With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. Here are two great, neglected horror novels by Bram Stoker, author of Dracula, together in one volume for the first time. It is a double treat for lovers of blood-curdling fantasy Lady of the Shroud, published here in its full and unabridged form, is a fascinating and engrossing concoction of a vampire tale, Ruritanian adventure story and science fiction novel fully demonstrates the breadth and ingenuity of Stokers imagination. The spine-chilling The Lair of the White Worm features a monstrous worm secreted for thousands of years in a bottomless well and able to metamorphose into a seductive woman of a reptilian beauty who survives on her victims life blood. The novel contains some of Stokers...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-645-4
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: июль 2011
There`s this set of things everyone expects from Since her boyfriend Gus was killed in 9/11, Billy has been pretending. It is easier for her to stay silent and go through the motions of grief than to tell the truth: that she was planning to leave Gus, and that his death left her feeling a mixture of ambivalence and anguish that she is still struggling to resolve. Drawing from her experience, Billy writes The Lake Shore Limited. The opening night of the play brings together three people whose lives intersect and interweave with Billy`s: Leslie, Gus`s older sister, haunted by his death and constantly aware of what could have been; Rafe, the actor who brings the joy and sadness of his own marriage into his role; and Sam, a recently divorced...
ISBN: 978-1-4088-0988-4
Издательство:
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
The war between the houses of Lancaster and York for the throne of England was characterised by treachery, deceit and at St Albans, Blore Hill and Towton, some of the bloodiest and most dramatic battles on England`s soil. Between 1455 and 1487, the royal coffers were bankrupted and the conflict resulted in the downfall of the houses of Lancaster and York and the emergence of the illustrious Tudor dynasty. Alison Weir`s lucid and gripping account focuses on the human side of history, on the people and personalities involved in the conflict. At the centre of the book stands Henry VI, the pious king whose mental instability led to political chaos, Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York and Henry`s rival, and most important of all, Margaret of...
ISBN: 978-0-09-954017-5
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
This story of the passionate, adulterous, tragic love of Lancelot and Guinevere is at once the perfect expression of `courtly love` and its inversion. Lancelot, the heroic stranger in King Arthur`s court, sacrifices all in service of his king, and yet also falls in love with Arthur`s queen, the most beautiful woman in Britain. That this spotless knight, who repeatedly saves Arthur and his world from destruction, should be the fateful underminer of the king`s self-confidence and, ultimately, a terrible weapon in the hands of Arthur`s great adversary Galehaut, is a contradiction that has fascinated the Western mind for hundreds of years. The Arthurian legend that most of us know comes from Malory and The Once and Future King. But there are...
The friends visit the Land of Fairytales, but when they get there, Wishler starts acting very strangely. Can they work out which fairytale character he has become, and help him be himself again, in time to go home?
ISBN: 978-1-4052-4391-9
Издательство:
Egmont Books Ltd
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Jack, Jessica and Wishler visit the Land of Mythical Creatures, but when they get there they find that an ogre has kidnapped Wishler`s friend Miranda the unicorn! Can the children help save her?
ISBN: 978-1-4052-4388-9
Издательство:
Egmont Books Ltd
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Abbie Devereaux wakes in the dark, hooded and bound … She doesn’t know where she is nor who it is feeding her, talking to her – threatening to kill her. Yet Abbie has courage and, above all, hope. She escapes her captor and runs back into the light. But the real world, the safe one, isn’t as she remembers it. There are days missing before she disappeared – days when she quit her job and left her boyfriend, did things she can’t explain to the police, her friends or even herself. Why won’t anyone take her story seriously? Because if Abbie can’t convince anybody that it really happened, then maybe he will come for her again. And she will wake in the dark, hooded and bound …
ISBN: 978-0-14-100650-5
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
In this classic, the world`s expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved. With deft use of examples of humor and wordplay, Steven Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a compelling story: language is a human instinct, wired into our brains by evolution. "The Language Instinct" received the William James Book Prize from the American Psychological Association and the Public Interest Award from the Linguistics Society of America. This edition includes an update on advances in the science of language since "The Language Instinct" was first published.
Inspired by Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays and Prose, Mick Short`s classic introduction to stylistics, Language and Style represents the state-of-the-art in literary stylistics and encompasses the full breadth of current research in the discipline. Written by leading scholars in the field, chapters cover a variety of methodological and analytical approaches, from traditional qualitative analysis to more recent developments in cognitive and corpus stylistics. Addressing the three, key literary genres of poetry, drama and narrative, Language and Style is divided into carefully balanced sections. Based on original research, each chapter demonstrates a particular analytic technique and explains how this might be applied to a text...
Georgina fell in love with Hugh Carter the moment she saw him. She`s never loved another man. She was eighteen. She`s now thirty-two and Hugh has finally moved in with her. Faces tend to fall when she mentions that when they first met he was seeing a friend of hers, whom he subsequently married and had two children with. But hey. Life`s not a fairy tale. All is well until George finds that one small miscalculation with dates leaves her - pregnant. Still reeling from this news she notices that Hugh is turning out to be a bit of a disappointment. After fourteen years of seeing life through a Hugh-tinted filter can George start to make up her own mind?
ISBN: 978-0-14-029959-5
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: май 2012
Arthur (Art) Mumby and his irritating sister Myrtle live with their father, Revd Marmaduke Mumby, in the huge and rambling house, Larklight, travelling through space on a remote orbit far beyond the moon. One ordinary sort of morning they receive a correspondence informing them that a gentleman is on his way to visit, a Mr Webster. Visitors to Larklight are rare if not unique, and a frenzy of preparation ensues. But it is the wrong sort of preparation, as they discover when their guest arrives, and a Dreadful and Terrifying (and marvellous) adventure begins. It takes them to the furthest reaches of known space, where they must battle the evil First Ones in a desperate attempt to save each other - and the universe. Recounted through the...
ISBN: 978-0-7475-8240-3
Издательство:
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: август 2011
Thank you for the It`s 1939 and the war in Europe casts a long, all-encompassing shadow. In a sleepy town in Suffolk, the generous and determined widow, La, forms an amateur orchestra to entertain the locals and soothe her own broken heart. She recruits Felix, a refugee from Poland, to play the flute, and a touching friendship emerges. When the war is over and the orchestra disbands, La is left pondering her next move. What role can she play in her community now the war is over? And can she let herself love again? La`s Orchestra is another delightful story celebrating friendship and the healing power of music, told with the warmth and charm we`ve come to love from one of the nation`s favourite storytellers.
From the day her first Vampire Chronicle was published, critics and readers - readers by the hundreds of thousands - have been mesmerized by the writings of Anne Rice. And with the publication of The Witching Hour, she created for us yet another world and legend, and both the chorus of praise and the multitudes of her readers once more increased. Now, Anne Rice brings us again - even more magically - into the midst of the dynasty of witches she introduced in The Witching Hour. At the center: the brilliant an beautiful Rowan Mayfair, queen of the coven, and Lasher, the darkly compelling demon whom she finds irresistible and from whose evil spell and vision she must now flee. She takes with her their terrifying and exquisite child, one of...
Emile Zola est un grand classique de la litterature francaise du XIXe siecle. «L`Assommoir» est un des plus beaux fleurons de la litterature mondiale. Des banlieues de Paris du XIXe siecle sont presentees au lecteur sous une lumiere sordide. Accables par les privations, l`heroine principale, Gervaise, et son mari Coupeau cherchent a s`extirper de la misere. Vont-ils у reussir ou c`est le debut de leur degringolade?
ISBN: 978-5-521-06031-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: декабрь 2017
Defense attorney David Nash has made a career out of setting monsters free - and no one does it better. Now a case has come to "The Ice Man" that could help cleanse Nash of the guilt and doubts that torment him: that rarest of all defendants, an innocent man. A fellow lawyer has been accused of a heinous crime - the brutal murder of an undercover vice cop. But the case that is supposed to be Nash`s redemption could prove to be his downfall, dragging him into a dark and sinister world where lies and the truth are interchangeable; where the manipulator becomes the manipulated; and where every answer spawns more complex and terrifying questions. And as the shadows close in around him, the final question that remains for David Nash concerns...
The story opens on the day that the Western Roman Empire collapses finally in 470AD, as the Last Emperor of Rome is encamped protected by the Nova Invicta Legion. All is lost in the space of a few minutes as a horde of Barbarians sweep through the camp in the fog, kill the Imperial family and take the young Emperor captive. The Roman Empire is in But all is not lost. From the dust of battlefields emerges a small team of invincible warriors - The Last Legion. Their task is to rescue the Emperor and his enigmatic tutor and to try and resurrect the glory of Rome. All their strength of character and bravery come into play as they guide the last Caesar in a dramatic journey of escape through a devastated Italy and Northern Europe to their...
ISBN: 978-0-330-48975-1
Издательство:
Pan Macmillan
Дата выхода: август 2011
