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Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Longfellow's The Song of Hiawatha weaves together the oral traditions of the American Indian into an epic poem. Susan Jeffers has illuminated some of the poem's most lyrical verses depicting Hiawatha's boyhood.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: «The number-one «New York Times» bestselling prequel to King's Dark Tower series is available again with a beautiful new package and black-and-white artwork by David Palladini.»
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: «Lyric and sensual, D.H. Lawrence's last novel is one of the major works of fiction of the twentieth century. Filled with scenes of intimate beauty, explores the emotions of a lonely woman trapped in a sterile marriage and her growing love for the robust gamekeeper of her husband's estate. The most controversial of Lawrence's books, «Lady Chatterly's Lover» joyously affirms the author's vision of…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 672) Аннотация: «The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader magnificently represents the great voices of this era. It includes such masterworks of world literature as Pushkin's poem «The Bronze Horseman»; Gogol's «The Overcoat»; Turgenev's novel First Love; Chekhov's Uncle Vanya; Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilych; and «The Grand Inquisitor» episode from Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov; plus poetry,…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 375 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 467) Аннотация: When two of his American employees were held hostage in Iran, H. Ross Perot and a select group of his employees took matters into their own hands. They faced incalculable odds on a mission only true heroes would have dared....
Скачать книгу (размер 5 573 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1094) Аннотация: It's a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry, the haunting is real... They were just kids when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they are grown-up men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But none of them can withstand the force that has drawn them back to Derry to face the nightmare without an end, and the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: When an old gypsy man curses Billy Halleck for sideswiping his daughter, six weeks later he's ninety-three pounds lighter. Now Billy is terrified. And desperate enough for one last gamble... that will lead him to a nightmare showdown with the forces of evil melting his flesh away.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: «These thirty stories, including the piece «Rain», are set in the Pacific Islands, England, France, and Spain.»
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: «Winnie-the-Pooh, the Best Bear in All the World, has long been adored by readers young and old. In this beautiful full-color gift edition of «The House at Pooh Corner, « Ernest H. Shepard's classic illustrations have been painstakingly hand-colored. An exquisite volume and the perfect gift for any occasion, this book is as vivid and charming as the beloved characters from the Hundred Acre Wood.»
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: In this classic novel of the 1960's, Ken Kesey's hero is Randle Patrick McMurphy, a boisterous, brawling, fun-loving rebel who swaggers into the world of a mental hospital and takes over. A lusty, life-affirming fighter, McMurphy rallies the other patients around him by challenging the dictatorship of Big Nurse. He promotes gambling in the ward, smuggles in wine and women, and openly defies the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 200) Аннотация: In this beautifully written and brilliantly reasoned book, Ayn Rand throws a new light on the nature of art and its purpose in human life. Once again Miss Rand eloquently demonstrates her refusal to let popular catchwords and conventional ideas stand between her and the truth as she has discovered it. The Romantic Manifesto takes its place beside The Fountainhead as one of the most important…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: September 1939. England is at war with Nazi Germany. In Southampton, the world’s most luxurious airliner — the legendary Pan Am clipper — takes off for its final flight to neutral America. Aboard are the cream of society and the dregs of humanity, all fleeing the war for reasons of their own… shadowed by a danger they do not know exists… and heading straight into a storm of violence, intrigue,…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: This novel satirizes a pair of sirens of the jazz age, as an example of comic American vernacular writing of this era.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 436) Аннотация: The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. Now, the Bene Gesserit, heirs to Dune's power, have colonized a green world—and are turning it into a desert, mile by scorched mile Here is the last book Frank Herbert wrote before his death: A stunning climax to the epic Dune legend that will live on forever...
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Tarkington College, a small, exclusive college in upstate New York, is turned upside down when ten thousand prisoners from the maximum security prison across Lake Mahiga break out and head for the college.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 829 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 360) Аннотация: His name was Feliks. He came to London to commit a murder that would change history. A master manipulator, he had many weapons at his command, but against him were ranged the whole of the English police, a brilliant and powerful lord, and the young Winston Churchill himself...
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: This groundbreaking collection of 33 short stories of the American South spans nearly two centuries, with stories from such luminaries as Robert Penn Warren, Carson McCullers, Eudora Welty, William Faulkner, Truman Capote, and Alice Walker. Revised reissue.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: A collection of short stories to illustrate Sufism — the belief that deep intuition is the only real guide to knowledge.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: A selection of excerpts from Sufi masters clarifying the philosophy of Sufism.