Contemporary / American English (Available June 2008) Memoirs of a Geisha is one of the great stories of our time. We follow Sayuri`s life: her early years in a small fishing village and as a geisha in Gion. And throughout her struggle, we know of her secret love for the only man who ever showed her any kindness - a man who seems to be out of her reach.
ISBN: 978-1-4058-8267-5
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: июль 2011
By the time Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had completed the twelve stories for The Strand magazine that are gathered together in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, he was already growing tired of his most famous creation, but the financial incentive to continue was too great.So began the second series of stories, known as The Memoirs; these introduced such notable characters as Holmes` indolent brother, Mycroft, and Holmes` most dangerous adversary, Professor James Moriarty, the `Napoleon of Crime`. The collection included such stories as `The Adventure of the Resident Patient` and `The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter`, which Doyle would list later as amongst his favourites.It was to Moriarty that was delegated the task of ending the career...
ISBN: 9781840228052
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2022
Текст романа на английском языке. This is a rare and utterly engaging story. It tells the extraordinary tale of a geisha - summoning up a quarter century, from 1929 to the post-war year s of Japan's dramatic history, and opening a window onto a half-hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation.
ISBN: 0-09-949818-9
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: февраль 2007
Daniel Defoe was an English trader, writer, pamphleteer and journalist. He is most famous for his novel "Robinson Crusoe", which is second only to the Bible in its number of translations. Memoirs of a Cavalier is a work of historical fiction, set during the Thirty Years` War and the English Civil Wars. Daniel Defoe`s great talent as a writer was to speak in the voices of others. Such was the authenticity of this memoir of a 17th-century soldier of fortune that for over half a century it was considered to be genuine.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08185-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
In this almost documentary account of his own experience of penal servitude in Siberia, Dostoevsky describes the physical and mental suffering of the convicts, the squalor and the degradation, in relentless detail. The intricate procedure whereby the men strip for the bath without removing their ten-pound leg-fetters is an extraordinary tour de force, compared by Turgenev to passages from Dante`s Inferno. Terror and resignation - the rampages of a psychopath, the brief serene interlude of Christmas Day - are evoked by Dostoevsky, writing several years after his release, with a strikingly uncharacteristic detachment. For this reason, House of the Dead is certainly the least Dostoevskian of his works, yet, paradoxically, it ranks among...
ISBN: 978-0-19-954051-8
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2011
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes are overshadowed by the event with which they close - the meeting of the great detective and Moriarty, the Napoleon of Crime. Their struggle, seemingly to the death, was to leave many readers desolate at the loss of Holmes, but was also to lead to his immortality as a literary figure. However illogical as a detective story, `The final Problem` has proved itself an unforgettable tale. The stories that precede it included two narratives from Holmes himself, on a mutiny at sea and a treasure hunt in a Sussex country house, as well as a meeting with his brilliant brother Mycroft, of whom Holmes says, `If the art of the detective began and ended in reasoning from any armchair, my brother would be the greatest...
ISBN: 978-0-19-955548-2
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
