New house. Fresh start. Same husband.Can you paint over the cracks in a marriage?Karen has packed up her life and is making The Move. She’s on her way to the idyllic country cottage which her husband has painstakingly renovated for her. They’re escaping the London bustle and the daily grind. And they’re escaping their past.A fresh start in a beautiful, peaceful village. It will be different here, right?But something is awry. The landscape, breathtaking by day, is eerie by night. The longed-for peace and solitude is stifling. And the house, so artfully put together by her husband, has a strange vibe. Now that Karen is cut off from her old friends and family, she can’t help wondering if her husband has plans of his own, and that...
Предлагаем вниманию читателей знаменитый роман советского писателя Михаила Булгакова «Мастер и Маргарита». Роман, написанный в течение одного из самых мрачных десятилетий двадцатого века, отражает сложную историческую эпоху и настроения советского общества тех времен. Бог и дьявол, добро и зло, творчество и гибель — в романе множество сюжетных линий, противоречивых героев, поступки которых...
ISBN: 978-5-9925-1453-7
Издательство:
Каро
Дата выхода: май 2020
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, travel writer, and essayist. His most famous works are "Treasure Island" and "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." Now he is one of the most translated authors in the world. Tired of his father refusing to tolerate his addiction for alcohol, John Nicholson decides to leave Edinburgh for a better life in America. For some time he seems to have achieved success, but John learns that all of his excesses mixed with internal problems would ultimately lead him to failure.
ISBN: 978-5-517-00200-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: декабрь 2018
Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. "The Mystery of Cloomber" is a suspenseful gothic novel that centers around mysterious general Heatherstone and his family. Every single year his paranoia rises around the autumn time. Only his new neighbor John Fothergill West is curious enough to uncover the secret of such unusual behavior. .
ISBN: 978-5-521-08076-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
The new novel from the bestselling author of Middlesex and The Virgin Suicides.Brown University, 1982. Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English student and incurable romantic, is writing her thesis on Jane Austen and George Eliot - authors of the great marriage plots. As Madeleine studies the age-old motivations of the human heart, real life, in the form of two very different men, intervenes.Leonard Bankhead, brilliant scientist and charismatic loner, attracts Madeleine with an intensity that she seems powerless to resist. Meanwhile her old friend Mitchell Grammaticus, a theology student searching for some kind of truth in life, is certain of at least one thing - that he and Madeleine are destined to be together.But as all three leave college,...
Presenting a revolutionary new approach to the Tree of Life, this book is written in plain English. No background in Victorian occultism is necessary to use it; it is entirely contemporary and without exotic terminology.
ISBN: 9781564146502
Издательство:
Феникс
Дата выхода: февраль 2003
Thomas Love Peacock was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company. "The Misfortunes of Elphin" is a novella, which is set in a somewhat historically fanciful Arthurian Britain which incorporates many Welsh legends, but avoids all supernatural and mystical elements.
ISBN: 978-5-517-00228-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
Thomas Love Peacock (1785—1866) was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company. «The Misfortunes of Elphin» is a awesome novella. It is set in a somewhat historically fanciful Arthurian Britain which incorporates many Welsh legends, but avoids all supernatural and mystical elements. Seithenyn appears as a major character.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07105-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: май 2018
Книга на английском языке с параллельным русским текстом Данное издание включает 12 очерков из сборника «Зеркало моря», два очерка из сборника «Последние эссе» и три очерка из сборника «Заметки о жизни и литературе» Джозефа Конрада, классика английской литературы конца XIX, начала XX в.в. Все очерки основаны на автобиографическом материале и опыте службы автора на парусных судах Торгового флота...
ISBN: 978-5-907080-60-7
Издательство:
ВКН
Дата выхода: май 2020
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896) was an American abolitionist and a writer. She is best known for her novel "Uncle Tom`s Cabin," which depicts the harsh conditions for enslaved African Americans. "The Minister`s Wooing" is her third historical novel, a domestic comedy that examines slavery, Protestant theology, and gender differences in early America. It is set in eighteenth-century Newport, Rhode Island, a community known for its engagement in both religious piety and the slave trade.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08299-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: май 2019
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850—1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, travel writer, and essayist. He was a celebrity during his lifetime for works like "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and "Treasure Island." Now he is one of the most translated authors in the world. Tired of his father refusing to tolerate his addiction for alcohol, John Nicholson decides to leave Edinburgh for a better life in America. For some time he seems to have achieved success, but John learns that all of his excesses mixed with internal problems would ultimately lead him to failure. .
ISBN: 978-5-521-07792-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most influential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. While being one of the early works, "The Mysterious Lodger" still considered as a fine example of horror fiction classics by one of the most prominent authors of the genre.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07126-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Princess Florizella may live in a classic fairy-tale world, but she’s no ordinary princess…This third volume in The Princess Rules series sees the feisty princess take her baby brother and best friend, Bennett, on another round of adventures together.Can they rescue their new-found friend the sea serpent from a travelling circus? And hold back the pirate, Five-fathom Freida. Or will Florizella’s worst fairygodmother prove that in a fairytale world, you really do have to be careful what you wish for?…
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most influential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. While being one of the early works, "The Mysterious Lodger" is still considered as a fine example of horror fiction classics by one of the most prominent authors of the genre.
ISBN: 978-5-517-00232-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2019
First ever publication of J.R.R. Tolkien’s final writings on Middle-earth, covering a wide range of subjects and perfect for those who have read and enjoyed The Silmarillion, The Lord of the Rings, Unfinished Tales, and The History of Middle-earth, and want to learn more about Tolkien’s magnificent world.It is well known that J.R.R. Tolkien published The Hobbit in 1937 and The Lord of the Rings in 1954–5. What may be less known is that he continued to write about Middle-earth in the decades that followed, right up until the years before his death in 1973.For him, Middle-earth was part of an entire world to be explored, and the writings in The Nature of Middle-earth reveal the journeys that he took as he sought to better understand...
Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. The stories contained in this volume take rank with the most mature and romantic of his works. The charming love and adventure of the life that he depicts in remote places confirm the growing belief that he is among the greatest of living creative writers. The story of The Nigger of the Narcissus have started when a black sailor with tuberculosis boards the ship Narcissus. The shadow of death falls across the ship and the lingering gloom brings out both the best and the worst in the crew.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07647-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
A brand new book in the bestselling Naughtiest Unicorn series - the funniest unicorn books ever! The perfect gift for Easter, for readers of 6+ and fans of The Worst Witch and Pamela Butchart.It`s spring time at Unicorn School and time for a super fun scavenger hunt!But when Dave the naughtiest unicorn uncovers a mysterious, hidden riddle the day gets even more exciting! Will the riddle it will lead them to some treasure? One thing is for sure, with Dave around they are bound to have lots of fun along the way!Pip Bird is the pseudonym for a small group of brilliant, funny children`s book writers. They all believe in magic and dream of having a Unicorn Best Friend Forever.
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. This collection consists often great stories such as "The Madness of John Harned", "When the World Was Young", "The Benefit of the Doubt" and "The Night-Born". .
ISBN: 978-5-521-08121-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Blow up your inflatable, apply the factor 50 and polish those sunnies… Mira and Dave the naughtiest unicorn are going to the beach! Mira can`t wait to build a giant sandcastle (although Dave is more interested in eating a giant glittery icecream).But when Mira and her Unicorn School friends go exploring and spot a little narwhal in BIG trouble, the fun day out turns into a super-adventurous rescue mission… it`s Dave and Mira to the rescue!Pip Bird is a children`s author living in London. When she`s not writing magical stories, she dreams of going to Unicorn School and having her own Unicorn Best Friend Forever.
ISBN: 9781405297189
Издательство:
Farshore
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2022
Henry James (1843—1916) was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism. «The Outcry» is an effervescent comedy of money and manners. Breckenridge Bender, a very rich American with a distinct resemblance to J.P. Morgan, arrives in England with the purpose of acquiring some very great art; he is directed to Dedborough, the estate of the debt-ridden Lord Theign. But plutocrat and aristocrat come into unexpected conflict when a young connoisseur, out to establish his own reputation, declares a prize painting from the lord\'s collection to be in fact an even rarer, and pricier, work than had been thought.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07080-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: апрель 2018
