Thomas Love Peacock was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company. "Headlong Hall" like most of Peacock`s novels, assembles a group of characters who discuss topics that were then of interest to Peacock and his circle of intellectual friends. Peacock uses the work to parody contemporary thinking in a variety of disparate areas, including utilitarianism, vegetarianism, aesthetics, music, poetry, art criticism, and so on.
ISBN: 978-5-517-00226-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: декабрь 2018
William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His novels are often as concerned with social issues as they are with simple storytelling - but as more and more critics are suggesting, the best of them are as readable and thought-provoking today as they were when they first appeared. Of none is this more true than of his 1883 novel Heart and Science, which Collins himself placed alongside his masterpiece The Woman in Wiite.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06809-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: апрель 2018
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and the creator of the Lost World literary genre. This is an extraordinarily beautiful Indian princess and a white Englishman fall in love but suffer deeply because of their feelings.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06605-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: февраль 2018
Jack London, born John Griffith Chaney (1876–1916) - a famous American novelist and short-story writer, journalist, and social activist. In his works Jack London deals romantically with elemental struggles for survival. His works have been extensively translated and he was one of the first fiction writers to obtain a large fortune from his works alone. Hearts of Three - an adventure novel about young descendant of the pirate Henry Morgan who wants to find the treasure of his ancestor. On the way, he meets his distant cousin, also Henry Morgan. Together, they will find dangerous adventures, unknown lands, and love.
ISBN: 978-5-517-09466-7
Издательство:
RUGRAM
Дата выхода: март 2023
Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. Heart and Science turns on the fate of the orphaned Carmina Graywell, who is left in the charge of her aunt and guardian Mrs. Gallilee when her fiance is forced to take an extended trip to Canada`s drier climes in order to recover his health, Over the issue of her inheritance Mrs. Gallilee schemes to manipulate, control and ultimately destroy the naive but strong-willed Carmina.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07660-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Heidi is the heart-warming tale of a small girl`s power for good, and it has remained a firm favourite since it was published over 100 years ago. It tells of the orphan Heidi and her idyllic existence with her gruff grandfather in the mountains. When she is sent to live in a city, comic chaos ensues, and eventually it is arranged that Heidi should return to the mountains. Together she and her friend Peter, the goat-herd, achieve wondrous changes in the community in which they live.
ISBN: 9781853261251
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2018
Fourteen-year-old Billy Harriman s dad had been a hero, a savior to America and a confidante of the president. Then he died, and the changes began in Billy. What Billy never knew was that his father was no ordinary man--he was a superhero, battling the world s evil. And now it s Billy s turn to take on the fight.
ISBN: 9780399252839
Издательство:
Puffin Books
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2010
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. This volume contains two stories of Allan Quotermain`s series. In Heu-Heu, or the Monster Allan is confronted with the legend of the Heu-Heu, a monster who eats humans, while sheltering from a thunderstorm in the Drakensberg mountains. In The Treasure of the Lake Allan Quatermain finds a village in the middle of the Dark Continent ruled by a huge, pale man with a strange knowledge of future events.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07726-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Read the original books before you see the “How to Train Your Dragon” film! With a film tie-in cover, this book will be a hit with children and adults alike. The Story Begins in the first volume of Hiccup`s “How to Train Your Dragon” Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III was an awesome sword-fighter, a dragon-whisperer and the greatest Viking Hero who ever lived. But it wasn`t always like that. In fact, in the beginning, Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III was the most put upon Viking you`d ever seen. Not loud enough to make himself heard at dinner with his father, Stoick the Vast; not hard enough to beat his chief rival, Snotlout, at Bashyball, the number one school sport and certainly not stupid enough to go into a cave full of dragons to...
ISBN: 978-0-340-99907-3
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: август 2011
J. R. R. Tolkien (Author), Jemima Catlin (Illustra
The first new illustrated edition of The Hobbit for more than 15 years contains 150 brand new colour illustrations. Artist Jemima Catlin`s charming and lively interpretation brings Tolkien`s beloved characters to life in a way that will entice and entertain a new generation of readers. Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable and quiet life. His contentment is disturbed one day when the wizard, Gandalf, and the dwarves arrive to take him away on an adventure. Smaug certainly looked fast asleep, when Bilbo peeped once more from the entrance. He was just about to step out on to the floor when he caught a sudden thin ray of red from under the drooping lid of Smaug`s left eye. He was only pretending to sleep! He was watching the...
