Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: This is the definitive survey of the English language — in all its forms. Crystal writes accessibly about the structure of the language, the uses of English throughout the world and finally he gives a brief history of English. The book has been fully revised and there is a fascinating new chapter on 'The effect of technology' on the English language.
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Annie and her dog, Oscar, have had a busy day playing in the snow. Somehow Annie's red mitten has disappeared in all the fun. They look high and low... It's not on the sledding hill, and it's not by the snow castles. Maybe an eagle carried it off to keep its baby's head warm. Or maybe a mouse is using it as a sleeping bag. When the sun goes down, Annie and Oscar have to give up their search and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 886 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 371) Аннотация: «Sex and the City» author Candace Bushnell returns to the playgrounds of Manhattan's powerful and beautiful with her sizzling sensation «4 Blondes», which gives an insider's look at the romantic intrigues, liaisons, and betrayals among the elite. She chronicles the lives of four beautiful women — a model, a columnist, a socialite, and a writer — as they face turning points at which each must…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Stephen King cranks up the suspense in a different kind of bedtime story. A game of seduction between a husband and wife goes horribly awry when the husband suddenly dies. But the wife's nightmare has just begun.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: «On the first day of May, 100 teenage boys meet for an event known throughout the country as «The Long Walk.» If you break the rules, you get three warnings. If you exceed your limit, what happens is absolutely terrifying. Reissue.»
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: At last! Here's a brand-new board book edition of an Eric Carle picture book that's a favorite with littlest cloud gazers everywhere! Little Cloud likes to stand out from the crowd. When all the other clouds drift up, he goes his own way, changing shapes to become a sheep, an airplane, a shark and a funny clown. It's all lots of fun, but so is playing with friends. So this time, Little Cloud…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: String beans, spaghetti, Zoooop, roast beef, fresh fish, chicken and ice cream are the delicious fare during the week in this popular children's song. Until Sunday. Then, all the world's children are invited to come together and share in the meal. Celebrated artist Eric Carle brings new energy to these much-loved verses as lively animals parade across the page, munching on favorite dishes, and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: «George Orwell's first published work, «Down and Out in Paris and London», is a vivid, sensitive account of the time he lived as one of the poor in the late twenties. In a bug-infested hotel, surviving only between the pawnbroker and a little teaching and writing, Orwell shocked the middle-class establishment with his observation of the misery, the hopelessness and the despair of the poor of a…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: «When Georgia Abbot`s fiance cheats on her she leaves her humdrum life in London for a job at «Glow» magazine in Sydney, Australia. At first things seem promising, as she`s swept up in a whirl of parties, dancing and debauchery. But Australian men are — oh dear — starting to look all too familiar.»
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: For Gertrude Stein and her companion Alice B. Toklas, life in Paris was based upon the rue de Fleurus and the Saturday evenings and ‘it was like a kaleidoscope slowly turning’. Picasso was there with ‘his high whinnying spanish giggle’, as were Cezanne and Matisse, Hemingway and Fitzgerald. As Toklas put it – ‘The geniuses came and talked to Gertrude Stein and the wives sat with me’. A…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: The triffids are a monstrous species of stinging plant; they walk, they talk, they dominate the world. The narrator of this novel wakes up in hospital to find that, by missing the end of the world, he has survived to witness a new world. But the new world that awaits him is fantastic and horrific.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 390 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 470) Аннотация: In life she was a high-profile model, but in death she's the focus of a media firestorm that demands action from Lucas Davenport. One of his own men is a suspect in her murder. But when a series of bizarre, seemingly unrelated slayings rock the city, Davenport suspects a connection that leads to an ingenious killer more ruthless than anyone feared.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 370 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 466) Аннотация: In January, 1958, America's best hope to catch up with the Russians in the space race sits on a pad at Cape Canaveral. But the launch of the Explorer I satellite is delayed due to the weather, even though it is a sunny day. The real reason rests deep in the mind of a NASA scientist who wakes that morning with his memory completely erased — he knows a dark secret someone wants him to forget.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: «The stories collected here, including «The Alien Corn», «Flotsam and Jetsam», and «The Vessel of Wrath», reconfirm Maugham's stature as one of the masters of the short story.»
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: In 1919 Thomas Mann hailed Effi Briest (1895) as one of the six most significant novels ever written. Set in Bismarck's Germany, Fontane's luminous tale of a socially suitable but emotionally disastrous match between the enchanting seventeen-year-old Effi and an austere, workaholic civil servant twice her age, is at once touching and unsettling. Fontane's taut, ironic narrative depicts a world…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: These thirty stories — most set in the colonies at a time when the Empire was still assured, in a world in which men and women were caught between their own essentially European values and the richness and ambiguity of their unfamiliar surroundings — show a master of the genre at the peak of his power.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: On his twenty-fifth birthday, Leo Vincey opens the silver casket that his father has left to him. It contains a letter recounting the legend of a white sorceress who rules an African tribe and of his father's quest to find this remote race. To find out for himself if the story is true, Leo and his companions set sail for Zanzibar. There, he is brought face to face with Ayesha,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Browning was one of the greatest of English poets, whose intense and original imagination enabled him to transform any subject he chose — whether everyday or sublime — into startling memorable verse. In his work he brought to life the personalities of a diverse range of characters, and introduced a new immediacy, colloquial energy and psychological complexity to the poetry of his day. This…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: From the moment Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya in 1914 to manage a coffee plantation, her heart belonged to Africa. Drawn to the intense colours and ravishing landscapes, Karen Blixen spent her happiest years on the farm and her experiences and friendships with the people around her are vividly recalled in these memoirs. Out of Africa is the story of a remarkable and unconventional woman and of a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: In 1960, when he was almost 60 years old, John Steinbeck set out to rediscover the United States, feeling he might have lost touch with its sights sounds and the essence of its people. This book decribes his travels in a pick-up truck across nearly 40 states with his dog Charlie, a French poodle.