Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: A humor classic by one of the funniest writers today, Side Effects is a treat for all those who know his work and those just discovering how gifted he is. Included here are such classics as Remembering Needleman, The Kugelmass Episode, a new sory called Confessions Of A Buglar, and more.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: When the spoilt and haughty Dona Constanza tries to divert a river to fill her swimming pool, she starts a running battle with the locals. The skirmishes are so severe that the Government dispatches a squadron of soldiers led by the fat, brutal and stupid Figueras to deal with them. Despite visiting plagues of laughing fits and giant cats upon the troops, the villagers know that to escape the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: «Primarily known as a dramatist, Chekhov also wrote short stories. This selection of his work includes «The Swedish Match», «Easter Eve», «Mire», «On the Road», «Verotchka», «Volodya», «The Kiss», «Sleepy» and «The Steppe».»
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: A millennium into the future, two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the Galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. On the beautiful Outer World planet of Solaria, a handful of human colonists lead a hermit-like existence, their every need attended to by their faithful robot servants. To this strange and provocative planet comes Detective Elijah…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Led by its founding father, the great psycho-historian Hari Seldon, and taking advantage of its superior science and technology, the Foundation survived the greed and barbarism of its neighboring warrior-planets. Yet now it must face the Empire — still the mightiest force in the Galaxy, even in its death throes. When an ambitious general determined to restore the Empire's glory turns the vast…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: At last, the costly and bitter war between the two Foundations had come to an end. The scientists of the First Foundation had proved victorious; and now they retum to Hari Seldon's long-established plan to build a new Empire that the Second Foundation is not destroyed after all — and that its still — defiant survivors are preparing their revenge. Now the two exiled citizens of the Foundation — a…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: «Prisoner of war, optometrist, time-traveller — these are the life roles of Billy Pilgrim, hero of this miraculously moving, bitter and funny story of innocence faced with apocalypse. «Slaughterhouse 5» is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centring on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden in the Second World War, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the journey of our own fractured…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Dr. Seuss's magic elixir may — or may not — prolong life, but it is a fact that it makes you feel a whole lot better Here in one glorious volume are six of the good doctor's best prescriptions. Not a word or a picture has been omitted or changed. Ranging from his very first book, And to Thing That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, to his prophetic The Lorax, Six by Seuss is the perfect collection to…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: «Homer's epic chronicle of the Greek hero Odysseus' journey home from the Trojan War has inspired writers from Virgil to James Joyce. Odysseus survives storm and shipwreck, the cave of the Cyclops and the isle of Circe, the lure of the Sirens' song and a trip to the Underworld, only to find his most difficult challenge at home, where treacherous suitors seek to steal his kingdom and his loyal…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: The three laws of Robotics: 1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 2) A robot must obey orders givein to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. With this, Asimov changed our…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 681 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 723) Аннотация: In the third book of the Earth's Children series, Ayla and Jondalar set forth into the land of the Mamutoi. Although Ayla finds warmth and friendship, she must choose between Jondalar and Ranec as her mate.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 268 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 446) Аннотация: The Godfather is the Mafia leader Vito Corleone, a benevolent despot who stops at nothing to gain and hold power. Set in Long Island, Hollywood and Sicily, this is a story of a feudal society within society which does not hesitate to consolidate its power.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 747 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 736) Аннотация: The first and most autobiographical of Maugham's masterpieces. It is the story of Philip Carey, an orphan eager for life, love and adventure. After a few months studying in Heidelberg, and a brief spell in Paris as a would-be artist, he settles in London to train as a doctor where he meets Mildred, the loud but irresistible waitress with whom he plunges into a tortured and masochistic affair.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: For the first time Asimov chronicles the life of Hari Seldon, the man who laid the framework for the universe that came to be known as the Foundation. The long-awaited overture to the greatest science fiction series of all time.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: As Venetia Flaxton edges closer to the threshold of a love affair with the Dean of the Cathedral — a man old enough to be her father — his hidden emotional past and her moral conflict lead them deeper into the mysteries of the human heart and soul. A powerfully moving novel set in the turbulence of the 1960s. Passionate.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 672) Аннотация: At a small-town carnival two men, each mysteriously summoned by telegram, witness a bizarre killing. The telegrams are signed Jason Bourne. Only they know Bourne's true identity and understand the telegram is really a message from Bourne's mortal enemy, Carlos, known also as the Jackal, the world's deadliest and most elusive terrorist.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: So far the Foundation was safe. But there was a hidden Second Foundation to protect the first. The Mule has yet to find it, but he was getting closer all the time. The men of the Foundation sought it, too, to escape from Mule's mind control. Only Arkady, a 14 year-old girl seemed to have the answer, or did she...?
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: There is a woman haunted by her dreams of her dead mother. There is an adulterous couple stepping over the line where the initial excitement ends and the pain begins. There is a widow visiting a Scottish village in search of her husband's past and instead discovering unsettling truths about a total stranger. The ten stories in this collection not only astonish and delight but also convey the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: Story of valiant companions, awesome foes, and the ancient mystery of how the Elves survive.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Murphy's Law — popularly known as Sod's Law — with acknowledgements to Parkinson's Law and the Peter Principle — explains the truth of man's existence: that if anything can go wrong, it will. In three volumes of murphology, Arthur Block has provided the only comfort possible — laughter — for all those who have ever been exasparated by things going wrong, with a set of rules offering a wise and…