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Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: 'The greater part of every family is always odious; if there are one or two good ones in a very large family, it is as much as can be expected'. Ernest Pontifex is the awkward but likeable son of a remote and tyrannical clergyman father and a priggish mother. Destined to follow his father into the church, Ernest ends his career as a curate in disaster, and in the gleeful rejection of his parents'…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Including The Importance of Being Earnest, An Ideal Husband, A Woman of No Importance, Lady Windermere's Fan, and Salome, this collection showcases Wilde's brilliance and timeless wit.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Gideon Cross. As beautiful and flawless on the outside as he was damaged and tormented on the inside. He was a bright, scorching flame that singed me with the darkest of pleasures. I couldn't stay away. I didn't want to. He was my addiction, my every desire... mine. My past was as violent as his, and I was just as broken. We'd never work.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: It's Thursday, January 3rd. I have the most terrible problems with my sex life. It all boils down to the fact that I have no sex life. At least not with another person. Finally given the heave-ho by Pandora, Adrian Mole finds himself in the unenviable situation of living with the love-of-his-life as she goes about shacking up with other men. Worse, as he slides down the employment ladder, from…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 829 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 752) Аннотация: Geoffrey Hosking is one of the foremost historians of Russia and its people. The result of a lifetime's knowledge, this monumental and authoritative work has been acclaimed as the definitive single-volume history of Russia, tracing its story from the settlement of Kiev through to the present day. This second edition is updated throughout, with a new chapter on the recent role of Putin and…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Friday January 2nd I felt rotten today. It's my mother's fault for singing My Way at two o'clock in the morning at the top of the stairs. Just my luck to have a mother like her. There is a chance my parents could be alcoholics. Next year I could be in a children's home. Meet Adrian Mole, a hapless teenager providing an unabashed, pimples-and-all glimpse into adolescent life. Writing candidly…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: France, 1916. Sophie Lefevre must keep her family safe whilst her adored husband Edouard fights at the front. When she is ordered to serve the German officers who descend on her hotel each evening, her home becomes riven by fierce tensions.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson... He sits motionless, like a spider in the centre of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them Sherlock Holmes, scourge of criminals everywhere, whether they be lurking in London's foggy backstreets or plotting behind the walls of an idyllic country mansion, and his faithful colleague Dr Watson, solve these…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: In Egypt, Nuri, a teenage boy, falls in love with Mona — the woman his father will marry. Consumed with longing, Nuri wants to get his father out of the way — to take his place in Mona's heart. But when his father disappears, Nuri regrets what he wished for. Alone, he and Mona search desperately for the man they both love. Only for Nuri to discover a silence he cannot break and unimaginable…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: There has been a lot of fighting hereabouts. The trenches have made themselves rather than been made, and run inconsequently in and out of the big thirty-foot high stacks of bricks; it is most confusing. The parapet of a trench which we don't occupy is built up with ammunition boxes and corpses. In one of the most honest and candid self-portraits ever committed to paper, Robert Graves tells the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: In the early hours of the morning, following a wedding reception, a car filled with stoned, drunk and sleepy guests accidentally hits and kills a girl on a dark country road. This title explores the after effects of one night's terrible trauma on three siblings over years.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: The Ugly Truth book & CD is a gorgeous gift edition of the bestselling fifth title in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series by Jeff Kinney. Perfect for holidays and long car journeys! Greg Heffley has always been in a hurry to grow up. But is getting older really all it's cracked up to be? Suddenly Greg is dealing with the increased pressures of boy-girl parties, increased responsibilities, and even…

Скачать книгу (размер 5 639 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1107) Аннотация: «At last-the New York Times bestselling author continues his «astonishing»* Kingkiller Chronicle saga. Orson Scott Card. In The Wise Man's Fear, Day Two of The Kingkiller Chronicle, Kvothe searches for answers, attempting to uncover the truth about the mysterious Amyr, the Chandrian, and the death of his parents. Along the way, Kvothe is put on trial by the legendary Adem mercenaries, forced to…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: One night in the rain, Ethan Wate opened his eyes and fell in love with Lena Duchannes. His life would never be the same. Lena is a Caster and her family is locked in a supernatural civil war: full of darkness and demons. On her sixteenth birthday Lena made a terrifying choice, which now haunts her day and night. And as her seventeenth birthday approaches Lena and Ethan face even greater danger.…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Our journey began in fire... Gideon Cross came into my life like lightning in the darkness — beautiful and brilliant, jagged and white hot. I was drawn to him as I'd never been to anything or anyone in my life. I craved his touch like a drug, even knowing it would weaken me. I was flawed and damaged, and he opened those cracks in me so easily...

Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: Little Women is an outstanding achievement of nineteenth-century American literature, and the first children's novel written in the United States to have become an enduring classic. The March girls are shown throughout as real people and not mere moral examples as we follow them from childhood through Little Women and Little Women Part Two (known in Europe as Good Wives). The portrayal of the…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: Ethan Wate is in love with a caster girl. When he looks at Lena, it's like there's no one else in the world. But Ethan is mortal, and on her seventeenth birthday Lena made a choice that changed everything. The girl Ethan loves has broken the world with the supernatural powers she is struggling to control... Now, if they are to fix the chaos Lena has caused, one of them must make a terrible…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Everybody who is anybody is seen at the glittering parties held in millionaire Jay Gatsby's mansion in West Egg, east of New York. The riotous throng congregates in his garden, coolly debating Gatsby's origins and mysterious past. None of the frivolous socialites understands him and among various rumours is the conviction that 'he killed a man'.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: It begins with a dead body at the far end of Baker Street tube station, all that remains of American exchange student James Gallagher—and the victim’s wealthy, politically powerful family is understandably eager to get to the bottom of the gruesome murder. The trouble is, the bottom—if it exists at all—is deeper and more unnatural than anyone suspects . . . except, that is, for London constable…

Скачать книгу (размер 503 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 100) Аннотация: The New Yorker was launched in 1925, and offers reporting, criticism, essays, fiction, poetry, humour, and cartoons. From the very outset, the founders, Harold Ross and Jane Grant, declared that their sophisticated magazine was 'not edited for the old lady in Dubuque'. The New Yorker has also offered great literature in short stories from such acclaimed writers as John Cheever, Roald Dahl, Alice…