Penguin Group
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Decline and Fall
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Penguin Group
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Автор: Evelyn Waugh
Издательство: Penguin Group, 2003
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PDF, 224 страницы, 6.72 МБ
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Sent down from Oxford in outrageous circumstances, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly unsurprised to find himself qualifying for the position of schoolmaster at Llanabba Castle. His colleagues are an assortment of misfits, rascals and fools, including Prendy (plagued by doubts) and Captain Grimes, who is always in the soup (or just plain drunk). Then Sports Day arrives, and with it the delectable Margot Beste-Chetwynde, floating on a scented breeze. As the farce unfolds and the young run riot, no-one is safe, least of all Paul.
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809
 allkonekt
08 марта 2009
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Diana
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Penguin Group
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Автор: Sarah Bradford
Издательство: Penguin Group, 2010
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PDF, 496 страниц, 14.88 МБ
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Glamour. Duty. Tragedy: The Woman Behind the Princess. Sarah Bradford delivers an authoritative and explosive study of the greatest icon of the twentieth century: Diana. After more than a decade interviewing those closest to the Princess and her select circle, Sarah Bradford exposes the real Diana: the blighted childhood, the old-fashioned courtship which saw her capture the Prince of Wales, the damage caused by the spectre of Camilla Parker Bowles, through to the collapse of the royal marriage and Diana's final and complicated year as single woman. Diana paints an honest portrait of a woman riddled with contradictions and whose vulnerability and unique empathy with the suffering made her one of the most extraordinary figures of the modern age.
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1799
neptun
16 мая 2013
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Don't Stop Me Now
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Penguin Group
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Автор: Jeremy Clarkson
Издательство: Penguin Group, 2008
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DjVu, 352 страницы, 14.08 МБ
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Jeremy Clarkson knows there's more to life than cars. There is, after all, a whole world out there just waiting to be discovered. So, before he gets on with the job in hand, he'd like to take some time out to consider the bigger picture. Don't worry, he'll get on to the car bit eventually, but before he does, there's time to learn about: * Why Galapagos tortoises are all mental * France, reduced to the size of a small coconut * Why Jeremy Paxman and the bass guitarist of AC/DC aren't so very different * The problems of being English and God's most stupid creation And then there's the cars: whether it's the poxiest little runabout or an exotic, firebreathing supercar, anything on four wheels is approached without fear or favour. What emerges from the ashes is not always pretty. But it is, invariably, very, very funny.
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1275
anarho
24 августа 2010
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First Love and Other Novellas
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Penguin Group
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Автор: Samuel Beckett
Издательство: Penguin Group, 2008
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PDF, 112 страниц, 3.36 МБ
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'Yes, I loved her, it's the name I gave, still give alas, to what I was doing then. I had nothing to go by, having never loved before, but of course had heard of the thing, at home, in school, in brothel and at church, and read romances, in prose and verse, under the guidance of my tutor, in six or seven languages, both dead and living, in which it was handled at length'.
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405
dimon0
05 июня 2010
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Mansfield Park
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Penguin Group
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Автор: Jane Austen
Издательство: Penguin Group, 2007
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PDF, 479 страниц, 14.37 МБ
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At the age of ten, shy, vulnerable Fanny Price leaves behind her impoverished family in Portsmouth to go and live with her rich relatives at Mansfield Park. Growing up with her cousins Tom, Edmund, Maria and Julia, she is aware that she is different from them and that her place in society cannot be taken for granted, although she is not treated unkindly. A dashing couple from London, Mary Crawford and her brother Henry, enter this stable, rural world. They succeed in dazzling everyone at Mansfield Park, except for Fanny, who sees through their shallow veneer. Throughout the dramatic events that follow it is she who is able to bring back some stability to the ruptured lives of those around her. One of the great novels of the nineteenth century, Mansfield Park echoes Jane Austen's fears and awareness of the dawn of a modern age, which was to bring about a complete break from the old country traditions and way of life.
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1734
svetomag
10 сентября 2012
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Apt Pupil: Different Seasons (movie tie in)
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Penguin Group
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Автор: Stephen King
Издательство: Penguin Group, 2004
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DOC, 512 страниц, 1.00 МБ
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«Todd Bowden is an apt pupil. Good grades, good family, a paper route. But he is about to meet a different kind of teacher: Mr. Dussander. Todd knows all about Dussander's darl past. The torture. The death. The decades-old manhunt Dussander has escaped to this day. Yet Todd doesn't want to turn him in. Todd wants to know more. Much more. He is about to learn the real meaning of power--and the seductive lure of evil. This acclaimed collection of four novellas by Stephen King also includes «Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption» (basis for the Academy Award nominated film The Shawshank Redemption), «The Body» (inspiration for the motion picture Stand By Me), and «The Breathing Method».»
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1851
nniikk
16 марта 2009
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The Dead Zone
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Penguin Group
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Автор: Stephen King
Издательство: Penguin Group, 2002
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DOC, 416 страниц, 1.00 МБ
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In his unequalled career, Stephen King has forged a place in publishing history as the most popular and recognized author of all time. Now, Signet is proud to reissue his most startling psychological thriller! After awakening from a four and a half year-long coma, a simple teacher finds himself irreparably altered — both blessed... and cursed — with precognative visions of the future. Driven by his altruistic nature, he decides to use his newfound powers to prevent tragic events yet to happen. But as word of his unique ability leads to unwanted fame, the gift he hoped to share with humanity inevitably separates him from it.
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1502
delovar
7 декабря 2009
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Fallen
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Penguin Group
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Автор: Erin McCarthy
Издательство: Penguin Group, 2008
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PDF, 320 страниц, 9.60 МБ
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New Orleans, 1840s. Sent to watch over the decadent city, the angel Gabriel loses himself in the liquid pleasure of absinthe. So when his mistress, Anne, is murdered — and all evidence points to him — a foggy Gabriel cannot be sure he didn’t do it. His penance: to be forever denied love. Then in modern-day New Orleans he meets forensic scientist Sara Michaels...
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1159
admin
19 апреля 2012
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The Memory Keeper's Daughter
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Penguin Group
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Автор: Kim Edwards
Издательство: Penguin Group, 2006
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DOC, 528 страниц, 1.00 МБ
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This stunning novel begins on a winter night in 1964, when a blizzard forces Dr. David Henry to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy, but the doctor immediately recognizes that his daughter has Down syndrome. For motives he tells himself are good, he makes a split-second decision that will haunt all their lives forever. He asks his nurse, Caroline, to take the baby away to an institution. Instead, she disappears into another city to raise the child as her own. Compulsively readable and deeply moving, The Memory Keeper's Daughter is a brilliantly crafted story of parallel lives, familial secrets, and the redemptive power of love.
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1911
carabin
08 марта 2009
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My Immortal
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Penguin Group
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Автор: Erin McCarthy
Издательство: Penguin Group, 2007
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PDF, 320 страниц, 9.60 МБ
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In the late eighteenth century, plantation owner Damien du Bourg struck an unholy bargain with a fallen angel: an eternity of inspiring lust in others for the gift of immortality. But when Marley Turner stumbles upon Damien's plantation searching for her missing sister, for the first time in two hundred years it's Damien who can't resist the lure of a woman. But his past sins aren't so easily forgotten-or forgiven.
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1158
admin
19 апреля 2011
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