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. On the Makaloa Mat is a collection of seven short stories that describes life on the beautiful Hawaiian Islands. Full of descriptions of local nature and sea, it dives into the lives of characters and the effect that the contact with Western civilization causes. The Road is an autobiographical memoir full of London`s experiences living as a hobo during the economic crisis in the United States, hopping freight trains, begging for money or food, and making up stories for the police to avoid prison term.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08173-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
A hockey player since childhood, Lemieux signed on with the NHLUs Pittsburgh Penguins at the age of 16. Then, at the 2002 Olympic Winter Games, he captained the Canadian hockey team, leading them in their gold medal-winning victory.
Already a smash motion picture from Fine Line Features in New Zealand, this raw and deeply affecting story has also garnered major literary awards abroad. A contemporary story about an urban family in New Zealand, the book combines the action and mood of Blade Runner with the triumph of A Raisin in the Sun.
ISBN: 9780679761815
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: февраль 1995
Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey`s One Flew Over the Cuckoo`s Nest is the seminal novel of the 1960s that has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time. Here is the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants, especially the tyrannical Big Nurse Ratched and Randle Patrick McMurphy, the brawling, fun-loving new inmate who resolves to oppose her. We see the struggle through the eyes of Chief Bromden, the seemingly mute half-Indian patient who witnesses and understands McMurphy`s heroic attempt to do battle with the awesome powers that keep them all imprisoned.
ISBN: 978-0-14-118788-4
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011
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. "Orley Farm" is a novel which was first published by the London publisher Chapman and Hall from March 1861 to October 1862. This story deals with the imperfect workings of the legal system in the trial and acquittal of Lady Mason.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08327-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 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. "Orley Farm" is a novel which was first published by the London publisher Chapman and Hall from March 1861 to October 1862. This story deals with the imperfect workings of the legal system in the trial and acquittal of Lady Mason.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08328-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2019
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804—1864) was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer. This is a collection of essays, based on Hawthorne\'s stay in England from 1853 to 1857 as American Consul in Liverpool, were the first published in the form of a series of travel papers for «The Atlantic Monthly». He was in the 1850s, England, Scotland, shows us the splendors of London, and the horrors of the poverty that so many suffered.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07053-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: апрель 2018
The first novel in C.S. Lewis`s classic sci-fi trilogy which tells the adventure of Dr Ransom who is kidnapped and transported to MarsIn the first novel of C.S. Lewis`s classic science fiction trilogy, Dr Ransom, a Cambridge academic, is abducted and taken on a spaceship to the red planet of Malacandra, which he knows as Mars. His captors are plotting to plunder the planet`s treasures and plan to offer Ransom as a sacrifice to the creatures who live there. Ransom discovers he has come from the `silent planet` - Earth - whose tragic story is known throughout the universe…
ISBN: 9780007157150
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2023
In a flat near Reykjavik city centre, a young man lies dead in a pool of blood. There is no sign of a break-in: the only clues are a woman`s purple shawl, found under the bed in the next room, and a vial of prescription drugs in the victim`s pocket. With Detective Erlendur away in a remote part of Iceland, Detective Elinborg, who is already struggling to juggle family life and the relentless demands of her job, is assigned the case. Her investigation into the murdered man`s past soon uncovers a squalid tale of double lives, drug dealers and the unsolved disappearance of a young girl many years before. From its explosive opening, Outrage leads down a trail of hidden violence, psychological brutality and of wrongs that will never be fully...
ISBN: 978-0-09-954936-9
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Here`s Paddington once more, just returned from a visit to Darkest Peru and his Aunt Lucy`s birthday celebration at the Home for Retired Bears. Now that Paddington is home with the Browns, he`s free to cause his usual kind of trouble: dabbling in the stock market, trying a career as a barber, even taking a turn at the ballet. But the promise of international fame doesn`t turn this bear`s head. Not for long, at least. Indeed, readers will agree, it`s far better to be simply a bear called Paddington. Формат: 13 см x 19,5 cм.
ISBN: 978-0-00-675367-4
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
Even Paddington can`t come to much harm in half an hour, said Mrs Brown optimistically. But he can manage a lot of other things in even less time - like hanging Mr Curry`s lawnmower from a tree-top, or coming up through the bandstand floor during the `Surprise Symphony`. Then Paddington has a sticky time of it making toffee in Mrs Bird`s kitchen, and an even stickier time explaining what went wrong. And who else but Paddington could set Father Christmas`s beard on fire?
ISBN: 978-0-00-675363-6
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
A hilarious story of everyone`s favourite bear, Paddington - now a major movie star!When Paddington and Mr Gruber visit Hampton Court they are joined by a group of tourists who all expect to come back home with them for tea! Luckily, Paddington finds an a-mazing way out of the situation.Stories of Paddington Bear have delighted children all over the world for more than sixty years.
A hilarious story Paddington, the much-loved bear from Darkest Peru - now a major movie star!Paddington is in high competitive spirits when he accompanies the Brown family to a local sports day. But whether he`s putting the shot, helping Jonathan and Judy get ready for the three-legged race, or taking part in a relay, nothing goes quite as planned.Will a gold medal ever be within Paddington`s reach?
ISBN: 9780007427734
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2022
Find out what happens when the classic bear from Darkest Peru visits a circus and accidentally finds himself part of the act!The circus has come to town, and Paddington and the Browns have front row seats! But Paddington becomes anxious when he looks up and sees a man dangling from a rope by his ankles. Always ready to lend a paw, he rushes off to save the trapeze artist and as a result the circus is turned upside down! Paddington, however, comes out on top as the star of the show.For more than five decades, stories of Paddington Bear have delighted children all over the world.
A priest`s death leads to sinister goings-on in an old country pub...To understand the strange goings on at The Pale Horse Inn, Mark Easterbrook knew he had to begin at the beginning. But where exactly was the beginning? Was it the savage blow to the back of Father Gorman`s head? Or was it when the priest`s assailant searched him so roughly he tore the clergyman`s cassock? Or could it have been the priest`s visit, just minutes before, to a woman on her death bed? Or was there a deeper significance to the violent squabble which Mark Easterbrook had himself witnessed earlier? Wherever the beginning lies, Mark and his sidekick, Ginger Corrigan, may soon have cause to wish they`d never found it!
ISBN: 9780008196387
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: январь 2020
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. "The Duke`s Children" is the sixth and final novel in another famous series, "The Palliser Novels," also known as the Parliamentary Novels. Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omnium and former Prime Minister of England, is widowed and wracked by grief. Struggling to adapt to life without his beloved Lady Glencora, he works hard to guide and support his three adult children. Palliser soon discovers, however, that his own plans for them are very different from their desires.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08368-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 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. "The Prime Minister" is the fifth of six novels in another famous series, "The Palliser Novels", also known as the Parliamentary Novels. It is a wonderfully subtle portrait of a marriage, political expediency, and misplaced love.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08326-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2019
