En 1872, dans une lettre à son amie Mme Roger des Genettes, Flaubert ne cachait pas ses intentions de nuire: "Je médite une chose où j`exhalerai ma colère. Oui, je me débarrasserai enfin de ce qui m`étouffe. Je vomirai sur mes contemporains le dégoût qu`ils m`inspirent, dussé-je m`en casser la poitrine; ce sera large et violent. "Ce fut le roman des deux bonshommes: deux greffiers s`installent à la campagne pour se consacrer au savoir dont ils explorent tous les domaines. Puis le dégoût les saisit et ils reviennent à leur occupation première: copier. Interrompu par la mort de Flaubert en 1880, Bouvard et Pécuchet est le livre de toutes les vengeances, croisade...
ISBN: 978-2-253-16049-6
Издательство:
Livre de Poche
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Moore, a marathon runner and one of Bill Bowermans Oregon men, tells the story of his mentor and hero, drawing on years of taped interviews and the full cooperation of the Bowerman family and Nike, the company that Bowerman helped to found.
What if you were told that you could make a fortune just by pushing a button on a box? But pressing this button will simultaneously cause the death of another human being somewhere in the someone you don’t know. Would you still push the button? "Button, Button", Richard Matheson’s chilling tale of greed and temptation, is now the basis of "The Box", the new film from the director of "Donnie Darko". In addition, this outstanding collection also contains many other unforgettable stories by Matheson, the award-winning author of "I Am Legend" and "What Dreams May Come".
ISBN: 978-0-7653-6143-1
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The remarkable story of Roald Dahl`s early years at school and with his family. Like his stories, Dahl`s childhood tales are unmissable. This edition has a great new Quentin Blake cover and a new end section of facts about Roald Dahl.
ISBN: 978-0-14-132276-6
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: август 2011
Roald Dahl`s life was as bizarre, exciting and funny as the stories he wrote, and here is the whole of his own extraordinary autobiography in one volume. With a new Quentin Blake cover and a whole new end section of fascinating facts about Roald Dahl.
ISBN: 978-0-14-132277-3
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The story of "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas" is very difficult to describe. Usually we give some clues about the book on the cover, but in this case we think that would spoil the reading of the book. We think it is important that you start to read without knowing what it is about. If you do start to read this book, you will go on a journey with a nine-year-old boy called Bruno. (Though this isn`t a book for nine-year-olds.) And sooner or later you will arrive with Bruno at a fence. We hope you never have to cross such a fence.
Berlin 1942. When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move from their home to a new house far away, where there is no one to play with and nothing to do. A tall fence running alongside stretches as far as the eye can see and cuts him off from the strange people he can see in the distance. But Bruno longs to be an explorer and decides that there must be more to this desolate new place than meets the eye. While exploring his new environment, he meets another boy whose life and circumstances are very different to his own, and their meeting results in a friendship that has devastating consequences.
Книга представляет собой репринтное издание 1899 года (издательство "New York, London, Macmillan"). Несмотря на то, что была проведена серьезная работа по восстановлению первоначального качества издания, на некоторых страницах могут обнаружиться небольшие "огрехи": помарки, кляксы и т.п. Эта книга будет изготовлена в соответствии с Вашим заказом по технологии Print-on-Demand компанией ООО ""Книга по Требованию"". Print-on-Demand - это...
ISBN: 1-436791-76-6
Издательство:
Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2010
When you work for a T.O.D. (short for Tyrannical Office Despot... also known as Amy Jenkins, Director of the Human Resources Division at the New York Journal, New York City`s leading photo-newspaper), and your musician boyfriend of ten years has just announced that he can`t commit to a long term relationship because he has to take it "one day at a time", and your best girlfriend is on fertility drugs because she and her husband can`t seem to get pregnant, and your mother is driving cross country in an RV with a younger man, and you can`t seem to be able to find an affordable studio apartment anywhere in the five boroughs, it might seem like things can`t get any worse. They can. Because the T.O.D. might make you fire Ida Lopez, the most...
ISBN: 0-330-41887-4
Издательство:
Pan Macmillan
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Cursed! David was only trying to be cool when he helped some other boys steal an old lady`s cane. But when the plan backfires, he is the one whom she `curses`. Now David can`t seem to do anything right. The cool kids taunt him and his only friends are weirdos. He even walks into Spanish class with his fly unzipped! And when he finally gets his nerve up to ask out a cute girl, his trousers fall down midway! But is this the curse at work or is David turning into a total loser? This work is an another witty and very clever tale by the master storyteller Louis Sachar. Other titles in this series are There`s a Boy in the Girls` Bathroom and Dogs Don`t Tell Jokes.
ISBN: 978-0-7475-8977-8
Издательство:
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: июль 2012
Eight titles in the popular "First Reading" series are re-issued with hardback covers with audio CDs inserted into a wallet inside the back cover, making this book and CD easy to store together. "The Young Reading" series is developed with reading expert Alison Kelly from Roehampton University to help young readers grow in confidence and ability.
ISBN: 978-1-4095-3348-1
Издательство:
Usborne
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
When a troubled young American runaway arrives on Tom Ripley`s French estate, he is drawn into a world he thought he`d left behind, the seedy underworld of Berlin and kidnapping plots, lies and deception. Ripley becomes the boy`s protector as a friendship develops between the young man with a guilty conscience and the older one with no conscience at all.
ISBN: 978-0-09-928659-2
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2012
This is a new title in the fantastic First Reading series, aimed at children who are beginning to read. Sam should be looking after his sheep, but instead he can`t help but play cruel tricks on the villagers by crying wolf. Will Sam soon be caught out by his own joke? This title provides clear and compelling text accompanied by vibrant original illustrations by Mike Gordon. It is developed in consultation with Alison Kelly, who is a senior lecturer in education and an early reading specialist from Roehampton University. It is a great value quality hardback with ribbon marker guaranteed to foster pride in book ownership.
ISBN: 978-0-7460-8559-2
Издательство:
Usborne
Дата выхода: август 2011
Funny, irreverent and sometimes sad, here is the story of the early life of one of the world`s best-loved authors. From the evocation of an enchanted boyhood spent in Wales and Norway to his unhappy experiences at an English public school, these sparkling memoirs are filled with wit, high spirits and more than a touch of the macabre.
ISBN: 978-0-14-008917-2
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011
This tale of an 11-year-old`s struggle between innocence and evil begins with the discovery of a gruesome murder and ends with the revelation that, even in Zephyr, Alabama, life is not safe and simple - and most things and people are not what they seem to be. "Recaptures the magic of being a child in a world of possibilities and "
`I`m just saying that if you ever want, like, a boyfriend or anything - not that I think you should get one right now - but if you did want a boyfriend ever, you might have to start being a bit more like a girl than a boy.` Thirteen-year-old Gwynnie is just about to turn fourteen. While other girls in her year are all about boys and make-up, the closest she`s got to a boy is in a tackle on the football field. But when the totally hot Charlie Notts starts at school, Gwynnie decides now might be the time to start being a girl. Gwynnie enlists the help of a gang of girls at school, headed by the super-confident Jenny. But is it really safe for Gwynnie to be let loose with lash curlers and strong eye-shadow? Has Jenny got a hidden agenda...
ISBN: 978-0-85738-482-9
Издательство:
Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: август 2011
For more than sixty years, the imagination of Ray Bradbury has opened doors into remarkable places, ushering us across unexplored territories of the heart and mind while leading us inexorably toward a profound understanding of ourselves and the universe we inhabit. In this landmark volume, America`s preeminent storyteller offers us one hundred treasures from a lifetime of words and ideas. The stories within these pages were chosen by Bradbury himself, and span a career that blossomed in the pulp magazines of the early 1940s and continues to flourish in the new millennium. Here are representatives of the legendary author`s finest works of short fiction, including many that have not been republished for decades, all forever fresh and...
ISBN: 978-0-06-054488-1
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
A spaceship captain determined to gather a cupful of the sun... a nubile young witch who yearns to taste human love... an expedition that hunts dinosaurs across the fragile and dangerous chasm of time... These strange and wonderful tales of beauty and terror will transport you from the begininng of time to the outermost limits of the future. Selected from his best-selling collections "The Golden Apples Of The Sun" and "R Is For Rocket," here are thirty-two superb stories from one of the master fantastics of our age - the inimitable Ray Bradbury.
ISBN: 9780553286373
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: январь 2020
The "smartest person in the world" has written the ultimate illustrated how-to book, a program designed to improve our most powerful natural tool--the brain. Illustrated with drawings, charts, and graphs.
This title outlines and demonstrates basic logo and branding design guidelines and rules through 100 principles including the elements of a successful graphic identity, identity programs and brand identity, and all the various strategies and elements involved.
ISBN: 978-1-59253-578-1
Издательство:
Rockport
Дата выхода: август 2011
When Rob`s girlfriend asks him to leave London and live with her in Manchester, not only will it mean moving cities, it`ll also mean leaving behind his best mate in the entire world. Believing that love conquers all and convinced of his ability to make new friends, Rob takes the plunge.
ISBN: 978-0-340-82540-2
Издательство:
Hodder
Дата выхода: август 2011
Things are finally looking up for defense attorney Mickey Haller. After two years of wrong turns, Haller is back in the courtroom. When Hollywood lawyer Jerry Vincent is murdered, Haller inherits his biggest case yet: the defense of Walter Elliott, a prominent studio executive accused of murdering his wife and her lover. But as Haller prepares for the case that could launch him into the big time, he learns that Vincent`s killer may be coming for him next. Enter Harry Bosch. Determined to find Vincent`s killer, he is not opposed to using Haller as bait. But as danger mounts and the stakes rise, these two loners realize their only choice is to work together. Bringing together Michael Connelly`s two most popular characters, The Brass...
ISBN: 978-0-446-55160-1
Издательство:
Hachette Livre
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Aldous Huxley`s Brave New World is one of the great works of science fiction. It is the year After Ford 632 in the New World. People are born and live by scientific methods. There is worldwide happiness and order. Then John comes from the Savage Reservation to the New World and with him he brings strong emotions - love, hate, anger, fear. Suddenly, danger threatens the New World.
ISBN: 978-1-4082-7435-4
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: август 2011