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Скачать книгу (размер 1 243 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 245) Аннотация: At his club that day, Fogg bet half his fortune that he could travel the world in an easterly direction in eighty days; so he and Passepartout begin their voyage. But Detective Fix of Scotland Yard finds it coincidental that Fogg should want to escape England in such a hurry while there is a robber on the loose. Convinced they are one and the same person he joins them on the first leg of their…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 090 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 215) Аннотация: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein blends Gothic horror and romance in a story that is both world-famous and increasingly relevant. Frankenstein is a young, idealistic student of natural philosophy who, finding the secret of giving life to matter creates a living being. The monstrous creation, though tender-hearted and gentle in nature, inspires fear in those who meet him and must hide away from…

Скачать книгу (размер 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 188) Аннотация: Издание полностью на английском языке. Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения. The parties at Gatsby's Long Island mansion were legendarily glamorous affairs. Yet amid the throng of guests, starlets and champagne waiters, their host would appear oddly aloof. For there was only one person Jay Gatsby sought to impress. She was Daisy Buchanan: married, elegant, seducing men with a silken…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 436 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 479) Аннотация: At the age of ten, shy, vulnerable Fanny Price leaves behind her impoverished family in Portsmouth to go and live with her rich relatives at Mansfield Park. Growing up with her cousins Tom, Edmund, Maria and Julia, she is aware that she is different from them and that her place in society cannot be taken for granted, although she is not treated unkindly. A dashing couple from London, Mary…

Скачать книгу (размер 937 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 185) Аннотация: J.M. Barrie's immortal story of Peter Pan, the boy who will never grow up. From the moment when Peter Pan and his irritable fairy friend Tinker Bell fly in through the nursery window, the story casts a magic spell. The Darling children are carried away to the Neverland where they meet the Lost Boys, watch shy mermaids playing in the blue lagoon and encounter Captain Hook and his wicked pirate…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 370 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 270) Аннотация: A haunting tale of suspense and intrigue set in nineteenth-century Paris. As Monsieurs Richard and Moncharmin prepare to take over as acting managers of the Opera House, they discover their predecessors have bequeathed them the 'Opera Ghost'. A separate memorandum-book has been set aside for his various whims, including extravagant financial needs. Heedless of the numerous warnings to comply with…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Издание полностью на английском языке. Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 300) Аннотация: It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. The opening of Jane Austen's ever-popular novel sets the tone of her sparkling comedy of manners and morals. There are five daughters in the Bennet family and marriage is the only career open to them. There is naturally much excitement when two young men of good fortune move into…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 513 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 298) Аннотация: Robinson Crusoe has captured the imagination of countless readers with its vivid evocation of one man's survival on a remote island, far from the civilization he knows. Thought to be one of the first English novels, Robinson Crusoe is the timeless story of a merchant's trading voyages and adventures at sea, his shipwreck and subsequent life marooned alone. Based on the life of Alexander Selkirk,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Set in the harsh Puritan community of seventeenth-century Boston, this tale of an adulterous entanglement that results in an illegitimate birth reveals Nathaniel Hawthorne's concerns with the tension between the public and the private selves. Publicly disgraced and ostracized, Hester Prynne draws on her inner strength and certainty of spirit to emerge as the first true heroine of American…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 276) Аннотация: Left to herself there is little to do apart from explore the huge, gloomy house and its surroundings until, one sunny morning, she stumbles across a secret garden, hidden behind ivy-clad walls. For the first time in her sad short life she has found something to care for and she determines to restore the garden to its former glory. As the garden begins to bloom and is magically transformed no one…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 584 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 508) Аннотация: Издание полностью на английском языке. Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 416 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 279) Аннотация: One of the most passionate and heartfelt novels ever written, Wuthering Heights tells of the relationship between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, the orphan boy her father adopted and brought to Wuthering Heights when they were children. While Catherine forms a deep attachment to Heathcliff, her brother Hindley despises him as a rival. Heathcliff becomes torn between love for Catherine and the…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: In his most provocative and caustically funny book yet, Greg Palast, author of the national bestseller «The Best Democracy Money Can Buy», once again gives us the straight scoop on the stories that Big Media won’t report. Digging up reams of documents marked “secret” and “confidential”, Palast provides the latest lowdown on Bush’s secret plans to seize Iraq’s oil, the fix planned for the 2008…

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Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: The residents of Pickax are about to celebrate the 150th anniversary of its founding. But in the midst of all the preparations, Qwill has to take time out to deal with Koko's strange new habit of dropping from balconies and landing in the oddest of places-and a couple that has mysteriously gone missing.

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Now in a beautiful paperback edition, David Lynch's «Catching the Big Fish» provides a rare window into the internationally acclaimed filmmaker's methods as an artist, his personal working style, and the immense creative benefits he has experienced from the practice of meditation. «Catching the Big Fish» comes as a revelation to the legion of fans who have longed to better understand Lynch's…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Here is an entertaining and easily referenced presentation of insider information to the world that J.K. Rowling has created in her spellbinding series of novels. The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to the World of Harry Potter explores all aspects of the wizarding world and explains factually in terms of their relationship to historical, literary, religious, scientific, or mythological roots. — In-depth…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: In the late eighteenth century, plantation owner Damien du Bourg struck an unholy bargain with a fallen angel: an eternity of inspiring lust in others for the gift of immortality. But when Marley Turner stumbles upon Damien's plantation searching for her missing sister, for the first time in two hundred years it's Damien who can't resist the lure of a woman. But his past sins aren't so easily…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: Penguin Books is proud to now be the sole publisher of Oil!, the classic 1927 novel by Upton Sinclair. After writing The Jungle, his scathing indictment of the meatpacking industry, Sinclair turned his sights on the early days of the California oil industry in a highly entertaining story featuring a cavalcade of characters including senators, oil magnets, Hollywood film starlets, and a crusading…