Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: The first book of Mishima's landmark «The Sea of Fertility» sequence, this novel is set in Tokyo in 1912, when the hermetic world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: When historian Fluke Kelso learns of the existence of a secret notebook belonging to Josef Stalin he is determined to track it down, whatever the consequences. From the violent political intrigue and decadence of modern Moscow he heads north — to the vast forests surrounding the White Sea port of Archangel, and a terrifying encounter with Russia's unburied past.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 432 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 282) Аннотация: This third novel in the trilogy that began with The Football Factory looks at notions of what it means to be English abroad. King explores stereotypes of language and nationalism, as he writes about sex and violence abroad, under the Union Jack.
Скачать книгу (размер 733 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 145) Аннотация: »A fast-moving, fairytale set on Halloween night. Eight costumed boys running to meet their friend Pipkin at the haunted house outside town encounter instead the huge and cadaverous Mr. Moundshroud. As Pipkin scrambles to join them, he is swept away by a dark Something, and Moundshroud leads the boys on the tail of a kite through time and space to search the past for their friend and the meaning…
Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: The Grinch, whose heart is two sizes too small, hates Who-ville's holiday celebrations, and plans to steal all the presents to prevent Christmas from coming. To his amazement, Christmas comes anyway, and the Grinch discovers the true meaning of the holiday.
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Mr Jones, a quiet unprepossessing man who works as a translator in a Swiss chocolate factory, meets and falls in love with Anna-Luise, many years his junior and the daughter of Doctor Fischer, the notorious toothpaste millionaire.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: This collection contains Gogols finest tales — from the demon-haunted St Johns Eve and Viy to the surrealism of The Nose, from the trials of the copyist in The Overcoat to those of the delusional clerk in The Diary of a Madman.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: At Thermopylae, a rocky mountain pass in northern Greece, the feared and admired Spartan soldiers stood three hundred strong. Theirs was a suicide mission, to hold the pass against the invading millions of the mighty Persian army. Day after bloody day they withstood the terrible onslaught, buying time for the Greeks to rally their forces. Born into a cult of spiritual courage, physical endurance,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Tom Newquist had been a detective in the Nota Lake sheriff's office — a tough, honest cop respected by everyone. When he died suddenly, the townsfolk were saddened but not surprised: Just shy of sixty-five, Newquist worked too hard, smoked too much, and exercised too little. Newquist's widow didn't doubt the coroner's report. But what Selma couldn't accept was not knowing what had so bothered Tom…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: An extraordinary new novel of love, family, and man's struggle with the wild. A pack of wolves makes a sudden savage return to the Rocky Mountain ranching town of Hope, Montana, where a century earlier they were slaughtered by the thousands. Biologist Helen Ross has come to Hope from the East, fleeing a life in shambles, determined to save the wolves from those who seek to destroy them. But an…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: This story set during the infamous McCarthy era revolves around the son of an American government official who is discovered to be a Russian spy. Readers follow the father and son over 20 years in an ordeal that involves murder, spies, shocking revelations about the past, and a passionate affair.
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: So writes Jack Prelutsky in his introduction to this exciting companion volume to the highly successful 20th Century Children's Book Treasury. Prelutsky has selected over 200 short, fun-to-read poems by 137 outstanding poets of this century. Though every decade is represented, the majority of the poems were written since children's poetry entered its golden age, about 35 years ago. The poems are…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: To look at one was to see the other. For family, even the girls' own father, it was a constant guessing game. For strangers, the surprise was overwhelming. And for the twins Olivia and Victoria Henderson, two remarkable young women coming of age at the turn of the century, their bond was mysterious, marvelous, and often playful — a secret realm only they inhabited. Olivia and Victoria were the…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Originally published in 1958, this book contains a selection of 28 traditional stories from the French, German, Danish, Russian and Japanese traditions. Includes The Sleeping Beauty, The Frog Prince, Puss in Boots, Thumbelina, Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, and Beauty and the Beast...
Скачать книгу (размер 2 146 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 422) Аннотация: The magic of Anne McCaffrey's dragons and their riders lives on, in this exciting new adventure for all McCaffrey fans — and especially for lovers of her bestselling Dragonriders of Pern series. Now that Pern can look forward to a future without the threat of Threadfall, the people are free to leave their protective stone holds and spread across more of the planet, as well as improve their lives…
Скачать книгу (размер 146 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 30) Аннотация: This beautiful board book edition of My Many Colored Days presents Dr. Seuss at his very youngest. Use it as an innovative color concept book. Use it to help toddlers express how they feel. Use it to introduce the fun of Dr. Seuss!
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Broad humor and bitter irony collide in this fictional autobiography of Rabo Karabekian, who, at age seventy-one, wants to be left alone on his Long Island estate with the secret he has locked inside his potato barn. But then a voluptuous young widow badgers Rabo into telling his life story — and Vonnegut in turn tells us the plain, heart-hammering truth about man's careless fancy to create or…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 758 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 346) Аннотация: A sardonic novel follows the bored wife of an anti-nuclear activist on a fantastic adventure from Canada to Italy, involving literary fame, a blackmailing reporter, menacing plots, passionate trysts, and life in death. Reissue.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: It was the quiet ones you had to watch. That's where the real passion was lurking. They came together at Mountainview College, a down-at-the-heels secondary school on the seamy side of Dublin, to take a course in Italian. It was Latin teacher Aidan Dunne's last chance to revive a failing marriage and a dead-end career. But Aidan's dream was headed for disaster until the mysterious Signora…
Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: A lion, a dog, and a tiger are having a contest — can they get ten apples piled up on top of their heads? You better believe it! This first counting book works as a teaching tool as well as a funny story.