Penguin Books — Knigausa Bookstore: Russian Books

Ulysses

Aleksandr Malyshev — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 23:47:19 +0000

Ulysses — undoubtedly one of the masterpieces of the English language and the novel most expressive of the psyche of modern man and woman — tells th…

The Bullet That Missed

Mon, 03 Jun 2024 22:43:09 +0000

Аннотация к книге «Bullet That Missed» Osman R.:It is an ordinary Thursday, and things should finally be returning to normal. Except trouble is never far away where the Thursday Murder Club are concerned. A decade-old cold case—their favorite kind—leads them to a local news legend and a murder with no body and no answers.Then a new foe pays Elizabeth a visit. Her mission? Kill or be killed. Suddenly the cold case has become red hot.While Elizabeth wrestles with her conscience (and a gun), Joyce, Ron, and Ibrahim chase down the clues with help from old friends and new. But can the gang solve the mystery and save Elizabeth before the murderer strikes again?From an upmarket spa to a prison cell complete with espresso machine to a luxury penthouse high in the sky, this third adventure of the Thursday Murder Club is full of the cleverness, intrigue, and irresistible charm that readers have come to expect from Richard Osman’s bestselling series. Читать дальше…

Big Little Lies (в нов.обл.)

Mon, 03 Jun 2024 22:37:10 +0000

The No.1 Bestseller Behind The Award Winning Tv SensationGet ready for the highly anticipated second series of Emmy & Golden Globe Winning Big Little Lies, starring Meryl Streep, Reese Witherspoon & Nicole Kidman, by reading the first book . . .Perfect families, perfect houses, perfect lives.Three mothers, Jane, Madeline and Celeste appear to have it all . . . but do they? They are about to find out just how easy it is for one little lie to spiral out of control.Single mum Jane has just moved to town. She’s got her little boy in tow — plus a secret she’s been carrying for five years.On the first day of the school run she meets Madeline — a force to be reckoned with, who remembers everything and forgives no one — and Celeste, the kind beautiful woman who makes the world stop and stare, but is inexplicably ill at ease. They both take Jane under their wing — while careful to keep their own secrets under wraps.But a minor incident involving the children of all three women rapidly escalates: playground whispers become spiteful rumours until no one can tell the truth from the lies.It was always going to end in tears, but how did it end in murder?’Blame and guilt, forgiveness and retribution, love and betrayal. A tense, page-turning story . . . a great read’ Mail on Sunday’Blending romance, comedy and mystery, this is a wonderful book — full of brains, guts and heart’ Sunday Mirror’A hell of a good book. Funny and scary’ Stephen King’Brilliant, standout, superbly clever. Moriarty writes vividly, wittily and wickedly’ Sunday Express

Chanel: An Intimate Life

Sat, 18 May 2024 12:00:03 +0000

Coco Chanel was many things to many people. Raised in emotional and financial poverty, she became one of the defining figures of the twentieth century. She was mistress to aristocrats, artists and spies. She broke rules of style and decorum, seducing both men and women, yet in her work expected the highest standards. She took a ‘plaything’ and turned it into a global industry which defined the modern woman. Filled with new insights and thrilling discoveries, Lisa Chaney’s Chanel provides the most defining and provocative portrait yet.

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Sat, 03 Feb 2024 12:41:03 +0000

Jonathan Safran Foer emerged as one of the most original writers of his generation with his best-selling debut novel, Everything Is Illuminated. Now, with humor, tenderness, and awe, he confronts the traumas of our recent history. What he discovers is solace in that most human quality, imagination.
Meet Oskar Schell, an inventor, Francophile, tambourine player, Shakespearean actor, jeweler, pacifist, correspondent with Stephen Hawking and Ringo Starr. He is nine years old. And he is on an urgent, secret search through the five boroughs of New York. His mission is to find the lock that fits a mysterious key belonging to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11.
An inspired innocent, Oskar is alternately endearing, exasperating, and hilarious as he careens from Central Park to Coney Island to Harlem on his search. Along the way he is always dreaming up inventions to keep those he loves safe from harm. What about a birdseed shirt to let you fly away? What if you could actually hear everyone’s heartbeat? His goal is hopeful, but the past speaks a loud warning in stories of those who’ve lost loved ones before. As Oskar roams New York, he encounters a motley assortment of humanity who are all survivors in their own way. He befriends a 103-year-old war reporter, a tour guide who never leaves the Empire State Building, and lovers enraptured or scorned. Ultimately, Oskar ends his journey where it began, at his father’s grave. But now he is accompanied by the silent stranger who has been renting the spare room of his grandmother’s apartment. They are there to dig up his father’s empty coffin.

Of Mice and Men

Fri, 22 Dec 2023 08:28:43 +0000

George and his large, simple-minded friend Lennie are drifters, following wherever work leads them. Arriving in California’s Salinas Valley, they get work on a ranch. If they can just stay out of trouble, George promises Lennie, then one day they might be able to get some land of their own and settle down some place. But kind-hearted, childlike Lennie is a victim of his own strength. Seen by others as a threat, he finds it impossible to control his emotions. And one day not even George will be able to save him from trouble.Of Mice and Men is a tragic and moving story of friendship, loneliness and the dispossessed. Пять причин купить 1В основе произведения — личный опыт Джона Стейнбека, который, как и главные герои его новеллы, работал на ферме, будучи еще совсем юным. 2«Постарайтесь понять людей. Если вы понимаете друг друга, вы относитесь бережнее друг к другу», — из дневника Джона Стейнбека. 3Изначально Стейнбек хотел озаглавить новеллу «То, что просто случилось», давая читателю понять, что никто из персонажей не виноват в произошедшем. 4Книга обязательно найдет отклик в сердцах читателей, которые прониклись романами «Гроздья гнева» и «Цветы для Элджернона». 5Произведение подойдет тем, кто впервые пробует читать неадаптированную литературу на английском языке.

Atlas Shrugged (Penguin Modern Classics)

Sun, 23 Apr 2023 08:36:14 +0000

A towering philosophical novel that is the summation of her Objectivist philosophy, Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged is the saga of the enigmatic John Galt, and his ambitious plan to ‘stop the motor of the world’, published in Penguin Modern Classics.Opening with the enigmatic question ‘Who is John Galt?’, Atlas Shrugged envisions a world where the ‘men of talent’ — the great innovators, producers and creators — have mysteriously disappeared. With the US economy now faltering, businesswoman Dagny Taggart is struggling to get the transcontinental railroad up and running. For her John Galt is the enemy, but as she will learn, nothing in this situation is quite as it seems. Hugely influential and grand in scope, this story of a man who stopped the motor of the world expounds Rand’s controversial philosophy of Objectivism, which champions competition, creativity and human greatness.Ayn Rand (1905-82), born Alisa Rosenbaum in St. Petersburg, Russia, emigrated to America with her family in January 1926, never to return to her native land. Her novel The Fountainhead was published in 1943 and eventually became a bestseller. Still occasionally working as a screenwriter, Rand moved to New York City in 1951 and published Atlas Shrugged in 1957. Her novels espoused what came to be called Objectivism, a philosophy that champions capitalism and the pre-eminence of the individual.Выдающийся философский роман Айн Рэнд «Атлант расправил плечи» — это сага о загадочном Джоне Голте и его амбициозном плане «остановить двигатель мира».Открывающийся загадочным вопросом «Кто такой Джон Голт?», «Атлант расправил плечи» представляет мир, в котором «талантливые люди» — великие новаторы, продюсеры и творцы — таинственным образом исчезли. В условиях, когда экономика США сейчас переживает спад, бизнесвумен Дэгни Таггарт изо всех сил пытается запустить трансконтинентальную железную дорогу. Для нее Джон Голт — враг, но, как она узнает, в этой ситуации все не совсем так, как кажется. Чрезвычайно влиятельная и грандиозная по масштабу, эта история о человеке, который остановил двигатель мира, излагает противоречивую философию объективизма, которая выступает за конкуренцию, творчество и человеческое величие.Книга на английском языке.

How to Be a Brit

Sat, 11 Feb 2023 10:39:03 +0000

George Mikes has written many successful books on a variety of interesting subjects, but one so successful as those on the subject most central to his own experience: his adopted country. The first of these came out in 1946: the ever famous «How to be an Alien.» Later he enlarges the picture with «How to be inimitable» and «How to be Decadent.» All three books were illustrated by the master of the cartoonists’ art, the late Nicolas Bentley. Here they are, all in one volume, which will make life much easier for today’s would-be Brits than it was for those who pervaded them. It is said that a few of the latter actually failed to become indistinguishable from the genuine British article because they found it too tiresome to seek out three separate books: a misfortune that need never again occur to anyone.