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Роману "Игрок" присущи сильные автобиографические мотивы, ведь азартным игроком был сам Достоевский. История создания этой книги очень интересна: проигравшийся до последнего гроша в Висбадене, отчаянно нуждающийся в деньгах писатель заключил с издательством контракт, согласно которому должен был написать роман... за 26 дней. Эти совершенно неправдоподобные сроки вынудили Достоевского, впервые в жи...

Это - "Фауст". Книга, которую - пусть минимально, пусть хотя бы "цитатно" - знает каждый. Трагедия, многократно экранизированная и до сих пор не сходящая с театральных подмостков. Пьеса, о скрытом смысле которой написаны сотни книг. Произведение, в котором каждый читатель должен найти - и найдет - свой собственный, уникальный смысл…Легенда о докторе Фаусте, вершина немецкой поэзии, главный труд Ио...

As an underwater welder on an oilrig off the coast of Nova Scotia, Jack Joseph is used to the immense pressures of deep-sea work - but not the pressures of impending fatherhood. While Jack dives deeper and deeper, he seems to pull further and further away from his young wife and their unborn son. Then one night, deep in the icy solitude of the ocean floor, Jack has a mysterious and supernatural en...

Every chapter features an important period in Bras' life in exotic Brazil, and each story ends the same way: with his death.

"Пятница 13-ое" Они приехали на работу в лагерь ''Хрустальное Озеро''. Семеро молодых людей, уверенных, что вся жизнь еще впереди. Но в лесах вокруг лагеря скрывается кто-то, уверенный в обратном. Кто-то, ослепленный бессмысленной ненавистью. Кто-то, кто не успокоится, пока не зальет этот лагерь кровью..."Дракула"  Роман Брэма Стокера — общеизвестная классика вампирского жанра, а его граф Драку...

Following on the heels of THE NOBODY, his Vertigo graphic novel debut, writer/artist Jeff Lemire pens his very first ongoing series SWEET TOOTH. A cross between Bambi and Cormac McCarthy's The Road, SWEET TOOTH tells the story of Gus, a rare new breed of human/animal hybrid children, has been raised in isolation following an inexplicable pandemic that struck a decade earlier. Now, with the de...

Where does a young boy turn when his whole world suddenly disappears? What turns two brothers from an unstoppable team into a pair of bitterly estranged loners? How does the simple-hearted care of one middle-aged nurse reveal the scars of an entire community, and can anything heal the wounds caused by a century of deception? Award-winning cartoonist Jeff Lemire pays tribute to his roots with Essex...

The first of five oversized, hardcover collections of the Eisner Award-winning 100 Bullets collects the first nineteen issues of the crime series! In the opening chapters, Dizzy Cordova, a Latina gangbanger who has just finished a prison sentence, is given the chance to avenge her family's murders, and a downtrodden bartender receives the opportunity to exact revenge against the woman who rui...

The triumphant return of one of comics’ greatest talents, with an engrossing story of one man’s search for love, meaning, sanity, and perfect architectural proportions. An epic story long awaited, and well worth the wait. Meet Asterios Polyp: middle-aged, meagerly successful architect and teacher, aesthete and womanizer, whose life is wholly upended when his New York City apartment goes up in ...

From the New York Times bestselling author and award-winning creator of Essex County, Secret Path, Descender, and The Underwater Welder comes an all-original graphic novel about a brother and sister who must come together after years apart to face the disturbing history that has cursed their family. Derek Ouelette’s glory days are behind him. His hockey career ended a decade earlier in a violen...