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Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Scott Fitzgerald blends wit and cynicism in his satirical portraits of the swinging Jazz Age. The stories capture a glittering whirl of dancing, laughter and champagne, and the gods that are worshipped are glamour, wealth and social status. «The Bowl» is a clear metaphor for this cold and brittle world, as a beautiful woman is made to suffer for the cruelty of her youth, her punishment ironically…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: The Moonstone, a yellow diamond looted from an Indian temple and believed to bring bad luck to its owner, is bequeathed to Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday. That night the priceless stone is stolen again and when Sergeant Cuff is brought in to investigate the crime, he soon realizes that no one in Rachel's household is above suspicion.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: »Women in Love» is widely regarded as D.H.Lawrence's greatest novel. The novel continues where: «The Rainbow» left off with the third generation of Brangwens: Ursula Brangwen, now a teacher at Beldover, a mining town in the Midlands, and her sister Gudrun, who has returned from art school in London. The focus of the novel is primarily on their relationships, Ursula's with Rupert Birkin, a school…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Derace Kingsley's wife ran away to Mexico to get a quickie divorce and marry a Casanova-wannabe named Chris Lavery. Or so the note she left her husband insisted. Trouble is, when Philip Marlowe asks Lavery about it he denies everything and sends the private investigator packing with a flea lodged firmly in his ear. But when Marlowe next encounters Lavery, he's denying nothing — on account of the…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Monday: five-year-old Matthew Faraday is abducted. His face is splashed across newspaper front pages. His parents and the police are desperate. Can anyone help find their little boy before it is too late? Psychotherapist Frieda Klein just might know something. One of her patients describes dreams of seizing a boy who is the spitting image of Matthew. Convinced at first the police will dismiss her…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 502 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 688) Аннотация: This is an intimate portrait of Her Majesty the Queen. As we celebrate her Diamond Jubilee, this brand new biography of Queen Elizabeth II is the first all-round, up-close picture of one of the most fascinating, enigmatic and admired women in the world. With exclusive access to the Queen's personal letters, close friends and associates, this intimate biography is a treasure trove of fresh…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: In a vase in a closet, a couple of years after his father died in 9/11, nine-year-old Oskar discovers a key... The key belonged to his father, he's sure of that. But which of New York's 162 million locks does it open? So begins a quest that takes Oskar — inventor, letter-writer and amateur detective — across New York's five boroughs and into the jumbled lives of friends, relatives and complete…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: In war we sometimes lose ourselves... It is 1946 and Silvana and eight-year-old Aurek board a ship that will take them from Poland to England. Silvana has not seen her husband Janusz in six years, but, they are assured, he has made them a home in Ipswich. However, after living wild in the forests for years, carrying a terrible secret, all Silvana knows is that she and Aurek are survivors.…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: The young Alice follows a hasty hare underground-to come face-to-face with some of the strangest adventures in all of literature. In this arresting parody of the fears, anxieties, and complexities of growing up, readers enter the world of make-believe, where the impossible becomes possible and the heights of adventure are unlimited.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 559 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 307) Аннотация: Who better to choose the ultimate in spine-chillers than Roald Dahl, whose own sinister stories have teased and twisted the imagination of millions? Here are fourteen of his favourite ghost stories, including Sheridan Le Fanu's «The Ghost of a Hand», Edith Wharton's «Afterward», Cynthia Asquith's «The Corner Shop» and Mary Treadgold's «The Telephone».

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: There's a new bad guy in the galaxy — Savage Opress. Count Dooku's secret apprentice has become one of the breakout stars of The Clone Wars animated series and now features in his own easy-to-read title.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: 'How am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away to smart parties, after the sorrow I have seen today?' Margaret Hale is wrenched from her beloved rural idyll of Helstone and moved with her family to the industrial northern town of Milton, with its grime and all the ugliness of urban life. But from her initial distaste, Margaret develops a new sense of social justice, and a complicated…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: 'The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself'. Rejected by her guardians and offered cold charity at an orphanage, Jane Eyre has come to rely on her own intelligence and strength of character to guide her through life. But when she becomes governess at Thornfield Hall, working for the gruff Mr. Rochester, she finds a man who may be her equal —…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 177 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 232) Аннотация: Learn to bake with Britain's favourite women's fiction author, Marian Keyes. Saved by Cake gives an extremely honest account of Marian Keyes' recent battle with depression, and how baking has helped her. A complete novice in the kitchen, Marian decided to bake a cake for a friend and that was it — she realized that baking was what she needed to do in order to get her through each day. And so she…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: After the Iron Duke freed England from Horde control, he instantly became a national hero. Now Rhys Trahaearn has built a merchant empire on the power — and fear — of his name. And when a dead body is dropped from an airship onto his doorstep, bringing Detective Inspector Mina Wentworth into his dangerous world, he intends to make her his next possession. Mina can't afford his interest, however.…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: 'There was no warning of any kind...' Friday rush-hour. Martin Gregory, laden with packages, just manages to catch the 4.48 train. Tomorrow is his wife's birthday — he has a surprise in store — and he plans to devote the weekend to her and their beloved dogs. But Saturday morning, Martin rises early and does something so horrific, so inexplicable and so out of character, and his only option is to…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: It's Fran's thirtieth birthday and things are good... She's bluffed her way into a Very Posh Job and her outlandishly handsome and talented boyfriend Michael is escorting her to the Ritz with a bulge the shape of a ring box in his pocket. But something has gone wrong. Very wrong. By the end of the evening Fran is howling in bed with a bottle of cheap brandy and one of Michael's old socks. In her…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: He were a dark prince, and infinitely suspicious, and his times full of secret conspiracies and troubles. (Sir Francis Bacon). In his remarkable debut, Penn vividly recreates the dark and turbulent reign of Henry VII. He traces the transformation of a young, vulnerable boy, Prince Henry, into the aggressive teenager who would become Henry VIII, and of Catherine of Aragon, his future queen. And at…

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Read each year around the Seder table, the Haggadah recounts through prayer and song the extraordinary story of Exodus, when Moses led the ancient Israelites out of slavery in Egypt to wander through the desert for forty years before reaching the Promised Land. In this new version of the traditional Haggadah text, Jonathan Safran Foer brings together some of the most preeminent voices of our…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Presents a collection of tales that includes: «The Murders in the Rue Morgue», «The Tell-Tale Heart», «The Masque of the Red Death», and «The Fall of the House of Usher».