Europe

Europe's rich tapestry of history, politics, and culture comes alive in this collection, spanning ancient trade routes and Cold War tensions to gripping thrillers set against the continent's iconic backdrops. Whether you're drawn to the sweeping forces that shaped nations or intimate stories unfolding in its cities and corridors of power, these books capture Europe in all its complexity.

Europe Резюмета на книги

Моите приятели

от Фредрик Бакман

An orphan inherits a painting and follows a stranger to the sea instead of selling it.

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Моите приятели

An orphan inherits a painting and follows a stranger to the sea instead of selling it.

от Фредрик Бакман 2025 436 страници

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Inverting the Pyramid

от Jonathan Wilson • 2008

How offside rules, coffee houses, and fascism invented modern football formations.

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Inverting the Pyramid

How offside rules, coffee houses, and fascism invented modern football formations.

от Jonathan Wilson 2008 374 страници

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The Invention of Tradition

от Eric J. Hobsbawm • 1983

Most timeless rituals were built recently, assembled when rapid change broke old social bonds.

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The Invention of Tradition

Most timeless rituals were built recently, assembled when rapid change broke old social bonds.

от Eric J. Hobsbawm 1983 320 страници

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Diplomacy

от Henry Kissinger • 1994

Europe balanced power; America chases ideals. Three centuries of diplomatic collision.

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Europe

Diplomacy

Europe balanced power; America chases ideals. Three centuries of diplomatic collision.

от Henry Kissinger 1994 912 страници

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Денят на Чакала

от Фредерик Форсайт • 1971

A hired killer stalks President de Gaulle. One detective must unmask him before Liberation Day.

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Spy

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Денят на Чакала

A hired killer stalks President de Gaulle. One detective must unmask him before Liberation Day.

от Фредерик Форсайт 1971 358 страници

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Spy

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The Anatomy of Fascism

от Robert O. Paxton • 2004

A historian maps the path to fascist power: the deals, the power split, and the warning signs.

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The Anatomy of Fascism

A historian maps the path to fascist power: the deals, the power split, and the warning signs.

от Robert O. Paxton 2004 336 страници

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Terror

от Ferdinand von Schirach • 2015

A pilot shot down a hijacked plane to save a stadium. Now you are his jury.

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Terror

A pilot shot down a hijacked plane to save a stadium. Now you are his jury.

от Ferdinand von Schirach 2015 176 страници

4.16

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Пиеси

Драма

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Право

The Silk Roads

от Peter Frankopan • 2015

History looks different when you place the Silk Roads, not Europe, at the center of everything.

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Europe

The Silk Roads

History looks different when you place the Silk Roads, not Europe, at the center of everything.

от Peter Frankopan 2015 656 страници

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The Woman in Suite 11

от Ruth Ware • 2025

A journalist's Swiss hotel reunion turns deadly when every guest survived the same cruise nightmare.

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The Woman in Suite 11

A journalist's Swiss hotel reunion turns deadly when every guest survived the same cruise nightmare.

от Ruth Ware 2025 387 страници

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Napoleon

от Andrew Roberts • 2014

A single volume spanning Corsica to St. Helena: the ambition, the genius, the fatal misjudgments.

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Napoleon

A single volume spanning Corsica to St. Helena: the ambition, the genius, the fatal misjudgments.

от Andrew Roberts 2014 976 страници

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Beartown

от Фредрик Бакман • 2016

When a Swedish hockey town's star player assaults a girl, loyalty and justice collide.

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Beartown

When a Swedish hockey town's star player assaults a girl, loyalty and justice collide.

от Фредрик Бакман 2016 432 страници

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The Great Divergence

от Kenneth Pomeranz • 2000

Europe's industrial breakthrough wasn't its own genius. It took colonial land and underground coal.

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The Great Divergence

Europe's industrial breakthrough wasn't its own genius. It took colonial land and underground coal.

от Kenneth Pomeranz 2000 392 страници

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The A.B.C. Murders

от Agatha Christie • 1936

A serial killer taunts Poirot with alphabetical murders, leaving an ABC guide at each crime scene.

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The A.B.C. Murders

A serial killer taunts Poirot with alphabetical murders, leaving an ABC guide at each crime scene.

от Agatha Christie 1936 207 страници

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The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939

от Edward Hallett Carr • 1939

When the peace of 1919 ignored power, power waited twenty years and answered.

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The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939

When the peace of 1919 ignored power, power waited twenty years and answered.

от Edward Hallett Carr 1939 244 страници

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Destiny Disrupted

от Tamim Ansary • 2009

For centuries, Muslim empires were the center of the world. Then the story got rewritten.

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Destiny Disrupted

For centuries, Muslim empires were the center of the world. Then the story got rewritten.

от Tamim Ansary 2009 390 страници

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Atatürk

от Andrew Mango • 1999

How a single officer dismantled an Islamic empire and built a secular nation from its ruins.

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Atatürk

How a single officer dismantled an Islamic empire and built a secular nation from its ruins.

от Andrew Mango 1999 666 страници

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Military

Empire

от Niall Ferguson • 2003

Piracy, sugar, and debt built the largest empire ever. The collapse outpaced the climb.

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Globalization

Empire

Piracy, sugar, and debt built the largest empire ever. The collapse outpaced the climb.

от Niall Ferguson 2003 384 страници

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Globalization

A Happy Death

от Albert Camus • 1971

An Algiers clerk murders a wealthy philosopher, convinced a fortune buys the time happiness demands.

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A Happy Death

An Algiers clerk murders a wealthy philosopher, convinced a fortune buys the time happiness demands.

от Albert Camus 1971 144 страници

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Defenders of the West

от Raymond Ibrahim • 2022

For a thousand years, Islam pushed into Europe. Eight forgotten warriors pushed back and won.

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Defenders of the West

For a thousand years, Islam pushed into Europe. Eight forgotten warriors pushed back and won.

от Raymond Ibrahim 2022 352 страници

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Inferno

от Catherine Cho • 2020

A bioweapon is encoded in Dante's Inferno, and the symbologist decoding it just lost his memory.

4.24

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Inferno

A bioweapon is encoded in Dante's Inferno, and the symbologist decoding it just lost his memory.

от Catherine Cho 2020 240 страници

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The Crusades

от Thomas Asbridge • 2010

The Crusades told from both sides: Christian and Muslim chronicles woven into one narrative.

4.23

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The Crusades

The Crusades told from both sides: Christian and Muslim chronicles woven into one narrative.

от Thomas Asbridge 2010 784 страници

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Postwar

от Tony Judt • 2005

Sixty years, one continent, 36 million dead: how Europe rebuilt itself into something unprecedented.

4.38

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Europe

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Postwar

Sixty years, one continent, 36 million dead: how Europe rebuilt itself into something unprecedented.

от Tony Judt 2005 933 страници

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Погнусата

от Жан-Пол Сартр • 1938

A historian's diary becomes a record of his unraveling as ordinary objects turn hostile and unreal.

3.93

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Погнусата

A historian's diary becomes a record of his unraveling as ordinary objects turn hostile and unreal.

от Жан-Пол Сартр 1938 178 страници

3.93

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The Road to Unfreedom

от Timothy Snyder • 2018

The 2016 election was the target of a Russian authoritarian project decades in the making.

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America

The Road to Unfreedom

The 2016 election was the target of a Russian authoritarian project decades in the making.

от Timothy Snyder 2018 359 страници

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Zeno's Conscience

от Italo Svevo • 1923

At his analyst's bidding, Zeno records a life of quitting smoking, one cigarette at a time.

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Zeno's Conscience

At his analyst's bidding, Zeno records a life of quitting smoking, one cigarette at a time.

от Italo Svevo 1923 437 страници

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The Making of Martin Luther

от Richard Rex • 2017

A misremembered sentence and a desperate hunger for certainty: the Reformation's hidden engine.

3.94

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Християнство

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The Making of Martin Luther

A misremembered sentence and a desperate hunger for certainty: the Reformation's hidden engine.

от Richard Rex 2017 296 страници

3.94

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The Cold War

от John Lewis Gaddis • 2005

Two empires, opposite ideologies, enough bombs to end everything. Why the Cold War stayed cold.

3.95

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The Cold War

Two empires, opposite ideologies, enough bombs to end everything. Why the Cold War stayed cold.

от John Lewis Gaddis 2005 352 страници

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Жената на мъжа ми

от Алис Фийни

Eden's husband replaced her with a stranger. She must prove she exists before she vanishes.

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Жената на мъжа ми

Eden's husband replaced her with a stranger. She must prove she exists before she vanishes.

от Алис Фийни 2026 310 страници

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The Mystery of the Blue Train

от Agatha Christie • 1928

An heiress is murdered aboard the Blue Train, her ruby missing, and Poirot questions everyone.

3.88

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The Mystery of the Blue Train

An heiress is murdered aboard the Blue Train, her ruby missing, and Poirot questions everyone.

от Agatha Christie 1928 317 страници

3.88

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The Strange Death of Europe

от Douglas Murray • 2017

Europe is being remade through mass immigration, paralyzed by a guilt that forbids honest debate.

4.15

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The Strange Death of Europe

Europe is being remade through mass immigration, paralyzed by a guilt that forbids honest debate.

от Douglas Murray 2017 352 страници

4.15

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A Little History of the World

от E.H. Gombrich • 1936

The whole human story, from cave paintings to the Cold War, in one short, elegant book.

4.10

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Children's Books

Europe

Civilization

A Little History of the World

The whole human story, from cave paintings to the Cold War, in one short, elegant book.

от E.H. Gombrich 1936 284 страници

4.10

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Children's Books

Europe

Civilization

The Barcelona Legacy

от Jonathan Wilson • 2018

Cruyff's football ideas created Guardiola and Mourinho, who took them in opposite directions.

4.09

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The Barcelona Legacy

Cruyff's football ideas created Guardiola and Mourinho, who took them in opposite directions.

от Jonathan Wilson 2018 336 страници

4.09

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Мениджмънт

The Night in Lisbon

от Erich Maria Remarque • 1961

Lisbon, 1942. A stranded refugee meets a man who offers escape for one night of listening.

4.33

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The Night in Lisbon

Lisbon, 1942. A stranded refugee meets a man who offers escape for one night of listening.

от Erich Maria Remarque 1961 272 страници

4.33

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Островът на изчезналите дървета

от Елиф Шафак • 2021

In 1974 Cyprus, a forbidden love crosses the Greek-Turkish divide, watched by a fig tree.

4.15

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Островът на изчезналите дървета

In 1974 Cyprus, a forbidden love crosses the Greek-Turkish divide, watched by a fig tree.

от Елиф Шафак 2021 354 страници

4.15

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Фентъзи

Machiavelli

от Quentin Skinner • 1981

A Florentine diplomat lost his job, then wrote the rules of power that still scandalize.

3.84

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Machiavelli

A Florentine diplomat lost his job, then wrote the rules of power that still scandalize.

от Quentin Skinner 1981 110 страници

3.84

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Flesh

от David Szalay • 2025

His first lover is his older neighbor. Her rejection launches a lifelong search for connection.

3.70

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Flesh

His first lover is his older neighbor. Her rejection launches a lifelong search for connection.

от David Szalay 2025 368 страници

3.70

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The Clown

от Heinrich Böll • 1963

A clown in postwar Bonn unravels after the woman he loves leaves him for a Catholic.

3.93

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The Clown

A clown in postwar Bonn unravels after the woman he loves leaves him for a Catholic.

от Heinrich Böll 1963 272 страници

3.93

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Language, Truth and Logic

от Alfred Jules Ayer • 1936

A single test separates meaningful statements from nonsense, and most of philosophy fails it.

3.75

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Language, Truth and Logic

A single test separates meaningful statements from nonsense, and most of philosophy fails it.

от Alfred Jules Ayer 1936 160 страници

3.75

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SPQR

от Mary Beard • 2015

A thousand-year story of how Rome's genius for inclusion built an empire, then broke its republic.

4.06

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SPQR

A thousand-year story of how Rome's genius for inclusion built an empire, then broke its republic.

от Mary Beard 2015 606 страници

4.06

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Persian Fire

от Tom Holland • 2005

An ancient clash of civilizations: how a tiny Greece stopped a superpower, and invented the West.

4.17

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Persian Fire

An ancient clash of civilizations: how a tiny Greece stopped a superpower, and invented the West.

от Tom Holland 2005 447 страници

4.17

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Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War"

от Patrick J. Buchanan • 2008

Britain's empire fell not to war but to a diplomatic blunder that handed the world to its rivals.

4.21

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Europe

20-ти век

Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War"

Britain's empire fell not to war but to a diplomatic blunder that handed the world to its rivals.

от Patrick J. Buchanan 2008 544 страници

4.21

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Зимата на света

от Кен Фолет • 2012

Five interconnected families fight for love, survival, and justice as fascism engulfs the world.

4.39

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Зимата на света

Five interconnected families fight for love, survival, and justice as fascism engulfs the world.

от Кен Фолет 2012 940 страници

4.39

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The House of Rothschild, Vol 1

от Niall Ferguson • 1998

Five brothers in a Frankfurt ghetto became Europe's bankers by moving news faster than governments.

3.88

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The House of Rothschild, Vol 1

Five brothers in a Frankfurt ghetto became Europe's bankers by moving news faster than governments.

от Niall Ferguson 1998 544 страници

3.88

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The Old Regime and the French Revolution

от Alexis de Tocqueville • 1856

The Revolution did not break with the past; it finished the centralization the monarchy built.

4.04

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The Old Regime and the French Revolution

The Revolution did not break with the past; it finished the centralization the monarchy built.

от Alexis de Tocqueville 1856 300 страници

4.04

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Bluebird

от Sharon Cameron • 2021

A survivor of Nazi mind control hunts the doctor who erased her past in 1946 New York.

4.32

11 000+

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Bluebird

A survivor of Nazi mind control hunts the doctor who erased her past in 1946 New York.

от Sharon Cameron 2021 438 страници

4.32

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On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo

от Friedrich Nietzsche • 1887

The weak invented morality to control the strong. Your conscience may still be their weapon.

4.17

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On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo

The weak invented morality to control the strong. Your conscience may still be their weapon.

от Friedrich Nietzsche 1887 367 страници

4.17

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И изгрява слънце

от Ърнест Хемингуей • 1926

A wounded journalist follows his love to Pamplona, where bullfights mirror their impossible desire.

3.79

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A wounded journalist follows his love to Pamplona, where bullfights mirror their impossible desire.

от Ърнест Хемингуей 1926 189 страници

3.79

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Modern Times

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Einstein and Freud dismantled the old moral universe. Into the void stepped the totalitarians.

4.29

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Einstein and Freud dismantled the old moral universe. Into the void stepped the totalitarians.

от Paul Johnson 1983 880 страници

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A Peace to End All Peace

от David Fromkin • 1989

The modern Middle East was drawn in European offices; a century of instability is the result.

4.22

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The modern Middle East was drawn in European offices; a century of instability is the result.

от David Fromkin 1989 635 страници

4.22

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от Джеймс Джойс • 1916

Stephen Dedalus is raised to fear hell, but poetry makes him feel something holier than prayer.

3.64

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Stephen Dedalus is raised to fear hell, but poetry makes him feel something holier than prayer.

от Джеймс Джойс 1916 329 страници

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