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Скачать книгу (размер 779 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 154) Аннотация: The publication of A Boy's Will (1913) and North of Boston (1914) marked the debut of Robert Frost as a major talent and established him as the true poetic voice of New England. Four of his volumes would win the Pulitzer Prize before his death in 1963, and his body of work has since become an integral part of the American national heritage. This is the only edition to present these two classics…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Could a werewolf be loose in Chicago? Common sense says no. The grisly evidence says yes. So does Harry Dresden. And with his weird connections, he should know.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: In all his years of supernatural sleuthing, Harry Dresden has never faced anything like this: the spirit world's gone postal. These ghosts are tormented, violent, and deadly. Someone-or something-is purposely stirring them up to wreak unearthly havoc. But why? If Harry doesn't figure it out soon, he could wind up a ghost himself.

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: Brought up in the household of a powerful Baron, Candide is an open-minded young man, whose tutor, Pangloss, has instilled in him the belief that 'all is for the best'. But when his love for the Baron's rosy-cheeked daughter is discovered, Candide is cast out to make his own way in the world. And so he and his various companions begin a breathless tour of Europe, South America and Asia, as an…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: The stories collected here, including «The Alien Corn», «Flotsam and Jetsam», and «The Vessel of Wrath», reconfirm Maugham's stature as one of the masters of the short story.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: These thirty stories — most set in the colonies at a time when the Empire was still assured, in a world in which men and women were caught between their own essentially European values and the richness and ambiguity of their unfamiliar surroundings — show a master of the genre at the peak of his power.

Скачать книгу (размер 3 665 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 720) Аннотация: 'Trust me!' she spat. 'As soon as someone says trust me, you can be sure they're going to let you down or hurt you.' From the bestselling author of Never Look Back, a heartwarming, gripping story about the power of the human spirit. All her life, people have told little Dulcie Taylor they'll look after her. And every time, she and her sister May have been hurt. Their parents. Their teacher. The…

Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: ‘Did you run across that queer sort of legend about a wild goose? It was all up and down the beaches. You know how those things spring up. Some of the men I brought back were talking about it. It was supposed to have appeared at intervals the last days between Dunkirk and La Panne. If you saw it, you were eventually saved. That sort of thing’. ‘Hmm, a wild goose. I saw a tame one. Dashed strange…

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Coetzee reinvents the story of Robinson Crusoe, directing our attention to the seduction and tyranny of storytelling itself.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: George Orwell's first published work, «Down and Out in Paris and London», is a vivid, sensitive account of the time he lived as one of the poor in the late twenties. In a bug-infested hotel, surviving only between the pawnbroker and a little teaching and writing, Orwell shocked the middle-class establishment with his observation of the misery, the hopelessness and the despair of the poor of a…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: For Gertrude Stein and her companion Alice B. Toklas, life in Paris was based upon the rue de Fleurus and the Saturday evenings and ‘it was like a kaleidoscope slowly turning’. Picasso was there with ‘his high whinnying spanish giggle’, as were Cezanne and Matisse, Hemingway and Fitzgerald. As Toklas put it – ‘The geniuses came and talked to Gertrude Stein and the wives sat with me’. A…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Guy Crouchback, determined to get into the war, takes a commission in the Royal Corps of Halberdiers. His spirits high, he sees all the trimmings but none of the action. And his first campaign, an abortive affair on the West African coastline, ends with an escapade which seriously blots his Halberdier copybook. «Men at Arms» is the first book in Waugh’s brilliant trilogy, «Sword of Honour», which…

Скачать книгу (размер 4 400 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 864) Аннотация: In this second part of John Galworthy's trilogy of love, power, money and family feuding, a new generation has arrived to divide the Forsyte clan with society scandals and conflicting passions.

Скачать книгу (размер 4 155 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 816) Аннотация: In this final volume of The Forsyte Saga, Galsworthy writes about the lives and loves of the Cherrell family, cousins of the Forsytes. For centuries, the Cherrell sons have left their home of Condaford Grange to serve the state as soldiers, clergymen and administrators, but the 1930s bring uncertainty in a world of rapidly altering morals and unemployment. Galsworthy's portrayal of the effect of…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: This work combines the notes of Gardner's 1960 edition with his 1990 update, More Annotated Alice (not published in the UK), as well as additional discoveries drawn from Gardner's knowledge of the texts. It is illustrated with John Tenniel's classic art and recently-discovered pencil sketches.

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: Such is the strength of Joe Saul's longing for a child, that he feels he is cursed after three unfruitful years of marriage. Yet unbeknown to him, he is sterile. His young wife secretly conceives the child of another man and when Joe discovers her deception, his anguish is greater than ever.

Скачать книгу (размер 4 645 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 912) Аннотация: Galsworthy's nine Forsyte novels span 50 years of family decline, from the 1880s to the 1930s. In seeking to insulate themselves by property from reality and the disintegration of their class, the Forsytes are gradually blinded to the threats of social change and the stealthy march of passion.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Amory Blaine, intent on rebelling against his staid, Midwestern upbringing, longs to acquire the patina of Eastern sophistication. In his quest for sexual and intellectual enlightenment, he progresses through a series of relationships, until he is cast out into the real world.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: In 1960, when he was almost 60 years old, John Steinbeck set out to rediscover the United States, feeling he might have lost touch with its sights sounds and the essence of its people. This book decribes his travels in a pick-up truck across nearly 40 states with his dog Charlie, a French poodle.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Ethan Allen Hawley has lost the acquisitive spirit of his wealthy forebears. Scarred by failure, Ethan works as a grocery store clerk. But his wife is restless, his teenage children troubled and hungry for material comforts. Then a series of unusual events reignites Ethan's ambition.