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Freud Sigmund: The Psychopathology of Everyday Life

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: This collection of writings is famous for giving us the phrase 'Freudian slip'. It also builds up a strong social history of Vienna and the middle-class social milieu of Freud and his patients. Through a series of case histories, some no longer than a few lines long, Freud explores how it is that normal people make slips of speech, writing, reading and remembering in their everyday life, and…

Downs Robert B.: Books That Changed the World

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: From the Bible, the Iliad, and the Republic to Civil Disobedience, Das Kapital, and Silent Spring, this revised and greatly expanded edition is a monument to the power of the printed word-an informative discussion of many of the most important works ever created.

Charlaine Harris: Dead Until Dark

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: For years, Charlaine Harris has delighted fans with her mystery series featuring small-town waitress-turned-paranormal sleuth Sookie Stackhouse. Now, we are pleased to offer her first novel in the series in a special hardcover edition. And with HBO launching an all-new show, True Blood, based on the Southern Vampire novels, the demand for Charlaine Harris and Sookie Stackhouse will be bigger than…

Steinbeck John: Cannery Row

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: «In the din and stink that is Cannery Row a colourful blend of misfits — gamblers, whores, drunks, bums and artists — survive side by side in a jumble of adventure and mischief. Lee Chong, the astute owner of the well-stocked grocery store, is also the proprietor of the Palace Flophouse that Mack and his troupe of good-natured 'boys' call home. Dora runs the brothel with clockwork efficiency and…

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: One Day in Life of Ivan Denisovich

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: «One of the most significant works ever to emerge from Soviet Russia, «One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich» is both a graphic picture of World War II work camp life and a testimony to the human spirit.»

Williams Tennessee: Rose Tattoo and Other Plays

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: «In these three exotic, steamy dramas Tennessee Williams portrays loss, faded lives and passionate love affairs. «The Rose Tattoo» is set in a bustling, Sicilian-American community, where newly widowed Serafina is paralysed by grief, until she has her romantic illusions about her dead husband shattered and rediscovers her true nature as a fiery prima donna, in a life-affirming celebration of love…

Walser David: Nut Cracker

Скачать книгу (размер 126 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 26) Аннотация: It is Christmas Eve and the party is over. Clara creeps downstairs to find Nutcracker, a wooden doll given to her by her mysterious godfather Drosselmeier — a creator of fabulous mechanical toys, has come to life. Through her godfather's strange powers, Clara is caught up in a thrilling battle in which she and Nutcracker — in reality a prince transformed by an evil spell — overcome the Mouse King…

Jennifer Lee Carrell: The Shakespeare Secret

Скачать книгу (размер 2 380 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 468) Аннотация: A long-lost work of Shakespeare, newly found....a killer who stages the Bard's extravagant murders as flesh-and-blood realities...a desperate race to find litarary gold, and just to stay alive....

Brenan Gerald: South From Granada

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Between 1920 and 1934, Gerald Brenan lived in the remote Spanish village of Yegen and South of Granada depicts his time there, vividly evoking the essence of his rural surroundings and the Spanish way of life before the Civil War. Here he portrays the landscapes, festivals and folk-lore of the Sierra Nevada, the rivalries, romances and courtship rituals, village customs, superstitions and…

Tracy Chevalier: Burning Bright

Скачать книгу (размер 1 860 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 366) Аннотация: Tracy Chevalier, author of the Girl With a Pearl Earring, returns with a look at poet, artist, and printer William Blake who works in obscurity as England is rocked by the effects of the French Revolution.

Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe

Скачать книгу (размер 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 140) Аннотация: From the exquisite lyric “To Helen”, to the immortal masterpieces “Annabel Lee”, “The Bells”, and “The Raven”, The Complete Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe demonstrates the author’s gift for the form.

Bowles Paul: The Sheltering Sky

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: «The Sheltering Sky» is a book about people on the edge of an alien space; somewhere where, curiously, they are never alone' — Michael Hoffman. Port and Kit Moresbury, a sophisticated American couple, are finding it more than a little difficult to live with each other. Endeavoring to escape this predicament, they set off for North Africa intending to travel through Algeria — uncertain of exactly…

The Essential Groucho

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: No, Groucho is not my real name, I'm just breaking it in for a friend. Presenting the greatest and most hilarious examples of Groucho, one of the most influential and well-loved figures in the long and glittering history of comedy. From early scripts to complete screenplays, from magazine funnies to fascinating personal correspondence, via books, greedy banks, even greedier lawyers and the coming…

Evelyn Waugh: Officers and Gentlemen

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Guy Crouchback is now attached to a commando unit undergoing training on the Hebridean isle of Mugg, where the whisky flows freely and HM forces have to show respect for the laird. But the comedy of Mugg is followed by the bitterness of Crete.

Steinbeck: A Russian Journal

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: «Just after the iron curtain fell on Eastern Europe John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer, Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to report for the «New York Herald Tribune». This rare opportunity took the famous travelers not only to Moscow and Stalingrad — now Volgograd — but through the countryside of the Ukraine and the Caucasus. A «Russian Journal» is the distillation of their…

Burroughs Edgar Rice: Tarzan of the Apes

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: The classic tale of adventure and romanceain a vibrant new package.

Eding June: Who Was Queen Elizabeth?

Скачать книгу (размер 519 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 103) Аннотация: Our bestselling series is fit for a queen The life of Queen Elizabeth I was dramatic and dangerous: cast out of her father as court at the age of three and imprisoned at nineteen, Elizabeth was crowned queen in 1558, when she was only twenty-five. A tough, intelligent woman who spoke five languages, Elizabeth ruled for over forty years and led England through one of its most prosperous periods in…

Nabokov: Invitation to a Beheading

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: «Written in Berlin in 1934, «Invitation to a Beheading» contains all the surprise, excitement and magical intensity of a work created in two brief weeks of sustained inspiration. It takes us into the fantastic prison-world of Cincinnatus, a man condemned to death and spending his last days in prison not quite knowing when the end will come. Nabokov described the book as 'a violin in a void. The…

Rachel Caine: Feast of Fools

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Think Amelie is scary? Meet her dad, the terrifying vampire Mr. Bishop. What does he want — and what will Amelie do about it? Claire's caught in the middle, along with her friends and even her parents, as Morganville's fragile alliance between humans and vampires starts to fracture. Soon, everyone will have to choose a companion for the Feast of Fools...and a side.

Lewis Sinclair: Elmer Gantry

Скачать книгу (размер 2 186 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 430) Аннотация: The portrait of an evangelist who rises to power within his church.