Oscar Wilde wrote these five stories about Europe and Africa. Each story asks a quesion. Why does the Happy Prince weep as he looks down at his city? What will it cost the little Nightingale to bring a red rose into flower for the lovesick student? What happens to the weather when the Selfish Giant shuts everyone out of his garden? Will little Hans be happy in the end that he has been a devoted friend to a Rocket who is so sensitive that he cries hot tears on the night of the firework display? The answers are not always as you think.
ISBN: 978-87-23-90065-4 Издательство: Easy Readers Дата выхода: май 2008
In "The Happy Home Project", author Jean Nayar looks at not only the material things that contribute to the beauty and style of a house, but also explores the hidden elements and intangibles that add to its substance and soul. Brimming with beautiful photos and filled with expert advice from architects, designers, organizing experts, and contractors, the book offers easy-to-follow guidance on how to create inspiring, stylish rooms as well as practical tips on how to invest wisely in furniture and improvements that will add value to your home - and your quality of life. Focusing on comfort and harmony with nature, the book taps into the wisdom of poets, philosophers and social scientists - as well as experts of the ancient Asian building...
ISBN: 978-1-936297-48-1 Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
April`s mother Valerie is a popular TV personality. Since her divorce, she has worked tirelessly to reach the pinnacle of her career. But she`s having trouble equating her age with how she feels, and all the hours with personal trainers, top hairdressers and plastic surgeons can`t hide the fact that she is turning sixty - and the whole world discovers it on her birthday. It is also Jack Adams` birthday - the most charismatic sports announcer and hall-of-fame football star on TV, a man who has his pick of desirable younger women. But he fears his age may finally be catching up with him when he wakes up on his fiftieth birthday needing an emergency visit to the chiropractor…
ISBN: 978-0-552-15480-2 Издательство: Random House Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
ISBN: 9780099577256 Дата выхода: январь 2019
It`s Winnie`s birthday and she`s celebrating in style with a garden party. She uses all sorts of magic to invite the guests and transform her garden into the perfect party venue. There are presents to unwrap and games to play but then things start to go wrong when Winnie toots on the magic trumpet that cousin Cuthbert has given her. All her guests disappear! Winnie`s party is suddenly in danger of being a rather bothersome occasion but, true to form, Winnie soon has everything back under control and she ends the party with a stunning edible surprise for all her guests to enjoy. This story is full of noisy antics: a whirring printer, a rattling cage, a deflating bouncy castle, musical broomsticks, a tooting trumpet and the shouts and...
ISBN: 978-0-19-272769-5 Издательство: OXED Дата выхода: август 2011
It was a beautiful winter`s day. Anders, his wife and their feisty six-year-old, Maja, set out across the ice of the Swedish archipelago to visit the lighthouse on Gavasten. There was no one around, so they let her go on ahead. And she disappeared, seemingly into thin air, and was never found. Two years later, Anders is a broken alcoholic, his life ruined. He returns to the archipelago, the home of his childhood and his family. But all he finds are Maja`s toys and through the haze of memory, loss and alcohol, he realizes that someone - or something - is trying to communicate with him. Soon enough, his return sets in motion a series of horrifying events which exposes a mysterious and troubling relationship between the inhabitants of the...
ISBN: 978-1-84916-513-6 Издательство: Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press) Дата выхода: август 2011
Unusually for Dickens, Hard Times is set, not in London, but in the imaginary mid-Victorian Northern industrial town of Coketown with its blackened factories, downtrodden workers and polluted environment. This is the soulless domain of the strict utilitarian Thomas Gradgrind and the heartless factory owner Josiah Bounderby. However human joy is not excluded thanks to Mr Sleary`s Horse-Riding circus, a gin-soaked and hilarious troupe of open-hearted and affectionate people who act as an antidote to all the drudgery and misery endured by the ordinary citizens of Coketown.
ISBN: 9781853262326 Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd. Дата выхода: январь 2020
Who was `just seventeen` and made Paul`s heart go `boom`? Was there really an Eleanor Rigby? Where`s Penny Lane? In A Hard Day`s Write, Steve Turner shatters many well-worn myths and adds a new dimension to the Fab Four`s rich legacy by investigating the events immortalised in The Beatles` music and now occupying a special niche in popular culture`s collective imagination.
ISBN: 978-1-84732-595-2 Издательство: Carlton Books Ltd Дата выхода: февраль 2012
In Child`s latest "New York Times" bestseller, ex-military cop Jack Reacher is thrust into an explosive situation that`s about to blow up in his face. On the trail of vicious kidnappers, Reacher learns the chilling secrets of his employer`s past and of a horrific drama in the heart of a nasty little war.
ISBN: 978-0-440-24103-4 Издательство: Random House Дата выхода: август 2011
ISBN: 9780099518921 Издательство: Random House Дата выхода: январь 2009
ISBN: 9780141439679 Дата выхода: январь 2003
Each volume in the Collector`s Library series has a specially commissioned Afterword, brief biography of the author and a further reading list. The Afterword is by leading UK playwright, novelist and eminent Sherlockian, David Stuart Davies.
ISBN: 978-1-905716-38-8 Издательство: CRW Publishing Дата выхода: июль 2012
Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic. Hard Times offers a fascinating tapestry of Victorian life. Dickens creates the Victorian industrial city of Coketown, in northern England, and its unforgettable citizens. It is the tragic story of Louisa Gradgrind and her father, Thomas. When Louisa, trapped in a loveless marriage, falls prey to an idle seducer, the crisis forces her father to reconsider his cherished system and he is eventually forced to recognize the value of the human heart in an age of materialism and machinery.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07941-4 Издательство: Т8 Дата выхода: август 2018
ISBN: 9780755329076 Издательство: Headline Publ. Дата выхода: январь 2014
It`s the spring of 1968, the sun shines down on an America on the brink of civil war. Martin Luther King preaches in vain for non-violent protest and the ghettos of Washington DC seethe with anger. In the middle of this powder-keg is thrust a young black cop, barely out of school himself. Derek Strange believes passionately that he can make a difference, but his friends and family think he`s a traitor and a patsy of the white establishment. On April 4th, 1968, Dr King is assassinated on the balcony of his motel in Memphis, Tennessee. And black America rises as one to condemn the slaying of their hero. For one week, it seems that the whole country will fall. And Derek, his brother, his father, his mother and his whole community find...
ISBN: 978-0-7538-2035-3 Издательство: Орион Дата выхода: август 2011
"Hard Times" is both a tragic story of human oppression and a dazzling work of political satire. It depicts Coketown, a typical red-brick industrial city of the north. In its schools and factories children and adults are caged and enslaved, with no personal freedom until their spirit is broken. Against this social backdrop where harsh regimes are enforced by the likes of Josiah Bounderby, the pompous self-made man, and Gradgrind, the censorious disciplinarian, the personal tragedies of Louisa Gradgrind and Stephen Blackpool are played out. Despite its vivid portrait of the horrors of the newly mechanized society, "Hard Times" is shot through with a wit, good humour and a conviction that entertainment is essential for human happiness,...
ISBN: 978-0-14-062352-9 Издательство: Penguin Books Дата выхода: август 2011
Hard Times is both a tragic story of human oppression and a dazzling work of political satire. It depicts Coketown, a typical red-brick industrial city of the north. In its schools and factories children and adults are caged and enslaved, with no personal freedom until their spirit is broken. Against this social backdrop where harsh regimes are enforced by the likes of Josiah Bounderby, the pompous self-made man, and Gradgrind, the censorious disciplinarian, the personal tragedies of Louisa Gradgrind and Stephen Blackpool are played out. Despite its vivid portrait of the horrors of the newly mechanized society, Hard Times is shot through with a wit, good humour and a conviction that entertainment is essential for human happiness, making...
ISBN: 0140620443 Издательство: Penguin Books Дата выхода: апрель 2002
ISBN: 978-1-78487-460-5 Издательство: Vintage Classics Дата выхода: январь 2018
ISBN: 9780099448785 Издательство: Harvill Press Дата выхода: январь 2019
ISBN: 978-0-451-23099-7 Издательство: Penguin Group Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
The Hardy Boys are back in a triple pack of crime-fighting action. Take a thrilling vacation with the Hardy Boys in this special collector s edition combining three exciting mystery stories.
ISBN: 9780689856204 Дата выхода: октябрь 2002
Seven titles in the popular First Reading series are re-issued with hardback covers with audio CDs inserted into a wallet inside the back cover, making this book and CD easy to store together. The Young Reading series is developed with reading expert Alison Kelly from Roehampton University to help young readers grow in confidence and ability.
ISBN: 978-1-4095-3363-4 Издательство: Usborne Дата выхода: апрель 2012
The 15th Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter novela now in paperback. Into Anita Blakeas worldaa world already overflowing with powera come creatures so feared that centuries-old vampires refuse to mention their names.
ISBN: 978-0-515-14461-1 Издательство: Penguin Group Дата выхода: июль 2011
ISBN: 9781569716205 Дата выхода: февраль 2002
Harlequins are lost souls, so loved by the devil that he would not take them to hell, but left them to roam the earth. In French, the word is hellequin - the name given to the English archers who crossed the Channel to lay waste the towns and countryside. In the fourteenth century the English were just beginning to discover their national identity, and one of the strongest elements of this was the overwhelming success in battle of the English bowmen. England`s archers crossed the Channel to lay a country to waste. Thomas of Hookton was one of those archers. When his village is sacked by French raiders, he escapes from his father`s ambition to become a wild youth who delights in the opportunities which war offers - for fighting, for...
ISBN: 978-0-00-731030-2 Издательство: HarperCollins UK Дата выхода: ноябрь 2011
