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Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: The Lottery, one of the most terrifying stories written in the twentieth century, created a sensation when it was published in 1948. Today it is considered a classic work of short fiction, remarkable for its combination of subtle suspense and pitch-perfect descriptions of both the chilling and the mundane. This collection, the only one to appear during Shirley Jackson's lifetime, unites The…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Four seekers have arrived at the rambling old pile known as Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of psychic phenomena; Theodora, his lovely and lighthearted assistant; Luke, the adventurous future inheritor of the estate; and Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman with a dark past. As they begin to cope with chilling, even horrifying occurrences beyond their…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 300) Аннотация: Australia is a lucky country, run mainly by second-rate people who share its luck. The phrase 'the lucky country' has become part of our lexicon; it's forever being invoked in debates about the Australian way of life, but is all too often misused by those blind to Horne's irony. When it was first published in 1964, The Lucky Country caused a sensation. Horne took Australian society to task for…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: This important piece of Australian fiction is republished for the first time as a Penguin Modern Classic. Elizabeth Jolley's award-winning novel is presented in a fresh, new format that is a must-have for lovers of Australian literature. Miss Hester Harper, middle-aged and eccentric, brings Katherine into her emotionally impoverished life. Together they sew, cook gourmet dishes for two, run the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: A masterpiece of Russian prose, Lermontov's only novel was influential for many later nineteenth-century authors, including Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky and Chekhov. Lermontov's hero, Pechorin, is a dangerous man, Byronic in his wasted gifts and his cynicism, and desperate for any kind of action that will stave off boredom. In five linked episodes, Lermontov builds up a portrait of a man caught in and…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: With old loyalties tested by new and unlikely alliances, Miss Temple, Doctor Svenson, and Cardinal Chang must call on every reserve of courage to face a new and desperate struggle — after all, the integrity of their very minds is at risk. From palace intrigue and a city in turmoil to wolf-haunted mountains, underground tunnels and a suspicious hidden factory, they must overcome war and heartache…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Katie Drake was an affluent single mother living in Queen's Park — until someone cut her throat and tore out her tongue. Worse still, the killer has abducted her fourteen-year-old daughter, Naomi. Detective Chief Inspector Grant Foster quickly sees chilling parallels with the disappearance of teenager Leonie Stamey three years earlier. With hopes fading of finding Naomi alive, he calls on…

Скачать книгу (размер 55 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 12) Аннотация: Spot has fun on the beach in this classic lift-the-flap tale by Eric Hill. This is a reissue of the popular board book edition with a coloured cover.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: «How did George Eliot's love life affect her prose? Why did Kafka write at three in the morning? In what ways is Barack Obama like Eliza Doolittle? Can you be over-dressed for the Oscars? What is Italian Feminism? If Roland Barthes killed the Author, can Nabokov revive him? What does 'soulful' mean? Is «Date Movie» the worst film ever made? Split into five sections — Reading, Being, Seeing,…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 319 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 456) Аннотация: When Lolita was first published in 1955 it created a sensation and established Nabokov as one of the most original prose writers of the twentieth century. This annotated edition, a revised and considerably expanded version of the 1970 edition, does full justice to the textual riches of Lolita, illuminating the elaborate verbal textures and showing how they contribute to the novel's overall…

Скачать книгу (размер 5 379 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1056) Аннотация: Oh, if you were the kind of man I am … I loved the shame of depravity. I loved cruelty … In a word – a Karamazov!’ The murder of brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov changes the lives of his sons irrevocably: Mitya, the sensualist, whose bitter rivalry with his father immediately places him under suspicion for parricide; Ivan, the intellectual, whose mental tortures drive him to breakdown; the…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Credited with inventing the modern horror tradition, H. P. Lovecraft remade the genre in the early twentieth century, discarding ghosts and witches and instead envisaging mankind at the mercy of a chaotic and malevolent universe. This selection of stories ranges from early tales of nightmares and insanity such as ‘The Outsider’ and ‘Rats in the Walls’, through the grotesquely comic ‘Herbert West…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in the provincial town of 'N', visiting a succession of landowners and making each a strange offer. He proposes to buy the names of dead serfs still registered on the census, saving their owners from paying tax on them, and to use these 'souls' as collateral to re-invent himself as a gentleman. In this ebullient masterpiece, Gogol created a grotesque…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Remember when cereal boxes came with a free prize inside? You already liked the cereal, but once you saw that there was a free prize inside — something small yet precious — it became irresistible. In his new book, Seth Godin shows how you can make your customers feel that way again. Free Prize Inside is jammed with practical ideas you can use right now to MAKE SOMETHING HAPPEN, no matter what…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: The Wilson family was torn apart the night little Christopher was almost killed ... Though the two year-old survives the brutal attack by his drunken father, his older sister Kaitlyn is convinced it's all her fault. Christopher is taken into care and never returns to the family home on the notorious Roxford estate in South London. But the bond between the siblings remains strong, and as Kaitlyn…

Скачать книгу (размер -1 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1) Аннотация: An indispensable companion to this country of inspiring landscapes and rich culture. The map covers every corner, taking in the handsome architecture of Prague to the spa towns of West Bohemia and the alpine splendour of the high Tatra mountains. for those travelling by car, there is detail of the road surfaces, distances between towns, road numbers, petrol stations and places of interest from…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Kerstin Kvist enters crumbling Lydstep Old Hall to live with the Cosways and to act as nurse to John: a grown man fed drugs by his family to control his lunatic episodes. But John's strangeness is grotesquely mirrored in that of his four sisters who roam the dark, mazy Essex country house under the strict gaze of eighty-year-old Mrs Cosway. Despite being treated as an outsider, Kerstin is…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Audacious, controversial and hilarious, The Monkey Wrench Gang is Edward Abbey's masterpiece — a big, boisterous and unforgettable novel about freedom and commitment that ignited the flames of environmental activism. Throughout the vast American West, nature is being vicitimized by a Big Government / Big Business conspiracy of bridges, dams and concrete. But a motley gang of individuals has…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: At the centre of Music for Chameleons is Handcarved Coffins, a ‘nonfiction novel’ based on the brutal crimes of a real-life murderer. Taking place in a small Midwestern town in America, it offers chilling insights into the mind of a killer and the obsession of the man bringing him to justice. Also in this volume are six short stories and seven ‘conversational portraits’ including a touching one…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Ilya Ilyich Oblomov is a member of Russia's dying aristocracy a man so lazy that he has given up his job in the Civil Service, neglected his books, insulted his friends and found himself in debt. Too apathetic to do anything about his problems, he lives in a grubby, crumbling apartment, waited on by Zakhar, his equally idle servant. Terrified by the bustle and activity necessary to participate in…