Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Somebody was in there. Somebody — or some thing... There is no room thirteen in the creepy Crow's Nest Hotel, where Fliss and her friends are staying on a school trip. Or is there? For at the stroke of midnight, something peculiar happens to the door of the linen cupboard next to room l2. And something is happening to Ellie-May Sunderland, too — something very sinister... This is a gripping…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: This seductive and evocative epic tells the extraordinary story of a geisha girl. It reveals the cruelty and ugliness of life behind the rice-paper screens, and summons up more than 20 years of Japan's most dramatic history.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: History offers few eras richer in drama than the last years of imperial Russia. Tsar Nicholas II and his wife, Empress Alexandra, presided over a glittering world of huge palaces, lavish balls, and incomparable luxury. Then their cherished son Alexis was born. His hemophilia led to their tragic entanglement with the bizarre Siberian mystic Rasputin and eventually to the disintegration of their…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Bring your child's classroom with the wonderfully imaginative Step-Ahead series. Proven educational methods reinforce what is taught in preschool through the elementary grades. Simple instructions, delightful graphics, and fun-to-do activities, such as this book with peel-and-stick stickers, motivate your child to master skills and turn the page for more.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Alice Munro's territory is the farms and semi-rural towns of south-western Ontario. In these dazzling stories she deals with the self-discovery of adolescence, the joys and pains of love and the despair and guilt of those caught in a narrow existence. And in sensitively exploring the lives of ordinary men and women, she makes us aware of the universal nature of their fears, sorrows and…
Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: Back for an amazing ninth printing, this is our bestselling book ever, a Catcher in the Rye for its generation and the basis for the Academy Award-nominated film. It tells the story of Enid and Rebecca, two above-it-all best friends confronted with the prospect of adulthood and the uncertain future of their friendship.
Скачать книгу (размер 4 155 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 816) Аннотация: From the award-winning translators of Crime and Punishment, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving Karamazov and his three sons — the impulsive and sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan; and the healthy young novice Alyosha. Through the gripping…
Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: A young boy and his wintertime friend share a magical night of friendship, fun, and flying in this award-winning, wordless story.
Скачать книгу (размер 922 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 182) Аннотация: Begun in the autumn of 1957 and published posthumously in 1964, this short book looks back to what it meant to be young and poor and writing in Paris during the 1920s. A correspondent for the Toronto Star, Hemingway arrived in Paris in 1921 — Braque and Picasso were experimenting with cubist forms; James Joyce had just completed Ulysses; and Gertude Stein held court at 27 rue de Fleurus, and…
Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: Simple instructions and delightful graphics motivate children to master skills... and turn the page for more. Each Workbook Contains: — Easy-to-follow directions; — Skill building exercises with delightful illustrations; — An assortment of colorful stickers; — 32 easy-tear-out pages; — Skill identifier at the bottom of each page; — An answer key.
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Simple instructions and delightful graphics motivate children to master skills... and turn the page for more. Each Workbook Contains: — Easy-to-follow directions; — Skill building exercises with delightful illustrations; — An assortment of colorful stickers; — 32 easy-tear-out pages; — Skill identifier at the bottom of each page; — An answer key.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 584 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 704) Аннотация: Evelyn Waugh's short stories are the marvelous, concentrated riffs of his comic genius, revealing in miniaturized perfection all the elements that made him the greatest comic writer of our century. We find in them Waugh's almost superhuman technical skill as a writer and his quicksilver attentiveness to the minutiae of human absurdity, as well as his worldly knowledge, his tenderness, his…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 992 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 784) Аннотация: Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horrified Russians in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived of Demons as a 'novel-pamphlet' in which he would say everything about the plague of materialist ideology that he saw infecting his native land. What emerged was a prophetic and ferociously funny masterpiece of ideology and murder in pre-revolutionary Russia.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Five classic short stories by Dostoevsky are collected in a single anthology for the first time, showcasing the author's strange and intoxicating literary genius.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: »50 Great Short Stories» is a comprehensive selection from the world' s finest short fiction. The authors represented range from Hawthorne, Maupassant, and Poe, through Henry James, Conrad, Aldous Huxley, and James Joyce, to Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter, Faulkner, E.B. White, Saroyan, and O' Connor. The variety in style and subject is enormous, but all these stories have one point in common —…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is the now-classic novel of two women in the 1980s: of gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode telling her life story to Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age. The tale she tells is also of two women — of the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth — who back in the thirties ran a little…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 829 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 752) Аннотация: Calder Moor is a wild and deadly place: many have been trapped in the myriad limestone caves, lost in collapsed copper mines, injured on perilous gritstone ridges. But this time, when two bodies are discovered in the shadow of the ancient circle of stones known as Nine Sisters Henge, it is clearly not a case for Mountain Rescue. The corpses are those of a young man and woman. Each met death in a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Wolverine, Cyclops, Jean Grey, Storm, and Rogue, mutants born with remarkable powers, band together as the X-Men to protect a world that fears and hates them from the powerful mutant Magneto.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: She's a catwalk model who has everything: a boyfriend, a career, a loyal best friend. But when a sudden motor 'accident' leaves her disfigured and incapable of speech, she goes from being the beautiful centre of attention to being an invisible monster, so hideous that no one will acknowledge she exists.
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Edmund has escaped from his family into a lonely life. Returning for his mother's funeral he finds himself involved in the same awful problems, together with some new ones. He also rediscovers the eternal family servant, the ever-changing «Italian girl».