Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: THE MONARCHY HAS BEEN DISMANTLED When a Republican party wins the General Election, their first act in power is to strip the royal family of their assets and titles and send them to live on a housing estate in the Midlands. Exchanging Buckingham Palace for a two-bedroomed semi in Hell Close (as the locals dub it), caviar for boiled eggs, servants for a social worker named Trish, the Queen and her…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 747 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 736) Аннотация: The result of a lifetime’s knowledge of Russia and its people, this monumental and authoritative work has been acclaimed as the definitive single-volume history of Russia.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: The return of the beautiful Countess Olenska into the rigidly conventional society of New York sends reverberations throughout the upper reaches of society. Newland Archer, an eligible young man of the establishment is about to announce his engagement to May Welland, a pretty ingénue, when May's cousin, Countess Olenska, is introduced into their circle. The Countess brings with her an aura…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: At the age of ten, shy, vulnerable Fanny Price leaves behind her impoverished family in Portsmouth to go and live with her rich relatives at Mansfield Park. Growing up with her cousins Tom, Edmund, Maria and Julia, she is aware that she is different from them and that her place in society cannot be taken for granted, although she is not treated unkindly. A dashing couple from London, Mary…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: The narrator is a young governess, sent off to a country house to take charge of two orphaned children. She finds a pleasant house and a comfortable housekeeper, while the children are beautiful and charming. But she soon begins to feel the presence of intense evil.
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…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 900 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 570) Аннотация: The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter is drawn into the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival Glyde and his 'charming' friend Count Fosco, who has a taste for white mice, vanilla bonbons and poison. Pursuing questions of identity and insanity along the paths and corridors…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 901 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 374) Аннотация: Unfairly deprived of their family inheritance by the grasping Mrs John Dashwood and her husband, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood and their mother find themselves in greatly reduced circumstances. Compelled to leave Norland in Sussex for Barton Cottage in Devonshire, the two sisters are soon accepted into their new society. Marianne, whose sweet radiance and open nature charm the roguish John…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: »Book of Longing» is Leonard Cohen's first book of new poetry since «Book of Mercy» was published two decades ago. It collects Cohen's poetry written between the 1980s and the present, and also includes his wonderfully witty and sensuous illustrations, including numerous playful self-portraits. The illustrations interact with, and complement, the poetry in unexpected and fascinating ways. «Book…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Jeremy Paxman is to many the embodiment of Englishness yet even he is sometimes forced to ask: who or what exactly are the English? And in setting about addressing this most vexing of questions, Paxman discovers answers to a few others. Like: • Why do the English actually enjoy feeling persecuted? • What is behind the English obsession with games? • How did they acquire their odd attitudes to sex…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: This is a brilliantly researched, hugely entertaining study of the English by Britain's best-known broadcaster. In the light of membership of Europe, the loss of an Empire and a devolved United Kingdom, the English no longer know who they are. Covering every aspect of the English identity (from cricket to Cumberland sausages, St George to Bernie Grant, the «Book of Common Prayer to Cool…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 294 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 255) Аннотация: The Rough Guide to iPhone is the ultimate guide to Apple's next killer product: the iPhone, a mobile-cum-iPod-cum-PDA-cum-web browser. Full coverage of the latest product rolled out from Apple HQ, from powering up the first time to sending pictures as email attachments and hooking up to hi-fis. All the tips and tricks from uploading music, google maps and conference calls, to a full “first aid”…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 502 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 688) Аннотация: Somerset, 1836, and baby Hope is cast out from a world of privilege as living proof of her mother's adultery... Smuggled away from the Harveys and Briargate House to a nearby village, Hope grows up in the arms of the warm and loving Renton family, unaware of her true identity. But fate has harsh plans for Hope and a chain of events sees her forced to lead a vagabond's existence until she finds…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: In this fascinating survey of everything from how sounds become speech to how names work, David Crystal answers every question you might ever have had about the nuts and bolts of language in his usual highly illuminating way. Along the way, we find out about eyebrow flashes, whistling languages, how parents teach their children to speak, how politeness travels across languages and how the way we…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: A new edition of this hugely popular story of James and his journey to New York with the strangest group of insect friends. Great new Quentin Blake cover and new author biography.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Can you trust yourself when you don’t know who you are? Syme uses his new acquaintance to go undercover in Europe’s Central Anarchist Council and infiltrate their deadly mission, even managing to have himself voted to the position of ‘Thursday’. In a park in London, secret policeman Gabriel Syme strikes up a conversation with an anarchist. Sworn to do his duty, when Syme discovers another…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: The 2nd edition Rough Guide Map New York combines clear modern mapping and bang-up-to-date research, and is the essential companion to anyone travelling around this vibrant metropolis. The Rough Guide Map pinpoints the best New York has to offer, from the bars and restaurants of SoHo to the lake in Central Park. The best shopping streets, pedestrian zones and major buildings are all edged in…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: In this award-winning Dahl title Matilda invents a game of punishing her parents when they treat her badly. She soon discovers that she has supernatural powers. New Quentin Blake cover as well as a whole new exciting end section about Roald Dahl and his world.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Back in Rummidge, scene of Changing Places, Robyn Penrose, temporary lecturer in English literature and Vic Willcox, MD of Pringle and Sons Industrial Engineering meet when they take part in an «Industry Year» scheme.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: When the new teacher first arrives, Barbara immediately senses that this woman will be different from the rest of her staff-room colleagues. But Barbara is not the only one to feel that Sheba is special, and before too long Sheba is involved in an illicit affair with a pupil. Barbara finds the relationship abhorrent, of course, but she is the only adult in whom Sheba can properly confide. So when…