Скачать книгу (размер 1 656 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 326) Аннотация: The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World War. It tells the story of Charles Ryder's infatuation with the Marchmains and the rapidly-disappearing world of privilege they inhabit. Enchanted first by Sebastian at Oxford, then by his doomed Catholic family, in particular his remote sister, Julia, Charles…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: 'There is only one book to a man' Steinbeck wrote of East of Eden, his most ambitious novel. Set in the rich farmland of Salinas Valley, California, this powerful, often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families — the Trasks and the Hamiltons — whose generations helplessly re-enact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. Here Steinbeck created…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Alice Loudon seems to have everything: close friends, a loving boyfriend, a successful career. Then one day she meets a stranger while crossing the street and — impulsively, immediately — abandons her old, safe life for a passionate affair. It leads her into a dark, dangerous realm of eroticism and extreme experience that both entices and alarms her. Adam Tallis, heroic survivor of a disastrous…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: 'Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.' Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, out of love, 'to fix once for all the perilous magic of nymphets'. This seduction is one of many dimensions in Nabokov's dizzying masterpiece, which is suffused with a savage humour and rich,…
Скачать книгу (размер 5 297 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1040) Аннотация: Книга Джеймса Джойса «Улисс» — одна из самых необычных в мировой литературе. Это довольно объемная работа (в ней более 260 тысяч слов) и традиционно «Улисс» считается трудной книгой для прочтения. «Улисс» Джойса сразу после появления вызвал массу противоречивых откликов и споров. Действие книги происходит в родном городе Джойса — Дублине. Каждый эпизод происходит в определенном месте города, а…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: Now repackaged with stunning new cover art, this #1 bestseller is a chilling story set in a lonely Nevada town where the evil embedded in the landscape is awesome — but so are the forces summoned to combat it. Reissue.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Well, it's no wonder. The plot-suspicion for an elderly woman's murder falls on her mysterious lodger — is from Agatha Christie. The wonderful character happens to be the world's most famous sleuth, Hercule Poirot.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: The classic mystery that introduced Miss Jane Marple Miss Jane Marpleas passion for gossip leads to the investigation of a local manas murder. The victim was not liked in the least, and his death isnat raising eyebrows. But his recently revealed secrets are.
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Following the death of a friend, poet and pets' mortician Dennis Barlow finds himself entering into the artificial Hollywood paradise of the Whispering Glades Memorial Park. Within its golden gates, death, American-style, is wrapped up and sold like a package holiday. There, Dennis enters the fragile and bizarre world of Aimée, the naïve Californian corpse beautician, and Mr Joyboy, the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of the Daily Beast, has always prided himself on his intuitive flair for spotting ace reporters. That is not to say he has not made the odd blunder, however, and may in a moment of weakness make another. Acting on a dinner-party tip from Mrs Algernon Stitch, he feels convinced that he has hit on just the chap to cover a promising little war in the…
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: In this nightmare vision of a not-too-distant future, fifteen-year-old Alex and his three friends rob, rape, torture and murder — for fun. Alex is jailed for his vicious crimes and the State undertakes to reform him — but how and at what cost?
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Conquer your fear of flying — for good. In this life-changing new book Allen Carr turns his unique methods to fear of flying, a problem which affects thousands of people, causing trauma, guilt and embarrassment, and turning holidays into a nightmare. The Easy Way to Enjoy Flying shows how fear of flying is nothing to be ashamed of, but is part of human nature — yet one which is ultimately based…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: For Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, business, to put it mildly, stinks. So when the police bring him in to consult on a grisly double murder committed with black magic, Harry's seeing dollar signs. But where there's black magic, there's a black mage behind it. And now that mage knows Harry's name.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: 'We are Progress and the New Age. Nothing can stand in our way'. When Oxford-educated Emperor Seth succeeds to the throne of the African state of Azania, he has a tough job on his hands. His subjects are ill-informed and unruly, and corruption, double-dealing and bloodshed are rife. However, with the aid if Minister of Modernization Basil Seal, Seth plans to introduce his people to the civilized…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Controversial and compelling, «In Cold Blood» reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and both their children. Truman Capote's comprehensive study of the killings and subsequent investigation explores the circumstances surrounding this terrible crime and the effect it had on those involved. At the centre of his study are the amoral young killers Perry Smith and Dick Hickcock,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Peter Mayle is back in Provence, after pining away in America for the sights, sounds and smells of his beloved French home. This new book completes his trilogy on the delights and curiosities of Provençal life, as he rediscovers the local customs and cuisine and finds them as enchanting as ever. There are, of course, some gastronomic treats to be had on the way, including a feast at a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Jim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain's new red brick universities. A moderately successful future in the History Department beckons. As long as Jim can survive a madrigal-singing weekend at Professor Welch's, deliver a lecture on 'Merrie England' and resist Christine, the hopelessly desirable girlfriend of Welch's awful son Bertrand.
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: 'It is the history of a revolution that went wrong — and of the excellent excuses that were forthcoming at every step for the perversion of the original doctrine', wrote Orwell for the first edition of «Animal Farm» in 1945. Orwell wrote it at the end of 1943, but it almost remained unpublished. Its savage attack on Stalin, at that time Britain's ally, led to it being refused by publisher after…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: 'Basil needed a war. He's not meant for peace '... Upper-class scoundrel Basil Seal, mad, bad and dangerous to know, creates havoc wherever he goes, much to the despair of the three women in his life — his sister, mother and mistress. And when Neville Chamberlain declares war on Germany, it seems the perfect opportunity for more action and adventure. So Basil follows the call to arms and goes…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: In his elegant, malicious prose, Evelyn Waugh satirizes British society as he saw it over three decades. From «Work Suspended», where Plant, a writer of detective fiction, puts his incomplete novel in a drawer until such time as he can finish it (that is to say after the war), to Basil Seal Rides Again, in which the hero of Black Mischief defeats the children of the Sixties, these stories…