The Life of Insects. Main, Paperback - Victor Pelevin

Set in a crumbling Soviet Black Sea resort, The Life of Insects with its motley cast of characters who exist simultaneously as human beings (racket...

Victor Pelevin's unforgettable first novel, Omon Ra, is the story of a young man who always dreamt of becoming the ultimate Russian hero, a cosmona...

After auditioning for the part as a singing geisha at a dubious bar, Lena and eleven other lucky girls are sent to work at a posh underground night...

S.N.U.F.F. is a hard-hitting and timely satirical story about war, revolution and their relationship with the media.

Publisher: The New York Review of Books, IncAuthor(s): StendhalNumber of pages: 544Publication date: 2001Dimensions: 204 x 130 x 34Cover type: Pape...

How Britain's most famous female poet invented herself and defied her times.Publisher: Profile Books LtdAuthor(s): Fiona SampsonIllustration(s): 8 ...

Reducere. Pelevin, The Blue Lantern. Addictive, hysterical, and uncategorizable stories

Reducere. "At the very start of the third semester, in one of the lectures on Marxism-Leninism, Nikita Dozakin made a remarkable discovery, " begins the stor...

A comic vision of vanity, greed and advertising, that was a number one bestseller in the author's native Russia. "A shimmering ragout of modern sat...

Stunning photographs in this easy-to-follow identification guide for children and adults will help everyone become a nature detective.

DescriptionThe Voice: The Unparalleled Life of Roger Huston is a blockbuster book about the life of the number 1 horse racing announcer in the coun...

The go-to photographic guide to Britain and Ireland's insects Britain's Insects is an innovative, up-to-date, carefully designed and beautifully il...

Reducere. Recunoscut drept unul dintre cei mai spectaculosi scriitori rusi contemporani, Viktor Pelevin s-a nascut la Moscova in 1962. S-a inscris la Institu...

Reducere. O distopie tehnologica si o oglinda a sfarsitului de secol XXI, in care cititorul contemporan poate regasi un fragment din propria lume. Un roman s...

The Main Dish explores the bond of sisters and the pull of fame. It addresses what happens when the success of someone eclipses one's own success. ...

Publisher: Faber & FaberAuthor(s): Victoria Adukwei BulleyNumber of pages: 104Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 157 x 204 x 13Cover type: Paperback...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. DescriptionA bold and innovative social history, The Seed is Mine concerns disenfranchised black people who did so much to shape the destiny of Sou...

A magnificent work of original research, unwinding history through cloth - how we make it, use it and what it means to us.Publisher: Profile Books ...

Dr Victoria Stewart explores the life and work of Sean O'Casey, whose writing career spanned some of the most tumultuous times in Ireland's history...

Publisher: The New York Review of Books, IncAuthor(s): Michael PalmerNumber of pages: 136Publication date: 2016Dimensions: 116 x 178 x 2Cover type:...

One long, hot summer Andy and her friends begin a game that will take their whole lives to play out.Publisher: Profile Books LtdAuthor(s): Victoria...

Reducere. This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition combines the two most important African American slave narratives into one volume. Frederick Douglas...

The sensational erotic memoir that shocked the world, now a Serpent's Tail Classic.Publisher: Profile Books LtdAuthor(s): Catherine MilletNumber of...

Reducere. The Ames Farm of Woolwich, Maine documents the life of a Maine dairy-farming family in the 1930s through '60s. The Ames family worked the same land...

The story of Art PepperPublisher: Canongate Books LtdAuthor(s): Laurie PepperNumber of pages: 624Publication date: 2001Dimensions: 216 x 138 x 36Co...

Illuminating the life of Simon Cowell and delving into backstage scandal, tabloid rumour and the cut-throat worlds of music and television, Tom Bow...

A compelling and beautifully written exploration of the topic which breaks all taboos: assisted deathPublisher: Atlantic BooksAuthor(s): Katie Enge...

Reducere. A "vivid" (Kirkus Reviews) and multilayered biography of Queen Victoria chronicling the life of the longest-reigning British monarch who ruled for ...

Description"James Victore is a dangerous man. His ideas on optimizing your creativity, doing wow work and building a life that inspires will devast...

Structured Chaos by Boardman-Tasker-winning author and renowned climber Victor Saunders describes his progression from scaling canal walls in Camde...

A new partnership of biologists and mathematicians is picking apart the hidden complexity of animals and plants to throw fresh light on the behavio...

A literary guide to digital anxiety, The Unreality of Memory collects thought-provoking and playful essays on the Internet age's media-saturated di...

Reducere. Wave Woman is the untold story of an adventurer whose zest for life and learning kept her alive for ninety-eight years. Betty Pembroke Heldreich Wi...

Reducere. The ordeals of two famous African Americans This special Leonaur edition combines the account of Harriet Ann Jacobs with that of Frederick Douglass...

The definitive biography of Harvey Milk: an emotionally compelling story of the life and death of the first openly gay man to be elected to US poli...

This is a story about a free woman, who once was lost but now is found; who once was blind, but now sees. Her captor had her totally convinced that...

Omon Ra - Viktor Pelevin

Reducere. Introduction by Kwame Anthony Appiah Commentary by Jean Fagan Yellin and Margaret Fuller This Modern Library edition combines two of the most impor...

Reducere. If a single life exemplifies the inner drive that fires a great inventor, it is the life of Edwin Land. The major innovations that he was able to a...