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Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Chestertonians and other readers will rejoice in the republication of this long-unavailable book of delights. Featuring the author's early work as well as previously unpublished material, this volume abounds in fairy stories, comic verses, and satirical ballads. Best of all, it features a treasury of Chesterton's distinctive colour and black-and-white illustrations. This is a reprint of the Sheed…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Ranging from the 10th to the 20th centuries, these ghostly tales mix the eerie, the terrifying, and the madly comic. Enhanced by the author's 30 illustrations of Irish homes and castles, 22 short stories feature The headless Rider of Castle Sheela, Mrs O'Moyne and the Fatal Slap, The Harpies of The Ghostly Catch, and more. This book is a reprint of the Creative Age, New York, 1947 edition.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: A new tie-in edition of one of Agatha Christie's most well-loved Marple mysteries, published to coincide with major ITV series starring Julia McKenzie as Miss Marple. Miss Marple senses danger when she visits a friend living in a Victorian mansion which doubles as a rehabilitiation centre for delinquents. Her fears are confirmed when a youth fires a revolver at the administrator, Lewis Serrocold.…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: A new tie-in edition of one of Agatha Christie's most well-loved Marple mysteries, published to coincide with major ITV series starring Julia McKenzie as Miss Marple. Rex Fortescue, king of a financial empire, was sipping tea in his 'counting house' when he suffered an agonising and sudden death. On later inspection, the pockets of the deceased were found to contain traces of cereals. Yet, it was…

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: The quintessential Jazz Age writer, Fitzgerald masterfully portrayed the manners and morals of the wealthy and glamorous during the Roaring Twenties. This anthology includes 6 of his most popular stories: The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, the title tale, The Offshore Pirate, The Ice Palace, The Jelly Bean, and May Day. This is a dover original selection from Flappers and Philosophers and Tales of…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Doherty's inspired retellings of some of the best-loved stories of all time come alive thanks to Ray's rich and vividly detailed illustrations. This gorgeous collection of offers a diversity of fairy tale worlds sure to engage readers of all ages.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 875 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 369) Аннотация: From the acclaimed author of The Whiskey Rebels and A Conspiracy of Paper comes a superb new historical thriller set in the splendor and squalor of eighteenth-century London. In Benjamin Weaver, David Liss has created one of fiction's most enthralling characters. The year is 1722. Ruffian for hire, ex-boxer, and master of disguise, Weaver finds himself caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse,…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 400 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 668) Аннотация: An authoritative collection of military histories from one of the foremost authors on the subject, Stephen E. Ambrose, historical consultant on Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan. Each title include a full index and list of sources.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: A dramatic, detailed, and essential narrative account of the 1938 Munich appeasement crisis. Modern history writing at its best.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: »The return of Nic Costa is a true cause for celebration! A literate, page-turning tale that finds our hero — one of the most appealing in crime fiction — zipping between two of the most iconic cities in the world: Rome and San Francisco — Jeffery Deaver, «New York Times» — bestselling author».

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Meri is newly married, pregnant, and standing on the cusp of her life as a wife and mother, recognizing with some terror the gap between reality and expectation. Delia — wife of the two-term liberal senator Tom Naughton — is Meri's new neighbor in the adjacent New England town house. Tom's chronic infidelity has been an open secret in Washington circles, but despite the complexity of their…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: In certain uncanny ways this wonderful, compelling novel prefigures Suite Francaise and rehearses some of the themes of her big unfinished sequence of novels. Nemirovsky must have down put her pen in 1940 and picked it straight up again to embark on Suite Francaise...This novel, though is finished, and exquisitely so — first published in France in 1947. It tells the story of two intertwined but…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 600 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 315) Аннотация: Infamous for his politics and his scandalous sex life, Charlie Chaplin was a much more complex and contradictory character than has hitherto been known. Weissman casts a whole new light both on the screen legend and on the turbulent era through which he lived. 16-page b&w photo insert.

Скачать книгу (размер 534 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 106) Аннотация: Since his death in 1967, Ernesto Che Guevara has become a universally known revolutionary icon and political figure whose image is among the most recognizable in the world. This dramatic and extensively researched book breathes new life into his story, portraying his struggle through the medium of the underground political comic — one of the most prominent countercultural art forms since the…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: This fascinating book by one of Britain's most acclaimed Shakespeare scholars explores the extraordinary staying-power of the world's most famous dramatist. Bate opens by taking up questions of authorship and then goes on to trace Shakespeare's canonization and near-deification, examining not only the uniqueness of his status among English-speaking readers but also his effect on literary cultures…

Скачать книгу (размер 5 246 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1030) Аннотация: This one-volume biography of Adolf Hitler distills Ian Kershaw's stunning two-volume study Hitler: 1889-1936: Hubris and Hitler: 1936–1945: Nemesis. From Hitler's origins as a failed artist in fin-de-siècle Vienna to the terrifying last days in his Berlin bunker, Kershaw's biography is a mesmerizing portrait of how Hitler attained, exercised, and retained power. Drawing on previously…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: The Victorian era has dominated the popular imagination like no other period, but the familiarity with later 19th-century stories and history tends to give us a distorted view. Using character portraits and key events, Paterson brings the world of Victorian Britain alive, from the lifestyles of the aristocrats to the depths of the London slums.

Скачать книгу (размер 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 28) Аннотация: Mr. Pusskins is back And this time he's got company... Mr. Pusskins was perfectly happy. That is, until Emily decided to bring home a surprise. A surprise named Little Whiskers. Mr. Pusskins does not want a kitten around. He does not want to play lovely games with that kitten. But, little does Mr. Pusskins know, this pesky pussycat doesn't want to play lovely games either...

Скачать книгу (размер 65 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 14) Аннотация: Get up close and personal with some of the world's most terrifying and dangerous predators Amazing 3-D pop-ups swing off the page, bringing to life spiders, polar bears, crocodiles, and more Filled with interesting facts and vibrant artwork, Predators takes readers on an interactive and imaginative journey into the wild This paper-over-board book has innovative, swinging pop-ups. Packaged in a…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Following on from his epic 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow, bestselling author Adam Zamoyski has written the dramatic story of the Congress of Vienna. In the wake of his disastrous Russian campaign of 1812, Napoleon's imperious grip on Europe began to weaken, raising the question of how the Continent was to be reconstructed after his defeat. There were many who dreamed of a peace to end…