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Eugenics and Other Evils
Eugenics and Other Evils
[Публицистика]
G. K. Chesterton was an early critic of the philosophy of eugenics, expressing this opinion in his book, Eugenics and Other Evils. Its advocates regarded eugenics as a social philosophy for the
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All Things Considered
All Things Considered
[Критика / Публицистика]
All Things Considered features more than thirty columns that G. K. Chesterton wrote for the London Daily News in the years before World War I. Covering a variety of themes, each is written with the
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Uncle Vanya
Uncle Vanya
[Драматургия: прочее]
This structurally and psychologically compact drama takes place on an estate in 19th-century Russia, exploring the complex interrelationships between a retired professor, his second wife, and the
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The Witch and Other Stories
The Witch and Other Stories
[Классическая проза]
Anton Checkhov’s The Witch and other stories is one of his many collection of short stories. Included in this book are fifteen of Chekhov’s; The Witch, Peasant Wives, The Post, The New Villa, Dreams,
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The Seagull
The Seagull
[Драматургия: прочее]
The Seagull is the first of Anton Checkov’s four full-length plays. It explores the romantic and artistic tension in the relationships between a young woman, a fading older lady, her playwright son
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Robert Browning
Robert Browning
[Биографии и Мемуары]
Chesterton declares that it is fashionable to boast that one cannot understand Browning but he reveals in this fascinating literary biography how Browning ‘combines the greatest brain with the
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Orthodoxy
Orthodoxy
[Религия, эзотерика / Философия / Публицистика]
This book is meant to be a companion to “Heretics,” and to put the positive side in addition to the negative. Many critics complained of the book called “Heretics” because it merely criticised
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The Ballad of the White Horse
The Ballad of the White Horse
[Поэзия: прочее]
The Ballad of the White Horse is one of the last great epic poems in the English language. On the one hand it describes King Alfred’s battle against the Danes in 878. On the other hand it is a
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Heretics
Heretics
[Религиозная литература: прочее / Публицистика / Религия, эзотерика]
G. K. Chesterton, the “Prince of Paradox”, is at his witty best in this collection of twenty essays and articles from the turn of the twentieth century. Focusing on “heretics” — those who pride
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The Deerslayer
The Deerslayer
[Приключения про индейцев / Исторические приключения]
Set in 1740 during the French and Indian Wars, The Deerslayer testifies to the murderous humanity and natural beauty on which the history of America was written. In the climactic novel of the
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Coningsby
Coningsby
[Классическая проза]
No Thoroughfare
No Thoroughfare
[Классическая проза]
A story of mistaken identities, courage, justice, and a journey that stretches from the depths of the city of London to the Alps and the Mediterranean.
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Третья промышленная революция
Третья промышленная революция
[Публицистика]
Автор концепции Третьей промышленной революции, известный ученый, влиятельный американский экономист и эколог Джереми Рифкин, считает, что на смену традиционным централизованным моделям бизнеса в
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Сила эмпатии
Сила эмпатии
[Психология]
Недопонимания и конфликты неизбежны. Но всегда можно найти выход из любой тупиковой ситуации, если научиться проявлять эмпатию: перемещать перспективу и смотреть на происходящее с разных точек
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Sybil, Or, The Two Nations
Sybil, Or, The Two Nations
[Классическая проза]
Sybil, or The Two Nations is one of the finest novels to depict the social problems of class-ridden Victorian England. When published, it was a sensation for its immediacy and readability brought the
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The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov
[Русская классическая проза]
Dostoyevsky’s towering reputation as one of the handful of thinkers who forged the modern sensibility has sometimes obscured the purely novelistic virtues–brilliant characterizations, flair for
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Vivian Grey
Vivian Grey
[Классическая проза]
Originally published anonymously, ostensibly by a so-called “man of fashion”, the first part caused a considerable sensation in London society. Contemporary reviewers, suspicious of the numerous
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Tancred
Tancred
[Классическая проза]
Tancred; or, The New Crusade is a novel by Benjamin Disraeli, first published by Henry Colburn in three volumes. Together with Coningsby (1844) and Sybil (1845) it forms a sequence sometimes called
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The Idiot
The Idiot
[Русская классическая проза]
The twenty-six-year-old Prince Myshkin, following a stay of several years in a Swiss sanatorium, returns to Russia to collect an inheritance and be among people. Even before he reaches home he meets
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The House of the Dead
The House of the Dead
[Русская классическая проза]
The House of the Dead is a fictionalized memoir of a man serving a ten-year prison sentence for murdering his wife. Dostoyevsky drew heavily from his own four-year prison internment in a Siberian
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