Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: The 1993 Booker Prize-winner. Paddy Clarke, a ten-year-old Dubliner, describes his world, a place full of warmth, cruelty, love, sardines and slaps across the face. He's confused; he sees everything but he understands less and less.
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Children can now enjoy their favourite Poppy story, time and time again with this brilliant picture book and DVD set. The DVD features a soundtrack read by Tamzin Outhwaite, animated stills from the book and brilliant music and sound effects. It's Poppy's birthday and she's really excited. She simply can't wait to be a birthday princess! But everyone seems so busy — it's as if no one cares about…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 672) Аннотация: Set entirely on one day, 16 June 1904, «Ulysses» follows Leopold Bloom and Stephen Daedalus as they go about their daily business in Dublin. From this starting point, James Joyce constructs a novel of extraordinary imaginative richness and depth. Unique in the history of literature, «Ulysses» is one of the most important and enjoyable works of the twentieth century. «Ulysses» was Paris in 1922.…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: At twenty-nine, fun-loving, good-natured Claire has everything she ever wanted: a husband she adores, a great apartment, a good job. Then, on the day she gives birth to her first baby, James visits her in the recovery room to inform her that he's leaving her. Claire is left with a beautiful newborn daughter, a broken heart, and a body that she can hardly bear to look at in the mirror. So, in the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: This narration of a summer motorcycle trip undertaken by a father and his son becomes a text which speaks directly to the confusions and agonies of existence, detailing a personal, philosophical odyssey.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Bob Lee Swagger has seen enough of war and fighting for any man: his past as a Marine Corps sniper and later as a self-appointed avenger has been a bloody one. But the hope that he is finished with combat are dashed with a visit from Colonel Philip Yano. Yano has come to America to find a samurai sword that Bob's father took from Yano's dying father in the desperate battle for Iwo Jima in 1945.…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Tessa has just a few months to live. Fighting back against hospital visits, endless tests, drugs with excruciating side-effects, Tessa compiles a list. It's her To Do Before I Die list. And number one is sex. Released from the constraints of 'normal' life, Tessa tastes new experiences to make her feel alive while her failing body struggles to keep up. Tessa's feelings, her relationships with her…
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Barrytown, Dublin, has something to sing about. The Commitments are spreading the gospel of the soul. Ably managed by Jimmy Rabitte, brilliantly coached by Joel 'The Lips' Fagan, their twin assault on Motown and Barrytown takes them by leaps and bounds from paris hall to immortality on vinyl. But can The Commitments live up to their name?
Скачать книгу (размер 3 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 672) Аннотация: Born at the stroke of midnight at the exact moment of India's independence, Saleem Sinai is a special child. However, this coincidence of birth has consequences he is not prepared for: telepathic powers connect him with 1,000 other 'midnight's children' all of whom are endowed with unusual gifts. Inextricably linked to his nation, Saleem's story is a whirlwind of disasters and triumphs that…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Centres around Kaspar Krone, a world-renowned circus clown with a deep love for the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, and an even deeper gambling debt. Wanted for tax evasion and on the verge of extradition, Krone is drafted into the service of a mysterious order of nuns who promise him reprieve from the international authorities.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: Published two weeks after his seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of Nabokov's greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist. It tells a love story troubled by incest. But more: it is also at once a fairy tale, epic, philosophical treatise on the nature of time, parody of the history of the novel, and erotic catalogue. Ada, or Ardor is no less than the supreme…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (he had read somewhere that nearly 3 million Americans believed they had been abducted by aliens — as he later put it, it was clear my people needed me). They were greeted by a new and improved America that boasts microwave pancakes, twenty-four-hour dental-floss…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Offers a guide to this extraordinary river and the towns and villages which line it. Exploring its history since prehistoric times, this book shows the fishes that swam in the river and the boats that plied its surface; about floods and tides; hauntings and suicides; miasmas and malaria; locks, weirs and embankments; bridges, docks and palaces.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Twenty-three-year-old Zhuang (or Z as she calls herself) arrives in London to spend a year learning English. Struggling to find her way in the city, and through the puzzles of tense, verb and adverb; she falls for an older Englishman and begins to realise that the landscape of love is an even trickier terrain.
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: 'Bed time, Baby Bat. Time to brush your teeth and your face. Have you washed behind your wings? Thought not'. Baby Bat is full of beans and he does not want to go to bed. At least not until Snail, Caterpillar, Spider and the Moon are tucked in and he thinks the whole world is sleeping. Will Mummy Bat ever manage to get Baby Bat off to sleep?
Скачать книгу (размер 3 910 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 768) Аннотация: On a brisk autumn day, a thirteen-year-old boy stands on the shores of the gray Atlantic, near a silent amusement park and a fading ocean resort called the Alhambra. The past has driven Jack Sawyer here: his father is gone, his mother is dying, and the world no longer makes sense. But for Jack everything is about to change. For he has been chosen to make a journey back across America-and into…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 452 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 286) Аннотация: The ultimate dictionary for lovers of Provence: Peter Mayle's personal selection of the foods, customs and words he finds most fascinating, curious, delicious, or just plain fun. Though organized from A to Z, this is hardly a conventional work of reference. In more than 170 entries, Peter Mayle--bestselling author of A Year in Provence — writes about subjects as wide-ranging as architecture and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: In this stunning novel Andre Dubus III set in present-day California a story of human conflict that has the power and resonance of a classical tragedy. Working on a road crew in California, a former colonel in the Shah's Air Force yearns to restore his family's dignity. When an attractive bungalow comes up at a country auction for a fraction of its value, he sees an opportunity to dream his own…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Pnin is a professor of Russian at an American college who takes the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he cannot master. Pnin is a tireless lover who writes to his treacherous Liza: «A genius needs to keep so much in store, and thus cannot offer you the whole of himself as I do.» Pnin is the focal point of subtle academic conspiracies he cannot begin to comprehend, yet he stages a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: In Pale Fire Nabokov offers a cornucopia of deceptive pleasures: a 999-line poem by the recluse genius John Shade: an adoring foreward and commentary by Shade's self-styled Boswell, Dr. Charles Kinbote: a darkly comic novel of suspense, literary idolatry and one-upmanship, and political intrigue.