For all the strange worlds borne of his vast and vivid imagination, Philip K. Dick was largely concerned with humanity`s most achingly familiar heartaches and struggles. In Our Friends From Frolix 8, he clashes private dreams against public battles in a fast-paced and provocative tale that ultimately addresses our salvation both as individuals and a whole. Nick Appleton is a menial laborer whose life is a series of endless frustrations. Willis Gram is the despotic oligarch of a planet ruled by big-brained elites. When they both fall in love with Charlotte Boyer, a feisty black marketer of revolutionary propaganda, Nick seems destined for doom. But everything takes a decidedly unpredictable turn when the revolution`s leader, Thors...
ISBN: 978-0-575-07671-6
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
At forty-eight, Tim Cranmer is a secret servant in a premature retirement to deepest rural England. His Cold War is fought and won, and he is free to devote himself to his stately manor house, his vineyard, and his beautiful young mistress, Emma.
ISBN: 978-0-340-92436-5
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: август 2011
With the Cold war fought and won, British spymaster Tim Cranmer accepts early retirement to rural Englang and a new life with his alluring young mistress, Emma. But when both Emma and Cranmer`s star double agent and lifelong rival, Larry Pettifer, disappear, Cranmer is suddenly on the run, searching for his brilliant protege, desperately eluding his former colleagues, in a frantic journey across Europe and into the lawless, battered landscapes of Moscow and southern Russia, to save whatever of his life he has left...
ISBN: 0-345-40000-3
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Britain is in the depths of recession. A left leaning young Oxford academic and his barrister girlfriend take an off peak holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua. By seeming chance they bump into a Russian millionaire called Dima who owns a peninsula and a diamond-encrusted gold watch. He also has a tattoo on his right thumb, and wants a game of tennis. What else he wants propels the young lovers on a tortuous journey through Paris to a safe house in the Swiss Alps, to the murkiest cloisters of the of London and its unholy alliance with Britain`s Intelligence Establishment.
ISBN: 978-0-241-95401-0
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
"Our Mutual Friend", Dickens` last novel, gives one of his most comprehensive and penetrating accounts of Victorian society. Its vision of a culture stifled by materialistic values emerges not just through its central narratives, but through its apparently incidental characters and scenes. The chief of its several plots centres on John Harmon who returns to England as his father`s heir. He is believed drowned under suspicious circumstances - a situation convenient to his wish for anonymity until he can evaluate Bella Wilfer whom he must marry to secure his inheritance. The story is filled with colourful characters and incidents - the faded aristocrats and parvenus gathered at the Veneering`s dinner table, Betty Higden and her terror of...
ISBN: 1-85326-194-7
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: февраль 2007
Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic. Our Mutual Friend is Charles Dickens` last novel and one of his most sophisticated works, combining psychological insight with social analysis. John Harmon returns to England after years in exile to claim his inheritance: a great fortune and a beautiful young woman to whom he is betrothed, but has never met. When Harmon`s body is pulled out of the Thames, all of London is fascinated by the mystery of the murdered man and his unclaimed riches. Social-climbers, lawyers, teachers, a money-lender, men and women both honest and villainous will all become embroiled in this tale of love and obsession, death and rebirth,
ISBN: 978-5-521-07939-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
As the boat moved silently over the water, the thing at the end of the rope always followed. Sometimes it came near the boat and sometimes it pulled away like something alive. As it moved through the water, changes seemed to pass over the dead man`s face. For the thing that followed at the end of the rope was the body of a drowned man. At the inquest the dead man was identified as Mr John Harmon, who had recently returned from abroad. John Harmon had not been drowned, but murdered. But how had he died and who had killed him? Retold by Margaret Tarner.
ISBN: 978-1-4050-7329-5
Издательство:
Langenscheidt
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic. Our Mutual Friend is Charles Dickens` last novel and one of his most sophisticated works, combining psychological insight with social analysis. John Harmon returns to England after years in exile to claim his inheritance: a great fortune and a beautiful young woman to whom he is betrothed, but has never met. When Harmon`s body is pulled out of the Thames, all of London is fascinated by the mystery of the murdered man and his unclaimed riches. Social-climbers, lawyers, teachers, a money-lender, men and women both honest and villainous will all become embroiled in this tale of love and obsession, death and rebirth.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07940-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
Why do we say “I am reading a catalog” instead of "I read a catalog?" Why do we say “do” at all? Is the way we speak a reflection of our cultural values? Delving into these provocative topics and more, Our Magnificent Bastard Language distills hundreds of years of fascinating lore into one lively history. Covering such turning points as the little-known Celtic and Welsh influences on English, the impact of the Viking raids and the Norman Conquest, and the Germanic invasions that started it all during the fifth century ad, John McWhorter narrates this colorful evolution with vigor. Drawing on revolutionary genetic and linguistic research as well as a cache of remarkable trivia about the origins of English words and syntax...
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. "Our Midnight Visitor" is a wonderful collection of short stories like "Our Midnight Visitor", "The Stone of Boxman`s Drift", " The Voice of Science" and other interesting tales.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08066-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Wormold, a vacuum cleaner salesman, was short of money. His daughter had reached an expensive age - so he accepted Hawthorne`s offer of $300-plus a month and became Agent 59200/5, MI6`s man in Havana. To keep the job, he pretends to recruit sub-agents and sends fake stories. Then they come true.
ISBN: 978-0-09-928608-0
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, a dark romantic, and short story writer. Our Old Home is a collection of essays, based on Hawthorne`s stay in England from 1853 to 1857 as American Consul in Liverpool. It was first published in the form of a series of travel papers for "The Atlantic Monthly". In his essays Hawthorne aimed to show us the splendors of London, and the horrors of the poverty that so many suffered.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07765-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Данный сборник - первая литературная попытка авторов в написании рассказов на иностранном языке, максимально приближенном к его носителям. Сборник рассказов будет полезен для студентов языковых вузов, переводчиков художественной литературы и всех интересующихся изучением иностранных языков.
ISBN: 978-5-98405-096-8
Издательство:
Издательство "ВК"
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Hunter Wild, vampire hunter and star pupil at a top secret slayer academy, has a crush on a guy called Quinn. He's tall, dark and very handsome. He's also a vampire, and one of the infamous Drake brothers at that. As if forbidden love wasn't bad enough, something strange is also happening at the Helios-Ra academy. Vampire attacks are increasing, students are mysteriously falling ill and the teachers seem completely clueless. It's up to Hunter and her friends to put things right . . . that is, if she can get a certain immortal out of her head long enough to think about anything else.
ISBN: 978-1-4088-0706-4
Издательство:
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: август 2011
From the moment Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya in 1914 to manage a coffee plantation, her heart belonged to Africa. Drawn to the intense colours and ravishing landscapes, Karen Blixen spent her happiest years on the farm and her experiences and friendships with the people around her are vividly recalled in these memoirs. Out of Africa is the story of a remarkable and unconventional woman and of a way of life that has vanished for ever.
ISBN: 0-14-118333-0
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
The first novel in C.S. Lewis`s classic sci-fi trilogy which tells the adventure of Dr Ransom who is kidnapped and transported to MarsIn the first novel of C.S. Lewis`s classic science fiction trilogy, Dr Ransom, a Cambridge academic, is abducted and taken on a spaceship to the red planet of Malacandra, which he knows as Mars. His captors are plotting to plunder the planet`s treasures and plan to offer Ransom as a sacrifice to the creatures who live there. Ransom discovers he has come from the `silent planet` - Earth - whose tragic story is known throughout the universe…
ISBN: 9780007157150
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2023
The restrictions of a wartime childhood in London and subsequent post-war shortages have done little to enrich Timothy`s early youth. But everything changes when his glamorous older sister, Kath, invites him to spend the summer at Heidelberg. Kath, who left home long ago to work for the American army, introduces her sixteen-year-old brother to a lifestyle that is deliriously fast, furious and extravagant. Dazzled by the indulgent habits of the American forces, but at the same time sensitive to the broken spirits of the German community beneath this sparkling surface, Timothy will find that his summer holiday is in more ways than one an unforgettable rite of passage.
ISBN: 978-0-09-955415-8
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: апрель 2011
The restrictions of a wartime childhood in London and post-war shortages have done little to enrich Timothy`s early youth. But everything changes when his glamorous older sister Kath invites him to spend the summer at Heidelberg.
ISBN: 978-0-14-008375-0
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011
