Читателю предлагаются избранные рассказы лучших писателей-юмористов Великобритании: Диккенса, Джерома, Манро, Вудхауза и других, наилучшим образом отразивших в своих произведениях национальный характер англичан, их менталитет и образ жизни. Издание рассчитано на массовго читателя.
ISBN: 9785797405603
Издательство:
Икар
Дата выхода: январь 2016
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 —1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most infl uential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. With the tradition of collecting the best tales about ghosts, "Ghostly Tales" incorporates four brilliant stories, such as "Ghost Stories of Chapelizod" and "The Ghost and the Bone-setter" and "The Mysterious Lodger".
ISBN: 978-5-521-07113-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most influential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. "The Haunted Baronet" is a part of an extraordinary collection of ghost stories. Full of mystery, thrilling revelations and paranormal, this collection is perfect for a sophisticated reader.
ISBN: 978-5-517-00239-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2019
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 —1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most infl uential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. "Ghostly Tales" is the most extensive collection of the author\'s works, containing eleven atmospheric tales about the supernatural, such as "Stories of Lough Guir", "Dickon the Devil" or mysterious "The Child that went with the Fairies".
ISBN: 978-5-521-07114-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most influential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. "Ghost Stories of Chapelizod" is a collection of three brief mystical stories — "The Village Bully", "The Sextons Adventure" and "The Spectre Lovers" - set in the suburban village of Chapelizod.
ISBN: 978-5-517-00237-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2019
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most influential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. "Dickon the Devil" is an early work by the author. It was originally published in 1872. It is a part of "Ghostly Tales" - the most extensive collection of the author`s works, containing eleven atmospheric and supernatural stories.
ISBN: 978-5-517-00238-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2019
Jumbeelia, a girl giant, loves the stories of the iggly plop who climbed up the bimblestonk and was chased back down again by a giant. Growing her own bimblestonk, she climbs down it and finds a whole world of iggly plops - our world, in fact, where Colette, Stephen and Poppy are very surprised to find themselves collected up into a bag and carried off back up the beanstalk. So begins a wild and wonderful tale of how three children escape from an over-enthusiastic giant girl, her very-pregnant giant mum, and her very nasty adolescent giant brother.
ISBN: 978-1-4052-0760-7
Издательство:
Egmont Books Ltd
Дата выхода: июль 2012
The 13th book starring Cook s popular mortal P.I. in a fantasy city. Garrett s attempt at domestic bliss with the fiery Tinnie Tate is sidetracked when he waylays a pair of home intruders and learns they ve been paid by an unknown source to kidnap Tinnie. Original.
ISBN: 9780451463715
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2010
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.
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
«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.