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Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: This fourth Jeeves volume contains «Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit», «Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves» and «Jeeves in the Offing».

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Written by the author of «Libra», which won the Aer Lingus International Fiction Prize, this novel is about words and images, novelists and terrorists. It is haunted by the intermingled spirits of such diverse figures as Andy Warhol and Mao Zedong.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 268 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 446) Аннотация: The devil with his retinue, a poet incarcerated in a mental institution for speaking the truth, and a recreation of the story of Pontius Pilate, constitute the elements out of which Mikhail Bulgakov wove «The Master and Margarita».

Скачать книгу (размер 2 982 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 586) Аннотация: Goncharov's gentle satire on the failings of 19th-century Russian gentry and bureaucracy turns into something deeper and richer than satire, as he probes the character of a protagonist whose constitutional lethargy becomes a symbol for the malaise of the human spirit in an alienating world.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: These stories of the 19th-century Russian rural landscape and the difficult life of those who inhabited it were universally popular with the reading public at large and contributed in no small measure to the emancipation of the serfs in 1861.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Emabark with Nero Wolfe on a year of murder and mystery. It begins at Christmas with a party and a poisoning, then blossoms into spring and sudden death at the Easter parade. With a killer in the crowd, the Fourth of July is no picnic, and the calendar is overbooked when death is in season. Here are four cunning cases that leave everyone guessing. And only Nero Wolfe has a clue.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: The owls, hen, larks, and their nests in his beard, are among the fey fauna and peculiar persons inhabiting the uniquely inspired nonsense rhymes and drawings of Lear (20th child of a London stockbroker), whose Book of Nonsense, first published in 1846, stands alone as the ultimate and most loved expression in English of freewheeling, benign, and unconstricted merriment.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, Richard Feynman was one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists, but he was also a man who fell, often jumped, into adventure. An artist, safecracker, practical joker and storyteller, Feynman's life was a series of combustoble combinations made possible by his unique mixture of high intelligence, unquenchable curiosity and eternal scepticism.…

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: The wittiest and wackiest chronicle of British History you'll find. Packed with fascinating facts on everything you can think of. Cavemen, Kings, Disease and War.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: The Jackal. A tall, blond Englishman with opaque, gray eyes. A killer at the top of his profession. A man unknown to any secret service in the world. An assassin with a contract to kill the world's most heavily guarded man. One man with a rifle who can change the course of history. One man whose mission is so secretive not even his employers know his name. And as the minutes count down to the…

Скачать книгу (размер 361 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 72) Аннотация: »The hero of this hilarious tale discovers that in attempting to avoid trouble one often encounters even greater difficulties. Seuss fans will be enthralled.»

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Here are eleven exuberant essays on the pleasures of writing from one of the most creative, imaginative, and prolific artists of the twentieth century — an author who truly enjoys his craft and tells you why and how. Bradbury shares his wisdom and enthusiasm for writing as he examines a lifetime of creating and composing scores of stories, novels, plays, poems, films, television programs, and…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: A companion novel to Slaughterhouse 5, covering similar themes and drawing on the author's experiences as a prisoner of war in Dresden. A black satire, it tells of an American spy in Germany who becomes confused by his own methods as he sends his coded messages by using pro-Nazi radio broadcasts.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Nabokov's third novel, The Defense, is a chilling story of obsession and madness. As a young boy, Luzhin was unattractive, distracted, withdrawn, sullen — an enigma to his parents and an object of ridicule to his classmates. He takes up chess as a refuge from the anxiety of his everyday life. His talent is prodigious and he rises to the rank of grandmaster — but at a cost: in Luzhin' s obsessive…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 538 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 499) Аннотация: A weary concert violinist, unable to endure one more grueling tour, looks forward to relaxing in Innocence, Mississippi, at her grandmother's secluded old bayou home. But the sleepy bliss is shattered formever one steamy summer night when a single spark ignites a deadly crime of passion.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: When the spoilt and haughty Dona Constanza tries to divert a river to fill her swimming pool, she starts a running battle with the locals. The skirmishes are so severe that the Government dispatches a squadron of soldiers led by the fat, brutal and stupid Figueras to deal with them. Despite visiting plagues of laughing fits and giant cats upon the troops, the villagers know that to escape the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: The three laws of Robotics: 1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 2) A robot must obey orders givein to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. With this, Asimov changed our…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: The arrival of a spaceship from Earth — destroyed when its sun went nova — carrying five million Earthlings in suspended animation, as well as an uncensored cultural record of Earth, threatens to destroy the paradisiacal planet of Thalassa.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: There is a woman haunted by her dreams of her dead mother. There is an adulterous couple stepping over the line where the initial excitement ends and the pain begins. There is a widow visiting a Scottish village in search of her husband's past and instead discovering unsettling truths about a total stranger. The ten stories in this collection not only astonish and delight but also convey the…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Leichtsinnig und romantisch, ehrgeizig und kaltblütig, Leitstern der Troubadoure, eine meisterhafte Politikerin, wenig besser als eine Dirne — all diese Eigenschaften wurden der grossen Königin des 12. Jahrhunderts von der Überlieferung nachgesagt. Was davon wahr ist? Vielleicht ein wenig von allem. Aufgewachsen an einem der kultiviertesten Höfe der Zeit, fand die junge,…