Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: On 22 June 1941 The Germans launched their long-expected invasion of the Soviet Union. Codenamed Operation Barbarossa, after the famous 12th century crusading emperor, what followed was perhaps the greatest clash of arms the world has ever witnessed. With the aid of specially commissioned maps, Barbarossa: The First 7 Days describes the dramatic history of the first week of the invasion of the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Here are eight decades of holiday cheer — plus the occasional comical coal in the stocking — in this collection of The New Yorker's best seasonal stories, poems, commentary, and memoirs, illuminated with color reproductions of Christmas-themed covers and, of course, a healthy smattering of cartoons from all eras. Here are such classics as John Cheever's 1949 story «Christmas Is a Sad Season for…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Paul Kemp has moved from New York to the steamy heat of Puerto Rico to work at the Daily News. He starts hanging out at Al's Backyard, a local den selling booze and hamburgers to vagrant journalists who are mostly crazy drunks on the verge of quitting. Then he meets Yeamon, whose delectable girlfriend has Kemp stewing in his own lust. But the idle tension that builds up in places where men sweat…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: This book reprints a four-hour conversation between Mr. Schickel and Mr. Allen and includes a long essay of introduction by Mr. Schickel, which places Woody Allen's entire career in critical perspective, as well as a complete filmography. Readers will find Mr. Allen's reflections on his major preoccupations — the battle of the sexes; the conflict between reality and fantasy in his major films;…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: Twain's two most famous creations, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, are reunited for a high-spirited and engaging tale of mystery and murder in deepest Arkansas. When Tom and Huck are invited to stay on Tom's uncle's farm in Arkansas, they jump at the opportunity to escape the tedium of a long winter at home. A chance encounter on a steamboat downriver, though, leads to a complex plot of diamond…
Скачать книгу (размер 626 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 124) Аннотация: WILHELM HAUFF was a story-teller in the great European mythic tradition. His short stories, peopled with a vivid assortment of dwarves, evil witches, enchanted swans, and devious princes, owe a clear debt to the Brothers Grimm. But rather than rehashing old tales, Hauff created a realm far more exotic than the Grimm's Black Forest, a place where the morals are less than clear-cut and where…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 778 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 546) Аннотация: A dazzling novel in the most untraditional fashion, this is the remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate love affair endures across a sea of time and captures the two lovers in an impossibly romantic trap, and it is Audrey…
Скачать книгу (размер 146 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 30) Аннотация: This assortment offers 30 more captionless cartoons by B. Kliban, starring his delightful tabby cats as they visit art museums, take off their fur to go skinny dipping, scare themselves on the piano, lurk in gardens, and bat at airplanes from atop the Empire State Building. This postcard book is one of a series that collects beautifully reproduced images with cultural or historical significance,…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: This illustrated guidebook for students and theater fans alike explores and explains the plot, characters, setting, action, and most significant moments in Hamlet. It provides a two-CD audio reading of the play; bold black and white illustrations to help you visualize the action; modular chapters providing structured, easy-to-grasp information; scene-by-scene summaries to explain the dialogue;…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 619 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 907) Аннотация: Organized in an A-to-Z format, this thesaurus provides a wide range of synonyms from mainstream vocabulary to colorful alternatives. The book includes thousands of slang, informal, and regional words, clearly labeled for proper context. Each synonym list springs from a concise definition, while words with related meanings show cross-references to one another. As additional support, hundreds of…
Скачать книгу (размер 65 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 14) Аннотация: The paper engineer behind such artistic pop-up books as The Night Before Christmas and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz offers this book of 26 alphabetical Christmas pop-ups, each presented behind a simple colored flap with an initial letter. «N» reveals a nutcracker opening his eyes and working his mouth, «S» is a 3-D snowflake, and two snowmen wave hello under «F», for friends. Each flap (which looks…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 452 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 482) Аннотация: »The Constant Gardener» is a magnificent exploration of the new world order by one of the most compelling and elegant storytellers of our time. The novel opens in northern Kenya with the gruesome murder of Tessa Quayle — young, beautiful, and dearly beloved to husband Justin. When Justin sets out on a personal odyssey to uncover the mystery of her death, what he finds could make him not only a…
Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Narnia: A magical land full of wonder and excitement. A place where you will meet Aslan, the bravest of lions, and a beautiful but wicked Witch. There are lots of other fabulous creatures too: giants and dwarfs and animals that talk. It all begins when four children — Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy — discover a strange old wardrobe. Stepping inside, they find that it's stranger still, because…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: A young woman caught in the rivalry between Queen Mary and her half sister, Elizabeth, must find her true destiny amid treason, poisonous rivalries, loss of faith, and unrequited love. It is winter, 1553. Pursued by the Inquisition, Hannah Green, a fourteen-year-old Jewish girl, is forced to flee Spain with her father. But Hannah is no ordinary refugee. Her gift of «Sight», the ability to foresee…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: When Theodore Gumbril hits upon the notion of designing a type of pneumatic trouser (a comfort to all travellers, indispensable to first-nighters, the concert-goers' friends) to ease the discomfort of the sedentary life, he decides the time has come leave his position as a housemaster in a boys' public school and seek his fortune in the metropolis. But post-First-World-War London seems to be…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 666 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 328) Аннотация: It has been said of Ernest Hemingway that half the writers of the twentieth century have tried to imitate him and the other half have tried not to. A towering figure in the pantheon of American letters, the leading voice of the 'lost generation', winner of the Nobel Prize for literature and a Pulitzer Prize, Hemingway is known around the world for the brilliance of his writing. The Essential…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Since its launch in 1999, Darby Conley's Get Fuzzy has become one of the most popular comic strips in newspaper syndication, online, and in books. Get Fuzzy books have sold over half a million copies and topped best-seller lists — and now the lovable characters land on this delightful soft-cover journal.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Timothy Brights doesn't exactly live up to his name. Brought up to regard copious flows of money as his birthright, he can't understand why the funds have been cut off, nor why friends he recruited as Lloyds' Names no longer want to talk to him. When gambling fails, Timothy turns to embezzlement, but it's the lesser offence of helping himself to some strangely aromatic tobacco that propels him up…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 666 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 328) Аннотация: Now in paperback: Alice Sebold's luminous first novel — one of the most celebrated literary debuts of recent seasons — that builds out of a family's grief the most hopeful and joyful of stories.
Скачать книгу (размер 6 521 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1280) Аннотация: A dictionary written to help the high-school student succeed. 100,000 entries. More than 1,000 revised illustrations. Abundant word history, synonym paragraphs, and examples sentences.