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Kerouac called this his "best most serious sad and true book yet." Kerouac weaves his later Buddhist tendencies into a memoir about his Franco-American Catholic childhood, focusing on the time leading up to the death of his beloved older brother Gerard when Jack was five years old and Gerard was nine.

A guide for the reading of four historians: Gibbon, Ranke, Macaulay and Burckhardt.

The photos of the Farm Security Administration of the 1930s, in an unprecedented feat, documented an entire land and its people. Of the 270,000 photos taken between 1937 and 1943, under the enthusiastic goading of Roy Stryker, hundreds today are considered masterpieces of photography worthy of exhibition and publication as art. Taken by such great photographers as Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Ben Shahn, and Russell Lee, and showing that even in poverty there is a spirit of hope, these images, which are a national treasure, bring to life a historic time.--cover

Adam: Hitler's once great army is broken and demoralized, and the end of the war is imminent, yet Jews are still being "evacuated" and soldiers are still being rounded up like criminals and sent to the front. Böll paints war as acts of imbecility, senseless accidents, and bizarre coincidences related only through death. Train: Twenty-four-year-old Private Andreas boards a troop train to Germany to return to the front. He knows that Hitler has already lost the war and realizes that he is unlikely to survive the war. As Andreas meditates on the futility of war, his early battles, and his regrets, he is shocked to discover that he can still make friends, sleep, eat and drink. Heinrich Böll's first novel.

Published for the first time in 1950, this "lost" classic sets forth the events of nine momentous months in the life of the 22-year-old James Boswell, later to become the biographer of Samuel Johnson. It is an account of Boswell's personal struggle for independence from his family, and for self-preservation ...

Это - "Машенька". Книга, в которой талант Владимира Набокова поднимается до уровня Достоевского. Книга отчаянно проста, отчаянно горька - и бесконечно, надменно изысканная.