Скачать книгу (размер 289 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 58) Аннотация: First published in 1939, T.S. Eliot`s collection of cat poems, written originally to amuse his godchildren and friends, has become a favourite of children`s literature.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: This captivating Mediterranean novel was written by Lawrence Durrell immediately after finishing his exquisite vignette about Corfu, «Prospero's Cell», and a decade before «Justine». The story is set on Crete just after the War, as an odd assortment of English travellers come ashore from a cruise ship to explore the island and in particular to examine a dangerous local labyrinth. They include an…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 799 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 354) Аннотация: This novel, by the author of Oscar and Lucinda, tells the story of a man who, recovering from death, is convinced that he is in hell. For the first time in his life, Harry Joy sees the world as it really is, and takes up a notebook to explore and note down the true nature of the Underworld.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 380 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 468) Аннотация: Precious stones pass through the hands of many people, hands that leave no apparent trace. But traces are there all the same — impressions, like the atoms of hydrogen drawn to the surface of a diamond. This story charts three lives linked by one such jewel.
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Meet Mr Bones, the canine sidekick and confidant of Willy G. Christmas, the brilliant, troubled and altogether original poet-saint from Brooklyn. Like Don Quixote and Sancho Panza before them, they sally forth on a last great adventure...
Скачать книгу (размер 600 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 119) Аннотация: One of a hand-picked selection of some of the most popular and cult-worthy titles on Faber and Faber's extensive list of film scripts.
Скачать книгу (размер 825 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 163) Аннотация: The debut movie by writer-director Kevin Smith, one of a hand-picked selection of some of the most popular and cult-worthy titles on Faber and Faber's extensive list of film scripts. Smith is also writer/director of «Mallrats», «Chasing Amy» and «Dogma».
Скачать книгу (размер 1 452 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 286) Аннотация: One of a three-part series of Lawrence Durrell`s writings. In this volume he explores the island of Cyprus, evoking the sun-drenched landscapes, dazzling light and vivid blue skies of the Aegean.
Скачать книгу (размер 626 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 124) Аннотация: One of a hand-picked selection of some of the most popular and cult-worthy titles on Faber and Faber`s extensive list of film scripts.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 829 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 556) Аннотация: This is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 309 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 258) Аннотация: An elderly butler is on a five-day motoring trip through the West Country in the 1950's. The climax of his journey is to be a reunion with his former housekeeper. This 1989 Booker Prize-winner attempts to capture a period in British history and draw a portrait of a man in old age.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: An elderly butler is on a five-day motoring trip through the West Country in the 1950s. The climax of his journey is to be a reunion with his former housekeeper. This 1989 Booker Prize-winner attempts to capture a period in British history and draw a portrait of a man in old age.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 595 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 314) Аннотация: Three stories on the nature of identity. In the first a detective writer is drawn into a curious and baffling investigation, in the second a man is set up in an apartment to spy on someone, and the third concerns the disappearance of a man whose childhood friend is left as his literary executor.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Winner of the Academy Award for Best Screenplay and the Palme d`Or at Cannes Film Festival, Pulp Fiction exploded onto the screen in 1994 and transformed the direction of contemporary cinema. This triplet of interwoven crime stories displays Tarantino`s visceral approach to character and plot.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: A novel of irreconcilable loves and infidelities, which embraces all aspects of human existence, and addresses the nature of twentieth-century 'Being'. From the author of «Testaments Betrayed».
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Golding's best-known novel is the story of a group of boys who, after a plane crash, set up a fragile community on a previously uninhabited island. As memories of home recede and the blood from frenzied pig-hunts arouses them, the boys' childish fear turns into something deeper and more primitive.
Скачать книгу (размер 162 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 33) Аннотация: Fifteen famous love poems and cabaret songs written in the 1930s by W. H. Auden, including 'Funeral Blues' as featured in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Here is the complete history of the word still considered one of the most vulgar and offensive in the English language, from its debut in 15th-century England to the present day. Every sense of every word containing f**k is examined, with often hilarious examples from many sources.
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: A novel by the author of «The Unbearable Lightness of Being». A moment of confusion sets in motion a complex chain of events which crosses and recrosses the divide between fantasy and reality.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 615 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 318) Аннотация: Kundera whirls through comedy and tragedy towards his central question: how does a person, any person, live today? In constructing his answer, he writes of politics, sex, literature, modern man's alienation — and of their antidotes: laughter and forgetting.