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От награждаваната авторка Р. Ф. Куанг идва „Вавилон“ — епична историческа фентъзи творба, която се занимава със студентски революции, колониална съпротива и употребата на езика и превода като средство за господство на Британската империя. Traduttore, traditore: Всеки акт на превод е акт на предателство. 1828 г. Робин Суифт, осиротял от холера в Кантон, е доведен в Лондон от загадъчния професор Ловел. Там той години наред се обучава по латински, старогръцки и китайски, подготвяйки се за деня, в който ще постъпи в престижния Кралски институт по превод към Оксфордския университет — известен още като Вавилон. Кулата и нейните студенти са световният център на превода и, което е още по-важно, на магията. Среброделството — изкуството да се проявява изгубеният в превода смисъл с помощта на омагьосани сребърни кюлчета — е направило британците ненадминати по сила, тъй като това тайнствено изкуство служи на стремежа на Империята към колонизация. За Робин Оксфорд е утопия, посветена на преследването на знанието. Но знанието се подчинява на властта и като китайско момче, израснало във Великобритания, Робин осъзнава, че да служи на Вавилон означава да предаде родината си. С напредването на обучението си Робин се оказва разкъсан между Вавилон и потайното Общество на Хермес — организация, посветена на спирането на имперската експанзия. Когато Великобритания започва несправедлива война с Китай заради среброто и опиума, Робин трябва да реши... Могат ли могъщите институции да бъдат променени отвътре или революцията винаги изисква насилие?

The first complete, annotated English Translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's comic masterpiece. An audacious revision of the stories of Faust and Pontius Pilate, The Master and Margarita is recognized as one of the essential classics of modern Russian literature. The novel's vision of Soviet life in the 1930s is so ferociously accurate that it could not be published during its author's lifetime and appeared only in a censored edition in the 1960s. Its truths are so enduring that its language has become part of the common Russian speech. One hot spring, the devil arrives in Moscow, accompanied by a retinue that includes a beautiful naked witch and an immense talking black cat with a fondness for chess and vodka. The visitors quickly wreak havoc in a city that refuses to believe in either God or Satan. But they also bring peace to two unhappy Muscovites: one is the Master, a writer pilloried for daring to write a novel about Christ and Pontius Pilate; the other is Margarita, who loves the Master so deeply that she is willing literally to go to hell for him. What ensues is a novel of inexhaustible energy, humor, and philosophical depth, a work whose nuances emerge for the first time in Diana Burgin's and Katherine Tiernan O'Connor's splendid English version.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2014 Aged thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and a reckless, largely absent father, survives an accident that otherwise tears his life apart. Alone and rudderless in New York, he is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. He is tormented by an unbearable longing for his mother, and down the years clings to the thing that most reminds him of her: a small, strangely captivating painting that ultimately draws him into the criminal underworld. As he grows up, Theo learns to glide between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in love - and his talisman, the painting, places him at the centre of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle. The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day America and a drama of enthralling power. Combining unforgettably vivid characters and thrilling suspense, it is a beautiful, addictive triumph - a sweeping story of loss and obsession, of survival and self-invention, of the deepest mysteries of love, identity and fate.

The revised edition follows the complete and unabridged text of Ulysses as corrected and reset in 1961. Like the first American edition of 1934, it also contains the original foreword by the author and the historic court ruling by Judge John M. Woolsey to remove the federal ban on Ulysses. It also contains page references to the 1934 edition, which are indicated in the margin.

Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a suspicious police investigator, Raskolnikov is pursued by the growing voice of his conscience and finds the noose of his own guilt tightening around his neck. Only Sonya, a downtrodden sex worker, can offer the chance of redemption.

Wegen eines Verbrechens, das er nicht begangen hat, wird Edmond Dantès ins Gefängnis geworfen und in der düsteren Festung If eingekerkert. Dort erfährt er von einem großen Schatz, der auf der Insel Monte Christo verborgen liegt, und fasst den Entschluss, nicht nur zu entkommen, sondern auch den Schatz zu heben und damit die Vernichtung der drei Männer zu planen, die für seine Inhaftierung verantwortlich sind. Dumas’ epische Geschichte von Leid und Vergeltung, inspiriert von einem realen Fall ungerechtfertigter Inhaftierung, war ein großer Publikumserfolg, als sie in den 1840er Jahren erstmals als Fortsetzungsroman erschien. Robin Buss’ lebendige englische Übersetzung ist vollständig und ungekürzt und bleibt dem Stil von Dumas’ Original treu. Diese Ausgabe enthält eine Einleitung, erläuternde Anmerkungen und Hinweise zur weiterführenden Lektüre.