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Ernest Hemingway: Men Without Women

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: »Men Without Women» was a milestone in Hemingway's career. «Fiesta» had already established him as a novelist of exceptional power, but with these short stories, his second collection, he showed that it is possible, within the space of a few pages, to recreate a scene with absolute truth, bringing to life details observed only by the eye of a uniquely gifted artist. Hemingway's men are…

Ernest Hemingway: A Moveable Feast

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: 'If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast'. Hemingway's memories of his life as an unknown writer living in Paris in the 1920s are deeply personal, warmly affectionate and full of wit. Looking back not only at his own much younger self, but also at the other writers who shared…

Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the story of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. It was The Old Man and the Sea that won for Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature. Here, in a perfectly crafted story, is unique and timeless vision of the beauty and grief of man's challenge to the elements in which he lives.

Ruth Rendell: Shake Hands For Ever

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: A Reg Wexford mystery. The Chief Inspector could discover no motive, no reason and no suspect for Mrs Hathall's daughter-in-law's murder — all he had were his own intuitive suspicions. Probably Angela Hathall really had picked up a stranger, and that stranger had killed her. But why the doubt?

Ernest Hemingway: The Snows Of Kilimanjaro And Other Stories

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: In these Hemingway stories, which are partly autobiographical, men and women of passion live, fight, love and die in scenes of dramatic intensity. They range from hauntingly tragedy on the snow-capped peak of Kilimanjaro, to brutal America with its deceptive calm, and war-ravaged Europe.

Ernest Hemingway: To Have and Have Not

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Harry Morgan was hard, the classic Hemingway hero, rum-running, gun-running and man-running from Cuba to the Florida Keys in the depression. He ran risks, too, from stray coastguard bullets and sudden double-crosses. But it was the only way he could keep his boat, keep his independence, and keep his belly full.

Arthur C. Clarke: Childhood's End

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Without warning, giant silver ships from deep space appear in the skies above every major city on Earth. Manned by the Overlords, in fifty years, they eliminate ignorance, disease, and poverty. Then this golden age ends — and then the age of Mankind begins....

William Blake: Blake: Poems

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: These Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover editions are popular for their compact size and reasonable price which do not compromise content. Poems: Blake contains a full selection of Blake's work, including Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience, poems from Blake's Ms. book, poems from The Prophetic Books, and an index of first lines.

Elizabeth George: Missing Joseph

Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: Deborah and Simon St. James have taken a holiday in the winter landscape of Lancastershire, hoping to heal the growing rift in their marriage. But in the barren countryside awaits bleak news: The vicar of Wimslough, the man they had come to see, is dead — a victim of accidental poisoning. Unsatisfied with the inquest ruling and unsettled by the close association between the investigating…

Ruth Rendell: From Doon with Death

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: 'Love and death', said Chief Inspector Wexford. 'Those were the only two sensational things that ever happened to Margaret Parsons, love and death. The thing is they both happened in my district.'The police knew all about Margaret Parsons' life, and by the look of it, it was very dull. Margaret Parsons had been a 'good woman'. Religious, old-fashioned and respectable, her life had been as…

Diana Gabaldon: Dragonfly in Amber

Скачать книгу (размер 4 971 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 976) Аннотация: 'A TRIUMPH! A POWERFUL TALE LAYERED IN HISTORY AND MYTH, AT ITS CORE IS A LOVE SO VIVID AND FIERCE...' Nora Roberts For twenty years Claire Randall has kept her secrets. But now she is returning with her grown daughter to the majesty of Scotland's mist-shrouded hills. Here Claire plans to reveal a truth as stunning as the events that gave it birth: about the mystery of an ancient circle of…

Ruth Rendell: The Crocodile Bird

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: A mother and a daughter live quietly in the rustic gatehouse of Shrove House, an isolated British estate. Their life seems perfectly ordinary except that daughter Liza has been kept isolated from the outside world for all of her sixteen years. And that he has seen her beautiful mother commit murder... more than once. Now, as the police come searching for a missing man, Liza's sheltered, strange…

James Clavell: Gai-Jin

Скачать книгу (размер 6 358 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1248) Аннотация: The heir to the magnificent English trading company, the Noble House…the direct descendant of the first Toranaga Shogun battling to usher his country into the modern age…a beautiful young French woman forever torn between ambition and desire…Their lives intertwine in an exotic land newly open to foreigners, gai-jin, torn apart by greed, idealism, and terrorism. Their passions mingle with monarchs…

Frederick Forsyth: No Comebacks

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Here are ten suspenseful, serpentine stories of betrayal, blackmail, murder, and revenge...all culminating in shocking twists of fate. Within these pages live a wealth of characters you will not soon forget...people whose lives become irrevocably trapped in a world of no comebacks, beyond the point of no return — from the manipulators and the manipulated to the ultra-rich capable of buying and…

Ernest Hemingway: Across the River and into the Trees

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: The War is just over. In Venice, a city elaborately and affectionately described, Richard Cantrell, an American colonel, falls passionately in love with Renata, a young Italian countess who has 'a profile that could break your or anyone else's heart'. Cantrell is embittered, war-scarred old enough to be Renata's father but is overwhelmed by the selflessness and freshness of the love she is…

Tobias Wolff: The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories

Скачать книгу (размер 2 839 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 558) Аннотация: This generous and discerning volume of 33 stories proves that American short fiction is in the middle of a renaissance. Choosing both contemporary classics and works certain to be well-recognized in years to come, Wolff has assembed the outstanding stories by the most inventive, eloquent, and honest American writers, from 1980 to the present.

Kurt Vonnegut: Vonnegut Omnibus: Welcome to the Monkey House, Palm Sunday

Скачать книгу (размер 3 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 672) Аннотация: Kurt Vonnegut, described by Graham Greene as One of the best living American writers, is equally well known as an essayist and commentator on American society as he is a novelist. This volume brings together the best of his shorter work — essays, stories, speeches, letters, articles and autobiography.

William Gibson: Virtual Light

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: 2005: Welcome to NoCal and SoCal, the uneasy sister-states of what used to be California. Here the millenium has come and gone, leaving in its wake only stunned survivors. In Los Angeles, Berry Rydell is a former armed-response rentacop now working for a bounty hunter. Chevette Washington is a bicycle messenger turned pickpocket who impulsively snatches a pair of innocent-looking sunglasses. But…

Truman Capote: Music for Chameleons

Скачать книгу (размер 1 330 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 262) Аннотация: Stories based on real life individuals and situations deal with a Creole aristocrat, a mysterious killer who notifies his targeted victims, a man's obsession for a twelve-year-old girl he has never met, and a young writer encountering his subjects.

Complete Tales And Poems: Poe

Скачать книгу (размер 5 226 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1026) Аннотация: Edgar Allan Poe was one of the most original writers in the history of American letters, a genius who was tragically misunderstood in his lifetime. He was a seminal figure in the development of science fiction and the detective story, and exerted a great influence on Dostoyevsky, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jules Verne, and Charles Baudelaire, who championed him long before Poe was appreciated in his own…