A Walk to Remember is a novel by American writer Nicholas Sparks, released in October 1999. The novel, set in the mid-1950s in Beaufort, North Carolina, is a story of two teenagers who fall in love with each other despite the disparity of their personalities. A Walk to Remember is adapted in the film of the same name.

Description: Die kryptographische Abteilung des US-Geheimdienstes NSA verfügt über einen geheimen Super-Computer, der in der Lage ist, innerhalb kürzester Zeit jeden Code (und somit jede verschlüsselte Botschaft) zu knacken. Der Rechner kommt zum Einsatz, wenn Terroristen, Drogenhändler und andere Kriminelle ihre Pläne mittels codierter Texte verschleiern und die Sicherheit der USA auf dem Spiel steht. In der Vergangenheit konnten die Kryptographen täglich hunderte von Codes knacken bis zu dem Tage, als Diabolus zum Einsatz kommt: Ein mysteriöses Programm, das den Super-Rechner offenbar überfordert. Der Entwickler des Programms droht, Diabolus der Öffentlichkeit zugänglich zu machen. Würde dieses Programm zum Verschlüsselungs-Standard werden, wäre der erfolgreichen Verbrechensbekämpfung der NSA über Nacht die Basis
entzogen. Die Mitarbeiter des Geheimdienstes setzen alle Hebel in Bewegung, das drohende Desaster zu verhindern amerikanischer Originaltitel: Digital Fortress

Description: Set at a small, affluent liberal-arts college in New England at the height of the Reagan eighties, The Rules of Attraction is a startlingly funny, kaleidoscopic novel about three students with no plans for the future?or even the present?who become entangled in a curious romantic triangle. Bret Easton Ellis trains his incisive gaze on the kids at self-consciously bohemian Camden College and treats their sexual posturing and agonies with a mixture of acrid hilarity and compassion while exposing the moral vacuum at the center of their lives.

Lauren changes boyfriends every time she changes majors and still pines for Victor, who split for Europe months ago, and she might or might not be writing anonymous love letters to ambivalent, hard-drinking Sean, a hopeless romantic who only has eyes for Lauren, even if he ends up in bed with half the campus and with Paul, Lauren's ex, who is forthrightly bisexual and whose passion masks a shrewd pragmatism. They waste time getting wasted and race from Thirsty Thursday Happy Hours to Dressed to Get Screwed parties to drinks at the End of the World. The Rules of Attraction is a poignant, hilarious take on the death of romance.

Description: A treasure-chest of the written and spoken word, this collection is read by brilliant actors who make this audio anthology a genuine treat for the listener. Includes: "Reginald on House Parties" by Saki, read by Nigel Hawthorne; "The Sphinx Without a Secret" by Oscar Wilde, read by Martin Jarvis; "Tobermory" by Saki, read by Barbara Leigh-Hunt; "On Being Idle" by Jerome K. Jerome, read by Hugh Laurie; "For Better or Worse" by W.W. Jacobs, read by Joanna David; "The Model Millionaire" by Oscar Wilde, read by T.P. McKenna; "The Garden of Truth" by E. Nesbit, read by Harriet Walker; "The Cat That Walked by Himself" by Rudyard Kipling, read by Liza Goddard; "The Girl from Arles" by Alphonse Daudet, read by Stephen Fry; "Mr. & Mrs. Dove" by Katherine Mansfield, read by Rosalind Ayres; "Georgie Porgie" by Rudyard Kipling, read by Edward Fox; "Caterpillars" by E.F. Benson, read by Patrick Malahide; "Lost Hearts" by M.R. James, read by Richard Pasco; "Ship to Tarshish" by John Buchan, read by Iain Cuthbertson; "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe, read by Richard Pasco; "The Man of the Night" by Edgar Wallace, read by Robin Bailey; "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, read by Nicky Henson; "B 24" by Arthur Conan Doyle, read by Brian Cox; "Pat Hobby & Orson Welles" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, read by Kerry Shale; "Mad" by Guy de Maupassant, read by Derek Jacobi; "The Black Cat" by Edgar Allan Poe, read by Richard Griffiths; and "The Monkey's Paw" by W.W. Jacobs, read by Patrick Malahide.

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Франсуа Рабле - один из величайших сатириков мировой литературы, крупнейший писатель французского Возрождения.
"Гаргантюа и Пантагрюэль" - самый известный роман, который Рабле писал в течение 20 лет. Роман состоит из пяти книг, описывающих деяния и невероятные приключения двух королей-великанов, Гаргантюа и Пантагрюэля, которых Рабле нарисовал как идеальных правителей, мудрых и миролюбивых, озабоченных благоденствием подданных.
Здоровый и сочный юмор романа, сила и своеобразие художественных приемов обеспечили ему одно из первых мест в мировой сатирической литературе.

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Аристотель - величайший древнегреческий философ, ученик Платона и учитель Александра Македонского.
В "Риторике" Аристотель заложил фундамент классической риторической системы, которая на протяжении почти двух с половиной тысяч лет принимается в качестве образца для обучения искусству публичной речи.