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Скачать книгу (размер 2 202 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 433) Аннотация: In a sweeping and vivid survey, renowned historian Bernard Lewis charts the history of the Middle East over the last 2,000 years, from the birth of Christianity through the modern era, focusing on the successive transformations that have shaped it. Elegantly written, scholarly yet accessible, The Middle East is the most comprehensive single volume history of the region ever written from the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 467 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 289) Аннотация: In the grand manner of Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice's new novel moves across time and the continents, from nineteenth-century Vienna to a St. Charles Greek Revival mansion in present-day New Orleans to the dazzling capitals of the modern-day world, telling a story of two charismatic figures bound to each other by a passionate commitment to music as a means of rapture, seduction, and…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 340 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 264) Аннотация: F. Scott Fitzgerald's extraordinary career as a novelist ended abruptly and unhappily, but it began with one of the most brilliant first novels in the history of American literature. Published when its author was just twenty-three, This Side of Paradise is about the education of a youth, and to this universal story Fitzgerald brought the promise of everything that was new in the vigorous,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Africa belongs to the Africans; the sooner they take it back the better. But — a country also belongs to those who feel at home in it. Perhaps it may be that love of Africa the country will be strong enough to link people who hate each other now. Perhaps... Going Home is Doris Lessing's account of her first journey back to Africa, the land in which she grew up and in which so much of her emotion…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: The first encyclopedic illustrated guide to the world of Middle Earth and the Undying Lands, this book brings together every important aspect of Tolkien's vast cosmology. More than five hundred alphabetical entries cover five major subject areas: history, geography, sociology, natural history and biography. The maps, genealogies and time-charts, together with the illustrations of characters,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Introduction by Simon Franklin; Translation by Michael Glenny.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 187 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 234) Аннотация: This is the first novel in Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy, a three-part masterwork that was later expanded to a seven-part series. It won the Hugo Award for Best All-Time Novel Series — a special award created to recognize this central work of science fiction. The book describes a far future in which humanity numbers in the quadrillions, spread across millions of worlds, governed by the vast…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 794 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 353) Аннотация: In Anne Rice's new novel, the Vampire Lestat — outsider, canny monster, hero-wanderer — is at last offered the chance to be redeemed. He is brought into direct confrontation with both God and the Devil, and into the land of Death. We are in New York. The city is blanketed in snow. Through the whiteness Lestat is searching for Dora, the beautiful and charismatic daughter of a drug lord, the woman…

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: This boon to logophiles, culled from Buckley: The Right Word, presents the author's most erudite, outre, and interesting words — from prehensile and sciolist to rubric and histrionic — complete with definitions, examples, and usage notes. Introduction by Jesse Sheidlower; illustrations by Arnold Roth.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Murder is hardly the best way for Lord Peter and his bride, the famous mystery writer Harriet Vane, to start their honeymoon. It all begins when the former owner of their newly acquired estate is found quite nastily dead in the cellar. All too quickly, what Lord Peter had hoped would be a very private and romantic stay in the country has turned into a most baffling case, with a misspelled…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: These Previously uncollected stories and letters are essential to the understanding of Babel's life and works.

Скачать книгу (размер 820 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 162) Аннотация: Brilliant stories that show the growth of a novelist's mind, and the raw material that fed the wild surrealism of Bulgakov's later fiction. With the ink still wet on his diploma, the twenty-five-year-old Dr. Mikhail Bulgakov was flung into the depths of rural Russia which, in 1916-17, was still largely unaffected by such novelties as the motor car, the telephone or electric light. How his…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: An unconventional woman trapped in a conventional marriage, Martha Quest struggles to maintain her dignity and her sanity through the misunderstandings, frustrations, infidelities, and degrading violence of a failing marriage. Finally, she must make the heartbreaking choice of whether to sacrifice her child as she turns her back on marriage and security. A Proper Marriage is the second novel in…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Netsuke are small toggles or buckles carved from wood or ivory. The Japanese in the seventeenth century used them to fasten pouches to their kimono belt, since kimonos had no pockets. This lavishly illustrated book takes the reader on an exciting tour of one type of netsuke—those carved to look like the masks used by stage actors.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 166 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 426) Аннотация: Following the National Book Award–winning All the Pretty Horses, this second part of Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy is not a sequel but a parallel story, set in the boot heel of New Mexico, hard on the frontier. «Sixteen-year-old Billy Parham is obsessed with trapping a renegade wolf that has crossed the border from Mexico to raid his father's cattle ranch. By the time he finally succeeds,…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Meet Mr. Ash, quiet-spoken, tall, unfailingly kind — sole survivor of an ancient species, the Taltos — thriving among humankind as he has always done, now the head of a great corporate empire. As the novel opens, he is stunned to learn from an old and mysterious friend that another Taltos has been seen — in the very same Scottish glen where centuries ago, long before the coming of the Romans, Ash…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: This is Ernest Hemingway's lyrical journal of a month on safari in the great game country of East Africa, where he and his wife Pauline journeyed in December 1933. Hemingway's well-known interest in — and fascination with — big game hunting is magnificently captured in this evocative account of his trip. It is an examination of the lure of the hunt and an impassioned portrait of the glory of the…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: From the day her first Vampire Chronicle was published, critics and readers — readers by the hundreds of thousands — have been mesmerized by the writings of Anne Rice. And with the publication of The Witching Hour, she created for us yet another world and legend, and both the chorus of praise and the multitudes of her readers once more increased. Now, Anne Rice brings us again — even more…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: It's very easy to get a little disheartened when your planet has been blown up, the woman you love has vanished in a misunderstanding about the nature of space-time, the spaceship you are on crashes in flames on a remote and Bob-fearing planet and all you have to fall back on are a few simple sandwich-making skills. However, instead of being disheartened, Arthur Dent makes the terrible mistake of…

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Martha really does speak in this book and audio CD set, which features two readings — one with page-turn cues for reading along, and one without — by Kathy Najimy, who voices Martha's many, many comments about the world around her. It all begins when young Helen gives her lovable mutt Martha a bowl of alphabet soup, and the letters bypass the dog's stomach and go directly to her brain. Not only…