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
Belly has spent her summers at the beach house with Conrad and Jeremiah, who had never noticed her noticing them. Every summer Belly hoped it would be different. This time, it is. The summer that Belly turns pretty is the summer that changes everything--for better and for worse.
Издание на английском языке.Ваш английский чахнет в бетонных джунглях? Дайте ему шанс расцвести в "Таинственном саду" Фр. Бернетт! Эта проверенная временем книга познакомит вас с живым и непосредственным английским языком.Фрэнсис Ходжсон Бернетт - английская писательница, знаменитый автор книг для детей (например, "Маленького лорда Фаунтлероя"). Она хлебнула немало горя в детстве, но, благодаря...
ISBN: 9785171504854
Издательство:
Corpus
Дата выхода: октябрь 2022
In the sweet shop Willy Chapman was free, absolved from all responsibility, and he ran his sweet shop like his life - quietly, steadfastly, devotedly. It was a bargain struck between Chapman and his beautiful, emotionally injured wife - a bargain based on unexpressed, inexpressible love and on a courageous acceptance of life`s threatened only by Dorry, their clever, angry, unforgiving daughter.
ISBN: 978-0-330-50787-5
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
More than a thousand years ago, in what is now the territory of modern Mauritania and partly of its neighboring States, was located a rather powerful and militant Caliphate. The ruler of this Caliphate had at his court a personal magician, astrologer and soothsayer. The astrologer was an expert in different areas of secret knowledge, and he was highly esteemed by the ruler. In his Book of Knowledge, he wrote down all that was of magical practices and of nature observation in detail, which came to him by inheritance from other great magicians. The Caliph`s astrologer had a very inquisitive and dexterous servant, who also led his book and was going to give it to his worthy successor. Of course, the book of the servant was nothing like...
ISBN: 978-5-6041795-3-6
Издательство:
Jellyfish Jam
Дата выхода: декабрь 2018
James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. The plot of The Sea Lions; Or, The Lost Sealers revolves around two sealers stranded in amongst Antarctic ice.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06662-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 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. This book includes two wonderful short stories: mysterious and unpredictable "The Sire de Maletroits Door" and witty and inspiring "Providence and the Guitar."
ISBN: 978-5-517-00203-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2018
On the evening of 26th November 1703, a cyclone from the north Atlantic hammered into southern Britain at over seventy miles an hour, claiming the lives of over 8,000 people. For Defoe, bankrupt and just released from prison for seditious writings, the storm struck during one of his bleakest moments. But it also furnished him with the material for his first book, and in his powerful depiction of private suffering and individual survival played out against a backdrop of public calamity.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06819-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
The Shadow-Line is based upon events and experiences from twenty-seven years earlier to which Conrad returned obsessively in his fiction. A young sea captain`s first command brings with it a succession of crises: his sea is becalmed, the crew laid low by fever, and his deranged first mate is convinced that the ship is haunted by the malignant spirit of a previous captain. The novella is notable for its dual narrative structure.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06669-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. The Sea Lions, originally published in 1849, tells the story of two ships seeking seals among the icebergs of Antarctica, and caught there during the long winter night.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07953-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Jack London 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. The Strength of the Strong and The Turtles of Tasman are collections of beautiful short stories among which there are "Told in the Drooling Ward," "South of the Slot," "The Unparalleled Invasion," "The Eternity of Forms," and many others.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08171-4
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 Stark Munro Letters is an epistolary novel that takes the form of twelve long letters written by J. Stark Munro between March 1881 and November 1884 and sent to his friend Herbert Swanborough. Stark Munro is a recent graduate from medical school, and the letters detail his attempts to create a medical practice in partnership with the brilliant but unorthodox James Cullingworth. .
ISBN: 978-5-521-08077-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Джек Лондон (настоящее имя Джон Гриффит) – американский писатель. В юности он переменил множество случайных профессий, путешествовал и даже просидел месяц в тюрьме за бродяжничество.В северных рассказах Лондон противопоставляет цивилизации мир нетронутой природы, но, веря в благодетельную природу, не перестает преклоняться перед техническими и культурными достижениями цивилизации.В его...
ISBN: 978-5-7974-0478-1
Издательство:
Икар
Дата выхода: январь 2015
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. "The Strength of the Strong" includes seven extraordinary tales such as "South of the Slot", "The Unparalleled Invasion", and "The Enemy of All the World".
ISBN: 978-5-521-07505-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 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 Tragedy of The Korosko" tells the story of European tourists on a trip to Egypt, sailing up the River Nile in a boat called the Korosko. The book raises the themes of imperial sovereignty, invasive foreign policy, and even religious extremism. .
ISBN: 978-5-521-08078-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Treasure and the occult are vividly blended in this stirring tale of Africa. Allan Quatermain finds a village in the middle of the Dark Continent ruled by a huge, pale man with a strange knowledge of future events.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06443-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. The Two Destinies explores the powers of telepathy while telling a skillful tale that interweaves suspense with the familiar ingredients of Victorian melodrama. Mary Dermody is destined to be together with George Germaine one day, or so at least her grandmother prophesizes. Destiny at first does not seem to adhere to this plan, and the pair is separated and lose sight of each other. But when George saves a young woman from drowning, a strong connection seems to develop between them, which seems to be almost supernatural. The Frozen Deep is a story of a love triangle between Clara, Frank and Richard. Exchanging vows of love with sailor Frank Aldersley the night...
ISBN: 978-5-521-07193-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Mark Twain 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." His wit and satire, in prose and in speech, earned praise from critics and peers. "The Tragedy of Pudd`nhead Wilson" is a novel about two boys from the fictional Missouri town of Dawson`s Landing. One, born into slavery, with a small amount of black ancestry. The other is white, born to be the master of the house. The two boys were switched after birth, so each would grow into the other`s social role and accept many of the boundaries and stigmas of the society.
ISBN: 978-5-517-00217-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: декабрь 2018
In this novel William Wilkie Collins explores the powers of telepathy while telling a skilful tale that interweaves suspense with the familiar ingredients of Victorian melodrama. Mary Dermody is destined to be together with George Germaine one day, or so at least her grandmother prophesizes. Destiny at first doesn`t seem to adhere to this plan, and the pair is separated and lose sight of each other. But when George saves a young woman from drowning, a strong connection seems to develop between them, which seems to be almost supernatural.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06459-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: февраль 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. "The Trespasser" is the second Lawrence`s novel, and it tells the story of Siegmund, a violinist, who is married to Beatrice and has kids. He falls in love with a younger musician Helena, spends a week with her, and after returning home realizes, that he cannot choose between her or Beatrice and the children.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07203-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018