Джек Лондон - классик американской литературы, автор ярких, живых приключенческих романов и рассказов. "Приключение" - захватывающий роман, написанный под впечатлением автора от путешествия по Южным морям. История разворачивается в глухих дебрях Соломоновых островов, куда приехали отчаянные люди, готовые занять своё место под солнцем любой ценой. Но что же их ожидаем в итоге: торжество жизни или крах всех...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05358-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2017
1845год, Америка. Мальчик Гек решает незаметно покинуть городишко Ганнибал, спасаясь от своего свирепого отца. Итак, Гек начинает путешествие на плоту по реке Миссисипи в компании с беглым рабом Джимом.
ISBN: 978-1-4050-7234-2
Издательство:
Langenscheidt
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Книга содержит неадаптированный текст рассказов Артура Конан Дойла ТРИ СТУДЕНТА и ПОСЛЕДНЕЕ ДЕЛО ШЕРЛОКА ХОЛМСА на английском языке, сопровождающийся упражнениями, комментариями и словарем. Перевод наиболее трудных предложений дается в сносках, а сложные элементы выделены и объяснены в комментариях.
ISBN: 978-985-15-2399-9
Издательство:
Попурри
Дата выхода: октябрь 2014
Classic / American English (Available February 2008) Tom Sawyer loves adventures. He has them at home, at school, and with his friends - Huck Finn, Joe Harper, and Becky Thatcher. Tom has one adventure in a graveyard, one in an old house, one in a cave. Who does he see in those places - and why is he afraid?
ISBN: 978-1-4058-7800-5
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Out of his smoke-filled rooms in Baker Street stalks a figure to cause the criminal classes to quake in their boots and rush from their dens of The twelve mysteries gathered in this first collection of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson`s adventures reveal the brilliant consulting detective at the height of his powers. Problems involving a man with a twisted lip, a fabulous blue carbuncle and five orange pips tax Sherlock Holmes` intellect alongside some of his most famous cases, including A Scandal in Bohemia and The Red-Headed League.
ISBN: 978-0-14-103435-5
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
Afloat and Ashore is a nautical fiction novel by James Fenimore Cooper. Set in 1796-1804, the novel follows the maritime adventures of Miles Wallingford Jr., the son of wealthy New York landowners who chooses to go to sea after the death of his parents. The novel is partially autobiographical, in part by Cooper`s own experiences as a sailor, and is his first full-length novel to fully employ a first-person narrative.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06654-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
When Cora is savagely murdered with a hatchet, the extraordinary remark she made the previous day at her brother Richards funeral suddenly takes on a chilling significance. At the reading of Richards will, Cora was clearly heard to say: It`s been hushed up very nicely, hasn`t it… But he was murdered, wasn`t he?In desperation, the family solicitor turns to Hercule Poirot to unravel the mystery...
`Key is in the lock all right, sir. On the inside. Mr Ackroyd must have locked himself in.`Poor Roger Ackroyd. He knew that the woman he loved had been harbouring a guilty secret - she poisoned her first husband. And yesterday she killed herself.But guilty secrets rarely stay secret. Who had been blackmailing her before her death? Had it really driven her to suicide? And would it all be revealed in the letter that arrived in the evening post? Sadly Roger Ackroyd wasn`t going to live long enough to find out...
A woman is killed by a poisoned dart in the enclosed confines of a commercial passenger plane...From seat No.9, Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his fellow air passengers. Over to his right sat a pretty young woman, clearly infatuated with the man opposite; ahead, in seat No.13, sat a Countess with a poorly-concealed cocaine habit; across the gangway in seat No.8, a detective writer was being troubled by an aggressive wasp.What Poirot did not yet realize was that behind him, in seat No.2, sat the slumped, lifeless body of a woman.
Agatha Christie`s seasonal Poirot and Marple short story collection, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. First came a sinister warning to Poirot not to eat any plum pudding... then the discovery of a corpse in a chest... next, an overheard quarrel that led to murder... the strange case of the dead man who altered his eating habits... and the puzzle of the victim who dreamt his own suicide. What links these five baffling cases? The little grey cells of Monsieur Hercule Poirot!
Agatha Christie`s disturbing 1960s mystery thriller, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.Gipsy`s Acre was a truly beautiful upland site with views out to sea - and in Michael Rogers it stirred a child-like fantasy.There, amongst the dark fir trees, he planned to build a house, find a girl and live happily ever after.Yet, as he left the village, a shadow of menace hung over the land. For this was the place where accidents happened. Perhaps Michael should have heeded the locals` warnings: `There`s no luck for them as meddles with Gipsy`s Acre.`Michael Rogers is a man who is about to learn the true meaning of the old saying `In my end is my beginning...`
ISBN: 9780008196394
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: январь 2017