and what mankind really is and provides a new and different way of looking at who we are and the way we live. Anyone who thinks Twain was not a brilliant philosopher should read this book.

Во второй из своих книг о «Системе РФ» Глеб Павловский продолжает исследовать российское государственное поведение. На этот раз автор применяет к Российской Федерации метод американского стратега Джорджа Кеннана. В феврале 2016 года исполнится 70 лет знаменитой «Длинной телеграмме» (The Long Telegram) об истоках советского поведения, где Кеннан впервые изложил свою знаменитую идею сдерживания (containment). Автор книги оценивает стратегический опыт, приобретенный Россией после войны 2014 года (которой посвящена первая книга). Считая Систему РФ уникальным государственным образованием, автор исследует ее поведение в свете нового опыта. Эта книга – путеводитель по российскому стратегическому поведению для «чайников».

Примечание: История Англии от революции 1688 года до смерти Георга II Полный вариант заголовка: «The history of England, from the revolution in 1688 to the death of George the Second : Designed as a continuation of mr. Hume's History : In 4 vol. Vol. 2».