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Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: After the capture of Coruscant, the mighty heart of the New Republic, a stunned galaxy fears that nothing can stop the Yuuzhan Vong. Still, that crushing defeat produces one small miracle: Jacen Solo is alive. Yet he can scarcely imagine himself in stranger circumstances. The young Jedi Knight is in the care of Vergere, a fascinating creature of mystery and power, her intentions hard to fathom,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: As the Yuuzhan Vong's spectacular conquests continue unchecked, Luke Skywalker, Han and Leia Solo, and Wedge Antilles are forced to destroy what they have risked their lives to create... Scattering like rats before the Yuuzhan Vong's invasion of Coruscant, the panic-stricken members of the New Republic Advisory's Council pause just long enough to set up a mock defense on nearby Borleias — a…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Not since Emperor Palpatine have the Jedi battled such monstrous evil. Unless they succeed against staggering odds, the galaxy is doomed. Luke Skywalker's daring mission to halt the Yuuzhan Vong's nefarious plot to overthrow the New Republic is struggling on all fronts. And time is slipping away for Han and Leia Organa Solo, trapped on a small planet whose rulers are about to yield to Yuuzhan…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Begun in 1851, when Tolstoy was twenty-three and serving as a cadet in the Russian army, «Childhood», the first part of Tolstoy’s first novel, won immediate praise from Turgenev and others, and marked Tolstoy’s emergence as a major writer. Its originality was striking, as Tolstoy sought to communicate with great immediacy the “poetry” of childhood — the intense emotions, confusions, and fears…

Скачать книгу (размер 4 165 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 818) Аннотация: The complexity and range of Robert Louis Stevenson's short fiction reveals his genius perhaps more than any other medium. Here, leading Stevenson scholar Barry Menikoff arranges and introduces the complete selection of Stevenson's brilliant stories, including the famed masterpiece «Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde», as well as «The Beach of Falesa» and Stevenson's previously uncollected…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: In her fifty-second bestselling novel, Danielle Steel weaves a compelling story of the power of lies, the misuse of trust — and of one woman's triumph over a devastating betrayal. Marie-Ange Hawkins has the kind of childhood that most people dream of. Freedom, love, security in a beautiful old French château. But when Marie-Ange is just eleven, a tragic accident marks the end of her idyllic…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: In this dark and compelling short novel, Fyodor Dostoevsky tells the story of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young tutor working in the household of an imperious Russian general. Alexey tries to break through the wall of the established order in Russia, but instead becomes mired in the endless downward spiral of betting and loss. His intense and inescapable addiction is accentuated by his affair with the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Henry Wilt, tied to a daft job and a domineering wife, has just been passed over for promotion yet again. Ahead of him at the Polytechnic stretch years of trying to thump literature into the heads of plasterers, joiners, butchers and the like. And things are no better at home where his massive wife, Eva, is given to boundless and unpredictable fits of enthusiasm — for transcendental meditation,…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 672) Аннотация: Twenty years ago, a boy named Jack Sawyer travelled to a parallel universe called The Territories to save his mother and her Territories «twinner» from a premature and agonizing death that would have brought cataclysm to the other world. Now Jack is a retired Los Angeles homicide detective living in the nearly nonexistent hamlet of Tamarack, WI. He has no recollection of his adventures in the…

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: In «Aiding and Abetting», the doyenne of literary satire has written a wickedly amusing and subversive novel around the true-crime case of one of England’s most notorious uppercrust scoundrels and the “aiders and abetters” who kept him on the loose. When Lord Lucan walks into psychiatrist Hildegard Wolf’s Paris office, there is one problem: she already has a patient who says he’s Lucan, the…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: After finding the mark of Aegis-fang branded on the back of an outlaw, Drizzt Do'Urden fears that his long-missing friend Wulfgar is in danger and sets out with Cattie-brie and Bruenor to find Wulfgar and ensure his safety.

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: August 1991. In a sweltering New York City apartment, a group of Russian émigrés gathers round the deathbed of an artist named Alik, a charismatic character beloved by them all, especially the women who take turns nursing him as he fades from this world. Their reminiscences of the dying man and of their lives in Russia are punctuated by debates and squabbles: Whom did Alik love most?…

Скачать книгу (размер 968 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 191) Аннотация: »Beobachten statt phantasieren« — so lautet das Motto des russischen, in Berlin lebenden Erfolgsautors. Mit scharfem Blick für die Skurrilitäten des Alltags beschreibt Kaminer Menschen und Schicksale in Deutschlands junger Hauptstadt.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: In her most masterful novel of medical suspense, New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen creates a villain of unforgettable evil — and the one woman who can catch him before he kills again. He slips into their homes at night and walks silently into bedrooms where women lie sleeping, unaware of the horrors they soon will endure. The precision of the killer's methods suggests he is a…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: The stories in this collection move from Malaya to America and England, and include some of Maugham's most famous tales; 'Flotsam and Jetsam', the story of an old woman trapped for years in a loveless marriage in the remote rubber plantations; 'The Man with the Scar', and notably the opening story 'The Vessel of Wrath', a tale of the unexpected love that grows between a devout missionary nurse…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: The third volume of Somerset Maugham's Collected Short Stories, introduced by the author, contains the celebrated series about Ashenden, a secret service agent in World War I. Based on Maugham's own experiences with the British Intelligence service in Switzerland, the stories are vignettes in which he dramatizes both the romance and absurdity of espionage as well as its ruthlessness and…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: This final classic collection of stories reveals Somerset Maugham's unique talent for exposing and exploring the bitter realities of human relationships. Brilliant tales of love, infidelity, passion and prejudice, the stories range from 'The Lotus Eater' in which a man has a vision of a life of bliss in the Mediterranean, to the astringent tales of 'The Outstation' and 'The Back of Beyond' in…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: To illuminate the mysterious greatness of Anton Chekhov's writings, Janet Malcolm takes on three roles: literary critic, biographer, and journalist. Her close readings of the stories and plays are interwoven with episodes from Chekhov's life and framed by an account of Malcolm's journey to St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Yalta. She writes of Chekhov's childhood, his relationships, his travels, his…

Скачать книгу (размер 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 40) Аннотация: Bilbo's Last Song is a poem written by Bilbo, hero adventurer of The Hobbit, before he leaves Middle Earth to take a ship to the Undying Lands beyond the sunset at the end of The Lord of the Rings. Pauline Baynes' illustrations depict the journey that brings the ring bearers and the company of elves to the Grey Havens and the ship that is waiting to take them on their final journey. Running…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 411 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 474) Аннотация: My name is Meredith Gentry, but of course it's not my real name. I dare not even whisper my true name after dark for fear that one hushed word will travel over the night winds to the soft ear of my aunt, the Queen of the Air and Darkness. She wants me dead. I don't even know why. Meredith Gentry, Princess of the high court of Faerie, is posing as a human in Los Angeles, living as a P.I.…