Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: The Master of Ballantrae features some of Robert Louis Stevenson's best writing. The tale opens in the old Scottish castle of Durrisdeer, the ancestral home of the Durrie clan, and then moves to India, France, and the American Adirondacks. The Master of Ballantrae draws readers into a fast-paced adventure that encompasses sea voyages and encounters with pirates. Unabridged republication of a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 666 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 328) Аннотация: Becky is back in her third Shopaholic adventure, a hilarious tale of mothers and daughters, mothers and sons, and one blushing bride who can't say no to saying «I do.» Life has been good for Becky Bloomwood — she's become the top personal shopper at Barneys; she and Luke are living happily in Manhattan's West Village; and her new neighbor is a fashion designer. When Luke proposes, bridal…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 300) Аннотация: The Golden Bowl, Henry James' last completed novel, is a story of the union of European class and American money. American millionaire and widower Adam Verver lives with his daughter Maggie in Europe, where they spend their time collecting object d'art and enjoying each other's company. Maggie becomes engaged to the aristocratic but penniless Amerigo, ignorant of the fact that Amerigo had…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida — even L: all women obsessed with Bill Cosey. The wealthy owner of the famous Cosey’s Hotel and Resort, he shapes their yearnings for father, husband, lover, guardian, and friend, yearnings that dominate the lives of these women long after his death. Yet while he is either the void in, or the center of, their stories, he himself is driven by secret forces — a…
Скачать книгу (размер 575 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 114) Аннотация: This exhibition of 64 exquisite drawings and watercolors is comprised of works by Victorian artists, primarily from England, and examines methods and motivations behind drawings and paintings of this era. Victorian Visions reflects the wide range of styles found in this collection. Some of the pieces are careful portraits of recognizable individuals, while others are fleeting sensory images or…
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Georgian and Regency architecture spans the years from 1714 until 1830, a period that bequeathed a rich heritage of buildings to the British landscape. From great country houses and churches to the formal city squares of Edinburgh and the graceful crescents of Bath, Georgian structures are distinguished by the elegance and harmony of their design. Georgian and Regency Architecture contains over…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: From the biggest notions of carefully styled rooms to the smallest comforts and delights of accessorizing a home with your favorite things, Inside Log Homes offers suggestions, understanding, and inspiration regarding the intensely personal and expressive world of log-cabin living. Author Cindy Thiede peeks through doors into hundreds of uniquely styled and personally appointed spaces. Sometimes…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 355 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 267) Аннотация: Kenzie and Gennaro are private investigators in the blue-collar neighborhoods and ghettos of South Boston-they know it as only natives can. Working out of an old church belfry, Kenzie and Gennaro take on a seemingly simple assignment for a prominent politician: to uncover the whereabouts of Jenna Angeline, a black cleaning woman who has allegedly stolen confidential state documents. Finding…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 340 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 264) Аннотация: A reference book chock-full of sidebars, quotes, and short interviews, this illustrated guide to Middle-earth and beyond will be an indispensable addition to any Tolkien collection.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: A collection of some of the best, wittiest and most unusual excerpts from 16th- and 17th-century writing. Shakespeare's England brings to life the variety, the energy and the harsh reality of England at this time. Providing a portrait of the age, it includes extracts from a wide variety of writers, taken from books, plays, poems, letters, diaries and pamphlets by and about Shakespeare's…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Ornamental type is one of the core tools at graphic designers' disposal: being practical and decorative at the same time, it is the essential resource for enhancing text. Apart from being pleasing to the eye, decorated type can focus attention where needed, making text more easy to read.
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: William Shakespeare grew up in a small town in England during the Elizabethan era. As a young man his father's business suffered financial difficulties, and Shakespeare was unable to continue his Latin studies and was forced to help his father support his brother and sister. After he married and had three children he worked hard to support his extended family. Feeling unfulfilled, he decided to…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: For over a hundred years England repeatedly invaded France on the pretext that her kings had a right to the French throne. France was a large, unwieldy kingdom, England was small and poor, but for the most part she dominated the war, sacking towns and castles and winning battles — including such glorious victories as Crecy, Poitiers and Agincourt, but then the English run of success began to…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 166 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 230) Аннотация: On Mars, the harsh climate could make any colonist turn to drugs to escape a dead-end existence — especially when the drug is Can-D, which translates its users into the idyllic world of a Barbie-esque character named Perky Pat. When the mysterious Palmer Eldritch arrives with a new drug called Chew-Z, he offers a more addictive experience, one that might bring the user closer to God. But in a…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Universally admired for his fables and contes (tales), Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) epitomised France's Great Century with his elegant style, emotional profundity and ready wit. This selection by award-winning poet Marie Ponsot is arguably the finest translation ever achieved. La Fontaine's menagerie of foxes, lions, wolves, donkeys, rats and other animals are handled with a naturalness and…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Fought under the cover of elaborate deceptions and ruthless lies, the deadly intelligence operations of World War II produced victories and defeats that were often as important as any reached on the battlefield. A behind-the-scenes history of the war, this book offers an exciting picture of the whole range of clandestine activities the various forms of intelligence espionage and sabotage,…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: In this novelistic romp that is by turns hilarious and brilliant, John Barth spoofs his own place in the pantheon of contemporary fiction and the generation of writers who have followed his literary trailblazing. Coming Soon!!! is the tale of two writers: an older, retiring novelist setting out to write his last work and a young, aspiring writer of hypertext intent on toppling his master. In the…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Harry Silver is a TV producer in London whose work life is going much better than his home life. His ex-wife still bears a grudge, his new wife is not to be trusted, and he is alienated from his son and stepdaughter. Thank goodness he has Mum, whose long marriage to his father is Harry's impossible ideal. Of course, his own pursuit of a seductive Japanese woman doesn't help matters....MAN AND…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: There's no place like home. Unfortunately Marcus Didius Falco is a thousand miles north, stuck in the Roman outpost of Londinium. And just when he's about to pack up his family, assorted relatives, and friend Petronius to return to Rome, a dead body turns up, head down, in a well behind a local drinking establishment. The victim is Verovolcus, a nobleman known to Falco and, more important, a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 794 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 353) Аннотация: War has broken out again on Terry Pratchett's Discworld and, to no one's surprise, it is started by the small, insufferably arrogant, ferociously patriotic duchy of Borogravia, which prides itself on its ability to beat up on its neighbors even for the tiniest imagined slight. But the country is rapidly running out of young men to carry on the fight, so Sergeant Jackrum is inclined not to notice…