Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: An orphan whose wealthy uncle saved him from a life of poverty, Pete Sorenson has lived a fairy-tale life — complete with a princess named Annie. But then Maddie Stern enters Pete's life. Maddie was a foster child, too, and her allure entrances Pete. But just before their wedding, Maddie disappears. Pete reaches out to the one person who has always been there for him — Annie.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: «The only daughter of a European banking dynasty, Raphaella had always been sheltered from the world. Married to a much older American, she was kept in the privacy of great luxury, tended to by servants, watched over by bodyguards. She was the beautiful dark-eyed woman the young lawyer from San Francisco, Alexander Hale, saw sitting alone one misty evening. Before he could approach her, she…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: «A man suffering from violent seizures enters a Los Angeles hospital, where soothing pulses are sent into his brain. But then he discovers how to get the pulses with increasing frequency, escapes from the hospital, and lapses into murderous rampages. By the author of «Jurassic Park».»
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: These dazzling and utterly satisfying stories explore varieties and degrees of love — filial, platonic, sexual, parental and imagined — in the lives of apparently ordinary folk. In fact, Munro's characters pulse with idiosyncratic life. Under the polished surface of these unsentimental dispatches from the small-town and rural front lies a strong undertow of violence and sexuality, repressed until…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: The death and burial of Addie Bundren is told by members of her family, as they cart the coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, to bury her among her people. And as the intense desires, fears and rivalries of the family are revealed in the vernacular of the Deep South, Faulkner presents a portrait of extraordinary power — as epic as the Old Testament, as American as Huckleberry Finn.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: «An unsettling, shocking and very funny collection of stories. The characters in this extraordinary book are often — on the surface — depraved, vicious, cowardly and manipulative, but their essential humanity is never undermined. Two professors of philosophy turn pugilists; Leith removal men become the objects of desire for Hollywood goddesses; God turns Boab Coyle into a house-fly; and in the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: A thriller about the quest of three adventures to find the diamonds of the Lost City of Zinj in the heart of Africa.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: An appalling choice faces the President of the USA and other statesmen: whichever option they choose, men are going to die. But Adam Munro is unmoved. He knows that politicians have no objection to loss of life, so long as they are not seen publicly to have had anything to do with it.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: «50 Great Short Stories» is a comprehensive selection from the world' s finest short fiction. The authors represented range from Hawthorne, Maupassant, and Poe, through Henry James, Conrad, Aldous Huxley, and James Joyce, to Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter, Faulkner, E.B. White, Saroyan, and O' Connor. The variety in style and subject is enormous, but all these stories have one point in common —…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: One by one they knocked on Nero Wolfe's door, each with a case more perplexing than the last: a suicide victim who turns up alive, only to be murdered anew; a murder victim's family who provides his killer with an alibi; and a master horticulturalist who finds the woman of his dreams — dead and cooling in his hothouse.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: The Essential Hemingway is the perfect introduction to the astonishing, wide-ranging body of work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. This impressive collection includes: the full text of Fiesta, Hemingway's first major novel; long extracts from three of his greatest works of fiction, A Farewell to Arms, To Have and Have Not and For Whom the Bell Tolls; twenty-five complete short stories; and the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: «From Ernest Hemingway's Preface: 'There are many kinds of stories in this book. I hope you will find some that you like — In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dulled and know I had to put it on the grindstone and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: «On the 45th floor of the Matsumoto Tower in LA, the headquarters of the Japanese Electronics Corporation, celebrities from the film and music world mix with the captains of industry and politics. On the 46th floor, the dead body of a young woman is discovered. By the author of «Jurassic Park».»
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: The story of the dissolution of the once aristocratic Compson family told through the eyes of three of its members. In different ways they prove to be inadequate to their own family history, unable to deal with either the responsibility of the past or the imperatives of the present.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: Bob Slocum was a promising executive. He had an attractive wife, three children, a nice house, and as many mistresses as he desired. His life was settled and ordered; he had conformed and society demanded he be happy — or at least pretend to be, But the pretence was becoming more and more difficult, as Slocum's discontent grew into an overwhelming sense of desolation, frustration and fear. And…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: «The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels». So says John Berry, son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric siblings, and chronicler of the lives lived, the loves experienced, the deaths met, and the myriad strange and wonderful times encountered by the…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: «It began with Benny Hogan and Eve Malone, growing up, inseparable, in the village of Knockglen. Benny — the only child, yearning to break free from her adoring parents...Eve — the orphaned offspring of a convent handyman and a rebellious blueblood, abandoned by her mother's wealthy family to be raised by nuns. Eve and Benny — they knew the sins and secrets behind every villager's lace…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 447 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 481) Аннотация: On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all. On the eve of Armageddon, with the entire galaxy at…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: «By the author of «The Name of the Rose», these essays, written over the last 20 years and culled from newspapers and magazines, explore the rag-bag of modern consciousness. Eco considers a wide range of topics, from «Superman» and «Casablanca», Federico Fellini and Michelangelo Antonioni, Jim Jones and mass suicide, and Woody Allen, to holography and waxworks, pop festivals and football, and not…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 880 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 566) Аннотация: They were the castrati-male sopranos whose glorious voices brought them adulation throughout Europe even as they were despised as monsters. For Tonio Treschi, the child of Venetian nobility, kidnapped and castrated in a murderous family conspiracy, only one thing would soothe his soul-revenge!