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Скачать книгу (размер 4 563 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 896) Аннотация: »The Sunne in Splendour» is a magnificent historical novel about Richard III. Set against a vast, colourful canvas, it covers the whole period of The War of the Roses opening with Richard as a child of seven and following him through a turbulent youth and manhood to his betrayal and death at The Battle of Bosworth Field. The historical detail is brilliantly depicted and brings to life the…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: His code name: «The Sphinx». His mission: to send Rommel's advancing army the secrets that would unlock the doors to Cairo... and the ultimate Nazi triumph in the war. And in all of Cairo, only two people could stop this brilliant and ruthless Nazi master agent. One was a down-on-his-luck English officer no one would listen to. The other was a young Jewish girl...

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: First written down in the eighth century AD, these early Irish stories depict a far older world — part myth, part legend and part history. Rich with magic and achingly beautiful, they speak of a land of heroic battles, intense love and warrior ideals, in which the otherworld is explored and men mingle freely with the gods.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: In The Marquise of O — a virtuous widow finds herself unaccountably pregnant. And although the baffled Marquise has no idea when this happened, she must prove her innocence to her doubting family and discover whether the perpetrator is an assailant or lover. Michael Kohlhaas depicts an honourable man who feels compelled to violate the law in his search for justice, while other tales explore the…

Скачать книгу (размер 361 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 72) Аннотация: Published over 50 years ago, The Story of Ferdinand is one of the bestselling children's books of all time, and the bull who preferred sitting under the cork tree and smelling flowers to fighting has become a hero to generations of children.

Скачать книгу (размер 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 140) Аннотация: Outrageous Pippi Longstocking of Villa Villekulla has no parents around and no rules to follow, so she lives according to her own daredevilish ways. She has been treating her friends Tommy and Annika to wild adventures, too — like buying, and eating, seventy-two pounds of candy on a shopping trip, or sailing off to an island in the middle of a lake to show them what it's like to be shipwrecked.…

Скачать книгу (размер 631 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 125) Аннотация: The adventures of the strongest girl in the world, who takes her two friends with her when she travels from Sweden to visit her father, king of an island in the South Seas.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Completed in 1136, The History of the Kings of Britain traces the story of the realm from its supposed foundation by Brutus to the coming of the Saxons some two thousand years later. Vividly portraying legendary and semilegendary figures such as Lear, Cymbeline, Merlin the magician and the most famous of all British heroes, King Arthur, it is as much myth as it is history and its veracity was…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: Here are the most robust characters in American legend. Told by a poet with a poet's ear for the impact of words, these American mavericks walk and talk accross the pages in a free, wide way, as they walked and talked accross the free, wide America of pioneer days.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: A 13th-century French version of the Camelot legend, writen by an unknown author. It depicts a Round Table diminished in strength after the Quest for the Holy Grail. Whispers of Queen Guinevere's infidelity distress King Arthur, leaving him no match for the machinations of Sir Mordred.

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: The Elephant takes the Bad Baby for a ride and they go 'rumpeta, rumpeta, rumpeta down the road.' They help themselves to ice creams, pies, buns, crisps, biscuits, lollipops and apples, and the shopkeepers follow them down the road shouting and waving. All ends well as the Bad Baby learns to say 'Please' and his mother makes pancakes for everyone.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: This is Ayne Rand's challenge to the prevalent philosphical doctrince of our time and the atmosphere of guilt, of panic, of despair, of boredom, and of all-pervasive evasion that they create. One of the most controversial figures on the intellectual scene, Ayn Rand was the proponent of a moral philsophy — an ethic of rational self-interest — that stands in sharp opposition of the ethics of…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 727 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 536) Аннотация: Editors Oscar Williams and Edwin Honig concentrate on the work of twenty major American poets.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Written in 1948, 1984 was George Orwell’s chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, Orwell’s narrative is timelier than ever. 1984 presents a startling and haunting vision of the world, so powerful that it is completely convincing from start to finish. No one can deny the power of this novel, its hold on the imaginations of multiple generations of readers, or the…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: Collected here for the first time in a deluxe paperback volume are six of John Steinbeck's most widely read and beloved novels. From the tale of commitment, loneliness and hope in Of Mice and Men, to the tough yet charming portrait of people on the margins of society in Cannery Row, to The Pearl's examination of the fallacy of the American dream, Steinbeck stories of realism, that were imbued…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: The future is small. The future is nano . . . And who could be smaller or more insignificant than poor Little Nell — an orphan girl alone and adrift in a world of Confucian Law, Neo-Victorian values and warring nano-technology? Well, not quite alone. Because Nell has a friend, of sorts. A guide, a teacher, an armed and unarmed combat instructor, a book and a computer: the Young Lady's Illustrated…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: After the Internet, what came next? Enter the Metaverse — cyberspace home to avatars and software daemons, where anything and just about everything goes. Newly available on the Street — the Metaverse's main drag — is Snow Crash, a cyberdrug. Trouble is Snow Crash is also a computer virus — and something more. Because once taken it infects the person behind the avatar. Snow Crash bleeds into…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 391 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 274) Аннотация: When Tamara Mellon's father lent her the money to start a high-end shoe company, he cautioned her: 'Don't let the accountants run your business.' Little did he know. Over the next fifteen years the struggle between 'the suits' and 'the creatives' would dominate, as Tamara Mellon's business savvy and design flair built Jimmy Choo into a premier name in the ultra-competitive fashion world. Jimmy…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Is justice an ideal, for ever beyond our grasp, or something that may actually guide our practical decisions and enhance our lives? At the heart of Sen's argument is his insistence on the role of public reason in establishing what can make societies less unjust. But there are always choices to be made between alternative assessments of what is reasonable, and competing positions can each be well…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 829 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 752) Аннотация: 'Big rejoicing: Lydia Davis has won the Man Booker International prize. Never did a book award deliver such a true match-winning punch. Best of all, a new audience will read her now and find her wit, her vigour and rigour, her funniness, her thoughtfulness, and the precision of form, which mark Davis out as unique. Daring, excitingly intelligent and often wildly comic [she] reminds you, in a…