Сюжет социально-критического романа Уилки Коллинза "Муж и жена" основан на правовом парадоксе, который приводит к непредсказуемым поворотам человеческих судеб. Спустя три месяца после освобождения из тюрьмы мистер Ванборо женится, но несовершенное и противоречивое законодательство Великобритании становится верным помощником и соучастником его вероломных преступлений. Дочь мистера Ванборо решает...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05509-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2017
Harry Silver has it all: a beautiful wife, a wonderful son, a great job in the media - but in one night he throws it all away. Then Harry must start to learn what life and love are really all about.
ISBN: 978-0-00-651213-4
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: август 2011
One of Shaw`s finest and most devilish comedies, Man and Superman portrays Don Juan as the quarry instead of the huntsman. John Tanner, upon discovering that his beautiful ward plans to marry him, flees to the Sierra Nevada mountain range, where he is captured by a group of rebels. Tannerfalls asleep, and dreams the famous Don Juan in Hell sequence, which features a sparkling Shavian debate among Don Juan, the Devil, and a talkative statue. With its fairy-tale ending and a cast literally from hell, Man and Superman is a hilarious cocktail of farce, Nietzschean philosophy, and Mozart`s Don Giovanni. Also included in this volume are Candida, Shaw`s first real success on the stage, Mrs. Warren`s Profession, which poked fun at the Victorian...
Harry Silver is learning to juggle his many commitments - to his wife and his ex-wife, to his son, his stepdaughter and his mother, to his own work and his wife`s career. And then someone walks into his life who is going to make it even more complicated ... A follow-up to the international bestseller "Man and Boy", "Man and Wife" stands on its own as a brilliant novel about relationships in the new century - about why we fall in love and why we marry, about why we stay and why we go.
ISBN: 978-0-00-651482-4
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: август 2011
"A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth." After the death of her father, Ann Whitefield becomes the joint ward of two men: the respectable Roebuck Ramsden and John Tanner, author of The Revolutionist`s Handbook. Believing marriage would prevent him from achieving his higher intellectual and political ambitions, Tanner is horrified to discover that Ann intends to marry him, and flees to Spain with the determined young woman in hot pursuit. The chase even leads them to the underworld, where the characters alter egos discuss questions of human nature and philosophy in a lively debate in a scene often performed separately as Don Juan in Hell. In Man and Superman, Shaw combined seriousness with comedy...
ISBN: 978-0-14-138992-9
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
His name was Feliks. He came to London to commit a murder that would change history. A master manipulator, he had many weapons at his command, but against him were ranged the whole of the English police, a brilliant and powerful lord, and the young Winston Churchill
ISBN: 0-451-16351-6
Издательство:
Penguin USA
Дата выхода: январь 2002
From the internationally acclaimed author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries comes an extraordinary stand-alone novel - both a mystery and a sweeping drama - that traces the legacy of the nineteenth-century slave trade between China and America. January 2006. In the small Swedish hamlet of Hesjovallen, a horrific scene is discovered: nineteen people have been tortured and massacred an the only clue is a red silk ribbon found at the scene. Judge Birgitta Roslin has a particular reason to be shocked by the crime: her mother`s adoptive parents, the Andrens, are among the victims. Investigating further, she learns that an Andren family living in Nevada has also been murdered. Travelling to Hesjovallen, she finds a diary, kept by a gangmaster on...
ISBN: 978-0-09-955535-3
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Roald Dahl is the master of the unexpected. Things are not always what they seem and nobody should be trusted. In this collection of his short stories we learn some strange lessons about the dangerous world we live in. But you will have to wait until the final pages of each story to discover the last, terrible twist!
ISBN: 978-1-4058-8266-8
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Roald Dahl is the master of the unexpected. Things are not always what they seem and nobody should be trusted. In this collection of his short stories we learn some strange lessons about the dangerous world we live in. But you will have to wait until the final pages of each story to discover the last, terrible twist!
ISBN: 978-1-4082-7429-3
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student`s capabilities. `The first killing went well. Perfectly, in fact. Though I always knew it would. I had planned it well. Arrangements, organisation - these are things I`m good at. Now I`ve discovered I`m good at killing too.` The police are in a race against time to catch the murderer before he kills again. And again ...Paperback-only version. Also available with Audio CDs including complete text recordings from the book.
Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student`s capabilities. `The first killing went well. Perfectly, in fact. Though I always knew it would. I had planned it well. Arrangements, organisation - these are things I`m good at. Now I`ve discovered I`m good at killing too.` The police are in a race against time to catch the murderer before he kills again. And again ...Contains a paperback and three Audio CDs with complete text recordings from the book.
ISBN: 978-1-107-62477-1
Издательство:
Cambridge
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
Волнующие приключения во Франции XVII века. Луи XIV восходит на французский престол. Министр финансов Франции приглашает юного монарха в свой великолепный дворец в Во.
ISBN: 978-0-230-03036-7
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения. The Man in the Iron Mask is the final episode in the cycle of novels featuring Dumas’ celebrated foursome of D’Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, who first appeared in The Three Musketeers. Some thirty-five years on, the bonds of comradeship are under strain as they end up on different sides in a power struggle that may undermine the young Louis XIV and change the face of the French monarchy. In the fast-paced narrative style that was his trademark, Dumas pitches us straight into the action. What is the secret shared by Aramis and Madame de Chevreuse? Why does the Queen Mother fear its revelation? Who is the mysterious prisoner in the Bastille? And...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-435-1
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Волнующие приключения во Франции XVII века. Луи XIV восходит на французский престол. Министр финансов Франции приглашает юного монарха в свой великолепный дворец в Во.
ISBN: 978-1-4050-7624-1
Издательство:
Langenscheidt
Дата выхода: июль 2011
August Brill, an elderly book critic, lies awake in the dark, unable to sleep. Elsewhere in the house are his daughter, Miriam, and granddaughter, Katya, each with her own reasons for lying awake and watchful in the long Vermont
ISBN: 978-0-571-24075-3
Издательство:
Daedalus
Дата выхода: декабрь 2012
Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title — offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords. This edition of The Man in the Iron Mask includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and Afterword. "You are about to hear", said Aramis, "an account which few could now give; for it refers to a secret which they buried with the " So begins the magnificent concluding story of the swashbuckling Musketeers, Aramis, Athos, Porthos, and D`Artagnan. Aramis - plotting against the...
ISBN: 0-8125-6499-5
Издательство:
Holtzbrink
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
The Second World War has been over for seventeen years. America has been divided between the Nazis and the Japanese. And in the neutral buffer zone between the two superpowers lives the man in the high castle, the author of an underground bestseller, a work of fiction that explores an alternate world history in which the Axis powers lost the war. It's a rallying cry for all who dream of overthrowing the occupiers. But could it be more than that?
ISBN: 978-0-575-08205-2
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
The newly-orphaned Anne Beddingfield came to London expecting excitement. She didn"t expect to find it on the platform of Hyde Park Corner tube stat...
ISBN: 9780008196202
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: январь 2020
This book offers the chilling tale of a painting so terrifying, its secrets will haunt those who see it. It is a ghost story by the author of The Woman in Black, to be read by the fire on a cold winter`s night. A mysterious depiction of masked revellers at the Venice carnival hangs in the college rooms of Oliver`s old professor in Cambridge. On this cold winter`s night, its eerie secret is revealed by the ageing don. The dark art of the Venetian scene, instead of imitating life, has the power to entrap it. To stare into the painting is to play dangerously with the unseen demons it hides, and become the victim of its macabre
'The mind is a time machine that travels backwards in memory and forwards in prophecy, but he has done with prophecy ; Sequestered in his blitz-battered Regent's Park house in 1944, the ailing Herbert George Wells, '; to his family and friends, looks back on a life crowded with incident, books, and women. Has it been a success or a failure? Once he was the most famous writer in the world, 'the man who invented tomorrow'; now he feels like yesterday's man, deserted by readers and depressed by the collapse of his utopian dreams. He recalls his unpromising start, and early struggles to acquire an education and make a living as a teacher; his rapid rise to fame as a writer with a prophetic imagination and a...
ISBN: 978-0-09-955608-4
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
Ill luck made Roger Torraway the subject of the Man Plus Programe, but it was deliberate biological engineering which turned him into a monster - a machine perfectly adapted to survive on Mars. For according to computer predictions, Mars is humankind`s only alternative to extinction. But beneath his monstrous exterior, Torraway still carries a man`s capacity for suffering.
ISBN: 978-1-85798-946-5
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011