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Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: How far would you go to escape the real world? The underground man had always felt like an outsider. He doesn't want to be like other people, working in the 'ant-hill' of society. So he decides to withdraw from the world, scrawling a series of darkly sarcastic notes about the torment he is suffering. Angry and alienated, his only comfort is the humiliation of others. Is he going mad? Or is it the…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Olga Yunter was born in July 1900 in a remote frontier post in southern Siberia. A girlhood played out against the backdrop of the China trade changed forever, when, at seventeen, Olga joined her brothers in their fight against the Bolsheviks. Death and retribution followed. Olga was forced to flee to China, rubies sewn into her petticoats. Twice more Olga would be forced to leave everything…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: In the course of human history there has probably been no more terrible place than Eastern Europe in 1941-45. Estimates of total Soviet military and civilian deaths in the period now stand at more than 25 million. In Russia's War, Richard Overy recreates the Soviet Union's apocalyptic struggle against Germany both from the point of view of the troops and of the ordinary people.

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Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: This second edition of the Penguin Dictionary of Accounting is a completely up-to-date work of reference essential for anyone interested in accounting, whether student, businessperson, investor, preparer of financial statements or an accounts manager. Thousands of succinctly written articles cover every aspect of accounting, from finance to law via tax, auditions and management accounting — and…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Written by three eminent professors, it has been updated to reflect the shifts of sociological thought in the last five years, making it the most comprehensive, authoritative and up-to-date dictionary available. It is essential reading for all students and teachers of sociology and other related courses — and also the general reader.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Based upon the Greek myth of the sculptor Pygmalion who fell in love with his own statue of a woman, George Bernard Shaw's celebrated play-and the musical adaptation by Alan Jay Lerner-feature phonetics professor Henry Higgins who transformed cockney flower girl Eliza into a lady.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: The debut of an American original. Here is the accomplished first novel that catapulted F. Scott Fitzgerald to literary fame-at the age of 23. It follows the education-intellectual, spiritual, and sexual-of young Amory Blaine.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: In this important new collection of interviews with the acclaimed radio journalist David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky discuses U.S. foreign policy in the post-9/11 world. Barsamian has a unique rapport with Chomsky having conducted more interviews and radio broadcasts with him than any other journalist, and here explores topics Chomsky has never before discussed: the 2004 presidential campaign and…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Humbert is a middle-aged, fastidious college professor. He also likes little girls. And none more so than Lolita, who he'll do anything to possess. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? Or is he all of these?

Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: It was a job Miami private investigator Max Mingus found hard to refuse: $10 million to locate billionaire’s son Charlie Carver – missing now for over three years. Young Charlie disappeared on the island of Haiti, where over the decades scores of children have vanished. In a country dominated by voodoo, rumours abound of black magic and a mythical figure called ‘Mr Clarinet’, who for years has…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: The restrictions of a wartime childhood in London and post-war shortages have done little to enrich Timothy's early youth. But everything changes when his glamorous older sister Kath invites him to spend the summer at Heidelberg.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome naval captain with neither fortune nor rank. What happens when they encounter each other again is movingly told in Jane Austen's last completed novel. Set in the fashionable societies…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Marlowe is being paid to follow a sad-looking red-head named Eleanor King. Or is she called Betty Mayfield or Mrs Kinsolving? And what is the man with the swift left hook holding over her? Even in a nice little town like Esmerelda there's no shortage of PIs, cops and bellhops to make a case more difficult, and Marlowe's overdeveloped sense of justice is getting him into trouble again. Still, at…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: It's 1959 and Harry Rabbit' Angstrom, one time high school sports superstar, is going nowhere. At twenty-six, he is trapped in a second-rate existence — stuck with a fragile, alcoholic wife, a house full of overflowing ashtrays and discarded glasses, a young son and a futile job. With no way to fix things, he resolves to flee from his family and his home in Pennsylvania, beginning a thousand-mile…

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Vivienne Michel is in trouble. Trying to escape her tangled past, she has run away to the American backwoods, winding up at the Dreamy Pines Motor Court. A far cry from the privileged world she was born to, the motel is also the destination of two hardened killers — the perverse Sol Horror and the deadly Sluggsy Morant. When a coolly charismatic Englishman turns up, Viv, in terrible danger, is…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Some journeys are best left unmade. Kit and Port Moresby are Americans abroad. Struggling to save their marriage, they resolve to trade civilization for the wilderness of the Sahara. At first, the pair are seduced by the desert's beauty. But beneath the exquisite landscape lurk the dark undercurrents of an alien culture, and the relentless dangers of a hostile natural world. And as they travel…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged as well. Ignatius ignores them as he heaves his vast bulk through the city's fleshpots in a noble crusade against vice, modernity and ignorance. But his momma has a nasty surprise in store for him. Ignatius must get a job. Undaunted, he uses his new-found employment to further his mission — and now he has a pirate costume and a hot-dog…

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Four stories of seduction and suspense from the pen of the master magician, each with a wicked sting in the tail ... «The Visitor» and «Bitch» are extracts from the diaries of the notorious Oswald Hendryks Cornelius, hedonist beyond compare. Uncle Oswald's exploits are as extraordinary as they are scandalous, as these two tales of sex and intrigue confirm in vivid and hilarious detail. The…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 075 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 212) Аннотация: In the first of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels, 007 declares war on Le Chiffre, French communist and paymaster of the Soviet murder organization SMERSH.