Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: At the centre: Toby O'Dare — Lucky the Fox — a contract killer of underground fame. A soulless soul, a dead man walking... He's fallen far from grace, and lives under a series of aliases. Lucky takes his orders from someone he calls 'The Right Man', someone whose name and allegiances he doesn't know. When the novel opens, the time is the present. The place is Riverside, California, the Mission…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: The leader of the vampire coven, the Theatre des Vampires in Paris was snatched from the steppes of Russia as a child, and sold as a slave in Renaissance Venice. From there Armand's story spans several hundred years, culminating in a visit to New Orleans at the end of the twentieth century. Here his victims await either death or immortality.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Herod Antipas rules Galilee, Pontius Pilate is the new Roman governor of Judea, and the Roman Empire rules the world. These are turbulent times for Israel, a troubled land of turmoil and insurrection. Now in his thirtieth year, Jesus and his tight-knit family endure a long, dusty winter of disruption and chaos. Whispers of his virgin birth still persist, and while he struggles with the demands of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: «Anne Rice's vivid and hugely ambitious continuation of the life of Christ the Lord tells of the last winter of Jesus' «hidden years» — his thirtieth — and ends with His first great miracle — the turning of water into wine at the marriage of Cana. Based on the Four Gospels and scrupulously researched.»
Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: Once a proud Senator in Imperial Rome, Marius is kidnapped and forced into that dark realm of blood, where he is made a protector of the Queen and King of the vampires-in whom the core of the supernatural race resides. Through his eyes we see the fall of pagan Rome to the Emperor Constantine, the horrific sack of the Eternal City at the hands of the Visigoths, and the vile aftermath of the Black…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: «Belinda is the ultimate fantasy: a golden-haired object of desire, fresh and uninhibited. But to Jeremy Walker, a handsome and famous 44-year-old illustrator of children's books, this incredibly seductive woman is a forbidden passion...because Belinda is only 16. «Who was she?» That was the first thought that came into my mind when I saw her in the bookstore. Who was she really? She's Belinda.…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: The reader is held captive, and, ultimately, seduced. SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Ramses the Great has awakened in Edwardian London. Having drunk the elixir of life, he is now Ramses the Damned, doomed forever to wander the earth, desperate to quell hungers that can never be satisfied. Although he pursues voluptuous aristocrat Julie Stratford, the woman for whom he desperately longs is Cleopatra. And…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: In a darkened room a young man sits telling the macabre and eerie story of his life — the story of a vampire, gifted with eternal life, cursed with an exquisite craving for human blood. Anne Rice's compulsively readable novel is arguably the most celebrated work of vampire fiction since Bram Stoker's Dracula was published in 1897. As the Washington Post said on its first publication, it is a…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: In Miami, 1992, a tropical garden of a city where corruption pulses beneath the lush surface is the perfect city for a vampire. Yet Lestat — hero, rock star, incorrigible seducer and the most powerful and sensual vampire of them all — prowls this savage garden in desperate misery. Restlessly pursuing the mystery of his dark existence, Lestat yearns to think, breathe and feel as a man, free of his…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: On the verandah of a great New Orleans house, now faded, a mute and fragile woman sits rocking. And the witching hour begins...Demonstrating once again her gift for spellbinding storytelling and the creation of legend, Anne Rice makes real for us a great dynasty of witches — a family given to poetry and incest, to murder and philosophy, a family that over the ages is itself haunted by a powerful,…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Ramses the Great has reawakened in opulent Edwardian London. Having drunk the elixir of life, he is now Ramses the Damned, doomed forever to wander the earth, desperate to quell hungers that can never be satisfied. He becomes the close companion of a voluptuous heiress, Julie Stratford, but his cursed past again propels him toward disaster. He is tormented by searing memories of his last…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: «In her new novel, perennial bestseller Anne Rice fuses her two uniquely seductive strains of narrative — her Vampire legend and her lore of the Mayfair witches — to give us a world of classic deep-south luxury and ancestral secrets. Welcome to Blackwood Farm: soaring white columns, spacious drawing rooms, bright, sun-drenched gardens, and a dark strip of the dense Sugar Devil Swamp. This is the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Educated in the Florence of Cosimo de' Medici, trained in knighthood at his father's mountaintop castle, Vittorio inhabits a world of courtly splendor and country pleasures — a world suddenly threatened when his entire family is confronted by an unholy power. In the midst of this upheaval, Vittorio is seduced by the beautiful and sinister vampire Ursula — setting in motion a chilling chain of…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Just when you thought it was safe for a bloodsucker to go out in the dark in New Orleans, along comes Merrick Mayfair, a sultry, hard-drinking octoroon beauty whose voodoo can turn the toughest vampire into a marionette dancing to her merry, scary tune. In Merrick, Anne Rice brings back three of her most wildly popular characters--the vampires Lestat and Louis and the dead vampire child…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: «In this sixth installment of «The Vampire Chronicles», Rice brings readers the story of the eternally young Armand. Introduced as a minor player in the classic «Interview With the Vampire», Armand now takes his place center stage as he relates his 500-year history. Features an exclusive interview with Rice.»
Скачать книгу (размер 2 064 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 406) Аннотация: «In this first of a series, David Talbot, vampire survivor of «Memnoch the Devil», calls forth Pandora, last seen in «Queen of the Damned», to tell her own extraordinary tale. Once a mortal girl in ancient Rome, she was given immortality by Marius, her lover and the dark genius of the Lestat novels.»
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Anne Rice, creator of the Vampire Lestat, the Mayfair witches and the amazing worlds they inhabit, now gives us the first in a new series of novels linked together by the fledgling vampire David Talbot, who has set out to become a chronicler of his fellow Undead. The novel opens in present-day Paris in a crowded café, where David meets Pandora. She is two thousand years old, a Child of the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: In a new and major novel, the creator of fantastic universes o vampires and witches takes us now into the world of Isaiah and Jeremiah, and the destruction of Solomon's Temple, to tell the story of Azriel, Servant of the Bones. He is ghost, genii, demon, angel--pure spirit made visible. He pours his heart out to us as he journeys from an ancient Babylon of royal plottings and religious upheavals…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 967 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 387) Аннотация: «In her latest installment of The Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice brings readers the story of Armand — eternally young, with the face of a Botticelli angel — who first appeared in his dark glory in «Interview with the Vampire». Moving through scenes of luxury, of ambush, fire, and devil worship to 19th-century Paris and toady's New Orleans, this romantic hero is forced to choose between his…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: «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.»