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Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: England, the 1930s. Christopher Banks has become the country's most celebrated detective, his cases the talk of London society. Yet one unsolved crime has always haunted him; the mysterious disappearance of his parents, in Old Shanghai, when he was a small boy. Now, as the world lurches towards total war, Banks realises the time has come for him to return to the city of his childhood and at last…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: An elderly butler is on a five-day motoring trip through the West Country in the 1950's. The climax of his journey is to be a reunion with his former housekeeper. This 1989 Booker Prize-winner attempts to capture a period in British history and draw a portrait of a man in old age.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Winner of the Academy Award for Best Screenplay and the Palme d`Or at Cannes Film Festival, Pulp Fiction exploded onto the screen in 1994 and transformed the direction of contemporary cinema. This triplet of interwoven crime stories displays Tarantino`s visceral approach to character and plot.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: «A novel of irreconcilable loves and infidelities, which embraces all aspects of human existence, and addresses the nature of twentieth-century 'Being'. From the author of «Testaments Betrayed».»

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Golding's best-known novel is the story of a group of boys who, after a plane crash, set up a fragile community on a previously uninhabited island. As memories of home recede and the blood from frenzied pig-hunts arouses them, the boys' childish fear turns into something deeper and more primitive.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: An elderly butler is on a five-day motoring trip through the West Country in the 1950s. The climax of his journey is to be a reunion with his former housekeeper. This 1989 Booker Prize-winner attempts to capture a period in British history and draw a portrait of a man in old age.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 829 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 556) Аннотация: This is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959.

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: «A novel by the author of «The Unbearable Lightness of Being». A moment of confusion sets in motion a complex chain of events which crosses and recrosses the divide between fantasy and reality.»

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: After the gravity of The Unbearable Lightness of Being and Immortality, Slowness comes as a surprise: It is certainly Kundera's lightest novel, a divertimento, an opera buffa, with, as the author himself says, not a single serious word in it; then, too, it is the first of his novels to have been written in French (in the eyes of the French public, turning him definitively into a French writer).…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 615 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 318) Аннотация: Kundera whirls through comedy and tragedy towards his central question: how does a person, any person, live today? In constructing his answer, he writes of politics, sex, literature, modern man's alienation — and of their antidotes: laughter and forgetting.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Explores the tragicomic relationship between two artists and their material. While each feeds off the other, the narratives of Mario are nourished by the life around him, those of Camacho by the fantasies engendered by his disintegrating mind. The author's other works include The Storyteller.

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Featuring My Pet Show Panic!, My Summer Fair Surprise!, My Creepy-Crawly Camping Adventure! and new-new-new story My Mixed-Up Magic Trick!, younger Humphrey fans will love this bind-up edition of the bestselling books. It's Careers Day in Room 26 in My Mixed-Up Magic Trick! Golden-Miranda wants to be a magician but Lower-Your-Voice A.J. says girls can't be magicians! But, when Miranda's…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: When bestselling crime author Josephine Tey inherits a remote Suffolk cottage from her godmother, it came full of secrets. Sorting through the artefacts of her godmother's life, Josephine is intrigued by an infamous murder committed near the cottage a century before. Yet this old crime — dubbed the Red barn murder — still seems to haunt the tight-knit village and its remote inhabitants. As…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 748 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 344) Аннотация: Mamoon is an eminent Indian-born writer who has made a career in England — but now, in his early 70s, his reputation is fading, sales have dried up, and his new wife has expensive taste. Harry, a young writer, is commissioned to write a biography to revitalise both Mamoon s career and his bank balance. Harry greatly admires Mamoon s work and wants to uncover the truth of the artist s life. Harry…

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Dear friends, I love-love-love sharing my adventures as a classroom hamster with all my friends. But sometimes my paw gets tired from so much writing! To give it a rest, I've written some shorter tales that are every bit as funny and exciting as my According to Humphrey books. They're called Humphrey's Tiny Tales and they've even got illustrations! (I'm quite pleased at how cute I look in the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Atticus Grammatticus Cattypuss Claw, the world's greatest POLICE cat, is back. When the kittens at the local cats' home are wrongly suspected of a knitting crime spree, Inspector Cheddar is baffled. Atticus must step in to find the real culprits. In an adventure that takes him from Littleton-on-Sea to the sands of the Egyptian desert, Atticus has to use all his tabby talents to keep one paw ahead…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: 'Brilliantly plotted ...a spellbinder ...it has a style that glows and crackles.' Spectator 'Hugely funny, provocative, pathetic and heroic.' TLS 'What are we, Papa?' the toy mouse child asked his father. 'I don't know,' the father answered. 'We must wait and see.' So begins the story of a tin father and son who dance under a Christmas tree until they break the ancient clockwork rules and are…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: «Dear friends, I Love-Love-Love sharing my adventures as a classroom hamster with all my friends. But sometimes my paw gets tired from so much writing! To give it a rest, I've written some shorter tales that are every bit as funny and exciting as my According to Humphrey books. They're called «Humphrey's Tiny Tales» and they've even got illustrations! (I'm quite pleased at how cute I look in the…

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Dear friends, I Love-Love-Love sharing my adventures as a classroom hamster with all my friends. But sometimes my paw gets tired from so much writing! To give it a rest, I've written some shorter tales that are every bit as funny and exciting as my According to Humphrey books. They're called Humphrey's Tiny Tales and they've even got illustrations! (I'm quite pleased at how cute I look in the…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: «Dear friends, I LOVE-LOVE-LOVE sharing my adventures as a classroom hamster with all my friends. But sometimes my paw gets tired from so much writing! To give it a rest, I've written someshorter tales that are every bit as funny and exciting as my According to Humphrey books. They're called «Humphrey's Tiny Tales» and they've even got illustrations! (I'm quite pleased at how cute I look in the…