In the early 1950s, eleven-year-old Michael boards a huge liner in Colombo bound for England. At mealtimes he is seated at the lowly "cat`s table" - as far from the Captain`s Table as can be - with a ragtag group of adults and two other boys, Cassius and Ramadhin. As the ship crosses the Indian Ocean the boys tumble from one adventure to another, and at night they spy on a shackled prisoner - his crime and fate a mystery that will haunt them
ISBN: 978-0-09-955443-1
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2012
`What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth`. So wrote the Romantic poet John Keats (1795-1821) in 1817. This collection contains all of his poetry: the early work, which is often undervalued even today, the poems on which his reputation rests including the Odes and the two versions of the uncompleted epic Hyperion, and work which only came to light after his death including his attempts at drama and comic verse. It all demonstrates the extent to which he tested his own dictum throughout his short creative life. That life spanned one of the most remarkable periods in English history in the aftermath of the French Revolution and this collection, with its detailed introductions and notes, aims to place the poems very much in...
ISBN: 1-85326-404-0
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2001
Jack London was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. "The Cruise of The Dazzler" is an early adventure novel by London. The plot revolves around a young boy Joe Bronson who has trouble at home and at school. The arguments with his father lead him to run away and join the crew of the ship called Dazzler. .
ISBN: 978-5-521-08127-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
It`s Easter, 1872. Fires burn in St Petersburg, a prelude to the revolutionary turmoil that will shake Russia a generation later. As the springtime thaw begins, a body rises to the surface of the Winter Canal. Following an anonymous tip-off, magistrate Porfiry Petrovich is drawn into an investigation of the radical intellectuals who seek to fan the flames of revolution. In the meantime, junior magistrate Pavel Pavlovich Virginsky plays a dangerous game of his own. Following a chance meeting with a man he suspects of being an arsonist, he volunteers to infiltrate a terrorist cell. But the young man`s loyalties appear divided, his motives conflicted. Will he track down the killers, or to use his position as a magistrate to further a cause...
Every charm bracelet tells a story and Holly O`Neill knows this better than most. Years ago, at a difficult time in her life, a silver bracelet in a pretty wrapped box was delivered anonymously to her, a single charm attached. Some time later, another mysterious charm appeared, and the same thing happened many times over the years. Each charm proved to be significant in her life, as if her unnamed benefactor understood she needed some kind of talisman to help her through challenging times. Since then, she has added her own charms - special reminders of the most important events in her life. Her bracelet makes memories tangible - spelling out the nuances of cherished moments through the shorthand of each tiny charm. For this reason,...
ISBN: 978-0-340-99342-2
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: декабрь 2012
A New York Times bestseller, "The Conquerors" reveals how Franklin Roosevelt`s and Harry Truman`s private struggles with their aides and Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin affected the unfolding of the Holocaust and the fate of vanquished Nazi Germany. With monumental fairness and balance, "The Conquerors" shows how Roosevelt privately refused desperate pleas to speak out directly against the Holocaust, to save Jewish refugees and to explore the possible bombing of Auschwitz to stop the killing. The book also shows FDR`s fierce will to ensure that Germany would never threaten the world again. Near the end of World War II, he abruptly endorsed the secret plan of his friend, Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, to reduce the Germans to a...
Forty years ago, Exeter Cathedral close was the scene of a vicious ambush. Afterwards, the bodies left lying in their blood bore witness to the conflicts tearing at heart of the Cathedral itself. Today, in 1323, more deaths have occurred. Is the first an accident? The second is surely not.
ISBN: 978-0-7553-2296-1
Издательство:
Headline Publ.
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Книга представляет собой адаптированный вариант известного романа английского писателя Арчибальда Кронина "Цитадель". Рекомендуется для чтения изучающим английский язык на уровне Intermediate. Книга снабжена языковыми комментариями и вопросами для обсуждения к каждой главе, а также общим словарем, помещенным в конце книги. Для изучающих английский язык на уровне Intermediante
ISBN: 978-5-98111-109-9
Издательство:
Филоматис
Дата выхода: август 2008
Издание полностью на английском языке. An innocent man is about to be executed. Only a guilty man can save him. In 1998, in the small East Texas city of Sloan, Travis Boyette abducted, raped, and strangled a popular high school cheerleader. He buried her body so that it would never be found, then watched in amazement as police and prosecutors arrested and convicted Dontй Drumm, a local football star, and marched him off to death row. Now nine years have passed. Travis has just been paroled in Kansas for a different crime; Dontй is four days away from his execution. Travis suffers from an inoperable brain tumor. For the first time in his miserable life, he decides to do what’s right and
From the "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Virgin s Lover," this enthralling new novel answers one of history s most intriguing questions: What lay behind Katherine of Aragon s enormous, history-changing lie?
Jacob Grimm and his brother Wilhelm were philologists and folklorists. The brothers rediscovered a host of fairy tales, telling of princes and princesses in their castles, witches in their towers and forests, of giants and dwarfs, of fabulous animals and dark deeds. Together with the well-known tales of "Rapunzel", "The Goose Girl", "Sleeping Beauty", "Hansel and Gretel" and "Snow White", there are the darker tales such as "Death`s Messengers" which deserve to be better known, and which will appeal not only to all who are interested in the history of folklore, but also to all those who simply love good story-telling.
ISBN: 978-1-85326-898-4
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012
This is a sticker-book re-telling of the Christmas Story. An interactive experience for young children, as they enjoy reading the story while completing it using one of the 60 stickers provided. With artwork taken from the popular Bible Tales series, illustrated by Norman Young.
ISBN: 978-1-4095-3847-9
Издательство:
Usborne
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012
James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. The Chainbearer is the second book in a trilogy starting with Satanstoe and ending with The Redskins. The novel focuses mainly on issues of land ownership and the displacement of American Indians as the United States moves Westward.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06657-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: февраль 2018
For decades, the West has been fighting the cocaine cartels-and losing- until the president decides enough is enough and asks one man to take charge. His task: to destroy the cocaine industry. His name: Cobra. It is the ultimate secret war. But only one side can
ISBN: 978-0-451-23398-1
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Originally written as a gift from a father to a son, the book s simple message--to be understanding, thoughtful, and appreciative--has been enjoyed by men and women of all ages. This edition with all three volumes has been redesigned for a new generation.
There are tales of Middle-earth from times long before The Lord of the Rings, and the story told in this book is set in the great country that lay beyond the Grey Havens in the West: lands where Treebeard once walked, but that were drowned in the great cataclysm that ended the First Age of the World. In that remote time Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwelt in the vast fortress of Angband, the Hells of Iron, in the North; and the tragedy of Turin and his sister Nienor unfolded within the shadow of the fear of Angband and the war waged by Morgoth against the lands and secret cities of the Elves. Their brief and passionate lives were dominated by the elemental hatred that Morgoth bore them as the children of Hurin, the man who had dared to...
Серия книг «Зарубежная классика — читай в оригинале» — это бессмертные произведения великих мастеров пера, написанные ими на их родном языке и наречии. . .Книги из этой серии помогут читателю углубленно изучать иностранные языки, обогатят его внутренний мир и по-новому откроют произведения известных классиков. . .Неадаптированное издание на английском языке. .
ISBN: 978-5-519-02048-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
China has the longest and most highly developed ceramic tradition in the world, encompassing early Neolithic earthenwares, the finely glazed stoneware pieces of the Song period – widely regarded as among the greatest ceramics ever produced – and the years of Imperial patronage and export ware for the new markets of the West. Margaret Medley’s groundbreaking study was the first to bring a practical approach to the study of Chinese pottery. She makes full use of archaeological reports to show how differing geographical areas, materials and developing technology all shaped the evolution of Chinese ceramics. Her revolutionary insights, along with an astute critical judgement in the field of art history itself, combine to form a classic...
ISBN: 071482593X
Издательство:
Phaidon
Дата выхода: март 2002
Four of Diana Wynne Jones s classic fantasy novels about an enchanter with nine lives titled Chrestomanci are now available in beautiful omnibus volumes that each contain two books each. Volume One includes "The Lives of Christopher Chant" and "Charmed Life", while Volume Two contains "The Magicians of Caprona" and "Witch Week".
Герберт Уэллс - знаменитый английский писатель рубежа XIX-XX века, яркий представитель критического реализма, автор блестящих научно-фантастических романов и повестей. Представленные в книге две яркие повести "Аргонавты времени" и "Битва в Львиных Зарослях" отличаются необычными персонажами, неожиданной развязкой и захватывающим сюжетом, который не оставит равнодушным ни одного читателя. Читайте...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05389-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2017
Jack London`s novels and ruggedly individual life seemed to embody American hopes, frustrations and romantic longings in the turbulent first years of the 20th century, years infused with the wonder and excitement of great technological and historic change. His restless spirit, taste for a life of excitement and probing mind led him on a series of hard-edged adventures from the Klondike to the South Seas. Out of these sometimes harrowing experiences - and his fascination with the theories of such thinkersas Darwin, Spencer and Marx - came the inspiration for novels of adventure that would make him one of America`s most popular writers. `The Call of the Wild`, considered by many London`s greatest novel, is a gripping tale of a heroic dog...
ISBN: 0-486-26472-6
Издательство:
Dover
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2005