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Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: Downloads, CDs and DVD mean it is possible to listen to hundreds of thousands of classical recordings today — but how do you pick your way through the vast array of music now on offer? The Penguin Guide to the 1000 Finest Classical Recordings brings together the experience and enthusiasm of four of classical music's greatest experts, Ivan March, Edward Greenfield, Robert Layton and Paul…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Seventeen years ago Angela Carr aborted an unwanted child. The child's father, Christopher Moore, was devastated by the loss and he retreated from the world. Unable to accept what had happened between them both went their separate ways. However, when Christopher makes a horrifying discovery whilst out walking his dog on the heath he finds that he is compelled to confront Angela about the past. As…

Скачать книгу (размер 503 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 100) Аннотация: One hundred postcards of all Doctor Who's iconic characters, terrifying monsters and incredible places the Doctor has visited in a stylish keepsake box. Send them to your friends, stick them on your wall, or keep them as a classic collectable!

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: This is the Orange Prize long listed debut novel by the author of The German Boy. In 1958, in a small Devon village, on an idyllic summer afternoon, two children are drowned. Their parents, Isabel and Robert, are overcome with grief but, as time passes, their tragedy becomes part of the everyday fabric of village life. One summer's day, thirty years later, Anna arrives. She comes to the village…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 502 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 688) Аннотация: The documents thatshaped a nation. Three of the founding fathers brilliantly defend their revolutionary charter: the Constitution of the United States, a milestone in political science and a classic of American history.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: The day her children leave home, Eva climbs into bed and stays there. She's had enough — of her kids' carelessness, her husband's thoughtlessness and of the world's general indifference. Eva's refusal to behave like a dutiful wife and mother soon upsets everyone but she insists on staying in bed. And then the strangest things start to happen. A funny and touching novel from Britain's funniest…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Following on from the acclaimed Just Looking and Still Looking, Always Looking treats readers to a series of elegant and sensitive essays on art, and includes writing on a comprehensive array of subjects, both American and European. In The Clarity of Things, Updike looks closely at Copley, Homer, Abstract Expressionism, and Pop, in order to explore what is 'American' in American art. From here he…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: «The «Penguin English Library Edition» of «Persuasion» by Jane Austen. 'Her attachment and regrets had, for a long time, clouded every enjoyment of youth; and an early loss of bloom and spirits had been their lasting effect'. «Persuasion», Jane Austen's last novel, is a moving, masterly and elegiac love story tinged with the heartache of missed opportunities. It tells the story of Anne Elliot,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you — haunt me, then Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before: of the intense passion between the foundling Heathcliff and Catherine…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: No sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she had hardly a good feature in her face, than he began to find it was rendered uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression of her dark eyes... When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later…

Скачать книгу (размер 529 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 105) Аннотация: «Steve Jobs, adopted in infancy by a family in San Francisco, packed a lot of life into fifty-six short years. In this Who Was...? biography, children will learn how his obsession with computers and technology at an early age led him to co-found and run Apple, in addition to turning Pixar into a ground-breaking animation studio. A college dropout, Jobs took unconventional steps in his path to…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Behind the doors of the most famous address in the country, all is not well.Edward Clare was voted into Number Ten after a landslide election victory. But a few years later and it is all going wrong. The love of the people is gone. The nation is turning against him.Panicking, Prime Minister Clare enlists the help of Jack Sprat, the policeman on the door of No 10, and sets out to discover what the…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 293 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 647) Аннотация: Jojo Harvey is a dead ringer for Jessica Rabbit and the most ferocious literary agent in town. A former NYPD cop, she now lives in London making million-dollar book deals while trying to make partner at her firm... all the while sleeping with the boss man. Lily Wright is an author who believes in karma, and is waiting for the sky to fall after stealing her former best friend's man. Though her…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 493 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 294) Аннотация: Olympic pairs figure skating hopeful Christine Allen is training in Cabot Cove under the tutelage of former gold medalist Brian Devlin and partnered with up-and-coming Russian skater Alexei Olshansky. But when a series of mysterious accidents occur-leading to the death of one of the skaters-Jessica Fletcher suspects someone is getting away with cold-blooded murder...

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: In Making the Future, Noam Chomsky takes on a wide range of hot-button issues including the ongoing financial crisis, Obama's presidency, the limits of the two-party system, nuclear Iran, Afghanistan, Israel-Palestine, corporate power, and the future of American politics. Laced throughout his critiques are expressions of commitment to democracy and the power of popular struggles. Progressive…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Enter the world of Susan Lilian Townsend — sun — worshippers, work-shy writers, garden centre lovers and those in search of a good time are all welcome... This sparkling collection of Sue Townsend's hilarious non-fiction covers everything from hosepipe bans to Spanish restaurants, from writer's block to slug warfare, from slob holidays to the banning of beige. These funny, perceptive and touching…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: For Willi Kufult, prison life means staying out of trouble, keeping his cell clean, snagging a precious piece of tobacco — and dreaming of the day of his release. Then he gets out. As Willi tries to make a new life for himself in Hamburg, finding a job and even love, he still cannot escape his past. Gradually he becomes sucked into a world of drink, desperation and deceit, and with one terrible…

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Скачать книгу (размер 2 283 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 449) Аннотация: 'To me' D. H. Lawerence once wrote to E. M. forster, 'you are the last Englishman.' Indeed, Forster's novels offer contemporary readers clear, vibrant portraits of life in Edwardian England. Published in 1908 to both critical and popular acclaim, A Room with a View is a whimsical comedy of manners that owes more to Jane Austen that perhaps any other of his works. The central character is a…

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: From the fall of Troy to the deadly Harpies, Aeneas' epic voyage is filled with tragedy, destruction and omens of danger. As he recounts his adventures to Dido, who gives him sanctuary, they fall in love. But the Gods intervene and Aeneas realizes their relationship cannot last. United by the theme of love, the writings in the Great Loves series span over two thousand years and vastly different…