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Скачать книгу (размер 2 447 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 481) Аннотация: Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now Lestat is a rockstar in the demonic, shimmering 1980s. He rushes through the centuries in search of others like him, seeking answers to the mystery of his terrifying exsitence. His story, the second volume in Anne Rice's best-selling Vampire Chronicles, is mesmerizing, passionate, and thrilling. Frightening, sensual.

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Скачать книгу (размер 1 340 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 264) Аннотация: F. Scott Fitzgerald's extraordinary career as a novelist ended abruptly and unhappily, but it began with one of the most brilliant first novels in the history of American literature. Published when its author was just twenty-three, This Side of Paradise is about the education of a youth, and to this universal story Fitzgerald brought the promise of everything that was new in the vigorous,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Africa belongs to the Africans; the sooner they take it back the better. But — a country also belongs to those who feel at home in it. Perhaps it may be that love of Africa the country will be strong enough to link people who hate each other now. Perhaps... Going Home is Doris Lessing's account of her first journey back to Africa, the land in which she grew up and in which so much of her emotion…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Introduction by Simon Franklin; Translation by Michael Glenny.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: The first encyclopedic illustrated guide to the world of Middle Earth and the Undying Lands, this book brings together every important aspect of Tolkien's vast cosmology. More than five hundred alphabetical entries cover five major subject areas: history, geography, sociology, natural history and biography. The maps, genealogies and time-charts, together with the illustrations of characters,…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: An unconventional woman trapped in a conventional marriage, Martha Quest struggles to maintain her dignity and her sanity through the misunderstandings, frustrations, infidelities, and degrading violence of a failing marriage. Finally, she must make the heartbreaking choice of whether to sacrifice her child as she turns her back on marriage and security. A Proper Marriage is the second novel in…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: «Murder is hardly the best way for Lord Peter and his bride, the famous mystery writer Harriet Vane, to start their honeymoon. It all begins when the former owner of their newly acquired estate is found quite nastily dead in the cellar. All too quickly, what Lord Peter had hoped would be a very private and romantic stay in the country has turned into a most baffling case, with a misspelled…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: These Previously uncollected stories and letters are essential to the understanding of Babel's life and works.

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Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: «From the day her first Vampire Chronicle was published, critics and readers — readers by the hundreds of thousands — have been mesmerized by the writings of Anne Rice. And with the publication of The Witching Hour, she created for us yet another world and legend, and both the chorus of praise and the multitudes of her readers once more increased. Now, Anne Rice brings us again — even more…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: It's very easy to get a little disheartened when your planet has been blown up, the woman you love has vanished in a misunderstanding about the nature of space-time, the spaceship you are on crashes in flames on a remote and Bob-fearing planet and all you have to fall back on are a few simple sandwich-making skills. However, instead of being disheartened, Arthur Dent makes the terrible mistake of…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 727 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 732) Аннотация: The most complete compendium of mythology ever published. 'Bulfinch's Mythology' includes the stories of: Apollo and Daphne, Pygmalion, Cupid and Psyche, Jason and the Golden Fleece, Hercules, Theseus and Daedalus, The Trojan War, Ulysses, and more...

Скачать книгу (размер 1 600 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 315) Аннотация: «Interweaving past and present, Sweden and Zambia, «The Eye of the Leopard» draws on bestselling author Mankell's deep understanding of the two worlds he has inhabited for more than 20 years.»

Скачать книгу (размер 3 293 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 647) Аннотация: Long considered a literary heir of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, Ross Macdonald (1915–83) infused new life into the hardboiled detective genre with psychologically complex mysteries involving his intuitive and empathetic private eye Lew Archer. This omnibus presents three of Macdonald's best Archer novels. The Ivory Grin (a.k.a. Marked for Murder) begins when a wealthy woman hires Archer…

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: In the unconstrained atmosphere of England in the late 1960s, Harriet and David Lovatt, an upper-middle-class couple, face a frightening vicissitude. As the days' events take a dark and ugly turn nearing apocalyptic intensity, the Lovatts' guarded contentedness and view of the world as a benign place are forever shattered by the violent birth of their fifth child: Ben, monstrous in appearance,…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 110 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 415) Аннотация: The many readers who are enthralled with the enduring legend of Camelot will be drawn to this fascinating book, which may become the definitive work in the effort to prove the historical authenticity of King Arthur.

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Скачать книгу (размер 1 850 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 364) Аннотация: Waugh tells the story of the Marchmain family. Aristocratic, beautiful and charming, the Marchmains are indeed a symbol of England and her decline in this novel of the upper class of the 1920s and the abdication of responsibility in the 1930s.