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
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?
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
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
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
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.
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
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...
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
From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of Birdsong, new fiction about love and war - five transporting stories and five unforgettable lives, linked across centuries. In Second World War Poland, a young prisoner closes his eyes and pictures going to bat on a sunlit English cricket ground. Across the yard of a Victorian poorhouse, a man is too ashamed to acknowledge the son he gave away. In a 19th-century French village, an old servant understands - suddenly and with awe - the meaning of the Bible story her master is reading to her. On a summer evening in the Catskills in 1971, a skinny girl steps out of a Chevy with a guitar and with a song that will send shivers through her listeners` skulls. A few years from now, in Italy, a...
Henry Chinaski is a low life loser with a hand-to-mouth existence. His menial Post Office day job supports a life of beer, one-night stands and racetracks. Lurid, uncompromising and hilarious, "Post Office" is a landmark in American literature. "Post Office" was Charles Bukowski`s debut novel, and has sold over a million copies in more than a dozen languages since its first publication in 1971. Bukowski`s Beat Generation writing reflects his tough upbringing, his succession of menial jobs and his experience of low life urban America. He died in 1994 and is widely acknowledged as one of the most distinctive writers of the last fifty years. Формат: 13 см x 19,5 cм.
ISBN: 978-0-7535-1816-8
Издательство:
Virgin Publishing
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
NYPD detective Jacob Kanon is on a tour of Europe`s most gorgeous cities. But the sights aren`t what draw him he sees each museum, each cathedral, and each cafe through the eyes of his daughters killer. Kanon`s daughter, Kimmy, and her fiance were murdered while on vacation in Rome. Since then, young couples in Madrid, Salzburg, Athens and Paris have been found dead. Little connects the murders, other than a postcard to the local newspaper that precedes each new victim. Now Kanon teams up with the Swedish reporter, Dessie Larsson, who has just received a postcard in Stockholm and they think they know where the next victims will be. With relentless logic and unstoppable action, Postcard Killers may be James Patterson`s most vivid and...
ISBN: 978-0-09-955375-5
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Life is looking up for Saffy. She has a great job, a gorgeous flat in the most desirable part of Dublin and - after six years - it looks like her boyfriend, Greg, is going to propose. Greg (just voted the 9th most eligible man in Ireland) is on a high, too - he`s about to swap his part as a heart-throb in an Irish soap for a break in Hollywood. His best mate Conor wakes up every morning with Jess, the most beautiful woman on the planet but, even after seven years and two kids, she won`t marry him. He spends his days teaching teenagers and his nights writing the book he hopes will change everything, including Jess`s mind. But their happy endings are playing hard to get. It seems everyone`s keeping secrets - one night stands, heartbreak,...
ISBN: 978-1-4091-2069-8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
An amoral young drifter. A beautiful, sullen woman. An inconvenient husband. And a problem that has only one, grisly solution - a solution which creates problems which can never be First published in 1934 and banned in Boston for its explosive mix of eroticism and violence, The Postman Always Rings Twice is a true classic and established James M. Cain as a major novelist.
ISBN: 978-0-7528-6436-5
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
It is 1940, and bombs fall nightly on London. In the thick of the chaos is young American radio reporter Frankie Bard. She huddles close to terrified strangers in underground shelters, and later broadcasts stories about survivors in rubble-strewn streets. But for her listeners, the war is far from home. Listening to Frankie are Iris James, a Cape Cod postmistress, and Emma Fitch, a doctor`s wife. Iris hears the winds stirring and knows that soon the letters she delivers will bear messages of hope or tragedy. Emma is desperate for news of London, where her husband is working - she counts the days until his return. But one night in London the fates of all three women entwine when Frankie finds a letter - a letter she vows to
ISBN: 978-0-241-95079-1
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
A serial killer is on the loose. Three women have died, brutalized and strangled in their own bedrooms. There is no pattern: the killer appears to strike at random - but always early on Saturday mornings. So when Dr Kay Scarpetta is awakened at 2.33 am, she knows the news is bad: a fourth victim.
ISBN: 0-7515-3043-3
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: апрель 2004