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Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Patrick Suskind's Perfume is a classic novel of death and sensuality in Paris, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. In eighteenth-century France there lived a man who was one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an era that knew no lack of gifted and abominable personages. His name was Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, and if his name has been forgotten today, it is certainly…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: «Stephen Fry invites readers to take a glimpse at his life story in the unputdownable More Fool Me. 'Oh dear I am an arse. I expect there'll be what I believe is called an «intervention» soon. I keep picturing it. All my friends bearing down on me and me denying everything until my pockets are emptied. Oh the shame' In his early thirties, Stephen Fry — writer, comedian, star of stage and screen —…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: The Weather Makers tells the dramatic story of the earth's climate, of how it has changed, how we have come to understand it, and of what that means for the future. Tim Flannery's gripping narrative takes the reader on an extraordinary journey into the past and around the globe, bringing us closer to the science than ever before. Along the way he explodes the many illusions that have grown up…

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: 'I could see that she was still terribly afraid, but I didn't soften anything; instead, seeing that she was afraid I deliberately intensified it.' In this short story, Dostoyevsky masterfully depicts desperation, greed, manipulation and suicide. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin…

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine murder than two blockheads to kill and be killed — a knife — a purse — and a dark lane... In this provocative and blackly funny essay, Thomas de Quincey considers murder in a purely aesthetic light and explains how practically every philosopher over the past two hundred years has been murdered — 'insomuch, that if a man…

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: It is a selection of Maupassant's brilliant, glittering stories set in the Parisian beau monde and Normandy countryside. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a…

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: No, no, I've got your word for it, I've got to die... you promised me... you told me... Turgenev's accounts of hunting in rural Russia, and the extraordinary characters he meets there. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries.…

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: No voice, no low, no howl is heard; the chief sound of life here is a hiss. Stories and poems by Herman Melville drawn from his years at sea. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: «Elizabeth Buchan brings us a beautifully told story of courage, love and lies in wartime Europe in her heart-breaking new novel. I Can't Begin to Tell You. When the Nazis invade Denmark, British-born Kay Eberstern is sickened when Bror — her husband of twenty-five years — collaborates with the enemy to save his family home. Lured by British Intelligence into a covert world of resistance, her…

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: But I ran up the broken stairway, and came out suddenly, as if by a miracle, clean on the platform of my San Tommaso, in the tremendous sunshine. Four personal, sun-drenched sketches of Lawrence's experiences in Italy. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around…

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: «Oh, good God,» he kept saying with great relish. «Good God...» 'Gooseberries' is accompanied here by 'The Kiss' and 'The Two Volodyas' — three exquisite depictions of love and loss in nineteenth-century Russia by Chekhov, the great master of the short story form. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity…

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: While engaged on this hunt I felt the earth quiver under my feet, and heard a soft big soughing sound, and looking round saw I had dropped in on a hippo banquet... Told with verve and self-mocking wit, the adventures of doughty female Victorian explorer Mary Kingsley describe stumbling upon five hippos by night, dodging elephants and fighting off a leopard with a stool. Introducing Little Black…

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: 'She kissed and kissed her with a hungry mouth.' A selection of Rossetti's most famous poems, from the hallucinatory 'Goblin Market' to 'In the bleak mid-winter.' Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a…

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: I can promise to be candid, not, however, to be impartial. A selection of the most insightful maxims and reflections from one of Germany's greatest ever thinkers. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a…

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: 'Mind you, it was a pukka, respectable opium-house, and not one of those stifling, sweltering chandoo-khanas that you can find all over the City.' Kipling first became famous for his pungent, harsh and shocking stories of northwest India, where he grew up. This is just a small selection from his inexhaustibly contentious and various early work. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for…

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: 'Hoodwink'd in faery fancy...' This volume contains a selection of Keats' greatest verse — including his gothic story in verse, The Eve of St Agnes, and the mysterious 'Lamia' — exploring themes of love, enchantment, myth and magic. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books…

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: A colouring book filled with highly detailed line artwork that allows the magical fantasy of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to be brought to be life in an entirely unique way. Pictures include iconic scenes from Wonderland and its array of extraordinary characters, threaded with delicate patterns all clearly outlined in pen and ink, making ideal spreads to colour. Pivotal moments from the story…

Скачать книгу (размер 5 216 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1024) Аннотация: In The English and their History, the first full-length account to appear in one volume for many decades, Robert Tombs gives us the history of the English people, and of how the stories they have told about themselves have shaped them, from the prehistoric 'dreamtime' through to the present day If a nation is a group of people with a sense of kinship, a political identity and representative…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Raises the bar... elegantly written and compelling. A crime writer to watch. (The Scotsman). Help me, please help me. It was a young woman's voice, pleading with him. He opened the door, certain that this was the biggest mistake of his life, and there she was, a feral creature in dirty clothes, with hollowed cheeks and scabs on her cracked lips. She told him her name and why she'd broken into his…

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: Then she began to run, and she ran over the sharp stones and through the thorns, and the wild animals bounded past her... Four weird, dark and enchanting fairy-tales from the Brothers Grimm. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many…