Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, travel writer, and essayist. His most famous works are "Treasure Island" and "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." Now he is one of the most translated authors in the world. Praised by many as a potential masterpiece, "Weir of Hermiston" tells the story of young Archie Weir from a rich Edinburgh family. Having abandoned all attempts to get along with his father, Archie is banished from his family and sent to live as the local landlord on family property in the Borders hamlet Hermiston. There Archie meets and falls in love with a young local girl named Kirstie.
ISBN: 978-5-517-00205-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2018
When the moon hatched (Sarah A. Parker)The Creators did not expect their beloved dragons to sail skyward upon their end. To curl into balls just beyond gravity’s grip, littering the sky with tombstones. With moons. They certainly did not expect them to FALL.As an assassin for the rebellion group Fur du Ath, Raeve’s job is to complete orders and never get caught. When a rival bounty hunter turns her world upside down, blood spills, hearts break, and Raeve finds herself imprisoned by the Guild of Nobles—a group of powerful fae who turn her into a political statement.Crushed by the loss of his great love, Kaan Vaegor took the head of a king and donned his melted crown. Now on a tireless quest to quell the never-ebbing ache in his...
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. When the World Shook is a story of Arbuthnot who has a sudden urge to travel to the Pacific islands after his wife`s death. He gets on a yacht with two friends, Bickley, a doctor, Bastin, a minister, and Arbuthnot`s dog, Tommy. The craft is then taken by a cyclone after all the crew abandons ship. When the three adventurers awaken, they find themselves shipwrecked on the South Sea island of Orofena.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07741-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Detective Catherine McLeod was always taught that in Glasgow, they don`t do whodunit. They do score-settling. They do vendettas. They do petty revenge. They do can`t-miss-whodunit. It`s a lesson that has served her well, but Glasgow is also a dangerous place to make assumptions. Either way she looks at it, she recognises that the discovery of a dead drug-dealer in a back alley is merely a portent of further deaths to come. Elsewhere in the city, aspiring actress Jasmine Sharp is reluctantly - and incompetently - earning a crust working for her uncle Jim`s private investigation business. When Jim goes missing, Jasmine has to take on the investigator mantle for real, and her only lead points to Glen Fallan, a gangland enforcer and...
ISBN: 978-0-349-12335-6
Издательство:
Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
That is not dead that can eternal lie And with strange aeons even death may die Millenia ago, the Old Ones ruled our planet. Since that time, they have but slumbered. But when a massive sea tremor brings the ancient stone city of R`lyeh to the surface once more, the Old Ones awaken at last. The Whisperer in Darkness brings together the original Cthulhu Mythos stories of the legendary horror writer Lovecraft. Included in this volume are several early tales, along with the classics The Call of Cthulhu, The Dunwich Horror and At the Mountains of Madness. Arm yourself with a copy of Abdul Alhazred`s fabled Necronomican and prepare to face terrors beyond the wildest imaginings of all save
ISBN: 978-1-84022-608-9
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Herman Melville (1819 — 1891) was an American poet and novelist of the American Renaissance, best known for his allusive adventure novel "Moby-Dick". The part fictional story, part autobiography, "White-Jacket" is a remarkable, epic travel novel of its time. It is also one of the most politically oriented H. Melville stories, revealing in-depth all of the relationships in the Navy, its rules, and customs.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07462-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Дороти Ли Сэйерс — английская писательница, наиболее известная благодаря детективным романам, филолог, драматург и переводчик. Сэйерс вместе с Агатой Кристи участвовала в основании британского Детективного клуба. «Чьё тело?» — первый детективный роман автора, в котором появляется главный герой ее одиннадцати детективов и множества рассказов, аристократ и сыщик-любитель, лорд Питер Уимзи. История...
ISBN: 978-5-9925-1493-3
Издательство:
Каро
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2020
Манит призрак Венеции? Познакомьтесь с её тайнами в "Таинственном отеле" Уилки Коллинза! Город дворцов, каналов, смерти и загадок ждёт вас. Уилки Коллинз – создатель первого детективного романа на английском языке, плодовитый писатель, мастер мистики и загадок. Его язык вполне современен и понятен, поэтому эта книга станет хорошим выбором для тех, кто хочет попробовать начать читать в оригинале. В...
ISBN: 978-5-17-154223-8
Издательство:
АСТ
Дата выхода: апрель 2023
Far from fading with time, Kenneth Grahame`s classic tale of fantasy has attracted a growing audience in each generation. Rat, Mole, Badger and the preposterous Mr Toad (with his `Poop-poop-poop` road-hogging new motor-car), have brought delight to many through the years with their odd adventures on and by the river, and at the imposing residence of Toad Hall. Grahame`s book was later dramatised by A. A. Milne, and became a perennial Christmas favourite, as Toad of Toad Hall. It continues to enchant and, above all perhaps, inspire great affection.
ISBN: 9781853260179
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2020
"But now I am Six, I`m as clever as clever. So I think I`ll be six now for ever and ever!"Curl up with Winnie-the-Pooh and Christopher Robin in A.A.Milne`s classic book of poetry for children, Now We Are Six.This work by A.A. Milne includes poems for children which feature Pooh helping Christopher Robin with his schoolwork (if helping is the word). It is an evocation of childhood, through the eyes of the six-year-old Christopher Robin.Featuring E.H. Shepard`s original decorations, Now We Are Six is a heart-warming and funny introduction to children`s poetry, offering the same sense of humour, imagination and whimsy that we`ve come to expect from his favourite books about Winnie-the-Pooh, that Bear of Very Little Brain.
ISBN: 9781405280860
Издательство:
Egmont Books Ltd
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2022
