At Cold Mountain Penitentiary, along the lonely stretch of cells known as the Green Mile, condemned killers such as "Billy the Kid" Wharton and the possessed Eduard Delacroix await death strapped in "Old Sparky". But good or evil, innocent or guilty, prisoner or guard, none has ever seen the brutal likes of the new prisoner, John Coffey, sentenced to death for raping and murdering two young girls. Is Coffey a devil in human form? Or is he a far, far different kind of being? There are more wonders in heaven and hell than anyone at Cold Mountain can imagine and one of those wonders might just have stepped in amongst them.
William Sydney Porter, known by his pen name 0. Henry, was an American short story writer. His wit and plot twists were adored by his readers, but often panned by the critics. The Gentle Grafter is a collection of short stories, first published in 1908. The main characters of these tales are Jeff Peters and his friend and companion Andy Tucker. Both of them earn a living with the help of petty fraud, exploiting human greed, stupidity, fear and vanity.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07669-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Not being a dentist turns out to be a stroke of good luck for Jerry. If he were, he would not have been summoned to sit on the jury with the delightful Jane, with whom he falls instantly in love. Only then does it suddeny dawn on him that he is already engaged to Vera Upshaw.
ISBN: 0-14-008507-6
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
A mind-bending code spawned from the mind of a maybe just a jealous ex. A desperate race through the cathedrals and hotels of New York a teeny bit of time for shopping, it`s true. An astonishing truth concealed for years, unveiled at more than a little help from a supercute new guy. As if a recent breakup, scrounging for rent money, and lusting after designer shoes weren`t enough, Melanie Prescott starts receiving obscure codes and clues from a menacing stranger. She attempts to solve the mysteries - enlisting the help of a tall, dark, and handsome new friend - with high hopes for the multimillion-dollar reward guaranteed at the end (handbags, sunglasses, and shoes, oh my!). That is, if she can survive the deadly game.
ISBN: 978-1-4165-4337-4
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: май 2008
Jack London (1876-1916) 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. This is a collection of marvelous stories including "The God of His Fathers" itself, "The Great Interrogation", "Which Make Men Remember", and many other wonderful tales.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07495-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Kit McMahon lives in the small Irish town of Lough Glass, where everyone knows everyone; children who walk to school together grow up and become sweethearts and marry, people gossip and grumble and dream their lives away. For it is a place where change comes slowly. Until one day, beautiful, mysterious Helen McMahon disappears, presumed drowned in the lake, and then the gossip runs wild. The consequences for Helen`s husband, her son, but above all for her daughter, Kit, are unimaginable and will leave not one of their lives unchanged.
ISBN: 978-0-7528-7687-0
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
The Grey Knights is the one force that has any chance of stopping a daemonic infestation. Armed with psychically charged force weapons, storm bolters, and an unshakable faith in the Emperor, there is nothing more daunting for a Daemon to face.
ISBN: 9781844166961
Издательство:
Ред Фиш
Дата выхода: май 2009
THE GIFT is the last of the novels Nabokov wrote in his native language and the crowning achievement of that period in his literary career. It is also his ode to Russian literature, evoking the works of Pushkin, Gogol, and others in the course of its narrative: the story of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev, an impoverished emigre poet living in Berlin, who dreams of the book he will someday write - a book very much like THE GIFT itself.
ISBN: 9780679727255
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: май 1991
Генри Джеймс - не только один из самых известных классиков мировой литературы, но и ярчайший представитель трансатлантической культуры рубежа XIX и XX веков. "Золотая чаша" — последний законченный роман Джеймса. Это история о двух сломленных парах. Перед читателем разворачивается драма отношений Мэгги и её овдовевшего отца, артколлекционера Адама Вервера. Красивые и обаятельные герои бросают вызов судьбе,...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05743-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2017
This story of a boy who grows to manhood, and of a tree that gives him her bounty through the years, is a moving parable about the gift of giving and the capacity to love.
Книга для чтения на английском языке. Детство и юность Марио Пьюзо прошли в самом неблагополучном районе Нью-Йорка, на легендарной Адской Кухне, которая с XIX века ковала кадры интернационального преступного мира Америки. Исследованию этого феномена он посвятил свое литературное творчество. Всемирное признание пришло к Пьюзо после выхода эпической гангстерской саги "Крестный отец" (1969) - истории семьи...
ISBN: 5-94962-056-9
Издательство:
Химера
Дата выхода: январь 2004
Книга представляет собой сокращенный вариант романа "Крестный отец" американского писателя Марио Пьюзо. В центре романа судьба Дона Корлеоне - крестного отца мафии и его сыновей. Захватывающий сюжет, в котором есть кровавые убийства, интриги, любовь и предательства, держит читателя в напряжении до последней страницы. Для облегчения понимания текста, изобилующего разговорной лексикой, дается...
ISBN: 978-5-8112-6161-1
Издательство:
Айрис-пресс
Дата выхода: октябрь 2015
Издание полностью на английском языке. Her murder was just the beginning. She was an army captain and the daughter of legendary General "Fighting Joe" Campbell: her body was found - naked and bound - on the firing line of Fort Hadley. The political powder keg of a case goes directly to the elite army investigator Paul Brenner and rape specialist Cynthia Sunhill - and explodes. Behind the military code of honour, Brenner and Sunhill uncover trails of corruption - all leading to the golden girl's shocking secret. "A furiously fast read, a genuinely perplexing, involving mystery and an immensely likeable anti-hero". New York Daily News
ISBN: 978-0-7515-4176-2
Издательство:
Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
What does he mean? What`s going on? Are you two thinking of putting Granny into a Home? Thinking is finished`, Natasha told him. `It is decided. The four children, Ivan, Sophie, Tanya and Nicholas, can`t believe it. Their parents are planning to put their grandmother into a Home. She`s a bit of a dotty old lady - sometimes demanding, often annoying - but as much a part of their lives as their shambly house or the whirring of the washing machine. So they decide to take action. They begin `The Granny Project`, with immediate and sensational
ISBN: 978-0-552-55438-1
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
`The world has teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted. Trisha McFarland discovered this when she was nine years old. Lost in the woods.` Trisha has only veered a little way off the trail. But in her panic to get back to the path, Trisha takes a turning that leads into the tangled undergrowth. Deeper and deeper in the terrifying woods. At first it`s just the bugs, midges and mosquitoes. Then comes the hunger. For comfort she tunes her Walkman into broadcasts of the Red Sox baseball games and the performances of her hero Tom Gordon. As darkness begins to fall, Trisha realises that she is not alone. There`s something else in the woods - watching.
ISBN: 978-1-4447-0747-2
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Fitzgerald was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald`s third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. Being acclaimed by generations of readers, the story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan remains one of the most famous Fitzgerald`s works. It is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s. All the Sad Young Men is a wonderful short-story collection. It contains two of the most famous tales: the beautifully elegiac "The Rich Boy" and "Winter Dreams", dealing with wealthy protagonists as they come to terms with lost love and "Absolution", a boy`s confession to a priest.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07702-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
The landmark novel by Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing – a powerful account of a woman searching for her personal, political and professional identity while facing rejection and betrayal.Anna Wulf is a young novelist with writer’s block. Divorced, with a young child, and disillusioned by unsatisfactory relationships, she feels her life is falling apart. Fearing the onset of madness, she records her experiences in four coloured notebooks. The black notebook addresses her problems as a writer; the red her political life; the yellow her relationships and emotions; and the blue becomes a diary of everyday events. But it is the fifth notebook – the Golden Notebook – which is the key to her recovery and renaissance.Bold and...
О. Генри - один из самых известных классиков американской литературы, признанный мастер короткой прозы. Его произведениям свойственны тонкий юмор, неожиданные развязки, яркие персонажи и, безусловно, любовь к людям и жизни. В этот сборник включены интересные и трогательные рассказы "Дары волхвов", "Фараон и хорал", "Меблированная комната", "Через двадцать лет" и многие другие. Читайте зарубежную литературу в...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05345-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2017
A tenant has disappeared in a New York slum, leaving behind strange, original artwork. Gallery owner Ethan Muller can see its brilliance and money-making potential. When Ethan displays the art, the show attracts the attention of the police. Because the subjects of the pictures look exactly like the victims in a long-cold murder case. Ethan has received a letter saying stop, stop, stop, And the still-missing genius may be the link to a madman or the madman himself.
ISBN: 978-0-515-14605-9
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012