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Скачать книгу (размер 2 452 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 482) Аннотация: By the author of the hugely successful ‘The Thorn Birds’ It is a truth universally acknowledged that anyone who loved PRIDE AND PREJUDICE will want to know what happened to the Bennet sisters… Twenty years on, Jane has a happy marriage and large family; Lizzy and Mr Darcy now have a formidable social reputation; Lydia has a reputation of quite another kind; Kitty is much in demand in London’s…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 283 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 449) Аннотация: The bestselling author of «The Thorn Birds» breathes new life into the characters of Jane Austen's «Pride and Prejudice.» Jane and Elizabeth's younger, bookish sister Mary is still too willful to be confined within traditional marriage, so she embarks on an adventure of her own.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Passion, politics, love and death combine in a novel of the legendary love triangle between the three leaders of the Roman era: Cleopatra, Mark Antony and Octavian, from the bestselling author of The Thorn Birds Mark Antony, famous warrior and legendary lover, expected that he would be Julius Caesar's successor. But after Caesar's murder it was his 18-year old nephew, Octavian, who was named in…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: ‘Sometimes when he didn’t know he was being watched Meggie would look at him and try desperately to imprint his face upon her brain’s core... And he would turn to find her watching him, a look in his eyes of haunted grief, a doomed look. She understood the implicit message, or thought she did; he must go, back to the Church and his duties. Never again with the same spirit, perhaps, but more able…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Colleen McCullough, who crafts «fiction at its best» (Time), triumphs with a searing murder mystery packed with heartpounding twists inside the world of science. All the victims were pretty girls. When the remains of a young woman are found at a Connecticut neurological institute, Lieutenant Carmine Delmonico is called to investigate. It is only the first of a serial killer's grisly crimes,…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: The captivating new novel from the international bestselling author of ‘The Thorn Birds’. Innocence is no protection… In Holloman, Connecticut, someone is preying on the innocent. At a prestigious research centre fondly known by its staff as the 'Hug', parts of a mutilated body are found. Lieutenant Carmine Delmonico of the Holloman Police learns that a string of horrifying murders – each with…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: The bestselling author of THE THORN BIRDS returns with a novel of laughter, passion and more than a little magic … 1960, Sydney's Kings Cross. Harriet Purcell leaves her conventional, respectable home and respectable, passionless boyfriend and moves into a rooming house owned by Mrs. Delvecchio Schwartz. There, Harriet finds a life she relishes – excitement, adventure and passion. Mrs. Delvecchio…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: Returning to the magnificent setting of Australia's open frontiers, the #1 «New York Times» bestselling author weaves her most powerful novel since «The Thorn Birds» — a new saga of an Australian family that spans from the 1870s to the turn of the 20th century.

Скачать книгу (размер 5 461 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1072) Аннотация: In this great drama, Marius, the general who saved Rome from barbarian invasion and became consul an unprecedented six times, has fallen into decline. Sulla, his closest associate, has withdrawn himself from his commander's circle in preparation for his own bid for power. As a deadly enmity develops between the two men, Rome must fight its own battle for survival — first against her neighbouring…

Скачать книгу (размер 5 379 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1056) Аннотация: »Fortune's Favourites» witnesses the power, mastery and cunning of two enigmatic Rulers of Rome — Sulla, returning from exile, and the 22-year-old Pompey, who designates himself Magnus «The Great». And in the background is the young soldier, Caesar, who begins to show the expert qualities that will one day culminate in him becoming the unparalleled leader of ancient Rome. And at the heart of this…

Скачать книгу (размер 5 379 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1056) Аннотация: Here are the stories of Marius, wealthy but lowborn, and Sulla, penniless though aristocratic and debauched — men of vision whose ambitions will lay the foundations of the most awesome empire ever known. Great events and mortal frailties, a vast and vivid cast of unforgettable men and women, kings, commoners, lovers, soldiers and senators are woven effortlessly into a rich densely embroidered…

Скачать книгу (размер 4 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 872) Аннотация: »Caesar's Women» is the story of Gaius Julius Caesar's relentless rise to prominence, beginning with his return to Rome in 68BC. He comes prepared to dominate a new battlefield — the Roman Forum. But his victories are not limited to the Forum: he also conquers Rome's noble women. To Caesar, love is just another weapon in his political arsenal, and he is willing to sacrifice any woman on the altar…

Скачать книгу (размер 5 379 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1056) Аннотация: Rome's leaders are frightened: the brilliant, ruthless Gaius Julius Caesar must be crushed before he can overthrow the government and become dictator. This magnificent novel opens in Gaul, scene of Caesar's magnificent victory over fierce people. His conquest is in the name of Rome, but when the senate refuse to give Caesar his due he marches upon his own country, an army prepared to die for him…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: Caesar is in the prime of his life and the height of his powers as the novel opens. A man of contradictions, Caesar is happily married yet at the same time the lover of the enigmatic and subtle Egyptian ruler, Cleopatra. He is at once a great general who commands the instinctive loyalty of Rome's legions, and a man who wishes to bring to an end Rome's endless civil and external wars, a man not…

Скачать книгу (размер 4 645 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 912) Аннотация: It was one of the greatest human experiments ever undertaken: to populate an unknown land with the criminal, the unloved and the unwanted of English society. Amid conditions of brutality that paralleled those of slavery, 'The First Fleet' was sent to a place no European but the legendary Captain Cook had ever seen. Left to live or die on the hostile Australian continent, these convicts — and…