Скачать книгу (размер 361 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 72) Аннотация: »The hero of this hilarious tale discovers that in attempting to avoid trouble one often encounters even greater difficulties. Seuss fans will be enthralled.»
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Here are eleven exuberant essays on the pleasures of writing from one of the most creative, imaginative, and prolific artists of the twentieth century — an author who truly enjoys his craft and tells you why and how. Bradbury shares his wisdom and enthusiasm for writing as he examines a lifetime of creating and composing scores of stories, novels, plays, poems, films, television programs, and…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: A companion novel to Slaughterhouse 5, covering similar themes and drawing on the author's experiences as a prisoner of war in Dresden. A black satire, it tells of an American spy in Germany who becomes confused by his own methods as he sends his coded messages by using pro-Nazi radio broadcasts.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Nabokov's third novel, The Defense, is a chilling story of obsession and madness. As a young boy, Luzhin was unattractive, distracted, withdrawn, sullen — an enigma to his parents and an object of ridicule to his classmates. He takes up chess as a refuge from the anxiety of his everyday life. His talent is prodigious and he rises to the rank of grandmaster — but at a cost: in Luzhin' s obsessive…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 538 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 499) Аннотация: A weary concert violinist, unable to endure one more grueling tour, looks forward to relaxing in Innocence, Mississippi, at her grandmother's secluded old bayou home. But the sleepy bliss is shattered formever one steamy summer night when a single spark ignites a deadly crime of passion.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: When the spoilt and haughty Dona Constanza tries to divert a river to fill her swimming pool, she starts a running battle with the locals. The skirmishes are so severe that the Government dispatches a squadron of soldiers led by the fat, brutal and stupid Figueras to deal with them. Despite visiting plagues of laughing fits and giant cats upon the troops, the villagers know that to escape the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: The three laws of Robotics: 1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 2) A robot must obey orders givein to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. With this, Asimov changed our…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: The arrival of a spaceship from Earth — destroyed when its sun went nova — carrying five million Earthlings in suspended animation, as well as an uncensored cultural record of Earth, threatens to destroy the paradisiacal planet of Thalassa.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: There is a woman haunted by her dreams of her dead mother. There is an adulterous couple stepping over the line where the initial excitement ends and the pain begins. There is a widow visiting a Scottish village in search of her husband's past and instead discovering unsettling truths about a total stranger. The ten stories in this collection not only astonish and delight but also convey the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Leichtsinnig und romantisch, ehrgeizig und kaltblütig, Leitstern der Troubadoure, eine meisterhafte Politikerin, wenig besser als eine Dirne — all diese Eigenschaften wurden der grossen Königin des 12. Jahrhunderts von der Überlieferung nachgesagt. Was davon wahr ist? Vielleicht ein wenig von allem. Aufgewachsen an einem der kultiviertesten Höfe der Zeit, fand die junge,…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 672) Аннотация: At a small-town carnival two men, each mysteriously summoned by telegram, witness a bizarre killing. The telegrams are signed Jason Bourne. Only they know Bourne's true identity and understand the telegram is really a message from Bourne's mortal enemy, Carlos, known also as the Jackal, the world's deadliest and most elusive terrorist.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Led by its founding father, the great psycho-historian Hari Seldon, and taking advantage of its superior science and technology, the Foundation survived the greed and barbarism of its neighboring warrior-planets. Yet now it must face the Empire — still the mightiest force in the Galaxy, even in its death throes. When an ambitious general determined to restore the Empire's glory turns the vast…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: At last, the costly and bitter war between the two Foundations had come to an end. The scientists of the First Foundation had proved victorious; and now they retum to Hari Seldon's long-established plan to build a new Empire that the Second Foundation is not destroyed after all — and that its still — defiant survivors are preparing their revenge. Now the two exiled citizens of the Foundation — a…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 339 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 656) Аннотация: The first and most autobiographical of Maugham's masterpieces. It is the story of Philip Carey, an orphan eager for life, love and adventure. After a few months studying in Heidelberg, and a brief spell in Paris as a would-be artist, he settles in London to train as a doctor where he meets Mildred, the loud but irresistible waitress with whom he plunges into a tortured and masochistic affair.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: For the first time Asimov chronicles the life of Hari Seldon, the man who laid the framework for the universe that came to be known as the Foundation. The long-awaited overture to the greatest science fiction series of all time.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: So far the Foundation was safe. But there was a hidden Second Foundation to protect the first. The Mule has yet to find it, but he was getting closer all the time. The men of the Foundation sought it, too, to escape from Mule's mind control. Only Arkady, a 14 year-old girl seemed to have the answer, or did she...?
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: A humor classic by one of the funniest writers today, Side Effects is a treat for all those who know his work and those just discovering how gifted he is. Included here are such classics as Remembering Needleman, The Kugelmass Episode, a new sory called Confessions Of A Buglar, and more.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 268 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 446) Аннотация: The Godfather is the Mafia leader Vito Corleone, a benevolent despot who stops at nothing to gain and hold power. Set in Long Island, Hollywood and Sicily, this is a story of a feudal society within society which does not hesitate to consolidate its power.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Part of the omnibus series, this volume contains «The Mating Season», «Ring for Jeeves» and «Very Good Jeeves». Other titles in the omnibus series are «Jeeves 1», «Jeeves 2», «Aunts», «Golf» and «Drones».
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Prisoner of war, optometrist, time-traveller — these are the life roles of Billy Pilgrim, hero of this miraculously moving, bitter and funny story of innocence faced with apocalypse. «Slaughterhouse 5» is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centring on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden in the Second World War, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the journey of our own fractured…