McCullers C. The Haunted Boy

His hand sought the adjacent flesh and sorrow paralleled desire in the immense complexity of love. These moving stories by one of the great masters of Southern gothic portray love, sorrow and our search for happiness and understanding. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New Yorks underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

McCullers C. The Haunted Boy

His hand sought the adjacent flesh and sorrow paralleled desire in the immense complexity of love. These moving stories by one of the great masters of Southern gothic portray love, sorrow and our search for happiness and understanding. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New Yorks underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

McCullers Carson The Haunted Boy

His hand sought the adjacent flesh and sorrow paralleled desire in the immense complexity of love. These moving stories by one of the great masters of Southern gothic portray love, sorrow and our search for happiness and understanding. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

McCullers Carson The Ballad of the Sad Cafe

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil. Few writers have expressed loneliness, the need for human understanding and the search for love with such power and poetic sensibility as the American writer Carson McCullers. The Ballad of the Sad Cafe is her masterpiece: an unruly, bittersweet novella concerning the most unlikely of love triangles.

McCullers Carson Ballad of the Sad Cafe, the & Other Stories

In a town "estranged from all other places in the world" lives Miss Amelia Evans. Once married but now living alone, her life changes forever when a stranger arrives on her doorstep one moonlit night in April. A poignant story of love, betrayal, and a brawl, "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe" is one of Carson McCullers' finest works. This acclaimed novella is accompanied by six other short stories. At times haunting, atmospheric, and revealing, McCullers unlocks the full range human emotion in her short fiction.

Ishiguro K. When We Were Orphans

England, the 1930s. Christopher Banks has become the country's most celebrated detective, his cases the talk of London society. Yet one unsolved crime has always haunted him: the mysterious disappearance of his parents, in old Shanghai, when he was a small boy. Moving between inter-war London and Shanghai, When We Were Orphans is a remarkable story of memory, intrigue and the need to return.

Ishiguro K. When We Were Orphans

England, the 1930s. Christopher Banks has become the country's most celebrated detective, his cases the talk of London society. Yet one unsolved crime has always haunted him: the mysterious disappearance of his parents, in old Shanghai, when he was a small boy. Moving between inter-war London and Shanghai, When We Were Orphans is a remarkable story of memory, intrigue and the need to return.

Sparks N. The Notebook

At thirty-one, Noah Calhoun, back in coastal North Carolina after World War II, is haunted by images of the girl he lost more than a decade earlier. At twenty-nine, socialite Allie Nelson is about to marry a wealthy lawyer, but she cannot stop thinking about the boy who long ago stole her heart. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Sparks N. The Notebook

At thirty-one, Noah Calhoun, back in coastal North Carolina after World War II, is haunted by images of the girl he lost more than a decade earlier. At twenty-nine, socialite Allie Nelson is about to marry a wealthy lawyer, but she cannot stop thinking about the boy who long ago stole her heart. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Ishiguro Kazuo When We Were Orphans

By the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go Shortlisted for the Booker Prize England, the 1930s. Christopher Banks has become the country's most celebrated detective, his cases the talk of London society. Yet one unsolved crime has always haunted him: the mysterious disappearance of his parents, in old Shanghai, when he was a small boy. Moving between inter-war London and Shanghai, When We Were Orphans is a remarkable story of memory, intrigue and the need to return.

Deane Seamus Reading in the Dark

This is the story of a haunted Irish childhood. The setting is Derry in the Northern Ireland of the 40s and 50s, fraught with political hatred, family secrets and lethal intrigue. As a young boy tries to make sense of life, poverty and violence shift and obscure the facts; meanwhile his night-time reading of Irish legends weaves enchantment through reality. Claustrophobic but lyrically charged, breathtakingly sad but vibrant and unforgettable, this is one of the finest books about growing up - in Ireland or anywhere - that has ever been written.

McCullers C. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

"She has studied the human heart with understanding ... that no other writer can hope to surpass " Tennessee WilliamsOften cited as one of the greatest novels of twentieth-century American fiction, Carson McCullers' stunning first novel was published with instant acclaim when she was just twenty-three years old. The action takes place in a small town in the middle of the deep South. This is the story of John Singer, a lonely deaf-mute, and a disparate group of people who are attracted by his kind, sympathetic nature. The owner of the cafe where the Singer eats every day, a young girl desperate to grow up, an angry socialist drunk, a disappointed black doctor: everyone pours out their heart to the Singer, their silent confidant, and he, in turn, changes their disappointed life in a way he could never have imagined. Touching, sensitive and deeply humane, "The Heart of a Lonely Hunter" explores loneliness, the human need for understanding and the search for love.

McCullers C. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

"She has studied the human heart with understanding ... that no other writer can hope to surpass " Tennessee WilliamsOften cited as one of the greatest novels of twentieth-century American fiction, Carson McCullers' stunning first novel was published with instant acclaim when she was just twenty-three years old. The action takes place in a small town in the middle of the deep South. This is the story of John Singer, a lonely deaf-mute, and a disparate group of people who are attracted by his kind, sympathetic nature. The owner of the cafe where the Singer eats every day, a young girl desperate to grow up, an angry socialist drunk, a disappointed black doctor: everyone pours out their heart to the Singer, their silent confidant, and he, in turn, changes their disappointed life in a way he could never have imagined. Touching, sensitive and deeply humane, "The Heart of a Lonely Hunter" explores loneliness, the human need for understanding and the search for love.

AUDIO CD The Haunted: The Haunted

Компакт-диски, Original Jazz Classics, BILL EVANS - Explorations (CD)

The Bill Evans Trio - Explorations [Original Jazz Classics Remasters]. 1 CD. 1 Israel - 6:11, 2 Haunted Heart - 3:27, 3 Beautiful Love - 5:06, 4 Elsa - 5:12, 5 Nardis - 5:51, 6 How Deep Is The Ocean? - 3:34, 7 I Wish I Knew - 4:40, 8 Sweet And Lovely - 5:53, Bonus Tracks, 9 The Boy Next Door - 5:07, 10 Beautiful Love (Take 1) - 6:07, 11 How Deep Is The Ocean (Take 2) - 3:48, 12 I Wish I Knew (Take 2) - 5:08

Twain Mark The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The classic boy-hero of American literature. Impish, daring young Tom Sawyer is the bane of the old, the hero of the young. There were some in his dusty old Missippi town who believed he would be President, if he escaped a hanging. For wherever there is mischief or adventure, Tom is at the heart of it. During one hot summer, Tom witnesses a murder, runs away to be a pirate, attends his own funeral, rescues an innocent man from the gallows, searches for treasure in a haunted house, foils a devilish plot and discovers a box of gold. But can he escape his nemesis, the villainous Injun Joe?