Скачать книгу (размер 1 875 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 369) Аннотация: Sid knows the perils of racing all too well, but in his day jockeys didn't usually cross the finish line with three. 38 rounds in the chest-which is how he found Huw Walker, the winner of a coveted race only a few hours earlier. Now Halley's quest for answers will push him to his very limits-both on and off the track.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: The most eloquent and expressive statesman of his time — phrases such as 'iron curtain', 'business as usual', 'the few', and 'summit meeting' passed quickly into everyday use — Winston Churchill used language as his most powerful weapon at a time when his most frequent complaint was that the armoury was otherwise empty. In this volume, David Cannadine selects thirty-three orations ranging over…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Ten Days That Shook the World is John Reed's eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution. A contemporary journalist writing in the first flush of revolutionary enthusiasm, he gives a gripping record of the events in Petrograd in November 1917, when Lenin and the Bolsheviks finally seized power. Containing verbatim reports both of speeches by leaders and the chance comments of bystanders, set…
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Скачать книгу (размер 1 080 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 213) Аннотация: Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Warren Smith is shell-shocked and on the brink of madness. Smith's day interweaves with that of Clarissa and her friends, their lives converging as the party reaches its glittering climax. Издание полностью на английском языке. Полный, неадаптированный текст…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 620 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 515) Аннотация: В серии Penguin Popular Classics вышли самые известные произведения классика английской литературы Чарльза Диккенса: David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, Bleak House, A Christmas Carol, Hard Times. Издание полностью на английском языке. Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения.
Скачать книгу (размер 962 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 190) Аннотация: Probably the most famous play in the English language, Hamlet transcends the revenge tradition and explores the nature of man. Learning that his father has been killed by Claudius, his uncle. Hamlet's only honourable course of action is revenge. But Hamlet's nature tends not towards action but reflection and in his incapacity to act lies the seed of his own destruction. Полный, неадаптированный…
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Скачать книгу (размер 3 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 672) Аннотация: Vanity Fair, Thackeray's panoramic, satirical saga of corruption at all levels of English society, was published in 1847 but set during the Napoleonic Wars. It chronicles the lives of two women who could not be more different: Becky Sharp, an orphan whose only resources are her vast ambitions, her native wit, and her loose morals; and her schoolmate Amelia Sedley, a typically naive Victorian…
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Скачать книгу (размер 2 339 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 460) Аннотация: Adrian Mole's pen is scribbling for the twenty-first century. Working as a bookseller and living in Leicester's Rat Wharf; finding time to write letters of advice to Tim Henman and Tony Blair; locked in mortal combat with a vicious swan called Gielgud; measuring his expanding bald spot; and trying to escape the clutches of Marigold and win-over her voluptuous sister Daisy ... Adrian still yearns…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Now 301/4, Adrian's still worrying: Can he be a good father? Is Viagra cheating? Why won't the BBC produce 'The White Van', his serial killer comedy? Will he find the fulfilment he seeks as celebrity offal chef, single parent and celibate novelist? Is there a place for Adrian Mole in Blair's Brave New Britain? It is 1 May 1997. Now a celebrity chef at Hoi Polloi restaurant, Soho (and still an…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: The shocking inside account that has outraged the Bush administration, Chain of Command gives the most revealing and terrifying picture yet of what really led to war in Iraq. Seymour Hersh, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist whose sensational reportage has revealed the stories the others can't — or won't — get, traces the chain of events that turned America from victim of terrorism on 9/11 to…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: It should have been a simple journey — a drive from Minneapolis to Green Bay, Wisconsin. But a couple of unplanned detours lead Grace MacBride, Annie Belinsky and police Deputy Sharon Mueller deep in the northern woods, far from civilization and a mobile phone signal. Then the car breaks down. The nervous search for a landline and a mechanic leads the women to Four Corners, a sleepy crossroads…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: A fair, balanced, even-handed (and slightly left-of-centre) look at the greedy, evil, warmongering bigots and scumbags of the American Right … Al Franken’s storming bestseller has already had America up in arms over its exposure of lying right-wing politicians and pundits. Now you can find out why. Join Al as he trashes the untruthful, mauls the mendacious and bitch-slaps the Bush misinformation…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: When elderly Morey Gilbert is found, lying dead in the grass by his wife, Lily, it's a tragedy, but it shouldn't have been a shock — old people die. But when she finds a bullet hole in his skull, the blood washed away by heavy rain, sadness turns to fear. It looks like an execution ... Soon a whole city is fearful as new victims are found, killed with the same cold precision. All elderly. All…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: On the Road swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat. Now recognized as a modern classic, its American Dream is nearer that of Walt Whitman than Scott Fitzgerald, and it goes racing towards the sunset with unforgettable exuberance, poignancy and…