Romantic, liberating and totally addictive, "Fifty Shades of Grey" is a novel that will obsess you, possess you, and stay with you forever. When literature student Anastasia Steele interviews successful entrepreneur Christian Grey, she finds him very attractive and deeply intimidating. Convinced that their meeting went badly, she tries to put him out of her mind - until he turns up at the store where she works part-time, and invites her out. Unworldly and innocent, Ana is shocked to find she wants this man. And, when he warns her to keep her distance, it only makes her want him more. But Grey is tormented by inner demons, and consumed by the need to control. As they embark on a passionate love affair, Ana discovers more about her own...
Fifty, published in celebration of its president and founder Renzo Rosso’s 50th birthday, is a book that displays the unique Diesel creativity, attitude, lifestyle and philosophy reflected in its collections, its business approach and its communication. The book features international guest authors as well as face to face interviews with prestigious personalities such as the Dalai Lama, Terry Jones and Alexander McQueen to name a few, making it an inspiring portrait of one of the most inventive and successful companies in the fashion industry the world over. It is a real “heavyweight” with rich graphic visuals from Diesel’s award winning advertising campaigns and an enclosed DVD – a true collectors’ object.
ISBN: 978-3-89955-095-5
Издательство:
Die Gestalten Verlag
Дата выхода: июль 2011
50 Great Short Stories is a comprehensive selection from the world`s finest short fiction. The authors represented range from Hawthorne, Maupassant, Poe, through Henry James, Conrad, Aldous Huxley, James Joyce, to Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter, Faulkner, E.B. White, Saroyan and O`Connor. The variety in style and subject is enormous, but all these stories have one point in common - the enduring quality of the writing, which places them among the masterpieces of the world`s fiction.
ISBN: 9780553277456
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: январь 2016
A brilliant, far-reaching collection of stories from Washington Irving to John Updike. The Classic Stories. Edgar Allan Poe`s Ms. Found in a Bottle, Bret Harte`s The Outcasts of Poker Flat, Sherwood Anderson`s Death in the Woods, Stephen Vincent Benet`s By the Waters of Babylon. The Great Writers. Melville, James, Dreiser, Faulkner, Hemingway, Steinbeck, McCullers. The Little-Known Masterpieces. Edith Wharton`s The Dilettante, Finley Peter Dunne`s Mr. Dooley on the Popularity of Fireman, Charles `s A Dead Issue, James Reid Parker`s The Archimandrite`s Niece.
ISBN: 0-553-27294-2
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Every weekend, in basements and parking lots across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded for as long as they have to. Then they go back to those jobs with blackened eyes and loosened teeth and the sense that they can handle anything.
ISBN: 978-0-099-55215-4
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: февраль 2011
Beginning with Ramses III`s dramatic defeat of the `sea people` in 1176 BC - the world`s earliest visual record of a naval battle - Fighting Ships tells the story of 3000 years of maritime history through 150 glorious images. From the Greeks, Phoenicians and Romans to the coming of the age of sail, here are breathtaking depictions of ancient triremes and Viking longships, the Santa Maria and the Spanish Armada, as well as Henry VIII`s giant carracks and the majestic three-decked warships of Louis IV that patrolled the Mediterranean. Arranged chronologically, this sumptuous collection of grand-scale images brings together the earliest carvings on temple walls and the world-famous Bayeux tapestry, with exquisite depictions by the greatest...
