‘Something strange occurs to guests as soon as they check in. Even if in real life they are perfectly well-mannered, decent people with proper balanced relationships, as soon as they spin through the revolving hotel doors the normal rules of behaviour no longer seem to apply.’ All of the following is the names have been changed to protect the guilty. All the anecdotes, the stories, the characters, the situations, the highs, the lows, the scams, the drugs, the misery, the love, the death and the insanity are exactly as was told by Anonymous - someone who has spent his whole career working in hotels at the heart of London’s luxury hotel industry. However, for legal reasons, the stories now take place in a fictitious hotel known as...
ISBN: 978-0-552-15146-7
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Das Hotel Savoy mit seiner prunkvollen Fassade scheint den Ersten Weltkrieg unbeschadet uberstanden zu haben. Doch wer am livrierten Portier vorbei durch seine Eingangstur tritt, trifft im Inneren auf die bunten Existenzen einer durcheinandergeratenen Zeit: Soldaten, Millionare, Bankrotteure, Vanete-Tanzerinnen und Devisenschieber. Gabriel Dan, nach funf Jahren Krieg und Gefangenschaft zuruckgekehrt und einquartiert im 6. Stock des Hotels, gerat auch im Frieden zwischen die Fronten.
ISBN: 978-3-257-23975-1
Издательство:
Diogenes
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The story of a remarkable time and place: Los Angeles from the dawn of the singer-songwriter era in the mid-Sixties to the peak of The Eagles` success in the late Seventies.`Hotel California` is an epic tale of songs and sunshine, drugs and denim, genius and greed, and is the first in-depth account of the LA Canyons scene between 1967 and 1976.Hoskyn`s history of this vital period in the development of today`s great musical influences spans the rise of Joni Mitchell, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, The Eagles, James Taylor and Jackson Browne, and focuses on the brilliance and determination of David Geffen, the man who linked them all.Covering genius, drug-crazed disintegration, and the myriad relationships between these artists and the...
ISBN: 9780007177059
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2022
Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. Life and death in Venice. A young man and a beautiful woman meet and fall in love in the most romantic city in the world. She gives him the thing he wants most, but what does the future hold
ISBN: 978-0-521-68629-7
Издательство:
Cambridge
Дата выхода: август 2011
When Swiss-born Hugues Martin sees a small, run-down hotel in New York for the rough diamond it is, he transforms it into a beautiful boutique hotel of impeccable elegance, run with the precision and attention to detail he learned through his hotelier training in Europe. Renowned for its unparalleled service, the Hotel Vendome soon becomes the ideal New York refuge for the rich and famous, as well as a perfect home for Hugues` beautiful wife and their young daughter. But when his wife tires of his obsession for the hotel, she walks out on him for a notorious rock star, leaving Hugues a single parent to four-year-old Heloise. Heloise and her family live happily amid a colourful, exciting and sometimes mysterious milieu of celebrities,...
ISBN: 978-0-552-15903-6
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: декабрь 2012
Modern, original fiction for learners of English. Life and death in Venice. A young man and a beautiful woman meet and fall in love in the most romantic city in the world. She makes his dreams come true, but what does the future hold for them and what price must they pay for their happiness?
ISBN: 0-521-64997-8
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: январь 2011
Книга представляет собой сокращённый вариант романа "Отель" американского писателя Артура Хейли с сохранением нумерации глав оригинала. Захватывающий сюжет этого произведения разворачивается очень динамично. Действие романа развивается всего в течение несколько дней. Удивительно, сколько событий в этот короткий период времени происходит в, казалось бы, налаженной и однообразной жизни сотрудников...
ISBN: 5-8112-1947-4
Издательство:
Айрис-пресс
Дата выхода: июнь 2006
Swiss-born Hugues Martin has worked for the world`s most prestigious hotels, so when he purchases a small, run-down place in New York, everyone thinks he must be crazy! He alone sees it for the rough diamond it is, transforming it into a beautiful boutique hotel of impeccable elegance, run with the precision and attention to detail he learnt through his hotelier training in Europe. The Hotel Vendome soon becomes renowned for its unparalleled service, and is the ideal New York refuge for the rich and famous, as well as a perfect home for Hugues` beautiful wife and their young daughter. But when his wife tires of his obsession for the hotel, she walks out on him for a notorious rock star, leaving Hugues a single parent to four-year-old...
Beyond the boundaries of the everyday is an unseen realm where anything you imagine is possible. Your demon lover is waiting for you in the shadows, ready to fulfill your secret wishes and most dangerous fantasies. Here passion has a face and form both titillating and terrifying—and love has teeth and claws. Get ready to give in to your craving for something exquisitely and different. Hotter Than Hell gathers together a baker`s dozen of today`s boldest and best authors of supernatural fiction and paranormal romance in a breathtaking anthology that blends black magic with red-hot desire. From the tantalizing tale of a conflicted psychic vampire driven by a powerful, savage love to the strange saga of a Greek warrior woman battling to...
Издание полностью на английском языке. Murder can occur in the most unexpected places, and there are times when the spectre of death is very close - you just have to look for the signs: omens and haunted houses, seances and nightmares, split personalities and disembodied voices. Welcome to a stunning collection of macabre stories, from the earthly drama of a courtroom to the unearthly chills of the widow who can hear her husband, all evidence of a natural - or supernatural - storyteller!
ISBN: 978-0-00-715487-6
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Penguin Readers are written by specialist ELT authors. The language, vocabulary, style and content of every book is carefully graded to make sure it suits the learner`s own language ability. Every Penguin Reader has a range of activities in the book and accompanying Factsheet to help increase comprehension and develop reading, writing, listening and speaking skills.
ISBN: 978-1-4082-7637-2
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson had been sharpening their detective skills deducing the characteristics of the man whose walking stick is in their possession, when the owner arrives greatly in need of their help. Dr James Mortimer tells them that he has discovered the body of Sir Charles Baskerville in the grounds of his Devon home. Baskerville`s face bore an expression of terror and his body showed signs of exhaustion, as if he had been fleeing something - or someone. Mortimer was aware of only one clue as to how Baskerville met his death: "the footprints of a gigantic hound". Dr Watson is dispatched by Holmes to the desolate moorland of Devon. He learns about the ancient myth of the Baskerville hound, and as he uncovers the malevolent...
ISBN: 978-0-14-062361-1
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
If you love a good story, then look no further. Oxford Children`s Classics bring together the most unforgettable stories ever told. They`re books to treasure and return to again and again. The Baskerville family has been haunted for generations by a fearsome hound - a phantom beast with blazing eyes and dripping jaws. Surely it is just a legend? Then Sir Charles is found mysteriously dead in the grounds of Baskerville Hall. It is time to bring in Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson, to discover the truth about the family
ISBN: 978-0-19-272004-7
Издательство:
OXED
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2012
