Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Bernard Walsh, agnostic theologian, has a professional interest in heaven. But when he travels to Hawaii with his reluctant father Jack, to visit Jack's dying, estranged sister it feels more like purgatory than paradise. Surrounded by quarrelling honeymooners, a freeloading anthropologist and assorted tourists in search of their own personal paradise, and with his father whisked off to hospital…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: When Philip Swallow and Professor Morris Zapp participate in their universities' Anglo-American exchange scheme, the Fates play a hand, and each academic finds himself enmeshed in the life of his counterpart on the opposite side of the Atlantic. Nobody is immune to the exchange: students, colleagues, even wives are swapped as events spiral out of control. And soon both sundrenched Euphoric State…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: «The British Museum is Falling Down» is a brilliant comic satire of academia, religion and human entanglements. First published in 1965, it tells the story of hapless, scooter-riding young research student Adam Appleby, who is trying to write his thesis but is constantly distracted — not least by the fact that, as Catholics in the 1960s, he and his wife must rely on 'Vatican roulette' to avoid a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: «When it isn't prison, it's hell — or at least that's the belief of conscripts Jonathan Browne and Mike «Ginger» Brady. For this is the British Army in the days of National Service.»