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Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: The story of a British earthling plucked from his planet, and his subsequent adventures elsewhere in the universe.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: «An unsettling, shocking and very funny collection of stories. The characters in this extraordinary book are often — on the surface — depraved, vicious, cowardly and manipulative, but their essential humanity is never undermined. Two professors of philosophy turn pugilists; Leith removal men become the objects of desire for Hollywood goddesses; God turns Boab Coyle into a house-fly; and in the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: «The Washington Post Book World Facing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons is a curious time to have a craving for tea. It could only happen to the cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his curious comrades in arms as they hurtle across space powered by pure improbability — and desperately in search of a place to eat. Among Arthur's motley shipmates are Ford Prefect, a longtime friend…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: A thriller about the quest of three adventures to find the diamonds of the Lost City of Zinj in the heart of Africa.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: An appalling choice faces the President of the USA and other statesmen: whichever option they choose, men are going to die. But Adam Munro is unmoved. He knows that politicians have no objection to loss of life, so long as they are not seen publicly to have had anything to do with it.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: «The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels». So says John Berry, son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric siblings, and chronicler of the lives lived, the loves experienced, the deaths met, and the myriad strange and wonderful times encountered by the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: «By the author of «The Name of the Rose», these essays, written over the last 20 years and culled from newspapers and magazines, explore the rag-bag of modern consciousness. Eco considers a wide range of topics, from «Superman» and «Casablanca», Federico Fellini and Michelangelo Antonioni, Jim Jones and mass suicide, and Woody Allen, to holography and waxworks, pop festivals and football, and not…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico became a best-selling phenomenon with its winning blend of poignant romance and bittersweet wit. The classic love story takes place on the De la Garza ranch, as the tyrannical owner, Mama Elena, chops onions at the kitchen table in her final days of pregnancy. While still in her mother's womb, her…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: Bob Slocum was a promising executive. He had an attractive wife, three children, a nice house, and as many mistresses as he desired. His life was settled and ordered; he had conformed and society demanded he be happy — or at least pretend to be, But the pretence was becoming more and more difficult, as Slocum's discontent grew into an overwhelming sense of desolation, frustration and fear. And…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: This omnibus of Belloc's stories is a feast of delightful tales told in rhyme — all with a dramatic moral twist in the tail. Are you prone to pulling faces, telling tales or bouts of extravagance? Yes? Then ignore these stories at your peril. If not, you might suffer a fate similar to those described in these cautionary tales.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 886 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 371) Аннотация: Nora Roberts, the bestselling author of Hidden Riches and Born In Fire, continues the romantic Irish saga--the story of the Concannon sisters, three modern women bound by the timeless spirit of their land. When the harsh storms of winter descended upon western Ireland, the locals stayed indoors — and visitors stayed away. Brianna Concannon's bed-and-breakfast became a cold and empty place. But…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 447 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 481) Аннотация: On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all. On the eve of Armageddon, with the entire galaxy at…

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: «Men Without Women» was a milestone in Hemingway's career. «Fiesta» had already established him as a novelist of exceptional power, but with these short stories, his second collection, he showed that it is possible, within the space of a few pages, to recreate a scene with absolute truth, bringing to life details observed only by the eye of a uniquely gifted artist. Hemingway's men are…

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Ranked among the classic novels of the English language and the inspiration for several unforgettable movies, this early work of H. G. Wells was greeted in 1896 by howls of protest from reviewers, who found it horrifying and blasphemous. They wanted to know more about the wondrous possibilities of science shown in his first book, The Time Machine, not its potential for misuse and terror. In The…

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: 'If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast'. Hemingway's memories of his life as an unknown writer living in Paris in the 1920s are deeply personal, warmly affectionate and full of wit. Looking back not only at his own much younger self, but also at the other writers who shared…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Three witnesses hold all the clues in three crimes of passion that have even the great Nero Wolfe guessing to the very end. A dead million comes back to life, only to wind up dead again; a black Labrador retriever becomes a killer's worst enemy; and an answering service with three untalkative operators may mean an innocent man will get the chair.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: «Vanished» tells the story of a man and woman faced with an almost unthinkable tragedy — the mysterious abduction of their son. In the late 1930s, in the shadow of the Lindbergh kidnapping, and as war looms in Europe, Marielle Patterson shares and elegant Manhattan brownstone with her husband, Malcolm, and their little boy, Teddy. Though the couple's lives are filled with secrets, Marielle is a…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: One thing is certain to distract Nero Wolfe from his culinary and horticultural pursuits: murder. This time Wolfe and his able assistant, Archie Goodwin, are put in the hot seat when they are called upon to investigate three different murders.

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the story of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. It was The Old Man and the Sea that won for Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature. Here, in a perfectly crafted story, is unique and timeless vision of the beauty and grief of man's challenge to the elements in which he lives.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: A mother and a daughter live quietly in the rustic gatehouse of Shrove House, an isolated British estate. Their life seems perfectly ordinary except that daughter Liza has been kept isolated from the outside world for all of her sixteen years. And that he has seen her beautiful mother commit murder... more than once. Now, as the police come searching for a missing man, Liza's sheltered, strange…