Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Broad humor and bitter irony collide in this fictional autobiography of Rabo Karabekian, who, at age seventy-one, wants to be left alone on his Long Island estate with the secret he has locked inside his potato barn. But then a voluptuous young widow badgers Rabo into telling his life story — and Vonnegut in turn tells us the plain, heart-hammering truth about man's careless fancy to create or…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 758 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 346) Аннотация: A sardonic novel follows the bored wife of an anti-nuclear activist on a fantastic adventure from Canada to Italy, involving literary fame, a blackmailing reporter, menacing plots, passionate trysts, and life in death. Reissue.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: It was the quiet ones you had to watch. That's where the real passion was lurking. They came together at Mountainview College, a down-at-the-heels secondary school on the seamy side of Dublin, to take a course in Italian. It was Latin teacher Aidan Dunne's last chance to revive a failing marriage and a dead-end career. But Aidan's dream was headed for disaster until the mysterious Signora…
Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: A lion, a dog, and a tiger are having a contest — can they get ten apples piled up on top of their heads? You better believe it! This first counting book works as a teaching tool as well as a funny story.
Скачать книгу (размер 4 645 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 912) Аннотация: Tyrone Slothrop, a GI in London in 1944, has a big problem. Whenever he gets an erection, a Blitz bomb hits. Slothrop gets excited, and then (as Thomas Pynchon puts it in his sinister, insinuatingly sibilant opening sentence), a screaming comes across the sky, heralding an angel of death, a V-2 rocket. The novel's title, Gravity's Rainbow, refers to the rocket's vapor arc, a cruel dark parody of…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 671 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 721) Аннотация: With the same meticulous scholarship and narrative legerdemain she brought to her hugely popular Lymond Chronicles, our foremost historical novelist travels further into the past. In King Hereafter, Dorothy Dunnett's stage is the wild, half-pagan country of eleventh-century Scotland. Her hero is an ungainly young earl with a lowering brow and a taste for intrigue. He calls himself Thorfinn but…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 992 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 784) Аннотация: Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British Surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon Line. Here is their story as re-imagined by Thomas Pynchon, in an updated eighteenth-century novel featuring Native Americans and frontier folk, ripped bodices, naval warfare, conspiracies erotic and…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: They watched Danilo Silva for days before they finally grabbed him. He was living alone, a quiet life on a shady street in a small town in Brazil; a simple life in a modest home, certainly not one of luxury. Certainly no evidence of the fortune they thought he had stolen. He was much thinner and his face had been altered. He spoke a different language, and spoke it very well. But Danilo had a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: The Collector Collector takes a conventional boy-meets-girl story and turns it into a brilliant comic romp. The hero of Tibor Fischer's tale is an antique bowl that comes into the possession of a lovelorn, young London art appraiser named Rosa. Rosa's bowl is no ordinary piece of clay, however: it is a ceramic sage, an urn of uncommon erudition that has witnessed all of history's major…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 161 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 229) Аннотация: A delightfully contemporary story that explores the fun, the challenges, and the occasional absurdity of new beginnings, Steel's 40th novel — the third in a series of special format books — tells the story of two people who find love where and when they least expect it.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: A lavish erotic historical set in 1875. The morals of Queen Victoria mean nothing to London's wayward and debauched elite. Young but naive Clarissa Longleigh is visiting London for the first time. She is eager to meet Lord Marldon — the man to whom she's been promised — knowing only that he's handsome, dark and sophisticated. In fact he is depraved, louche, and has a taste for sexual excess.…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: The apology and confession of a minor mid-19th century Russian official, Notes From Underground, is a half-desperate, half-mocking political critique and a powerful, at times absurdly comical, account of man's breakaway from society and descent underground.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 034 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 204) Аннотация: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys ever undertaken. Now this cult classic of gonzo journalism is a major motion picture from Universal, directed by Terry…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Vineland, a zone of blessed anarchy in northern California, is the last refuge of hippiedom, a culture devastated by the sobriety epidemic, Reaganomics, and the Tube. Here, in an Orwellian 1984, Zoyd Wheeler and his daughter Prairie search for Prairie's long-lost mother, a Sixties radical who ran off with a narc. Vineland is vintage Pynchon, full of quasi-allegorical characters, elaborate…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: This is the first novel by the author of Gravity's Rainbow, and a profoundly impressive and original work in its own right. The search for the mysterious V ranges from New York to Cairo to Alexandria to Malta. Apart from its strange heroine, the book's characters include sailors, spies, priests, philosophers, bums and bawds.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 941 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 578) Аннотация: For nearly a decade, Willis has dazzled readers with her short fiction. Her first novel, Lincoln's Dreams, received unanimous high praise and won the John W. Campbell Award. Now she pens a sensational work about human struggle and redemption set in the time of the Black Plague.
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: A charming, hilariously funny and genuinely affectionate picture book from the acclaimed author-illustrator of Jesus' Christmas Party. A little girl is looking forward to the Queen's visit to her school — and wonders what knickers Her Majesty will choose to wear! Will they be her 'at home' knickers — adorned with corgis — or her garden party knickers, or perhaps her woolly Balmoral ones?…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 910 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 768) Аннотация: Based on a real-life crime which horrified Russia in 1869, this novel castigates the fanaticism of the country`s revolutionaries, particularly those known as Nihilists. It presents a disturbing portrait of five young men saturated in ideology and bent on destruction, and a study of terrorism.
Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: A baby bird is hatched while his mother is away. Fallen from his nest, he sets out to look for her and asks everyone he meets — including a dog, a cow, and a plane — Are you my mother?
Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: A madcap band of dancing, prancing monkeys explain hands, fingers, and thumbs to beginning readers.