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Ralph Compton: The Shawnee Trail

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Long John Coons, the Cajun son of a conjuring woman, was driving 2000 head of cattle north from Texas to the railroad in Kansas — through Indian Territory and outlaw strongholds. At his side was a beautiful woman with a sordid past, three ex-cattle rustlers, some renegade Indians, Mexican vanqueros and a straight-laced young trail boss. And while Long John tried to keep his hot-headed crew from…

L. Frank Baum: The Wizard of Oz

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: «Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate «reader friendly» type sizes have been chosen for each title — offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords. This edition of The Wizard…

H. G. Wells: The War of the Worlds

Скачать книгу (размер 1 034 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 204) Аннотация: «Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate «reader friendly» type sizes have been chosen for each title — offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords. This edition of «War of the…

Irving Washington: Rip Van Winkle And Other Selected Stories

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: «Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate «reader friendly» type sizes have been chosen for each title — offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords. Rip's a good natured loser,…

Rudyard Kipling: Captains Courageous

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: The toast of literary London at age 21, Rudyard Kipling won numerous awards, including the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. When a spoiled millionaire's son falls overboard from a luxury liner and is rescued by a fishing schooner, he learns the true value of honesty, courage, and hard work. Over 4 million Tor Classics have been sold since 1986.

Herman Melville: Billy Budd

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: «Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate «reader friendly» type sizes have been chosen for each title--offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords. This edition of «Billy Budd»…

Orson Scott Card: Xenocide (Ender, Book 3)

Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: The war for survival of the planet Lusitania will be fought in the hearts of a child named Gloriously Bright. On Lusitania, Ender found a world where humans and pequininos and the Hive Queen could all live together; where three very different intelligent species could find common ground at last. Or so he thought. Lusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus that kills all humans it infects, but…

Rosamunde Pilcher: September

Скачать книгу (размер 3 120 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 613) Аннотация: The author of The Shell Seekers brings characters from all over the world to the little town of Strathcroy, Scotland, for an extraordinary birthday party. A heartwarming story of family joys and sorrows. Six months on the New York Times bestseller list.

Robert Jordan: The Great Hunt

Скачать книгу (размер 3 589 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 705) Аннотация: After centuries of searching for the Horn of Valere which possesses the power to raise past heroes from the dead, it is finally found and then stolen.

Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: «Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate «reader friendly» type sizes have been chosen for each title — offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords. This edition of The Legend…

Thomas Harris: The Silence of the Lambs

Скачать книгу (размер 2 003 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 394) Аннотация: Hannibal Lecter. The ultimate villain of modern fiction. Read the five-million-copy bestseller that scared the world silent... A young FBI trainee. An evil genius locked away for unspeakable crimes. A plunge into the darkest chambers of a psychopath's mind — in the deadly search for a serial killer...

Pilcher Rosamunde: The Carousel

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: «Celebrate life's journeys with the beloved author whose stories of life and love have touched the world. Return to the sun-drenched settings of «The Shell Seekers» and the rich emotion of «Coming Home» Rosamunde Pilcher takes you on an unforgettable journey of the heart. It is the passage of a young woman from a relationship that has become too tame and predictable to the excitement of a new…

Brodsky Joseph: Marbles

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: A Platonic dialogue in the form of a double anachronism — the action takes place two centuries after our era — Joseph Brodsky's only play, Marbles, is set in a prison cell that alone provides for the three unities of classic drama: those of time, place, and action. A nightmare rather than a utopia, this play proceeds according to the immanent logic of mental aggravation as its two characters, the…

Robert Jordan: The Eye of the World: The Wheel of Time 1

Скачать книгу (размер 4 237 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 832) Аннотация: The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. In the Third Age, an Age of Prophecy, the World and Time themselves hang in the balance. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.

Cortina Language Institute Staff: Conversational Russian In 20 Lessons

Скачать книгу (размер 2 258 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 444) Аннотация: Includes: -Guide to pronunciation: simple phonetics based on English spelling -20 conversational lessons: useful vocabularies; interesting conversations with pronunciation and helpful footnotes -Cultural information: panorama of Russian life and literature -Complete reference grammar: clear explanations of rules of grammar and structure of the language -Bilingual dictionary: all useful words you…

Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: «Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate «reader friendly» type sizes have been chosen for each title — offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords. This edition of A Tale of…

O. Henry: Stories by O: Henry

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: «Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate «reader friendly» type sizes have been chosen for each title — offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords. Tales of laughter and…

Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter

Скачать книгу (размер 1 406 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 277) Аннотация: «Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate «reader friendly» type sizes have been chosen for each title — offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords. This edition of The Scarlet…

Joseph Brodsky: Less Than One: Selected Essays

Скачать книгу (размер 2 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 516) Аннотация: «This collection of essays thrusts Brodsky — heretofore known more for his poetry and translations — into the forefront of the «Third Wave» of Russian emigre writers. His insights into the works of Dostoyevsky, Mandelstam, Platonov, as well as non-Russian poets Auden, Cavafy and Montale are brilliant. While the Western popularity of many other Third Wavers has been stunted by their inability to…

Francis Dick: Proof

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Wine merchant Tony Beach has expertly catered his latest society soiree, but the fun's over when a team of hit men crash the party... literally. The event leaves Tony with a bitter aftertaste of suspicion — and sets off a mystery that's an intoxicating blend of deception, intrigue, and murder.