What is the real world? Does it exist, or is it merely a means of keeping another reality at bay? This collection offers a vision of another world which lurks just beneath the surface of our consciousness, a world where the myths we have banished from our lives are present and where imagination has the power to transform reality.
ISBN: 978-0-552-77105-4
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
When the going gets tough, you find out who your friends really Laura Fanning has talent to burn, a brand-new jewellery design company and a wonderful husband. Nicola Peters has independence, a job she loves and her own home. Helen Jackson has a killer wardrobe, a thriving career and a lively and engaging daughter. But all is not as it seems. Laura`s struggling to live up to her parents` impossible expectations, Nicola is coping with a life-changing event, Helen`s worried that her maternal instinct has gone AWOL - and trying to cope with their problems alone is driving the three friends apart just when they need each other most. Then into the mix comes Chloe Fallon. She`s marrying gorgeous Dan Hunt and planning the wedding of the year,...
ISBN: 978-0-09-948692-3
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: август 2011
Every so often a love story so captures our hearts that it becomes more than a story-it becomes an experience to remember forever. The Notebook is such a book. It is a celebration of how passion can be ageless and timeless, a tale that moves us to laughter and tears and makes us believe in true love all over again... At thirty-one, Noah Calhoun, back in coastal North Carolina after World War II, is haunted by images of the girl he lost more than a decade earlier. At twenty-nine, socialite Allie Nelson is about to marry a wealthy lawyer, but she cannot stop thinking about the boy who long ago stole her heart. Thus begins the story of a love so enduring and deep it can turn tragedy into triumph, and may even have the power to create a...
A man picks up a faded, well-worn notebook and begins reading to a frail elderly woman, his voice recalling the heartbreaking story of two star-crossed lovers and their poignant, bittersweet journey to happiness. So begins this touching novel that is a dual tale of love lost and found, and of a man`s gentle battle to reach an aging woman who cannot remember the most cherished moments of her life. New Line Cinema is developing a screenplay from the novel.
ISBN: 0-446-60523-9
Издательство:
Warner Books
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
The political cataclysms and cultural revolutions of our century… confirm the status of Notes from Underground as one of the most sheerly astonishing and subversive creations of European fiction.
ISBN: 0-553-21144-7
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Des Moines, Iowa born writer Bryson`s first success was the travel book "The Lost Continent". After living in England for several years, he wanted to go back to the USA to find the perfect little US town of his past, he lovingly called Amalgam. More travel books followed, in the form of "Neither Here Nor There" (where he travels through Europe), "Notes From A Small Island" (where he travels around the United Kingdom, before returning back with his to the USA to live there for good) and "A Walk In The Woods" (where he walks the Appalachian trail). After moving back to the States, Bryson started to write a column for "The Mail on Sunday Night and Day" magazine. This is a collection of these column entries. Bryson writes about everything...
ISBN: 978-0-552-99786-7
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
"Notes from Underground" (1864) is a study of a single character, `the real man of the Russian majority`, and a revelation of Dostoyevsky`s own deepest beliefs. One of his best critics has said of the first part that it forms his `most utterly naked pages. Never after wards was he so fully and openly to reveal the inmost recesses, unmeant for display, of his heart`. "The Double" (1846) is the nightmarish story of Mr Golyadkin, a man who is haunted or possessed by his own double. Is `Mr Golyadkin junior` really a double or simply a fearful side of his own nature? This uncertainty is what gives urgency and horror to a tale which may be read as a classic study of human breakdown.
This is the startling beginning to Notes from the Underground, one of the most profound works of nineteenth-century literature. A probing, speculative book, often regarded as a forerunner of the Existentialist movement, it examines the important political and philosophical questions current in Russia and Europe at the time. The Gambler explores the compulsive nature of gambling, one of the author`s own vices and a subject he describes with extraordinary acumen and drama. Both Dostoevsky`s first wife and his brother died in the year that Notes was published, and he wrote The Gambler when he was deeply in debt and pursued by creditors. As with most of Dostoevsky`s important works, these two were written as he underwent acute personal...
ISBN: 978-0-19-953638-2
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: июль 2011
After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson, the acclaimed author of such bestsellers as "The Mother Tongue" and "Made in America", decided it was time to move back to the United States for a while. This was partly to let his wife and kids experience life in Bryson`s homeland - and partly because he had read that million Americans believed that they had been abducted by aliens at one time or another. It was thus clear to him that his people needed him. But before leaving his much-loved home in North Yorkshire, Bryson insisted on taking one last trip around Britain, a sort of valedictory tour of the green and kindly island that had so long been his home. His aim was to take stock of modern-day Britain, and to analyze what he loved so...
ISBN: 978-0-552-99600-6
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
When the new teacher first arrives, Barbara immediately senses that this woman will be different from the rest of her staff-room colleagues. But Barbara is not the only one to feel that Sheba is special, and before too long Sheba is involved in an illicit affair with a pupil. Barbara finds the relationship abhorrent, of course, but she is the only adult in whom Sheba can properly confide. So when the liaison is found out and Sheba`s life falls apart, Barbara is
ISBN: 978-0-14-103518-5
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: август 2011
