Скачать книгу (размер 1 865 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 367) Аннотация: Emma is the culmination of Jane Austen's genius, a sparkling comedy of love and marriage. Emma Woodhouse is introduced to us as 'handsome, clever and rich' and, according to Jane Austen, a heroine 'which no one but myself would like'. Yet such is Emma's spirited wit that, despite her superior airs and egotism, few readers have failed to succumb to her charm. The comedy turns on Emma's…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Six people — five women and a man — meet once a month in California's Central Valley to discuss Jane Austen's novels. They are ordinary people, neither happy nor unhappy, but each of them is wounded in different ways, they are all mixed up about their lives and relationships. Over the six months they meet, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements become suitable — under the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 273 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 447) Аннотация: Orphaned Jane Eyre grows up in the home of her heartless aunt and later attends a charity school with a harsh regime, enduring loneliness and cruelty. This troubled childhood strengthens Jane's natural independence and spirit — which prove necessary when she finds a position as governess at Thornfield Hall. However, when she finds love with her sardonic employer, Rochester, the discovery of his…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Mastering the game of work and the business of life — from the bestselling author of «Getting Things Done». In his bestselling first book, «Getting Things Done», veteran coach and management consultant David Allen presented his breakthrough methods to increase efficiency. Now “the personal productivity guru” (Fast Company) shows readers how to increase their ability to work better, not harder —…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Earning a Pulitzer and three Best Play awards for 1994, Edward Albee has, in Three Tall Women, created a masterwork of modern theater. As an imperious, acerbic old woman lies dying, she is tended by two other women and visited by a young man. Albee's frank dialogue about everything from incontinence to infidelity portrays aging without sentimentality. His scenes are charged with wit, pain, and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: In TunFaire, a city of gorgeous women, powerful sorcerers and dangerous magic, the beautiful, criminally insane daughter of a comatose crime boss has some lascivious designs on private investigator Garrett-who now has to figure out why everyone is suddenly after him.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Framed by a dramatic and moving account of Henry James's last illness, «Author, Author» begins in the early 1880s, describing James's friendship with the genial Punch artist, George Du Maurier, and his intimate but problematic relationship with fellow American novelist Constance Fenimore Woolson. At the end of the decade Henry, worried by the failure of his books to sell, resolves to achieve fame…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: The creator of the bestselling NUMA and Dirk Pitt series, is back with his latest and most intriguing high seas action hero: the enigmatic captain of the Oregon, Juan Cabrillo. Only Cabrillo could convert the interior of a nondescript lumber hauler into a state of the art spy ship-and only he could take the helm on the dangerous covert missions it carries out for whatever U.S. agency pays the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: A complete collection of short fiction by one of the masters of twentieth-century American literature.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Steeplechase jockey Christmas «Kit» Fielding has had more than his share of close calls both on and off the course. But trouble hits close to home when a grudge between his family and his sister's in-laws turns into a blood feud.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: When reporter Bert Checkov falls to his death, his colleague James Tyrone thinks he can prove it was murder. But there's no such thing as a sure thing.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Wine merchant Tony Beach has expertly catered his latest society soiree, but the fun's over when a team of hit men crash the party…literally. The event leaves Tony with a bitter aftertaste of suspicion—and sets off a mystery that's an intoxicating blend of deception, intrigue, and murder.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: A high-class, transcontinental horse-racing junket should be an idyllic getaway for the super-rich. But one passenger on this train is a sociopath, a genius at blackmail and criminal corruption—and he plans to take everyone for everything they've got.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Henry Grey takes a dirty, demanding job transporting racehorses by air. But when he discovers that he's actually transporting something altogether different, he has to call upon every ounce of resourcefulness he has to land with his life intact.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Welcome to Meadowbank, an exclusive school for privileged young ladies. A fine lot. A dangerous one, too. Two teachers have already bitten the dust. It's obvious to Hercule Poirot that someone is out to scratch Meadowbank's respectable veneer.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: When cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse sees a naked man on the side of the road, she doesn't just drive on by. Turns out the poor thing hasn't a clue who he is, but Sookie does. It's Eric the vampire—but now he's a kinder, gentler Eric. And a scared Eric, because whoever took his memory now wants his life.
Скачать книгу (размер 738 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 146) Аннотация: History seemed to pursue Vladimir Nabokov. In the Russian Revolution and the Second World War he lost his homeland, social position and family, and was even forced to abandon working in his native language. Despite the shadow of exile, Nabokov's work exudes a tremendous vivacity and joy. Even at its darkest it has an inventiveness and a richness of perception that has rarely been surpassed. The…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: We all worry about what others think of us. We all long to succeed and fear failure. We all suffer — to a greater or lesser degree, usually privately and with embarrassment — from status anxiety. For the first time, Alain de Botton gives a name to this universal condition and sets out to investigate both its origins and possible solutions. He looks at history, philosophy, economics, art and…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: Set in the 1930's, the new novel from bestselling author Lesley Pearse tells the story of one girl's struggle against cruelty and, her quest for love. Adele Talbot is twelve when her younger sister is killed in a road accident in London's Kings Cross, and her mother Rose so devastated by the loss begins to abuse her. Adele is sent to a children's home in Tunbridge Wells, but soon runs away to…
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: When Jim Hawkins uncovers the key to a pirate’s treasure map he sets out on a quest to find the buried treasure with the help of pirate captain Long John Silver. Artist Tim Hamilton brings the pirates and villains to life in this graphic novel adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic.