Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Primarily known as a dramatist, Chekhov also wrote short stories. This selection of his work includes «The Swedish Match», «Easter Eve», «Mire», «On the Road», «Verotchka», «Volodya», «The Kiss», «Sleepy» and «The Steppe».
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Arthur C. Clark, creator of one of the world's best-loved science fiction tales, revisits the most famous future ever imagined in this NEW YORK TIMES bestseller, as two expeditions into space become inextricably tangled. Heywood Floyd, survivor of two previous encounters with the mysterious monloiths, must again confront Dave Bowman, HAL, and an alien race that has decided that Mankind is to play…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: Homer's epic chronicle of the Greek hero Odysseus' journey home from the Trojan War has inspired writers from Virgil to James Joyce. Odysseus survives storm and shipwreck, the cave of the Cyclops and the isle of Circe, the lure of the Sirens' song and a trip to the Underworld, only to find his most difficult challenge at home, where treacherous suitors seek to steal his kingdom and his loyal…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Sheldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future — to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save mankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire — both scientists and scholars — and…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 665 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 720) Аннотация: Oscar Wilde has been acknowledged as the wittiest writer in the English language. This collection proves that he was also one of the most versatile. Effortlessly achieved, each revealing a different aspect of his brilliance, all of the plays, prose writings, and poems gathered here support Wilde’s belief that entertainment provides the best kind of edification. The works gathered here include…
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: »The Enchanter» is the Ur-Lolita, the precursor to Nabokov's classic novel. At once hilarious and chilling, it tells the story of an outwardly respectable man and his fatal obsession with certain pubescent girls, whose coltish grace and subconscious coquetry reveal, to his mind, a special bud on the verge of bloom.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 584 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 704) Аннотация: The long-awaited new novel by the award-winning, bestselling author of Startide Rising and The Uplift War — an epic novel set fifty years from tomorrow, a carefully-reasoned, scientifically faithful tale of the fate of our world. «One hell of a novel... has what sci-fi readers want these days; intelligence, action, and an epic scale». Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. Line drawings.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 672) Аннотация: Pat Conroy has created a huge, brash, thunderstorm of a novel, stinging with honesty and resounding with drama. Spanning forty years, this is the story of turbulent Tom Wingo, his gifted and troubled twin sister Savannah, and the dark and violent past of the extraordinary family into which they were born. Filled with the vanishing beauty of the South Carolina lowcountry as well as the dusty…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 681 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 723) Аннотация: In the third book of the Earth's Children series, Ayla and Jondalar set forth into the land of the Mamutoi. Although Ayla finds warmth and friendship, she must choose between Jondalar and Ranec as her mate.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: A millennium into the future, two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the Galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. On the beautiful Outer World planet of Solaria, a handful of human colonists lead a hermit-like existence, their every need attended to by their faithful robot servants. To this strange and provocative planet comes Detective Elijah…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: The last novel that Vladimir Nabokov wrote in his native Russian. It tells the story of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev, an impoverished emigre poet living in Berlin, who dreams of the book he will someday write — a book very much like THE GIFT itself.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Dr. Seuss's magic elixir may — or may not — prolong life, but it is a fact that it makes you feel a whole lot better Here in one glorious volume are six of the good doctor's best prescriptions. Not a word or a picture has been omitted or changed. Ranging from his very first book, And to Thing That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, to his prophetic The Lorax, Six by Seuss is the perfect collection to…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: As Venetia Flaxton edges closer to the threshold of a love affair with the Dean of the Cathedral — a man old enough to be her father — his hidden emotional past and her moral conflict lead them deeper into the mysteries of the human heart and soul. A powerfully moving novel set in the turbulence of the 1960s. Passionate.
Скачать книгу (размер 162 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 33) Аннотация: Illus. in full color. The letters on an alphabet tree, torn and tossed by the wind, find strength in banding together to form words. Then a clever caterpillar teaches the letters to become even stronger by forming sentences with a message of peace in a gentle parable about the power of the written word.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Through forty years — from Hollywood's golden days in World War II to the present — Faye Price would create first a career as a legendary actress, then a family, and finally she would realize her dream of becoming one of Hollywood's first woman directors. But nothing was more precious to Faye than her five children. In a changing world, a milieu where family values are constantly challenged from…
Скачать книгу (размер 106 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 22) Аннотация: The talents and traits of 26 amazing mice are revealed in a Seussian cornucopia of flaps, pop-ups, add-ons, pull-tabs, and acetate on-lays that explore the concepts of letters, size, color, time, and word recognition.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Dahl is a master at introducing readers to a new sense of what lurks beneath the ordinary.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 595 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 314) Аннотация: This edition presents the original versions of many poems, which Auden revised to conform to his evolving political and literary attitudes later in his career. In this volume, Edward Mendelson has restored the early versions of some thirty poems generally considered to be superior to the later versions, allowing the reader to see the entire range of Auden's work. Selected and edited by Edward…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 089 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 607) Аннотация: Jeeves may not always see eye to eye with Bertie on ties and fancy waistcoats, but he can always be relied on to whisk his young master spotlessly out of the soup (even if, for tactical reasons, he did drop him in it in the first place). The paragon of Gentlemen’s Personal Gentlemen shimmers through these fat pages in much the same way as he did through the first Jeeves Omnibus. This volume…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: The career of playwright Joy Sinclair comes to an abrupt end on an isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands when someone drives and eighteen-inch dirk through her neck. Called upon to investigate the case in a country where they have virtually no authority, aristocratic Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and his partner, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, grapple for both a motive and a murderer.…