A new title in "Young Reading Series Three", which is aimed at children whose reading ability and confidence allows them to tackle longer and more complex stories. Today, Impressionist paintings draw blockbuster crowds to museums and art galleries, and sell for millions at auction. But who were the artists that painted 150 years ago, why did they upset people and how did they come to be known as the Impressionists? Developed in consultation with Alison Kelly, who is a senior lecturer in education and an early reading specialist from Roehampton University. Beautifully produced hardback with ribbon marker.
ISBN: 978-0-7460-9020-6
Издательство:
Usborne Publishing Ltd
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
When a spunky mouse invites a passing bird to see whats inside a People House, chaos ensues while beginning readers learn the names of 65 common household items in this super simple, delightfully silly introduction to objects around the house.
Sheridan Le Fanu, wrote fellow author; , "stands absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories". A best-selling author from 1860 to I 880, Le Fanu is feted today as a master of his art. In a Glass Darkly is a remarkable collection of tales of the supernatural, in which the patients of Dr Heselius are plagued by malignant apparitions and vampires, or are drugged into a state of living death. The good doctor can usually explain such phenomena in terms of psychopathology, but Le Fanu seems deliberately ambivalent about the doctor`s theories, and many disturbing implications remain unsolved. Each story exerts the compelling appeal of a thoroughly good yarn, but In a Glass Darkly is a profoundly disorienting book that has become a...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-552-5
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most influential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. "In a Glass Darkly" is a collection of mystery stories presented as cases of the occult detective Dr. Martin Hesselius, who believes that ghosts can be real.
ISBN: 978-5-517-00230-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2019
Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin must help a rich old woman whose husband is getting money in a most mysterious way. But when the case leads Wolfe to the most dangerous man in the , he knows that if he wants to live, he will have to do the one thing that he has never contemplated - run and hide.
ISBN: 978-0-553-27776-0
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011
A collection of macabre short stories. Ian McEwan received the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976 for a previous collection of short stories entitled First Love, Last Rites.
The last survivor of the end days of Hitler`s bunker tells his story publicly for the first time. Von Loringhoven was aide-de-camp to Hitler`s last two chiefs of staff, Guderian and Krebs, and the link between the armies at the fronts and Hitler in his Berlin bunker. For the last nine months of the Third Reich he was present at the daily military briefings between Hitler and Marshals Keital and Goring, General Jodl and Admiral Donitz, along with Goebbels, Bormann, Ribbentrop, Himmler and Fegelein. Von Lorninghoven was witness to the ever-growing gap between the reality of reports outside the bunker and Hitler`s misunderstanding of the calamity that was encircling the regime. As the Third Reich spiralled downwards, he watched and recorded...
ISBN: 978-0-7538-2154-1
Издательство:
Орион
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Роман `В петле` - второй том трилогии `Сага о Форсайтах`, написанный в начале XX века, - знакомит читателей с историей семьи Форсайтов, неразрывно связанной с историей Англии. Бурное начало века и первая мировая война перевернули жизнь викторианской Англии. Закончилась целая эпоха. Смена эпох вызвала кризис традиционных устоев могущественной английской буржуазии, разрушила привычный уклад жизни, породила...
ISBN: 5-8346-0176-6
Издательство:
Менеджер
Дата выхода: август 2002
Precious Ramotswe, that cheerful Botswanan private investigator of `traditional build`, is well-known to millions across the world through the best-selling Ladies` Detective Agency series. Those who have been following her exploits in five previously published novels will soon be able to savour the next instalment, in which, as usual, circumstances are never as straightforward as they seem and events take a more than unexpected turn. Precious Ramotswe, is now married to Mr Matekoni, of Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors. The Agency is busy, but Mma Ramotswe cannot ignore the plea which is made to her by a woman who comes to her with a tale of particular misfortune. Unfortunately, her attempts to help are interrupted by a close encounter between...
Controversial and compelling, "In Cold Blood" reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and both their children. Truman Capote`s comprehensive study of the killings and subsequent investigation explores the circumstances surrounding this terrible crime and the effect it had on those involved. At the centre of his study are the amoral young killers Perry Smith and Dick Hickcock, who, vividly drawn by Capote, are shown to be reprehensible yet entirely and frighteningly human. The book that made Capote`s name, In Cold Blood is a seminal work of modern prose, a remarkable synthesis of journalistic skill and powerfully evocative narrative.
ISBN: 978-0-14-118257-5
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
National Bestseller On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, he generates both mesmerizing suspense and astonishing empathy. In Cold Blood is a work that transcends its moment, yielding poignant insights into the nature of American violence.
ISBN: 978-0-679-74558-7
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
