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The Speckled People The Speckled People

Автор: Hugo Hamilton

Год издания: 0000

‘This is the most gripping book I've read in ages … It is beautifully written, fascinating, disturbing and often very funny.’ Roddy DoyleThe childhood world of Hugo Hamilton, born and brought up in Dublin, is a confused place. His father, a sometimes brutal Irish nationalist, demands his children speak Gaelic, while his mother, a softly spoken German emigrant who has been marked by the Nazi past, speaks to them in German. He himself wants to speak English. English is, after all, what the other children in Dublin speak. English is what they use when they hunt him down in the streets and dub him Eichmann, as they bring him to trial and sentence him to death at a mock seaside court.Out of this fear and guilt and often comical cultural entanglements, he tries to understand the differences between Irish history and German history and turn the twisted logic of what he is told into truth. It is a journey that ends in liberation, but not before he uncovers the long-buried secrets that lie at the bottom of his parents wardrobe.In one of the finest books to have emerged from Ireland in many years, the acclaimed novelist Hugo Hamilton has finally written his own story – a deeply moving memoir about a whole family's homesickness for a country they can call their own.
Приключения Шерлока Холмса. Пестрая лента / The Adventure of the Speckled Band Приключения Шерлока Холмса. Пестрая лента / The Adventure of the Speckled Band

Автор: Артур Конан Дойл

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«Пестрая лента» – один из самых известных рассказов А. К. Дойла из сборника «Приключения Шерлока Холмса», выпущенного в 1892 году. Текст произведения незначительно сокращен и адаптирован. Книга также содержит систему упражнений, комментарий и словарь.

The World of People and Animals / Мир людей и животных The World of People and Animals / Мир людей и животных

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The sports and pastimes of the people of England The sports and pastimes of the people of England

Автор: Joseph Strutt

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Полный вариант заголовка: «The sports and pastimes of the people of England : including the rural and domestic recreations, May games, mummeries, shows, processions, pageants, and pompous spectacles, from the earliest period to the present time : illustrated by 140 engravings, in which are represented most of the popular diversions : selected from ancient paintings / by Joseph Strutt ; a new edition, with a copious index, by William Hone».

An essay on the best means of providing employment for the people An essay on the best means of providing employment for the people

Автор: Samuel Crumpe

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Полный вариант заголовка: «An essay on the best means of providing employment for the people to which was adjudged the prize proposed by the Royal Irish academy for the best dissertation on that subject / By Samuel Crumpe».

Fanyasha: Why Do Angels Need People? Fanyasha: Why Do Angels Need People?

Автор: Marianna Rosset

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A charming baby girl Efania (Fanyasha) is born in a regular family of angels. Her happy and carefree childhood ends when she finds out that a human is going to be born for her soon, and she is supposed to devote all her life to this person. This unusual story of a small, inquisitive angel girl and her family will help you learn not only about the life of heaven’s creatures, but also about the rules of life on Earth and the laws of the Universe.