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List of the Best Modern Books Akunin B. Publishing house: Zakharov Binding: soft Year: 2014The novel about Erast Fandorin takes place on the eve of the First World War in Baku, a magnificent and terrible city of oil, nouveau riche, fiery terrorists and eastern robbers. This time, the great detective got an adversary, whom it seems impossible to defeat … Salinger D. D. Series: Pocket book Publishing: Eksmo Bookbinding: soft Year: 2013 Classic writer, mystery writer, at the peak of…

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Top Science Fiction Books So the time has come for the annual “distribution of elephants.” Last year, in contrast to, say, a couple of previous ones, certain innovations were outlined. Firstly, there were several very decent books by domestic authors, able to compete on equal terms with foreign counterparts. Secondly, our publishers quite actively acquainted the public with hitherto unknown works of foreign science fiction writers – those that had been waiting for a translation for a very long time….

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10 Most Popular Books in the World The Huffington Post blog was created by Kenneth Lehrer, Andrew Breitbart, Jonah Peretti and Arianna Huffington. New content regularly appears on the blog covering a wide range of topics: politics, business, the environment, entertainment, technology and much more. The concept of the blog was invented in May 2005, and the project itself was launched just a few days later, a year later one of large banks invested $ 5 million in the project,…

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Popular Contemporary Writers Every foreigner knows Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. What about modern authors? ReadRate found out what relevant writers foreigners are reading right now. You know, we definitely have someone to be proud of! Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Gogol, Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn and Brodsky. The legacy of Russian literature that is popular abroad is still being read, but time is running out … Who do foreigners read with the same rapture as we, in turn, Julian Barnes, Chuck Palahniuk, Michel Welbeck, David Nichols…

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Best Novel Stephen Levitt, Stephen Dubner “When to Rob a Bank and Other Lifehacks”, “Alpina Publisher”, Moscow, 2016, translation by G. Yastrebov on television, not as invited experts, but as full-fledged stars – and all because they proved several suspiciously implausible theorems – for example, that the swimming pool in the courtyard of your house is more dangerous than the revolver stored in your closet. words: Paradoxically refuting the basic postulate of the economy to reduce the marginal revenue (first…

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Russian Authors Not so many writers can be called “children’s” in Russian literature. Some writers came to the world of children’s literature from research activities, politics, complex translations of foreign literature. Cognitive and at the same time colorful narratives in the halo of goodness are a distinctive feature of the works of naturalist writers: Vitaly Bianki, Igor Ivanovich Akimushkin, Mikhail Mikhailovich Prishvin, Evgeny Charushin and many other talented authors of the XIX-XX centuries. Nikolai Nikolayevich Nosov absolutely realized the genuine…

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Top 100 Books for Teens This book does not lend itself to any classification and does not want to fit into any framework and scheme. Satirically depicted life, fiction, mysticism, theology, philosophy, lyrics are so firmly intertwined in it that you will not unravel it, you will not separate one from the other. 2911 Tolkien tells the story of the Ring of Omnipotence, created by the long-time-old dark lord Sauron to subjugate the whole world. The ring falls into the…

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10 Popular Books On the RBC website, they’re a little less pleased with the ninth place of “The Maze Runner” (after all, the book by James Dashner is significantly inferior to Andy Weyer’s NF novel), but the sixth place is disturbing. George Orwell’s famous dystopia “1984” settled there. Undoubtedly, Orwell’s novel has long been recognized as a classic, and yet the surge of interest in this book is an alarming bell. Added: there was a mistake in the original source…

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All Writers In January 1908, a feuilleton appeared in the Russkoe Slovo newspaper on the relationship between Russian writers and alcohol. Arzamas leads him completely Alexander Kuprin with friends in a restaurant. Photo by Peter Otsup. St. Petersburg, 1913 © IRLI RAN The French magazine La Revue conceived and carried out an interesting questionnaire on the topic “How and what do French writers drink?”. One of the Petersburg newspapers, inspired by this example, produced a similar questionnaire among Russian writers….

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Books which Beautiful, romantic, from childhood, a familiar tale about Assol, Gray and an unshakable faith in a dream with a simple and clear moral: any miracle can happen if you perform it yourself. For yourself or for the one you love. One of the most popular novels, the main theme of which is growing up. This is a filigree satire over society as a whole and over each of us individually. And most importantly – no morality. “Learn to…

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