When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty facade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their Pagford is not what it first seems. And the empty seat left by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations? A big novel about a small town, The Casual Vacancy is first novel for adults. It is the work of a storyteller like no other.
Устали зубрить английские слова? Окунитесь в мир рассказов Джека Лондона, попутно узнавая новую лексику. "Зов предков" — сборник рассказов Джека Лондона, погружающий читателя в мир суровой природы и борьбы за выживание. В этих историях герои сталкиваются с экстремальными испытаниями, проявляя мужество и стойкость. Лондон мастерски описывает первобытные инстинкты и драматические конфликты между...
ISBN: 978-5-17-166314-8
Издательство:
АСТ
Дата выхода: июнь 2025
Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and politician. A lot of his works contributed to the early growth of the science fiction genre. "The Caxtons: A Family Picture" is a Victorian novel about a life of an aristocratic family. The novel is mainly concerned with domestic life, but it also includes a lengthy disquisition on colonisation and emigration, its value to British society and its role in extending civilization.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08271-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: февраль 2019
The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is . . .In the beginning there was…a turtle.Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a parallel time and place which might sound and smell very much like our own, but which looks completely different.Particularly as it’s carried though space on the back of a giant turtle (sex unknown). It plays by different rules.But then, some things are the same everywhere. The Disc’s very existence is about to be threatened by a strange new blight: the world’s first tourist, upon whose survival rests the peace and prosperity of the...
ISBN: 9780552166591
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: октябрь 2023
Jack London was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. "The Cruise of The Dazzler" is an early adventure novel by London. The plot revolves around a young boy Joe Bronson who has trouble at home and at school. The arguments with his father lead him to run away and join the crew of the ship called Dazzler. .
ISBN: 978-5-521-08127-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. "The Claverings" is a novel about a young man starting out in life, who must find himself a profession and a wife; and of a young woman who made a marriage of convenience and must abide the consequences. Since its first appearance in 1867, this novel has been acclaimed as one of Trollope`s most successful protrayals of mid-Victorian life.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08331-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2019
James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. The Chainbearer is the second book in a trilogy starting with Satanstoe and ending with The Redskins. The novel focuses mainly on issues of land ownership and the displacement of American Indians as the United States moves Westward.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06657-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: февраль 2018
В настоящем издании публикуются избранные новеллы известного американского писателя и журналиста, мастера жанра ужасов, фэнтези и научной фантастики Говарда Лавкрафта, действие которых разворачивается в созданной им вселенной мифов Ктулху, — «Зов Ктулху», «Цвет из иных миров», «Ужас Данвича» и «Хребты Безумия». Неадаптированное издание на английском языке.
ISBN: 978-5-517-09689-0
Издательство:
RUGRAM
Дата выхода: октябрь 2023
Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 — 1873) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and politician. A lot of his works contributed to the early growth of the science fiction genre. "The Caxtons: A Family Picture" is a Victorian novel about a life of an aristocratic family. The novel is mainly concerned with domestic life, but it also includes a lengthy disquisition on colonisation and emigration, its value to British society and its role in extending civilization.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08270-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: февраль 2019
Параллельные миры, неразгаданные семейные тайны, злые духи, инопланетные материи, колдовство и магия, проклятые места, неподвластные человеческому разуму видения – мир произведений Лавкрафта наполнен вовсе не одними мифами Ктулху. Его вселенную населяют и другие неизведанные и непостижимые существа, пришедшие из чащи лесов, непроходимых болот, глубоких пещер, таинственных подземелий и даже иных...
ISBN: 9785604448687
Издательство:
Москва
Дата выхода: июль 2020
Произведения Г.Ф. Лавкрафта погружают читателей во вселенную, где главный ужас — не призраки или чудовища, а пугающее осознание ничтожности человечества. В таких рассказах, как "Зов Ктулху", "Хребты Безумия" и "Ужас Данвича", Лавкрафт создаёт мифологию древних спящих богов, тайных культов и ужасающих откровений. Его фирменный стиль — космический ужас — исследует пределы человеческого разума, где те, кто...
ISBN: 978-5-17-169770-9
Издательство:
АСТ
Дата выхода: июнь 2025
Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. "The Claverings" is a novel about a young man starting out in life, who must find himself a profession and a wife; and of a young woman who made a marriage of convenience and must abide the consequences. Since its first appearance in 1867, this novel has been acclaimed as one of Trollope`s most successful protrayals of mid-Victorian life.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08332-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2019
The Crater; or, Vulcan`s Peak: a Tale of the Pacific is a novel in which Cooper incorporated knowledge of ship construction he had acquired while working as a Navy midshipman in the 1810s. From merely surviving the loss of his shipmates and the embayment of his ship within The Reef, protagonist and role-model Mark Woolston goes on to thrive by his own industry. Following a regional volcanic upheaval which raises new land, he founds a similarly industrious and thriving colony after escaping from, then returning to, The Reef. The outnumbered colonists must defend their new homes and possessions against natives who covet the new land.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06659-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: февраль 2018
«Архив Шерлока Холмса» (1927) - последний сборник рассказов Артура Конан Дойла о знаменитом детективе с Бейкер-стрит. Двенадцать историй знакомят читателя с делами, отчеты о которых сохранились в бумагах доктора Ватсона и самого Холмса, но в силу разных причин не были опубликованы по свежим следам описываемых событий. Спасение юной девушки от преследований родовитого негодяя, выяснение причины странных...
ISBN: 978-5-517-10847-0
Издательство:
RUGRAM
Дата выхода: июнь 2024
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. "The Captain of the Polestar and Other Tales" is a volume collecting ten amazing short stories, such as "Dedication", "The Captain of the "Polestar", and "A Literary Mosaic".
ISBN: 978-5-521-07166-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018
Устали зубрить английские слова? Окунитесь в мир рассказов Джека Лондона, попутно узнавая новую лексику. "Зов предков" — сборник рассказов Джека Лондона, погружающий читателя в мир суровой природы и борьбы за выживание. В этих историях герои сталкиваются с экстремальными испытаниями, проявляя мужество и стойкость. Лондон мастерски описывает первобытные инстинкты и драматические конфликты между...
ISBN: 978-5-17-166315-5
Издательство:
АСТ
Дата выхода: июнь 2025
Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. The Dead Secret was Collins`s first full-length puzzle-romance. Moments from death, Mrs Treverton tells a secret, never to be passed to her husband. Years later, when her daughter Rosamond returns with her husband, she is warned not to enter the Myrtle Room. Strong-minded and ingenious, Rosamond`s determined detective work uncovers a shocking truth.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07212-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
