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Скачать книгу (размер 1 330 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 262) Аннотация: A wonderfully warm love story set in contemporary Kenya — timeless, funny, clever and utterly charming, starring the reserved, honourable Mr Malik. You wouldn't notice him in a Nairobi street — except, perhaps, to comment on his carefully sculpted comb over — but beneath his unprepossessing exterior lies a warm heart and a secret passion. Not even his friends at the Asadi Club know it, but Mr…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: «A master of gritty naturalism, Theodore Dreiser explores the corruption of the American dream in «The Financier». Frank Cowperwood, a fiercely ambitious businessman, emerges as the very embodiment of greed as he relentlessly seeks satisfaction in wealth, women, and power. As Cowperwood deals and double-deals, betrays and is in turn betrayed, his rise and fall come to represent the American…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: «It's 1910. «Anna Karenina» and «War and Peace» have made Leo Tolstoy the world's most famous author. But fame comes at a price. In the tumultuous final year of his life, Tolstoy is desperate to find respite, so leaves his large family and the hounding press behind and heads into the wilderness. Too ill to venture beyond the tiny station of Astapovo, he believes his last days will pass in…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Presents the story of Martin Eden, an impoverished seaman who pursues, obsessively and aggressively, dreams of education and literary fame. This title also discusses the conflict between London's support of socialism and Martin's powerful self-will.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: «This legendary novel has been the source of much anxiety and contention for Nabokov's fans — and family. The late Vladimir Nabokov requested that this unfinished work be destroyed, but his son, Dmitri, did not oblige, although neither did he allow the work to be published — until now. «The Original of Laura» is about a wonderfully large man called Philip Wild, married to a very promiscuous…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 574 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 310) Аннотация: When Audrey makes a devastating discovery about her husband, New York radical lawyer Joel Litvinoff, she is forced to re-examine everything she thought she knew about their forty-year marriage. Joel's children will have to deal with this unsettling secret themselves, but meanwhile, they are trying to cope with their own dilemmas. Rosa, beautiful, disillusioned revolutionary, is grappling with a…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Roy is still young when his father, a failed dentist and hapless fisherman, puts a 44 magnum to his head and commits suicide on the deck of his beloved boat. Throughout his life, Roy returns to that moment, gripped by its memory and the shadow it casts over his small-town boyhood, describing with poignant, mercurial wit his parents' woeful marriage and inevitable divorce, their kindnesses and…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: 'More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to...' Only Bill Bryson could make a book about the English language so entertaining. With his boundless enthusiasm and restless eye for the absurd, this is his astonishing tour of English. From its mongrel origins to its status as the world's most-spoken tongue; its apparent simplicity to its deceptive…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 855 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 365) Аннотация: «This is a brilliant new book from the bestselling author of «The Tipping Point» and «Blink». Why are people successful? For centuries, humankind has grappled with this question, searching for the secret to accomplishing great things. In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an invigorating intellectual journey to show us what makes an extreme overachiever. He reveals that we pay…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: At 66 Star Street in Dublin, someone is watching over the lives of the people living in its flats. But no one is aware of it — yet... One of them is ready to take the plunge and fall in love; another is torn between two very different lovers. For some, secrets will come to light, which for others will have tragic consequences.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: The scar on Rhoda Gradwyn's face was to be the death of her... When the notorious investigative journalist, Rhoda Gradwyn, books into Mr Chandler-Powell's private clinic in Dorset for the removal of a disfiguring and long-standing scar, she has every prospect of a successful operation and the beginning of a new life. But the Manor holds a secret and deadly enemy. While she lies drowsily…

Скачать книгу (размер 616 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 122) Аннотация: The most curious, funny, insightful, and expressive invectives from more than forty languages — fully illustrated, you miserable misokakku.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Hero Jarvis, reform-minded daughter of the Prince Regent's cousin, enlists Sebastian St. Cyr's help in investigating the brutal murders of eight prostitutes by a killer whose ominous plot threatens to shake the nation to its very core.

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: This is Bulgakov's surreal tale of a Moscow doctor who befriends a stray dog and performs on it a human transplant — with disastrous consequences.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: «'As good as anything he has written... one of Self's grisliest creations. There is no contemporary writer of fiction more perceptive about psychosis' — «Financial Times». 'Self's enjoyable, intelligent collection of savage stories is splendidly satiric. The title story is a brilliant novella that tells of dueling psychiatrists who use mental patients as weapons. You laugh, but you also flinch' —…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Presents a story of endurance, as one man — plucked from his normal, everyday life — is forced to reach deep inside himself to survive life in one of the bleakest outposts in the world: Russia's vast and unforgiving 'forgotten zone'.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: «Distinguished by Smith's trademark ability to unearth flashes of truth and depth in the everyday, «The First Person and Other Stories» sparkles with warmth and humanity. In one story, a middle-aged woman conducts a poignant conversation with her fourteen-year-old self. In another, an innocent supermarket shopper finds in her trolley a foul-mouthed, insulting, yet beautiful child. And in a third…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 829 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 360) Аннотация: «Jamie will try real American food and meet the most interesting cooks and producers that this vast country has to offer. His epic journey will take him to the heart of America: its people, culture, music and, most importantly, its food. Along the way Jamie will be getting his hands dirty — meeting hunters, cowboys, fishermen and local producers — as he finds out about the best (and strangest)…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Love stories are not always about hearts and flowers. In this deliciously different celebration of love, romance is all about having a good row (and not always having to say you're sorry). From trivial everyday quarrels, such as a dispute over a bride's new hat in Dorothy Parker's 'Here We Are' and an argument about whether to close the screen door in Lydia Davis's 'Disagreement', to more serious…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: A portrayal of egos, appetites and addictions. It presents an examination of lives out of control and beyond saving by the pre-eminent chronicler of our neuroses and our times.