`I think I`m having a nervous breakdown, and no-one`s noticed` Ever wished you could just leave it all behind again? Emily Barr`s unputdownable new novel is about a mother of two with a seemingly perfect life who`s cracking up and longing to get away from it all. But when she finally gets to go away, to India, things are far from what she She has to go away to come home to what she loves again.
ISBN: 978-0-7553-3560-2
Издательство:
Headline Publ.
Дата выхода: август 2011
A forerunner of psychological fiction, and considered a landmark work for its innovative use of narrative devices, Sterne`s topsy-turvy novel was both celebrated and vilified when first published. Originally released in nine separate volumes, it is in effect an exercise about the difficulties of writing. Impossible to categorize, it remains a beguiling milestone in the history of literature.
The Victorian era has dominated the popular imagination like no other period, but the familiarity with later 19th-century stories and history tends to give us a distorted view. Using character portraits and key events, Paterson brings the world of Victorian Britain alive, from the lifestyles of the aristocrats to the depths of the London slums.
ISBN: 978-0-7624-3518-0
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
An invaluable companion to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi is Mark Twain`s inimitable portrait of `the great Father of Waters`. Part memoir, part travelogue, it expresses the full range of Twain`s literary personality, and remains the most vivid, boisterous and provocative account of the cultural and societal history of the Mississippi Valley, from `the golden age` of steamboating to the violence wrought by the Civil War. This new edition of Life on the Mississippi contains a comprehensive introduction, extensive annotations and a guide to further reading designed to appeal to both the student and the general reader.
ISBN: 978-1-84022-683-6
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012
Before he died on a storm-wracked night, Jimmy Tock`s grandfather predicted there would be five dark days in his grandson`s life - five dates whose terrible events Jimmy must prepare himself to first is to occur in his twentieth year, the last in his thirtieth. What terrifying events await Jimmy on these five critical days? What challenges must he survive? The path he follows will defy every expectation and will take all the love, humor, and courage he possesses. For who Jimmy Tock is and what he must accomplish on the five days his world turns is a mystery both dangerous and "Life Expectancy"... enjoy it while you can.
ISBN: 978-0-553-58824-8
Издательство:
Bantam
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Bill Bryson`s first travel book opened with the immortal line, "I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to". In this deeply funny new book, he travels back in time to explore the ordinary kid he once was, in the curious world of 1950s America. It was a happy time, when almost everything was good for you, including DDT, cigarettes and nuclear fallout. This is a book about one boy`s growing up. But in Bryson`s hands, it becomes everyone`s story, one that will speak volumes - especially to anyone who has ever been young.
ISBN: 978-0-552-15546-5
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Who was Captain Cook? Where did he go, and what did he discover? Find out about how, in less than 10 years, one man`s discoveries were able to change our ideas about the world, and set sail on this exciting journey into the life and times of James Cook.
ISBN: 978885300-317-1
Издательство:
CIDEB
Дата выхода: июль 2011
`Who has not Tristram Shandy read? Is any mortal so ill bred?` So wrote the young James Boswell in the spring of 1760, when Sterne`s comic novel was received with extravagant popular acclaim and some bewilderment. Indeed, how can one describe a novel whose hero-narrator fails in the first two volumes even to get himself born? A narrator who, in a series of digressions he calls the `sunshine` of reading, interests us instead in such characters as his uncle Toby, a devotee of wargames in the garden, or Parson Yorick, a self-portrait of the author? The text of this Oxford World`s Classics edition is based on the first editions of all nine volumes. No unnecessary modernization has obscured Sterne`s idiosyncratic presentation of the novel.
ISBN: 978-0-19-283470-6
Издательство:
Oxford
Дата выхода: июль 2011
One night in St Petersburg, two men meet, both adrift in the brash new Russia: Shutov, a writer visiting after years of exile in Paris, and Volsky, an elderly survivor of the Siege of Leningrad and Stalin's purges. His life story - one of extreme suffering, courage and an extraordinary love - he considers unremarkable. To Shutov it is a revelation, the tale of an unsung hero that puts everything into perspective and suggests where true happiness lies.
ISBN: 978-1-4447-0048-0
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: август 2011
Mark Twain (1835—1910) was an American writer, journalist, and publisher. Among his most famous novels are "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and its sequel, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn". Most of his finest work includes many genres such as humor, satire, and philosophical fiction. "Life on the Mississippi" is another stellar travel book and a memoir of the times before the Civil War when Mark worked as a steamboat navigator on the Mississippi River. The book also includes his trip from St. Louis to New Orleans years after the War.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07807-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
LIFE STYLE is the first book to document Maus creative process and his studio practice, Bruce Mau Design (BMD). Since founding his Toronto-based studio in 1985, Mau has become one of the worlds most sought-after designers. He became an international figure following the publication of the groundbreaking and award-winning tome S,M,L,XL (Small, Medium, Large, Extra-Large), which he designed and co-authored with Dutch architect and recent winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, Rem Koolhaas. Written by Mau and conceived and designed by BMD, Life Style is a collection of playful and critical statements about the visual and cultural trends that influence todays image-driven environment. The book showcases the methodology, philosophy, world...
ISBN: 0714838276
Издательство:
Phaidon
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2000
He was the quiet Beatle only in that he was standing alongside two louder-than-life characters and in front of a guy playing drums. He held many strong opinions - on Beatlemania, on global want, on his right to privacy, on his God - and gave firm voice to most of them. But George Harrison was certainly the most reluctant Beatle, wanting out almost as soon as he was in. He often said that his luckiest break was joining the band and his second luckiest was leaving it. The standard line is that George Harrison was an enigma, but perhaps he was transparent: a terrific guitarist, a fine songwriter, a wonderer, a seeker and, overriding all, a celebrity who hated and feared celebrity. George Harrison died at a friend`s home in Los Angeles ten...
ISBN: 978-1-60320-243-5
Издательство:
Hachette Livre
Дата выхода: май 2012
Fashioned from the same experiences that would inspire the masterpiece "Huckleberry Finn", "Life on the Mississippi" is Mark Twain’s most brilliant and most personal nonfiction work. It is at once an affectionate evocation of the vital river life in the steamboat era and a melancholy reminiscence of its passing after the Civil War, a priceless collection of humorous anecdotes and folktales, and a unique glimpse into Twain’s life before he began to write. Written in a prose style that has been hailed as among the greatest in English literature, "Life on the Mississippi" established Twain as not only the most popular humorist of his time but also America’s most profound chronicler of the human comedy.
ISBN: 978-0-553-21349-2
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Pittsburgh was too small for Beryl Wexler. Barely out of high school, she changed her name to Buzz and set off for the bright lights of London. She never looked back. Now she`s at the top of her game in the music PR business, looking after the coolest groups on the planet. And for a woman who was forty-two last birthday she certainly keeps up the pace. But her life is about to change. Some twenty-year-old has been given the new Japanese girl band predicted to go stellar, and Buzz is being sidelined. Instead, Buzz gets to tour with the Gorni Grannies, Bulgarian singers of a certain age. These ladies may not be the tantrum-throwing celebs Buzz is used to, but they present other challenges. How to stop Lubka straining yogurt through her...
ISBN: 978-1-84916-182-4
Издательство:
Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
EASYREADS are a range of full-colour, non-fiction graded readers; the subjects cover art, history, science, geography, biography and cultural studies. EASYREADS are specially written at two levels, with controlled grammatical structures and lexis: level 1 uses present tenses only, while level 2 introduces past tenses. As far as lexis is concerned, apart from some special vocabulary required by the topic of the reader, the maximum number of headwords used at level 1 is 300 words, increasing to 400 words at level 2. * Ideal for `Content and Language Integrated Learning`(CLIL) * Fully illustrated with specially commissioned artwork, photographs etc * Topic-specific illustrated glossary at the back of each book for easy reference. * Language...
ISBN: 978885300-470-3
Издательство:
CIDEB
Дата выхода: август 2011
Its their Meet Melissa and Paul: Five years after they split up he`s still looking for love in all the wrong places while she wants the one thing she cant have: Paul. Meet Chris and Vicky: Theyr`e so in tune they even brush their teeth in time with each other. So what is Chris doing risking it all for a meaningless affair? Meet Cooper and Laura: He wants to settle down, she wants to take a grown-up gap year - but can their relationship really survive a year apart? Set across a year of leaving dos, birthday parties and anniversary celebrations. "The Life and Soul of the Party" is a warm, funny and moving tale celebrating love, life and those special moments we`ve all spent in the kitchen at parties.
ISBN: 978-0-340-89567-2
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: июль 2011
This book is a celebration. Yes, undeniably, there is some sadness in these pages. Why in the world was Kennedy killed? Why couldn`t Marilyn have found happiness? Why did Michael leave the stage so early? But also, we revisit the dynamism of JFK, the beauty of Marilyn Monroe and the pure excitement that was Michael Jackson. In these pages, we lament the premature exits, but thrillingly celebrate the lives that were lived lived, often, to the very fullest. This special LIFE book is brimful with the stories of people we loved. The fans of Judy Garland, Elvis Presley and John Lennon were legion, and so were those of Tim Russert and John Ritter. These are people who, when we learned they had passed, made us sit up, take notice and focus on...
ISBN: 978-1-60320-143-8
Издательство:
Hachette Livre
Дата выхода: август 2011
The long-awaited autobiography of the guitarist, songwriter, singer, and founding member of the Rolling Stones. With his trademark disarming honesty, Richards brings the story of a life fans have all longed to know more of--unfettered, fearless, and true.
ISBN: 9780316034388
Издательство:
Hachette Livre
Дата выхода: октябрь 2010
Walter Scott (1771—1832) was a Scottish historical novelist, poet, and playwright. Although he was an advocate and legal administrator by profession, Scott is most famous for his great literary works and activities in the Royal Highland Society. As the title suggests, "Life of Napoleon" is a monumental biographical work representing the study of France during the Napoleonic Era. In an attempt to convey an accurate picture of events, Sir Walter Scott visited the Waterloo, and also interviewed officers engaged in the battle. The book is also based on The British governments to archives dealing with Napoleon`s exile in St. Helena.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07542-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
