Stegner W.: Great American Short Stories
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: An outstanding collection chronicling the growth of the american short story from humorous legend to powerful contempory fiction.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: An outstanding collection chronicling the growth of the american short story from humorous legend to powerful contempory fiction.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 456 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 679) Аннотация: «For deft plotting, riotous inventiveness, unforgettable characters, and language that brilliantly captures the lively rhythms of American speech, no American writer comes close to Mark Twain. This sparkling anthology covers the entire span of Twain's inimitable yarn-spinning, from his early broad comedy to the biting satire of his later years. Every one of his sixty stories is here: ranging from…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: A secret group of Washington's most powerful men have J. Edgar Hoover killed in order to reach his secret files only to discover there is someone else capable of using these personal dossiers for blackmail and extortion.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 390 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 470) Аннотация: Presents the major literary works of America's poet of democracy including: Song of Myself, Starting from Paumanok, and Children of Adam.
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: «» I am a sick man... I am a spiteful man», the irascible voice of a nameless narrator cries out. And so, from underground, emerge the passionate confessions of a suffering man; the brutal self-examination of a tormented soul; the bristling scorn and iconoclasm of alienated individual who has become one of the greatest antiheroes in all literature. «Notes From Underground», published in 1864,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: It was a dark time for the rebel alliance... Han Solo, frozen in carbonite, had been delivered into the hands of the vile gangster Jabba the Hutt. Determined to rescue him, Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, and Lando Calrissian launched a hazardous mission against Jabba's Tatooine stronghold. The Rebel commanders gathered all the warships of the Rebel fleet into a single giant armada. And Darth…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: In Germany engulfed by war and hatred, the beautiful wife of an influential banker fell in love with a German author. His Jewish heritage led them both to death. The husband who survives her lives on to protect her memory, and their children. And the ring he passes on to his daughter, Ariana von Gotthard, remains a bond of love between them. Separated from her family, and unable to escape…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Russia faces famine. The Soviets are forced to pin their hopes for survival on the U.S. But as the KGB and the CIA watch in horror, the rescue of a Ukrainian freedom fighter from the Black Sea unleashes savagery that endangers peace — and plunges leaders from Washington to Moscow into a web of overwhelming intrigue, terror, and suspense. Only two lovers can save the world from nuclear…
Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: «Illus. in full color. «In Seuss's familiar rhymed couplets and illustrations, the Cat in the Hat shows Young Cat some wonderful stuff about reading with both eyes open». — School Library Journal.»
Скачать книгу (размер 177 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 36) Аннотация: «Illus. in full color. A host of inventive creatures help beginning readers recognize many common «household» words.»
Скачать книгу (размер 228 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 46) Аннотация: Illus. in full color. A baffled youngster awakens one morning to find everything's out of place, but no one seems to notice! Beginning readers will have fun discovering all the wacky things wrong on each page while sharpening their ability to observe, as well as to read.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: Hollywood legend Eve Benedict has finally decided to tell her life story to one lucky biographer. Renowned for having a heart as big the legend that surrounds her, Eve is also a woman of mystery whose passionate affairs and tempestuous marriages have fueled gossip columns for decades. She chooses Julia Summers, a writer with a fierce drive to uncover the truth — no matter what. Yet there are…
Скачать книгу (размер 294 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 59) Аннотация: A beginning Beginner Book, this ingenious story uses a vocabulary of only 75 different words. A hilarious story in rhyme about a number of animals who could carry 10 apples on their heads.
Скачать книгу (размер 361 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 72) Аннотация: Sam-I-am mounts a determined campaign to convince another Seuss character to eat a plate of green eggs and ham in this timeless classic.
Скачать книгу (размер 289 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 58) Аннотация: Illus. in color. Spot, a polka-dot leopard who can change colors and even juggle his own spots, tries to convince two children that he is special enough to be exhibited in the zoo.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 227 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 438) Аннотация: This book is John Grishams first work of non-fiction, an exploration of small town justice gone terribly awry, in his most extraordinary legal thriller yet. In the major league draft of 1971, the first player chosen from the State of Oklahoma was Ron Williamson. When he signed with the Oakland As, he said goodbye to his hometown of Ada and left to pursue his dreams of big league glory. Six years…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: In 1941, Irène Némirovsky sat down to write a book that would convey the magnitude of what she was living through, not in terms of battles and politicians, but by evoking the domestic lives and personal trials of the ordinary citizens of France. She did not live to see her ambition fulfilled, or to know that sixty-five years later, Suite Française would be published for the first…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: The dark side could not seduce him. The Empire could not control him. Death could not defeat him. And now, nothing can stop him from seizing his destiny. As apprentice to Darth Vader, Starkiller was mercilessly schooled in the ways of the dark side and groomed for the ultimate Sith power play: assassination of the Emperor. He served without question, killed without remorse, and lost his heart…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Hero, traitor, conqueror, villain, savior—the man called Revan has been all of these. He left Coruscant a Jedi, on a mission to defeat the Mandalorians. He returned a Sith disciple, bent on destroying the Republic. The Jedi Council gave Revan his life back, but the price of redemption was the loss of his memories. All that’s left are nightmares—and deep, abiding fear. What happened beyond the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: A Sith warrior to rival the most sinister of the Order’s Dark Lords, Darth Malgus brought down the Jedi Temple on Coruscant in a brutal assault that shocked the galaxy. But if war crowned him the darkest of Sith heroes, peace will transform him into something far more heinous—something Malgus would never want to be but cannot stop becoming, any more than he can stop the rogue Jedi fast…