William Makepeace Thackeray (1811—1863) was a British author and novelist mostly known for his satirical works such as "Vanity Fair" that showed an ironic representation of the British society of those times. "Men`s Wives" is a classic collection of short stories that include witty comedy and entertaining insight into the manners of the Victorian era. It is a very interesting view of the relationships between men and their wives, and a clever commentary on social norms. .
ISBN: 978-5-521-07829-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Hendrik Hofgen, an unknown actor obsessed with fame, renounces his wife and mistress when the Nazis come to power. The culmination of his ascent into Nazi society comes with his performance as the demonic Mephisto. Hofgen then must face the moral consequnces of his rise to fame.
ISBN: 0-14-018918-1
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: февраль 2007
«La méprise, dans un esprit de parenté absolu avec le reste de mes livres, n`a aucun commentaire social à faire, ni aucun message à accrocher entre ses dents. Ce livre n`exalte pas l`organe spirituel de l`homme et n`indique pas à l`humanité quelle est la porte de sortie. Il contient bien moins "d`idées" que tous ces plantureux et vulgaires romans que l`on acclame si hystériquement dans la petite allée des rumeurs entre les balivernes et les huées. [...] Hermann et Humbert sont identiques comme deux dragons peints par le même artiste à différentes périodes de sa vie peuvent se ressembler. Tous deux sont des vauriens névrosés ; cependant il existe une verte...
ISBN: 978-2-07-038402-0
Издательство:
Gallimard
Дата выхода: май 2012
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. Mercedes of Castile; or, The Voyage to Cathay is a historical novel by Cooper. The novel is set in 15th century Europe, and follows the preparations and expedition of Christopher Columbus westward to the new world. .
ISBN: 978-5-521-07948-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
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. Mercedes of Castile; or, The Voyage to Cathay is a 1840 historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper. The novel is set in 15th century Europe, and follows the preparations and expedition of Christopher Columbus westward to the new world.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06649-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
Antonio is a successful merchant. To help his friend get married, he borrows money from a money-lender, Shylock. What will happen if he cannot repay the loan in three months?
ISBN: 978-1-4082-8956-3
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: август 2011
Classic / British English (Available February 2008) Bassanio wants to get married, but he has no money and a lot of debts. He asks his friend Antonio for a loan, but Antonio is waiting for his ships to return. Until then, he has nothing to lend. To help Bassanio, he borrows money from a money-lender and agrees to an unusual condition. If Antonio cannot repay the loan in three months, the money-lender will cut a pound of flesh from his body. Will Antonio be able to repay the loan? Or will he die?
ISBN: 978-1-4058-8227-9
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
In Venice, Bassanio needs money to court a rich heiress. His merchant friend Antonio borrows the money from Shylock, a Jewish moneylender. Shylock demands that the money is repaid in three months or he will take a pound of Antonio’s flesh. The merchant confidently agrees, but ultimately it will take the intelligence of two women to save him…
ISBN: 9788853003157
Издательство:
CIDEB
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
The Merchant of Venice is perhaps most associated not with its titular hero, Antonio, but with the complex figure of the money-lender, Shylock. The play was described as a comedy in the First Folio but its modern audiences find it more problematic to categorize. The vilification of Shylock `the Jew` can be very uncomfortable for a post-holocaust audience, and debates continue as to whether Shakespeare`s portrayal of this complex man is sympathetic or anti-semitic. A exacting and controversial comedy, The Merchant of Venice explores prejudice and the true nature of justice.
ISBN: 978-1-907360-12-1
Издательство:
CRW Publishing
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
The police chief of a small Massachusetts town, Cameron McDonald makes the toughest arrest of his life when his own cousin Jamie comes to him and confesses outright that he has killed his terminally ill wife out of mercy. Now, a heated murder trial plunges the town into upheaval and drives a wedge into a contented marriage: Cameron, aiding the prosecution in its case against Jamie, is suddenly at odds with his devoted wife, Allie, who is seduced by the idea of a man so in love with his wife that he`d grant all her wishes, even her wish to end her life. And when an inexplicable attraction leads to a shocking betrayal, Allie faces the hardest questions of the heart: When does love cross the line of moral obligation? And what does it mean...
ISBN: 978-1-4165-4938-3
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Police chief of a small Massachusetts town, Cameron McDonald makes the toughest arrest of his life when his own cousin Jamie comes to him and confesses outright that he has killed his terminally ill wife out of mercy. Now, a heated murder trial plunges the town into upheaval, and drives a wedge into a contented marriage: Cameron, aiding the prosecution in their case against Jamie, is suddenly at odds with his devoted wife, Allie - seduced by the idea of a man so in love with his wife that he`d grant all her wishes, even her wish to end her life. And when an inexplicable attraction leads to a shocking betrayal, Allie faces the hardest questions of the heart: when does love cross the line of moral obligation? And what does it mean to truly...
At first the prisoner scratches at the walls until her fingers bleed. But there is no escaping the room. With no way of measuring time, her days, weeks, months go unrecorded. She vows not to go mad. She will not give her captors the satisfaction. She will die first. Copenhagen detective Carl Morck has been taken off homicide to run a newly created department for unsolved crimes. His first case concerns Merete Lynggaard, who vanished five years ago. Everyone says she`s dead. Everyone says it`s a waste of time. He thinks they`re right. The voice in the dark is distorted, harsh and without mercy. It says the prisoner`s torture will only end when she answers one simple question. It is one she has asked herself a million times: Why is this...
ISBN: 978-0-241-95404-1
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Cameron MacDonald has spent his life guided by duty. As the police chief of a small Massachusetts town that has been home to generations of his Scottish clan, he is bound to the town`s residents by blood and honor. Yet when his cousin Jamie arrives at the police station with the body of his wife and the bald confession that he`s killed her, Cam immediately places him under arrest. The situation isn`t as clear to Cam`s wife, Allie. While she is devoted to her husband, she finds herself siding against Cam, seduced by the picture James paints of a man so in love with a woman that he`d grant all her even the one that meant taking her life. Into this charged atmosphere drifts Mia, a new assistant at Allie`s floral shop, for whom Cam feels an...
ISBN: 978-0-340-96054-7
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: январь 2015
Police chief of a small Massachusetts town, Cameron McDonald makes the toughest arrest of his life when his own cousin Jamie comes to him and confesses outright that he has killed his terminally ill wife out of mercy. Now, a heated murder trial plunges the town into upheaval, and drives a wedge into a contented marriage: Cameron, aiding the prosecution in their case against Jamie, is suddenly at odds with his devoted wife, Allie - seduced by the idea of a man so in love with his wife that he`d grant all her wishes, even her wish to end her life. And when an inexplicable attraction leads to a shocking betrayal, Allie faces the hardest questions of the heart: when does love cross the line of moral obligation? And what does it mean to truly...
ISBN: 978-0-340-97692-0
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: январь 2013
A year after arriving in France, Englishman Paul West is still struggling with some fundamental questions: What is the best way to scare a gendarme? Why are there no health warnings on French nudist beaches? And is it really polite to sleep with your boss` mistress? Paul opens his English tea room, and mutates (temporarily) into a Parisian waiter; samples the pleasures of typically French hotel-room afternoons; and, on a return visit to the UK, sees the full horror of a British office party through Parisian eyes. Meanwhile, he continues his search for the perfect French mademoiselle. But will Paul find l`amour eternel, or will it all end in merde? In his second comedy of errors, Paul West continues to sabotage the entente cordiale....
ISBN: 978-0-552-77308-9
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
The Englishman - Paul West is in deep financial merde and has taken on a decidedly dodgy job touring America in a Mini. The Frenchwoman - Alexa, his très Parisienne girlfriend, claims to despise everything American, but ends up getting a little too friendly with the locals for Paul`s liking. The American - Jake is a poet whose main aim in life is to sleep with a woman from every country in the world. Preferably in the back of Paul`s Mini. As the little car battles from New York to Miami and then heads west, leg room turns out to be the least of Paul`s troubles. His work is being sabotaged; his love-life has become a Franco-American war zone; and as Paul knows better than anyone, when you mix love and war - merde happens ...
ISBN: 978-0-552-77352-2
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
‘I am greatly relieved that the universe is finally explainable. I was beginning to think it was me’. Thus begins ‘Strung Out’, Woody Allen’s hilarious application of the laws of the universe to daily life. Mere Anarchy, Woody Allen’s first new collection in over 25 years, features eighteen witty, wild and intelligent comic pieces – eight of which have never been in print before. Surreal, absurd, rich in verbal play, bitingly satirical and just plan daft in the mode we have grown to love from his finest films, this flight-of-fancy collection includes tales of a body double who, mistaken for the film’s star, is kidnapped by outlaws; a pretentious novelist forced to work on the novelisation of a Three Stooges film; a nanny...
ISBN: 978-0-09-192032-6
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Out on a hunting trip, Arthur kills a unicorn. Merlin rushes to the animal`s side, obviously upset, as the knights cheer Arthur for killing this most highly-prized of beasts. But, it seems that by killing the magical creature Arthur has cursed Camelot and until he makes amends for his actions the great city will be damned. Could this be the end of Camelot and her people?
ISBN: 978-0-553-82204-5
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Gwen is mistaken for Morgana and kidnapped by the savage outlaw Hengist. Uther refuses to pay her ransom so Arthur defies his father, heading out into dangerous enemy territory to fight for Gwen`s freedom. Merlin suspects Arthur`s devotion to Gwen is more than just that of a prince to one of his subjects. But how will Arthur react when he finds Gwen is not alone in Hengist`s castle? She and Lancelot have found each other again, and powerful feelings have been
ISBN: 978-0-553-82211-3
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Life at Avalon High is far from dull for Ellie. Not only is she a star of the track team - she`s also dating the super-hot class president, Will. Who just happens to be the alleged reincarnation of King Arthur. Ellie isn`t sure her boyfriend can really be legendary King A - and Will isn`t sure either. But their doubts could stop the Merlin Prophecy - an age of enlightenment - coming about. And whatever they believe, it`s definitely true that their lives are in grave
ISBN: 978-0-330-45316-5
Издательство:
Picador USA
Дата выхода: июль 2011