Чарльз Уильяме - известный британский писатель, поэт и литературный критик начала XX века, классик английской школы "чёрной мистики". "Канун дня Всех Святых" - это последнее произведение Уильямса, в которой ужас предстаёт перед читателем не в качестве декоративного украшения, а самым настоящим живым персонажем. В этом романе приоткрывается таинственная завеса магии и оккультизма, а путь в Неведомое...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05722-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2017
Toni Davis`s Christmas wish list 1. Springing my best friend from the psych ward. 2. Living somewhere that doesn`t have coffins in the basement. Occupied coffins. 3. Finding Mr. Right. Please make him tall, dark, handsome, and alive. This Christmas isn`t so merry for Toni. Her best friend`s been locked up in a mental hospital ever since she told the police she was attacked by vampires, and the only way for Toni to get her out is to prove that bloodsuckers really do exist. So she`s taken a job as a bodyguard for the Undead, but she gets more than she bargained for, especially when she meets Ian MacPhie, a Scottish rascal looking for Ms. Right. Although Ian`s nearly five centuries old, he looks and acts like a twenty-seven-year-old hunk....
Modern, original fiction for learners of English. Alex is a thirty-year-old art gallery assistant and hopelessly in love with her boss, Brad. Then, an incident at the gallery means they have to spend a few days at Brad`s country house. This is Alex`s opportunity to impress but nothing seems to go the way she planned. A surprise guest and a Christmas party help Alex to discover what she really, really wants.
ISBN: 0-521-79454-4
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
In Joe and Kate Keller`s family garden, an apple tree - a memorial to their son Larry, lost in the Second World War - has been torn down by a storm. But his loss is not the only part of the family`s past they can`t put behind them. Not everybody`s forgotten the court case that put Joe`s partner in jail, or the cracked engine heads his factory produced which caused it and dropped twenty-one pilots out of the sky!
ISBN: 978-0-14-118997-0
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
In certain uncanny ways this wonderful, compelling novel prefigures Suite Francaise and rehearses some of the themes of her big unfinished sequence of novels. Nemirovsky must have down put her pen in 1940 and picked it straight up again to embark on Suite novel, though is finished, and exquisitely so - first published in France in 1947. It tells the story of two intertwined but warring French families through two world wars from 1911 to 1940, and its themes are war, love and money. This is Balzac or The Forsyte Saga on a smaller, more intimate scale, with the bourgeoisie observed close-up, with Nemirovsky`s characteristically clear-eyed compassion and sly humour. Full of moving, vivid observation of the devastating effects of the two...
ISBN: 978-0-7011-8213-7
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
In haunting ways this wonderful, compelling novel prefigures Suite Francaise and some of the themes of Nemirovsky`s great unfinished sequence of novels. All Our Worldly Goods, though, is complete, and exquisitely so - a perfect novel in its own right. First published in France in 1947, after the author`s death, it is a gripping story of family life and starcrossed lovers, of money and greed, set against the backdrop of France from 1911 to 1940 between two terrible wars. Pierre and Agnes marry for love against the wishes of his parents and the family patriarch, the tyrannical industrialist Julien Hardelot, provoking a family feud which cascades down the is Balzac or The Forsyte Saga on a smaller, more intimate scale, the bourgeoisie...
ISBN: 978-0-09-952044-3
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: август 2011
This is the book that changed America. Beginning with the story of a simple burglary at Democratic headquarters and then continuing with headline after headline, Bernstein and Woodward kept the tale of conspiracy and the trail of dirty tricks coming - delivering the stunning revelations and pieces in the Watergate puzzle that brought about Nixon`s scandalous downfall. Their explosive reports won a Pulitzer Prize for “The Washington Post” and toppled the President.
ISBN: 978-1-4165-2291-1
Издательство:
Pocket Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Dru has finally beaten her bad-girl rep, only to have her quiet life shaken by Carver`s arrival. The fact that this handsome, hard eyed tough guy pushes all her right buttons only proves how wrong he is for her. But how long can she resist a heart that aches to trust in love again.
Over half a century before the rise of the great ‘Queens of Crime’, Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers, Amelia B. Edwards was an expert practitioner of crime fiction and murder mysteries, of which the best dozen are included in this volume. These gripping tales range from ingenious ‘whodunnits’ - ‘All Saints’ Eve’ and ‘The Tragedy in the Palazzo Bardello’ - to encounters with homicidal lunatics - ‘Cain’ and ‘A Railway Panic’ - clairvoyant visions preventing disaster or imminent murder - ‘The Professor’s Story’ and ‘A Night on the Borders of the Black Forest’ - and ghost stories ‘The Four-fifteen Express’, ‘Number Three’, ‘In the Confessional’, ‘Sister Johanna’s Story’, and ‘Was...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-094-0
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: июль 2011
According to Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera, two of America?s most acclaimed business journalists, no-one has put all the pieces of the financial crisis together. The finger was pointed at greedy traders, cowardly legislators and clueless home buyers, but many devils helped bring hell to the economy. All The Devils Are Here goes back several decades to explore the motivations of everyone from CEOs and politicians to anonymous lenders, borrowers and Wall Street traders. It exposes the hidden role of companies including AIG and Goldman Sachs. It delves into the powerful mythology of homeownership. And it proves that the crisis ultimately wasn?t about finance at all; it was about human nature. Bethany McLean?s The Smartest Guys in the Room...
In the midst of WW II, James is training for the Royal Air Force, while going home to Yorkshire whenever possible to see his very pregnant wife, Helen. Musing on past adventures through the dales, visiting with old friends, and introducing scores of new and amusing characters - animal and human alike - Herriot enthralls readers once again with his uncanny ability to spin a most engaging and heartfelt yarn.
ISBN: 978-0-312-96655-3
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
(1896-1940) was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. «All the Sad Young Men» is a wonderful short-story collection showcases many of the celebrated novel`s themes, as well as its unique writing style. Two of the most famous tales, the beautifully elegiac «The Rich Boy and Winter Dreams», deal with wealthy protagonists - the old-money Anson Hunter and the self-made man Dexter Green - as they come to terms with lost love; while «Absolution», in which a boy confesses to a priest.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06889-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: март 2018
Sookie`s beginning to get used to being surrounded by all varieties of undead, changeling, shapeshifting and other supernatural beings - but even she has her limits. She`d really like to take a while to get over being betrayed by Bill, her long-time vampire lover, and get used to her new relationship with the sexy shapeshifter Quinn - but instead, she finds herself attending the long-planned vampire summit, the destination of choice for every undead power player around, as a sort-of human `Geiger counter` for Sophie-Anne Leclerq, vampire queen of Louisiana. But the job is fraught with difficulties. Sophie-Anne`s power base has been severely weakened by Hurricane Katrina, and she`s about to be put on trial during the event for murdering...
ISBN: 978-0-575-08392-9
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
A classic Christmas tale from the bestselling Queen of Suspense At the heart of the novel are two of Mary Higgins Clark`s most loved characters: Alvirah, the lottery winner turned amateur sleuth, and her husband, Willy, who are caught up in a Christmas mystery that calls on all of their skills and experience. Willy has been looking forward to playing Santa at the after-school centre recently set up to care for the children of working parents on New York`s Upper West Side, and Alvirah has been busy with rehearsals for the Christmas pageant. But suddenly a shadow falls upon the Christmas cheer. The centre is threatened with closure, a substitute promised for the play is mysteriously withdrawn, a valuable chalice is stolen from a...
Young James, now married and working as a small-town vet, encounters a cast of extraordinary characters as he makes his way through the Yorkshire countryside tending to sick cattle, pregnant ewes, ailing dogs - and their eccentric owners. As always, Herriot`s warmth, humor, and singular view of life makes readers laugh and cry, as they marvel at the everyday miracles he creates.
ISBN: 978-0-312-96619-5
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
This is Volume One of the "Border Trilogy". `A uniquely brilliant told in language as subtly beautiful as its desert setting. One of the most important pieces of American writing of our time` - Stephen Amidon, "Sunday Times". John Grady Cole is the last bewildered survivor of long generations of Texas ranchers. Finding himself cut off from the only life he has ever wanted, he sets out for Mexico with his friend Lacey Rawlins. Befriending a third boy on the way, they find a country beyond their imagining: barren and beautiful, rugged yet cruelly civilized; a place where dreams are paid for in blood. "All the Pretty Horses" is an acknowledged masterpiece and a grand love story: a novel about childhood passing, along with innocence and a...
ISBN: 978-0-330-51093-6
Издательство:
Picador
Дата выхода: август 2011
This novel is the final volume of the Allan Quatermain saga. Once more Quatermain takes the hallucinogenic taduki drug, as he did in previous novels, and he finds himself reliving as Wi, an civilized man living in the barbaric ice age as part of a clan of cavemen. The novel has been noted as a treatment of the topics of eugenics and evolution in literature and culture.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06444-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
This adventure story tells of three men and their guide Umslopogaas who trek into the remote interior of Africa in search of a lost white race. Through unknown territories their perilous journey takes them to Zu-vendis, a kingdom ruled by the beautiful twin sisters, Nyleptha and Sorais.
ISBN: 978-0-14-062155-6
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The novel H. Rider Haggard`s celebrated Allan Quatermain series, this book tells more stories of Quartermain`s time in South Africa — presenting his observations about two dueling witch doctors, his father`s death, and, eventually, the fate of his wife, Stella.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06435-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018