"Reminiscences of a Stock Operator" is the fictionalized biography of perhaps the most famous financial speculator of all time--Jesse Livermore. This annotated edition bridges the gap between the fictionalized account and the actual, historical events that populate the book.
Jack London (1876-1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. This book contains many wonderful London`s works such as "The Somnambulists", "The Dignity of Dollars", "Goliath", and "The Golden Poppy".
ISBN: 978-5-521-07514-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Pip is a pup with a very loud bark, He scares all the cats when he strolls through the park! Freddy`s a frog with goggly eyes, He`s small and fat and loves catching flies. Pip and Freddy are two lively creatures who love to make noise and have fun. These rhyming stories are beautifully illustrated by the award-winning Axel Scheffler - with lots of details that children will love to spot.
My name is Peter Grant and until January I was just probationary constable in that mighty army for justice known to all right-thinking people as the Metropolitan Police Service (and as the Filth to everybody else). My only concerns in life were how to avoid a transfer to the Case Progression Unit - we do paperwork so real coppers don`t have to - and finding a way to climb into the panties of the outrageously perky WPC Leslie May. Then one night, in pursuance of a murder inquiry, I tried to take a witness statement from someone who was dead but disturbingly voluable, and that brought me to the attention of Inspector Nightingale, the last wizard in England. Now I`m a Detective Constable and a trainee wizard, the first apprentice in fifty...
ISBN: 978-0-575-09758-2
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. Rodney Stone is a fantastic gothic mystery novel set in the world of boxing fights in England during the Napoleonic Wars. The plot also has some attributes of an adventure genre, including a haunted house and a false murder accusation.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08139-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Romance is a novel written by Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford. Serafina is captured by Don Balthasar`s pirates on a Caribbean island, when Jose Armando arrives from Spain to the rescue.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07635-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Romance is a novel written by Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford, The novel was adapted into the film The Road to Romance. Serafina is captured by Don Balthasar`s pirates on a Caribbean island, when Jose Armando arrives from Spain to the rescue.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06666-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: февраль 2018
Roused by a single drop of blood, Rosie Daniels wakes up to the chilling realisation that her husband is going to kill her. And she takes flight - with his credit card. Alone in a strange city, Rosie begins to build a new life: she meets Bill Steiner and she finds an odd junk shop painting, `Rose Madder`, which strangely seems to want her as much as she wants it. But it`s hard for Rosie not to keep looking over her shoulder. Rose-maddened and on the rampage, Norman is a corrupt cop with a dog`s instinct for tracking people. And he`s getting close. Rosie can feel how close he is A brilliant, dark-hued fable of gender wars, a haunting love story, and a hold-your-breath triumph of suspense, ROSE MADDER is Stephen King at his electrifying best.
ISBN: 978-1-4447-0746-5
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. Round the Red Lamp is a collection of medical and detective stories by Doyle, where he focused on the problems that present themselves to physicians and surgeons at the time. The Captain of the Polestar and Other Tales is a collection of early Doyle`s short stories. It includes stories of mystery, comedy, shipwrecks and fantasy.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08145-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. "Round the Red Lamp" is a splendid collection of medical and detective short stories, the idea of which was suggested to the author by none other than Jerome K. Jerome.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07162-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Round the Sofa is a collection of short stories, which introduces us to a set of characters who take turns to recount stories during their weekly soiree. It contains several tales, including "An Accursed Race", an essay about a persecuted minority group of Cagots in Western France, and "The Half Brothers" - touching and sad story about brotherly love and a sheep-dog named Lassie.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07717-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
The Jungle Book introduces Mowgli, the human foundling adopted by a family of wolves. It tells of the enmity between him and the tiger Shere Khan, who killed Mowgli`s parents, and of the friendship between the man-cub and Bagheera, the black panther, and Baloo, the sleepy brown bear, who instructs Mowgli in the Laws of the Jungle.
ISBN: 9781840227833
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2020