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London takes us back to the Pleistocene when we still lived in the trees. Written in the first-person, the story revolves around the vivid, interlocking dreams from childhood that involve racial memories and the knowledge of his prior existence as a man-like creature named Big Tooth.

At his death in 1994, Ralph Ellison left behind roughly 2000 pages of his unfinished second novel, which he had spent nearly four decades writing. Long awaited, it was to have been the work Ellison intended to follow his masterpiece, Invisible Man. Five years later, Random House published Juneteenth, drawn from the central narrative of Ellison’s unfinished epic. Three Days Before the Shooting... gathers together in one volume, for the first time, all the parts of that planned opus, including three major sequences never before published.

"Do Adama" (angl. Before Adam) — povest' amerikanskogo pisatelja Dzheka Londona. Vpervye opublikovana v zhurnale Everybody's Magazine v techenie 1906—1907 godov. Sjuzhet povesti osnovan na sushhestvovavshem v to vremja predstavlenii ob jevoljucii cheloveka. Al'ter-jego glavnogo geroja — podrostok plemeni peshhernyh ljudej. V proizvedenii takzhe prisutstvujut bolee razvitoe plemja ljudej ognja i menee razvitoe plemja drevesnyh ljudej, sablezubye koshki i Krasnoglazyj — zhestokij «atavizm», terrorizirujushhij plemja geroja.

Can you define your life by a single song? Adam Sharp - former pianist in a hip Melbourne bar, now a respectable IT consultant in Norwich - can. And it's 'You're Going to Lose That Girl'.... On the cusp of 50 and a happy introvert, Adam is content. He's the music expert at his local pub quiz, and he and his partner, Claire, rumble along. Life may not be rock n' roll, but neither is it easy listening. Yet something has always felt off-key.

Povest' populyarnogo amerikanskogo pisatelya Dzheka Londona "Do Adama" predstavlyaet soboy original'nye vospominaniya sovremennogo cheloveka o svoem doistoricheskom proshlom, kogda on nahodilsya na stadii perekhoda ot obez'yany k cheloveku. ZHizn' ehtogo strannogo dikogo sushchestva pokazana stol' potryasayushche yarko i hudozhestvenno dostoverno, chto ona ne mozhet ne vyzvat' interesa u ego dalekih potomkov.

My one night stand? He’s sitting behind the headmaster’s desk. We met at a truck stop. The chemistry was immediate, and we both do something out of character: one night, no explanations. The next day, I arrive at my new private school. Now I’m the off-limits forbidden temptation Sebastian Craig can’t forget, and we both try our best to behave. It works for a few weeks… until our secret cravings come tumbling out in the library after hours. How will we keep our private connection hidden until the end of the term?