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 Prairie is the third novel written by him featuring Natty Bumppo, his fictitious frontier hero. Chronologically The Prairie is the fifth and final installment of the "Leatherstocking Tales", though it was published before "The Pathfinder" and "The Deerslayer". Bumppo is never called by his name, but is instead referred to as "the trapper" or "the old man". The novel depicts him in the final year of his life still proving helpful to people in distress on the American frontier.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07952-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
`I am not an angel nor a genie nor a I am Erik`! A mysterious Phantom haunts the depths of the Paris Opera House where he has fallen passionately in love with the beautiful singer Christine Daae. Under his guidance her singing rises to new heights and she is triumphantly acclaimed. But Christine is also loved by Raoul de Chagny, and by returning his love she makes the fiend she knows as the Angel of Music mad with jealousy. When the Phantom is finally unmasked, will Christine see beyond his hideous disfigurement? The twists and turns of Leroux`s thrilling story have captivated readers since its very first appearance in 1910, and its outlines are known to many more who have seen it on stage or film. This new translation is as full-blooded...
Rich with surprise and hilarious adventure, “The Prince And The Pauper” is a delight satire of England`s romantic past and a joyful boyhood romp filled with the same tongue-in-cheek irony that sparked the best of Mark Twain`s tall tales. Two boys, one an urchin from London`s filthy lanes, the other a prince born in a lavish palace, unwittingly trade identities. Thus a bedraggled "Prince of Poverty" discovers that his private dreams have all the come true - while a pampered Prince of Wales finds himself tossed into a rough-and-tumble world of squalid beggars and villainous thieves. Originally written as a story for children, “The Prince And The Pauper” is a classic novel for adults as well - through its stinging attack on the...
ISBN: 978-0-553-21256-3
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most influential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. "The Purcell Papers II" is a collection of classic short stories. The author filled the book with dark, alluring atmosphere. It immerses the reader in a world of the unknown, even supernatural.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07117-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde`s story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the author`s most popular work. The tale of Dorian Gray`s moral disintegration caused a scandal when it first appeared in 1890, but though Wilde was attacked for the novel`s corrupting influence, he responded that there is, in fact, "a terrible moral in Dorian Gray."
ISBN: 978-5-521-06184-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
Mia`s got everything a girl could possibly want. She`s a princess - and she`s got a boyfriend! But that`s where it all goes wrong. Because Kenny is just NOT the guy she really wants. Michael`s the one she`s loved forever - but he`s going out with someone infinitely cleverer than Mia. Someone who can clone FRUIT FLIES, for heaven`s sake! Will the story end happily ever after for the Princess of Genovia?
ISBN: 978-0-330-48207-3
Издательство:
Pan Macmillan
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
An exhilarating exploration of how the world`s languages are likely to transform and be transformed by their speakers Mark Abley, author of Spoken Here, takes the reader on a global journey like no other - from Singapore to Tokyo, from Oxford to Los Angeles, through the Internet and back in time. As much a travel book as a tour of words at play, The Prodigal Tongue goes beyond grammar and vocabulary to discover how language is irrevocably changing the people of the world in far-reaching his travels, Abley encounters bloggers, translators, novelists, therapists, dictionary makers, hip-hop performers, and Web-savvy teens. He talks to a married couple who corresponded passionately online before they met in meatspace. And he listens to...
Настоящее издание представлено известным произведением О.Уайлда на английском языке. В книге реализован оригинальный метод адаптации, сочетающий купирование, пересказ купюр, комментарии страноведческих реалий, сложных для понимания лексики и грамматики. В ряде случаев произведение содержит комментарии литературоведческого характера. Рекомендуется учащимся школ, лицеев и колледжей, а также...
ISBN: 985-13-7838-0
Издательство:
Харвест
Дата выхода: август 2006
"The prince and the pauper; a tale for young people of all ages by Mark Twain. With one hundred and ninety-two illustrations and four color illustrations by W. Hatherell".
ISBN: 978-5-519-49873-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2016
Марк Твен - один из самых известных американских писателей, чьи произведения отличает живость повествования, искромётный юмор и умение тонко поднимать философские вопросы. "Принц и нищий" - блестящее произведение автора, которое любят и взрослые, и дети, по праву стало классикой мировой литературы. Волею судеб мальчик-бедняк Том Кенти оказывается в королевском дворце и меняется одеждой с принцем...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05409-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2017
War threatens to take all she has loved and lived for… On the outbreak of war, Belle Reilly`s husband Jimmy enlists and heads for the deadly trenches of northern France. But Belle knows she cannot stand idly by when so many are sacrificing their lives.
ISBN: 978-0-241-95037-1
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 2012
Чарльз Диккенс - один из самых известных писателей Англии XIX века. Мастерство владения языком, умение строить сюжет и наполнять его незабываемыми персонажами принесли автору заслуженное звание классика, а роман "Посмертные записки Пиквикского клуба" - настоящую литературную славу и признание читателей во всём мире. В этом увлекательном произведении, написанном с прекрасным чувством юмора, автор...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05180-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2017
Anthony Hope.retold by Virginia Evans - Jenny Dooley.
Dorian remembered the wish he had made at Basils. He had said that he wished the portrait would grow old and ugly while he remained young and beautiful. But could such things come true? Dorian didnt think so. But what about the portrait? It had changed.
ISBN: 9781844662777
Издательство:
Express Publishing
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2018
Two 19th century stage illusionists, the aristocratic Rupert Angier and the working-class Alfred Borden, engage in a bitter and deadly feud; the effects are still being felt by their respective families a hundred years later. Working in the gaslight-and-velvet world of Victorian music halls, they prowl edgily in the background of each other`s shadowy life, driven to the extremes by a deadly combination of obsessive secrecy and insatiable curiosity. At the heart of the row is an amazing illusion they both perform during their stage acts. The secret of the magic is simple, and the reader is in on it almost from the start, but to the antagonists the real mystery lies deeper. Both have something more to hide than the mere workings of a trick.
ISBN: 978-0-575-07906-9
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Dorian remembered the wish he had made at Basils. He had said that he wished the portrait would grow old and ugly while he remained young and beautiful. But could such things come true? Dorian didnt think so. But what about the portrait? It had changed.
ISBN: 9781842163849
Издательство:
Express Publishing
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2018
Стильно оформленное подарочное издание в суперобложке, с трехсторонним золотым обрезом и шелковым ляссе. On its first publication The Picture of Dorian Gray was regarded as dangerously modern in its depiction of fin-de-sicle decadence. In this updated version of the Faust story, the tempter is Lord Henry Wotton, who lives selfishly for amoral pleasure; Dorian`s good angel is the portrait painter Basil Hallward, whom Dorian murders. The book highlights the tension between the polished surface of high society and the life of secret vice. Although sin is punished in the end the book has a flavour of the elegantly perverse. Формат: 10 см x 15,5...
ISBN: 978-1-904633-15-0
Издательство:
Collector's Library
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Daniel Defoe was an English trader, writer, pamphleteer and journalist. He is most famous for his novel "Robinson Crusoe", which is second only to the Bible in its number of translations. Irreverent and ironic, The Political History of the Devil is a satire that examines the evolution of evil and the rise of the historical force known as "the devil." An overview of satanic influences on eighteenth-century life follows, focusing on monarchs and tyrants as well as common folk. Defoe supports his arguments not only with extensive quotes from scripture but also with citations from other sources, including Milton`s "Paradise Lost."
ISBN: 978-5-521-08184-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
This treasured historical satire, played out in two very different socioeconomic worlds of 16th-century England, centers around the lives of two boys born in London on the same day: Edward, Prince of Wales and Tom Canty, a street beggar. During a chance encounter, the two realize they are identical and, as a lark, decide to exchange clothes and roles - a situation that briefly, but drastically, alters the lives of both youngsters. The Prince, dressed in rags, wanders about the city`s boisterous neighborhoods among the lower classes and endures a series of hardships; meanwhile, poor Tom, now living with the royals, is constantly filled with the dread of being discovered for who and what he really is.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06188-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
The third in the cycle of novels that began with THE SHADOW OF THE WIND and THE ANGEL`S GAME. THE PRISONER OF HEAVEN returns to the world of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books. It begins just before Christmas in Barcelona in 1957, one year after Daniel and Bea from THE SHADOW OF THE WIND have married. They now have a son, Julian, and are living with Daniel`s father at Sempere & Sons. Fermin still works with them and is busy preparing for his wedding to Bernarda in the New Year. However something appears to be bothering him. Daniel is alone in the shop one morning when a mysterious figure with a pronounced limp enters. He spots one of their most precious volumes that is kept locked in a glass cabinet, a beautiful and unique illustrated...