Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: The most popular of Woolf's novels during her lifetime, «The Years» is at once the story of three generations of a family, the pargiters, and a savage indictment of British society at the turn of the century. A work of fluid and dazzling lucidity, the novel does not follow a simple line of development but is varied and constantly changing, emphasizing its narrative discontinuity. As the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Young, fiery and bright, Eshlaini has her whole future ahead of her — until her father condemns her to a life of spinsterhood. Joyce has settled into Malaysian life after thirty years as an ex-pat wife — or so she thinks, until a newcomer arrives and reveals just how little of her home she knows. Jade Moon wants the best for her family — but, surrounded by Americans who reject her Korean…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: »The Sheltering Sky» is a book about people on the edge of an alien space; somewhere where, curiously, they are never alone' — Michael Hoffman. Port and Kit Moresbury, a sophisticated American couple, are finding it more than a little difficult to live with each other. Endeavoring to escape this predicament, they set off for North Africa intending to travel through Algeria — uncertain of exactly…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: This collection of writings is famous for giving us the phrase 'Freudian slip'. It also builds up a strong social history of Vienna and the middle-class social milieu of Freud and his patients. Through a series of case histories, some no longer than a few lines long, Freud explores how it is that normal people make slips of speech, writing, reading and remembering in their everyday life, and…
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: In the din and stink that is Cannery Row a colourful blend of misfits — gamblers, whores, drunks, bums and artists — survive side by side in a jumble of adventure and mischief. Lee Chong, the astute owner of the well-stocked grocery store, is also the proprietor of the Palace Flophouse that Mack and his troupe of good-natured 'boys' call home. Dora runs the brothel with clockwork efficiency and a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: In these three exotic, steamy dramas Tennessee Williams portrays loss, faded lives and passionate love affairs. «The Rose Tattoo» is set in a bustling, Sicilian-American community, where newly widowed Serafina is paralysed by grief, until she has her romantic illusions about her dead husband shattered and rediscovers her true nature as a fiery prima donna, in a life-affirming celebration of love…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: The first thing Senora Prudencia Linero noticed when she reached the port of Naples was that it had the same smell as the port of Riohacha'... Their distant, nostalgic memories of home, their sense of anonymity in a foreign land, the terrifying pang of vulnerability they feel as they step over the threshold into an alien world... These pilgrims — the ageing prostitute preparing for death by…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Samson Greene, a young and popular professor at Columbia University, is found wandering in the Nevada desert. When his wife, Anna, comes to take him home, she finds a man who remembers nothing, not even his own name. The removal of a small brain tumour saves his life, but his memories beyond the age of twelve are permanently lost. Here is the story of a strikingly intelligent, sensitive man…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Published when she was only nineteen, Francoise Sagan's astonishing first novel Bonjour Tristesse became an instant bestseller. It tells the story of Cecile, who leads a carefree life with her widowed father and his young mistresses until, one hot summer on the Riviera, he decides to remarry — with devastating consequences. In A Certain Smile Dominique, a young woman bored with her lover, begins…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Burroughs' first novel, a largely autobiographical account of the constant cycle of drug dependency, cures and relapses, remains the most unflinching, unsentimental account of addiction ever written. Through junk neighborhoods in New York, New Orleans and Mexico City, through time spent kicking, time spent dealing and time rolling drunks for money, through junk sickness and a sanatorium, Junky is…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, a sideburned hero of the snowy West. As Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty, the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge and experience. Kerouac's love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz combine to make On the Road an inspirational work of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: A great speech has the power to define the times, to inspire, to stir and to motivate. This collection of ancient and modern speeches includes the words of activists, politicians, philosophers and scores of others who have borne witness to significant moments from the first century to the twenty-first. Many have made history. They include: Mahatma Gandhi, Oliver Cromwell, Kevin Rudd, Inga…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 758 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 346) Аннотация: From the bestselling author of «Rembrandt's Ghost» comes a startling new adventure featuring archaeologist Finn Ryan. In search of a Spanish galleon in the Caribbean, Ryan stumbles upon a mystery dating back to the Spanish Inquisition — and a secret with catastrophic implications for the present.
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Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Just after the iron curtain fell on Eastern Europe John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer, Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to report for the «New York Herald Tribune». This rare opportunity took the famous travelers not only to Moscow and Stalingrad — now Volgograd — but through the countryside of the Ukraine and the Caucasus. A «Russian Journal» is the distillation of their…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Written in Berlin in 1934, «Invitation to a Beheading» contains all the surprise, excitement and magical intensity of a work created in two brief weeks of sustained inspiration. It takes us into the fantastic prison-world of Cincinnatus, a man condemned to death and spending his last days in prison not quite knowing when the end will come. Nabokov described the book as 'a violin in a void. The…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: Ken Follett follows his bestsellers Jackdaws and Code to Zero with an extraordinary novel of early days of World War II... It is June 1941 and the war is not going well for England. Across the North Sea, eighteen-year-old Harald Olufsen takes a shortcut on the German-occupied Danish island of Sande an discovers an astonishing sight that will change the momentum of the war. He must get word to…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 283 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 449) Аннотация: 'To me' D. H. Lawerence once wrote to E. M. forster, 'you are the last Englishman.' Indeed, Forster's novels offer contemporary readers clear, vibrant portraits of life in Edwardian England. Published in 1908 to both critical and popular acclaim, A Room with a View is a whimsical comedy of manners that owes more to Jane Austen that perhaps any other of his works. The central character is a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 380) Аннотация: »What makes his work great is that it can be felt and understood...by anybody» said Leo Tolstoy of Chekhov's plays, which express life through subtle construction, everyday dialogue, and an electrically charged atmosphere.