Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: This is Bulgakov's semi-autobiographical story of a writer who fails to sell his novel and fails to commit suicide. When his play is taken up by the theatre, literary success beckons, but he has reckoned without the grotesquely inflated egos of the actors, directors and theatre managers.
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Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: Jeremy Clarkson, it has to be said, sometimes finds the world a maddening place. And nowhere more so than from behind the wheel of a car, where you can see any number of people acting like lunatics while in control (or not) of a ton of metal. In Born to be Riled, Clarkson takes a look at the world through his windscreeen, shakes his head at what he sees – and then puts the boot in. Among other…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Ann Smith loves her handsome, dynamic boss, Jasha Wilder, but her daring plan to seduce him goes awry when she encounters a powerful wolf who-before her horrified eyes-changes into the man she adores. She soon discovers she can't escape her destiny, for she is the woman fated to break the curse that binds his soul.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: In exile, in danger, on the run, for six years Alec Milius has been trying to escape his past. But his past refuses to release him. Abandoned by MI6 after a disastrous operation with the CIA, Milius has slowly rebuilt his life in Madrid: he has a flat, a job — and a relationship with the wrong woman. Older and wiser than the young spy who first caught the eye of British Intelligence, Milius still…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: In Dorian Gray, Wilde's full-length novel, a fashionable young man sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Also included in the volume are three of the Irish master storyteller's short works.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Ten Days That Shook the World is John Reed's eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution. A contemporary journalist writing in the first flush of revolutionary enthusiasm, he gives a gripping record of the events in Petrograd in November 1917, when Lenin and the Bolsheviks finally seized power. Containing verbatim reports both of speeches by leaders and the chance comments of bystanders, set…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Handsome, powerful Rurik Wilder holds the power to transform himself into a fierce bird of prey-a gift that's caused death and destruction. At last he's offered the chance to redeem himself. Only one woman stands in his way-a beautiful writer determined to wreak revenge on the assassins who murdered her family. Assassins, it's been rumored, who have powers no human should ever possess...
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: On one level the novel is about the homecoming of Lavretsky, who, broken and disillusioned by a failed marriage, returns to his estate and finds love again — only to lose it. The sense of loss and of unfulfilled promise, beautifully captured by Turgenev, reflects his underlying theme that humanity is not destined to experience happiness except as something ephemeral and inevitably doomed. On…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: For nine years, Adam has been the centre of his mother, Cara's world. And, she thinks, she has been the centre of his, until the day he disappears. When he is found in the woods behind his school, beside the body of a little girl whom Cara has never heard of before, it feels as if her world has been torn apart. As Adam is locked into silence, unable to tell his mother what he has seen, Cara's…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: By the age of 32, Ronit has left London and transformed her life. She has become a cigarette-smoking, wise-cracking, New York career woman, who is in love with a married man. But when Ronit's father dies she is called back into the very different world of her childhood, a world she thought she had left far behind. The orthodox Jewish suburb of Hendon, north London is outraged by Ronit and her…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 220) Аннотация: «Written in 1748 while Cleland was in debtor's prison in London, it is considered the first modern «erotic novel» in English. The book follows the life of Frances Hill who begins as a poor country girl of 15 who is forced by poverty to leave her village home and go to town. There, she is tricked into working in a brothel, but escapes with Charles with whom she has fallen in love. After several…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Set in the lush world of the tropical rain forest, this classic picture book about a slow moving sloth who is smarter than he looks is an exquisite showcase for Carle's colorful collage art with a meaningful message.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Mechanic Mercy Thompson has friends in low places-and in dark ones. And now she owes one of them a favor. Since she can shapeshift at will, she agrees to act as some extra muscle when her vampire friend Stefan goes to deliver a message to another of his kind. But this new vampire is hardly ordinary-and neither is the demon inside of him.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Third in Mancusi's hip, sassy vampire series, featuring the heroine of Stake That! She's a vampire. She's also a vampire slayer. (It's a long story.) And now Rayne McDonald, Goth girl, has to carry out her most deviant mission yet: trying out for the cheerleading squad. Rayne already has enough on her plate: her twin keeps whining about whether or not to go all the way; her mom's boyfriend is…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 726 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 928) Аннотация: Dostoyevskys masterpiece introduces a world filled with greed, passion, depravity, and complex moral issues, as three brothers become involved in the brutal murder of their own father. This edition features an Afterword by bestselling author Sara Peretsky. Revised reissue.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 829 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 752) Аннотация: An adulteress, a runaway boy, a terrified soldier, and a maltreated sailor-all the heroes of these must-read novels have become part of our American literary heritage.
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Puffin continues to update the Puffin Storytapesa audio program and convert the cassette tapes to compact discs. This season, weare adding two more titles to our list of Puffin Storytimea packages. Madelineas Christmas, Ludwig Bemelmansa classic tale of a little French girl named Madeline as she celebrates Christmas, is perfect for this holiday season.These Puffin picture books will be…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Two classic science fiction novels in one handsome volume. Here are two masterpieces of irony and imaginative vision from the father of science fiction. The Time Machine propels the Time Traveller into a distant, dismal, Darwinian future. The Invisible Man tells of a brash young scientist who becomes invisible, then insane.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 436 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 479) Аннотация: At the age of ten, shy, vulnerable Fanny Price leaves behind her impoverished family in Portsmouth to go and live with her rich relatives at Mansfield Park. Growing up with her cousins Tom, Edmund, Maria and Julia, she is aware that she is different from them and that her place in society cannot be taken for granted, although she is not treated unkindly. A dashing couple from London, Mary…