The war against Voldemort is not going well; even Muggle governments are noticing. Ron scans the obituary pages of the Daily Prophet, looking for familiar names. Dumbledore is absent from Hogwarts for long stretches of time, and the Order of the Phoenix has already suffered losses. And yet… As in all wars, life goes on. Sixth-year students learn to Apparate - and lose a few eyebrows in the process. The Weasley twins expand their business. Teenagers flirt and fight and fall in love. Classes are never straightforward, though Harry receives some extraordinary help from the mysterious Half-Blood Prince. So it`s the home front that takes center stage in the multilayered sixth installment of the story of Harry Potter. Here at Hogwarts,...
ISBN: 978-0-545-58299-5 Дата выхода: ноябрь 2014
Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisly aunt and uncle. Then, on Harry`s eleventh birthday, a great beetle-eyed giant of a man called Rubeus Hagrid bursts in with some astonishing news: Harry Potter is a wizard, and he has a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. An incredible adventure is about to begin!These new editions of the classic and internationally bestselling, multi-award-winning series feature instantly pick-up-able new jackets by Jonny Duddle, with huge child appeal, to bring Harry Potter to the next generation of readers....
ISBN: 9781408855898 Издательство: Bloomsbury Дата выхода: июль 2019
ISBN: 9781408898154 Издательство: Bloomsbury Дата выхода: январь 2019
The first book in this award-winning and phenomenally bestselling series, rejacketed in the brand new "Signature" livery. Harry Potter thinks he is an ordinary boy. He lives with his Uncle Vernon, Aunt Petunia and cousin Dudley, who are mean to him and make him sleep in a cupboard under the stairs. (Dudley, however, has two bedrooms, one to sleep in and one for all his toys and games.) Then Harry starts receiving mysterious letters and his life is changed forever. He is whisked away by a beetle-eyed giant of a man and enrolled at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The reason: Harry Potter is a wizard! The first book in the Harry Potter series makes the perfect introduction to the world of Hogwarts.
ISBN: 9781408855652 Издательство: Bloomsbury Дата выхода: январь 2014
Jim Kay`s dazzling depiction of J.K. Rowling`s wizarding world has won legions of fans since the first Illustrated Edition of the Harry Potter novels was published in hardback in 2015, becoming a bestseller around the world. This irresistible smaller-format paperback edition of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets perfectly pairs J.K. Rowling`s storytelling genius with the enchantment of Jim Kay`s illustrations, bringing the magic of Harry Potter to new readers with full-colour pictures and a handsome poster pull-out at the back of the book. This edition has been beautifully redesigned with selected illustration highlights - the fully illustrated edition is still available in hardback.Fizzing with magic and brimming with humour, this...
ISBN: 9781526609205 Издательство: Bloomsbury Дата выхода: декабрь 2019
This title is selected and introduced by Elliott. `They were removing the stones quietly, one by one, from the centuried wall. And then, as the breach became large enough, they came out into the laboratory in single file; led by a stalking thing with a beautiful head made of wax`. From the dark, mind-expanding imagination of H P Lovecraft, Wordsworth presents a third volume of tales penned by the greatest horror writer of the 20th Century. Here are some of Lovecraft`s weirdest flesh-creeping masterpieces, including Pickman`s Model, The Shunned House, his famous serial Herbert West - Reanimator, and several classic tales from the Cthulhu Mythos, in which mankind is subjected to the unimaginable terrors known only to those who have read...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-667-6 Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd. Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
This title is edited, along with an introduction, by David Stuart Davies. Have you ever heard of the fascination of terror? This is a unique collection of strange stories from the cunning pen of Wilkie Collins, author of The Woman in White and The Moonstone . The Star attraction is the novella - The Haunted Hotel , a clever combination of detective and ghost story set in Venice, a city of grim waterways, dark shadows and death. The action takes place in an ancient palazzo converted into a modern hotel that houses a grisly secret. The supernatural horror, relentless pace, tight narrative, and a doomed countess characterise and distinguish this powerful tale. The other stories present equally disturbing scenarios, which include ghosts,...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-533-4 Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd. Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
ISBN: 978-5-521-07103-6 Издательство: Т8 Дата выхода: май 2018
Thomas Love Peacock was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company. "Headlong Hall" like most of Peacock`s novels, assembles a group of characters who discuss topics that were then of interest to Peacock and his circle of intellectual friends. Peacock uses the work to parody contemporary thinking in a variety of disparate areas, including utilitarianism, vegetarianism, aesthetics, music, poetry, art criticism, and so on.
ISBN: 978-5-517-00226-6 Издательство: Т8 Дата выхода: декабрь 2018
ISBN: 978-5-521-07744-1 Издательство: Т8 Дата выхода: июль 2018
Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. Heart and Science turns on the fate of the orphaned Carmina Graywell, who is left in the charge of her aunt and guardian Mrs. Gallilee when her fiance is forced to take an extended trip to Canada`s drier climes in order to recover his health, Over the issue of her inheritance Mrs. Gallilee schemes to manipulate, control and ultimately destroy the naive but strong-willed Carmina.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07660-4 Издательство: Т8 Дата выхода: июль 2018
ISBN: 978-5-521-06809-8 Издательство: Т8 Дата выхода: апрель 2018
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and the creator of the Lost World literary genre. This is an extraordinarily beautiful Indian princess and a white Englishman fall in love but suffer deeply because of their feelings.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06605-6 Издательство: Т8 Дата выхода: февраль 2018
ISBN: 978-5-517-09466-7 Издательство: RUGRAM Дата выхода: март 2023
ISBN: 978-5-521-07056-5 Издательство: Т8 Дата выхода: апрель 2018
To celebrate 40 years of Usborne Publishing, the iconic Farmyard Tales collection has been re-issued for a new generation of children. It introduces Mrs. Boot the farmer, her children Poppy and Sam, Rusty the dog, Curly the pig, Woolly the sheep and all the other animal characters at Apple Tree Farm. With a Little Yellow Duck to spot on every page, it features twenty gentle stories that have already delighted three generations of children.
ISBN: 978-1-4095-6292-4 Дата выхода: январь 2019
ISBN: 9780241493151 Дата выхода: январь 2021
ISBN: 9781784286088 Дата выхода: май 2022
In Hercule Poirot’s Christmas, the holidays are anything but merry when a family reunion is marred by murder—and the notoriously fastidious investigator is quickly on the case.Christmas Eve, and the Lee family’s reunion is shattered by a deafening crash of furniture and a high-pitched wailing scream. Upstairs, the tyrannical Simeon Lee lies dead in a pool of blood, his throat slashed.When Hercule Poirot offers to assist, he finds an atmosphere not of mourning but of mutual suspicion. It seems everyone had their own reason to hate the old man. . .
ISBN: 9780007527540 Дата выхода: ноябрь 2022
Fourteen-year-old Billy Harriman s dad had been a hero, a savior to America and a confidante of the president. Then he died, and the changes began in Billy. What Billy never knew was that his father was no ordinary man--he was a superhero, battling the world s evil. And now it s Billy s turn to take on the fight.
ISBN: 9780399252839 Издательство: Puffin Books Дата выхода: ноябрь 2010
Allan Quatermain is confronted with the legend of the Heu-Heu, a monster who eats humans, while sheltering from a thunderstorm in the Drakensberg mountains. The legend appears to be reality as Quatermain is to find out after arriving in Zululand and being summond by Zikali, a Zulu Sangoma of indeterminate age. Together with his trusted companion, Hans, Quatermain is sent on a mission by Zikali.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06442-7 Издательство: Т8 Дата выхода: январь 2018
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. This volume contains two stories of Allan Quotermain`s series. In Heu-Heu, or the Monster Allan is confronted with the legend of the Heu-Heu, a monster who eats humans, while sheltering from a thunderstorm in the Drakensberg mountains. In The Treasure of the Lake 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: 978-5-521-07726-7 Издательство: Т8 Дата выхода: июль 2018
Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. Hide and Seek is the story about the girl named Mary - they called her Madonna, and she was deaf and dumb and beautiful as a painting by Raphael. All they did know about her identity was that she`d lost her hearing in an accident, and the proprietor of the circus had treated her horribly, and in her cache of secret personal private things, she owned one thing as precious to her as life itself: a bracelet made of brown human hair with the initials MG tied into it.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07188-3 Издательство: Т8 Дата выхода: июль 2018
A new B-format paperback edition commemorating 75 years since the original publication of The Hobbit. Bilbo Baggins enjoys a quiet and contented life, with no desire to travel far from the comforts of home; then one day the wizard Gandalf and a band of dwarves arrive unexpectedly and enlist his services - as a burglar - on a dangerous expedition to raid the treasure-hoard of Smaug the dragon. Bilbo`s life is never to be the same again. The Hobbit became an instant success when it was first published in 1937, and 75 years later Tolkien`s epic tale of elves, dwarves, trolls, goblins, myth, magic and adventure, with its reluctant hero Bilbo Baggins, has lost none of its appeal.
ISBN: 978-0-261-10334-4 Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers Дата выхода: март 2012
To celebrate The Hobbit`s 75th anniversary of publication, a pocket-sized hardback of Tolkien`s timeless classic, perfect for little Hobbits everywhere. Bilbo Baggins enjoys a quiet and contented life, with no desire to travel far from the comforts of home; then one day the wizard Gandalf and a band of dwarves arrive unexpectedly and enlist his services - as a burglar - on a dangerous expedition to raid the treasure-hoard of Smaug the dragon. Bilbo`s life is never to be the same again. The Hobbit became an instant success when it was first published in 1937, and 75 years later Tolkien`s epic tale of elves, dwarves, trolls, goblins, myth, magic and adventure, with its reluctant hero Bilbo Baggins, has lost none of its appeal. Now, for the...
ISBN: 978-0-00-744084-9 Дата выхода: февраль 2012
