ISBN: 9781509865857 Дата выхода: январь 2020
ISBN: 9780914955320 Дата выхода: июль 1998
ISBN: 9781593789350 Издательство: Kennel Club Books Дата выхода: август 2004
ISBN: 9780007137435 Издательство: HarperCollins Дата выхода: январь 2002
A supernatural tale about girlfriends, boyfriends and a car called was eating into his mind, burrowing into his , blood-red, fat, and finned, was twenty. Her promise lay all in her past. Greedy and big, she was Arnie`s obsession, a `58 Plymouth Fury. Broken down but not was still power in her - a frightening power that leaked like sump oil, staining and corrupting. A malign power that corroded the mind and turned ownership into Possession.
ISBN: 978-1-4447-2070-9 Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
ISBN: 9781509801169 Издательство: Macmillan Дата выхода: январь 2016
A celebration of Christmas, a tale of redemption and a critique on Victorian society, Dickens` atmospheric novella follows the miserly, penny-pinching Ebenezer Scrooge who views Christmas as `humbug`. It is only through a series of eerie, life-changing visits from the ghost of his deceased business partner Marley and the spirits of Christmas past, present and future that he begins to see the error of his ways. With heart-rending characters, rich imagery and evocative language, the message of A Christmas Carol remains as significant today as when it was first published.
ISBN: 978-0-00-735086-5 Издательство: HarperCollins UK Дата выхода: ноябрь 2012
Introducing the seventh book of the newly designed Narnia classics. Perfect for those seeking a contemporary take on The Chronicles of Narnia. It is Narnia`s darkest hour. A false Aslan is commanding all Narnians to work for the cruel Calormenes and striking terror into every heart. King Tirian`s only hope is to call Eustace and Jill back to Narnia in an attempt to find the true Aslan and restore peace to the land. But a mighty battle lies ahead.
ISBN: 978-0-00-732314-2 Издательство: HarperCollins UK Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
They open a door and enter a magical world. Four adventurers step through a wardrobe door and into the land of Narnia - a world enslaved by the power of the White Witch. When almost all hope is lost, the return of the Great Lion, Asian, signals a great and a great sacrifice.
ISBN: 978-0-00-732312-8 Издательство: HarperCollins UK Дата выхода: август 2011
Meet Chu. Chu is a small panda with a very big sneeze. When Chu sneezes, you REALLY don`t want to get in the way. But a whole day of adventure will test Chu`s sneeze-resisting powers to the limit - there`s the library (dusty books!), the diner (pepper!), and then the circus (all those animals!). How big can a sneeze really be? Just wait and see…
ISBN: 9781408828014 Дата выхода: март 2023
These classic stories have been combined with beautiful new illustrations to bring the magic of Ladybird Tales to a new generation. Children have always loved these stories, and reading them together is an experience to treasure. Retold by Vera Southgate.
ISBN: 978-1-4093-1413-4 Издательство: Ladybird Books Дата выхода: январь 2013
Darren goes to a freak show with his friend, Steve. It`s the gothic Cirque du Freak where weird, half human/half animals appear and interact with the audience. Darren falls in love with a tarantula and determines to steal the spider so that he can train it to perform amazing deeds.
ISBN: 978-0-00-675416-9 Издательство: HarperCollins UK Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
This is a book to be read by a blazing fire on a winter`s night, with the curtains drawn close and the doors securely locked. The unquiet souls of the dead, both as fictional creations and as `real` apparitions, roam the pages of this haunting new selection of ghost stories by Rex Collings. Some of these stories are classics while others are lesser-known gems unearthed from this vintage era of tales of the supernatural. There are stories from distant lands - Fisher`s Ghost by John Lang is set in Australia and A Ghostly Manifestation by `A Clergyman` is set in Calcutta. In this selection, Sir Walter Scott (a Victorian in spirit if not in fact), keeps company with Edgar Allen Poe, Sheridan Le Fanu and other illustrious masters of the genre.
ISBN: 978-1-84022-066-7 Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd. Дата выхода: август 2010
Contemporary / British English Mark Sway is eleven and he knows a terrible secret. He knows where a body is hidden. Some secrets are so dangerous that it`s better not to tell. But it`s just as dangerous if you don`t. So Mark needs help because there isn`t much time.
ISBN: 978-1-4058-8209-5 Издательство: Pearson Дата выхода: июль 2011
ISBN: 9781447275480 Дата выхода: январь 2015
A typist uncovers a man`s body from behind the sofa…As instructed, stenographer Sheila Webb let herself into the house at 19 Wilbraham Crescent. It was then that she made a grisly discovery: the body of a dead man sprawled across the living room floor.What intrigued Poirot about the case was the time factor. Although in a state of shock, Sheila clearly remembered having heard a cuckoo clock strike three o`clock. Yet, the four other clocks in the living room all showed the time as 4.13. Even more strangely, only one of these clocks belonged to the owner of the house
ISBN: 9780008129590 Дата выхода: январь 2015
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 -1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most influential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. Set in eighteen century Dublin, "Cock and Anchor" is a story of two lovers, young Edmond O`Connor and miss Mary Ashwoode. Being an unwanted pair for the Ashwoode family, this couple has to contend with the prejudices and outright tyranny of Mary`s father, Sir Richard, and her brother Henry.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07128-9 Издательство: Т8 Дата выхода: июль 2018
`To dive into a Wodehouse novel is to swim in some of the most elegantly turned phrases in the English language` Ben Schott`There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, "Do trousers matter?"``The mood will pass, sir.`Aunt Dahlia has tasked Bertie with purloining an antique cow creamer from Totleigh Towers. In order to do so, Jeeves hatches a scheme whereby Bertie must charm the droopy and altogether unappealing Madeline and face the wrath of would-be dictator Roderick Spode. Though the prospect fills him with dread, when duty calls, Bertie will answer, for Aunt Dahlia will not be denied.In a plot that swiftly becomes rife with mishaps, it is Jeeves who must extract his master from trouble. Again.`To have one of his books in your...
ISBN: 9781787461048 Дата выхода: ноябрь 2022
Contemporary / American English Inman leaves the horrors of the American Civil War and begins a long, dangerous journey home to Ada, the woman he loves. Along the way, he witnesses great poverty, cruelty, and violence. Will he ever see Ada again? And if he does, will she recognize the man he has become?
ISBN: 978-1-4058-8241-5 Издательство: Pearson Дата выхода: июль 2011
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. “Collected Tales” is a collection of early Doyle’s short stories. It includes stories of mystery, comedy, shipwrecks and fantasy.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08069-4 Издательство: Т8 Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, a dark romantic, and short story writer. Collected Short Stories, a collection of essays, based on Hawthorne`s stay in England from 1853 to 1857 as American Consul in Liverpool, were the first published in the form of a series of travel papers for "The Atlantic Monthly". Hawthorne shows us the splendors of London, and the horrors of the poverty that so many suffered at the time.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07692-5 Издательство: Т8 Дата выхода: август 2018
ISBN: 978-5-521-07691-8 Издательство: Т8 Дата выхода: август 2018
William Sydney Porter known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. His wit and plot twists were adored by his readers, but often panned by the critics. Collected Short Stories includes amazing stories like "The Rose of Dixie", "The Third Ingredient", "The Hiding of Black Bill", "Schools and Schools" and many others.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07681-9 Издательство: Т8 Дата выхода: август 2018
William Sydney Porter known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. His wit and plot twists were adored by his readers, but often panned by the critics. Collected Short Stories is a collection of humorous and sentimental stories of sheepherders, cowpunchers, trail cooks, prospectors, outlaws, and Texas Rangers that offer the modern reader a window into American West. Perhaps reflecting O. Henry`s own experience as a young man in the middle of nowhere, where women were few and far between, many of the stories are comic tales of romantic rivalry.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07679-6 Издательство: Т8 Дата выхода: август 2018
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. Collected Tales includes "The World and the Door", "The Theory and the Hound", "The Hypotheses of Failure", "Calloway`s Code", "A Matter of Mean Elevation" and others
ISBN: 978-5-521-07687-1 Издательство: Т8 Дата выхода: август 2018
