ISBN: 014062094X
Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2002

ISBN: 978-0-380-81861-7
Издательство: HarperCollins
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

In "Pale Fire" Nabokov offers a cornucopia of deceptive pleasures: a 999-line poem by the reclusive genius John Shade; an adoring foreword and commentary by Shade`s self-styled Boswell, Dr. Charles Kinbote; a darkly comic novel of suspense, literary idolatry and one-upmanship, and political intrigue. One of the twentieth century`s master prose stylists, Vladimir Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg in 1899. He studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris, where he launched a brilliant literary career. In 1940 he moved to the United States, and achieved renown as a novelist, poet, critic, and translator. He taught literature at Wellesley Stanford, Cornell, and Harvard. In 1961 he moved...

ISBN: 978-0-679-72342-4
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011

In 1951 Mississippi, Thebes State Penal Farm is a place of violence, racial terror, and horrific rumors. When an old friend disappears inside Thebes, Arkansas State Police Sgt. Earl Swagger infiltrates the prison and discovers a savage world where death is the only salvation. He barely escapes with his life, but he`s not about to stay away for long.

ISBN: 978-0-671-03546-4
Дата выхода: июль 2011

A priest's death leads to sinister goings-on in an old country understand the strange goings on at The Pale Horse Inn, Mark Easterbrook knew he had to begin at the beginning. But where exactly was the beginning? Was it the savage blow to the back of Father Gorman's head? Or was it when the priest's assailant searched him so roughly he tore the clergyman's cassock? Or could it have been the priest's visit, just minutes before, to a woman on her death bed? Or was there a deeper significance to the violent squabble which Mark Easterbrook had himself witnessed earlier? Wherever the beginning lies, Mark and his sidekick, Ginger Corrigan, may soon have cause to wish they'd never found it!

ISBN: 978-0-00-715165-3
Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011

In the Cities of Coin and Spice and In the Night Garden introduced readers to the unique and intoxicating imagination of Catherynne M. Valente. Now she weaves a lyrically erotic spell of a place where the grotesque and the beautiful reside and the passport to our most secret fantasies begins with a stranger`s Between life and death, dreaming and waking, at the train stop beyond the end of the world is the city of Palimpsest. To get there is a miracle, a mystery, a gift, and a curse - a voyage permitted only to those who`ve always believed there`s another world than the one that meets the eye. Those fated to make the passage are marked forever by a map of that wondrous city tattooed on their flesh after a single orgasmic night. To this...

ISBN: 978-0-553-38576-2
Дата выхода: август 2011

Anthony Trollope (1815—1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. "The Eustace Diamonds" is the third of six novels in another famous series, "The Palliser Novels," also known as the Parliamentary Novels. The plot of the novel centres on the fabulous necklace owned by the Eustace family, which the beautiful but ruthless opportunist Lizzie, claims as her own after she marries Sir Florian Eustace for his money and becomes his widow after only a few months.

ISBN: 978-5-521-08366-4
Издательство: Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2019

Anthony Trollope (1815—1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. "Phineas Redux" is the fourth of six novels in another famous series, "The Palliser Novels", also known as the Parliamentary Novels. After the death of his Irish wife, Phineas Finn returns to London and to the House of Commons.

ISBN: 978-5-521-08323-7
Издательство: Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2019

Anthony Trollope (1815—1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. "The Prime Minister" is the fifth of six novels in another famous series, "The Palliser Novels", also known as the Parliamentary Novels. It is a wonderfully subtle portrait of a marriage, political expediency, and misplaced love.

ISBN: 978-5-521-08325-1
Издательство: Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2019

Anthony Trollope (1815—1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. "The Duke`s Children" is the sixth and final novel in another famous series, "The Palliser Novels" also known as the Parliamentary Novels. Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omnium and former Prime Minister of England, is, widowed and wracked by grief. Struggling to adapt to life without his beloved Lady Glencora, he works hard to guide and support his three adult children. Palliser soon discovers, however, that his own plans for them are very different from their desires.

ISBN: 978-5-521-08367-1
Издательство: Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2019

Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. "Can You Forgive Her?" is the first of six novels in another famous series, "The Palliser Novels," also known as the Parliamentary Novels. The novel follows three parallel stories of courtship and marriage and the decisions of three strong women: Alice Vavasor, her cousin Glencora Palliser, and her aunt Arabella Greenow.

ISBN: 978-5-521-08320-6
Издательство: Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2019

Anthony Trollope (1815—1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. "The Eustace Diamonds" is the third of six novels in another famous series, "The Palliser Novels," also known as the Parliamentary Novels. The plot of the novel centres on the fabulous necklace owned by the Eustace family, which the beautiful but ruthless opportunist Lizzie, claims as her own after she marries Sir Florian Eustace for his money and becomes his widow after only a few months.

ISBN: 978-5-521-08365-7
Издательство: Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2019

Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. "Phineas Finn" is the second of six novels in another famous series, "The Palliser Novels", also known as the Parliamentary Novels. The novel introduces its title character, Phineas Finn, a talented but naive doctor`s son from Ireland.

ISBN: 978-5-521-08321-3
Издательство: Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2019