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
For the first time in decades The Eternal City is paralysed by a blizzard. And a gruesome discovery is made in the Pantheon - one of Rome`s most ancient and revered architectural treasures. Covered by softly falling snow is the body of a young woman - her back horribly But before Costa, Peroni and Rome`s Questura can begin a formal investigation the US Embassy has brought in its own people, FBI Agents who want the case closed down as quickly and discreetly as possible. But Costa is determined to find out why - and as the FBI grudgingly admits that this corpse is not the first, the mutilations of the woman`s body point to Leonardo Da Vinci`s Vitruvian Man - and to a conspiracy so sinister and buried so deep, that only two people know its...
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
Dennis Lehane won a Shamus Award for A Drink Before the War, his first book about working-class Boston detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. His second in the series, Darkness, Take My Hand, got the kind of high octane reviews that careers are made of. Now Lehane not only survives the dreaded third-book curse, he beats it to death with a stick. Sacred is a dark and dangerous updating of Raymond Chandler`s The Big Sleep, as dying billionaire Trevor Stone hires Kenzie and Gennaro to find his daughter, Desiree. Patrick`s mentor, a wonderfully devious detective named Jay Becker, has already disappeared in St Petersburg, Florida, while working the case, so the two head there to pick up a trail. Desiree, of course, is nothing like the...
ISBN: 0-380-72629-7
Издательство:
HarperTorch
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
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
A brilliant and enthralling debut historical thriller in the vein of Sansom. London, 1563. England is a troubled nation. Catholic plots against the young Queen Elizabeth spring up all over the country. The herald William Harley - known to everyone as Clarenceux - receives a book from his friend and fellow Catholic, Henry Machyn. But Machyn is in fear of his secret can the book hold? And then Clarenceux is visited by the State in the form of Francis Walsingham and his ruthless enforcers, who will stop at nothing to gain possession of it. If Clarenceux and his family are to survive the terror of the state, he must solve the clues contained in the book to unlock its dangerous secrets before it`s too late. And when he does, he realises that...
ISBN: 978-0-7553-5603-4
Издательство:
Headline Publ.
Дата выхода: август 2011
Beautiful, young Elinor Carlisle stands serenely in the dock accused of the murder of Mary Gerrard, her rival in love. The evidence is damning: only Elinor had the motive, the opportunity and the means to administer the fatal poison. Yet, inside the hostile courtroom, one man still presumes Elinor is innocent until proven guilty; Hercule Poirot is all that stands between Elinor and the
In the savanna’s sunburned yellow grass, two lion cubs play under the indolent gaze of their father, while a short distance away, a pack of hyenas fights over a gazelle carcass. Presenting a realistic, unflinching look at life on the African savanna, this fascinating volume by acclaimed naturalists Christine and Michel Denis-Huot reveals the many faces of this beautiful and challenging habitat. Capturing moments of peaceful harmony and episodes of harsh reality, these exceptional images offer readers a uniquely personal, up-close perspective on life in one of the world’s most intriguing and complex habitats. The Denis-Huots bring to this book the same depth of information and sense of respect and admiration for African wildlife that...
ISBN: 978-88-544-0204-1
Издательство:
АСТ
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
You open your home and your heart to a victim. But your house is anything but Samantha Laschen is a doctor specialising in post-traumatic stress disorder. She`s moved to the coast to escape her problems and to be alone with her young daughter. But now the police want her to take in Fiona Mackenzie, a girl whose parents have been savagely murdered. Yet by allowing Fiona in, Sam is exposing herself - and her daughter - to risks she couldn`t possibly have
ISBN: 978-0-14-103412-6
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: август 2011
When a mysterious young woman named Katie appears in the small North Carolina town of Southport, her sudden arrival raises questions about her past. Beautiful yet self-effacing, Katie seems determined to avoid forming personal ties until a series of events draws her into two reluctant relationships - one with Alex, a widowed store owner with a kind heart and two young children; and another with her plainspoken single neighbor, Jo. Despite her reservations, Katie slowly begins to let down her guard, putting down roots in the close-knit community and becoming increasingly attached to Alex and his family.
