In "Death in the Afternoon", Hemingway shares the sights, the sounds, the excitement, and above all, the knowledge which fuelled his passion for Spain and the bullfight. This remarkable book contains some of his finest writing, inspired by the intense life, as well as the inevitable death, of those hot, violent afternoons.

ISBN: 978-0-09-928502-1
Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011

Clever and witty art history-mystery featuring scholar and sleuth Jonathon Argyll, from the author of the bestselling masterpiece `An Instance of the Fingerpost`. The monastery of San Giovanni on Rome`s Aventine hill has few treasures - only a painting doubtfully attributed to Caravaggio. So Flavia di Stefano of Rome`s art police is surprised to receive a tip-off that a raid is being planned on the building. The raid happens, but the thieves are disturbed and snatch the wrong painting, a curious icon of the Madonna, remarkable only for the affection in which it is held by the local population. Or is this what the thieves wanted all along? Does the legend of the icon`s miraculous powers hold any clue? And who murdered the French dealer...

ISBN: 978-0-00-722921-5
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: август 2011

ISBN: 9781408892909
Издательство: Bloomsbury
Дата выхода: январь 2022

ISBN: 9780747581345
Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: январь 2005

A milestone of storytelling set in the world of The Sword of Truth, "Debt of Bones" is the story of young Abby`s struggle to win the aid of the wizard Zedd Zorander, the most important man alive. Abby is trapped, not only between both sides of the war, but in a mortal conflict between two powerful men. For Zedd, who commands power most men can only imagine, granting Abby`s request would mean forsaking his sacred duty. With the storm of the final battle about to break, both Abby and Zedd are caught in a desperate fight to save the life of a neither can escape the shadow of an ancient betrayal. With time running out, their only choice may be a debt of bones. The world-for Zedd, for Abby, for everyone-will never again be the same. Discover...

ISBN: 978-0-7653-5154-8
Издательство: Macmillan USA
Дата выхода: февраль 2012

Number - one bestselling author Tom Clancy takes a bold, incisive look at what our nation`s leaders are calling "the new world order." The time and place: a world at peace, where yesterday`s enemies are tomorrow`s allies. The players: Jack Ryan as the new President`s National Security Advisor, and his CIA colleagues, John Clark and Domingo Chavez. The crisis: a shocking chain of events in which the wages of peace are as fully complex - and devastating - as those of war.

ISBN: 978-0-425-14758-0
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

Lauren Blount`s life is perfectly arranged: she`s very rich, very young, very thin, very pretty and very, very divorced. The most glamorous of Manhattan`s Debutante Divorcee set, Lauren captivates newlywed Sylvia Mortimer, which is no surprise after Sylvia`s husband goes AWOL on their honeymoon. With New York`s most notorious Husband Huntress setting her sights on Sylvia`s man, a decision must be made: either subscribe to Lauren`s "Who needs a husband anyway?" philosophy or stand and fight for her man. Формат: 11 см x 18 см.

ISBN: 978-0-14-102987-0
Издательство: Книжный мир
Дата выхода: июль 2011

1348. The Black Death is sweeping through Europe. In Florence, plague has carried off one hundred thousand people. In their Tuscan villas, seven young women and three young men tell tales to recreate the world they have lost, weaving a rich tapestry of comedy, tragedy, ribaldry and farce. Boccaccio`s Decameron recasts the storytelling heritage of the ancient and medieval worlds into perennial forms that inspired writers from Chaucer and Shakespeare down to our own day. Boccaccio makes the incredible believable, with detail so sharp we can look straight into the lives of people who lived six hundred years ago. His Decameron hovers between the fading glories of an aristocratic past - the Crusades, the Angevins, the courts of France, the...

ISBN: 978-1-84022-133-6
Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: август 2011

In The Decay of Lying , Oscar Wilde uses his decadent ideology in an attempt to reverse and therefore reject his audiences` `normal` conceptualizations of nature, art and morality. Wilde`s views of life and art are illustrated through the use of Platonic dialogue where the character Vivian takes on the persona of Wilde. Wilde`s goal is to subvert the norm by reversing its values. Wilde suggests to us that society is wrong, not him. Calling on diverse examples - from Ancient Greek sculpture to contemporary paintings - Oscar Wilde`s brilliant essay creates a witty, paradoxical world in which the only art worth loving is that built on complete untruths.

ISBN: 978-0-14-119265-9
Издательство: Penguin Group
Дата выхода: август 2011

Amid the imperialist fervor of late 1941 Tokyo, Harry Niles is a man with a mission - self-preservation. But Niles was raised by missionary parents and educated in the shadows of Tokyo`s underworld - making his loyalties as dubious as his business dealings. Now, on the eve of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Niles must decide where his true allegiances lie, as he tries to juggle his Japanese mistress and an adulterous affair with the wife of a British diplomat; avoid a modern-day samurai who is honor-bound to kill him; and survive the machinations of the Japanese high command, whose plans for conquest may just dictate his survival. Set in a maelstrom of personal temptations and mortal enemies, with a remarkable anti-hero caught in a land he...

ISBN: 978-0-671-77592-6
Дата выхода: июль 2011