Книга: Vonnegut Kurt «Bluebeard»
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Серия: "-" An old man recounts his past to a voluptuous widow, revealing mans compulsion to create and destroy what he loves... Broad humor and bitter irony collide in this fictional biography of aging artist Rabo Karabekian - first introduced in Breakfast of Champions who wants only to be left alone at his Long Island estate with the secret he has locked in his potato barn. Издательство: "Random House, Inc." (1998)
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Vonnegut, Kurt
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Bluebeard — is the title character in a famous fairy tale about a violent nobleman and his curious wife. It appeared in Charles Perrault s Les Contes de ma Mère l Oye , first published in 1697.ynopsisBluebeard was a wealthy aristocrat, feared because of his… … Wikipedia
Bluebeard — Blue beard, n. The hero of a medi[ae]val French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. Also used adjectively of a… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Bluebeard — [blo͞o′bird΄] n. a character in an old folk tale who married and then murdered one wife after another … English World dictionary
Bluebeard — The eponym Bluebeard, a noun meaning a man who successively marries and murders several wives is the main character in Charles Perrault s story Barbe Bleue, published in Contes du Temps (1697). The adjective bluebeard means not to enter or be… … Dictionary of eponyms
Bluebeard — Bluebeardism, n. /blooh beard /, n. 1. a fairy tale character whose seventh wife found the bodies of her predecessors in a room she had been forbidden to enter. 2. any man alleged to have murdered a number of his wives or other women. * * * or… … Universalium
bluebeard — noun Usage: often capitalized Etymology: Bluebeard, a fairy tale character Date: 1822 a man who marries and kills one wife after another … New Collegiate Dictionary
