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Скачать книгу (размер 1 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 324) Аннотация: Revered for his magnificent works of fiction, Jorge Luis Borges thought of himself primarily as a poet. Poems of the Night is a moving collection of the great literary visionary's poetic meditations on nighttime, darkness, and the crepuscular world of visions and dreams, themes that speak implicitly to the blindness that overtook Borges late in life-and yet the poems here are drawn from the full…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Humbert Humbert — scholar, aesthete and romantic — has fallen completely and utterly in love with Lolita Haze, his landlady's gum-snapping, silky skinned twelve-year-old daughter. Reluctantly agreeing to marry Mrs Haze just to be close to Lolita, Humbert suffers greatly in the pursuit of romance; but when Lo herself starts looking for attention elsewhere, he will carry her off on a desperate…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Nick Hornby's second bestselling novel is about sex, manliness and fatherhood. Will is thirty-six, comfortable and child-free. And he's discovered a brilliant new way of meeting women — through single-parent groups. Marcus is twelve and a little bitnerdish: he's got the kind of mother who made him listen to Joni Mitchell rather than Nirvana. Perhaps they can help each other out a little bit, and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 590 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 313) Аннотация: View our feature on Mean Streets. An anthology of solid and suspenseful novellas from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher New York Times bestselling author Simon R. Green National bestselling authors Kat Richardson Thomas E. Sniegoski Here are four novellas featuring Harry Dresden, John Taylor, Harper Blaine, and Remy Chandler... paranormal private investigators who walk the streets…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: If you've ever wondered how to climb the social ladder with grace, how to feel confident in every situation, or even how to make a lasting impression (but not the kind that lands you on the latest «Worst Dressed List») — Derek Blasberg is here, with quotes and secrets from all the socialites so girls everywhere can learn how to have class. This hilarious handbook will provide everything you need…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 324) Аннотация: »New York Times» bestselling Grand Master of Crime Fiction Foreign Office diplomat Peter Darwin uncovers a peculiar operation involving a veterinary surgeon and the unexplained deaths of several valuable racehorses.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: She was a princess, daughter of perhaps the most hated king in Europe. He was just a lowly hussar. Their love affair in turn-of-the-century Vienna was to scandalize a continent. The story of Princess Louise of Belgium and Geza Mattachich, stepson of a minor Croatian count, began with no more than an exchanged glance in a park. Yet the princess and her soldier, divided by wealth and status,…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 655 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 718) Аннотация: ‘Crime? What crime? … My killing a loathsome, harmful louse, a filthy old moneylender woman … and you call that a crime? Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: A young man arrives in the Ukraine, clutching in his hand a tattered photograph. He is searching for the woman who fifty years ago saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Unfortunately, however, he is aided in his quest by Alex, a translator with an uncanny ability to mangle English into bizarre new forms; a ‘blind’ old man haunted by memories of the war; and an undersexed guide dog named Sammy…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: White Teeth is a comic epic of multicultural Britain which tells the story of immigrants in England over a period of 40 years.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: The Penguin Writers' Guides series provides authoritative, succinct and easy-to-follow guidance on specific aspects of written English. Whether you need to brush up your skills or get to grips with something for the first time, these invaluable Guides will help you find the best way to get your message across clearly and effectively. Many of us are spending more and more time using emails,…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: 'On a slow chilly Sunday in January, shortly after the Lakers overcame a sixteen point halftime deficit and beat New Jersey, I got a call from a murderer'. Eight years ago, psychologist Alex Delaware evaluated two teenage boys charged with the shocking murder of young Kristal Malley. Now one of the killers is out of prison — and wants to meet up with Alex. But by the time the pair do come face to…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Philip Swallow, Morris Zapp, Persse McGarrigle, the lovely Angelica — the jet-propelled academics are on the move, in the air, on the make, in Small World.
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Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Glamour. Duty. Tragedy: The Woman Behind the Princess. Sarah Bradford delivers an authoritative and explosive study of the greatest icon of the twentieth century: Diana. After more than a decade interviewing those closest to the Princess and her select circle, Sarah Bradford exposes the real Diana: the blighted childhood, the old-fashioned courtship which saw her capture the Prince of Wales, the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: A heartwarming tale of a girl's constant affection and goodness through wealth and destitution. As a young child Sara Crewe is brought over from India by her father to join a girls' seminary in London. Her greatest joy is to «pretend» things to make life more magical, both for herself and those less fortunate than herself. She is a general favourite, but her splendid clothes, French maid and…
Скачать книгу (размер 519 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 103) Аннотация: Adventurer Richard Hannay has just returned from South Africa and is thoroughly bored with his London life — until a murder is committed in his flat, just days after the victim had warned him of an assassination plot that could bring Britain to the brink of war. An obvious suspect for the police and an easy target for the killers, Hannay goes on the run in his native Scotland, where he must use…
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: The sweet scents of rural life infuse this beautifully crafted collection of Roald Dahl's country stories, but there is always something unexpected lurking in the undergrowth ... Whether it is taking a troublesome cow to be mated with a prime bull; dealing with a rat-infested hayrick; learning the ways and means of maggot farming; or describing the fine art of poaching pheasants using nothing but…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 552) Аннотация: The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Reich in January 1945. Political instructors rammed home the message of Wehrmacht and SS brutality. The result was the most terrifying example of fire and sword ever known, with tanks crushing refugee columns under their tracks, mass rape, pillage and destruction. Hundreds of thousands of women and children froze to…