A beautiful new hardback edition of the classic Discworld novel.Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch had it all.But now he`s back in his own rough, tough past without even the clothes he was standing up in when the lightning struck...Living in the past is hard. Dying in the past is incredibly easy. But he must survive, because he has a job to do. He must track down a murderer, teach his younger self how to be a good copper and change the outcome of a bloody rebellion.There`s a problem:if he wins, he`s got no wife, no child, no future...
`Don`t put your trust in revolutions. They always come round again. That`s why they`re called revolutions. People die, and nothing changes.`The twenty-fifth of May is an important, sombre day in Ankh-Morpork - the anniversary of one of the city`s bloodiest rebellions.But crime stops for nothing, as Commander Sam Vimes of the City Watch knows. When a notorious serial killer emerges from hiding, the chase leads the Watch to the roofs of Unseen University where a magical storm is brewing. It`s a case of wrong place, very wrong time.For Vimes finds himself back in his own rough, tough past with only a killer for company and a city on the brink of revolution to contend with. But he must survive, because he has a job to do: track down the...
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. "Nina Balatka" is a romance about a Christian girl from Prague who falls in love with a Jewish merchant. It is one of the few novels published anonymously by Trollope, who was to disguise his style.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08333-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2019
The Thought Police, Doublethink, Newspeak, Big Brother – 1984 itself: these terms and concepts have moved from the world of fiction into our everyday lives. They are central to our thinking about freedom and its suppression; yet they were newly created by George Orwell in 1949 as he conjured his dystopian vision of a world where totalitarian power is absolute. In this novel, continuously popular since its first publication, readers can explore the dark and extraordinary world he brought so fully to life.The principal characters who lead us through that world are ordinary human beings like ourselves: Winston Smith and Julia, whose falling in love is also an act of rebellion against the Party. Opposing them are the massed powers of the...
ISBN: 9781840228021
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: апрель 2021
Magdalen Vanstone and Norah - her sister learn the true meaning of social stigma in Victorian England only after the discovery that their parents, whose sudden deaths have left them orphans, were not married at the time of their birth. Disinherited by law and brutally ousted from home, the two young women are left to fend for themselves.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06806-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: апрель 2018
William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. In 1867 Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins collaborated to produce a stage play titled No Thoroughfare. Two boys from the Foundling Hospital are given the same name, Walter Wilding. After the death of one - now a proprietor of a wine merchant`s company - the executors are commissioned to find a missing heir. Their quest takes them from wine cellars in the City of London to the sunshine of the Mediterranean - across the Alps in winter.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07610-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
In 1867 Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins collaborated to produce a stage play titled No Thoroughfare: A Drama: In Five Acts. Two boys from the Foundling Hospital are given the same name, (Walter Wilding), with disastrous consequences in adulthood. After the death of one - now a proprietor of a wine merchant\'s company - the executors, to right the wrong, are commissioned to find a missing heir. Their quest takes them from wine cellars in the City of London to the sunshine of the Mediterranean - across the Alps in winter. Danger and treachery would prevail were it not for the courage of the heroine, Marguerite, and a faithful company servant.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06802-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: апрель 2018
Американский писатель Джеймс Оливер Кервуд (1878–1927) родился и прожил большую часть своей жизни в штате Мичиган, у канадской границы. Страстный охотник, натуралист и путешественник, он подолгу бродил в глухих и малоисследованных местах Северной Канады и Аляски, хорошо знал и любил эти суровые края. Дикой природе Севера и жизни его четвероногих обитателей посвящены его лучшие произведения. В романе...
ISBN: 978-5-517-10700-8
Издательство:
RUGRAM
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2023
Кэтрин – главная героиня романа Джейн Остен "Нортенгерское аббатство" - увлечена произведениями Анны Радклифф и часто представляет, будто живет в одном из них. Поэтому наивная девушка все воспринимает через призму своих фантазий, ей везде мерещатся страшные тайны.Обеспеченные соседи берут Кэтрин с собой в Бат. Там она знакомится с загадочным мистером Генри Тилни, который становится для девушки...
ISBN: 9785171607739
Издательство:
АСТ
Дата выхода: декабрь 2023
Кэтрин – главная героиня романа Джейн Остен "Нортенгерское аббатство" - увлечена готическими романами и часто представляет, будто живет в одном из них. Поэтому наивная девушка все воспринимает через призму своих фантазий, ей везде мерещатся страшные тайны.Обеспеченные соседи берут Кэтрин с собой в Бат. Там она знакомится с загадочным мистером Генри Тилни, который становится для девушки интереснейшим...
ISBN: 9785171607869
Издательство:
АСТ
Дата выхода: декабрь 2023
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 three famous novels by Haggard. The Wizard is a book about adventures and the nature of miracles that could be enjoyed by both adults and children alike. In Elissa Haggard takes his readers to the Phoenician city in South Central Africa, a trading town that was built by civilized men. And in Black Heart and White Heart, the author mounts once more those trusty steeds of his, the nobility of the savage and the rascality of the civilized white.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07732-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. This volume contains three famous novels by Gaskell. The "Moorland Cottage" is a story of Maggie Browne, the daughter of a deceased clergyman who is encouraged to give up her own life and passions and devote herself to her brother Edward. "Lois the Witch" is a story set against the backdrop of the Salem witch hunts, where recently orphaned Lois is forced to leave the English parsonage and sail to America. And "Mr. Harrison`s Confessions" is a story of country doctor William Harrison who is prevailed upon by his longtime friend Charles, a bachelor, to dispense some advice on the "wooing and winning" of women`s affections.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07718-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Daniel Defoe was an English trader, writer, pamphleteer and journalist. He is most famous for his novel "Robinson Crusoe", which is second only to the Bible in its number of translations. This volume contains some of his less famous novels. Colonel Jack is the supposed autobiography of an English gentleman who begins life as a child of the London streets. He and his brothers are brought up as pickpockets and highwaymen, but Jack seeks to improve himself. Kidnapped and taken to America, he becomes first a slave, then an overseer on plantations in Maryland. Also, following the success of Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe composed a further tale of high adventure at sea, The King of Pirates, a story of pirate life.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08178-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
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 three famous novels by Haggard. The Mahatma and the Hare is the story of the selfcalled mahatma - a spiritual man who is able, when asleep, to view "The Great White Road" on which the souls of those recently departed enter heaven. Barbara Who Came Back is the story of Septimus Walrond, who was returning from a professional visit to a distant cottage upon the coast of East Anglia. His errand had been sad, to baptise the dying infant of a fisherman. And The Witch`s Head is the second novel by Haggard, which he wrote just prior to King Solomon`s Mines. Zulu magic comes to the British...
ISBN: 978-5-521-07740-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
This classic collection of nursery rhymes is perfect for playtime and storytime. With charming illustrations and well-loved characters, chidren will love hearing their favourite rhymes over and over again.
ISBN: 978-1-84646-797-4
Издательство:
Ladybird Books
Дата выхода: январь 2015
Moving in together. What could go wrong?Two couples, best friends for half a lifetime, move in together. What could possibly go wrong…?Harriet and Mark have it all: successful careers, a lovely house in a leafy London suburb, twin boys on the cusp of leaving home. Yvette and Gary share a smaller place with their two daughters in a shabbier part of the same borough.But when the stars align for a collective move north, it means a fresh start for them all. For Mark, it’s a chance to escape the rat race; for Harriet, a distraction from her unfulfilled dream of a late third child. Gary has decided to reboot the Madchester band that made him famous, while Yvette hopes it will give her daughters what she never had herself.But as the reality...
Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway`s magnificent fable is the story of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. It was The Old Man and the Sea that won for Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature. Here, in a perfectly crafted story, is unique and timeless vision of the beauty and grief of man`s challenge to the elements in which he lives.
ISBN: 9780099908401
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2020
`What`s your road, man - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road? It`s an anywhere road for anybody anyhow`. Sal Paradise, young and innocent, joins the slightly crazed Dean Moriarty on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States. Their hedonistic search for release or fulfilment through drink, sex, drugs and jazz becomes an exploration of personal freedom, a test of the limits of the American Dream. A brilliant blend of fiction and autobiography, Jack Kerouac`s exhilarating novel defined the new `Beat` generation and became the bible of the counter culture.
ISBN: 978-0-241-95153-8
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: март 2013
