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 is a collection of intriguing short stories with unexpected culminations such as "Like Argus of the Ancient Times," "The Hussy," and "The Red One".
ISBN: 978-5-521-07507-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, travel writer, and essayist. His most famous works are "Treasure Island" and "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." Now he is one of the most translated authors in the world. "The Rajah`s Diamond" is a collection of four wonderful short stories: "Story of the Bandbox," "Story of the Young Man in Holy Orders," "Story of the House with the Green Blinds," and "The Adventure of Prince Florizel and a Detective."
ISBN: 978-5-517-00201-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: декабрь 2018
Kagan argues that hopes for a new peaceful international order after the end of the Cold War have proved wrong. He stresses that peoples of the liberal world need to choose whether they want to shape it or let others shape it for them.
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 is a collection of intriguing short stories with unexpected culminations such as "Like Argus of the Ancient Times", "The Hussv" and "The Red One". .
ISBN: 978-5-521-08124-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 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 Refugees is another vivid example of the author`s love for historical events. It revolves around two characters: Huguenot guardsman Amory de Catinat, and Amos Green, an American who comes to see France. The book also features many famous historical figures and events: the King of France Louis XIV`s and his marriage to Madame de Maintenon, the cancellation of the Edict of Nantes and the emigration of the Huguenot de Catinats to America
ISBN: 978-5-521-08136-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 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. "The Rajah`s Diamond" is a collection of four wonderful short stories: "Story of the Bandbox", "Story of the Young Man in Holy Orders", "Story of the House with the Green Blinds" and "The Adventure of Prince Florizel and a Detective". .
ISBN: 978-5-521-07790-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and literary critic, one of the key writers of the early twentieth century, most famous for his criticism of rationalism and industrialization. Set in the Nottinghamshire, England, The Rainbow follows three generations of the Brangwens, a strong and energetic family, deeply attached to the land they own. The book focuses on the individual`s struggle against the confining rules and restrictions of social life.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07213-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Civil war rages between the native tribes of the Malay straits. Captain Tim Wingard sides with the Rajah Hassim. An English yacht blunders into this confusion and runs aground. When Wingard goes aboard to offer assistance, the crew gives him insolence, not gratitude. He prepares to sees a woman. She captivates him, literally holds him spellbound. It is a spell that soon wrecks all his hopes and leads to the failure of the important cause to which he is bound.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06671-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
Одна из "вечных" книг от самого индийского из английских писателей - Редъярда Киплинга, покоряющая сердца читателей во всём мире. Вновь окунитесь в удивительный и неповторимый мир Индии вместе с легендарной «Второй книгой джунглей», повествующей об увлекательных и поучительных приключениях мальчика Маугли и его замечательных друзей-животных: медведя Балу, чёрной пантеры Багиры, мудрого змея Каа и...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05332-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2017
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, travel writer, and essayist. His most famous works are "Treasure Island" and "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." Now he is one of the most translated authors in the world. "The Silverado Squatters" is Robert`s sweet traveling memoir about a two-month honeymoon trip with his wife, Fanny, and her son Lloyd. It extensively describes their travel to Napa Valley, California in 1880.
ISBN: 978-5-517-00202-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: декабрь 2018
The Spy: a Tale of the Neutral Ground was James Fenimore Cooper`s second novel, published in 1821. This was the earliest United States novel to win wide and permanent fame and may be said to have begun the type of romance which dominated fiction for 30 years. The action takes place during the American Revolution. Garvey Birch is a modest American who pretends to be a regular peddler, but in fact collecting military information for the Continental Army in territory controlled by British army.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06195-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2017
Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859 -1927) was an English writer and humorist. "The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow" is a collection of humorous essays. This collection offers the author`s witty observations on all manner of topics, ranging from love to children to cats and dogs.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07905-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Washington Irving (1783 - 1859) was an American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon" is a collection of essays and short stories. Stories range from the maudlin (such as "The Wife" and "The Widow and Her Son") to the picaresque ("Little Britain") and the comical ("The Mutability of Literature").
ISBN: 978-5-521-08249-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: март 2019
James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century. The Spy was his second novel, published in 1821. The action takes place during the American Revolution. Garvey Birch is a modest American who pretends to be a regular peddler, but in fact, he collects military information for the Continental Army in territory controlled by British army.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08033-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
The main character of this story, Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London`s Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie. When Verloc is reluctantly involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory things go disastrously wrong, and what appears to be "a simple tale" proves to involve politicians, policemen, foreign diplomats and London`s fashionable society in the darkest and most surprising interrelations.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06451-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
Herbert George Wells (1866—1946) was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, writing doz-ens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, but he is now best remembered for his science fiction novels. "The Sea Lady" is a fantasy novel that has some of the aspects of a fable. The story involves a mermaid who comes ashore on the southern coast of England. Feigning a desire to become part of noble society, the mermaid`s real design is to seduce Harry Chatteris, a man she saw some years ago in the South Seas. .
ISBN: 978-5-521-08242-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
The second book in a stunning new series from Sunday Times bestseller, Dilly Court1873. When Carrie Manning`s father dies her mother, Esther, is heartbroken. Essie leaves London to convalesce with her good friend Lady Alice, and it is down to Carrie to look after her family and take charge of the shipping company that her father has left behind.But the company is in dire straits, forcing Carrie seek work as a companion to Maria Colville. When Carrie and Maria try to track down Maria`s mother, they have no idea of the secrets that they will discover. Secrets that link the Colvilles, the Mannings and figures from the past who return to England.Carrie`s journey is as unpredictable as the waters that link the rival shipping companies, but...
ISBN: 9780008199647
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2022
Anthony Trollope (1815—1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. "The Struggles of Brown, Jones and Robinson" is a satire written about a clothing business that is doomed to failure from the very start due to its owner`s lack of initiative. Through his masterful narrative and subtle hints, Trollope shows us how the risks of running a business are extremely real.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08361-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: февраль 2020
Complete in five handsome volumes, each with an introduction by a Doyle scholar, a chronology, a selected bibliography, and explanatory notes, the Oxford Sherlock Holmes series offers a definitive collection of the famous detective`s adventures. No home library is complete without it. Comprising the series of short stories that made the fortunes of the Strand, the magazine in which they were first published, this volume won even more popularity for Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Holmes is at the height of his powers in many of his most famous cases, including The Yellow face, The Final Problem, The Crooked man and the famous The Sigh Of the Four
ISBN: 978-5-521-06178-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: октябрь 2017