The Granville Midsummer Ball is always an affair to remember. The who`s who of Irish society gather at Carrickcross House - the rural family estate - for a night of revelry. But this year`s soiree is extra-special: matriarch Honoria is announcing her grandson Rossa`s engagement to Ashling Morrison. Ashling has been swept off her feet. Tall, dark and handsome, Rossa`s the perfect catch, but is he too good to be true? Why is Honoria so keen to make Ashling - stepdaughter of her life-long enemy Coppelia - part of the Granville clan? Can Rossa`s brother Carrick hold on to his position as rightful heir? And will ruthless Coppelia have her way? With the promise of distinguished company, drinking, dancing and who could possibly refuse this...
ISBN: 978-1-4091-0277-9
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
Омар Хайям - великий персидский философ, поэт, астроном XI века. Рубаи - одна из самых сложных жанровых форм таджикско-персидской поэзии. Объём рубаи - четыре строки, три из которых рифмуются между собой. Хайям - непревзойдённый мастер данного жанра. Его рубаи поражают меткостью наблюдений, глубиной постижения мира и души человека, яркостью образов и изяществом ритма. Читайте зарубежную литературу в...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05783-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2017
A grand master of the form, Rex Stout is one of America`s greatest mystery writers, and his literary creation Nero Wolfe is one of fiction`s greatest detectives. Here, in Stout`s third and fourth complete Wolfe mysteries, the arrogant, gourmandizing, sedentary sleuth and his trusty man-about-town, Archie Goodwin, solve two of their most baffling cases. The Rubber Band What do a Wild West lynching and a respected English nobleman have in common? On the surface, absolutely nothing. But when a young woman hires his services, it becomes Nero Wolfe`s job to look deeper and find the connection. A forty-year-old pact, a five-thousand-mile search, and a million-dollar murder are all linked to an international scandal that could rebound on the...
Bawdy and moving, the ultimate word-of-mouth bestseller, Rubyfruit Jungle is about growing up a lesbian in America--and living happily ever after. "A truly incredible book".--The Boston Globe.
ISBN: 9780553278866
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: апрель 1983
Jane Mansfield, a gentleman`s daughter in 1813 England, has long wished to escape a life in which career choices are limited to wife or maiden aunt. But awakening one morning in twenty-first-century Los Angeles - in the body of someone called Courtney Stone - is not exactly what she had in mind. Jane must quickly get to grips with a world in which no one knows her true identity: a dizzying world of horseless metal carriages, unrestricted clothing, tiny apartments, all manner of flirting, and unheard-of liberties for womankind. The only thing Jane appears to have in common with the lady in whose life she has landed is a love for the novels of Jane Austen. But are the wise words of her favourite novelist enough to guide her through this...
ISBN: 978-1-4088-1306-5
Издательство:
Bloomsbury
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
The Jungle Book introduces Mowgli, the human foundling adopted by a family of wolves. It tells of the enmity between him and the tiger Shere Khan, who killed Mowgli`s parents, and of the friendship between the man-cub and Bagheera, the black panther, and Baloo, the sleepy brown bear, who instructs Mowgli in the Laws of the Jungle.
ISBN: 9781840227833
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2020
This is a fascinating selection of Kipling`s most famous short stories, bringing together the very best of his work. `Life`s Handicap` reflects his experiences of India, and contains two horror stories which permeate the collection with an air of haunteddestinies. Delusions and obsessions, past lives and the slums of London in 1890 are the fascinatingly diverse topics featured in `Many Inventions`. While `Traffics and Discoveries` contains three tales in which the subject matter ranges from unexplained mystery and the supernatural to an other-worldly house full of elusive but charming children. `The Maltese Cut` is Kipling`s well-loved story about a polo pony. These stories remind us once again that Kipling is an undisputed master of...
ISBN: 1-85326-179-3
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 1998
Caldwell and Thomason`s intriguing intellectual suspense novel stars four brainy roommates at Princeton, two of whom have links to a mysterious 15th-century manuscript, the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. This rare text (a real book) contains embedded codes revealing the location of a buried Roman treasure. Comparisons to The Da Vinci Code are inevitable, but Caldwell and Thomason`s book is the more cerebral-and better written-of the two: think Dan Brown by way of Donna Tartt and Umberto Eco. The four seniors are Tom Sullivan, Paul Harris, Charlie Freeman and Gil Rankin. Tom, the narrator, is the son of a Renaissance scholar who spent his life studying the ancient book, "an encyclopedia masquerading as a novel, a dissertation on everything...
ISBN: 0-385-33711-6
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
The most riveting novel yet in Christopher Reich`s New York Times bestselling series - featuring Dr. Jonathan Ransom and his undercover-agent wife Emma, a dangerous woman with a mysterious past who has gone rogue in the high-stakes, serpentine world of international spies. In 1980, a secret American B-52 crashes high in a remote mountain range on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. Nearly thirty years later, and spanning locales from those peaks to New York City, a terrible truth will be revealed. Jonathan Ransom returns as the resourceful doctor thrown into a shadowy world of double and triple agents where absolutely no one can be trusted. To stay alive, Ransom must unravel the mystery surrounding his wife - an enigmatic and lethal spy who...
ISBN: 978-0-307-74227-8
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Doctor Jonathan Ransom thought he knew everything about his wife Emma until she was killed in a tragic skiing accident in the Swiss Alps. They had been married for eight years, eight blissful years in which they had travelled the world together. But the day after her death a mysterious letter addressed to her arrives at their hotel. When he opens it, his beliefs begin to unravel - fast. In the envelope is a railway baggage check to a suitcase that reveals an Emma far removed from the down-to-earth nurse who has been his constant and loyal companion all those years. In it he discovers the clues to a double life. Was she having an affair? When is your wife not your wife? And when she is not your wife, who is she? The answers begin right...
ISBN: 978-0-09-951962-1
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: август 2011
In this brilliantly conceived, jet-fueled thriller, New York Times bestselling author Christopher Reich has boldly redefined the espionage novel for the twenty-first century. Dr. Jonathan Ransom, a surgeon for Doctors Without Borders, is climbing in the Swiss Alps with his wife, Emma, when she falls into a hidden crevasse and dies. Twenty-four hours later, Jonathan receives an envelope addressed to his wife containing two baggage-claim tickets. Puzzled, he journeys to a railway station only to find himself inexplicably pursued by the Swiss police. Suddenly forced on the run, Jonathan`s only chance at survival lies in uncovering the devastating truth behind his wife`s secret life. Step by step, he is drawn deeper into a world of spies,...
ISBN: 978-0-307-38782-0
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011
Begun in 1959 by a twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary is a brilliantly tangled love story of jealousy, treachery, and violent alcoholic lust in the Caribbean boomtown that was San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the late 1950s. The narrator, freelance journalist Paul Kemp, irresistibly drawn to a sexy, mysterious woman, is soon thrust into a world where corruption and get-rich-quick schemes rule and anything (including murder) is permissible. Exuberant and mad, youthful and energetic, this dazzling comedic romp provides a fictional excursion as riveting and outrageous as Thompson`s Fear and Loathing books.
