Conrad`s unfinished novel that he was working on before his death in 1924, in which he returns to one of his favorite subjects: the French Revolution. Unlike Duel, his character here is a young Englishman named Cosmo Latham, who visits Genoa during the days in which Napoleon was imprisoned on Elba, where a conspiratorial environment of diplomats and spies of all colors pivot around the spectral figure of the exiled emperor. Among the many people that Cosmo meets, there he meets Madame de Montevesso, a liberal aristocrat who has had the misfortune to marry an unscrupulous soldier.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06673-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: март 2018
This compelling novel has as its protagonist Cornelius Suttree, living alone and in exile in a disintegrating houseboat on the wrong side of the Tennessee River close by Knoxville. He stays at the edge of an outcast community inhabited by eccentrics, criminals and the poverty-stricken. Rising above the physical and human squalor around him, his detachment and wry humour enable him to survive dereliction and destitution with dignity. ``Suttree" contains a humour that is Faulknerian in its gentle wryness, and a freakish imaginative flair reminiscent of Flannery O`Connor` - "Times Literary Supplement". ``Suttree" marks McCarthy`s closest approach to autobiography and is probably the funniest and most unbearably sad of his books` - Stanley...
ISBN: 978-0-330-51123-0
Издательство:
Picador
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. Swallow is a story of a Dutch girl raised in South Africa among the Kaffirs. Lonely, she gazes from shore over the waves of a storm-tossed sea, and dreams of a brother entering her and soon finds herself face-to-face with a shipwrecked waif cast ashore by the storm.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07737-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
A Dutch girl raised in South Africa among the Kaffirs. Lonely, she gazes from shore over the waves of a storm-tossed sea, and dreams of a brother entering her and soon finds herself face-to-face with a shipwrecked waif cast ashore by the storm.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06609-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
Edith Wharton (1862—1937) was an American novelist and short story writer. Her works show the lives of people of the late nineteenth century, the times of decline in American history. She was the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1921. Wharton also was familiar with many famous people of the time, including President Theodore Roosevelt. "Tales of Men and Ghosts" is a collection of ten masterful ghost stories like "The Bolted Door", "His Father`s Son", "The Daunt Diana" and "Full Circle".
ISBN: 978-5-521-07843-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, a dark romantic, and short story writer. Tanglewood Tales are incomparable retellings of Greek myths. And stories in A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys are all stories within an another story. Williams College student, Eustace Bright, is telling these tales to a group of children at Tanglewood, an area in Lenox, Massachusetts. All the tales are modified from the original myths. This volume also includes such an amazing three tales as Fanshawe, The Snow-Image and The New Adam and Eve.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07769-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. "Tales of Blue Water" is a collection of short stories about the sea. Mixing adventure, romance, and humor, these tales present an interesting view of life in the sea.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07155-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018
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. Filled with supernatural events, horrific scientific experiments, and bizarre events, "Tales of Mystery" is an excellent opportunity to discover another side of author`s ability to immerse and surprise. .
ISBN: 978-5-521-08099-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
F. S. Fitzgerald was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. Tales of Jazz Age VIII is a collection of brilliant short stories, including "Two Wrongs" and an ironic "The Night of Chancellorsville" in which a trainload of light ladies is catapulted unawares into the realities of the Civil War.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07615-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018
Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he was a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. He wrote stories and novels, many with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an impassive, inscrutable universe.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06675-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: март 2018
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. "Tales of Adventure" is an astounding collection that anthologizes some of the best short fiction stories of the author outside of the world-famous detective`s canon including excellent tales like "The Surgeon of Gaster Fell", "The Sealed Room" and "The Great Brown-Pericord Motor".
ISBN: 978-5-521-08055-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. This book serves as the collection of six gripping horror stories, such as "The Horror of the Heights," "The New Catacomb" and "The Case of Lady Sannox."
ISBN: 978-5-521-07156-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018
Washington Irving (1783 - 1859) was an American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. "Tales of the Alhambra" is a collection of essays, sketches and stories. The Alhambra is a palace located in Granada, in the south of Spain. The book consists of a collection of enchanting Spanish and Moorish legends, folktales, and myths about the palace and its surroundings, along with some more traditional travel narratives and observational essays about the country and its customs.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08252-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2019
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. "Tales of the Camp" is a collection of fascinating military stories, set in the prime days of the British Empire. It is a remarkable book for those who wish to get a closer look at the army life at the time. .
ISBN: 978-5-521-08057-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
F. S. Fitzgerald was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. A collection of incredible short stories Tales of the Jazz Age IX brings to vivid life the dazzling excesses, stunning contrasts, and simmering unrest of a glittering era.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07384-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018