Скачать книгу (размер 4 563 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 896) Аннотация: A magnificent drama of vengeance, infidelity, and retribution, «Anna Karenina» portrays the moving story of people whose emotions conflict with the dominant social mores of their time. Sensual, rebellious Anna falls deeply and passionately in love with the handsome Count Vronsky. When she refuses to conduct the discreet affair that her cold, ambitious husband (and Russian high society) would…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 456 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 679) Аннотация: For deft plotting, riotous inventiveness, unforgettable characters, and language that brilliantly captures the lively rhythms of American speech, no American writer comes close to Mark Twain. This sparkling anthology covers the entire span of Twain's inimitable yarn-spinning, from his early broad comedy to the biting satire of his later years. Every one of his sixty stories is here: ranging from…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: 2001: A Space Odyssey shocked, amazed, and delighted millions in the late 1960s. An instant book and movie classic, its fame has grown over the years. Yet along with the almost universal acclaim, a host of questions has grown more insistent through the years, for example: who or what transformed Dave Bowman into the Star-Child? What alien purpose lay behind the monoliths on the Moon and out in…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: It was a dark time for the rebel alliance... Han Solo, frozen in carbonite, had been delivered into the hands of the vile gangster Jabba the Hutt. Determined to rescue him, Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, and Lando Calrissian launched a hazardous mission against Jabba's Tatooine stronghold. The Rebel commanders gathered all the warships of the Rebel fleet into a single giant armada. And Darth…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: In Germany engulfed by war and hatred, the beautiful wife of an influential banker fell in love with a German author. His Jewish heritage led them both to death. The husband who survives her lives on to protect her memory, and their children. And the ring he passes on to his daughter, Ariana von Gotthard, remains a bond of love between them. Separated from her family, and unable to escape…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 298 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 648) Аннотация: The only cookbook that explains how to create authentic French dishes in American kitchens with American foods. Teaches the key techniques of French cooking, permitting many variations on a theme. Over 100 instructive drawings.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 390 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 470) Аннотация: Presents the major literary works of America's poet of democracy including: Song of Myself, Starting from Paumanok, and Children of Adam.
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: » I am a sick man... I am a spiteful man», the irascible voice of a nameless narrator cries out. And so, from underground, emerge the passionate confessions of a suffering man; the brutal self-examination of a tormented soul; the bristling scorn and iconoclasm of alienated individual who has become one of the greatest antiheroes in all literature. «Notes From Underground», published in 1864,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 697 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 334) Аннотация: The suicide of an elderly German Jew explodes into revelation after revelation: of a Mafia-like organization called «Odessa» ... of a real-life fugitive known as the «Butcher of Riga» ... of a young German journalist tumed obsessed avenger... and, ultimately, of brilliant, ruthless plot to reestablish the worldwide power of SS mass murderers and to carry out Hitler's chilling «Final Solution».
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Engineered from the finest genes, and trained to be a secret courier in a future world, Friday operates over a near-future Earth, where chaos reigns. Working at Boss's whimsical behest she travels from far north to deep south, finding quick, expeditious solutions as one calamity after another threatens to explode in her face....
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Lyric and sensual, D.H. Lawrence's last novel is one of the major works of fiction of the twentieth century. Filled with scenes of intimate beauty, explores the emotions of a lonely woman trapped in a sterile marriage and her growing love for the robust gamekeeper of her husband's estate. The most controversial of Lawrence's books, «Lady Chatterly's Lover» joyously affirms the author's vision of…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: In a remote corner of Zangaro, a small republic in Africa, lies Crystal Mountain. At certain times of the day the mountain emits a strange glow. Only Sir James Manson knows why. The mountain contains ten billion dollar's worth of the world's most valuable mineral, platinum. «Not only exciting but truly surprising»-Atlantic. Now the only question is, how to get hold of it. Sir James knows how.…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Russia faces famine. The Soviets are forced to pin their hopes for survival on the U.S. But as the KGB and the CIA watch in horror, the rescue of a Ukrainian freedom fighter from the Black Sea unleashes savagery that endangers peace — and plunges leaders from Washington to Moscow into a web of overwhelming intrigue, terror, and suspense. Only two lovers can save the world from nuclear…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: An exciting new edition of the complete works of Shakespeare with these features: Illustrated with photographs from New York Shakespeare Festival productions, vivid readable introductions for each play by noted scholar David Bevington, a lively personal foreword by Joseph Papp, an insightful essay on the play in performance, modern spelling and pronunciation, up-to-date annotated bibliographies,…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 869 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 760) Аннотация: Contains Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth.
Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Illus. in full color. «In Seuss's familiar rhymed couplets and illustrations, the Cat in the Hat shows Young Cat some wonderful stuff about reading with both eyes open». — School Library Journal.
Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Question: What do you get the kid who wants everything? Answer: Please Try to Remember the First of Octember!, the wonderfully exaggerated LeSeig Beginner Book that gently pokes fun at the green-eyed monster in all of us. Reissued with a new cover taken from the interior, this backlist classic is a parent's wish come true!
Скачать книгу (размер 177 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 36) Аннотация: Illus. in full color. A host of inventive creatures help beginning readers recognize many common «household» words.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: Hollywood legend Eve Benedict has finally decided to tell her life story to one lucky biographer. Renowned for having a heart as big the legend that surrounds her, Eve is also a woman of mystery whose passionate affairs and tempestuous marriages have fueled gossip columns for decades. She chooses Julia Summers, a writer with a fierce drive to uncover the truth — no matter what. Yet there are…
Скачать книгу (размер 361 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 72) Аннотация: The Cat in the Hat tells us three zany stories-in-verse about his son, his daughter, and his great-great-grandfather.