Издание на английском языке.Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения.Adultery is not a typical Jane Austen theme, but when it disturbs the relatively peaceful household .."it Mansfield Park, it has quite unexpected results. The diffident and much put-upon heroine Fanny Price has to struggle to cope with the results. re-examining her own feelings while enduring the cheerful amorality, old-fashioned indifference and priggish disapproval of those around her.
ISBN: 9781853260322
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2019
Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. "Marion Fay" is a novel of two love affairs, each involving an aristocrat and a commoner. Marion Fay is a Quaker`s daughter courted by the Lord Hampstead. Meanwhile, his best friend, the impoverished George Roden, is in love with the Lord`s noble sister. Differences of class and situation create a romantic drama in typical Trollope fashion.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08348-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2019
Уже прочитали Айн Рэнд и ищете что-то поинтереснее? «Мартин Иден» расскажет вам о тяжелой дороге к успеху.«Мартин Иден» – роман Джека Лондона, рассказывающий о жизни и стремлениях молодого человека простого происхождения, мечтающего о литературном успехе и социальном признании. Он влюбляется в девушку из гораздо более высоких кругов, чем он сам, и эта любовь вдохновляет его стать лучше. Но успех Мартина...
ISBN: 9785171608057
Издательство:
АСТ
Дата выхода: январь 2024
When the ship that Andrew and Clara are on, en route to Oceania, founders after striking an iceberg in the south Indian Ocean, and Andrew fetches up, with his manservant, on the desolate Marion Island, around 1,500 miles southeast of the Cape of Good Hope. It is there that Andrew finds the true love of his life, Mary, who had been shipwrecked on the island some 15 years before and who had been living there alone.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06633-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: апрель 2018
`There`s a kind of magic in masks. Masks conceal one face, but they reveal another. The one that only comes out in darkness . . .`The Opera House in Ankh-Morpork is home to music, theatrics and a harmless masked Ghost who lurks behind the scenes. But now a set of mysterious backstage murders may just stop the show.Agnes Nitt has left her rural home of Lancre in the hopes of launching a successful singing career in the big city. The only problem is, she doesn`t quite look the part. And there are two witches who would much rather she return home to join their coven.Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg have travelled to Ankh-Morpork to convince Agnes that life as a witch is much better than one on the stage. Only now they`re caught up in a...
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English poet, playwright, and actor, considered by many as the greatest English writer. Hundreds of specialists were able to translate his works into every major language, and most of the plays are performed more often than those of any other author. The plot of the play "Measure for Measure" Shakespeare borrowed from the collection "Hecatommithi" by Giovanni Battista Giraldi. Vincentio, the Duke of Vienna, realizing that during his reign there was a fall in morals, declares that he is going on a diplomatic mission outside his domains and leaves the strict judge Angelo in charge. Angelo soon uses his power and decides to execute the young nobleman Claudio, because he and his beloved pregnant Juliet...
ISBN: 978-5-517-00392-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2019
This seductive and evocative epic tells the extraordinary story of a geisha girl. It reveals the cruelty and ugliness of life behind the rice-paper screens, and summons up more than 20 years of Japan's most dramatic history.
ISBN: 978-0-09-928285-3
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012
By the time Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had completed the twelve stories for The Strand magazine that are gathered together in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, he was already growing tired of his most famous creation, but the financial incentive to continue was too great.So began the second series of stories, known as The Memoirs; these introduced such notable characters as Holmes` indolent brother, Mycroft, and Holmes` most dangerous adversary, Professor James Moriarty, the `Napoleon of Crime`. The collection included such stories as `The Adventure of the Resident Patient` and `The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter`, which Doyle would list later as amongst his favourites.It was to Moriarty that was delegated the task of ending the career...
ISBN: 9781840228052
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2022
Daniel Defoe was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy. He is most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe, which is second only to the Bible in its number of translations. Memoirs of a Cavalier is a work of historical fiction by Daniel Defoe, set during the Thirty Years\' War and the English Civil Wars.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06811-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: апрель 2018
`People ought to think for themselves ... the problem is, people only think for themselves if you tell them to.`Times are a-changing in Ankh-Morpork`s Night Watch.New recruits have been hired to reflect the city`s diversity, including Corporal Carrot (technically a dwarf), Lance-constable Cuddy (really a dwarf), Lance-constable Detritus (a troll), and Lance-constable Angua (a woman ... full moons aside).What`s more, Captain Sam Vimes is getting married and retiring from the Watch. For good. Which is a shame, because no one knows the streets of Ankh-Morpork or its criminal underworld better than him.And someone armed and dangerous has been getting ideas about power and destiny and lost kings, committing a string of seemingly random...
Jack London was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. Michael, Brother of jerry tells the story of Irish terrier Michael, born in the Solomon Islands. The dog works as a slave hunter on a schooner recruiting native islanders for work. One day the captain accidentally leaves Michael on a beach and sails away, thereby forcing Michael to go on a journey in which he must find a new owner.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08156-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
