International bestselling author Jeffrey Archer has enthralled readers with his riveting suspense, surprise denouements, and unforgettable storylines. Now Archer’s three acclaimed collections of short fiction are brought together in one irresistible
ISBN: 978-0-312-93770-6
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
Annabelle, a beautiful con artist, is planning the heist of the century. Jonathan DeHaven, a shy division head at the Library of Congress, is planning nothing more than a peaceful day amongst his cherished collection. But something fatal is waiting for him in the After Jonathan`s body is discovered, the members of the Camel Club are determined to investigate this inexplicable death. And it soon becomes clear that there was much more to the librarian than a mild manner and a love of books. While Annabelle flees from the terrifying consequences of her scam, the Camel Club finds itself confronting powerful enemies who will stop at nothing to protect a secret conspiracy - and the code that conceals it - from being revealed ... Формат:...
ISBN: 978-0-330-44408-8
Издательство:
Picador
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
This title features collected works of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Few American novelists of the twentieth century have stayed as modern as F. Scott Fitzgerald. He gave a name to his age, `the Jazz Age`, but his reputation has outlived it. Gathered here are the five novels he wrote in his relatively short career, together with a number of the many short stories he wrote between 1922 and his death in 1940. "This Side of Paradise" catapulted him to fame, its expose of the manners and morals of a post-war generation becoming a cause celebre. "The Beautiful and Damned", a semi-autobiographical moral parable of a doomed marriage, affirmed Fitzgerald`s status as the spokesman for the generation of the 1920s. His third novel, "The Great Gatsby",...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-659-1
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, a dark romantic, and short story writer. Collected Short Stories is Hawthorne`s interesting story collection, which was written in honor of The Old Manse, where Hawthorne and his wife lived for the first three years of their marriage. This book includes wonderful short stories "The Procession of Life", "The Artist of the Beautiful" and other tales.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07699-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
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: 978-5-521-08068-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Maugham learned his craft from Maupassant, and these stories, featuring his alter-ego Ashenden, display the unique and remarkable talent that made him an unsurpassed storyteller.
ISBN: 0-14-018591-7
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: январь 2002
Once they had settled the eastern seaboard, the founding fathers of the great North American continent encouraged others to follow them to the land of opportunity. So the refugees, the poor and the oppressed, the adventurous and the foolhardy packed their all, they left the old-world shadows and set out with their hopes and dreams.
ISBN: 978-1-84022-649-2
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: июнь 2012
Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most popular works of English fiction. Although Charlotte Bronte`s heroine is outwardly plain, she possesses an indomitable spirit, and great courage. Forced to battle against the exigencies of a cruel guardian, a harsh employer and a rigid social order which circumscribes her life when she becomes governess to the daughter of the mysterious, sardonic Mr Rochester. Villette is based on Charlotte Bronte`s personal experience as a teacher in Brussels. It is a moving tale of repressed feelings and cruel circumstances borne with heroic fortitude. Rising above the confinement of a rigid social order, it is also a story of a woman`s right to love and be loved. Wuthering Heights is Emily Bronte`s wild,...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-075-9
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title--offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords. This edition of "Edgar Allan Poe" includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and Afterword by S. T. Joshi. His life was a nightmare as gruesome as any of his stories. And his stories are dark masterpieces of gutwrenching horror.
ISBN: 978-0-8125-0455-2
Издательство:
Holtzbrink
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, a dark romantic, and short story writer. Collected Short Stories is Hawthorne`s interesting story collection, which was written in honor of The Old Manse, where Hawthorne and his wife lived for the first three years of their marriage. This book includes wonderful short stories "The Brithmark", "Young Goodman Brown", "Rappaccini`s Daughter" and other tales.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07698-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor, and are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. Some of Gaskell`s best known novels are Cranford, North and South and Wives and Daughters. Collected Tales II contains five stories, including The Manchester Marriage and The Cage at Cranford.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07595-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. This volume is a wonderful collection of absorbing short stories like "Our Midnight Visitor", "The Stone of Boxman`s Drift", "The Voice of Science", and other interesting tales.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07147-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 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 contain several short stories from a "Cabbages and Kings" series. In Coralio - a sultry coastal town in the volatile banana republic of Anchuria - a disparate cast of vagabonds, mercenaries and consuls is busy plotting, scamming, drinking, loving or trying to forget the past. Each has his own tale to tell and his own particular reason for washing up on these tropical shores.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07671-0
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 Roads We Take", "A Newspaper Story", "Tommy`s Burglar" and other stories.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07688-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, a dark romantic, and short story writer. Collected Short Stories includes such amazing stories as "The Snow-Image" and "The New Adam and Eve". This volume also contains the novel "Fanshawe", that was the first published work by Hawthorne, published anonymously in 1828. It was based on his experiences at Bowdoin College in the early 1820s. He had written successful short stories before, but this was his first attempt at creating a novel.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07690-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
In this edition of his collected shorter fiction we can see why Somerset Maugham, celebrated as the author of Cakes and Ale and Of Human Bondage, is also regarded as a master of the short story. Open this substantial volume at any page and you will find evidence of his extraordinary art. Without narrative tricks and in a plain prose style, Maugham introduces us to the enormous range of characters and experiences he encountered in an unusually long life and recorded with the cool accuracy of a good doctor diagnosing disease. There are many famous stories here; some of them made into films such as The Force of Circumstance, Rain, P & O and The Colonel`s Lady; others, less famous, charting mundane but mysterious events in all four quarters...
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 Tales includes amazing stories like "The Moment of Victory", "Best-Seller", "He Also Serves", "No Story" and many others.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07683-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
Wilde, glamorous and notorious, more famous as a playwright or prisoner than as a poet, invites readers of his verse to meet an unknown and intimate figure. The poetry of his formative years includes the haunting elegy to his young sister and the grieving lyric at the death of his father. The religious drama of his romance with Rome is captured here, as well as its resolution in his renewed love of ancient Greece. He explores forbidden sexual desires, pays homage to the great theatre stars and poets of his day, observes cityscapes with impressionist intensity. His final masterpiece, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, tells the painful story of his own prison experience and calls for universal compassion. This edition of Wilde`s verse presents...
ISBN: 978-1-85326-453-5
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: август 2010
Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs. He is obsessed with a beautiful stranger, the art student Miranda. When he wins the pools he buys a remote Sussex house and calmly abducts Miranda, believing she will grow to love him in time. Alone and desperate, Miranda must struggle to overcome her own prejudices and contempt if she is to understand her captor, and so gain her freedom.
ISBN: 978-0-09-947047-2
Издательство:
Vintage Classics
Дата выхода: июль 2011
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 Stones contains "Sound and Fury", "Tracked to Doom", "A Strange Story" and other famous stories by O. Henry.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07674-1
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 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: 978-5-521-07680-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
John Donne (1572-1631) is a poet of concerted emotional and intellectual force, whose strenuously original approach to the subject matter, diction and form of verse re-made English poetry. Donne’s poetry combines paradoxical wit, scientific and theological learning with the rhythms and diction of spoken language. Crises of love, conscience, and faith are the great concerns of his poetry which is by turns exalted or disenchanted, direct or oblique, morally profound or outrageously spiteful.
ISBN: 978-1-85326-400-9
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: август 2011
