The Secret Meaning of Things has all the elements of his earlier poetry: lyrical intensity, wit, social concern, satirical bite, and above all a classical claritas.
Caspar David Friedrich & Johann Wolfgang von Goethe»Keine Ahnung von Mythologie und klassischen Regeln, doch Wolken malen kann dieser Friedrich«, ereifert sich Geheimrat von Goethe über den jungen, wilden Romantiker.
V sovetskoe vremja Kalitin rabotal v sekretnoj laboratorii, raspolagajuschejsja na otdalennom ostrove. Tam, v nedrakh mrachnykh podzemelij, vyrytykh pod massivnoj tsitadelju byvshego monastyrja,
Novyj roman Sergeja Lebedeva vosprinimaetsja kak prodolzhenie predyduschego ("Predel zabvenija"), khotja oni ne svjazany ni obschimi gerojami, ni edinoj sjuzhetnoj liniej.
They show him a list of names and ask a simple but impossible question. Minutes later he falls to his death from his twelfth-floor window - a fall which generates some unexpected attention.
Chicago, 1992. Un paziente si sveglia in una stanza d'ospedale e trova due sconosciute vicine al suo letto. Le donne gli sottopongono una lista di nomi e gli rivolgono una domanda semplice, ma a cui e impossibile dare una risposta.
And he's about to find a big one, on a deserted Arizona road, where a Jeep has crashed into the only tree for miles around. Under the merciless desert sun, nothing is as it seems.
Jack Reacher, adrift in the hellish heat of a Texas summer.Looking for a lift through the vast empty landscape. A woman stops, and offers a ride. She is young, rich and beautiful.
Jack 'No Middle Name' Reacher, lone wolf, knight errant, ex military cop, lover of women, scourge of the wicked and righter of wrongs, is the most iconic hero for our age.
When your name is Jack Reacher, the truth is always worth doing time for.Gerrardsville, Colorado. One tragic event. Two witnesses. Two conflicting accounts. One witness sees a woman throw herself in front of a bus - clearly suicide.
Gerrardsville, Colorado. One tragic event. Two witnesses. Two conflicting accounts. One witness sees a woman throw herself in front of a bus - clearly suicide.
The most hotly anticipated paperback thriller of the year follows our hero Jack Reacher on a quest into his father's past, and climaxes in the most blood-curdling ticking time bomb of an adventure yet.
From the world's number one thriller writer, twenty pulse-pounding short stories are collected for the first time in one edition, complete with an introduction from the author.