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Скачать книгу (размер 5 869 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1152) Аннотация: «A bold English adventuer. An invincible Japanese warlord. A beautiful woman torn between two ways of life, two ways of love. All brought together in a mighty saga of a time and place aflame with conflict, passion, ambition, lust and the struggle for power. «Superbly crafted... grips the reader like a riptide... gets the juices flowing!» — «Washington Star». «Exciting, totally absorbing... be…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 747 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 736) Аннотация: It is the early 19th century, when European traders and adventurers first began to penetrate the forbidding Chinese mainland. And it is in this exciting time and exotic place that a giant of an Englishman, Dirk Straun, sets out to turn the desolate island of Hong Kong into an impregnable fortress of British power, and to make himself supreme ruler... Tai-Pan!

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: When a baby is abandoned on the doorstep of a young socialite widow, the woman thinks she knows the identity of the father: her deceased writer husband, the cad! But who is the mother? Reluctantly, Nero Wolfe accepts the case, and Archie identifies the first clue: unusual buttons on the baby's overalls.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: A repackaged Nero Wolfe mystery — the perfect companion for anyone who savors a good murder served up with true flair. Features an introduction by noted writer Randy Russell and never-before-published memorabilia from the life of Rex Stout.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 498 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 295) Аннотация: «A great deal of wit and playfulness... an entire universe of disorder is distilled» Guardian.»

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: A grand master of the form, Rex Stout is one of America's greatest mystery writers, and his literary creation Nero Wolfe is one of the greatest fictional detectives of all time. Together, Stout and Wolfe have entertained — and puzzled — millions of mystery fans around the world. Now, with his perambulatory man-about-town, Archie Goodwin, the arrogant, gourmandizing, sedentary sleuth is back in…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: George Bernard Shaw was the greatest British dramatist after Shakespeare, a satirist equal to Jonathan Swift, and a playwright whose most profound gift was his ability to make audiences think by provoking them to laughter. In one of his best-loved plays, Pygmalion, which later became the basis for the musical My Fair Lady, Shaw compels the audience to see the utter absurdity and hypocrisy of…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: «A wickedly funny Robert Ludlum you've never met before. All the explosive paving of «The Bourne Identity», the Byzantine treachery of «The Parsifal Mosaic», the relentless action of «The Bourne Ultimatum». The Principal Cast: General Mackenzie Hawkings, legend, hero, rogue. Sam Devereaux, bright young lawyer from Harvard, now in the army, can't wait to get out. General Hawken's four ex-wives, a…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: In this searing courtroom drama, best-selling author John Grisham probes the savage depths of racial violence... as he delivers a compelling tale of uncertain justice in a small southern town... Clanton, Mississippi. The life of a ten-year-old girl is shattered by two drunken and remorseless young man. The mostly white town reacts with shock and horror at the inhuman crime. Until her black father…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 276) Аннотация: «When Walter F. Starbuck, the least celebrated of the Watergate conspirators, is freed from jail after two years, his first 24 hours of freedom take shape with the unforeseen turns of fortune and moral innuendo of an urban fairytale. The author's other novels include «Slaughterhouse 5».»

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: «This fourth Jeeves volume contains «Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit», «Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves» and «Jeeves in the Offing».»

Скачать книгу (размер 2 268 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 446) Аннотация: «The devil with his retinue, a poet incarcerated in a mental institution for speaking the truth, and a recreation of the story of Pontius Pilate, constitute the elements out of which Mikhail Bulgakov wove «The Master and Margarita».»

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Emabark with Nero Wolfe on a year of murder and mystery. It begins at Christmas with a party and a poisoning, then blossoms into spring and sudden death at the Easter parade. With a killer in the crowd, the Fourth of July is no picnic, and the calendar is overbooked when death is in season. Here are four cunning cases that leave everyone guessing. And only Nero Wolfe has a clue.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, Richard Feynman was one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists, but he was also a man who fell, often jumped, into adventure. An artist, safecracker, practical joker and storyteller, Feynman's life was a series of combustoble combinations made possible by his unique mixture of high intelligence, unquenchable curiosity and eternal scepticism.…

Скачать книгу (размер 4 563 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 896) Аннотация: «Claire Randall is leading a double life. She has a husband in one century, and a lover in another... In 1945, Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon — when she innocently touches a boulder in one of the ancient stone circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach — an «outlander» — in a Scotland torn by war…

Скачать книгу (размер 361 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 72) Аннотация: «The hero of this hilarious tale discovers that in attempting to avoid trouble one often encounters even greater difficulties. Seuss fans will be enthralled.»

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: A companion novel to Slaughterhouse 5, covering similar themes and drawing on the author's experiences as a prisoner of war in Dresden. A black satire, it tells of an American spy in Germany who becomes confused by his own methods as he sends his coded messages by using pro-Nazi radio broadcasts.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Nabokov's third novel, The Defense, is a chilling story of obsession and madness. As a young boy, Luzhin was unattractive, distracted, withdrawn, sullen — an enigma to his parents and an object of ridicule to his classmates. He takes up chess as a refuge from the anxiety of his everyday life. His talent is prodigious and he rises to the rank of grandmaster — but at a cost: in Luzhin' s obsessive…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: The Journey... Every Friday night a lilac-colored minibus leaves Dublin for the Irish country town of Rathdoon with seven weekend commuters on board. All of them, from the joking bank porter to the rich doctor's daughter, have their reasons for making the journey. The Destination... Rathdoon is the kind of Irish village where family histories are shared and scandals don't stay secret for long.…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 502 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 688) Аннотация: Colorado congressman Evan Kendrick is trying to live out his term of officequietly — when a political mole reveals to the world Kendrick's deepestsecret... that Kendrick was the anonymous man in Masqar, the man whocourageously freed the hostage held in the American embassy by Arab terrorists; the unknown hero who performed an act of outrageous daring then silentlydisappeared. Now, suddenly,…