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Скачать книгу (размер 896 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 177) Аннотация: Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. But one thing will always be out of his reach... Everybody who is anybody is seen at his glittering parties. Day and night his Long Island mansion buzzes with bright young things drinking, dancing and debating his mysterious character. For Gatsby — young, handsome, fabulously rich — always seems alone in the crowd, watching and waiting, though no one…

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: This is a great first poetry book; the poems span time, from Robert Louis Stevenson and Walter de la Mare right up to date with Roger McGough and Michael Rosen. Themes covered, such as mealtimes, playtime, animals, family and bedtime, really appeal to youngreaders.

Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: Madeline is one of the best-loved characters in children's literature. Set in picturesque Paris, this tale of a brave little girl's trip to the hospital was a Caldecott Honor Book in 1940 and has as much appeal today as it did then. The combination of a spirited heroine, timelessly appealing art, cheerful humor, and rhythmic text makes Madeline a perennial favorite with children of all ages. No…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: A novel constructed around the last great poem of a fictional American poet, John Shade, and an account of his death. The poem appears in full and the narrative develops through the lengthy, and increasingly eccentric, notes by his posthumous editor.

Скачать книгу (размер 3 502 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 688) Аннотация: Follows a man's thoughts and dreams during a single night. It is also a book that participates in the re-reading of Irish history that was part of the revival of the early 20th century. The author also wrote Ulysses, Dubliners and Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man.

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Even easier than Level 1 All Aboard Reading books, Picture Readers combine rebus pictures, super-simple vocabulary, and cut-out flash cards to develop and reinforce reading skills. In The Big Snowball, a little boy's runaway snowball causes village-wide calamity! Simple rhyming text and funny illustrations describe the snowball's path through the town, and the silly ending will leave kids…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: The #1 New York Times Bestselling series featuring Lucas Davenport. Of all the criminals that Lucas Davenport has hunted, none has been as frighteningly intelligent as the woman who's hunting him now.

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Through realistic pastels and watercolors, Johnson proposes a new look at the urban landscape, pointing out how letters appear in a variety of places, from interstates to a simple sawhorse at a construction site.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Estate agent Frankie Blue is known on his home turf — White City, Shepherd's Bush — as 'Frank theFib'. He's a liar — but one who always tries to tell the truth. He has been friends with Diamond Tony, a hairdresser, Colin, a computer nerd, and Nodge, a cabbie, since schooldays. Now they are thirty, and trying to live the same life as they did then — drinking, girls, coke, and football. But Frankie…

Скачать книгу (размер 44 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 10) Аннотация: 'Twas the night before Valentine's Day, and all through the town, Children were busy, not making a sound. They gathered their scissors, their glitter and glue, Pink and red paper, and paint brushes, too... The Night before Valentine's Day looks in on a house full of excited children, busily cutting out heart-shaped cards and writing silly Valentine rhymes. The next day at school is a day of…

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Lynley Dodd, winner of numerous awards for her hugely popular series featuring Hairy Maclary and his many canine and feline friends, continues to entertain us with delightful rhyming text. Enjoy the entire Hairy Maclary collection as he and his mischevious companions explore their neighborhood. Gold Star First Readers are for children learning basic reading skills. The simple text incorporates…

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: The Pearl is Steinbeck's flawless parable about wealth and the evil it can bring. When Kino, an Indian pearl-diver, finds 'the Pearl of the world' he believes that his life will be magically transformed. He will marry Juana in church and their little boy, Coyotito, will be able to attend school. Obsessed by his dreams, Kino is blind to the greed, fear and even violence the pearl arouses in him…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Enigmatic Claire is 30 and lives alone. When she meets Martin Gibson, a faded scholar, she becomes inordinately interested. She is even more interested when she meets his wife, a far more spectacular personality. But the unexpected news of this woman's death releases emotions that were not entirely foreseen.

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: In the summer of 1920 two men, both war survivors meet in the quiet English countryside. One is living in the church, intent upon uncovering and restoring an historical wall painting while the other camps in the next field in search of a lost grave. Out of their meeting, comes a deeper communion and a catching up of the old primeval rhythms of life so cruelly disorientated by the Great War.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: This Dickensenian story is of two brothers who come from nowhere and want everything. When Paul marries Louise, Johnnie is part of the contract, while their daughter Anna is entangled in it from birth. When Johnnie has to get out of the country, Louise goes with him. This has been her story too, right from the beginning.

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Voyage In The Dark was first published in 1934, but it could have been written today. It is the story of an unhappy love affair, a portrait of a hypocritical society, and an exploration of exile and breakdown; all written in Jean Rhys' hauntingly simple and beautiful style. Eighteen, on her own and independent as much through circumstance as character, Anna has exchanged the West Indies of her…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus' Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art and his gradual emancipation from the claims of family, religion and Ireland itself, is also an oblique self-portrait of the young James Joyce and a universal testament to the artist's eternal imagination.

Скачать книгу (размер 4 237 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 832) Аннотация: Contains a hybrid of late 20th century English and mid-19th century taxonomy as well as significant new words in 2000.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: The author ponders the redemptive power of secular love in this novel. Their bodies had expired, but anyone looking at them could see that Joseph and Celice were still devoted, the couple seemed to have achieved a peace the world denies, a period of grace, defying even murder. They were still man and wife, quietly resting, dead but not yet departed.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Karen Blixen went to Kenya in 1914 to run a coffee farm; its failure in 1931 caused her to return to Denmark where she wrote this classic account of her experiences. Out of Africa is a celebration of her life there; her friendship with the various people of the area and her sympathetic response to the landscape and animals are drawn with warmth and unusual clarity. Although the book is pervaded…