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До уваги книголюбів — містичні історії класика пригодницького жанру Р. Стівенсона та його колеги по перу Л. Олкотт. Багато таємниць приховують герої оповідань, а ще більше несподіваних поворотів підкидає їм доля, намагаючись викрити приховане, бо ж добре відомо: усе таємне рано чи пізно стає явним. І все-таки, незважаючи на примхливу, а почасти й жорстоку фортуну, персонажі намагаються зберегти чесність, шляхетність та порядність, залишаючись людьми у найприкріших ситуаціях. ...

Перша книга всесвітньовідомої серії «Зграя». Під час землетрусу Щасливцеві вдалося вибратися живим із заваленого притулку для собак, і він знову стає вільним бродячим псом. У зруйнованому та спустошеному місті він зустрічає колишніх домашніх собак, яких господарі покинули і прирекли на смерть без їжі та прихистку. Щасливець намагається навчити їх виживати в новому світі й пробудити в них собачий дух. Але для цього вони мають стати зграєю, забути про відданість людям і тікати ...

PHILLIP A. PETERSEN has a Ph.D. from University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. For fifteen years he served as a United States Army officer, an intelligence analyst at the Library of Congress and for the Defense Intelligence Agency, and as a policy analyst in the Office of the Secretary of Defense and at the National Defense University. Upon leaving government service with the collapse of the Soviet Union, Dr. Petersen served for 25 years as a Senior Fellow at The Potomac Fo...

“Arrowsmith” is a book by Sinclair Lewis an American writer. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.“Arrowsmith” is a novel by Sinclair Lewis. It won the 1926 Pulitzer Prize (which Lewis declined).Arrowsmith tells the story of bright and scientifically minded Martin Arrowsmith of Elk Mills, Winnemac (the same fictional state in which several of Lewis's other novels are set), as he makes his way from a small town in ...

This book consists of five chapters. In the first chapter, we look at early Sm?ti cosmogonies presented in MS 1 and MDhP 175–176, 240. It is argued that the creation of the world is seen as a cognitive act during which one reality manifests its aspect within which it cognises itself in subject-object cognition. Ontic changes are the results of epistemic transformations. The Composer of the MS presents a coherent model the levels of which corresponds to levels of...

Jedna z japońskich opowieści opartych na miejscowej tradycji mającej źródło w autentycznych wydarzeniach, a mówiąca o powtórnych narodzinach pewnego Japończyka. Autor we wstępie zapewnia, że: „To, co tu podaję, nie jest zmyśloną historią – a przynajmniej nie ja jestem jej autorem. Jest to tylko przekład starego japońskiego dokumentu – raczej szeregu dokumentów, opatrzonych licznymi podpisami i pieczęciami a pochodzących z początku dziewiętnastego wieku. Korzystał z nich nieje...

Książka w dwóch wersjach językowych: polskiej i francuskiej. Version bilingue: polonaise et français. Robert Darvel, młody francuski wynalazca, opowiada swojemu przyjacielowi, że wraz z astronomem o nazwisku Bolenski odbył wyprawę na Syberię, aby spróbować nawiązać komunikację z planetą Mars za pomocą gigantycznych postaci umieszczonych na ziemi. Wieczorem Robert otrzymuje list od tajemniczego pana Ardaveny, który mówi, że zna się na swojej pracy i chce się z nim natychmiast ...

Książka w dwóch wersjach językowych: polskiej i francuskiej. Version bilingue: polonaise et français. Oto dalszy ciąg „Więźnia na Marsie”. Ralph Pitcher i Miss Alberte upewnili się, że ich przyjaciel Robert Darvel znajduje się na planecie Mars. Z pomocą kapitana Wada, astronoma Bolenskiego i Georgesa Darvela (młodszego brata Roberta), założyli laboratorium w Tunezji, aby śledzić wiadomości płynące z Marsa i próbować znaleźć sposób na sprowadzenie przyjaciela z powrotem na Zie...

Jedna z japońskich opowieści opartych na miejscowej tradycji mającej źródło w autentycznych wydarzeniach, a mówiąca o miłosnej tragedii skromnej pary kochanków mieszkających w pewnej wiosce jednej ze wschodnich prowincji Japonii. Autor opowiedział ją w taki sposób, że przemawia do serca także i tych, którym jest obca kultura, tradycja i obyczaje narodu zamieszkującego Kraj Kwitnącej Wiśni. To opowieść o wspólnym samobójstwie pary kochanków, którym wspólne życie na tym świecie...

Die Arbeit ist insofern attraktiv für die Translationsdidaktik, als sie den Forschungsstand im Bereich der Translatorik ordnet und auf die aktuellen Forschungsrichtungen beim Evaluationsprozess des Translationsproduktes hinweist, in die sich das vom Autor präsentierte und geprüfte Modell zur Evaluation von Übersetzungen einreiht. Viele Publikationen auf dem Gebiet deuten oft auf die Notwendigkeit, die Translationsdidaktik je nach der Translationsart zu modellieren, aber ganz ...

“Main Street” is a book by Sinclair Lewis an American writer. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.“Main Street” is a satirical novel written by Sinclair Lewis.Main Street is perhaps Sinclair Lewis's most famous book, and led in part to his eventual 1930 Nobel Prize for Literature. It relates the life and struggles of Carol Milford Kennicott as she comes into conflict with the small-town mentality of the residents...

“Babbitt” is a book by Sinclair Lewis an American writer. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.“Babbitt” is a satirical novel by Sinclair Lewis, about American culture and society that critiques the vacuity of middle class life and the social pressure toward conformity. The controversy provoked by Babbitt was influential in the decision to award the Nobel Prize in Literature to Lewis in 1930.

“The Cat Of The Stars” is a book by Sinclair Lewis an American writer. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.“The Cat Of The Stars” is a short story by Sinclair Lewis.“The fatalities have been three thousand, two hundred and ninety-one, to date, with more reported in every cable from San Coloquin, but it is not yet decided whether the ultimate blame is due to the conductor of Car 22, to Mrs. Simmy Dolson’s bland se...

“The Ghost Patrol” is a book by Sinclair Lewis an American writer. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.“The Ghost Patrol” is a short story by Sinclair Lewis.“Donald Patrick Dorgan had served forty-four years on the police force of Northernapolis, and during all but five of that time he had patrolled the Forest Park section.Don Dorgan might have been a sergeant, or even a captain, but it had early been seen at hea...

“Moths In The Arc Light” is a book by Sinclair Lewis an American writer. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.“Moths In The Arc Light” is a short story by Sinclair Lewis.“Bates lay staring at the green-shaded light on his desk and disgustedly he realized that he must have been sleeping there for hours on the leather couch in his office. His eyes were peppery, his mouth dry. He rose, staggering with the burden of d...

“Things” is a book by Sinclair Lewis an American writer. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.“Things” is a short story by Sinclair Lewis.“This is not the story of Theodora Duke and Stacy Lindstrom, but of a traveling bag with silver fittings, a collection of cloisonné, a pile of ratty school-books, and a fireless cooker that did not cook.Long before these things were acquired, when Theo was a girl and her father,...

“The Kidnaped Memorial” is a book by Sinclair Lewis an American writer. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.“The Kidnaped Memorial” is a short story by Sinclair Lewis.“Wakamin is a town with a soul. It used to have a sentimental soul which got thrills out of neighborliness and “The Star–Spangled Banner,” but now it wavers between two generations, with none of the strong, silly ambition of either. The pioneering g...

“Speed” is a book by Sinclair Lewis an American writer. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.“Speed” is a short story by Sinclair Lewis. “Out in the road were two new automobile tires, and cans of gasoline, oil, water. The hose of a pressure air-pump stretched across the cement sidewalk, and beside it was an air-gauge in a new chamois case. Across the street a restaurant was glaring with unshaded electric lig...

“The Willow Walk” is a book by Sinclair Lewis an American writer. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.“The Willow Walk” is a short story by Sinclair Lewis. “From the drawer of his table Jasper Holt took a pane of window glass. He laid a sheet of paper on the glass and wrote, “Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party.” He studied his round business-college script, and rewrote the sen...

“Young Man Axelbrod” is a book by Sinclair Lewis an American writer. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.“Young Man Axelbrod” is a short story by Sinclair Lewis. “In Joralemon we call Knute Axelbrod “Old Cottonwood.” As a matter of fact, the name was derived not so much from the quality of the man as from the wide grove about his gaunt white house and red barn. He made a comely row of trees on each side of t...

“Free Air” is a book by Sinclair Lewis an American writer. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.“Free Air” is a road novel about Claire Boltwood, who, in the early days of the 20th century, travels by automobile from New York City to the Pacific Northwest, where she falls in love with a nice, down-to-earth young man and gives up her snobbish Estate.

“The Road to Wigan Pier“ is a book by George Orwell, an English novelist, essayist, and journalist. He is best known for the allegorical novella Animal Farm and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.The Road to Wigan Pier is a book by the English writer George Orwell, first published in 1937. The first half of this work documents his sociological investigations of the bleak living conditions among the working class in Lancashire and Yorkshire in the industrial north of Eng...

“The Job” is a book by Sinclair Lewis an American writer. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.The Job is an early work by American novelist Sinclair Lewis. It is considered an early declaration of the rights of working women. The focus is on the main character, Una Golden, and her desire to establish herself in a legitimate occupation while balancing the eventual need for marriage.