ISBN: 0-440-22957-X
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: май 2008

Two writers for "Economist" magazine show how and why religion is booming around the world and reveal its vast effects on the global economy, politics, and more.

ISBN: 9781594202131
Дата выхода: апрель 2009

A modern masterpiece, "The Godfather" is a searing portrayal of the 1940s criminal underworld. It is also the intimate story of the Corleone family, at once drawn together and ripped apart by its unique position at the core of the American Mafia. Still shocking forty years after it was first published, this compelling tale of blackmail, murder and family values is a true classic.

ISBN: 978-0-09-952812-8
Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

ISBN: 9780801047411
Дата выхода: март 2008

«Я подумаю обо всём этом завтра. Тогда я смогу. Ведь завтра уже будет другой день», – этот рефрен – спасательный круг, помогающий юной Скарлетт справиться с жизненными потрясениями. «Унесённые ветром» – грандиозный роман о смене эпох. Его смысл раскрывают взаимоотношения героев, которые воплощают в себе старую и новую Америку. Маргарет Митчелл описывает ушедшее поколение американского...

ISBN: 9785604448670
Издательство: Москва
Дата выхода: июль 2020

`My dear, I don`t give a damn.`Margaret Mitchell’s page-turning, sweeping American epic has been a classic for over eighty years. Beloved and thought by many to be the greatest of the American novels, Gone with the Wind is a story of love, hope and loss set against the tense historical background of the American Civil War.The lovers at the novel’s centre – the selfish, privileged Scarlett O’Hara and rakish Rhett Butler – are magnetic: pulling readers into the tangled narrative of a struggle to survive that cannot be forgotten.

ISBN: 9781784876111
Издательство: Vintage Classics
Дата выхода: октябрь 2023

This superb new collection brings together stories from the earliest decades of Gothic writing with later 19th and early 20th century tales from the period in which Gothic diversified into the familiar forms of the ghost-and horror-story. Some of these stories, like the haunting ‘The Lame Priest’ are ‘lost masterpieces’ and several have never been anthologised before.

ISBN: 978-1-84022-425-2
Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Graceling tells the story of the vulnerable-yet-strong Katsa, who is smart and beautiful and lives in the Seven Kingdoms where selected people are born with a Grace, a special talent that can be anything at all. Katsa’s Grace is killing. As the king’s niece, she is forced to use her extreme skills as his brutal enforcer. Until the day she meets Prince Po, who is Graced with combat skills, and Katsa’s life begins to change. She never expects to become Po’s friend. She never expects to learn a new truth about her own Grace-or about a terrible secret that lies hidden far away . . . a secret that could destroy all seven kingdoms with words alone.

ISBN: 9781473233256
Дата выхода: январь 2024

In The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman has created a charming allegory of childhood. Although the book opens with a scary scene - a family is stabbed to death by "a man named Jack" - the story quickly moves into more child-friendly storytelling. The sole survivor of the attack - an 18-month-old baby - escapes his crib and his house, and toddles to a nearby graveyard. Quickly recognizing that the baby is orphaned, the graveyard`s ghostly residents adopt him, name him Nobody ("Bod"), and allow him to live in their tomb. Taking inspiration from Kipling`s The Jungle Book, Gaiman describes how the toddler navigates among the headstones, asking a lot of questions and picking up the tricks of the living and the dead. In serial-like episodes, the...

ISBN: 978-0-7475-9480-2
Издательство: Bloomsbury
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

Harper Connelly has what you might call a strange job: she finds dead people. She can sense the final location of a person who`s passed, and share their very last moment. Harper and her stepbrother Tolliver have become experts at getting paid and getting out of town fast - because people have a funny habit of not really wanting to know the truth.At first, the small Ozarks town of Sarne seems like no exception. The pair have been hired by local police to find a missing girl. But the secrets of her death - and the secrets of the town - are buried deep enough that even Harper`s special ability can`t uncover them. With hostility welling up, she and Tolliver want nothing more than to be on their way. But then another woman is murdered.And the...

ISBN: 9781399609517
Дата выхода: январь 2024

Ever since Harper Connelly was stuck by lightening as a teenager, she`s been able to find dead people. At the request of anthropology professor Dr Clyde Nunley, Harper and her stepbrother Tolliver head to Memphis to give a demonstration of her unique talent in an old cemetery.Dr Nunley is sceptical when Harper senses two bodies in the grave - one of a centuries-dead man and the other of a young girl, recently deceased. Then the grave is opened. The dead girl is eleven-year-old Tabitha, abducted from Nashville two years previously - a child whom Harper had tried, and failed, to find. Suspicion falls on Harper, so she and Tolliver must prove her innocence by finding the killer themselves.But time runs short when a third body is found in...

ISBN: 9781399609524
Дата выхода: январь 2024

У вас большие надежды на ваш английский? «Большие надежды» Чарлза Диккенса станут достойным испытанием для него.«Большие надежды» Чарлза Диккенса – роман, в центре которого история Пипа, сироты, воспитанного в бедности. Таинственный благодетель неожиданно предоставляет ему возможность подняться в обществе. В процессе своего становления Пип сталкивается с тайнами своего прошлого, сложными моральными...

ISBN: 9785171608033
Издательство: АСТ
Дата выхода: февраль 2024