George Bernard Shaw was the greatest British dramatist after Shakespeare, a satirist equal to Jonathan Swift and a playwright whose most profound gift was his ability to make audiences think by provoking them to laughter. In one of his best-loved plays, "Pygmalion", which later became the basis for the musical "My Fair Lady", Shaw compels the audience to see the utter absurdity and hypocrisy of class distinction when Professor Henry Higgins wagers that he can transform a common flower girl into a lady - and then pass her off as a duchess - simply by changing her speech and manners. In "Major Barbara" Shaw spins out the drama of an eccentric millionaire, a romantic poet, and a misguided savior of souls, Major Barbara herself, in a...
ISBN: 978-0-553-21408-6 Издательство: Random House (USA) Дата выхода: август 2011
Enduring Literature Illuminated by Practical Scholarship. An idealistic professor transforms an unsophisticated Cockney girl into a refined young lady in this classic. drama set in turn-of-the-century London. This Enriched Classic Edition includes: A concise introduction that gives readers important background information. A chronology of the author`s life and work. A timeline of significant events that provides the book`s historical context. An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations. Detailed explanatory notes. Critical analysis including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work. Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction. A list of recommended...
ISBN: 978-1-4165-0040-7 Издательство: Simon & Schuster UK Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Based upon the Greek myth of the sculptor Pygmalion who fell in love with his own statue of a woman, George Bernard Shaw`s celebrated play-and the musical adaptation by Alan Jay Lerner-feature phonetics professor Henry Higgins who transformed cockney flower girl Eliza into a lady.
ISBN: 978-0-451-53009-7 Издательство: Penguin Group Дата выхода: июль 2011
Agent Number 67, nicknamed Pygmy for his diminutive size, arrives in the United States from his totalitarian homeland. An exchange student he is welcomed with open arms by his Midwestern host family. Simpsons-spinoffs, they introduce him into the rituals of postmodern American life, which he views with utter contempt. Along with his fellow operatives, he is planning something big, something truly, truly awful, to bring this big dumb country`s fat inhabitants to their knees.
ISBN: 978-0-09-952697-1 Издательство: Random House Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
When Kurt Wallander first appeared in Faceless Killers back in 1990, he was a senior police officer, just turned forty, with his life in a mess. His wife had left him, his father barely acknowledged him; he ate badly and drank alone at night. The Pyramid chronicles the events that led him to such a place. We see him in the early years, doing hours on the beat whilst trying to solve a murder off-duty; witness the beginnings of his fragile relationship with Mona, the woman he has his heart set on marrying; and learn the reason behind his difficulties with his father. These thrilling tales provide a fascinating insight into Wallander`s character, and demand to be read in one sitting. From the stabbing of a neighbour in 1969 to a light...
ISBN: 978-0-09-951297-4 Издательство: Random House Дата выхода: август 2011
DK Eyewitness Pyramid is a unique and fascinating guide to the massive and mysterious pyramids of Egypt. Superb colour photographs of pyramids and temples, and the artefacts found within them, offer a unique ?eyewitness? view of these great structures and the people who built them. Show your child how the pyramids at Giza have stood for more than 4,500 years, the statues of pharaohs and workers and the religious texts written on stone and papyrus. They?ll learn all about the riddles surrounding the pyramids, how the pyramids could have been built, and what archaeological finds have revealed about life on the banks of the Nile. Then use the giant pull-out wall chart to decorate their room. Great for projects or just for fun, make sure...
ISBN: 978-1-405-34538-5 Издательство: Dorling Kindersley Publishing Дата выхода: июль 2015
The missing piece of the internationally bestselling Kurt Wallander mystery series: the story of Wallander`s beginnings, told in five gripping short mysteries. What happened to Wallander before the series began? Several years ago, right when I was done with the fifth book, Sidetracked, I realized that I had started to write stories in my head that took place long before the start of the series - from Henning Mankell`s foreword. At last, a key addition to the Kurt Wallander mystery series: the book of short mysteries that takes us back to the beginning. Here we meet Wallander the twenty-one-year-old patrolman on his first criminal investigation, Wallander the young father facing an unexpected danger on Christmas Eve, Wallander on the...
ISBN: 978-1-56584-994-5 Дата выхода: июль 2011
ISBN: 978-0-7566-1410-2 Издательство: Dorling Kindersley Publishing Дата выхода: август 2011
Set in Reformation Europe, Q begins with Luther`s nailing of his 95 theses on the door of the cathedral church in Wittenberg and traces the adventures and conflicts of two central characters, an Anabaptist, a member of the most radical of the Protestant sects, the anarchists of the Reformation, and a Catholic spy and informer, as they travel across Germany, Italy and the Netherlands. The four young writers who shelter behind the pseudonym Luther Blissett have created a world of intrigue, violence and intense political and religious passion. Far from the traditional historical novel, Q is the stuff of which cults are made.
ISBN: 978-0-09-943983-7 Издательство: Random House Дата выхода: август 2011
A former tiffinboy from Mumbai, Ram Mohammad Thomas, has just got twelve questions correct on a TV quiz show to win a cool one billion rupees. But he is brutally slung in a prison cell on suspicion of cheating. Because how can a kid from the slums know who Shakespeare was unless he has been pulling a fast one? In the order of the questions on the show, Ram tells us which amazing adventures in his street-kid life taught him the answers. From orphanages to brothels, gangsters to beggar-masters, and into the homes of Bollywood`s rich and famous, "Slumdog Millionaire" is brimming with the chaotic comedy, heart-stopping tragedy, and tear-inducing joyfulness of modern India. Формат: 10,5 см х 18 см.
ISBN: 978-0-552-77542-7 Издательство: Transworld publishers Дата выхода: июль 2011
The #1 "New York Times" bestseller, based on an unsolved homicide that occurred in 1969, is now available in paperback. Revisiting the past can be a dangerous business, and what begins with the pursuit of Jane Doe`s real identity ends in a high-risk hunt for her killer.
ISBN: 978-0-425-19272-6 Издательство: Penguin Group Дата выхода: июль 2011
ISBN: 9781447212386 Дата выхода: январь 2012
With the whole nation watching Jamal Malik is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India`s `Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?` But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on susicion of cheating: how could a street kid know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up. Each chapter of Jamal`s increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answer to each of the game show`s questions. But the final question remains a mystery. One Chief Inspector and Sixty Million viewers are about to find out what the answer is.
ISBN: 978-1-4391-3816-8 Издательство: Simon & Schuster UK Дата выхода: июль 2011
`"The QI Book of the Dead" is a book about life. What an awful thing life is. It`s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless` - Gustave Flaubert. Around 90 billion people have existed since the human race began. From this huge number, the bestselling QI team selected 600 of the finest examples of our species and researched them in depth, distilling this immense banquet of life into an exquisite tasting menu of six-dozen crisp, racy mini-biographies, where the internationally and immortally famous rub shoulders with the undeservedly and (until now) permanently obscure. The object is to learn something about what it means to be alive and how we can make the most of the time we have. "The QI Book...
ISBN: 978-0-571-24491-1 Издательство: Daedalus Дата выхода: август 2011
ISBN: 978-0-571-27514-4 Дата выхода: август 2011
Beautiful girls. Crime lords. Assassins. Deadly secrets … It’s all in a day’s work for Bond. Whether he’s making an unexpected discovery in the Bahamas, hunting down a Cuban hit-man in wild country, smashing an international drugs ring in Rome, on the trail of a murderous secret in the Caribbean, enjoying New York’s special pleasures or foiling a surprisingly alluring assassin in Berlin’s sniper’s alley, dangerous missions and seductive women come with the job for James Bond. And this agent is always a consummate professional. Quantum of Solace brings together all of the James Bond short stories in one volume for the first time, this is the ultimate celebration of suave and deadly secret agent 007. Containing: From a View...
ISBN: 978-0-14-119041-9 Издательство: Penguin Group Дата выхода: июль 2011
Many of Ian Fleming’s short stories have been the inspiration for the extremely successful James Bond film franchise, and included in this collection are such stories as "Octopussy", "The Living Daylights", and For "Your Eyes Only". The title story, "Quantum of Solace", lends its name to the upcoming James Bond film, slated to release in Fall 2008. This collection will be published to coincide with the film’s release, as well as to continue Penguin’s centenary celebrations of Fleming’s birth.
ISBN: 978-0-14-311458-1 Издательство: Penguin Group Дата выхода: июль 2012
ISBN: 3-15-009948-X Издательство: Reclam Дата выхода: апрель 2004
ISBN: 9781447275145 Дата выхода: январь 2015
Dans la Vendée de 1793, trois personnages s`affrontent: l`aristocrate Lantenac, fidèle à son passé, son petit-neveu Gauvain, tourné vers l`avenir généreux de la République, et le conventionnel Cimourdain, plus durement soucieux des exigences présentes de la Révolution et de la Terreur. Dans cette épopée où le romancier mêle la fiction de l`intrigue et la réalité de l`Histoire - Danton, Robespierre et Marat sont au centre du livre, chacun des trois héros se trouve ainsi guidé par une certaine idée du devoir et de l`honneur. Et chacun sera conduit à une forme d`héroïsme qui n`écarte pas la mort. L`écrivain se refuse donc...
ISBN: 978-2-253-16078-6 Издательство: Livre de Poche Дата выхода: июль 2011
Queen Victoria is crowned; she receives the orb, the sceptre, and an arsenal of blood-stained weaponry. Because if Britain is about to become the greatest power of the age, there`s the small matter of the demons to take care of first. But rather than dreaming of demon hunting, it is Prince Albert who occupies her thoughts. Can she dedicate her life to saving her country when her heart belongs elsewhere?
ISBN: 978-1-4447-0034-3 Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton Дата выхода: август 2011
A young woman caught in the rivalry between Queen Mary and her half sister, Elizabeth, must find her true destiny amid treason, poisonous rivalries, loss of faith, and unrequited love. It is winter, 1553. Pursued by the Inquisition, Hannah Green, a fourteen-year-old Jewish girl, is forced to flee Spain with her father. But Hannah is no ordinary refugee. Her gift of "Sight", the ability to foresee the future, is priceless in the troubled times of the Tudor court. Hannah is adopted by the glamorous Robert Dudley, the charismatic son of King Edward`s protector, who brings her to court as a "holy fool" for Queen Mary and, ultimately, Queen Elizabeth. Hired as a fool but working as a spy; promised in wedlock but in love with her master;...
ISBN: 978-0-7432-4607-1 Дата выхода: май 2012
Yet Prince Charles is more interested in root vegetables than reigning... unless his wife Camilla can be queen in a newly restored monarchy. But when a scoundrel who claims to be the couple`s secret love child offers to take the crown off their hands, the stage is set for a right Royal showdown.
ISBN: 978-0-241-95839-1 Издательство: Penguin Group Дата выхода: май 2012
England`s medieval queens were elemental in shaping the history of the nation. In an age where all politics were family politics, dynastic marriages placed English queens at the very centre of power - the king`s bed. From Matilda of Flanders, the Conqueror`s queen, to Elizabeth of York, the first Tudor consort, England`s queens fashioned the nature of monarchy and influenced the direction of the state. Occupying a unique position in the mercurial, often violent world of medieval state-craft, English queens had to negotiate a role that combined tremendous influence with terrifying vulnerability. Lisa Hilton`s meticulously researched new book explores the lives of the twenty women who were crowned queen between 1066 and 1503, reconsidering...
ISBN: 978-0-7538-2611-9 Издательство: Орион Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
ISBN: 978-1-84749-181-7 Издательство: Alma Books Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
