Thomas Love Peacock was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company. Peacock`s retelling of the legend of Robin Hood is as fresh today as it was when he penned it, nearly two hundred years ago. Here are all the heroes and villains we know and love, recast by a keen Victorian wit Robin Hood and Maid Marian; Friar Tuck, Little John, and Richard the Lionhearted; Prince John and the Sheriff of Nottingham.
ISBN: 978-5-517-00227-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: декабрь 2018
Thomas Love Peacock (1785—1866) was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company. Peacock\'s retelling of the legend of Robin Hood is as fresh today as it was when he penned it, nearly two hundred years ago. Here are all the heroes and villains we know and love, recast by a keen Victorian wit Robin Hood and Maid Marian; Friar Tuck, Little John, and Richard the Lionhearted; Prince John and the Sheriff of Nottingham. The heroes are heroic and just a little self-serving, though generous the villains are villainous. The tale is told as keenly as it can be.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07104-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: май 2018
`Whoever said you can`t fool an honest man wasn`t one`The Royal Bank is facing a crisis, and it`s time for a change of management. Who would not wish for that job?It`s a job for life. But, as former con-man Moist von Lipwig is learning, the life is not necessarily for long.The Chief Cashier is almost certainly a vampire. There`s something nameless in the cellar (and the cellar itself is pretty nameless), it turns out that the Royal Mint runs at a loss, and people actually want to know where the money`s gone. A 300 year old wizard is after his girlfriend, he`s about to be exposed as a fraud, but the Assassins Guild might get him first. In fact lot of people want him deadOh. And every day he has to take the Chairman for walkies.Everywhere...
The Discworld is very much like our own – if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is . . .Whoever said you can`t fool an honest man wasn`t one.The Royal Bank is facing a crisis, and it’s time for a change of management.There are a few problems that may arise with the job . . . The Chief Cashier is almost certainly a vampire – there`s something nameless in the cellar and it turns out that the Royal Mint runs at a loss. Meanwhile, people actually want to know where the money’s gone. It`s a job for life.But, as former con-man Moist von Lipwig is learning, that life is not necessarily a long one.He’s about to be exposed as a fraud, but if...
ISBN: 9780552167703
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: октябрь 2023
William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866) and The Moonstone (1868). Collins\'s works were classified at the time as «sensation novels», a genre seen nowadays as the precursor to detective and suspense fiction.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06808-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: апрель 2018
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
