Hogswatchnight is fast approaching, and the Hogfather (that jolly fat man who delivers presents to the kiddies) is missing. But it`s vital that all the presents are delivered, otherwise the sun won`t rise tomorrow. However, there is another supernatural entity who can be everywhere at once and, most importantly, knows where everybody lives. And Death reckons that with a false beard and a few cushions, it might just work. And while Death is busy working out the mysteries of climbing down chimneys and drinking sherry, it`s up to Susan to track down the real Hogfather. It`s a dark time of the year. There are monsters afoot. And some of them look just like us. HO HO HO. You`d better watch Pratchett`s bestseller, adapted and directed by Vadim...
In defying convention and making a milkmaid the subject of tragedy, Hardy gave rein to his feeling for landscape and rural life - its harshness, seasonal rhythms and reminders of death and resurrection - and endows them with a brooding symbolism and visionary beauty.
ISBN: 978-0-14-119797-5
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
When Tess Durbeyfield is sent by her family to seek out her rich relatives, she soon finds herself pursued and violently seduced by the ruthless Alex D`Urberville. The sad event which follows gives Tess the chance to hide her past and move on. Eventually she falls in love and finds happiness with Angel Clare, a clergyman`s son. But Tess`s honest nature means she is doomed to never escape her past as events force her to finally take control of her fate.
ISBN: 978-0-230-03532-4
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Томас Харди - крупнейший английский писатель и поэт поздневикторианской эпохи. "Тэсс из рода д'Эрбервиллей" - один из самых известных романов автора, который до сих пор влюбляет в себя читателей по всему миру. Нищая представительница древнего рыцарского рода обречена быть содержанкой, но готова бросить дерзкий вызов судьбе. Сумеет ли главная героиня сохранить искренность и любовь в своём сердце?.....
ISBN: 978-5-521-05155-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2017
Set in Hardy`s Wessex, Tess is a moving novel of hypocrisy and double standards. Its challenging sub-title. `A Pure Woman`, infuriated critics when the book was first published in 1891, and it was condemned as immoral and pessimistic. It tells of less Durbeyfield, the daughter of a poor and dissipated villager, who learns that she may be descended from the ancient family of d`Urberville. In her search for respectability her fortunes fluctuate wildly, and the story assumes the proportions of a Greek tragedy. It explores Toss`s relationships with two very different men, her struggles against the social mores of the rural Victorian world which she inhabits and the hypocrisy of the age. In addressing the double standards of the time,...
ISBN: 1-85326-005-3
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: июль 2002
На англ.яз. “ALL THE WHILE SHE WONDERED IF ANY STRANGE GOOD THING MIGHT COME TO HER BEING IN HER ANCESTRAL LAND; AND SOME SPIRIT WITHIN HER ROSE AUTOMATICALLY AS THE SAP IN THE TWIGS. IT WAS UNEXPENDED YOUTH, SURGING UP ANEW AFTER ITS TEMPORARY CHECK AND BRINGING WITH IT HOPE, AND THE INVINCIBLE INSTINCT TOWARDS SELF-DELIGHT.” HARDY`S TRAGIC PORTRAIT OF A PURE WOMAN.
ISBN: 5-17-028760-7
Издательство:
АСТ
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2005
Юная Тэсс Дэрбифилд по воле своей семьи едет к богатым родственникам, где ее цинично соблазняет Алек Дэрбифилд. Честная натура Тэсс не позволяет ей скрывать свое прошлое от Эйнджела Клэра, которого она полюбила всей душой и за которого вышла замуж. Кажется, прошлое никогда ее не отпустит…
ISBN: 978-1-4050-7457-5
Издательство:
Langenscheidt
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Contemporary / American English (Available June 2008) Nate O`Riley is a powerful Washington lawyer. Returning to work after a long stay in hospital is difficult for Nate. Then he is sent on a journey that takes him from the tense courtrooms of Washington to the dangerous swamps of Brazil. It is a journey that will change his life forever
ISBN: 978-1-4058-8274-3
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: июль 2011
"Je me souvenais qu`un jour, dans une plaisanterie sans gaite, Charlotte m`avait dit qu`apres tous ses voyages a travers l`immense Russie, venir a pied jusqu`en France n`aurait pour elle rien d`impossible (…). Au debut, pendant de longs mois de misere et d`errances, mon reve fou ressemblerait de pres a cette bravade. J`imaginerais une femme vetue de noir qui, aux toutes premieres heures d`une matinee d`hiver sombre, entrerait dans une petite ville frontaliere (...). Elle pousserait la porte d`un cafe au coin d`une etroite place endormie, s`installerait pres de la fenetre, a cote d`un calorifere. La patronne lui apporterait une tasse de the. Et en regardant, derriere la vitre, la face tranquille des maisons a colombages, la femme...
ISBN: 978-2-07-040187-1
Издательство:
Gallimard
Дата выхода: август 2011
It was only a piece of paper but it could change many lives. Troy Phelan is a self-made billionaire, one of the richest men in the United States. He is also eccentric, reclusive, confined to a wheelchair, and determined to cut his children out of his will. Nate O`Riley is a high-octane Washington litigator who`s lived too hard, too fast, for too long. Rachel Lane is a young woman who chose to give her life to God, who walked away from the modern world with all its strivings and trappings and encumbrances, and went to live in the deepest jungles of Brazil. Nate`s job is to find Rachel and tell her of Phelan`s legacy. In a story that mixes legal suspense with a remarkable adventure, their lives will be forever altered.
ISBN: 0099245027
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: март 2003
Nate O`Riley is a powerful Washington lawyer. Returning to work after a long stay in hospital is difficult for Nate. Then he is sent on a journey that takes him from the tense courtrooms of Washington to the dangerous swamps of Brazil. It is a journey that will change his life
ISBN: 978-1-4082-7433-0
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: август 2011
At a New England boarding school, a sex scandal is about to break. Even more shocking than the sexual acts themselves is the fact that they were caught on videotape. A Pandora`s box of revelations, the tape triggers a chorus of voice -- those of the men, women, teenagers, and parents involved in the scandal -- that details the ways in which lives can be derailed or destroyed in one foolish moment. A gripping emotional drama with the pace of a thriller, Anita Shreve`s Testimony explores the dark impulses that sway the lives of seeming innocents, and the ways in which our best intentions can lead to our worst transgressions.
ISBN: 978-0-316-05013-5
Издательство:
Hachette Livre
Дата выхода: июль 2011