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. Praised by many as a potential masterpiece, "Weir of Hermiston" tells the story of young Archie Weir from a rich Edinburgh family. Having abandoned all attempts to get along with his father, Archie is banished from his family and sent to live as the local landlord on family property in the Borders hamlet Hermiston. There Archie meets and falls in love with a young local girl named Kirstie.
ISBN: 978-5-517-00205-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2018
From one of the greatest living literary imaginations and the celebrated author of Fahrenheit 451 comes a collection of never-before-published effortlessly beautiful tales. Recently described in The Times as "the uncrowned poet laureate of science fiction" Ray Bradbury has won numerous awards including a Pulitzer Prize special citation in 2007 and an Emmy. In this new volume of never-before-published stories, follow a space shuttle crew as they voyage sixty million miles from home, discover what happens when a writer "with the future`s eye" believes his friend to be writing stories aboard a UFO, and listen in on a couple talking themselves backwards through time to the moment when they first held hands. This entertaining and gripping...
ISBN: 978-0-00-730364-9
Издательство:
Collins
Дата выхода: август 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. When the World Shook is a story of Arbuthnot who has a sudden urge to travel to the Pacific islands after his wife`s death. He gets on a yacht with two friends, Bickley, a doctor, Bastin, a minister, and Arbuthnot`s dog, Tommy. The craft is then taken by a cyclone after all the crew abandons ship. When the three adventurers awaken, they find themselves shipwrecked on the South Sea island of Orofena.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07741-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Arbuthnot has a sudden urge to travel to the Pacific islands after his wife`s death. He gets on a yacht with two friends, Bickley, a doctor, Bastin, a minister, and Arbuthnot`s dog, Tommy. The craft is then taken by a cyclone after all the crew abandons ship. When the three adventurers awaken, they find themselves shipwrecked on the South Sea island of Orofena.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06630-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
Джек Лондон - классик американской литературы, автор ярких романов и рассказов, которые продолжают покорять сердца читателей во всём мире. В сборник "Когда Бог смеётся" включены необычные и душевные произведения. На страницах этой увлекательной книги вас ждут запоминающиеся истории, среди которых "Безнравственная Женщина", "Чикаго", "Только мясо", "Кусок мяса" и многие другие. Читайте зарубежную литературу...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05760-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2017
That is not dead that can eternal lie And with strange aeons even death may die Millenia ago, the Old Ones ruled our planet. Since that time, they have but slumbered. But when a massive sea tremor brings the ancient stone city of R`lyeh to the surface once more, the Old Ones awaken at last. The Whisperer in Darkness brings together the original Cthulhu Mythos stories of the legendary horror writer Lovecraft. Included in this volume are several early tales, along with the classics The Call of Cthulhu, The Dunwich Horror and At the Mountains of Madness. Arm yourself with a copy of Abdul Alhazred`s fabled Necronomican and prepare to face terrors beyond the wildest imaginings of all save
ISBN: 978-1-84022-608-9
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
A set of five haunting, enchanting tales from the master storyteller behind War Horse Since the beginning of time, strange and mysterious things have happened here. There are stories from the past of mermaids and spriggans and knockers and witches. The stories in this book however do not come from the past. They have all happened in my lifetime. At the furthest edge of Britain, where the sea gently washes over the land and myths brush against reality, lies Zennor. Since the beginning of time strange and mysterious things have happened there, and these stories highlight all the most haunting and enchanting events. Once a year, on a misty fall night, there is a pounding of hoof beats as a great white horse comes thundering over the moor in...
ISBN: 978-1-4052-5675-9
Издательство:
Egmont Books Ltd
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
