Colonel Quaritch is an impoverished nobleman, who is looking for the family jewels of his bride — the "treasure de la Moley". He moves to the house of his late aunt in the village of Honhem and soon becomes involved in an adventure.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06599-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is acknowledged as the greatest dramatist of all time. He excels in plot, poetry and wit, and his talent encompasses the great tragedies of Hamlet, King Lear, Othello and Macbeth as well as the moving history plays and the comedies such as A Midsummer Night`s Dream, The Taming of the Shrew and As You Like It with their magical combination of humour, ribaldry and tenderness.This volume is a reprint of the Shakespeare Head Press edition, and it presents all the plays in chronological order in which they were written. It also includes Shakespeare`s Sonnets, as well as his longer poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece.
ISBN: 9781853268953
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: октябрь 2022
Роберт Ирвин Говард (1906–1936) — американский писатель, признанный мастер жанра фэнтези, создатель поджанра "меч и колдовство". В настоящее издание вошли избранные рассказы Говарда о воине Хайборийской эры, киммерийце Конане, ставшем одним из самых популярных фантастических персонажей XX века. Неадаптированное издание на английском языке.
ISBN: 978-5-517-09688-3
Издательство:
RUGRAM
Дата выхода: октябрь 2023
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. "Cousin Henry" is a novel that deals with the trouble arising from the indecision of a squire in choosing an heir to his estate. It is the most unusual and intriguing of Trollope`s shorter novels.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08345-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2019
A father and child discover the joys of his crazy hair in this brilliant picture book. Bonnie tries to tame her father`s hair, but to no avail, as birds and beasts of every type jostle for space amongst the curls and tresses of this hirsute book. A warm and funny conversational text combine beautifully with Dave McKean`s edgy and dramatic illustrations to make this another, perfect picture book by Gaiman and McKean.
ISBN: 978-0-7475-9599-1
Издательство:
Bloomsbury
Дата выхода: август 2011
Thomas Love Peacock was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company. In "Crotchet Castle" the author assembles a group of eccentrics, each with a single monomaniacal obsession, and derives humour and social satire from their various interactions and conversations.
ISBN: 978-5-517-00225-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
Once upon a time, not so long ago, a monster came to the small town of Castle Rock, He was not a werewolf, vampire, ghoul, or unnameable creature from the enchanted forest or snow wastes; he was only a Cujo is a huge Saint Bernard dog, the best friend Brett Camber has ever had. Then one day Cujo chases a rabbit into a bolt-hole. Except it isn`t a rabbit warren any more. It is a cave inhabited by rabid Cujo falls sick. Very sick. And the gentle giant who once protected the family becomes a vortex of horror inexorably drawing in all the people around
ISBN: 978-1-4447-0812-7
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2011
If you want to understand and get true value from your online content you need to understand how it is used by your customers. If you work with web analytics and online search optimization, this book will provide you with the tools and insight you need to do just that. Even more, it will give you an actionable plan to transform the culture of your organization into one that uses web analytics on a daily basis, focusing on real changes you can make to your department and processes to transform the way your business works. With examples from dozens of companies ranging from small businesses, to consumer sites like Amazon, to some of the largest companies in the world including Tesco and Google, Cult of Analytics demonstrates just how...
A trustee of the John Grier orphanage has offered to send Judy Abbott to college. The only requirements are that she must write to him every month and that she can never know who he is. Judy`s life at college is a whirlwind of friends, classes, parties and a growing friendship with the handsome Jervis Pendleton. With so much happening in her life, Judy can scarcely stop writing to `Daddy-Long-Legs`, or wondering who her mysterious benefactor is.
ISBN: 978-0-14-133111-9
Издательство:
Puffin
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Zarek, a feral Dark-Hunter, has been exiled in Alaska for 900 years. Now the gods send Astrid, sister of the Three Fates, to judge him. Zarek feels fear for the first time because he ll have to let Astrid into his heart and soul. Original.
ISBN: 9780312984830
Издательство:
Macmillan USA
Дата выхода: декабрь 2003
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. "Danger! And Other Stories" is a collection of fascinating short stories like "One Crowded Hour", "A Point of View", "How It Happened", "The Prisoner`s Defence" and "Three of Them." .
ISBN: 978-5-521-08083-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
In this first novel in his epic fantasy masterpiece, Stephen King introduces readers to one of his most enigmatic heroes, Roland of Gilead, the Last Gunslinger. He is a haunting figure, a loner, on a spellbinding journey into good and evil, in a desolate world which frighteningly echoes our own. In his first step towards the powerful and mysterious Dark Tower, Roland encounters an alluring woman named Alice, begins a friendship with Jake, a kid from New York, and faces an agonising choice between damnation and salvation as he pursues the Man in Black. Both grippingly realistic and eerily dreamlike, THE GUNSLINGER leaves readers eagerly awaiting the next chapter. And the Tower is
ISBN: 978-1-4447-2344-1
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012