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Turgenev Ivan: Kasyan from the Beautiful Lands

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: No, no, I've got your word for it, I've got to die... you promised me... you told me... Turgenev's accounts of hunting in rural Russia, and the extraordinary characters he meets there. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries.…

Buchan Elizabeth: I Can't Begin to Tell You

Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: «Elizabeth Buchan brings us a beautifully told story of courage, love and lies in wartime Europe in her heart-breaking new novel. I Can't Begin to Tell You. When the Nazis invade Denmark, British-born Kay Eberstern is sickened when Bror — her husband of twenty-five years — collaborates with the enemy to save his family home. Lured by British Intelligence into a covert world of resistance, her…

Chekhov Anton: Gooseberries

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: «Oh, good God,» he kept saying with great relish. «Good God...» 'Gooseberries' is accompanied here by 'The Kiss' and 'The Two Volodyas' — three exquisite depictions of love and loss in nineteenth-century Russia by Chekhov, the great master of the short story form. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity…

Christina G. Rossetti: Goblin Market

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: 'She kissed and kissed her with a hungry mouth.' A selection of Rossetti's most famous poems, from the hallucinatory 'Goblin Market' to 'In the bleak mid-winter.' Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a…

Kipling Rudyard: The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: 'Mind you, it was a pukka, respectable opium-house, and not one of those stifling, sweltering chandoo-khanas that you can find all over the City.' Kipling first became famous for his pungent, harsh and shocking stories of northwest India, where he grew up. This is just a small selection from his inexhaustibly contentious and various early work. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for…

Tombs Robert: The English and Their History

Скачать книгу (размер 5 216 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1024) Аннотация: In The English and their History, the first full-length account to appear in one volume for many decades, Robert Tombs gives us the history of the English people, and of how the stories they have told about themselves have shaped them, from the prehistoric 'dreamtime' through to the present day If a nation is a group of people with a sense of kinship, a political identity and representative…

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche: Aphorisms on Love and Hate

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: 'We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from our earliest youth... Likewise, hatred must be learned and nurtured, if one wishes to become a proficient hater.' This volume contains a selection of Nietzsche's brilliant and challenging aphorisms, examining the pleasures of revenge, the falsity of pity, and the incompatibility of marriage with the philosophical life. Introducing Little…

Greaney Mark: Tom Clancy's Support and Defend

Скачать книгу (размер 2 635 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 518) Аннотация: Already scarred by the death of his brother, Caruso is devastated when he can't save a friend and his family from a terrorist attack. Ethan Ross was a mid-level staffer for the National Security Council. Now he's a wanted fugitive on the run with a micro-drive that contains enough information to wreck American intelligence efforts around the world. The CIA is desperate to get the drive back, but…

Gibson William: The Peripheral

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Flynne Fisher lives in rural near-future America where jobs are scarce and veterans from the wars are finding it hard to recover. She scrapes a living doing some freelance online game-playing, participating in some pretty weird stuff. Wilf Netherton lives in London, seventy-some years later, on the far side of decades of slow-motion apocalypse. Things though are good for the haves, and there…

Allen David: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: A completely revised and updated edition of the blockbuster bestseller from the personal productivity guru (Fast Company) Since it was first published almost fifteen years ago, David Allen's Getting Things Done has become one of the most influential business books of its era, and the ultimate book on personal organization. GTD is now shorthand for an entire way of approaching professional and…

Dubner Steven: Think Like a Freak: How to Think Smarter About Almost Everything

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: The New York Times bestselling Freakonomics changed the way we see the world, exposing the hidden side of just about everything. Then came SuperFreakonomics, a documentary film, an award-winning podcast, and more. Now, with Think Like a Freak, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner have written their most revolutionary book yet. With their trademark blend of captivating storytelling and…

Arlidge M.J.: The Doll's House: DI Helen Grace 03

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller The Doll's House is the new twisting and terrifying thriller in the Detective Inspector Helen Grace series from M.J. Arlidge. Arlidge is the author of Eeny Meeny and Pop Goes the Weasel, and has been dubbed 'the new Jo Nesbo'. 'Detective Inspector Helen Grace is one of the greatest heroes to come along in years.' Jeffery Deaver, New York Times bestselling author of…

French Nicci: Thursday's Children

Скачать книгу (размер 2 467 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 485) Аннотация: «Thursday's Children by Nicci French is the fourth novel in the bestselling Frieda Klein series, following Blue Monday, Tuesday's Gone and Waiting for Wednesday. «icci French's sophisticated, compassionate and gripping crime novels stand head and shoulders above the competition.» (Sophie Hannah). Two crimes, generations apart...Twenty years ago teenager Frieda Klein was brutally attacked in her…

Hardy Thomas: Far from the Madding Crowd

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: This is the story of Bathsheba Everdene, who inherits her uncle's farm, then surprises the villagers of Weatherbury by deciding to run it herself rather than hire a manager. Three men vie for the affections of this independent young woman.

Pinker Steven: The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: In this classic, the world's expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved. With deft use of examples of humor and wordplay, Steven Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a compelling story: language is a human instinct, wired into our…

Grecian Alex: The Harvest Man

Скачать книгу (размер 1 977 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 389) Аннотация: «Murder Squad 4: Alongside Jack the Ripper there is another brutal serial killer roaming the streets of Victorian London. Spring 1890. The spectre of Jack the Ripper still haunts Inspector Walter Day, his injured leg a daily reminder of his violent brush with London's most feared killer. He alone is convinced that the Ripper remains at large. But, worse is to come for Scotland Yard's Murder…

Gardner Lisa: Crash and Burn

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Memories can be murder in the new novel by the #1 New York Times bestselling “master of psychological suspense,” (Associated Press) featuring a cameo by fan-favorite Boston detective D.D. Warren. Nicole Frank shouldn’t have survived the car accident, much less the crawl up the steep ravine. One thought allows her to defy the odds and flag down help—she must save Vero. If the girl even exists.…

Oliver Jamie: Everyday Super Food

Скачать книгу (размер 1 585 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 312) Аннотация: Jamie's Everyday Super Food makes eating well exciting, delicious, easy and fun. No matter how busy you are, you'll find that healthy eating the Jamie way is both straight forward and achievable, making it super easy to choose exactly the kind of meals that suit you. The book is divided into breakfasts, lunches and dinners, and every tasty meal is nutritionally balanced so that any combination…

Moyes Jojo: After You

Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: This is a new novel for 2015 from the number one bestselling author of The One Plus One and Me Before You. Praise for Jojo Moyes: Moyes is the queen of the classy weepy. A masterclass in story-telling. (Elle). Moyes does a majestic job of conjuring a cast of characters who are charismatic, credible and utterly compelling. (Independent on Sunday). Jojo Moyes's poignantly romantic tales have…

Pinker Steven: The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Steven Pinker, the best-selling author of The Language Instinct, deploys his gift for explaining big ideas in The Sense of Style — an entertaining writing guide for the 21st century. What is the secret of good prose? Does writing well even matter in an age of instant communication? Should we care? In this funny, thoughtful book about the modern art of writing, Steven Pinker shows us why we all…