Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: It is midsummer in Sweden — when the light lingers through dawn and the long winter comes to an end. Now, in this magical time, a brutal killer has chosen to strike, and the murder of a female priest sends shockwaves through the community. It has been almost two years since attorney Rebecka Martinsson returned to her birthplace, Kiruna, in order to stop an eerily similar murder spree. Now she is…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: 'She was a brazen hussy. She wasn't. And she was pretty, wasn't she? I didn't look... And tell your girls, my son, that when they're running after you, they're not to come and ask your mother for you — tell them that — brazen baggages you meet at dancing classes'. The marriage of Gertrude and Walter Morel has become a battleground. Repelled by her uneducated and sometimes violent husband,…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: 'She looked so like herself that I knew not how to bear it'. Gilbert Markham is deeply intrigued by Helen Graham, a beautiful and secretive young woman who has moved into nearby Wildfell Hall with her young son. He is quick to offer Helen his friendship, but when her reclusive behaviour becomes the subject of local gossip and speculation, Gilbert begins to wonder whether his trust in her has been…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 665 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 720) Аннотация: This remarkable annotated collection of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's previously unpublished private correspondence offers unique insight into one of the world's most popular authors. For the first time, Conan Doyle emerges from the shadow of Sherlock Holmes, revealing a man whose character and exploits rival that of his famous creation. In particular, Conan Doyle's correspondence with his mother…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: 'Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, — stern and wild ones, — and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss'. Set in the harsh Puritan community of seventeenth-century Boston, this tale of an adulterous entanglement that results in an illegitimate birth reveals Nathaniel Hawthorne's concerns with the tension between the public and the private selves. Publicly…
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Johannes is an aesthete, dedicated to creating the possibility of seduction through the careful manipulation of young women. He stealthily pursues the innocent Cordelia until she becomes increasingly drawn to him. But when she is ready to give herself completely, she realizes she may have got everything wrong. United by the theme of love, the writings in the Great Loves series span over two…
Скачать книгу (размер 6 277 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1232) Аннотация: I have both the original Wilbour translation and the Norman Denny translation of this book, and Id say that the Denny translation is the more readable of the two. Graham Robb, in his award-winning biography of Hugo has called Dennys translation swiss cheese and translation as censorship. However, its well-written, and the excised sections are included as appendices to which any reader can turn.…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: The influence of the British Empire is everywhere, from the very existence of the United Kingdom to the ethnic composition of our cities. This title describes the selection process for colonial officers, the importance of sport, the sweating domestic life of the colonial officer's wife and the crazed end for General Gordon of Khartoum.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: 'I walk'd about on the shore, lifting up my hands, and my whole being, as I may say, wrapt up in the contemplation of my deliverance... reflecting upon all my comrades that were drown'd, and that there should not be one soul sav'd but my self...' Who has not dreamed of life on an exotic isle, far away from civilization? Here is the novel which has inspired countless imitations by lesser writers,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: «'You love the boy body and soul, plainly, directly, as he loves you...' Lucy has her rigid, middle-class life mapped out for her until she visits Florence with her uptight cousin Charlotte, and finds her neatly ordered existence thrown off balance. Her eyes are opened by the unconventional characters she meets at the Pension Bertolini: flamboyant romantic novelist Eleanor Lavish, the Cockney…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 502 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 688) Аннотация: Garrett is a private investigator who always gets his man-or elf, troll, or sorcerer. In the magical city of TunFaire, he's the first name in paranormal detection. Garrett Takes the Case collects three of his adventures in one volume. In Old Tin Sorrows, Garrett is hired to figure out if someone is poisoning a wealthy, retired General, but quickly finds that the man's employees are dying off at a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: The Monarchy Has Been Dismantled. When a Republican party wins the General Election, their first act in power is to strip the royal family of their assets and titles and send them to live on a housing estate in the Midlands. Exchanging Buckingham Palace for a two-bedroomed semi in Hell Close (as the locals dub it), caviar for boiled eggs, servants for a social worker named Trish, the Queen and…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: «This is the «Penguin English Library Edition» of «The Moonstone» by Wilkie Collins. 'Here was our quiet English house suddenly invaded by a devilish Indian Diamond — bringing after it a conspiracy of living rogues, set loose on us by the vengeance of a dead man'. When Rachel Verinder's birthday present — the Moonstone, a large Indian diamond — is stolen at her party, suspicion and the diamond's…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Assassin's Creed: Forsaken is the latest thrilling novelization by Oliver Bowden based on the phenomenally successful game series. The new game, Assassin's Creed III, takes one of gaming's most popular franchises to new heights in its most realistic world yet and introduces a brand new Assassin, Connor. During the American Revolution, Connor has sworn to secure liberty for his people and his…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: «New York Times» bestselling author Linda Fairstein is at her explosive best as she plunges into the byzantine world of New York City's most powerful and sacred institutions — and unearths the most sinister of secrets... Prosecutor Alexandra Cooper has been called to a Harlem Baptist Church, where a woman has been decapitated and set on fire on the church steps — with the imprint of a Star of…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 665 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 720) Аннотация: Although his father had been reluctant to become a field operative, Jack Ryan Jr. wants nothing more. Privately training with a seasoned Special Forces drill instructor, he's honing his skills to transition his work within The Campus from intelligence analysis to hunting down and eliminating terrorists wherever he can — even as Jack Ryan Sr. campaigns for re-election as President of the United…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: «A universal favorite, «The Importance of Being Earnest» displays Oscar Wilde's theatrical genius at its brilliant best. Subtitled «A Trivial Comedy for Serious People», this hilarious attack on Victorian manners and morals turns a pompous world on its head, lets duplicity lead to happiness, and makes riposte the highest form of art. Also included in this special collection are Wilde's first…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 901 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 374) Аннотация: Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon have undergone many hair-raising adventures before — but never one quite like this. Jungles come in many forms. There are the steamy rain forests of the Burmese highlands. There are the lies and betrayals of the world of covert operations. And there are the dark and twisted thoughts of a man bent on near-global domination. To pull off their latest mission,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Derace Kingsley's wife ran away to Mexico to get a quickie divorce and marry a Casanova-wannabe named Chris Lavery. Or so the note she left her husband insisted. Trouble is, when Philip Marlowe asks Lavery about it he denies everything and sends the private investigator packing with a flea lodged firmly in his ear. But when Marlowe next encounters Lavery, he's denying nothing — on account of the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 651 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 325) Аннотация: In this latest Fargo adventure, husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi are sent to find the missing father of a Texas oil barron. Their journey leads them to Tibet, Nepal, Venice, and more.