When Barbara Davies went to Russia on a newspaper assignment, she met Lieutenant Valinsky and her world was turned upside down. Fascinated by the simplicity of his existence in a freezing winter, she embarked on an affair with him, determined to turn her back on her old life forever. But she had to confront the differences between their worlds.
ISBN: 978-0-340-91050-4
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: август 2011
"A Russian Diary" is the book that Anna Politkovskava had recently completed when she was murdered in a contract killing in Moscow. Covering the period from the Russian parliamentary elections of December 2003 to the tragic aftermath of the Beslan school siege in late 2005, "A Russian Diary" is a brave and unflinching record of the plight of millions of Russians and a pitiless report on the cynicism and corruption of Vladimir Putin`s presidency. Формат: 13 см x 19,5 см.
ISBN: 978-0-09-952345-1
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: август 2011
A schoolteacher in a provincial town falls in love with and marries a young local woman. He thinks he`s found a bliss only described in novels. But before long, his sharp points of bliss become blurred. The loss of ideals and poverty of actual experience are the themes of these stories. Chekhov`s Russians, at the close of the 19th century are trapped in a prison of frustration, which he depicts with laconic power.
ISBN: 978-0-19-955487-4
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: июль 2011
In the course of human history there has probably been no more terrible place than Eastern Europe in 1941-1945. Estimates of total Soviet military and civilian deaths in the period now stand at more than 25 million. In "Russia`s War", Richard Overy recreates the Soviet Union`s apocalyptic struggle against Germany from the point of view both of the troops and of the ordinary civilians.
ISBN: 978-0-14-104917-5
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Russia is a country of contradictions, a nation of cultural refinement and artistic originality and yet also a country that rules by `the iron fist`. In this riveting history, Martin Sixsmith shows how Russia`s complex identity has been formed over a thousand years, and how it can help us understand its often baffling behaviour at home and abroad. Combining in-depth research and interviews with his personal experiences as a former BBC Moscow correspondent, Sixsmith skilfully traces the conundrums of modern Russia to their roots in its troubled past, and explains the nation`s seemingly split personality as the result of influences that have divided it for centuries. "A Sunday Times" bestseller, Russia is essential reading for anyone who...
In the summer of 1812 Napoleon, the master of Europe, marched into Russia with the largest army ever seen, confident that he would sweep everything before him. Yet less than two years later his empire lay in ruins, and Russia had triumphed. This is the first history to explore in depth Russia`s crucial role in the Napoleonic Wars, re-creating the epic battle between two empires as never before.
ISBN: 978-0-14-100935-3
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The result of a lifetime’s knowledge of Russia and its people, this monumental and authoritative work has been acclaimed as the definitive single-volume history of Russia.
ISBN: 978-0-14-029788-1
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Spanning 1800 years of Russia`s history, people, poltics, and culture, Edward Rurtherford, tells a grand saga that is as multifaceted as Russia itself. Here is a story of a great civilization made human, played out through the lives of four families who are divided by ethnicity but united in shaping the destiny of their land.
ISBN: 0-8041-0972-9
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
- Brightly coloured editions of the much-loved Farmyard Tales series. - All 20 stories available in miniature format. - Enjoyable and collectible stories for children who are just learning to read.
ISBN: 978-0-7460-6312-5
Издательство:
Usborne
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Even though a fallen woman would seem a less-than-ideal choice for a Victorian heroine, Elizabeth Gaskell courageously created just such a portrait in Rutb. Overturning the conventional assumption that a woman once seduced is condemned to exclusion from respectable society, Gaskell draws a heroine whose emotional honesty, innate morality, and the love she shares with her illegitimate son are sufficient for redemption.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07715-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
A fallen woman would seem a less-than-ideal choice for a Victorian heroine. Elizabeth Gaskell courageously created just such a portrait in her Ruth. Overturning the conventional assumption that a woman once seduced is condemned to exclusion from respectable society, Gaskell draws a heroine whose emotional honesty, innate morality, and the love she shares with her illegitimate son are sufficient for redemption.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06825-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: апрель 2018
Lire et voir les classiques • Un cahier iconographique en couleurs avec un questionnaire pour la lecture de I`image. • Le texte integral annote. • La biographie de I`auteur et la genese de I`oeuvre. • L`etude des contextes et des themes principaux. • Des questionnaires de lecture analytique et des groupements de textes.
In Kinsey Millhone`s 19th excursion into the world of suspense and misadventure, a daughter wants the solace of closure in the mystery surrounding her mother`s absence. Thirty-four years earlier, Violet Sullivan put on her party finery and left for the Fourth of July fireworks display. She was never seen again.
ISBN: 978-0-425-21269-1
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: август 2011
In a moment of sudden inspiration Sarah Worth - S. - has walked out on her husband to join the Ashram Arhat. Famous for his transcendent wisdom and divine immobility, the Arhat has transferred his ahram from India to Arizona, where he and his enthusiastic entourage are attempting to make the desert fruitful.
ISBN: 978-0-14-118901-7
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Once a scandalously inventive puppeteer, Micky Sabbath at sixty-four is still defiantly antagonistic and exceedingly libidinous. But after the death of his long-time mistress - an erotic free spirit whose adulterous daring exceeds even his own - Sabbath embarks on a turbulent journey into his past. Bereft and grieving, besieged by the ghosts of those who loved and hated him most, he contrives a succession of farcical disasters that take him to the brink of madness and extinction.
ISBN: 978-0-09-951876-1
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Combining explosive suspense with sensual passion, Nora Roberts turns up the heat in this classic tale - the sizzling story of a man and woman on the trail of a demented killer, a search that will plunge them headlong into In the lazy days of summer, a merciless heat wave is the biggest story in Washington, But the weather is knocked off the front pages when a young woman is found strangled to death. A note left behind reads Her sins are forgiven her. Two more victims soon follow, and suddenly every headline is devoted to the killer the press has dubbed the Priest. When the police ask top-notch psychiatrist Dr. Tess Court to help with their investigation, she comes up with a disturbing portrait of a twisted soul. Detective Ben Paris...
ISBN: 978-0-553-26574-3
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Nina Wilde and Eddie Chase are back in another epic contemporary adventure thriller. As the story opens Michelangelo`s David is stolen from its plinth in Florence, Italy, in the latest of a series of audacious raids of the world`s greatest treasures. When another treasure, the Talonor Codex - an account of the travels of a great Atlantean explorer, which suggests a link between the ancient Hindu civilisation of India and the Atlanteans - is stolen from an exhibition in San Francisco, Nina and Eddie join the adventure. They must now race across the world from India to Nicaragua, the Himalayas to Greenland, to find the vault of Shiva before the man who has stolen the Codex. For the Codex says that inside the vault lies the Shiva Purana,...
ISBN: 978-0-7553-5466-5
Издательство:
Headline Publ.
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The snow is falling on the ancient streets of Rome. And in the heart of the city, under the Pantheon’s great dome, a woman’s body lies on the marble floor, carefully positioned with a gruesome carving on her David Hewson’s ingenious new thriller, this horrific murder hurtles Rome’s police force into a collision with agents – and a secret that has festered for fifteen years, now unraveling in the world’s most enigmatic city. When Detective Nic Costa arrives at the scene, he is unprepared for what he finds, or for the ambush that leaves his only witness vanished into the night. The dead woman was American. Within hours, agents descend with a take-no-prisoners style and a shocking story to tell: the killer has struck before, in...
ISBN: 978-0-385-33849-3
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: март 2012
Dying billionaire, Trevor Stone hires private detectives, Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro to find his missing daughter. Grief-stricken over the death of her mother and the impending death of her father, Desiree Stone has been missing for three weeks. So has the first investigator, Trevor Stone hired to find her: Jay Becker, Patrick`s mentor. As Patrick and Angie begin their search, they are led down a trail of half-truths and corruption into a world in which a therapeutic organization may be fronting for a dangerous cult; a hi-tech private investigation firm may be covering up lethal crimes; and a stolen cache of millions in illegal funds may be tied to both disappearances and a tanker full of heroin. Nothing is remotely what it seems...
ISBN: 978-0-553-81826-0
Издательство:
Bantam
Дата выхода: май 2012
