Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: This boon to logophiles, culled from Buckley: The Right Word, presents the author's most erudite, outre, and interesting words — from prehensile and sciolist to rubric and histrionic — complete with definitions, examples, and usage notes. Introduction by Jesse Sheidlower; illustrations by Arnold Roth.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Murder is hardly the best way for Lord Peter and his bride, the famous mystery writer Harriet Vane, to start their honeymoon. It all begins when the former owner of their newly acquired estate is found quite nastily dead in the cellar. All too quickly, what Lord Peter had hoped would be a very private and romantic stay in the country has turned into a most baffling case, with a misspelled…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: These Previously uncollected stories and letters are essential to the understanding of Babel's life and works.
Скачать книгу (размер 820 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 162) Аннотация: Brilliant stories that show the growth of a novelist's mind, and the raw material that fed the wild surrealism of Bulgakov's later fiction. With the ink still wet on his diploma, the twenty-five-year-old Dr. Mikhail Bulgakov was flung into the depths of rural Russia which, in 1916-17, was still largely unaffected by such novelties as the motor car, the telephone or electric light. How his…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: An unconventional woman trapped in a conventional marriage, Martha Quest struggles to maintain her dignity and her sanity through the misunderstandings, frustrations, infidelities, and degrading violence of a failing marriage. Finally, she must make the heartbreaking choice of whether to sacrifice her child as she turns her back on marriage and security. A Proper Marriage is the second novel in…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Netsuke are small toggles or buckles carved from wood or ivory. The Japanese in the seventeenth century used them to fasten pouches to their kimono belt, since kimonos had no pockets. This lavishly illustrated book takes the reader on an exciting tour of one type of netsuke—those carved to look like the masks used by stage actors.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 166 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 426) Аннотация: Following the National Book Award–winning All the Pretty Horses, this second part of Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy is not a sequel but a parallel story, set in the boot heel of New Mexico, hard on the frontier. «Sixteen-year-old Billy Parham is obsessed with trapping a renegade wolf that has crossed the border from Mexico to raid his father's cattle ranch. By the time he finally succeeds,…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Meet Mr. Ash, quiet-spoken, tall, unfailingly kind — sole survivor of an ancient species, the Taltos — thriving among humankind as he has always done, now the head of a great corporate empire. As the novel opens, he is stunned to learn from an old and mysterious friend that another Taltos has been seen — in the very same Scottish glen where centuries ago, long before the coming of the Romans, Ash…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: This is Ernest Hemingway's lyrical journal of a month on safari in the great game country of East Africa, where he and his wife Pauline journeyed in December 1933. Hemingway's well-known interest in — and fascination with — big game hunting is magnificently captured in this evocative account of his trip. It is an examination of the lure of the hunt and an impassioned portrait of the glory of the…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: From the day her first Vampire Chronicle was published, critics and readers — readers by the hundreds of thousands — have been mesmerized by the writings of Anne Rice. And with the publication of The Witching Hour, she created for us yet another world and legend, and both the chorus of praise and the multitudes of her readers once more increased. Now, Anne Rice brings us again — even more…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: It's very easy to get a little disheartened when your planet has been blown up, the woman you love has vanished in a misunderstanding about the nature of space-time, the spaceship you are on crashes in flames on a remote and Bob-fearing planet and all you have to fall back on are a few simple sandwich-making skills. However, instead of being disheartened, Arthur Dent makes the terrible mistake of…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Martha really does speak in this book and audio CD set, which features two readings — one with page-turn cues for reading along, and one without — by Kathy Najimy, who voices Martha's many, many comments about the world around her. It all begins when young Helen gives her lovable mutt Martha a bowl of alphabet soup, and the letters bypass the dog's stomach and go directly to her brain. Not only…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 727 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 732) Аннотация: The most complete compendium of mythology ever published. 'Bulfinch's Mythology' includes the stories of: Apollo and Daphne, Pygmalion, Cupid and Psyche, Jason and the Golden Fleece, Hercules, Theseus and Daedalus, The Trojan War, Ulysses, and more...
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Lesley O'Mara. ed. Introduction by Gerald Durrell. B&W Line Art. Outstanding authors Virginia Woolf, P.G. Wodehouse, G.K. Chesterton, Jack London, James Herriot, O. Henry and many others have contributed to this touching collection of stories that pay tribute to man's (and woman's) best friend.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 293 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 647) Аннотация: Long considered a literary heir of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, Ross Macdonald (1915–83) infused new life into the hardboiled detective genre with psychologically complex mysteries involving his intuitive and empathetic private eye Lew Archer. This omnibus presents three of Macdonald's best Archer novels. The Ivory Grin (a.k.a. Marked for Murder) begins when a wealthy woman hires Archer…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 600 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 315) Аннотация: Interweaving past and present, Sweden and Zambia, «The Eye of the Leopard» draws on bestselling author Mankell's deep understanding of the two worlds he has inhabited for more than 20 years.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 110 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 415) Аннотация: The many readers who are enthralled with the enduring legend of Camelot will be drawn to this fascinating book, which may become the definitive work in the effort to prove the historical authenticity of King Arthur.
Скачать книгу (размер 968 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 191) Аннотация: Exquisitely produced — bound in sandalwood linen and presented in a matching linen case with a button-tie closure and stamped Chinese yin mark — this album offers a vivid impression of pre-World War II China. Stanley Gamble, the grandson of the co-founder of Proctor & Gamble, took three extended journeys through China from 1917 to 1932. His surveys of life in Beijing and rural northern China…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 850 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 364) Аннотация: Waugh tells the story of the Marchmain family. Aristocratic, beautiful and charming, the Marchmains are indeed a symbol of England and her decline in this novel of the upper class of the 1920s and the abdication of responsibility in the 1930s.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 252) Аннотация: In this book Lewis tells of his search for joy, a spiritual journey that led him from the Christianity of his early youth into atheism and then back to Christianity.