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Прошло более четверти века с той эпохи, что описал Джордж Оруэлл в своем романе «Тысяча девятьсот восемьдесят четвертый». Пали казавшиеся незыблемые империи, эпоха Большого Брата ушла в прошлое. Или еще не ушла? Уин Спенсер трудится теперь в Министерстве правдивой информации, что расположено в здании бывшего Министерства Правды, и занимается тем, что пишет нужные комментарии в Сети. Это днем. А ночью – у него своя жизнь, ведь только за стенами Министерства он может быть самим собой и говорить, и писать все, что думает. Роман издавался в журнальном варианте в журнале “XXI век Полдень” в 2017 году, получил Премию имени Гоголя в номинации «Вий» и премию журнала Полдень. Сейчас предлагается полный текст
Краткое содержание книги: Как сохранить здравый ум. Филиппа Перри
Этот текст – сокращенная версия книги Филиппы Перри «Как сохранить здравый ум». Только самые ценные мысли, идеи, кейсы, примеры. «Как сохранить здравый ум» Филиппы Перри – книга о четырех столпах психического здоровья, к которым Перри относит навык самонаблюдения, доверительные отношения с близкими, способность постоянно воспринимать новое и учиться и умение менять свои жизненные устои, если они препятствуют душевному равновесию. Перри рассказывает, как научиться понимать свои эмоции и контролировать их, как следить за мыслями и избавляться от деструктивных, почему мозгу полезно заниматься новыми и сложными делами. Психотерапевт объясняет, почему хорошие отношения с важными для нас людьми важны для психического здоровья, и предлагает инструменты, чтобы такие отношения сохранять и культивировать. Зачем читать • Помочь себе поддерживать душевное равновесие. • Научиться осознавать и контролировать свои эмоции и мысли. • Узнать о пользе стресса для здоровья и стать оптимистом. Об авторе Филиппа Перри – британский психотерапевт и автор статей на темы психологии для журналов The Guardian, The Observer, Time Out, Healthy Living and Psychologies Magazine. Помимо книги «Как сохранить здравый ум», Перри написала еще две – о психологии воспитания детей и о работе психотерапевта.
Краткое содержание книги: Компания одного человека. Почему не обязательно расширять бизнес. Пол Джарвис
Этот текст – сокращенная версия книги Пола Джарвиса «Компания одного человека. Почему не обязательно расширять бизнес». Только самые ценные мысли, идеи, кейсы, примеры. О книге Не умеющий писать резюме, но построивший успешную компанию одного человека веб-дизайнер Пол Джарвис приводит в своей книге результаты исследований, примеры из жизни и личного опыта. Все для того, чтобы доказать: для достижения благополучия не обязательно расширять бизнес. Прочитайте саммари, чтобы создать собственную компанию с нуля (даже не имея денег), развивать ее и увеличивать прибыль, а также использовать основные принципы компании одного в работе корпорации. Зачем читать • Убедиться в том, что для увеличения прибыли не нужно нанимать много сотрудников и брать в аренду помещения. • Применять подход, позволяющий бизнесу процветать даже при взрыве очередного экономического пузыря. • Создать компанию одного даже без денег. Об авторе Пол Джарвис – веб-дизайнер из Канады, автор онлайн-курсов и нескольких книг. Он ни разу не составлял резюме, зато создал компанию, в которой работает на себя уже почти 20 лет. Сейчас клиенты записываются к нему в очередь за 4–5 месяцев до начала курсов. Среди клиентов Пола – Yahoo, Mercedes-Benz, Microsoft и Шакил О’Нил.
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
The Death of Ivan Ilyich – first published in 1886, is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, considered one of the masterpieces of his late fiction, written shortly after his religious conversion of the late 1870s. "Usually classed among the best examples of the novella", The Death of Ivan Ilyich tells the story of a high-court judge in 19th-century Russia and his sufferings and death from a terminal illness. Ivan Ilyich (Ilyich is a patronymic, his surname is Golovin) is a highly regarded official of the Court of Justice, described by Tolstoy as, «neither as cold and formal as his elder brother nor as wild as the younger, but was a happy mean between them—an intelligent, polished, lively, and agreeable man.» As the story progresses, he becomes more and more introspective and emotional as he ponders the reason for his agonizing illness and death.
God Sees the Truth, But Waits
"God Sees the Truth, But Waits" is a short story by Russian author Leo Tolstoy first published in 1872. The story, about a man sent to prison for a murder he didn't commit, takes the form of a parable of forgiveness. English translations were also published under titles «The Confessed Crime» and «Exiled to Siberia». The concept of the story of a man wrongfully accused of murder and banished to Siberia also appears in one of Tolstoy's previous works, War and Peace, during a philosophical discussion between two characters who relate the story and argue how the protagonist of their story deals with injustice and fate. Ivan Dmitrich Aksionov is a merchant living in Vladimir, a town in Russia. Although Aksionov is prone to drinking, he is not violent, and he is responsible and well liked by people that know him. One day he decides to go to a fair as a business venture, but his wife pleads for him not to go because of a nightmare she had the previous night in which he had greyed hair. Aksionov disregards his wife's dream and leaves for the fair… Famous works of the author Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace, Anna Karenina, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, The Kingdom of God Is Within You, Resurrection.
A Russian Christmas Party
A Russian Christmas Party by Leo Tolstoy is about a generous family on the brink of ruin whose mother pins their hopes for restoring their fortune on their son, Nicolas' marriage to a wealthy bride. Nicolas isn't cooperating, for he loves a poor girl named Sonia. Alas! How will they see it through? The Christmas stories of the famous authors: Gilbert Keith Chesterton – A Christmas Carol, Lucy Maud Montgomery – A Christmas Inspiration, A Christmas Mistake, Christmas at Red Butte, Lyman Frank Baum -A Kidnapped Santa Claus, Mark Twain – A Letter from Santa Claus, Louisa May Alcott – A Merry Christmas, Leo Tolstoy – A Russian Christmas Party, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – Christmas Bells, Nikolai Gogol – Christmas Eve, William Dean Howells – Christmas Everyday, Joseph Rudyard Kipling – Christmas in India, Lyman Frank Baum – Little Bun Rabbit, Elizabeth Harrison – Little Gretchen and the Wooden Shoe, John Milton – On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity, Charles Dickens – The Chimes, Nathaniel Hawthorne -The Christmas Banquet, Hans Christian Andersen – The Fir Tree, Selma Lagerlöf – The Holy Night, Hans Christian Andersen – The Little Match Girl, Clement Moore – The Night Before Christmas, Henry van Dyke – The Other Wise Man, William Dean Howells – The Pony Engine and the Pacific Express, Beatrix Potter – The Tailor of Gloucester, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – The Three Kings, Anton Chehov – Vanka.
A Letter to a Hindu
In «A Letter to a Hindu», Tolstoy argued that only through the principle of love could the Indian people free themselves from colonial British rule. These ideas ultimately proved to be successful in 1947 in the culmination of the Indian Independence Movement. In 1908, Indian revolutionary Taraknath was wrote to Leo Tolstoy, by then one of the most famous public figures in the world, asking for the author’s support in India’s independence from British colonial rule. On December 14, Tolstoy, who had spent the last twenty years seeking the answers to life’s greatest moral questions, was moved to reply in a long letter, which was published in the Indian newspaper Free Hindustan. Passed from hand to hand, the missive finally made its way to the young Mahatma Gandhi, whose career as a peace leader was just beginning in South Africa. He wrote to Tolstoy asking for permission to republish it in his own South African newspaper, Indian Opinion. Tolstoy’s letter was later published in English under the title A Letter to a Hindu.
Tao Te Ching
The Tao Te Ching is a Taoist philosophical treatise. Lao Tzu, a great Ancient Chinese philosopher and teacher, is considered to be the author of this book. We owe this book to an unnamed guardian who kept safe the far western borders of a country, Zhou in the fifth century BC. The legend says that exhausted from misunderstanding Teacher with a tired heart went on his last journey – to die in a dessert. The guardian recognized great Lao Tzu, called him by name and, nobody knows how, persuaded the wise man to tell a world about Dao and De. “When you said Dao, you said nothing”, the teacher replied. And you were wrong: five thousand words, that contains this book, have been existing for two and a half thousand years…
The Wind in the Willows
The Wind in the Willows is a children's novel by Scottish novelist Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Alternately slow-moving and fast-paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animals (Mole, Rat (a European water vole), Toad, and Badger) in a pastoral version of Edwardian England. The novel is notable for its mixture of mysticism, adventure, morality, and camaraderie, and celebrated for its evocation of the nature of the Thames Valley. In 1908, Grahame retired from his position as secretary of the Bank of England. He moved back to Berkshire, where he had lived as a child, and spent his time by the River Thames, doing much as the animal characters in his book do – to quote, «simply messing about in boats» – and expanding the bedtime stories he had earlier told his son Alastair into a manuscript for the book. The novel was in its 31st printing when playwright A. A. Milne adapted part of it for the stage as Toad of Toad Hall in 1929. In 1949, the first film adaptation was produced by Walt Disney as one of two segments in the package film The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad. Famous works of the author Kenneth Grahame: Pagan Papers, The Golden Age, Dream Days, including «The Reluctant Dragon», The Headswoman, The Wind in the Willows.
The Reluctant Dragon
"The Reluctant Dragon" is an 1898 children's story by Kenneth Grahame, originally published as a chapter in his book Dream Days. It is Grahame's most famous short story, arguably better known than Dream Days itself or the related The Golden Age. It can be seen as a prototype to most modern stories in which the dragon is a sympathetic character rather than a threat. The story takes place in the Berkshire Downs in Oxfordshire (where the author lived and where, according to legend, St. George did fight a dragon). In Grahame's story, a young boy discovers an erudite, poetry-loving dragon living in the Downs above his home. The two become friends, but soon afterwards the dragon is discovered by the townsfolk, who send for St George to rid them of it. The boy introduces St George to the dragon, and the two decide that it would be better for them not to fight. Eventually, they decide to stage a fake joust between the two combatants. As the two have planned, St George harmlessly spears the dragon through a shallow fold of skin suggested by the dragon, and the townsfolk rejoice (though not all of them, as some had placed bets on the dragon winning). St George then proclaims that the dragon is reformed in character, and he assures the townsfolk that the dragon is not dangerous. So the dragon is then accepted by the people. Famous works of the author Kenneth Grahame: Pagan Papers, The Golden Age, Dream Days, including «The Reluctant Dragon», The Headswoman, The Wind in the Willows.