Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: In this sixth installment of «The Vampire Chronicles», Rice brings readers the story of the eternally young Armand. Introduced as a minor player in the classic «Interview With the Vampire», Armand now takes his place center stage as he relates his 500-year history. Features an exclusive interview with Rice.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 992 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 784) Аннотация: It's a fear more paralyzing than falling. More terrifying than darkness. More horrifying than anything you can imagine. It's the one fear you cannot escape, no matter where you run... no matter where you hide. It's the fear of yourself. It's real. It can happen to you. And facing it can be deadly. «Fear for your mind».
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: This collection of Somerset Maugham's short stories includes stories based in England, France and Spain, as well as the South Pacific. It includes Rain, the tradgedy of a missionary and a prostitute and The Three Fat Women of Antibes, a sardonic tale of abstention and greed.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: A historical tale marking a new turn in Doyle's writing. Born in the slums of Dublin in 1902, his father a one-legged whorehouse bouncer, Henry Smart has to grow up fast. He eventually becomes a Fenian, a rebel, a republican legend — one of Michael Collins's boys, an assassin on a stolen bike.
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Written in 1944 but first published in 1985, The Tenth Man is set in a prison in occupied France during World War II and concerns Lewis Chavel, a captured rich lawyer who is probably going to be shot in a German act of reprisal. In a prison in Occupied France one in every ten men is to be shot. The prisoners draw lots among themselves — and for lawyer Louis Chavel it seems that his whole life has…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: A celebrated writer by the time the war broke out in 1914, Somerset Maugham was dispatched by the Secret Service to Lucerne — under the guise of completing a play. An assignment whose danger and drama appealed both to his sense of romance and of the ridiculous. The stories collected in ASHENDEN are rooted in Maugham's own experiences as an agent, reflecting the ruthlessness and brutality of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Far Eastern Tales is a collection of short stories born of Maugham's experiences in Malaya, Singapore and other outposts of the former British Empire. Whether portraying a ship-borne flight from a lover's curse, murder in the jungle, or a marriage shattered by a past indiscretion, they all reveal Maugham at his best — sometimes caustic, sometimes gently comic, but always the shrewd and human…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Set in the bohemian cafe society of Paris at the turn of the nineteenth century, Maugham's exploration of hypnotism and the occult was inspired by the sinister black magician Aleister Crowley. At the start of this compulsive gothic horror story, Arthur and his beautiful, innocent fiancee Margaret look forward to an idyllic life together, until they encounter the mesmerising and repulsive Oliver…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: From the love affair between a missionary and a drunkard to the mystery surrounding a death at sea, this collection gives a warm and humourous insight into life and history of life in the colonies and stands as a superbly entertaining and compelling testament to Maugham's skill and power as a short story writer.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 375 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 467) Аннотация: Called the greatest of short story writer, Anton Chekhov changed the genre itself with his spare, impressionistic depictions of Russian life and the human condition. Now, thirty of his best tales from the major periods of his creative life are available in this outstanding one volume edition. Included are Chekhov's characteristically brief, evocative early pieces such as «The Huntsman» from 1885,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 727 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 340) Аннотация: A guide to returning depth, meaning and spirituality to personal relationships, showing how a rich, meaningful love can be rediscovered by restoring the missing element of spirituality. Chopra presents the timeless laws of love, together with suggestions for bringing them into daily use.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: One of Time magazine's 100 all-time best English-language novels. Only once in a great while does a writer come along who defies comparison-a writer so original he redefines the way we look at the world. Neal Stephenson is such a writer and Snow Crash is such a novel, weaving virtual reality, Sumerian myth, and just about everything in between with a cool, hip cybersensibility to bring us the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: In Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson took science fiction to dazzling new levels. Now, in The Diamond Age, he delivers another stunning tale. Set in twenty-first century Shanghai, it is the story of what happens when a state-of-the-art interactive device falls in the hands of a street urchin named Nell. Her life — and the entire future of humanity — is about to be decoded and reprogrammed...
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: Every year on his birthday, Ned Dunstan is cursed with visions of horror committed by a savage figure he calls Mr. X. This year, Ned's visions will become flesh and blood — as a journey into his family's past brings him face-to-face with his darkest nightmares.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: A catastrophic, unexplainable plane crash leaves three hundred and thirty dead — no survivors. Among the victims are the wife and two daughters of Joe Carpenter, a Los Angeles Post crime reporter. A year after the crash, still gripped by an almost paralyzing grief, Joe encounters a woman named Rose, who claims to have survived the crash. She holds out the possibility of a secret that will bring…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: The photographs by Annie Leibovitz in Women, taken especially for the book, encompass a broad spectrum of subjects: a rap artist, an astronaut, two Supreme Court justices, farmers, coal miners, movie stars, showgirls, rodeo riders, socialites, reporters, dancers, a maid, a general, a surgeon, the First Lady of the United States, the secretary of state, a senator, rock stars, prostitutes,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: These two renowned writers have invented a world not unlike our own — a world on the edge of chaos, torn between the madness of religious fanaticism and the stubborn denial of scientists. Only a handful of people on the planet Lagash are prepared to face the truth — that their six suns are setting all at once for the first time in 2,000 years, signaling the end of civilization!
Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Blast off for educational fun! Beginning readers and budding astronomers are launched via Seussian sorcery on a wild trip to visit the nine planets in our solar system along with the Cat in the Hat, Thing One, Thing Two, and Dick and Sally.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 141 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 225) Аннотация: The Return Journey — a spellbinding trip into the human heart... In these powerful, poignant tales, the «New York Times» bestselling author of Evening Class and Tara Road once again reveals her unrivaled understanding of matters of the heart. Here are sons and lovers, daughters and strangers, husbands and wives in their infinite variety — powerfully compelling stories of love and loss, revelation…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 391 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 274) Аннотация: Slapstick presents an apocalyptic vision as seen through the eyes of the current King of Manhattan (and last President of the United States), a wickedly irreverent look at the all-too-possible results of today's follies. But even the end of life-as-we-know-it is transformed by Kurt Vonnegut's pen into hilarious farce — a final slapstick that may be the Almighty's joke on us all.