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Mann William J.: How to Be a Movie Star: Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood, 1941-1981

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: From her days as a youthful minx at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to her post-studio reign as America`s lustiest middle-aged movie queen, Elizabeth Taylor has defined the very essence of Hollywood stardom. This book offers an intimate look at this girl who grew up with fame, who learned early — and well — how to be famous.

Louvish Simon: Chaplin: The Tramp's Odyssey

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: An Everyman who expressed the defiant spirit of freedom, Charlie Chaplin was first lauded and later reviled in the America that made him Hollywood's richest man. He was a figure of multiple paradoxes, and many studies have sought to unveil 'the man behind the mask'. Louvish charts the tale of the Tramp himself through his films — from the early Mack Sennett shorts through the major features (The…

Vargas Llosa Mario: The Time of the Hero

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: A powerful social satire which outraged the authorities of the author's native Peru, where 1000 copies were publicly burned.

Pamuk Orhan: Snow

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: After twelve years in political exile in Germany, a poet Ka returns to Istanbul for his mother's funeral, and takes a commission to report on the municipal elections in Kars near the Russian border. There he discovers a dangerous atmosphere, with tensions running high between the political Islamists and the 'enlightened, pro-Western' Turkish military. The second half of the novel takes place over…

Eastland Sam: The Red Coffin

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: It is 1939. The world stands on the brink of Armageddon. In the Soviet Union, years of revolution, fear and persecution have left the country unprepared to face the onslaught of Nazi Germany. For the coming battles, Stalin has placed his hopes on a 30-ton steel monster, known to its inventors as the T-34 tank, and, the 'Red Coffin' to those men who will soon be using it. But the design is not yet…

Eastland Sam: Siberian Red

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: It is September 1939. The Second World War has begun. Even as the fighting rages in Poland, Stalin's long time obsession with the missing treasure of Tsar Nicholas II is rekindled when an informant in an isolated Gulag, deep in the wastes of Siberia, offers — in exchange for his freedom — to reveal the location of Colonel Kolchak, the man entrusted by the Tsar with hiding his gold from the…

Barry Sebastian: The Secret Scripture

Скачать книгу (размер 1 585 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 312) Аннотация: Nearing her one-hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Regional Mental hospital where she's spent the best part of her adult life prepares for closure. Over the weeks leading up to this upheaval, she talks often with her psychiatrist Dr. Grene, and their relationship intensifies and complicates. Told through their respective journals, the story that…

Barry Sebastian: On Canaan's Side

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: As they used to say in Ireland, the devil only comes into good things. Narrated by Lilly Bere, On Canaan's Side opens as she mourns the loss of her grandson, Bill. The story then goes back to the moment she was forced to flee Dublin, at the end of the First World War, and follows her life through into the new world of America, a world filled with both hope and danger. At once epic and intimate,…

Auster Paul: Man in the Dark

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: August Brill, an elderly book critic, lies awake in the dark, unable to sleep. Elsewhere in the house are his daughter, Miriam, and granddaughter, Katya, each with her own reasons for lying awake and watchful in the long Vermont night.

Auster Paul: Invisible

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Invisible opens in New York City in the spring of 1967 when twenty-year-old Adam Walker, an aspiring poet and student at Columbia University meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born, and his silent and seductive girlfriend Margot. Before long, Walker finds himself caught in a perverse triangle that leads to a sudden, shocking act of violence that…

Carey Peter: The Chemistry of Tears

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: An automaton, a man and a woman who can never meet, a secret love story, and the fate of the warming world are all brought to incandescent life in this hauntingly moving novel from one of the finest writers of our time. London 2011, Catherine Gehrig, conservator at the Swinburne museum, learns of the unexpected death of her colleague and lover of thirteen years. As the mistress of a married man…

James P.D.: Death Comes to Pemberley

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: The year is 1803, and Darcy and Elizabeth have been married for six years. There are now two handsome and healthy sons in the nursery, Elizabeth's beloved sister Jane and her husband Bingley live nearby and the orderly world of Pemberley seems unassailable. But all this is threatened when, on the eve of the annual autumn ball, the guests are preparing to retire for the night when a chaise…

Vargas Llosa Mario: The Dream of the Celt

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: As The Dream of the Celt opens, it is the summer of 1916 and Roger Casement awaits the hangman in London's Pentonville Prison. Dublin lies in ruins after the disastrous Easter Rising led by his comrades of the Irish Volunteers. He has been caught after landing from a German submarine. For the past year he has attempted to raise an Irish brigade from prisoners of war to fight alongside the Germans…

Auster Paul: Invention of Solitude

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: 'One day there is life... and then, suddenly, it happens there is death'. So begins Paul Auster's moving and personal meditation on fatherhood. The first section, 'Portrait of an Invisible Man', reveals Auster's memories and feelings after the death of his father. In 'The Book of Memory' the perspective shifts to Auster's role as a father. The narrator, 'A', contemplates his separation from his…

Levy Deborah: Swimming Home

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: As he arrives with his family at the villa in the hills above Nice, Joe sees a body in the swimming pool. But the girl is very much alive. She is Kitty Finch: a self-proclaimed botanist with green-painted fingernails, walking naked out of the water and into the heart of their holiday. Why is she there? What does she want from them all? And why does Joe's enigmatic wife allow her to remain?…

Garland Alex: The Coma

Скачать книгу (размер 850 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 168) Аннотация: Carl is brutally assaulted in an underground train while protecting a young woman from a gang of thugs. Beaten unconscious he lies for days in a hospital bed — but appears to make a full recovery. On discharge from hospital Carl picks up the threads of his daily life, visiting friends, seeing his girlfriend — until he starts to notice strange leaps in time, distortions in his experience. Is he…

James P.D.: Death Comes to Pemberley

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: The year is 1803, and Darcy and Elizabeth have been married for six years. There are now two handsome and healthy sons in the nursery, Elizabeth's beloved sister Jane and her husband Bingley live nearby and the orderly world of Pemberley seems unassailable. But all this is threatened when, on the eve of the annual autumn ball, the guests are preparing to retire for the night when a chaise…

Lloyd John: 1,227 QI Facts to Blow Your Socks Off

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: QI is the smartest comedy show on British television, but few people know that we're also a major legal hit in Australia, New Zealand, Israel and Africa and an illegal one on BitTorrent. We also write books and newspaper columns; run a thriving website, a Facebook page, a Twitter feed; and produce an iPhone App and a sister Radio 4 programme. At the core of what we do is the astonishing fact —…

Thomas Scarlett: Bright Young Things

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: 'Bright Young Things wanted for Big Project'. They're in the prime of their lives but our bright young things are all burnt out. Six sparky twenty-somethings just out of university and working dead-end jobs, they are all bored to tears with their lives and looking for a way out. When a mysterious job is advertised in the newspaper, they all apply. What they least expect is to find themselves…

Grenville Kate: Sarah Thornhill

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: This is a new novel from Kate Grenville and a journey back to the Thornhill family of the bestselling The Secret River. Sarah Thornhill, the youngest daughter of William Thornhill of the Hawkesbury River, has always believed she would marry the handsome Jack Langland. Me and Jack, she thinks, how could it go wrong? But there's an ugly secret in Sarah's family. It takes her into the darkness of…