Скачать книгу (размер 2 447 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 481) Аннотация: In this perfect companion to London: The Biography, Peter Ackroyd once again delves into the hidden byways of history, describing the river's endless allure in a journey overflowing with characters, incidents, and wry observations. Thames: The Biography meanders gloriously, rather like the river itself. In short, lively chapters Ackroyd writes about connections between the Thames and such…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 324) Аннотация: This tale of two princesses — one beautiful and one unattractive — and of the struggle between sacred and profane love is Lewis's reworking of the myth of Cupid and Psyche and one of his most enduring works.
Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: A phenomenally phonetic ABC book, packed with more than enough jokes to keep children amused and plenty of extra words on each page to expand their vocabulary. A flap for each letter reveals surprises and even more words, and cheerful illustrations and bright colors add to learning fun. Colin Hawkins won a scholarship to art school at the age of thirteen. Jacqui Hawkins went to college in London,…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 002 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 786) Аннотация: A magisterial work of narrative history, hailed in Britain as the best one-volume account of the British Empire and an outstanding book (The Times Literary Supplement), After the American Revolution, the British Empire appeared to be doomed. But over the next 150 years it grew to become the greatest and most diverse empire the world has ever seen — ranging from Canada to Australia to China,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) enjoyed worldwide fame of a kind unmatched by that of any other writer in the first half of the twentieth century. Prodigiously gifted and prolific, riddled with contradictions, praised increasingly for political rather than literary reasons, he left a vast body of writing that contains acknowledged masterpieces alongside many currently neglected works that still await…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 073 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 800) Аннотация: Bestselling author Nicholson Baker, recognized as one of the most dexterous and talented writers in the US today, has created a compelling work of non-fiction bound to provoke discussion and controversy — a wide-ranging, astonishingly fresh perspective on the political and social landscape that gave rise to World War II. Human Smoke delivers a closely textured, deeply moving indictment of the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 008 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 199) Аннотация: In a hugely enjoyable read with gloriously corrosive prose, MJ Harper slashes and burns through the whole of accepted academic thought about the history of the English Language. According to Harper: 1. English does not derive from Anglo-Saxon. 2. French, Italian, and Spanish did not descend from Latin. 3. Middle English is a wholly imaginary language created by well-meaning by deluded academics.…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Vladimir Nabokov was hailed by Salman Rushdie as the most important writer ever to cross the boundary between one language and another. A Russian emigre who began writing in English after his forties, Nabokov was a trilingual author, equally competent in Russian, English, and French. A gifted and tireless translator, he bridged the gap between languages nimbly and joyously.Here, collected for the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Balram Halwai is the White Tiger — the smartest boy in his village. His family is too poor for him to afford for him to finish school and he has to work in a teashop, breaking coals and wiping tables. But Balram gets his break when a rich man hires him as a chauffeur, and takes him to live in Delhi. The city is a revelation. As he drives his master to shopping malls and call centres, Balram…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 330 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 262) Аннотация: An exhilarating exploration of how the world's languages are likely to transform and be transformed by their speakers Mark Abley, author of Spoken Here, takes the reader on a global journey like no other — from Singapore to Tokyo, from Oxford to Los Angeles, through the Internet and back in time. As much a travel book as a tour of words at play, The Prodigal Tongue goes beyond grammar and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 325 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 261) Аннотация: Two leading thinkers engage in a landmark conversation about human emotions and the pursuit of psychological fulfillment. At their first meeting, a remarkable bond was sparked between His Holiness the Dalai Lama, one of the world's most revered spiritual leaders, and the psychologist Paul Ekman, whose groundbreaking work helped to define the science of emotions. Now these two luminaries share…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 186 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 626) Аннотация: In her most eagerly anticipated novel yet, Elizabeth George brings back Scotland Yard's Thomas Lynley to investigate a ruthless crime. After the senseless murder of his wife, Detective Superintendent Thomas Lynley retreated to Cornwall, where he has spent six solitary weeks hiking the bleak and rugged coastline. But no matter how far he walks, no matter how exhausting his days, the painful…
Скачать книгу (размер 463 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 92) Аннотация: Many years ago, the storytellers say, the great King Arthur brought justice to England with the help of his gallant Knights of the Round Table. Of these worthy knights, there was never one so fearless, so chivalrous, so honorable, so... shiny, as the dashing Sir Lancelot, who was quite good at defending the helpless and protecting the weak, just as long as he'd had his afternoon nap. Behold the…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: This comprehensive, two-volume work presents the extraordinary panorama of Italian painting spanning the period from 1300 to 1610, including all the great masters and their most famous works. The first volume is devoted to the artists who dedicated themselves to lines and drawing, starting with famous fresco painters such as Giotto and Piero della Francesco and moving on to Botticelli, Perugino,…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: Eminent poet, translator, and scholar Burton Raffel — whose translation of «Beowulf» has sold more than a million copies — presents a pitch-perfect new translation of the lively, absorbing, and outrageously funny «Canterbury Tales», in a new, unabridged version that ensures none of Chaucer's wit or wisdom is lost.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 070 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 211) Аннотация: Righting the Mother Tongue tells the cockamamie story of English spelling. When did ghost acquire its silent 'h'? Will cyberspace kill the one in rhubarb? And was it really rocket scientists who invented spell-check? Seeking to untangle the twisted story of English spelling, David Wolman takes us on a wordly adventure from English battlefields to Google headquarters. Along the way, he pickets…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 391 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 274) Аннотация: »I think my father's rage at the trenches took me over, when I was very young, and has never left me», writes Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing in this combined novella and memoir exploring the lives of her parents, each irrevocably damaged by the Great War. In the fictional first half of Alfred and Emily, she imagines the happier lives her parents might have made for themselves had there been no…
Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: Feeling jealous over the attentions given his new baby sibling, a little fox runs away from home, in the first story in this treasury. In other stories, a bear can't get to sleep and keeps disturbing his friends; a hungry ginger cat goes looking for some milk; and a toddler asks his mother to tell him a story. This collection of four stories for prereaders is illustrated with Atsuko Morozumi's…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 324) Аннотация: This newest edition to the Best American Series — «A genuine salute to comics» (Houston Chronicle) — returns with a set of both established and up-and-coming contributors. Editor Lynda Barry and brand new series editors Jessica Abel and Matt Madden — acclaimed cartoonists in their own right — have sought out the best stories culled from graphic novels, pamphlet comics, newspapers, magazines,…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: The hilarious Christmas story of a dog who rids a young Santa of his slacker ways. It's Christmastime, and young Santa is doing a lot of sitting around. Every now and then he'll eat some fruitcake or watch TV, but the elves and Santa's dog, Rodney, do all the work. When Christmas Eve arrives and Santa falls asleep in the sleigh, Rodney takes charge. Soon, the determined dog has the North Pole…