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    The Ocean at the End of the Lane
    Звездная пыль (Zvezdnaya pyl')
    Coraline
    Neverwhere
    Звездная пыль
    Зеленый рыцарь
    • Зеленый рыцарь

      • 384pages
      • 14 heures de lecture

      Сборник "Зеленый рыцарь" удостоен награды World Fantasy Award (2003) как лучшая антология. Мы попросили авторов отправиться в Зачарованный лес и вернуться оттуда с историями об этих диких землях и существах, их населяющих. Вы встретите здесь ведьм, волков, дриад, людей-оленей, парочку фей и бесчисленное множество духов природы (включая даже дружелюбного зеленого великана). Таинственная извилистая тропинка ведет в волшебные земли через леса, пустыни, горы, города и трущобы. Над головами шепчутся кроны дубов и ясеней, а из теней наблюдают за каждым шагом зеленые существа.

      Зеленый рыцарь
      5,0
    • Une rue de Londres, un soir comme un autre. La jeune fille gît devant lui sur le trottoir, face contre terre, l'épaule ensanglantée. Richard la prend dans ses bras, elle est d'une légèreté surprenante. Et quand elle le supplie de ne pas l'emmener à l'hôpital, il a le sentiment de ne plus être maître de sa volonté. Dès le lendemain, elle disparaît et, pour Richard, tout dérape : sa fiancée le quitte, on ne le connaît plus au bureau, certains, même, ne la voient plus... Le monde à l'envers, en quelques sorte. Car il semblerait que Londres ait un envers, la " ville d'En Bas ", cité souterraine où vit un peuple d'une autre époque, invisible aux yeux du commun des mortels. Un peuple organisé, hiérarchisé, et à la tête duquel les rats jouent un rôle prépondérant. Plus rien ne le retenant " là©haut ", Richard rejoint les profondeurs. Fable fantastique ou roman de fantasy contemporain, Neverwhere est inclassable, surprenant, original. Plein d'idées, de rebondissements, de clins d'oeil référentiels et de personnages iconoclastes.

      Neverwhere
      4,2
    • Coraline

      • 144pages
      • 6 heures de lecture

      The day after they moved in, Coraline went exploring.... In Coraline's family's new flat are twenty-one windows and fourteen doors. Thirteen of the doors open and close. The fourteenth is locked, and on the other side is only a brick wall, until the day Coraline unlocks the door to find a passage to another flat in another house just like her own. Only it's different. At first, things seem marvelous in the other flat. The food is better. The toy box is filled with wind-up angels that flutter around the bedroom, books whose pictures writhe and crawl and shimmer, little dinosaur skulls that chatter their teeth. But there's another mother, and another father, and they want Coraline to stay with them and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go. Other children are trapped there as well, lost souls behind the mirrors. Coraline is their only hope of rescue. She will have to fight with all her wits and all the tools she can find if she is to save the lost children, her ordinary life, and herself. Critically acclaimed and award-winning author Neil Gaiman will delight readers with his first novel for all ages.

      Coraline
      4,2
    • Юноша по имени Тристран отправляется на поиски упавшей с неба звезды для своей возлюбленной. Только он и не подозревает, что эта звезда - молодая девушка с весьма дерзким характером. И становиться подарком для другой она не собирается. Вместе с нашим героем они оказываются в водовороте приключений, в мире, полном самых удивительных созданий. Эта сказка для взрослых стала бестселлером и вдохновила режиссера Мэттью Вона на создание одноименного фильма с участием Роберта Де Ниро, Мишел Пфайффер и Клэр Дэйнс.

      Звездная пыль (Zvezdnaya pyl')
      4,0
    • The Ocean at the End of the Lane

      • 255pages
      • 9 heures de lecture

      WINNER OF THE SPECSAVERS NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS 2013 BOOK OF THE YEAR Dive into a magical novel of memory and the adventure of childhood, from one of the brightest, most brilliant writers of our generation. It began for our narrator forty years ago when the family lodger stole their car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed. Dark creatures from beyond the world are on the loose, and it will take everything our narrator has just to stay alive: there is primal horror here, and menace unleashed - within his family and from the forces that have gathered to destroy it. His only defense is three women, on a farm at the end of the lane. The youngest of them claims that her duckpond is an ocean. The oldest can remember the Big Bang. THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE is a fable that reshapes modern fantasy: moving, terrifying and elegiac - as pure as a dream, as delicate as a butterfly's wing, as dangerous as a knife in the dark.

      The Ocean at the End of the Lane
      4,0
    • The sleeper and the spindle

      • 69pages
      • 3 heures de lecture

      On the eve of her wedding, a young queen sets out to rescue a princess from an enchantment. She casts aside her fine wedding clothes, takes her chain mail and her sword and follows her brave dwarf retainers into the tunnels under the mountain towards the sleeping kingdom. This queen will decide her own future - and the princess who needs rescuing is not quite what she seems.

      The sleeper and the spindle
      3,9