Скачать книгу (размер 758 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 150) Аннотация: Beowulf is the earliest extant poem in a modern European languagea reflecting a feudal, newly Christian world of heroes and monsters, blood and victory, life and death. Its beauty, power, and artistry have kept it alive for more than thirteen centuries.
Скачать книгу (размер 4 726 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 928) Аннотация: The quintessential novel from England's most beloved novelist, David Copperfield is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful author.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Spirited Elizabeth Bennet matches wits and wiles of the heart with the arrogant Mr. Darcy in this entertaining portrait of matrimonial rites and rivalries in Regency England.
Скачать книгу (размер 519 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 103) Аннотация: Our bestselling series is fit for a queen The life of Queen Elizabeth I was dramatic and dangerous: cast out of her father as court at the age of three and imprisoned at nineteen, Elizabeth was crowned queen in 1558, when she was only twenty-five. A tough, intelligent woman who spoke five languages, Elizabeth ruled for over forty years and led England through one of its most prosperous periods in…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 865 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 563) Аннотация: The Age Of Turbulence is Alan Greenspanas incomparable reckoning with the contemporary financial world, channeled through his own experiences working in the command room of the global economy longer and with greater effect than any other single living figure. Following the arc of his remarkable lifeas journey through his more than eighteen-year tenure as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board to…
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: On an ordinary summer's afternoon, Alice tumbles down a hole and an extraordinary adventure begins. In a strange world with even stranger characters, she meets a rabbit with a pocket watch, joins a Mad Hatter's Tea Party, and plays croquet with the Queen! Lost in this fantasy land, Alice finds herself growing more and more curious by the minute... With a wonderfully inspiring introduction by…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Islam today is a truly global faith, yet it remains somewhat of an enigma to many of us. Each and every day our newspapers are saturated with references to Islam; Quran, Taliban, Hijab, Fatwa, Allah, Sunni, Jihad, Shia, the list goes on. But how much do we really understand? Are we, in fact, misunderstanding? The Penguin Dictionary of Islam provides complete, impartial answers. It includes…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 059 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 405) Аннотация: Издание полностью на английском языке. Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения.
Скачать книгу (размер 478 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 95) Аннотация: »One of the greatest political fables of all time... It is the book for everyone and Everyman, its brightness undimmed after fifty years» Ruth Rendell, Daily Telegraf. Having got rid of their human master, the animals of Manor Farm look forward to a life of freedom and plenty. But as a clever, ruthless elite among them takes control, the other animals find themselves hopelessly ensnared in the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 319 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 456) Аннотация: When Lolita was first published in 1955 it created a sensation and established Nabokov as one of the most original prose writers of the twentieth century. This annotated edition, a revised and considerably expanded version of the 1970 edition, does full justice to the textual riches of Lolita, illuminating the elaborate verbal textures and showing how they contribute to the novel's overall…
Скачать книгу (размер 5 379 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1056) Аннотация: Oh, if you were the kind of man I am … I loved the shame of depravity. I loved cruelty … In a word – a Karamazov!’ The murder of brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov changes the lives of his sons irrevocably: Mitya, the sensualist, whose bitter rivalry with his father immediately places him under suspicion for parricide; Ivan, the intellectual, whose mental tortures drive him to breakdown; the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Credited with inventing the modern horror tradition, H. P. Lovecraft remade the genre in the early twentieth century, discarding ghosts and witches and instead envisaging mankind at the mercy of a chaotic and malevolent universe. This selection of stories ranges from early tales of nightmares and insanity such as ‘The Outsider’ and ‘Rats in the Walls’, through the grotesquely comic ‘Herbert West…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: An almanac with a difference! A fun-filled compendium bursting with Dahl-tastic treats: jokes, activities, fun facts and extracts from Roald Dahl's own letters. Split into different months, following the school year from September to August, this is the perfect book for all kids — whether they're Roald Dahl fans or not — to dip into and pick up a funny / extraordinary / unbelievable fact.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in the provincial town of 'N', visiting a succession of landowners and making each a strange offer. He proposes to buy the names of dead serfs still registered on the census, saving their owners from paying tax on them, and to use these 'souls' as collateral to re-invent himself as a gentleman. In this ebullient masterpiece, Gogol created a grotesque…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Remember when cereal boxes came with a free prize inside? You already liked the cereal, but once you saw that there was a free prize inside — something small yet precious — it became irresistible. In his new book, Seth Godin shows how you can make your customers feel that way again. Free Prize Inside is jammed with practical ideas you can use right now to MAKE SOMETHING HAPPEN, no matter what…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: The Wilson family was torn apart the night little Christopher was almost killed ... Though the two year-old survives the brutal attack by his drunken father, his older sister Kaitlyn is convinced it's all her fault. Christopher is taken into care and never returns to the family home on the notorious Roxford estate in South London. But the bond between the siblings remains strong, and as Kaitlyn…
Скачать книгу (размер -1 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1) Аннотация: An indispensable companion to this country of inspiring landscapes and rich culture. The map covers every corner, taking in the handsome architecture of Prague to the spa towns of West Bohemia and the alpine splendour of the high Tatra mountains. for those travelling by car, there is detail of the road surfaces, distances between towns, road numbers, petrol stations and places of interest from…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Kerstin Kvist enters crumbling Lydstep Old Hall to live with the Cosways and to act as nurse to John: a grown man fed drugs by his family to control his lunatic episodes. But John's strangeness is grotesquely mirrored in that of his four sisters who roam the dark, mazy Essex country house under the strict gaze of eighty-year-old Mrs Cosway. Despite being treated as an outsider, Kerstin is…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Audacious, controversial and hilarious, The Monkey Wrench Gang is Edward Abbey's masterpiece — a big, boisterous and unforgettable novel about freedom and commitment that ignited the flames of environmental activism. Throughout the vast American West, nature is being vicitimized by a Big Government / Big Business conspiracy of bridges, dams and concrete. But a motley gang of individuals has…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: At the centre of Music for Chameleons is Handcarved Coffins, a ‘nonfiction novel’ based on the brutal crimes of a real-life murderer. Taking place in a small Midwestern town in America, it offers chilling insights into the mind of a killer and the obsession of the man bringing him to justice. Also in this volume are six short stories and seven ‘conversational portraits’ including a touching one…