ISBN: 0-09-945207-3 Издательство: Random House Дата выхода: апрель 2004
ISBN: 978-0-393-32450-1 Дата выхода: январь 2009
Can it really be true that `golf` stands for `Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden`? Or that `rule of thumb` comes from an archaic legal principle that a man may chastise his wife, but only with a rod no thicker than his thumb? These and hundreds of other stories are commonly told and retold whenever people meet. They grow up in part because expressions are often genuinely mysterious. Why, for example, are satisfying meals `square` rather than any other shape? And how did anyone ever come up with the idea that if you`re competent at something you can `cut the mustard`? Michael Quinion here retells many of the more bizarre tales, and explains their real origins where they`re known. This is a fascinating treasure-trove of fiction and fact for...
ISBN: 978-0-14-101223-0 Издательство: Penguin Books Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Patricia Cornwell — the world`s #1 bestselling crime writer — presents an extraordinary novel in which Kay Scarpetta is confronted with a case that could ruin her professionally — and personally ... More than twenty years and many successes since the start of Kay Scarpetta`s career, her secret military ties have drawn her to Dover Air Force Base and Port Mortuary, where she`s performing autopsies on fallen soldiers. But her new headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts—the Cambridge Forensic Center — is the first civilian facility in the to do virtual autopsies, and it is there that she encounters a devastating event. A young man has died, apparently from a cardiac arrhythmia, eerily close to Scarpetta`s new Cambridge home. But...
ISBN: 978-0-425-24080-9 Дата выхода: август 2011
The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader magnificently represents the great voices of this era. It includes such masterworks of world literature as Pushkin`s poem "The Bronze Horseman"; Gogol`s "The Overcoat"; Turgenev`s novel First Love; Chekhov`s Uncle Vanya; Tolstoy`s The Death of Ivan Ilych; and "The Grand Inquisitor" episode from Dostoyevsky`s The Brothers Karamazov; plus poetry, plays, short stories, novel excerpts, and essays by such writers as Griboyedov, Pavlova, Herzen, Goncharov, Saltykov-Shchedrin, and Maksim Gorky. Distinguished scholar George Gibian provides an introduction, chronology, biographical essays, and a bibliography.
ISBN: 978-0-14-015103-9 Дата выхода: август 2011
Clarence Brown`s marvelous collection introduces readers to the most resonant voices of twentieth-century Russia. It includes stories by Chekhov, Gorky, Bunin, Zamyatin, Babel, Nabokov, Solzhenitsyn, and Voinovich; excerpts from Andrei Bely`s Petersburg, Mikhail Bulgakov`s The Master and Margarita, Boris Pasternak`s Dr. Zhivago, and Sasha Solokov`s A School for Fools; the complete text of Yuri Olesha`s 1927 masterpiece Envy; and poetry by Alexander Blok, Anna Akhmatova, and Osip Mandelstam.
ISBN: 978-0-14-243757-5 Дата выхода: август 2011
The famous confession of Alexander Portnoy who is thrust through life by his unappeasable sexuality, yet held back at the same time by the iron grip of his unforgettable childhood.
ISBN: 978-0-09-939901-8 Дата выхода: август 2011
Autobiographical in tone, Joyces tale of Stephen Dedalus` journey into adulthood explores the intellectual and moral development of an artist as he struggles to overcome the ingrained Catholic consciousness of his childhood - a family life governed by Irish history, religion and politics. Realistic and innovative in its approach, Joyce expertly encapsulates the development of individual consciousness and the role of the artist in society in what is considered one of his greatest works.
ISBN: 978-0-00-744939-2 Дата выхода: апрель 2012
ISBN: 0140622306 Издательство: Penguin Books Дата выхода: апрель 2002
ISBN: 9780008280710 Дата выхода: январь 2022
Portraiture has long been the bread-and-butter of photography; every working photographer needs to know how to shoot and light people effectively to flatter, to deceive, to allude and to enhance but there has never before been such a simple, time-saving (and timeless) reference as this. Over two hundred lighting setups are shown in action, allowing you to quickly select one that will work for you. Setting up photographing lighting can be a challenging and time-consuming experience, and whether you`re a professional looking to bring out the best in your subject, or an amateur experimenting with your lighting kit, the ability to flick through hundreds of pictures showing lighting alternatives and the effect they have on different...
ISBN: 978-1-907579-22-6 Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Porterhouse College is world renowned for its gastronomic excellence, the arrogance of its Fellows, its academic mediocrity and the social cachet it confers on the athletic sons of county families. Sir Godber Evans, ex-Cabinet Minister and the new Master, is determined to change all this. Spurred on by his politically angular wife, Lady Mary, he challenges the established order and provokes the wrath of the Dean, the Senior Tutor, the Bursar and, most intransigent of all, Skullion the Head Porter - with hilarious and catastrophic results.
ISBN: 0-09-943546-2 Издательство: Random House Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
Transplanted to Europe from her native America, Isabel Archer has candour, beauty, intelligence, an independent spirit and a marked enthusiasm for life. An unexpected inheritance apparently gives her freedom, but despite all her natural advantages she makes one disastrous error of judgement and the result is genuinely tragic. Her tale, told with James' inimitable poise, is of the widest relevance. Издание на английском языке.
ISBN: 978-1-85326-177-0 Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd. Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
This is one of the most significant literary works of the 20th century, and one of the most innovative. Young Irish Catholic, Stephen Dedalus, rejects religion and national ties to develop unfettered as an artist. Strongly autobiographical, the
ISBN: 978-1-904919-54-4 Дата выхода: июнь 2012
Isabel Archer has been brought to England from Albany, New York, by her Aunt Touchett to extend her education, possibly to marry well. Isabel, proud and independent, has other ideas. She has no desire to marry and wishes to create her own future, rather than finding it as a wife. Consequently she refuses two very eligible suitors: Lord Warburton and Caspar Goodwood, who has followed her to Europe from America. When her uncle Lord Touchett dies, leaving Isabel a fortune, he unwittingly does her a great disservice, for on a visit to Italy she is introduced by Madame Merle to Gilbert Osmond. Osmond is a charming but worthless dilettante who sees Isabel as a beautiful prize, a mother for his daughter Pansy, and a source of easily attained...
ISBN: 0140622497 Издательство: Penguin Books Дата выхода: август 2002
Gabriel Allon has been hailed as the most compelling creation since Ian Fleming put down his martini and invented James Bond (Rocky Mountain News). A man with a deep appreciation for all that is beautiful, Gabriel is also an angel of vengeance, an international operative who will stop at nothing to see justice done. Sometimes he must journey far in search of evil. And sometimes evil comes to him. For Gabriel and his wife, Chiara, it was supposed to be the start of a pleasant weekend in London - a visit to a gallery in St. James`s to authenticate a newly discovered painting by Titian, followed by a quiet lunch. But a pair of deadly bombings in Paris and Copenhagen has already marred this autumn day. And while walking toward Covent Garden,...
ISBN: 978-0-06-212850-8 Дата выхода: май 2012
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. `Money`s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.` Isabel Archer is a beautiful, intelligent and independent young woman. Brought from America to England by her wealthy Aunt who seeks to further her education and find her niece a husband, Isabel is determined to shape her own future - one that does not necessarily entail becoming a wife. Isabel inherits a fortune when her rich uncle dies and feels even more inclined to turn down two eligible suitors on the basis that she is a woman of her own means. However, a trip to Italy heralds her downfall when she meets the charming Gilbert Osmond, a worthless, yet ambitious and scheming dilettante.
ISBN: 978-0-00-790228-6 Издательство: HarperCollins UK Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Novelist Eugene Pota is a cultural icon of the 20th century, struggling to write what will be the last novel of his career. But what to write about when, like so many noted authors before him, all of Pota`s output since that first, landmark novel has been scrutinized, dissected - and found wanting?
ISBN: 978-0-7432-0848-2 Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
After her mother dies in childbirth, Aurora del Valle is raised by her imposing grandmother, but despite growing up in a rich and privileged environment, Aurora is unhappy. Haunted by terrible nightmares and the inexplicable absence of many of her childhood memories, and finding herself alone at the end of a love affair, she decides to travel to Chile to discover what it was, exactly, all those years ago, that had such a devastating effect on her young life.
ISBN: 978-0-00-712301-8 Издательство: HarperCollins Дата выхода: июль 2011
ISBN: 9780008280703 Дата выхода: январь 2023
ISBN: 9780007433315 Издательство: HarperCollins UK Дата выхода: январь 2012
Examines the century-old series of murders that terrorized London in the 1880s, drawing on research, state-of-the-art forensic science, and insights into the criminal mind to reveal the true identity of the infamous Jack the Ripper.
ISBN: 0-425-18965-1 Издательство: Penguin USA Дата выхода: апрель 2004
This portrayal of Stephen Dedalus` Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art and his gradual emancipation from the claims of family, religion and Ireland itself, is also an oblique self-portrait of the young James Joyce and a universal testament to the artist`s "eternal imagination".
ISBN: 978-0-14-119796-8 Издательство: Penguin Group Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
ISBN: 9780099515098 Издательство: Random House Дата выхода: январь 2013
Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a captivating love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars investigating the lives of two Victorian poets. Following a trail of letters, journals and poems they uncover a web of passion, deceit and tragedy, and their quest becomes a battle against time.
ISBN: 978-0-09-956313-6 Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
