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James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. The Oak Openings; or, The Bee Hunter focuses on the activities of professional honey-hunter Benjamin Boden, nicknamed “Ben Buzz”. The novel is set in Kalamazoo, Michigan’s Oak Opening, a wooded prairie during the War of 1812.

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Хочешь научиться рисовать, но не знаешь, с чего начать? Эта книга поможет тебе! Кто угодно сможет нарисовать доисторических рептилий, пользуясь инструкциями из этой книги. Рисуй могучих динозавров шаг за шагом и наслаждайся результатом. Вдохновение гарантировано!

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«Книга правителя области Шан» – один из наиболее значительных памятников общественно-политической мысли Древнего Китая. В нем излагается учение Шан Яна (IV в. до н.э.) – основателя школы легистов, отстаивавшей деспотическую форму правления. Учение Шан Яна, воспринятое конфуцианцами в период с III в. до н. э. по III в. н. э., способствовало превращению конфуцианства в государственную идеологию, оказало огромное влияние на дальнейшее развитие законодательства и правовых теорий Китая и остается до сих пор актуальным для современной политики КНР. Настоящее издание включает в себя текст «Книги правителя области Шан» в переводе выдающегося китаеведа, «Московского Конфуция» Леонарда Сергеевича Переломова, который также снабдил текст богатым научным комментарием, вступительной статьей и послесловием.

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Enjoying the comforts of his well-kept home, country doctor William Harrison is prevailed upon by his longtime friend Charles, a bachelor, to dispense some advice on the «wooing and winning» of women’s affections. Lured to rural Duncombe by the promise of a partnership in a country practice, William fi nds himself trapped in claustrophobic provincial life where society is apparently presided over by the scheming of a set of under-occupied middle-aged women. Afterwards, the hapless young physician fi nds himself betrothed to three women – none of whom is the beautiful Sophy, the woman he truly desires.

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When the ship that Andrew and Clara are on, en route to Oceania, founders after striking an iceberg in the south Indian Ocean, and Andrew fetches up, with his manservant, on the desolate Marion Island, around 1,500 miles southeast of the Cape of Good Hope. It is there that Andrew finds the true love of his life, Mary, who had been shipwrecked on the island some 15 years before and who had been living there alone.

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The youthful Allan Quatermain is bound for strange adventures, in the company of the ill-fated Pieter Retief and the Boer Commission, on an embassy to the Zulu despot, Dingaan. Yet he is bound, too, for one of the deepest romances of his life – for in Marie he tells of his courtship and marriage to his first wife, Marie Marais.

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Mad Monkton is a bizarre ghost story. It is said that a strain of hereditary madness blights the Monkton family, heirs to the huge domain of Wincot Abbey. Rumours in the neighbourhood are that Alfred, the youngest scion, has inherited this insanity. His odd behaviour certainly points that way. Alfred is engaged to his childhood sweetheart, Ada Elmslie. But at the very moment when various obstacles to the match are overcome, Alfred suddenly departs for Italy, seeking the corpse of his disreputable uncle, who is believed to have been killed in a duel. What could have driven Alfred to do this?

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Ernst Theodor Amadeus (E. T. A.) Hoffmann – berühmter deutscher Schriftsteller, in dessen Werken gehen die Geisterwelt, Kriminalgeschichten und ungewöhnliche Abenteuer unvermittelt ineinander über. „Lebens-Ansichten des Katers Murr“ ist der letzte, am meisten autobiographische Roman des großen deutschen Schriftstellers. Der ungewöhnliche, mehrschichtige Roman beinhaltet die Notizen des gelehrten Katers, Pragmatikers und Epikureers Murr, zudem anscheinend zufällig in das Manuskript gelangte Blätter aus der Biographie des „wunderlichen Kapellmeisters“ Kreisler, eines unverbesserlichen Romantikers und des Alter ego von Hoffmann selbst.

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Alfred de Musset est un poète et dramaturge français du XIXe siècle qui a sa place au Panthéon des romantiques. «La Confession d’un enfant du siècle» est une de ses œuvres les plus connues; il y parle des maux de sa génération, blasée et mélancolique. Ce sont ces deux vices qui empêchent le héros principal de goûter au bonheur avec l’élue de son cœur.

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William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866) and The Moonstone (1868). Collins’s works were classified at the time as «sensation novels», a genre seen nowadays as the precursor to detective and suspense fiction.

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