It is 1938 and Sigmund Freud, suffering from the debilitating effects of cancer, has been permitted by the Nazis to leave Vienna. He seeks refuge in England, taking up residence in the house in Hampstead in which he will die only fifteen months later. But his last months are made vivid by the arrival of a stranger, who comes and goes according to Freud's state of health. Who is the mysterious visitor and why has he come to tell the famed pr ...
Young Fidelia Knight arrives in Melbourne in 1874, alone except for her treasured companion, Samuel Johnson; well, half of him.<br /> To escape servitude, Fidelia hides each night in Bourke-street's renowned Coles Book Arcade. She loves words, you see, and wants to know them all.<br /> What she overhears in Coles sets her on a path that will change the lives of everyone she meets, starting with Jasper Godwin, the hopelessly un ...
«Занимательный факт об ангелах состоит в том, что иногда, очень редко, когда человек оступился и так запутался, что превратил свою жизнь в полный бардак и смерть кажется единственным разумным выходом, в такую минуту к нему приходит или, лучше сказать, ему является ангел и предлагает вернуться в ту точку, откуда все пошло не так, и на сей раз сделать все правильно». Именно этими словами встретила Мокрица фон Липвига его новая жизнь. До этого был ...
'It was one of the most perfect days, only just warm enough, an ever so slight breeze I could see in the hairs on my arm and in the flutter of the flags across each end of the pool but couldn't feel. It must have been the exact temperature of my blood.' On a cloudless afternoon, a man dives into a crowded swimming pool and disappears. Is it murder, a staged disappearance or alien abduction? The Shallow End – a steady freesty ...
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious person? to escape burdensome social obligations. Working within the social conventions of late Victorian London, the play’s major themes are the triviality with which it treats institutions as serious as ...
С эльфийским принцем случилось несчастье. Его прокляли, лишили привычного облика и, мало этого, забросили в ужасный безмагический мир. Что ждёт его там? Для создания обложки использованы бесплатный шаблон с ресурса canva и фото авторов Alina Vilchenko и Натальи Семенковой с Pexels.
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