Скачать книгу (размер 2 074 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 408) Аннотация: «Bradley Pearson, an unsuccessful novelist in his late fifties, has finally left his dull office job as an Inspector of Taxes. Bradley hopes to retire to the country, but predatory friends and relations dash his hopes of a peaceful retirement. He is tormented by his melancholic sister, who has decided to come live with him; his ex-wife, who has infuriating hopes of redeeming the past; her…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school headmaster and model of Utilitarian success. Feeding both his pupils and family with facts, he bans fancy and wonder from any young minds. As a consequence his obedient daughter Louisa marries the loveless businessman and 'bully of humanity' Mr Bounderby, and his son Tom rebels to become embroiled in gambling and robbery. And, as…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 482 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 488) Аннотация: Is it possible to tell the story of a generation and a city through the history of a restaurant? Ella Brady thinks so. She wants to film a documentary about Quentins that will capture the spirit of Dublin from the 1970s to the present day. And Quentins has a thousand stories to tell: tales of love, of betrayal, of revenge; of times when it looked ready for success and times when it seemed as if…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: On 20 January 1942, the most murderous meeting in history took place. Chaired by Reinhard Heydrich, one of the most feared men in Germany, it summoned top Nazi officials to a grand villa on the shore of Berlin’s Lake Wannsee in order to clarify ‘the Final Solution of the Jewish question’. They ate good food, drank cognac and smoked cigars – and in less than two hours had effectively sentenced six…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: «Our world is changing. Globalization is not working. It is hurting those it was meant to help. And now, the tide is turning … Explosive and shocking, «Globalization and Its Discontents» is the bestselling exposé of the all-powerful organizations that control our lives – from the man who has seen them at work first hand. As Chief Economist at the World Bank, Nobel Prize-winner Joseph…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: In 2065 Louisiana, the bloodthirsty Reapers have come to Earth to establish a New Order built on the harvesting of human souls. The Wolves are an elite guerilla force sworn to win back Earth, and Lieutenant David Valentine leads his first command.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil lanes of London, they are all drawn against…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Wrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years before, the embittered weaver Silas Marner lives alone in Raveloe, living only for work and his precious hoard of money. But when his money is stolen and an orphaned child finds her way into his house, Silas is given the chance to transform his life. His fate, and that of the little girl he adopts, is entwined with Godfrey…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: «Two of Stein's most recognizable works are together in one volume. «Three Lives», Stein's most accessible work, is the psychological portrait of three immigrant women and their lives in a new country. «Tender Buttons» is a collection of prose poems which employ repetitive sentences and simple language to build images.»
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Ruby wants to teach Max all the things a wise big sister knows, such as the alphabet, numbers, and colors. But first she has to teach him to pay attention.
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Jane Walmsley shares George Bernard Shaw's belief that America and Britain are two nations divided by a common language. In this title she looks beyond this shared facade to see the great gulfs that separate us in such areas as tastes in food, dress, home decoration, the way we conduct business, vacation, engage in sex and even die. Her prototype American is an eternal optimist who believes it is…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Born into a theatrical family, Chaplin's father died of drink while his mother, unable to bear the poverty, suffered from bouts of insanity, Chaplin embarked on a film-making career which won him immeasurable success, as well as intense controversy. His extraordinary autobiography was first published in 1964 and was written almost entirely without reference to documentation — simply as an…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: Clarence Brown's marvelous collection introduces readers to the most resonant voices of twentieth-century Russia. It includes stories by Chekhov, Gorky, Bunin, Zamyatin, Babel, Nabokov, Solzhenitsyn, and Voinovich; excerpts from Andrei Bely's Petersburg, Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, Boris Pasternak's Dr. Zhivago, and Sasha Solokov's A School for Fools; the complete text of Yuri…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Any Human Heart is an ambitious, all-encompassing novel. Through the intimate journals of Logan Mounstuart we travel from Uruguay to Oxford, on to Paris, the Bahamas, New York and West Africa, and meet his three wives, his family, his friends and colleagues, his rivals, enemies and lovers, including notables such as the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Ernest Hemingway and Virginia Woolf.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 503 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 296) Аннотация: «Combined here are «Maus I: A Survivor`s Tale» and «Maus II» — the complete story of Vladek Spiegelman and his wife, living and surviving in Hitler`s Europe. By addressing the Holocaust through cartoons the author captures the everyday reality of fear and the sensation of survival.»
Скачать книгу (размер 3 910 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 768) Аннотация: Orlando Figes’s enthralling, richly evocative history has been heralded as a literary masterpiece on Russia, the lives of those who have shaped its culture, and the enduring spirit of a people.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Abbie Devereaux wakes in the dark. She is hooded and bound, with no idea where she is or how she got there. Kept alive by a man she never sees, his only promise is that eventually he will kill her — like the others. But Abbie has spirit and bloody-mindedness on her side. She counts the seconds spent alone and plots her survival. Above all she dreams of returning to normal, careless, everyday life…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 324) Аннотация: Behind the doors of the most famous address in the country, all is not well. Five years ago, Edward Clare was voted in to Number Ten after a landslide election result. But things are starting to go wrong. The love has gone. The people are turning. Leaving behind his superwoman wife Adele, Prime Minister Clare enlists the help of Jack Sprat, a policeman on the door of Number Ten, and sets out to…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: «After his confrontation with the man in black at the end of The Gunslinger, Roland awakes to find three doors on the beach of Mid-World's Western Sea — each leading to New York City but at three different moments in time. Through these doors, Roland must «draw» three figures crucial to his quest for the Dark Tower. In 1987, he finds Eddie Dean, The Prisoner, a heroin addict. In 1964, he meets…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: With ‘long hair in the wind, beards and bandanas flapping, earrings, chain whips … and Harleys flashing chrome’, the Hell’s Angels erupted into 1960s America, paralysing whole towns with fear. Determined to discover the truth behind the terrifying reputation of these marauding biker gangs, Hunter S. Thompson spent a year on the road with the Angels, documenting his hair-raising experiences with…