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Joyce James: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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.

Crace Jim: Being Dead

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.

Blixen Karen: Out of Africa

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…

Crystal David: The Penguin Dictionary of Language

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: What precisely are structuralism, semiotics and sociolinguistics? What distinguishes pidgins from creoles, gerunds from gerundines and the hard palate from the soft palate? How many people speak Macedonian, Malay or Makua? Now in its second edition, David Crystal's superbly authoritative dicionary provides answers to all these questions and to many hundreds of others concerned with language and…

King Stephen: Roadwork

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Originally written under the Richard Bachman pseudonym, this novel has been repackaged under King's name. In this gritty narrative, a lone man takes on the wheels of progress in a showdown of cataclysmic proportions. When a highway project puts him out of work and threatens to destroy his home, he has more than enough time on his hands to plot his revenge.

Evelyn Waugh: Labels

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: «Evelyn Waugh chose the name «Labels» for his first travel book because, he said, the places he visited were already «fully labelled» in people's minds. Yet even the most seasoned traveller could not fail to be inspired by his quintessentially English attitude and by his eloquent and frequently outrageous wit. From Europe to the Middle East and North Africa, from Egyptian porters and Italian…

George Orwell: Animal Farm (Student Editions)

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: «Penguin Student Editions are complete unabridged texts of Penguin Classics, Modern Classics and some more recent titles, packaged with reading help for the student in the form of: — accessible yet authoritative introductions — glossary of cultural references and unfamiliar words — stimulating activities and discussion points, including activities needed to prepare for essays and examinations —…

William Shakespeare: The Sonnets

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: The Signet Classic Shakespeare series contains the preeminent mass market books of the complete works of Shakespeare. This reissue features a new Overview by Sylvan Barnet, former chairman of the English Department at Tufts University, an updated Bibliography, suggested references, and stage and film history.

Jerome K. Jerome: Three Men in a Boat: and Three Men on the Bummel

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Martyrs to hypochondria and general seediness, J and his friends George and Harris decide that a jaunt up the Thames would suit them to a 'T'. But when they set off, they can hardly predict the troubles that lie ahead with tow-ropes, unreliable weather-forecasts and tins of pineapple chunks.

J. D. Robb: Loyalty in Death

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: With this month's release of the new Eve Dallas thriller, Betrayal in Death, fans will learn the true identity of author J.D. Robb — she's #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts. But fans won't feel betrayed — they'll snap up the previous titles in this New York Times bestselling police series... and push it straight to the top.

King Stephen: Running Man

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: The runaway bestseller about the ultimate reality show The year is 2025. The Running Man is America's favorite television game show. Ben Richards is the program's latest contestant-and the Hunters' latest target in a rigged game of death...

Wilson Paul: The Little Book of Calm

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Feeling stressed? Need some help to regain balance in your life? Following the success of Instant Calm, Paul Wilson has produced a book of advice and inspiration that aims to help readers quickly reach a state of calm. His words of guidance are distinct, with one suggestion per page, so the reader can open the book at any point and find a proven and easy way to achieve calm.

Cook Glen: Faded Steel Heat

Скачать книгу (размер 1 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 356) Аннотация: Riots between humans and trolls, elves, and other non-humans have plunged Tunfaire into near chaos. Garrett finds himself pulled into the game when a powerful gang of human rightists tries to shake down his employer?and ends up caught in a conspiracy of hate that pits man against? Everybody!

Wing Natasha: Night Before Halloween

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: «Twas the night before Halloween, and all through the house, All the creatures were stirring, except for the mouse. The monsters had gathered to plan and prepare, For the trick-or-treaters who soon would be there?.» Little monsters and goofy goblins take center stage in this silly, spooky spin on Clement C. Moore's beloved poem. But what will happen on Halloween when the monsters come face to…

Cameron Marsaili: The Pearl

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: In the PENGUIN STUDY NOTES series and originally published in 1986 as part of STEINBECK'S OF MICE AND MEN AND PEARL, a study guide to the latter, aimed at those preparing for the GCSE examination. It includes character studies and summaries of the plot with discussions of the major themes, as well as a background to John Steinbeck.

Hardy Thomas: Selected Poems

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Although best remembered today for his novels, Thomas Hardy thought of himself as a poet forced by circumstance to write fiction for a living. This generous selection of nearly two hundred poems includes such familiar pieces as During Wind and Rain, Channel Firing, Afterwards, The Darkling Thrush, and The Oxen, but it will also acquaint readers with many less-celebrated works, among them To…

Barker Pat: Another World

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Nick's grandfather Geordie lies dying. As Nick watches, Geordie starts to relive the horrors surrounding his brother's death and his own terrible experiences during the First World War. Meanwhile, Nick and his wife Fran are trying to unite their increasingly fractious young family, despite the discovery of an obscene Victorian drawing which reveals the tragic history of their house and casts a…

Graves Robert: Goodbye to All That

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Robert Graves' superb autobiography tells the story of his life at public school and as a young officer during the First World War. 'It is a permanently valuable work of literary art, and indispensable for the historian either of the First World War or of modern English poetry... Apart, however, from its exceptional value as a war document, this book has also the interest of being one of the most…

Lesley Pearse: Rosie

Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: Rosie Parker is no more than a child when her mother dies during the war. Left to the less-than-tender mercies of her father Cole and her brutish step-brothers Seth and Norman, she sees the arrival of housekeeper Heather Farley as a possible replacement mother and her salvation. But when Thomas Farley comes looking for his sister several years later, he discovers Heather has left the Parkers in…