Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: «The English Garden» is an illustrated survey of 100 iconic, significant and beautiful gardens in England, from the sixteenth century to the present day. This accessible and informative source book includes an unrivalled range of gardens by designers, makers, patrons, artists, architects and literary figures — from Sir Edward Phelips Montacute House (1590), to today's award-winning designs and…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: «This striking new publication, a sequel to Phaidon's 2000 publication «South Southeast», is a selection of Steve McCurry's most astounding and powerful portraits from South and Southeast Asia. McCurry takes photographs all over the world, for «National Geographic» magazine and his own projects, but it is the people, places, colours and forms of Afghanistan, India, Sri Lanka, Cambodia and Myanmar…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Depicting the daily struggle of the individual against a tyrannical dictatorship, We the Living shows the terrible impact of a revolution on three people who demand the right to live their own lives and pursue their happiness. Kira, determined to maintain her independence and courageous in the face of starvation and poverty; Leo, upper class and paralysed by state repression; and, Andrei, an…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Dickens' delightful Christmas writings are presented in this gorgeous new hardback edition. After reading Christmas Carol, the notoriously reculsive Thomas Carlyle was 'seized with a perfect convulsion of hospitality' and threw not one but two Christmas dinner parties. The impact of the story may not always have been so dramatic but, along with Dickens other Christmas writings, it has had a…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Constance Chatterley feels trapped in her sexless marriage to the invalid Sir Clifford. Unable to fulfil his wife emotionally or physically, Clifford encourages her to have a liaison with a man of their own class. But Connie is attracted instead to her husband's gamekeeper and embarks on a passionate affair that brings new life to her stifled existence. Can she find a true equality with Mellors,…
Скачать книгу (размер 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 28) Аннотация: This snappy and entertaining companion to the New York Times bestseller Snowmen at Night depicts all the best parts of the holiday, replete with icy treats and a snowman Kris Kringle. Illustrations.
Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: Celebrate the season with the Mr. Men and Little Misses! Mr. Christmas and Little Miss Christmas host these adorable activity books that are full of activities to do and pictures to color. And the two pages of Christmassy stickers are great for decorating your Christmas cards or presents!
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: A beautiful Italian girl driving home in an open top sports car, a little boy playing on a south Coast beach and the Senior Steward of the Jockey Club on his way to a press reception in Baltimore. One after the other they suffer the same nightmare ordeal — kidnapping. But there is one thing connecting these particular cases. For the Italian girl is a jockey and the little boy an only son of a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 324) Аннотация: «Revered for his magnificent works of fiction, Jorge Luis Borges thought of himself primarily as a poet. Poems of the Night is a moving collection of the great literary visionary's poetic meditations on nighttime, darkness, and the crepuscular world of visions and dreams, themes that speak implicitly to the blindness that overtook Borges late in life-and yet the poems here are drawn from the full…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Humbert Humbert — scholar, aesthete and romantic — has fallen completely and utterly in love with Lolita Haze, his landlady's gum-snapping, silky skinned twelve-year-old daughter. Reluctantly agreeing to marry Mrs Haze just to be close to Lolita, Humbert suffers greatly in the pursuit of romance; but when Lo herself starts looking for attention elsewhere, he will carry her off on a desperate…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Nick Hornby's second bestselling novel is about sex, manliness and fatherhood. Will is thirty-six, comfortable and child-free. And he's discovered a brilliant new way of meeting women — through single-parent groups. Marcus is twelve and a little bitnerdish: he's got the kind of mother who made him listen to Joni Mitchell rather than Nirvana. Perhaps they can help each other out a little bit, and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: The Castle is the story of K., the unwanted Land Surveyor who is never to be admitted to the Castle nor accepted in the village, and yet cannot go home. As he experiences certainty and doubt, hope and fear, and reason and nonsense, K's struggles in the absurd, labyrinthine world where he finds himself seem to reveal an inexplicable truth about the nature of existence. Kafka began The Castle in…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life; indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence. The novel was a success de scandale and the book was later used as…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 590 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 313) Аннотация: «View our feature on Mean Streets. An anthology of solid and suspenseful novellas from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher New York Times bestselling author Simon R. Green National bestselling authors Kat Richardson Thomas E. Sniegoski Here are four novellas featuring Harry Dresden, John Taylor, Harper Blaine, and Remy Chandler... paranormal private investigators who walk the streets…
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Скачать книгу (размер 1 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 324) Аннотация: «New York Times» bestselling Grand Master of Crime Fiction Foreign Office diplomat Peter Darwin uncovers a peculiar operation involving a veterinary surgeon and the unexplained deaths of several valuable racehorses.»
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Скачать книгу (размер 595 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 118) Аннотация: «Secrets and surprises from Roald Dahl! Feast your eyes on a secret! Between these covers is a long-lost chapter — and the original ending — from «Charlie and the Chocolate Factory» and other delicious never-before-seen tidbits from Mr. Wonka's factory. Then slip into some tasty tales from Roald Dahl's life to discover more about the world's No. 1 storyteller. No Roald Dahl collection is complete…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Alice is twenty-nine. She adores sleep, chocolate, and her ramshackle new house. She's newly engaged to the wonderful Nick and is pregnant with her first baby.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: After her parents' bitter divorce, young Maisie Farange finds herself shuttled between her selfish mother and vain father, who value her only as a means for provoking each other. Maisie — solitary, observant and wise beyond her years — is drawn into an increasingly entangled adult world of intrigue and sexual betrayal, until she is finally compelled to choose her own future. What Maisie Knew is a…