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Author
Language
English
Description
A chance encounter with a handsome banker in a jazz bar on New Year's Eve 1938 catapults Wall Street secretary Katey Kontent into the upper echelons of New York society, where she befriends a shy multi-millionaire, an Upper East Side ne'er-do-well, and a single-minded widow.
Author
Publisher
Eksmo
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Russian
Description
"Posledni�i vecher 1937 goda. K�eti Kontent vmeste so svoe�i podrugo�i Iv poseshcha�i�ut vtorosortny�i dzhaz-bar Grinvich-Villidzh, chtoby otprazdnovat� kanun Novogo goda. Poka devushki pyta�i�uts�i�a razdelit� ostavshies�i�a u nikh tri dollara, sosedni�i stolik zanimaet oba�i�atel�ny�i molodo�i bankir. Tinker Gre�i, tak ego im�i�a, ugoshchaet podrug kokte�ilem i zavodit svetski�i, ni k chemu ne...
4) Your high school English cheat sheet: 4 movies.Beowulf ; The great Gatsby ; Catch-22 ; Into the wild
Publisher
Binge Box
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Catch-22: Yossarian, a reluctant bombadier stationed in the Mediterranean in World War II, has come to the utterly sane conclusion that everyone is trying to kill him. The Germans, yes, but also commanding officers supposedly on his own side like Col. Cathcart, who keeps raising the number of missions his flyers must perform to finish their tours. Everybody seems equally dead-set on his destruction, and Yossarian is just as determined to stay alive....
Publisher
Warner Bros. Pictures
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The Great Gatsby follows viable writer Nick Carraway as he leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922. Chasing his own American dream, Nick lands next door to Jay Gatsby, and across the bay from his cousin, Daisy, and her husband, Tom Buchanan. Nick is drawn into the captivating world of the rich and their loves and deceits. As he bears witness, he pens a tale of impossible love, incorruptible dreams, and tragedy, and holds...
Series
Criterion collection volume 913
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"No filmmaker captures the grandeur and energy of New York like Martin Scorsese. With this sumptuous romance, he meticulously adapted the work of another great New York artist, Edith Wharton, bringing to life her tragic novel set in the cloistered world of Gilded Age Manhattan. The Age of Innocence tells the story of Newland Archer(Daniel Day-Lewis), whoses engagement to an innocent socialite (Winona Ryder) binds him to the codes and rituals of his...
Publisher
Binge Box
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Beowulf: In the age of heroes comes the mightiest warrior of them all, Beowulf. After destroying the overpowering demon Grendel, he incurs the undying wrath of the beast's ruthlessly seductive mother, who will use any means possible to ensure revenge. The ensuing epic battle resonates throughout the ages.
The lovely bones: When 14-year-old Susie Salmon was murdered, she left her unfinished life behind. Now from her place in a strange but beautiful...
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