Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: The short stories of Kingsley Amis — the great master of post-war comic prose — are dark, playful, moving, surprising and extremely funny. This definitive collection gathers all Amis' short fiction in a single volume for the first time and encompasses five decades of storytelling. In The 2003 Claret, written in 1958, a time machine is invented for the weighty task of sending a man to 2010 to…
Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: 'I pushed her back into the house without saying anything, shut the door. We stood looking at each other inside. She dropped her hand slowly and tried to smile. Then all expression went out of her white face and it looked as intelligent as the bottom of a shoe box... I lit my cigarette, puffed it slowly for a moment and then asked: What are you doing here? Before creating Philip Marlowe, Raymond…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Twice Harri tries to marry the love of her life. Twice she fails. Since there are only so many times she can leave her man standing at the altar, Harri loses him. After this second pre-wedding panic attack, Harri is at sea. Her parents try to distract her, but it's obvious they know more than they want to admit about why she's always been a little fragile. What they are forced to reveal turns…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Feeling the itch to stitch and the urge to preserve? Well then, get your craft on with crafter-about-town Jazz Domino Holly. As the daughter of rock-royalty and founder of the Shoreditch Sisters Women's Institute, Jazz is the perfect guide. Have fun and impress your friends and family with your crafting skills as you learn how to: unravel the mystery of knits and purls and whip up a Girlie Bow…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Based on the classic story The Elves and the Shoemaker, this vibrantly illustrated story is sure to become a favourite in every home. Meet the poor and hungry shoemaker who wakes up one morning to find that his shoes have been magically made for him! Part of the Ladybird First Favourite Tales series — a perfect introduction to fairy tales for preschoolers — this hardback book contains lots of…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Welcome a brand-new edition of Insight Guide France, with new features, new maps, and specially commissioned color-photographs throughout the entire guide. A full-color, highly visual guide to the whole of France, covering all the major cities, with expert recommendations to the best sights, cross-referenced with Insights respected mapping and detailed Travel Tips!
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: A transport plane carrying a high-ranking Taliban prisoner is shot down in a blizzard over Afghanistan's mountainous Hindu Kush. The storm makes rescue impossible, and for two people-navigator Michael Parson and a female Army interpreter, Sergeant Gold-a battle for survival begins against not only the hazards of nature, but the treacheries of man: the Taliban stalking them, the villagers whose…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: We the Living depicts the struggle of the individual against the state, and the impact of the Russian Revolution on three human beings who demand the right to live their own lives and pursue their own happiness. This classic novel is not a story of politics, but of the men and women who fight for existence within a totalitarian state.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Acclaimed as one of the funniest and most assured Irish novels of the last decade, An Evening of Long Goodbyes is the story of Dubliner Charles Hythloday and the heroic squandering of the family inheritance. Featuring drinking, greyhound racing, vanishing furniture, more drinking, old movies, assorted Dublin lowlife, eviction and the perils of community theatre, Paul Murray's debut novel is a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Ken is so obsessed with death that he's planning his own funeral — right down to the last morbid detail. He will die in the bosom of his family. There's just one problem. His family want nothing to do with him. His upwardly mobile son Nick hasn't seen him in fifteen years — and doesn't want to be reminded of the miserable old man he escaped. But Ken is nothing if not dogged. Whether he likes it…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 819 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 358) Аннотация: According to «Time», Paul Allen is one of the 100 Most Influential People In The World. «Idea Man» is the story of the fascinating life of a man who has made an unprecedented impact in science, technology, business, sports, music, and philanthropy. His memoir features previously untold stories that offer insight into everything from the true origins of Microsoft to a behind-the-scenes view of the…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: A brand new edition of Insight's Step by Step New York. This itinerary-based guide details 18 of New York's best walks and tours, written by a local expert and arranged by theme for a tailor-made travel experience. All itineraries are marked on a separate, fully indexed pull-out map, to ensure easy navigation.
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: 'What we were after was lashings of ultraviolence'. In this nightmare vision of youth in revolt, fifteen-year-old Alex and his friends set out on a diabolical orgy of robbery, rape, torture and murder. Alex is jailed for his teenage delinquency and the State tries to reform him — but at what cost? Social prophecy? Black comedy? Study of freewill? «A Clockwork Orange» is all of these. It is also a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is working for the Sternwood family. Old man Sternwood, crippled and wheelchair-bound, is being given the squeeze by a blackmailer and he wants Marlowe to make the problem go away. But with Sternwood's two wild, devil-may-care daughters prowling LA's seedy backstreets, Marlowe's got his work cut out — and that's before he stumbles over the first corpse...
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Arthur's final test of courage is upon him... Arthur has crushed Lancelot's rebellion, but at a cost. Guinevere's betrayal has left him reeling, and his Saxon enemies seek to destroy him while he is weak. Chaos threatens to engulf Britain. Yet Arthur is a military genius and noble leader. As the battle draws close, he prepares to fight his way to victory at Mount Badon and also win back the woman…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: 'Of all my novels this bright brute is the gayest', Nabokov wrote of «King, Queen, Knave». Comic, sensual and cerebral, it dramatizes an Oedipal love triangle, a tragi-comedy of husband, wife and lover, through Dreyer the rich businessman, his ripe-lipped ad mercenary wife Martha, and their bespectacled nephew Franz. 'If a resolute Freudian manages to slip in' — Nabokov darts a glance to the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: An elegant literary mystery set during the Gilded Age. New York City, 1911. Representing the widow of a Wall Street financier, lawyer William Dysart travels to a small Long Island town with a generous offer for Miss Sybil Curtis's cottage and five acres of land. But when Sybil refuses to sell, the widow threatens to use her influence with the state to seize the property. Intrigued by Sybil's…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: Constantly rewriting his own story, Malcolm X became a criminal, a minister, a leader, and eventually an icon, assassinated at the age of 39. This title presents a sweeping story of the darkest days of racial unrest, from the rise of the Ku Klux Klan to the struggles of the civil rights movement, examining his engagement with the Nation of Islam.
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: 'But it hadn't been given for nothing. It had been given, even the most wildly squandered sum, as an offering to destiny that he might not remember the things most worth remembering, the things that he would now always remember'. F. Scott Fitzgerald's stories defined the 1920s 'Jazz Age' generation, with their glittering dreams and tarnished hopes. In these three tales of a fragile recovery, a…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: 'There, in Russia five years ago, when Cuba had been taken out of the oven to cool and Vietnam was still coming to a simmer, Bech did find a quality of life — impoverished yet ceremonial, shabby yet ornate, sentimental, embattled, and avuncular-reminiscent of his neglected Jewish past'. Borges became famous as a writer of short stories that contained new realities: elaborately conceived,…