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Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: 'The mind of man is capable of anything — because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there after all? Joy, fear, sorrow, devotion, rage — who can tell — but truth — truth stripped of its cloak of time. Let the fool gape and shudder — the man knows, and can look on without a wink'. Marlow, a seaman, tells of a journey up the Congo. His goal is the troubled…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: I Am Number Four: The Lost Files: The Legacies by Pittacus Lore contains three gripping ebook novellas telling the backstories of some of your favourite characters in one volume. We're out there, living among you. We're waiting for our day to come. We each have our own stories. And now is the time to share our secrets... Six's Legacy — Before Paradise, Ohio, before John Smith, Number Six was…
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Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: «From the author of The Last Magazine, a shocking behind-the-scenes portrait of our military commanders, their high-stake maneuvers, and the politcal firestorm that shook the United States. In the shadow of the hunt for Bin Laden and the United States' involvement in the Middle East, General Stanley McChrystal, the commanding general of international and U.S. forces in Afghanistan, was living…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 220) Аннотация: The new rule of marketing is that it doesn't matter if something is actually better or faster or more efficient. What matters is whether consumers believe the story. Godin teaches readers to create a story that fits the consumer's world view, a story they will intuitively embrace and share with friends.
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Скачать книгу (размер 3 502 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 688) Аннотация: Garrett is a private investigator who always gets his man-or elf, troll, or sorcerer. In the magical city of TunFaire, he's the first name in paranormal detection. Garrett Takes the Case collects three of his adventures in one volume. In Old Tin Sorrows, Garrett is hired to figure out if someone is poisoning a wealthy, retired General, but quickly finds that the man's employees are dying off at a…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 645 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 912) Аннотация: «This is the «Penguin English Library Edition» of «Tom Jones» by Henry Fielding. «Sir, I am concerned at the Trouble I give you; nay indeed my Nakedness may well make me ashamed to look you in the Face...» Jones offered her his Coat; but, I know not for what Reason, she absolutely refused the most earnest Solicitations to accept it. A foundling of mysterious parentage brought up by Mr Allworthy…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Margaret Drabble is one of the major literary figures of her generation. In this collection of her complete short fiction from across four decades, she examines the intense private worlds and passions of everyday people. From one man's honeymooning epiphany in Hassan's Tower to the journeying fantasies of A Voyage to Cythera, and from the sharp joy of The Merry Widow to the bloody reality of the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: «The Penguin English Library Edition of A Room with a View by E. M. Forster '»But you do,» he went on, not waiting for contradiction. «You love the boy body and soul, plainly, directly, as he loves you, and no other word expresses it ...» Lucy has her rigid, middle-class life mapped out for her until she visits Florence with her uptight cousin Charlotte, and finds her neatly ordered existence…
Скачать книгу (размер 6 277 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1232) Аннотация: I have both the original Wilbour translation and the Norman Denny translation of this book, and Id say that the Denny translation is the more readable of the two. Graham Robb, in his award-winning biography of Hugo has called Dennys translation swiss cheese and translation as censorship. However, its well-written, and the excised sections are included as appendices to which any reader can turn.…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: A modern masterpiece from one of Italy's most acclaimed authors, My Brilliant Friend is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted story about two friends, Elena and Lila. Ferrante's inimitable style lends itself perfectly to a meticulous portrait of these two women that is also the story of a nation and a touching meditation on the nature of friendship. The story begins in the 1950s, in a poor but…
Скачать книгу (размер 529 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 105) Аннотация: Marco Polo was seventeen when he set out for China... and forty-one when he came back More than seven hundred years ago, Marco Polo traveled from the medieval city of Venice to the fabled kingdom of the great Kublai Khan, seeing new sights and riches that no Westerner had ever before witnessed. But did Marco Polo experience the things he wrote about... or was it all made-up? Young readers are…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: She had a perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day. On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway, the glittering wife of a Member of Parliament, is preparing for a party she is giving that evening. As she walks through London, buying flowers, observing life, her…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: It begins with a dead body at the far end of Baker Street tube station, all that remains of American exchange student James Gallagher—and the victim’s wealthy, politically powerful family is understandably eager to get to the bottom of the gruesome murder. The trouble is, the bottom—if it exists at all—is deeper and more unnatural than anyone suspects . . . except, that is, for London constable…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: In this imaginative retelling of Pride and Prejudice, Amanda Grange now tells the classic story through the eyes of its compelling romantic hero, Fitzwilliam Darcy — in a series of revealing letters that casts a sparkling new reflection on the manners and morals of the landed gentry in 19th-century England... Here, for the first time, are the letters written by the exceedingly proud and stubborn…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 493 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 294) Аннотация: Olympic pairs figure skating hopeful Christine Allen is training in Cabot Cove under the tutelage of former gold medalist Brian Devlin and partnered with up-and-coming Russian skater Alexei Olshansky. But when a series of mysterious accidents occur-leading to the death of one of the skaters-Jessica Fletcher suspects someone is getting away with cold-blooded murder...
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Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: In Making the Future, Noam Chomsky takes on a wide range of hot-button issues including the ongoing financial crisis, Obama's presidency, the limits of the two-party system, nuclear Iran, Afghanistan, Israel-Palestine, corporate power, and the future of American politics. Laced throughout his critiques are expressions of commitment to democracy and the power of popular struggles. Progressive…