Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic. The Life and Adventures of Martin Cbuzzlewit is his sixth novel. The story involves the escape of a young boy from imminent danger, and portrays the terrified child`s point of view throughout his traumatic experiences. It also contains some of Dickens`s most memorable characters. There is the seedy but charming schemer Montague Tigg, and his associate Chevy Slyme, the eccentrically fey and colourfully attired barber, the buxom goodhearted pub landlady Mrs Lupin and many others. The novel is widely accepted as the last of his picaresque novels and was thought by Dickens himself to be his best novel.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07916-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and politician. A lot of his works contributed to the early growth of the science fiction genre. "The Last of the Barons" is a historical novel first published in 1843. Its plot revolves around the power struggle between the English King Edward IV and his powerful minister Earl of Warwick, known as "Warwick the kingmaker." The novel also explores the themes of romance and science in the Middle Ages.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08286-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: май 2019
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. "The Last Galley: Impressions and Tales I" is the first volume in the series, consisting of wonderful short stories like "The Last Galley", "The Contest", and "Through the Veil".
ISBN: 978-5-521-07168-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018
James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century. The Lake Gun is a satirical short story named after the mysterious loud exploding sound coming from Seneca Lake, called The Lake Gun by European American settlers to the area, and known today as the Seneca Guns. These sounds remain unexplained to this day, with no clear or agreed-upon cause.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08034-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 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. The Lost World tells the story of a journalist Edward Malone who decides to join the dangerous but exciting expedition to a world populated by dinosaurs. The Land of Mist is a novel about Professor Challenger, heavily inspired by the ideas of Spiritualism. This book contains a brilliant story about exploring the world of supernatural through the series of fascinating seances.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08142-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
Mendelsohn grew up in a family haunted by the disappearance of six relatives during the Holocaust--an unmentionable subject during his childhood. Decades later, he embarked on a hunt for the remaining eyewitnesses of his relatives fates. This is their story.
ISBN: 9780060542993
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2007
New house. Fresh start. Same husband.Can you paint over the cracks in a marriage?Karen has packed up her life and is making The Move. She’s on her way to the idyllic country cottage which her husband has painstakingly renovated for her. They’re escaping the London bustle and the daily grind. And they’re escaping their past.A fresh start in a beautiful, peaceful village. It will be different here, right?But something is awry. The landscape, breathtaking by day, is eerie by night. The longed-for peace and solitude is stifling. And the house, so artfully put together by her husband, has a strange vibe. Now that Karen is cut off from her old friends and family, she can’t help wondering if her husband has plans of his own, and that...
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. "The Mystery of Cloomber" is a suspenseful gothic novel that centers around mysterious general Heatherstone and his family. Every single year his paranoia rises around the autumn time. Only his new neighbor John Fothergill West is curious enough to uncover the secret of such unusual behavior. .
ISBN: 978-5-521-08076-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Thomas Love Peacock was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company. "The Misfortunes of Elphin" is a novella, which is set in a somewhat historically fanciful Arthurian Britain which incorporates many Welsh legends, but avoids all supernatural and mystical elements.
ISBN: 978-5-517-00228-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850—1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, travel writer, and essayist. He was a celebrity during his lifetime for works like "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and "Treasure Island." Now he is one of the most translated authors in the world. Tired of his father refusing to tolerate his addiction for alcohol, John Nicholson decides to leave Edinburgh for a better life in America. For some time he seems to have achieved success, but John learns that all of his excesses mixed with internal problems would ultimately lead him to failure. .
ISBN: 978-5-521-07792-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
The new novel from the bestselling author of Middlesex and The Virgin Suicides.Brown University, 1982. Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English student and incurable romantic, is writing her thesis on Jane Austen and George Eliot - authors of the great marriage plots. As Madeleine studies the age-old motivations of the human heart, real life, in the form of two very different men, intervenes.Leonard Bankhead, brilliant scientist and charismatic loner, attracts Madeleine with an intensity that she seems powerless to resist. Meanwhile her old friend Mitchell Grammaticus, a theology student searching for some kind of truth in life, is certain of at least one thing - that he and Madeleine are destined to be together.But as all three leave college,...
Книга на английском языке с параллельным русским текстом Данное издание включает 12 очерков из сборника «Зеркало моря», два очерка из сборника «Последние эссе» и три очерка из сборника «Заметки о жизни и литературе» Джозефа Конрада, классика английской литературы конца XIX, начала XX в.в. Все очерки основаны на автобиографическом материале и опыте службы автора на парусных судах Торгового флота...
ISBN: 978-5-907080-60-7
Издательство:
ВКН
Дата выхода: май 2020
Walter Scott (1771-1832) was a Scottish historical novelist, poet, and playwright. Although he was an advocate and legal administrator by profession, Scott is most famous for his great literary works and activities in the Royal Highland Society. "The Monastery" is a historical novel that takes place during the Scottish Reformation in the middle of the sixteenth century. The wonderful love story between three heroes, Glendinning boys, and Mary Avenel, closely intersects with events in the country that threaten the very existence of the Monastery of Kennaquhair.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07533-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896) was an American abolitionist and a writer. She is best known for her novel "Uncle Tom`s Cabin," which depicts the harsh conditions for enslaved African Americans. "The Minister`s Wooing" is her third historical novel, a domestic comedy that examines slavery, Protestant theology, and gender differences in early America. It is set in eighteenth-century Newport, Rhode Island, a community known for its engagement in both religious piety and the slave trade.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08299-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: май 2019
Princess Florizella may live in a classic fairy-tale world, but she’s no ordinary princess…This third volume in The Princess Rules series sees the feisty princess take her baby brother and best friend, Bennett, on another round of adventures together.Can they rescue their new-found friend the sea serpent from a travelling circus? And hold back the pirate, Five-fathom Freida. Or will Florizella’s worst fairygodmother prove that in a fairytale world, you really do have to be careful what you wish for?…
Александр Дюма - один из значимых классиков французской литературы. Его произведения продолжают покорять сердца читателей по всему миру. "Человек в железной маске" - это известное продолжение увлекательных романов "Три мушкетера" и "Двадцать лет спустя". Читатель встретит уже знакомых героем и новых исторических личностей на фоне бурной жизни Франции. Книга, от которой невозможно оторваться, бриллиант в...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05709-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2017
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most influential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. While being one of the early works, "The Mysterious Lodger" is still considered as a fine example of horror fiction classics by one of the most prominent authors of the genre.
ISBN: 978-5-517-00232-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2019
Ньютон Бут Таркингтон - знаменитый американский писатель первой половины XX, один из немногих авторов, удостоенный Пулитцеровской премии более одного раза. "Великолепные Эмберсоны" - это одно из самых известных произведений Таркингтона, которое было экранизировано Орсоном Уэллсом. Действие разворачивается в начале XX века на Среднем Западе в богатой семье Эмберсонов, веривших в прочность и незыблемость...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05714-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2017
Mark Twain (1835—1910) was an American writer, journalist, and publisher. Among his most famous novels are "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and its sequel, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn". Most of his finest work includes many genres such as humor, satire, and philosophical fiction. This volume includes four amazing works like "A Fable", "Hunting a Deceitful Turkey", "The McWilliamses and The Burglar Alarm" and the novel "The Mysterious Stranger" itself. .
ISBN: 978-5-521-07808-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most influential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. While being one of the early works, "The Mysterious Lodger" still considered as a fine example of horror fiction classics by one of the most prominent authors of the genre.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07126-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018