Iris Murdoch`s first novel is a gem - solid and sparkling. Set in a part of London, where struggling writers rub shoulders with successful bookies, and film starlets with frantic philosophers. Its hero, Jake Donaghue, is a drifting, clever, likeable young man who makes a living out of translation work and sponging on his friends. Meeting again, after some years, an old flame, Anna, he is led into a series of fantastic adventures. Iris Murdoch has wit, great power of invention and a knack for producing absurd incidents with a serious undertone and tender episodes with an edge of satire. Robust, full of flavour and panache, here is one of those rare novels which equally make one laugh and make one think.
ISBN: 978-0-09-942907-4
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Razumov unwittingly becomes embroiled in a revolutionary conspiracy when he gives refuge to a fellow student who assassinated a public official. Increasingly enmeshed in the radical`s political intrigue, he betrays the anarchist who had placed blind faith in him. The authorities then dispatch Razumov on a mission to spy on the revolutionary`s sister and mother. A fascinating character study, Under Western Eyes hauntingly reveals Razumov`s preoccupation with questions of decency and accountability when confronted by the equally powerful values of human integrity and moral strength.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06452-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Under Western Eyes is a story of Razumov, who unwittingly becomes embroiled in a revolutionary conspiracy when he gives refuge to a fellow student who assassinated a public official. Increasingly enmeshed in the radical`s political intrigue, he betrays the anarchist who had placed blind faith in him. The authorities then dispatch Razumov on a mission to spy on the revolutionary`s sister and mother. A fascinating character study, Under Western Eyes hauntingly reveals Razumov`s preoccupation with questions of decency and accountability when confronted by the equally powerful values of human integrity and moral strength.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07632-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
To celebrate its 40th anniversary, the first ever illustrated edition of this collection of tales which takes readers further into the stories told in The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion, featuring 18 full-colour paintings depicting scenes from the First, Second and Third Ages of Middle-earth.Unfinished Tales is a collection of narratives ranging in time from the Elder Days of Middle-earth to the end of the War of the Ring, and provides those who have read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings with a whole collection of background and new stories.The book concentrates on the realm of Middle-earth and comprises such elements as The Quest of Erebor, Gandalf’s lively account of how it was that he came to send the Dwarves...
This magic-filled book has 12 enchanting search and find scenes to keep you entertained!Travel through each world discovering many fantastical friends. Includes:- Candyland – a colourful place filled with lollipops and candyfloss- An enchanted forest where the fairies play- A city in the clouds full of mythical creaturesAnd many more!Five cheeky imposters have disguised themselves as unicorns in order to infiltrate each magical world. Can you find the catacorn, the unipanda, the narwhal, the rhinocorn and the unifox in every scene as well as spotting the real life unicorn?
ISBN: 9780755502417
Издательство:
Farshore
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2022
This book is about an declaration of love to a wonderful woman in a classic sonnet style, in tradition, which goes all the way up to Francesco Petrarke, William Shakespeare, Ronsar, Bodler, Verlen and other famous masters of this genre. And live a day... This book is about many areas of life of humans, the full range of feelings experienced by each of us, but its leitmotif is love in all its faces.
ISBN: 978-5-00153-202-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: май 2020
A dazzling, passionate polemic against anti-science movements of all kinds. Keats accused Newton of destroying the poetry of the rainbow by explaining the origin of its colours. In this illuminating and provocative book, Richard Dawkins argues that Keats could not have been more mistaken, and shows how an understanding of science enhances our wonder of the world. He argues that mysteries do not lose their poetry because they are solved: the solution is often more beautiful than the puzzle, uncovering even deeper mysteries. Dawkins takes up the most important and compelling topics in modern science, from astronomy and genetics to language and virtual reality, combining them in a landmark statement on the human appetite for wonder.
ISBN: 978-0-14-102618-3
Издательство:
Книжный мир
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Charming picture book of six classic fairy tales (Cinderella, The Story of Rumpelstiltskin, Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Goldilocks and the Three Bears & Three Little Pigs). Dual-level text, on each page a simple line for beginner readers and a more complex one which can be read aloud by an adult or reading child.
ISBN: 978-0-7460-6411-5
Издательство:
Usborne
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
A colourful and charmingly illustrated non-fiction book for very small children, with lots of flaps to lift, holes to peep through and farm animals to spot. Children can peep inside the hen house at sunrise in search of eggs, watch the cows being milked behind the big barn doors and spot the lambs frolicking in the fields. Little hands will love to lift the flaps to see the vegetables growing underground, or the peas inside their green pods, and to spot all the produce being sold in the farm shop, from cheese, bread and honey to knitted hats and lambswool jumpers. An engaging and interactive introduction to life on a farm and where food comes from.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) was an English novelist, dramatist, and short story writer, universally known for her Gothic novel "Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus". This novel, written after "Frankenstein," revolves around the life of Castruccio Castracani, a tyrant, who successfully commanded Ghibelline forces in Tuscany against the Guelphs. The story also follows tragic destinies of two heroes, Ethanasia, Countess of Valperga, torn between loyalty to her Guelph roots and her affection for Castruccio, and Beatrice, with whom Castruccio falls in love.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07524-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
The novel is structured in a way that each chapter breaks one of prevailing stereotypes that seem to be enduring... The story revolves around an unusual letter received by one of twin sisters. Like a trigger, this letter launches a mechanism of fastpaced reality so stable that only a desperate adventurer could move it to action... Роман выстроен таким образом, что в каждой главе автор ломает один из сложившихся стереотипов, которые вроде бы незыблемы. История закручивается вокруг необычного письма, которое получила одна из сестёр-близнецов....
ISBN: 978-5-00153-198-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: май 2020
Axel Heyst, a dreamer and a restless drifter, believes he can avoid suffering by cutting himself off from others. Then he becomes involved in the operation of a coal company on a remote island in the Malay Archipelago, and when it fails he turns his back on humanity once more. But his life alters when he rescues a young English girl, Lena, from Zangiacomo`s Ladies` Orchestra and the evil innkeeper Schomberg, taking her to his island retreat. The affair between Heyst and Lena begins with her release, but the relationship shifts as Lena struggles to save Heyst from the detachment and isolation that have inhibited and influenced his life. Victory is both a tale of rescue and adventure and a perceptive study of a complex relationship and of...
ISBN: 978-5-521-06453-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
Александр Дюма - один из значимых классиков французской литературы. Его произведения продолжают покорять сердца читателей по всему миру. "Двадцать лет спустя" - это известное продолжение романа "Три мушкетёра", на страницах которого нас встречают уже знакомые герои и новые исторические личности на фоне бурной жизни Франции и трагической истории Англии. Книга, от которой невозможно оторваться, бриллиант в...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05442-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2017
This is a gripping historical adventure by a much-loved and award winning author. It is World War II and Jo stumbles on a dangerous secret: Jewish children are being smuggled away from the Nazis, close to his mountain village in Spain. Now, German soldiers have been stationed at the border. Jo must get word to his friends that the children are trapped. The slightest mistake could cost them their lives.
ISBN: 978-1-4052-2927-2
Издательство:
Egmont Books Ltd
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Генри Джеймс - не только один из самых известных классиков мировой литературы, но и ярчайший представитель трансатлантической культуры рубежа XIX и XX веков. Роман "Вашингтонская площадь" по праву считается прекрасным примером американской психологической прозы. В центре романа - трагедия молодой наивной Кэтрин и тема поиска самого себя. Произведение отличается гаубоким вниманием к деталям, точной...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05744-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2017
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. "Waverley; Or, Tis Sixty Years Since" is a historical novel, the author`s first work of prose also considered his most popular historical novel. It takes place during the uprising of the Jacobite uprising of 1745, supporters of the feudal dynasty of the Stuarts against bourgeois England. The book unfolds a picture of the recent past, which retained a strong connection with Walter Scott`s present when it was still possible to meet witnesses of those events.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07556-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
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. "Waverley; Or, Tis Sixty Years Since" is a historical novel, the author`s first work of prose also considered his most popular historical novel. It takes place during the uprising of the Jacobite uprising of 1745, supporters of the feudal dynasty of the Stuarts against bourgeois England. The book unfolds a picture of the recent past, which retained a strong connection with Walter Scott`s present when it was still possible to meet witnesses of those events.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07557-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
`I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot`, Virginia Woolf stated of her eighth novel, The Waves. Widely regarded as one of her greatest and most original works, it conveys the rhythms of life in synchrony with the cycle of nature and the passage of time. Six children - Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny and Louis - meet in a garden close to the sea, their voices sounding over the constant echo of the waves that roll back and forth from the shore.The subsequent continuity of these six main characters, as they develop from childhood to maturity and follow different passions and ambitions, is interspersed with interludes from the timeless and unifying chorus of nature. In pure stream-of-consciousness style, Woolf presents a...
ISBN: 9781840224108
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: октябрь 2022