The wild rush of action in this classic frontier adventure story has made The Last of the Mohicans the most popular of James Fenimore Cooper`s Leatherstocking Tales. Deep in the forests of upper New York State, the brave woodsman Hawkeye (Natty Bumppo) and his loyal Mohican friends Chingachgook and Uncas become embroiled in the bloody battles of the French and Indian War. James Fenimore Cooper`s historical imagination is profound, his creative use of the gothic landscape is uniquely American, and his influence on plot and characterization in American fiction is pervasive and extensive.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06172-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2017
Фенимор Купер - известный американский романист и сатирик XIX века, классик приключенческой литературы, чьи произведения заставляют задуматься о нашем месте в мире. "Последний из Могикан" - увлекательный роман, в котором за бразды правления в Америке сражаются французы и англичане, привлекая к своему кровавому делу индейцев, а главные герои - английский офицер Хейуорд, две девушки Алиса и Кора и нелепый...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05476-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2017
«Зарубежная классика — читай в оригинале» — коллекция, которая собрана из бессмертных произведений великих мастеров пера, написанных ими на их родном языке. Книги из этой серии помогут читателю углублённо изучать иностранные языки, обогатят его внутренний мир и по-новому откроют произведения известных классиков. Учись английскому у Френсиса Скотта Фицджеральда!
ISBN: 978-5-519-49537-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2016
Isabels son, Charlie, is now of an ageeighteen monthsto have a social life, and so off they go to a birthday party, where, much to Isabels surprise, she encounters an old adversary, Minty Auchterlonie, now a high-flying financier. Minty had seemed to Isabel a woman of ruthless ambition, but the question of her integrity had never been answered. Now, when Minty takes Isabel into her confidence about a personal matter, Isabel finds herself going another round: Is Minty to be trusted? Or is she the perpetrator of an enormous financial fraud? And what should Isabel make of the rumors of shady financial transactions at Minty`s investment bank? Not that this is the only dilemma facing Isabel: she also crosses swords again with her nemesis,...
ISBN: 978-0-307-74197-4
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic. The Life and Adventures of Martin Cbuzzlewit is his sixth novel. The story involves the escape of a young boy from imminent danger, and portrays the terrified child`s point of view throughout his traumatic experiences. It also contains some of Dickens`s most memorable characters. There is the seedy but charming schemer Montague Tigg, and his associate Chevy Slyme, the eccentrically fey and colourfully attired barber, the buxom goodhearted pub landlady Mrs Lupin and many others. The novel is widely accepted as the last of his picaresque novels and was thought by Dickens himself to be his best novel.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07916-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and literary critic, one of the key writers of the early twentieth century, most famous for his criticism of rationalism and industrialization. "The Lost Girl" is a novel, first published in 1920 and awarded with James Tait Black Memorial Prize in the fiction category. It tells the story of Alvina Houghton and her father James Houghton who, in an attempt to keep his business afloat, buys a theater and hires actors. Alvina falls in love with one of them and flies with him to Naples, leaving all her former life behind.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07204-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
The fifth volume of the History of Middle-earth, containing the early myths and legends which led to the writing of Tolkien\`s epic tale of war, The Silmarillion. At the end of 1937, J R R Tolkien reluctantly set aside his work on the myths and heroic legends of Valinor and Middle-earth and began The Lord of the Rings. This fifth volume of The History of Middle-earth completes the examination of his writing up to that time. Later forms of The Annals of Valinor and The Annals of Beleriand had been composed, The Silmarillion was nearing completion in a greatly amplified form, and a new Map had been made. The legend of the Downfall of Numenor had entered the work, including those central ideas: the World Made Round and the Straight Path...
ISBN: 978-0-261-10225-5
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2011
A comprehensive collection of letters spanning the adult life (1914-1973) of one of the world’s most famous storytellers.‘It is not possible even at great length to "pot" The Lord of the Rings in a paragraph or two. It was begun in 1936, and every part has been written many times… the labour has been colossal; and it must stand or fall, practically as it is.’J.R.R. Tolkien was one of the most prolific letter writers of this century. Over the years he wrote to his publishers, his family, to friends (including C.S. Lewis, W.H. Auden and Naomi Mitchison) and to fans of his books. The letters present a fascinating and highly detailed portrait of the man in many of his aspects: as storyteller, scholar, Catholic, parent and observer of...
ISBN: 9780261102651
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2023
The first book in a brand new series, "The Last Kingdom" is set in England during the reign of King Alfred. Uhtred is an English boy, born into the aristocracy of ninth-century Northumbria. Orphaned at ten, he is captured and adopted by a Dane and taught the Viking ways. Yet Uhtreds fate is indissolubly bound up with Alfred, King of Wessex, who rules over the only English kingdom to survive the Danish assault. The struggle between the English and the Danes and the strife between christianity and paganism is the background to Uhtreds growing up. He is left uncertain of his loyalties but a slaughter in a winter dawn propels him to the English side and he will become a man just as the Danes launch their fiercest attack yet on Alfreds...
ISBN: 0-00-721801-X
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: январь 2011
Издательство продолжает знакомить читателей с лучшими образцами английской литературы. Важное место в романе занимает тема судьбы художника. Личные взаимоотношения героев, споры об искусстве даны на фоне исторических событий, свидетелями и участниками которых являются главные герои романа.
ISBN: 5-8346-0177-4
Издательство:
Менеджер
Дата выхода: август 2002
The Little Prince is a modern fable, and for readers far and wide both the title and the work have exerted a pull far in excess of the book's brevity. Written and published first by Antoine de St-Exupery in 1943, only a year before his plane disappeared on a reconnaissance flight, it is one of the world's most widely translated books, enjoyed by adults and children alike. In the meeting of the narrator who has ditched his plane in the Sahara desert, and the little prince, who has dropped there through time and space from his tiny asteroid, comes an intersection of two worlds, the one governed by the laws of nature, and the other determined only by the limits of imagination. The world of the imagination wins hands down, with the concerns...
ISBN: 9781840227604
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2018
The epic story of the Norse hero, Sigurd, the dragon-slayer, the revenge of his wife, Gudrun, and the Fall of the Nibelungs. Many years ago, JRR Tolkien composed his own version of the great legend of Nothern antiquity, in two closely related poems to which he gave the titles \`The New Lay of the Volsungs\` and \`The New Lay of Gudrun\`. Deriving his version primarily from his close study of the ancient poetry of Norway and Iceland known as the Poet Edda, Tolkien employed a verse-form of short stanzas whose lines embody in English the exacting alliterative rhythms and concentrated energy of the poems of the Edda.
ISBN: 978-0-007-31724-0
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: февраль 2011
