Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: This time the humans are taking the offensive! Stan Myakovsky is a once-famous scientist fallen on hard times. Now he dodges spaceship repo men and dreams of the marketability of his cybernetic ant. Then a woman named Julie Lish walks into his life. She is beautiful, mysterious, and totally amoral. She is also skilled in the arts of thievery and Oriental self-defense. What's more, she has a plan…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: This omnibus of Belloc's stories is a feast of delightful tales told in rhyme — all with a dramatic moral twist in the tail. Are you prone to pulling faces, telling tales or bouts of extravagance? Yes? Then ignore these stories at your peril. If not, you might suffer a fate similar to those described in these cautionary tales.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Joining Bantam's successful republications of Rex Stout's classic Nero Wolfe novels comes this amazing triple-play, including a deadly dinner party where five femmes fatales come under suspicion; a wandering cabbie with a comely corpse as a passenger; and a rodeo complete with cowboys, cowgirls and a dead millionaire with a fancy lariat for a necktie.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 992 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 784) Аннотация: When Earth is destroyed to make way for a Hyperspatial express route, Arthur Dent discovers that space is big, as he is taken on a hair-raising tour of the Galaxy and its very strange inhabitants, by his friend Ford Perfect. This is a new edition which incorporates the fifth part of the trilogy.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 220) Аннотация: W. H. Auden once defined light verse as the kind that is written by poets who are democratically in tune with their audience and whose language is straightforward and close to general speech. Given that definition, the 123 poems in this collection all qualify; they are as accessible as popular songs yet have the wisdom and profundity of the greatest poetry. As I Walked Out One Evening contains…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: An unsettling, shocking and very funny collection of stories. The characters in this extraordinary book are often — on the surface — depraved, vicious, cowardly and manipulative, but their essential humanity is never undermined. Two professors of philosophy turn pugilists; Leith removal men become the objects of desire for Hollywood goddesses; God turns Boab Coyle into a house-fly; and in the…
Скачать книгу (размер 5 461 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1072) Аннотация: Introduction by Malcolm Jones. Translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: With a rich man footing the bills and a handsome lover on the side, Isabel Kerr was taken care of well. When someone takes care of her in a more final sense, her murder is pinned on a detective friend of Nero Wolfe's. Agreeing to help clear his buddy's name, Wolfe winds up entertaining a party of fools and lovers connected with the doxy's death.
Скачать книгу (размер 962 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 190) Аннотация: Nowadays firemen start fires. Fireman Guy Montag loves to rush to a fire and watch books burn up. Then he met a seventeen-year old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid, and a professor who told him of a future where people could think. And Guy Montag knew what he had to do...
Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: From the bestselling author of «The Day of the Jackal», international master of intrigue Frederick Forsyth, comes a thriller that brilliantly blends fact with fiction for one of this summer's — or any season's — most explosive reads! From the behind-the-scenes decision-making of the Allies to the secret meetings of Saddam Hussein's war cabinet, from the brave American fliers running their…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Elena Weaver was a surprise to anyone meeting her for the first time. In her clingy dresses and dangling earrings she exuded a sexuality at odds with the innocence projected by the unicorn posters on her walls. While her embittered mother fretted about her welfare from her home in London, in Cambridge — where Elena was a student at St. Stephen's College — her father and his second wife each had…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: One of the most chilling novels ever written about the oppression of totalitarian regimes — and the first to open Western eyes to the terrors of Stalin's prison camps, this book allowed Solzhenitsyn, who later became Russia's conscience in exile, to challenge the brutal might of the Soviet Union.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: One by one they knocked on Nero Wolfe's door, each with a case more perplexing than the last: a suicide victim who turns up alive, only to be murdered anew; a murder victim's family who provides his killer with an alibi; and a master horticulturalist who finds the woman of his dreams — dead and cooling in his hothouse.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: The Essential Hemingway is the perfect introduction to the astonishing, wide-ranging body of work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. This impressive collection includes: the full text of Fiesta, Hemingway's first major novel; long extracts from three of his greatest works of fiction, A Farewell to Arms, To Have and Have Not and For Whom the Bell Tolls; twenty-five complete short stories; and the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: From Ernest Hemingway's Preface: 'There are many kinds of stories in this book. I hope you will find some that you like — In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dulled and know I had to put it on the grindstone and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Rich, handsome and ingenious, Edward Pierce preys on the most prominent of the well-to-do as he cunningly orchestrates the crime of his century. Who would suspect that a gentleman of breeding could mastermind the daring theft of a fortune in gold — aboard a mighty steam locomotive?
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) 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 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: On the 45th floor of the Matsumoto Tower in LA, the headquarters of the Japanese Electronics Corporation, celebrities from the film and music world mix with the captains of industry and politics. On the 46th floor, the dead body of a young woman is discovered. By the author of «Jurassic Park».
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: The story of the dissolution of the once aristocratic Compson family told through the eyes of three of its members. In different ways they prove to be inadequate to their own family history, unable to deal with either the responsibility of the past or the imperatives of the present.
Скачать книгу (размер 5 461 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1072) Аннотация: This is an epic historical novel following on from the bestselling «Dragonfly in Amber.» Their passionate encounter happened two centuries ago when the gallant renegade Jamie Fraser sent her back to her own time, pregnant with his child, believing he would be killed in the bloody Battle of Culloden in 1746. Now their daughter has grown up and Claire discovers that Jamie survived. Drawn back…