A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur`s Court (1889) tells the story of a Yankee engineer from Connecticut who is accidentally transported back in time to the court of King Arthur, where he fools the inhabitants of that time into thinking that he is a magician. Twain was inspired to write this book by a dream in which he was a knight himself, severely inconvenienced by the weight and cumbersome nature of his armor.
ISBN: 978-5-521-00195-8
Издательство:
Пальмира
Дата выхода: январь 2017
Серия книг "Зарубежная классика - читай в оригинале" - это бессмертные произведения великих мастеров пера, написанные ими на их родном языке и наречии. Книги из этой серии помогут читателю углубленно изучать иностранные языки, обогатят его внутренний мир и по-новому откроют произведения известных классиков. Неадаптированное издание на английском языке.
ISBN: 978-5-519-02019-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
Серия книг «Зарубежная классика — читай в оригинале» — это бессмертные произведения великих мастеров пера, написанные ими на их родном языке и наречии. Книги из этой серии помогут читателю углубленно изучать иностранные языки, обогатят его внутренний мир и по-новому откроют произведения известных классиков. Роман Марка Твена «Янки из Коннектикута при дворе короля Артура» на английском языке,...
ISBN: 978-5-519-49770-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2016
Марк Твен - один из самых известных американских писателей, чьи произведения отличает живость повествования, искромётный юмор и умение тонко поднимать философские вопросы. "Янки из Коннектикута при дворе короля Артура" - загадочная и необычная история, в которой автор переносит главного героя, американского мастера-оружейника Хэнка Моргана, в Англию времён правления короля Артура. Читателя ждут...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05405-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2017
Following on from the huge success of the 44 Scotland Street series, Alexander McCall Smith has `moved house` to a crumbling four-storey mansion in Pimlico - Corduroy Mansions. It is inhabited by a glorious assortment of characters: among them, Oedipus Snark, the first ever nasty Lib Dem MP, who is so detestable his own mother, Berthea, is writing an unauthorised biography about him; and one small vegetarian dog, Freddie de la Hay, who has the ability to fasten his own seatbelt. Although Corduroy Mansions is a fictional name, the address is now registered by the Post Office.
Twain`s time travel tale takes you back to the time of King Author and the Knights of the Round Table. Unlike most glamorous takes on the old tale, Twain paints a picture of absurdity, superstition, and human misery. The honor culture of brave knights and fair maidens is revealed to be a place of incredible ignorance, extreme poverty, and shameful inequality. The narrator of the book, Hank, finds himself unexplainably in sixth century England, where he quickly asserts himself as a magician by utilizing his knowledge of science and history. Fred is a remarkably competent man is able to begin a transformation of the realm into a more friendly and advanced place. Industry, politics, and universal suffrage are his aims, and he makes rapid...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05921-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
Gravy worked in the graveyard - hence the name. He was having a normal day until his friend Benjy turned up in a car Gravy didn`t recognise. Benjy had a bullet hole in his chest, but lived just long enough to ask Gravy to hide him and look after his gun. Gravy had looked after things for Benjy before, but never a gun. When Gravy looked in the car he found blood, a balaclava and a bag stuffed with money. Gravy`s not too bright but he wants to help his friend. So Gravy finds himself caught up in the middle of a robbery gone wrong, a woman who witnessed a murder, and some very unpleasant men who will do anything to get back the money Benjy
ISBN: 978-0-7528-8449-3
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Книга представляет собой репринтное издание (издательство "Boston : Roberts Brothers"). Несмотря на то, что была проведена серьезная работа по восстановлению первоначального качества издания, на некоторых страницах могут обнаружиться небольшие "огрехи": помарки, кляксы и т.п. Эта книга будет изготовлена в соответствии с Вашим заказом по технологии Print-on-Demand компанией ООО ""Книга по Требованию"". Print-on-Demand - это...
ISBN: 0-548315-51-5
Издательство:
Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2010
In 1866, tragedy strikes at the exclusive Windfield School. A young student drowns in a mysterious accident involving a small circle of boys. The drowning and its aftermath initiates a spiraling circle of treachery that will span three decades and entwine many loves... From the exclusive men`s club and brothels that cater to every dark desire of London`s upper classes to the dazzling ballrooms and mahogany-paneled suites of the manipulators of the world`s wealth, Ken Follett conjures up a stunning array of contrasts. This breathtaking novel portrays a family splintered by lust, bound by a shared legacy... men and women swept toward a perilous climax where greed, fed by the shocking truth of a boy`s death, must be stopped, or not just one...
ISBN: 0-440-21749-0
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
A Dark Night`s Work turns on concealed crime and a false accusation of murder. The secret goes unknown for about 15 years until the body is dug up during the construction of a The manslaughter and resulting misery for those involved is used by Gaskell to illustrate the effects of dishonesty and bad living, and the torment of conscience.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06834-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: март 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. A Daughter of the Snows is jack London`s first novel. Set in the Yukon, it tells the story of Frona Welse, who are brought to the trail after upsetting her wealthy father`s community by her forthright manner and befriending the town`s prostitute. She is also torn between love for two suitors: Gregory St Vincent, a local man who turns out to be cowardly and treacherous; and Vance Corliss, a Yale-trained mining engineer.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08150-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
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. "A Daughter of the Snows" is the author`s first novel. It tells the story of strong and self-reliant woman Frona Welse from Yukon, who has problems with the local community because of her manners and dubious friends. While being in love for two at once, she cannot choose between local man Gregory St Vincent, who turns out to be cowardly and treacherous, and mining engineer Vance Corliss.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07473-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
How does a man become successful although unable to read or write? How does a woman get her final revenge on her husband? What happens when a man invites friends to a party at which he himself doesn\`t appear, but watches from a distance? What happens to a boy who feels fated to be a genius? These are some of the questions dealt with in the ten stories in this collection. The stories, by important modern authors, have been specially selected for advanced students of English. They are not simplified, but vocabulary explanations and notes are provided in order to help comprehension.
ISBN: 978-0-521-22594-6
Издательство:
Cambridge
Дата выхода: январь 2011
This is Bulgakov`s semi-autobiographical story of a writer who fails to sell his novel and fails to commit suicide. When his play is taken up by the theatre, literary success beckons, but he has reckoned without the grotesquely inflated egos of the actors, directors and theatre managers.
Часть своих книг Софи Кинселла, создательница Шопоголика и один из самых успешных авторов в жанре «чиклит», подписывает своим настоящим именем Маделин Уикхем. Это немного другие романы, написанные в иной авторской манере, но столь же интересные и захватывающие. «A Desirable residence» — это история про семейную пару среднего возраста, которая сталкивается с финансовыми трудностями. Liz and Jonathan are...
ISBN: 978-0-552-77670-7
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Rachel Johnson takes on the challenge of saving "The Lady", Britain`s oldest women`s weekly, in her hilarious diary, "A Diary of The Lady: My First Year and a Half as Editor". `The whole place seemed completely bonkers: dusty, tatty, disorganized and impossibly old-fashioned, set in an age of doilies and flag-waving patriotism and jam still for tea, some sunny day.` Appointed editor of "The Lady" - the oldest women`s weekly in the world - Rachel Johnson faced the challenge of a lifetime. For a start, how do you become an editor when you`ve never, well, edited? How do you turn a venerable title, full of ads for walk-in baths, during the worst recession ever? And forget doubling the circulation in a year - what on earth do you wear to work...
There`s evil in the air and murder afoot. The City Watch needs all the help it can get, as Captain Vimes is about to hang up his badge. From the author of "Small Gods" and "Lords and Ladies", this book is part of the "Discworld" humorous fantasy series.
ISBN: 0-552-14028-7
Издательство:
Corgi Books
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
The third in Terry Pratchett`s hugely popular "Discworld" series. The wizard Drum Billet decides the time has come to relinquish his power and choose a successor, who should by rights be the eighth son of an eighth son. The designated eighth son, though, is female, and wizards are meant to be male.
ISBN: 0-552-13105-9
Издательство:
Corgi Books
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
Генрик Ибсен - легендарный норвежский драматург, поэт и публицист XIX века, создатель "новой драмы". "Кукольный дом" — одна из самых известных пьес Ибсена в мировой драматургии. Обычная квартира, в которой проживает, на первый взгляд, обычная семья, оказывается кукольным домом. Но, если есть куклы, значит, должен быть и кукловод? Кто он? Мужчина или Женщина?.. Читайте зарубежную литературу в оригинале!
ISBN: 978-5-521-05741-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 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. "A Double Barreled Detective Story" is a somewhat unusual short story. Twain takes Sherlock Holmes, world-famous detective and the creation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and puts him in an unusual setting, a small town in the American west, where our hero must solve a strange mystery. .
ISBN: 978-5-521-07815-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
It has been many years since Draig, the Welsh dragon last went on an adventure and at only a few hundred years old, he is still in the prime of his life! Being uninterested with stoats and badgers for company, Draig decides to leave his solitary life on the slopes of Snowdon to go in search of a mate. But not before dropping in on his close friend St George, the patron saint of England. St George soon wants to join in with the adventure so they, along with a last-minute companion, set off to New Zealand in search of their long-lost-friend, Ovis. Being a double-horned Jacob ram with extraordinary powers, Ovis is sure to be able to help with their quest to find a dragoness for Draig.
Until that fateful day in Brighton, Maggie had thought she would never be happy Maggie`s once happy marriage has turned sour, leaving her tied to a husband who no longer seems to love her. So she continues to work, keeps in touch with her friends and tries not to think about the lack of love in her life. But all that changes when Maggie meets someone who transforms how she feels about herself and turns her entire world upside down.
ISBN: 978-0-7528-8239-0
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are tough private investigators who know the blue-collar neighbourhoods and ghettos of Boston`s Dorchester section as only natives can. Working out of an old church belfry, Kenzie and Gennaro take on a seemingly simple assignment for a prominent politician: to uncover the whereabouts of Jenna Angeline, a black cleaning woman who has allegedly stolen confidential Statehouse documents. But finding Jenna proves easy compared to staying alive. The investigation escalates, implicating members of Jenna`s family and rival gang leaders, while uncovering extortion, assassination and child prostitution extending from bombed-out ghetto streets to the highest levels of state government. With slick, hip dialogue and...
ISBN: 978-0-553-81822-2
Издательство:
Bantam
Дата выхода: декабрь 2012
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. "A Duet with an Occasional Chorus" is a romantic novel featuring the story of a happily married couple. Their life seems carefree and romantic until it threatened by a previous lover of the husband.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07177-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018
It`s an exciting day in Fairyland when the Queen invites all the fairies and their pets to a midnight feast. Lucy Little-Fairy and her frog, Burp, arrive at The Magical Meeting Place on Lucy`s flying pink bicycle - the envy of all her fairy friends. They are all ready for the feast. But the Fairy Queen`s mischievous monkey, Maurice, is in a muddly mood and when he steals the Queen`s handbag and drops her wand, all sorts of unexpected magic is unleashed.
ISBN: 978-1-4052-3644-7
Издательство:
Egmont Books Ltd
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011