Название: Innocence
Автор: Roald Dahl
Издательство: Penguin
Год: 2017
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 61 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Think you know Dahl? Think again. There's still a whole world of Dahl to discover in a newly collected book of his deliciously dark tales for adults . . . What makes us innocent and how do we come to lose it? Featuring the autobiographical stories telling of Roald Dahl's boyhood and youth as well as four further tales of innocence betrayed, Dahl touches on the joys and horrors of growing up. Among other stories, you'll read about the wager that destroys a girl's faith in her father, the landlady who has plans for her unsuspecting young guest and the commuter who is horrified to discover that a fellow passenger once bullied him at school. Featuring extraordinary cover art by Charming Baker, whose paintings echo the dark and twisted world of Dahl's short stories.

Название: War: Tales of Conflict and Strife
Автор: Roald Dahl
Издательство: Penguin
Год: 2017
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 46 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Think you know Dahl? Think again. There's still a whole world of Dahl to discover in a newly collected book of his deliciously dark tales for adults . . . In war, are we at our heroic best or our cowardly worst? Featuring the autobiographical stories from Roald Dahl's time as a fighter pilot in the Second World War as well as seven other tales of conflict and strife, Dahl reveals the human side of our most inhumane activity. Among other stories, you'll read about the pilot shot down in the Libyan desert, the fighter plane that vanishes inside a mysterious thick white cloud and the soldier who returns from war but has been shockingly changed by his experiences. Featuring extraordinary cover art by Charming Baker, whose paintings echo the dark and twisted world of Dahl's short stories. Roald Dahl reveals even more about the darker side of human nature in seven other centenary editions: Lust, Madness, Cruelty, Deception, Trickery, Innocence and Fear.

Название: Under the Never Sky Trilogy
Автор: Veronica Rossi
Издательство: HarperCollins
Год: 2012-2013
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 10 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Perfect for fans of the Hunger Games and Divergent series, Veronica Rossi's trilogy has been called "inspired, offbeat, and mesmerizing" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) and "incredibly original" (Seventeen.com). This collection includes all three novels and two novellas in the series.

Under the Never Sky: Exiled from her home, the enclosed city of Reverie, Aria knows her chances of surviving in the outer wasteland—known as The Death Shop—are slim. Then Aria meets an Outsider named Perry. He's wild—a savage—and her only hope of staying alive. A hunter for his tribe in a merciless landscape, Perry views Aria as sheltered and fragile—everything he would expect from a Dweller. But he needs Aria's help too; she alone holds the key to his redemption.

Название: The Iremonger Trilogy
Автор: Edward Carey
Издательство: Hot Key Books
Год: 2013-2015
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 37 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Young Clod Iremonger and his eccentric family, the “kings of mildew, moguls of mold,"? made their fortune from this collected detritus. The Iremongers are an odd old family, each the owner of the birth object they must keep with them at all times. Clod is perhaps the oddest of all—his gift and his curse is that he can hear all of the objects of Heap House whispering. Yes, a storm is brewing over Heap House and the house’s many objects are showing strange signs of life.

Название: Тарас Бульба
Автор книги: Гоголь Н.В.
Художник: Е.Кибрик
Издательство: Детгиз
Год выпуска: 1948
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 164
Язык: русский
Размер: 92,7 Mb

Перед вами уникальное, возможно самое лучшее, издание бессмертного творения Николая Васильевича Гоголя. "Тараса Бульбу" в СССР многократно издавали и переиздавали. Эта книга входила в обязательную школьную программу. Как правило это были довольно скромные и дешевые издания. В данном случае оригинал книги - это здоровенный фолиант с множеством иллюстраций. В качестве иллюстраций здесь представлены потрясающие автолитографи Е.Кибрика, создавшего хрестоматийные образы героев повести.

Название: We Had a Little Real Estate Problem: The Unheralded Story of Native Americans & Comedy
Автор: Kliph Nesteroff
Издательство: Simon & Schuster
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 36 Мб
Язык: английский / English

A Best Book of 2021 by NPR and Esquire. From Kliph Nesteroff, “the human encyclopedia of comedy” (VICE), comes the important and underappreciated story of Native Americans and comedy. It was one of the most reliable jokes in Charlie Hill’s stand-up routine: “My people are from Wisconsin. We used to be from New York. We had a little real estate problem.” In We Had a Little Real Estate Problem, acclaimed comedy historian Kliph Nesteroff focuses on one of comedy’s most significant and little-known stories: how, despite having been denied representation in the entertainment industry, Native Americans have influenced and advanced the art form.

Название: A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
Автор: George Saunders
Издательство: Random House
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 13 Мб
Язык: английский / English

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves—and our world today. For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us, offering some of what he and his students have discovered together over the years. Paired with iconic short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, the seven essays in this book are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it’s more relevant than ever in these turbulent times.

Название: You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism
Автор: Amber Ruffin, Lacey Lamar
Издательство: Grand Central Publishing
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 28 Мб
Язык: английский / English

In this New York Times bestseller and Indie Next Pick from writer and performer Amber Ruffin and her older sister Lacey Lamar, the sisters banter with humor and heart as they share absurd anecdotes about everyday experiences of racism. Now a writer and performer on Late Night with Seth Meyers and host of The Amber Ruffin Show, Amber Ruffin lives in New York, where she is no one's First Black Friend and everyone is, as she puts it, "stark raving normal." But Amber's sister Lacey? She's still living in their home state of Nebraska, and trust us, you'll never believe what happened to Lacey.

Название: Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s
Автор: Leslie S. Klinger
Издательство: Pegasus
Год: 2018
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 78 Мб
Язык: английский / English

A riveting collection of five of the most famous crime novels of the 1920s, presenting anew some of the most admired authors of the era—with insightful annotations by the Edgar-winning anthologist Leslie S. Klinger. American crime writing was reborn in the 1920s. After years of dominance by British authors, new American writers—with fresh ideas about the detective and the mystery—appeared on the scene and rose to heights of popularity not witnessed since the success of the Sherlock Holmes tales in America.

Название: Шестая жена короля Генриха VIII
Автор: Ф. Мюльбах
Издательство: Терра
Год: 1997
Формат: PDF/DjVu
Страниц: 308
Размер: 15.1 MB
Язык: Русский

Мюльбах Ф. (1814-1873) - немецкая писательница, автор многочисленных исторических романов. Один из них, "Шестая жена короля Генриха VIII", рассказывает о любви английского короля, которая проходит на фоне борьбы между католиками и протестантами.