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Скачать книгу (размер 5 134 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1008) Аннотация: Yours is a 'spectable calling. To save your 'spectability, it's worth your while to pawn every article of clothes you've got, sell every stick in your house, and beg and borrow every penny you can get trusted with. When you've done that and handed over, I'll leave you. Not afore. Our Mutual Friend centres on an inheritance — Old Harmon's profitable dust heaps — and its legatees, young John…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 665 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 720) Аннотация: 'Alas, Experience! No other mentor has so wasted and frozen a face as yours: none wears a robe so black, none bears a rod so heavy'... Struggling manufacturer Robert Moore has introduced labour saving machinery to his Yorkshire mill, arousing a ferment of unemployment and discontent among his workers. Robert considers marriage to the wealthy and independent Shirley Keeldar to solve his financial…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: 'One more step, Mr Hands, said I, and I'll blow your brains out'. In Treasure Island, a weathered old sailor known as Billy Bones arrives at the inn of young Jim Hawkins' parents — and it is the start of an adventure beyond anything he could have imagined. For when Bones dies mysteriously, Jim stumbles across a map of a mysterious island in his sea chest — where 'X' marks the spot of a stash of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: 'Death'! I shouted. 'Death is coming! Death'! A cylinder from space lands in south-west London, and naive locals approach it armed with a white flag — only to be instantly incinerated by an all-destroying heat-ray, as tentacled Martians emerge. Soon the whole of humanity is under threat, as the invaders build gigantic killing machines that chase and feast on human prey. H.G. Well's 1898 novel was…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 585 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 312) Аннотация: A stunning fantasy debut from a major new talent! When he was nine, he watched his mother and brother killed before him. By the time he was thirteen, he was the leader of a band of bloodthirsty thugs. By fifteen, he intends to be king... It's time for Prince Honorous Jorg Ancrath to return to the castle he turned his back on, to take what's rightfully his. Since the day he was hung on the thorns…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 886 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 371) Аннотация: An illuminating history of North America's eleven rival cultural regions that explodes the red state-blue state myth. North America was settled by people with distinct religious, political, and ethnographic characteristics, creating regional cultures that have been at odds with one another ever since. Subsequent immigrants didn't confront or assimilate into an American or Canadian culture, but…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 244) Аннотация: I'm a fearful, frightful flirt! Did you ever hear of a nice girl that was not? This edition contains two of Henry James's most popular short works. Travelling in Europe with her family, Daisy Miller, an exquisitely beautiful young American woman, presents her fellow-countryman Winterbourne with a dilemma he cannot resolve. Is she deliberately flouting social convention in the outspoken way she…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: 'That black figure, with its eyes of fire, struck down through all my adult thoughts and feelings, and for a moment the forgotten horrors of childhood came back to my mind'. Adrift in a dinghy, Edward Prendick, the single survivor from the good ship Lady Vain, is rescued by a vessel carrying a profoundly unusual cargo — a menagerie of savage animals. Tended to recovery by their keeper Montgomery,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: 'He knew the wonderful walled city of Lahore from the Delhi Gate to the outer Fort Ditch; was hand in glove with men who led lives stranger than anything Haroun al Raschid dreamed of; and he lived in a life wild as that of the Arabian Nights'... Kipling's epic rendition of the imperial experience in India is also his greatest long work. Two men — Kim, a boy growing into early manhood, and the…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 665 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 720) Аннотация: 'The frail gunwales bent in, collapsed, and snapped, as both jaws, like an enormous shears, sliding further aft, bit the craft completely in twain'... The crew of the whaling ship the Pequod is bound by its Captain Ahab to a single, bloody goal: the killing of the whale Moby-Dick, the giant albino that has taken his leg and on which he has sworn vengeance. Driven, perhaps doomed, by his dangerous…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: It's a big universe and there are some truly terrifying monsters out there! Here are the 100 scariest monsters the Doctor has ever encountered so far, from the devious Daleks to the weird Weeping Angels and the sinister Cybermen. With facts and stats on all the most fearsome scary monsters, this book will have you cowering behind the sofa!
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Скачать книгу (размер 3 747 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 736) Аннотация: 'In one moment, every drop of blood in my body was brought to a stop... There, as if it had that moment sprung out of the earth... stood the figure of a solitary Woman, dressed from head to foot in white. 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…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: The «Penguin English Library Edition» of «Persuasion» by Jane Austen. 'Her attachment and regrets had, for a long time, clouded every enjoyment of youth; and an early loss of bloom and spirits had been their lasting effect'. «Persuasion», Jane Austen's last novel, is a moving, masterly and elegiac love story tinged with the heartache of missed opportunities. It tells the story of Anne Elliot,…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: 'That evening more firmly than ever fastened into my soul the conviction that Fate was of stone, and Hope a false idol — blind, bloodless, and of granite core. I felt, too, that the trial God had appointed me was gaining its climax, and must now be turned by my own hands, hot, feeble, trembling as they were'. With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: 'The greater part of every family is always odious; if there are one or two good ones in a very large family, it is as much as can be expected'. Ernest Pontifex is the awkward but likeable son of a remote and tyrannical clergyman father and a priggish mother. Destined to follow his father into the church, Ernest ends his career as a curate in disaster, and in the gleeful rejection of his parents'…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 339 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 656) Аннотация: I am got, I know not how, into a cold unmetaphorical vein of infamous writing, and cannot take a plumb-lift out of it for my soul; so must be obliged to go on writing like a Dutch commentator to the end of the chapter, unless something be done... Laurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categorize it. Part novel, part digression, its gloriously…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 502 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 688) Аннотация: The documents thatshaped a nation. Three of the founding fathers brilliantly defend their revolutionary charter: the Constitution of the United States, a milestone in political science and a classic of American history.
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