THE ANCESTOR`S TALE is a pilgrimage back through time; a journey on which we meet up with fellow pilgrims as we and they converge on our common ancestors. Chimpanzees join us at about 6 million years in the past, orang utans at 14 million years, as we stride on together, a growing band. The journey provides the setting for a collection of some 40 tales. Each explores an aspect of evolutionary biology through the stories of characters met along the way. The tales are interspersed with prologues detailing the journey, route maps showing joining lineages, and life-like reconstructions of our common ancestors. THE ANCESTOR`S TALE represents a pilgrimage on an unimaginable scale: our goal is four billion years away, and the number of pilgrims...
ISBN: 978-0-7538-1996-8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Серия состоит из лучших произведений английских и американских авторов. Тексты книг не адаптированы и не сокращены, поэтому Вы сможете насладиться настоящим языком великих писателей - мягким юмором Марка Твена, фантазией Редьярда Киплинга, остроумием Бернарда Шоу, безукоризненным стилем Эдгара По и многим другим. Серия предназначена для тех, кто учит английский всерьез, кто действительно хочет знать...
ISBN: 5-8168-0047-7
Издательство:
Химера
Дата выхода: январь 2001
At forty, the writer Nathan Zuckerman comes down with a mysterious affliction - pure pain, beginning in his neck and shoulders, invading his torso, and taking possession of his spirit. Zuckerman, whose work was his life, is unable to write a line. Now his work is trekking from one doctor to another, but none can find a cause for the pain and nobody can assuage it. Zuckerman himself wonders if the pain can have been caused by his own books. And while he is wondering, his dependence on painkillers extends to an addiction to vodka and marijuana. The third volume of the trilogy and epilogue Zuckerman Bound, The Anatomy Lesson is a great comedy of illness and provides some of the funniest scenes in all of Roth`s fiction as well as some of the...
ISBN: 978-0-09-947661-0
Издательство:
Vintage Classics
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
THEY WERE THE LITERARY PHENOMENON OF THEIR TIME: The Waverly novels, 48 volumes set in fanciful re-creations of the Scottish Higlilands (and other lauds) of centuries past, published between 1814 and 1831 and devoured by a reading public hungry for these sweeping, interconnected melodramas. The series popularized historical fiction, though they`re also abundant in astute political and social commentary.
Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton`s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the sumptuous Golden Age of Old New York, a time when society people "dreaded scandal more than disease." At its core, `The Age of Innocence` is story that shows the strength and the orchestrated customs and mores of social upper-class society of the 1870s, but also shows its narrowness, its contradictions, and its inflexibility. Edith Wharton`s novel is beautiful and a classic, but it is also timeless because she perfectly captures the emotions and the contradictions that exist in this type of change, this tension as one age dies and another is born.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06144-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
Action-packed and crammed with vibrant characters and incidents, Huckleberry Finn catches more vividly than any other novel the comedy, terror, resilience and spontaneity of boyhood. More than a mere sequel to Tom Sawyer, it is Mark Twain\`s masterpiece and a great American novel. Формат: 11 см x 18 см.
ISBN: 978-0-14-062318-5
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
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. This volume is a collection of famous stories about the legendary sleuth. Venture back in time to Victorian London to join literature`s greatest detective team — the brilliant Sherlock Holmes and his devoted assistant, Dr. Watson. .
ISBN: 978-5-521-08091-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Tom Sawyer, a shrewd and adventurous boy, is as much at home in the respectable world of his Aunt Polly as in the self-reliant and parentless world of his friend Huck Finn. The two enjoy a series of adventures, accidentally witnessing a murder, establishing the innocence of the man wrongly accused, as well as being hunted by Injun Joe, the true murderer, eventually escaping and finding thetreasure that Joe had buried.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06142-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: декабрь 2018
The artist’s body has throughout history been the subject of art – primarily through painted self-portraiture. In the post-war period, however, artists began using their bodies as the subject and the actual material of the artwork itself, through such art forms as Body art, Happenings and performance. In these international art forms the artist’s body is used to represent both the state of contemporary art and the human condition in general. Selected by Tracey Warr, a curator specializing in performance, this book includes over 250 images of these often extreme, highly unconventional artworks, accompanied by documents that chart the ideas, critical reception and broader philosophical and cultural context which framed them. Texts by...
ISBN: 0714835021
Издательство:
Phaidon
Дата выхода: март 2002
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. This volume is a collection of famous stories about the legendary sleuth. Venture back in time to Victorian London to join literature`s greatest detective team — the brilliant Sherlock Holmes and his devoted assistant, Dr. Watson. .
ISBN: 978-5-521-08093-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Эдит Уортон - известная американская писательница XX века, первая женщина-лауреат Пулитцеровской премии. Её произведения до сих пор остаются актуальными и читаемыми во всём мире, вдохновляют режиссёров на новые экранизации. "Эпоха невинности" - блестящий роман, экранизированный Мартином Скорсезе. Среди высшего света Нью-Йорка популярна мода на викторианскую Англию. Перед читателем разворачивается...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05464-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2017
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the series of short stories that made the fortunes of the Strand magazine, in which they were first published, and won immense popularity for Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. The detective is at the height of his powers and the volume is full of famous cases, including `The Red-Headed League`, `The Blue Carbuncle`, and `The Speckled Band`. Although Holmes gained a reputation for infallibility, Conan Doyle showed his own realism and feminism by having the great detective defeated by Irene Adler - the woman - in the very first story, `A Scandal in Bohemia`. The editor of this volume, Richard Lancelyn Green is editor of The Uncollected Sherlock Holmes and The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. With...
ISBN: 978-0-19-953695-5
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
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. "The Sign of the Four" is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes. The novel has a complex plot involving service in India, the Indian Rebellion of 1857, a stolen treasure, and a secret pact among four convicts.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08104-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Иллюстрированный роман Марка Твена «Приключения Тома Сойера» на английском языке вошел в коллекцию классической детской литературы «Читаем детскую классику в оригинале». Сказки, истории и романы великих писателей детской литературы уже многие поколения учат детей всего мира нравственным и моральным устоям, традициям и быту разных стран и народов. Теперь они собраны в серии «Читаем детскую...
ISBN: 978-5-519-49548-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2016
Set against the foggy, mysterious backdrops of London and the English countryside, these are the first twelve stories ever published to feature the infamous Detective Sherlock Holmes and his side kick Doctor Watson. They first appeared as stories in the Strand Magazine and feature some of his most famous and enjoyable cases, including "A Scandal in Bohemia", "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle" and "The Red-headed League".
ISBN: 978-0-00-735083-4
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: апрель 2013
A gripping novel which takes us and the hero, adventurer Allan Quatermain, back in time. It relates several exciting adventures like a lion hunt, wrestling with a crocodile, and a large-scale battle between various armies.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06440-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
Tom Sawyer does not like school. He does not like work, and he never wants to get out of bed in the morning. But he likes swimming and fishing, and having adventures with his friends. And he has a lot of adventures. One night, he and his friend Huck Finn go to the graveyard to look for ghosts. They don`t see any ghosts that night. They see something worse than a ghost - much, much worse…
ISBN: 978-0-19-478868-7
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: март 2011
Join Tom Sawyer and his friends in a series of fantastic adventures on the Mississippi River: looking for ghosts in a graveyard, witnessing a murder, living as pirates on a deserted island, attending their own funerals, getting lost in an enormous cave and finding ... "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" reflects many of Mark Twain`s own adventures growing up on the Mississippi River. A fast-moving story with unforgettable characters that captures the unique American spirit of the 1800s.
ISBN: 978-8-853-00243-3
Издательство:
CIDEB
Дата выхода: январь 2011
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. This volume is a collection of famous stories about the legendary sleuth. Venture back in time to Victorian London to join literature`s greatest detective team — the brilliant Sherlock Holmes and his devoted assistant, Dr. Watson.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08082-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) is a novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River, set in the fictional town of St. Petersburg. Tom Sawyer is more than a boyhood adventure story, it is a tale of maturing, a novel whose principal subject is the moral, psychological, and intellectual development of a youthful main character.
ISBN: 978-5-521-00158-3
Издательство:
Пальмира
Дата выхода: январь 2017
To celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the publication of The Lord of the Rings, a sumptuous full-colour art book containing the complete collection of almost 200 sketches, drawings, paintings and maps by J.R.R. Tolkien.As he wrote The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien’s mental pictures often found expression in drawing, from rough sketches made within the manuscript to more finished illustrations. Only a few of these were meant for publication; most were aids to help Tolkien conceive his complex story and keep it consistent. Many do not illustrate the final text, but represent moments of creation, illuminating Tolkien’s process of writing and design. In addition to pictorial sketches, numerous maps follow the development of the Shire...