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The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham (Unabridged audiobook)
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The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham (Unabridged audiobook)

It seems unthinkable that Charles Strickland, the dull, bourgeois city gent, would have the tortured soul of a genius. Yet Strickland is driven to abandon his home,wife,and children to devote himself slavishly to painting. In a tiny studio in Paris he fills canvas after canvas,refusing to sell or even exhibit his work. Beset by poverty,sickness,and his own intransigent nature,he drifts to Tahiti,where,even after being blinded by leprosy,he produces some of his most extraordinary works of art. First published in 1919 and inspired by the life of Paul Gauguin,The Moon and Sixpence is a study of a man possessed by the need to create - regardless of the cost to himself or others.
 

 
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Kevin J. Anderson
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Kevin J. Anderson
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
by Kevin J. Anderson
(Movie Novelization)

London, 1899. As the British Empire lies in mortal jeopardy, a top-secret initiative unites several of the most illustrious (and sometimes infamous) personages of the age: Allan Quartermain, famed explorer and adventurer; Captain Nemo, master of the undersea submersible Nautilus; Dr. Henry Jekyll, and his brutish alter ego, Mr. Hyde; Rodney Skinner, the Invisible Man; Dorian Gray, the ageless subject of a diabolical portrait; Mina Harker, surviving victim of the late Count Dracula; and a scrappy American secret agent named Tom Sawyer. Together, they form... LXG. When a criminal mastermind known only as ""The Fantom"" plots to hurl the world into war, the League must race across the globe to foil the masked madman's insidious scheme. But they may not have reckoned with the traitor in their midst...!

Кевин Дж. Андерсон - Лига выдающихся джентльменов (Новелизация фильма)

Викторианская Англия. Лига выдающихся джентльменов — это отряд супергероев под предводительством бесстрашного искателя приключений Алана Куотермейна. Под его началом оказались такие выдающиеся личности, как Капитан Немо, вампирша Мина Харкер, человек-невидимка Родни Скиннер, агент секретных служб США Том Сойер, Дориан Грей и доктор Джекил/мистер Хайд.
Члены Лиги — крайние индивидуалисты, изгои с разным прошлым и уникальными талантами, которые люди или проклинают или благославляют. Теперь они должны научиться доверять друг другу и работать в одной команде, чтобы спасти человечество. Им предстоит срочное задание: на «Наутилусе», подводной лодке Капитана Немо, переправиться в Италию, в Венецию, где некий безумец в маске по прозвищу Фантом планирует сорвать конференцию мировых лидеров, подорвав и затопив город.
Это преступление может обернутся катастрофой для всей планеты. Чтобы его предотвратить, в распоряжении у Лиги выдающихся джентльменов всего девять часов…

 
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League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - anthology
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League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - anthology

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Books
Volume 1
Being a Sampler of the Earlier Exploits of a Certain Gathering
of Incredible Individuals, to whit :
Miss Mina Harker, Allan Quatermain, Captain Nemo, Henry Jekyll
and Hawley Griffin, their unconscionable adversaries Professory Moriarty
and Dr. Fu-Manchu and their esteemed allies, C. Auguste Dupin,
Mycroft Holmes, Selwyn Cavor, Randolph Carter, John Carter, Lady Ragnall
and an unidentified Time Traveller.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_League_of_Extraordinary_Gentlemen
 
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