Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. This volume includes a collection of entertaining short stories like "The Green Flag", "The Lord of Chateau Noir", "Craddock", and many more.

ISBN: 978-5-521-07164-7
Издательство: Т8
Дата выхода: июль 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. In The Ghost Kings Rachel Dove and Richard Darrien meet in Africa, when the brave man saves Rachel, a minister`s daughter, from a flash flood. Years pass before they meet again: This time Rachel needs help escaping a Zulu tribe that would have her as their goddess and evading another man who wants her for his own.

ISBN: 978-5-521-07733-5
Издательство: Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018

ISBN: 9781784160944
Дата выхода: январь 2021

ISBN: 9781408890219
Издательство: Bloomsbury
Дата выхода: январь 2019

One night, away from his family, Eric finds a golden seal. People want to shoot golden seals for their beautiful fur. Eric`s father is one of those men. A stranger arrives in a boat. What does he want? Eric loves the seal. He wants her to live. But what can he do?

ISBN: 978-1-4082-6118-7
Издательство: Pearson
Дата выхода: апрель 2011

William Sydney Porter, known by his pen name 0. Henry, was an American short story writer. His wit and plot twists were adored by his readers, but often panned by the critics. The Gentle Grafter is a collection of short stories, first published in 1908. The main characters of these tales are Jeff Peters and his friend and companion Andy Tucker. Both of them earn a living with the help of petty fraud, exploiting human greed, stupidity, fear and vanity.

ISBN: 978-5-521-07669-7
Издательство: Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018

THE GIFT is the last of the novels Nabokov wrote in his native language and the crowning achievement of that period in his literary career. It is also his ode to Russian literature, evoking the works of Pushkin, Gogol, and others in the course of its narrative: the story of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev, an impoverished emigre poet living in Berlin, who dreams of the book he will someday write - a book very much like THE GIFT itself.

ISBN: 9780679727255
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: май 1991

When Kate and Mike Sullivan invite their friend Carlos to sail to the Farallon Islands on their father’s new boat, "The Pelican", they expect to see the fascinating birds and animals which live there. But this exciting boat trip on the Pacific Ocean turns into a night of horror when ghastly ghosts from the past appear… and the three friends make an altogether different discovery

ISBN: 978-8-853-00772-8
Издательство: CIDEB
Дата выхода: январь 2011

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. "The Golden Lion of Granpere" was written when Trollope was at the height of his popularity. The novel concerns the events in the lives of an innkeeper`s family; the relationship between George Voss, the landlord`s son, and his beloved Marie, the rivalry between Voss and another suitor for Marie`s hand in marriage, and the results of a betrothal based on mutual misunderstandings.

ISBN: 978-5-521-08359-6
Издательство: Т8
Дата выхода: март 2020

Данное учебное пособие дает удивительную возможность совершить увлекательное путешествие вглубь истории Соединенных Штанов Америки. В текстах пособия, взятых из оригинальных источников, подробно описывается жизнь первых поселенцев, прибывших на американский континент из разных европейских стран. В книге помещены биографии выдающихся американских политиков, изобретателей и ученых, оказавших...

ISBN: 978-5-406-00887-4
Издательство: КноРус
Дата выхода: январь 2015

`Something remarkable was about to happen to the markets, an upheaval that would change the course of financial history and transform John Paulson from a mere spectator to the biggest player in the game` - Autumn 2008. As the world`s financial markets collapse, one man is left standing tall. That man is John Paulson, the softly spoken hedge-fund legend who predicted the crash. By betting against the housing market and the banks he earned $15 billion for his fund and $4 billion for himself in a single year. That`s the largest trading windfall in history, by far. And this is how he did it.

ISBN: 978-0-14-104315-9
Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

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. This book consists of two excellent novels: an exciting boxing story "The Scarlet Plague" and an intriguing post-apocalyptic tale "The Game".

ISBN: 978-5-521-07478-5
Издательство: Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018

ISBN: 9780099461074
Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2004

ISBN: 3-15-009178-0
Издательство: Reclam
Дата выхода: апрель 2004

Not being a dentist turns out to be a stroke of good luck for Jerry. If he were, he would not have been summoned to sit on the jury with the delightful Jane, with whom he falls instantly in love. Only then does it suddeny dawn on him that he is already engaged to Vera Upshaw.

ISBN: 0-14-008507-6
Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004