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Скачать книгу (размер 3 563 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 700) Аннотация: The Sword and the Shield is based on one of the most extraordinary intelligence coups of recent times: a secret archive of top-level KGB documents smuggled out of the Soviet Union which the FBI has described, after close examination, as the «most complete and extensive intelligence ever received from any source». Its presence in the West represents a catastrophic hemorrhage of the KGB’s secrets…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: A retelling of classic children's tales by The Brothers Grimm, including Snow White, Rumpelstiltskin, Ashputtel (Cinderella) and Little Red-cap. This interpretation by Carol Ann Duffy seeks to remove the sugariness of contemporary versions and return to the orginal, darker mould.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 105 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 414) Аннотация: The ever increasing art historical attention being paid to the School of Leonardo lies at the root of this volume published almost sixty years after Suida's classic treatment of the subject. This is the first time since then that Lombard art of Leonardesque inspiration has been the object of a systematic analysis embracing a period of around half a century starting from 1490. The essays opening…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 100 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 217) Аннотация: Substance D — otherwise known as Death — is the most dangerous drug ever to find its way on to the black market. It destroys the links between the brain's two hemispheres, leading first to disorentation and then to complete and irreversible brain damage. Bob Arctor, undercover narcotics agent, is trying to find a lead to the source of supply, but to pass as an addict he must become a user, and…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: A matched four-volume boxed set containing J.R.R. Tolkien's «The Hobbit» and the three volumes of «The Lord of the Rings», complete with maps and cover illustrations by Alan Lee.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: In the eight years since this blockbuster anthology of 44 classic picture books of the 20th century was compiled, important new picture books have been published that Janet Schulman believes are too good to miss. She has selected 15-some by brand-new voices of the 21st century, some by young authors and illustrators who were just getting started during the last decade of the past century, and a…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 794 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 353) Аннотация: We are in Paris on the Left Bank. The time is now. David meets Pandora in a crowded café, where she recounts her vampire tale — Pandora, two thousand years old, a Child of the Millennia, the first vampire ever made by the great Marius. David persuades her to write for him the story of her life. We see Pandora from her mortal girlhood as the daughter of aristocrats in the peaceful Rome of…

Скачать книгу (размер 667 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 132) Аннотация: This uniquely personal book, the fruit of a thirty-year friendship, offers an intimate portrait of Lewis the tutor, scholar, and friend, along with new insights into his towering literary and scholarly achievement.

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: F. E. Halliday presents in vivid detail what we know about Shakespeare's life after three centuries of discovery, and illuminates and animates the story with illustrations of Elizabethan personalities, pages from the early folios, maps, and photographs of Stratford-upon-Avon. Much of the great playwright's biography is mysterious, but Halliday (an authority on Elizabethan and Jacobean literature,…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 584 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 704) Аннотация: An intellectual thriller set in the Oxford of the 1660s, a time of great ferment — intellectual, religious and political. The action takes place around the suspicious death of Robert Grove, a Fellow of New College.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Brilliant in conception, rich in scope, this splendid book confronts the mystery of the human attraction to violence: What draws our species to war and even makes us see it as a kind of sacred undertaking? «A fascinating perspective on our staunch devotion to mass, mutual slaughter».

Скачать книгу (размер 1 967 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 387) Аннотация: In her latest installment of The Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice brings readers the story of Armand — eternally young, with the face of a Botticelli angel — who first appeared in his dark glory in «Interview with the Vampire». Moving through scenes of luxury, of ambush, fire, and devil worship to 19th-century Paris and toady's New Orleans, this romantic hero is forced to choose between his twilight…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 202 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 433) Аннотация: In a sweeping and vivid survey, renowned historian Bernard Lewis charts the history of the Middle East over the last 2,000 years, from the birth of Christianity through the modern era, focusing on the successive transformations that have shaped it. Elegantly written, scholarly yet accessible, The Middle East is the most comprehensive single volume history of the region ever written from the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 467 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 289) Аннотация: In the grand manner of Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice's new novel moves across time and the continents, from nineteenth-century Vienna to a St. Charles Greek Revival mansion in present-day New Orleans to the dazzling capitals of the modern-day world, telling a story of two charismatic figures bound to each other by a passionate commitment to music as a means of rapture, seduction, and…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 340 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 264) Аннотация: F. Scott Fitzgerald's extraordinary career as a novelist ended abruptly and unhappily, but it began with one of the most brilliant first novels in the history of American literature. Published when its author was just twenty-three, This Side of Paradise is about the education of a youth, and to this universal story Fitzgerald brought the promise of everything that was new in the vigorous,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Africa belongs to the Africans; the sooner they take it back the better. But — a country also belongs to those who feel at home in it. Perhaps it may be that love of Africa the country will be strong enough to link people who hate each other now. Perhaps... Going Home is Doris Lessing's account of her first journey back to Africa, the land in which she grew up and in which so much of her emotion…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: The first encyclopedic illustrated guide to the world of Middle Earth and the Undying Lands, this book brings together every important aspect of Tolkien's vast cosmology. More than five hundred alphabetical entries cover five major subject areas: history, geography, sociology, natural history and biography. The maps, genealogies and time-charts, together with the illustrations of characters,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Introduction by Simon Franklin; Translation by Michael Glenny.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 187 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 234) Аннотация: This is the first novel in Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy, a three-part masterwork that was later expanded to a seven-part series. It won the Hugo Award for Best All-Time Novel Series — a special award created to recognize this central work of science fiction. The book describes a far future in which humanity numbers in the quadrillions, spread across millions of worlds, governed by the vast…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 794 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 353) Аннотация: In Anne Rice's new novel, the Vampire Lestat — outsider, canny monster, hero-wanderer — is at last offered the chance to be redeemed. He is brought into direct confrontation with both God and the Devil, and into the land of Death. We are in New York. The city is blanketed in snow. Through the whiteness Lestat is searching for Dora, the beautiful and charismatic daughter of a drug lord, the woman…