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Catherine the Great	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Virginia Rounding Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2007	DjVu, 592 страницы, 23.68 МБ 5 Оценка:
Many legends have grown up about the sexual rapacity of Catherine the Great. While it is true that she shocked the Russian court with the number and age of her lovers, there is no truth in the rumour of her death by stallion. Unhappily married to the Grand Duke Peter, a man who preferred to play with his toy soldiers in the bedroom, they failed to produce an heir, and Catherine turned her attentions to a certain Sergey Saltykov who fathered the future Tsar Paul I. Six months into the reign of Peter III, Catherine, supported by the Imperial Guard, staged a successful coup against her husband and became Empress. It was her ambition to transform a vast but semi-barbaric country with the cultural and political reforms of Enlightenment Europe. In this timely and fascinating biography, Virginia Rounding reveals an extraordinary woman in all her complexity.
2144 erdik 13 декабря 2009	Скачать книгу

Vintage Crime: Crime and Punishment and Ripley's Game	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Fyodor Dostoevsky Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2007	PDF, 3.36 МБ 8 Оценка:
«Vintage Crime» is a limited edition gift pack which consists of beautifully designed separate volumes of «Crime and Punishment» by Fyodor Dostoevsky and Patricia Highsmith's thrilling novel «Ripley's Game». «Vintage Crime» is just one of ten «Vintage Classic Twins» to collect. Each twin consists of two books: a specially designed limited edition of one modern classic title and one established classic work. The books in each pair have been carefully selected to provide a thought-provoking combination. «Crime and Punishment»: A troubled young man commits the perfect crime. Raskolnikov is desperate for money, but convinces himself that his motive for murder is to benefit mankind. So begins one of the greatest novels ever written, a journey into the criminal mind, a police thriller, and a meditation on morality and redemption. «Ripley's Game»: Tom Ripley detested murder. Unless it was absolutely necessary. If possible, he preferred someone else to do the dirty work. In this case someone with no criminal record, who would commit 'two simple murders' for a very generous fee.»
0 admin 7 декабря 2009	Скачать книгу

Dublin	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Edward Rutherfurd Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2005	PDF, 832 страницы, 24.96 МБ 5 Оценка:
Edward Rutherfurd's great Irish epic reveals the story of the people of Ireland through the focal point of the island's capital city. The epic begins in pre-Christian Ireland during the reign of the fierce and powerful High Kings at Tara, with the tale of two lovers, the princely Conall and the ravishing Deirdre, whose travails echo the ancient Celtic legend of Cuchulainn. From this stirring beginning, Rutherfurd takes the reader on a graphically realised journey through the centuries. Through the interlocking stories of a powerfully-imagined cast of characters — druids and chieftains, monks and smugglers, merchants and mercenaries, noblewomen, rebels and cowards — we see Ireland through the lens of its greatest city.
3010 immer 05 июня 2009	Скачать книгу

The Essential Hemingway	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Ernest Hemingway Издательство: Random House, Inc., 1995	DOC, 528 страниц, 1.00 МБ 7 Оценка:
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 breathtaking Epilogue to Death in the Afternoon.
1900 carabin 16 апреля 2009	Скачать книгу

A Farewell to Arms	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Ernest Hemingway Издательство: Random House, Inc., 1994	DjVu, 304 страницы, 12.16 МБ 0 Оценка:
In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the 'war to end all wars'. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experiences came A Farewell to Arms. Hemingway's description of war is unforgettable. He recreates the fear, the comradeship, the courage of his young American volunteer and the men and women he meets in Italy with total conviction. But A Farewell to Arms is not only a novel of war. In it Hemingway has also created a love story of immense drama and uncompromising passion.
1093 stalker1965 15 сентября 2009	Скачать книгу

The Feast Of All Saints	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Anne Rice Издательство: Random House, Inc., 1997	DOC, 640 страниц, 1.00 МБ 8 Оценка:
«Set in New Orleans before the American Civil War, this is the story of the «Free People of Color», descended from slaves, and their French and Spanish owners. Among their number is Marcel, an artist in the making, also his gentle sister Marie and Anna Bella, a beautiful young courtesan.»
2306 admin 02 сентября 2009	Скачать книгу

Fiesta	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Ernest Hemingway Издательство: Random House, Inc., 1994	PDF, 224 страницы, 6.72 МБ 0 Оценка:
Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful, but with an abandoned, sensuous nature that she cannot change. When the couple drifts to Spain to the dazzle of the fiesta and the heady atmosphere of the bullfight, their affair is strained by new passions, new jealousies, and Jake must finally learn that he will never possess the woman he loves.
805 allkonekt 04 июля 2009	Скачать книгу

Fight Club	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Chuck Palahniuk Издательство: Random House, Inc., 1998	PDF, 208 страниц, 6.24 МБ 7 Оценка:
Every weekend, in basements and parking lots across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded for as long as they have to. Then they go back to those jobs with blackened eyes and loosened teeth and the sense that they can handle anything. Fight Club is the invention of Tyler Durden, projectionist, waiter and dark, anarchic genius. And it's only the beginning of his plans for revenge on a world where cancer support groups have the corner on human warmth.
749 anatoly_24 16 марта 2009	Скачать книгу

Filth	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Irvine Welsh Издательство: Random House, Inc., 1999	DOC, 393 страницы, 1.00 МБ 5 Оценка:
With the festive season almost upon him, Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson is winding down at work and gearing up socially — kicking off Christmas with a week of sex and drugs in Amsterdam. Irvine Welsh has here created one of the most corrupt characters in contemporary fiction.
1417 zmyrus 15 июня 2009	Скачать книгу

The First Forty-Nine Stories	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Ernest Hemingway Издательство: Random House, Inc., 1995	PDF, 480 страниц, 14.40 МБ 8 Оценка:
«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 to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining, and nothing to say, or smooth and well-oiled in the closet, but unused'. This is a collection of Hemingway's first forty-nine short stories, featuring a brief introduction by the author and lesser known as well as familiar tales, including «Up in Michigan», «Fifty Grand», and «The Light of the World», and the «Snows of Kilimanjaro», «Winner Take Nothing» and «Men Without Women» collections.»
1728 admin 25 июня 2009	Скачать книгу

The Football Factory (film tie-in)	Random House, Inc.
Автор: John King Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2004	PDF, 262 страницы, 7.86 МБ 5 Оценка:
«With his first book, John King has written a cult classic for our times: telling, for once, the truth about soccer violence. Forget the armchair nostalgia of «Fever Pitch» of the transatlantic reportage of «Among the Thugs» — this is a book that gets inside. A collection of linked stories, «The Football Factory» centres on Vince Matthews, a seasoned Chelsea hooligan who represents a disaffected society operating by appalling rules. From first-hand experience, we are shown the usual mix of social degradation, unemployment, racism, excessive drink, bad sex and casual violence — the facts of life — but also how they fall into a political context of surveillance, media manipulation and division. Football violence has not been eradicated, it has simply been moved out of the grounds and beyond the cameras. Like the slaughter of Iraqi conscripts in the Gulf War, hooligans and what they do have been pushed under the carpet: out of sight, out of mind. This is what «The Football Factory» is about.»
947 vasilii 15 мая 2009	Скачать книгу

For Whom The Bell Tolls	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Ernest Hemingway Издательство: Random House, Inc., 1994	DOC, 512 страниц, 1.00 МБ 5 Оценка:
High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle the dynamiting. There, in the mountains, he finds the dangers and the intense comradeship of war. And there he discovers Maria, a young woman who has escaped from Franco's rebels.
1842 nniikk 13 февраля 2009	Скачать книгу

Forrest Gump	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Winston Groom Издательство: Random House, Inc., 1994	PDF, 240 страниц, 7.20 МБ 8 Оценка:
Meet Forrest Gump, the lovable, hurculean, and surprisingly savy hero of this remarkable comic odyssey. After accidentally becoming the star of Univerity of Alabama's football team, Forrest goes on to become a Vietnam War hero, a worl-class Ping-Pong player, a villainous wrestler, and a business tycoon — as he wonders with cildlike wisdome at the insanity all around him. In between misadentures, he manages to compare battle scars with Lyndon Johnson, discover the truth about Richard Nixon, and survive the ups and downs of remaining true to his only love, Jenny, on an extraordinary journey through three decades of the American cultural landscape. Forrest gump has one heck of a story to tell — and you've got to read it to believe it...
863 admin 20 сентября 2009	Скачать книгу

Foucault's Pendulum	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Umberto Eco Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2008	DOC, 652 страницы, 1.00 МБ 5 Оценка:
Three book editors, jaded by reading far too many crackpot manuscripts on the mystic and the occult, are inspired by an extraordinary conspiracy story told to them by a strange colonel to have some fun. They start feeding random bits of information into a powerful computer capable of inventing connections between the entries, thinking they are creating nothing more than an amusing game, but then their game starts to take over, the deaths start mounting, and they are forced into a frantic search for the truth.
2362 warlex 19 марта 2011	Скачать книгу

The Fourth Protocol	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Frederick Forsyth Издательство: Random House, Inc., 1996	DjVu, 448 страниц, 17.92 МБ 7 Оценка:
«It is a time of political unrest in Great Britain. And behind the Iron Curtain an insidious plot is being hatched, a plan so incendiary that even the KGB is ignorant of its existence — «Aurora», the sinister brainchild of two of the world's most dangerous men: the general secretary of the Soviet Union and master spy Kim Philby. The wheels are in motion, the pawns are in place, and the countdown has begun toward an «accident» that could change the fact of British politics forever and trigger and collapse of the Western alliance. Only British agent John Preston stand any chance of breaching the conspiracy. Through plot and counterplot, from bloody back streets to polished halls of power both East and West, his desperate investigation is relentlessly blocked by deceit, treachery, and the most deadly enemy of all...time.»
1613 vtormai 11 октрября 2009	Скачать книгу

Vintage Monsters: Frankenstein and Sexing the Cherry	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Mary Shelley Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2007	PDF, 3.36 МБ 8 Оценка:
«Vintage Monsters» is a limited edition gift pack which consists of beautifully designed separate volumes of «Frankenstein» by Mary Shelley and Jeanette Winterson's «Sexing the Cherry». «Vintage Monsters» is just one of ten «Vintage Classic Twins» to collect. Each twin consists of two books: a specially designed limited edition of one modern classic title and one established classic work. The books in each pair have been carefully selected to provide a thought-provoking combination. «Frankenstein»: One freezing morning, a lone man wandering across the artic ice caps is rescued from starvation by a ship's captain. Victor Frankenstein's story is one of ambition, murder and revenge. As a young scientist he pushed moral boundaries in order to cross the final scientific frontier and create life. But his creation is a monster stitched together from grave-robbed body parts who has no place in the world, and his life can only lead to tragedy. «Sexing the Cherry»: «Sexing the Cherry» follows the adventures of Jordan, an explorer, and his mother, the gigantic and violent 'Dog Woman'. Jeanette Winterson's stunning novel celebrates the power of the imagination as it juggles with our perception of history and reality; love and sex; lies and truths; and 12 dancing princesses who lived happily ever after, but not with their husbands.»
0 admin 7 декабря 2009	Скачать книгу

The French Lieutenant's Woman	Random House, Inc.
Автор: John Fowles Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2004	DjVu, 448 страниц, 17.92 МБ 7 Оценка:
Of all John Fowles' novels The French Lieutenant's Woman received the most universal acclaim and today holds a very special place in the canon of post-war English literature. From the god-like stance of the nineteenth-century novelist that he both assumes and gently mocks, to the last detail of dress, idiom and manners, his book is an immaculate recreation of Victorian England. Not only is it the epic love story of two people of insight and imagination seeking escape from the cant and tyranny of their age, The French Lieutenant's Woman is also a brilliantly sustained allegory of the decline of the twentieth-century passion for freedom.
1620 vtormai 17 апреля 2008	Скачать книгу

The Funniest Thing You Never Said	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Rosemarie Jarski Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2004	DjVu, 576 страниц, 23.04 МБ 0 Оценка:
Whether for the loo or bedside entertainment or as a work of reference or self-improvement The Funniest Thing You Never Said is the biggest and best humorous quotation book there is — a complete one-stop shop of witty one liners. Quotations are ordered not by A-Z, but by thematic categories: love; business; religion; celebrity, you name it, every category is covered. The collection includes all the classics from Oscar Wilde to Winston Churchill, Dorothy Parker to Groucho Marx but also mines many new hidden gems from lesser lights and includes many contemporary quotes by everyone from Jilly Cooper to Jonathan Ross. A standard companion for new collectors, and a fresh perspective for serious quotation addicts.
2082 nergon 26 февраля 2009	Скачать книгу

Fury	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Salman Rushdie Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2006	PDF, 272 страницы, 8.16 МБ 8 Оценка:
«Fury» is a wickedly brilliant and pitch-black comedy about a middle-aged professor who finds himself in New York City in the summer of 2000. Not since, the Bombay of «Midnight's Children» have a time and place been so intensely and accurately captured in a novel. «Fury» opens on a New York living at breakneck speed in an age of unprecedented decadence. Malik Solanka, a Cambridge-educated self-made millionaire originally from Bombay, arrives looking, perversely, for escape. This former philosophy professor is the inventor of the hugely popular doll, Little Brain, whose multiform ubiquity — as puppet, cartoon and masked woman — now rankles with him. He becomes frustratingly estranged from his own creation. At the same time, his marriage is disintegrating: it escalates into a rage-filled battle, and Solanka very nearly commits an unforgiveable act. Horrified by the fury within him, he flees home and family and becomes a sort of spiritual mendicant — except that he has a credit card and a duplex on the Upper West Side. Solanka discovers that he has come to a city roiling with anger, where cab drivers spout invective and a serial killer is murdering women with a lump of concrete, a metropolis whose population is united by petty spats and bone-deep resentment. His own thoughts, emotions and desires, meanwhile, are also running wild.»
984 radius 27 августа 2008	Скачать книгу

The Genesis Code	Random House, Inc.
Автор: John Case Издательство: Random House, Inc., 1998	DjVu, 544 страницы, 21.76 МБ 0 Оценка:
Joe Lassiter is an ex-FBI investigator bent on revenge. His sister and young nephew have been murdered and the killer hospitalised. Despite warnings from the police Lassiter will stop at nothing to discover why. His search leads him to uncover an attempt by the Vatican to destroy all traces of a discovery that has sent them into such an alarm, that they have charged a right-wing fundamentalist hit-squad to rid the world of all evidence of it. The discovery originates from a confession in a remote village in Italy. A confession that sends the local priest into a panic and the Vatican into an uproar. The confession belongs to the late Dr Franco Baresi, and concerns the work at his fertility clinic — a fertility clinic that Lassiter's sister attended and, as he horrifyingly discovers, all the other victims in a recent series of murders that have swept the world. Women who were infertile until they attended the clinic. Lassiter must discover the remaining mothers before the hit men, and meanwhile his sister's killer is on the loose...
1961 garun-al-rashid 19 марта 2009	Скачать книгу

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