Wilbur Smith returns with the eagerly awaited sequel to his thrilling Egyptian series. Following on from River God, The Seventh Scroll and Warlock, The Quest continues the story of the Warlock, Taita, wise in the lore of the ancient Gods and a master of magic and the supernatural. Egypt is struck by a series of terrible plagues that cripple the Kingdom, and then the ultimate disaster follows. The Nile fails. The waters that nourish and sustain the land dry up. Something catastrophic is taking place in the distant and totally unexplored depths of Africa from where the mighty river springs. In desperation Pharoah sends for Taita, the only man who might be able to win through to the source of the Nile and discover the cause of all their...
ISBN: 978-0-330-45601-2
Издательство:
Picador USA
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
The Monarchy Has Been Dismantled. When a Republican party wins the General Election, their first act in power is to strip the royal family of their assets and titles and send them to live on a housing estate in the Midlands. Exchanging Buckingham Palace for a two-bedroomed semi in Hell Close (as the locals dub it), caviar for boiled eggs, servants for a social worker named Trish, the Queen and her family learn what it means to be poor among the great unwashed. But is their breeding sufficient to allow them to rise above their changed circumstance or deep down are they really just like everyone else?
ISBN: 978-0-241-95837-7
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2012
The Rough Guide to Comedy Movies uncovers cinema`s funniest and most varied genre, from silent slapstick, to 90s gross-out and the dark indie humour of today. The canon of fifty greatest funnies runs from The Gold Rush and Duck Soup to Airplane and Shaun of the Dead, plus double-acts, drag-acts and ensembles from Laurel & Hardy and the Marx Bros, to the Pythons and the Coen Brothers. Seeking out the films that have amused people the most - or simply amused the most people - the Rough Guide gives you the ultimate lowdown on laughter in the movies from Wes Anderson`s Rushmore to Withnail and I, and from John Belushi to Billy Wilder.
ISBN: 978-1-84353-464-8
Издательство:
Rough Guides
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
It is 1910, the age of flying machines is still in its infancy, and newspaper publisher Preston Whiteway is offering $50,000 for the first daring aviator to cross America in less than fifty days. He is even sponsoring one of the prime candidates-an intrepid woman named Josephine Frost-and that`s where Bell, chief investigator for the Van Dorn Detective Agency, comes in. Frost`s violent-tempered husband has just killed her lover and tried to kill her, and he is bound to make another attempt. Bell has tangled with Harry Frost before; he knows that the man has made his millions leading gangs of thieves, murderers, and thugs in every city across the country. He also knows that Frost won`t be only after his wife, but after Whiteway as well....
David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and literary critic, one of the key writers of the early twentieth century, most famous for his criticism of rationalism and industrialization. Set in the Nottinghamshire, England, The Rainbow follows three generations of the Brangwens, a strong and energetic family, deeply attached to the land they own. The book focuses on the individual`s struggle against the confining rules and restrictions of social life.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07214-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
A novel of naval life in Napoleonic France. After forty years of piracy on Eastern seas, Citizen Peyrol returns to his native France, a country now ravaged and scarred by revolution and war. Looking for peace in which to end his days, he withdraws to a safe harbor in a remote farmhouse on Escampobar Peninsula, which looks out to the distant Mediterranean, where the lovely Arlette lives with her aunt and the revolutionary Scevola. But the arrival of young Lieutenant Real calls Peyrol once again to action in a mission of danger, patriotism and heroism.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06672-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
It is 1835, and with the birth of the Industrial Revolution, railway fever sweeps the country. Pyke is uneasy with the luxury his aristocratic marriage has brought him, and when he is unofficially asked to investigate a decapitation, he can not resist the chance to resuscitate the old skills he learned on the streets. But with the industrial world comes a new and faceless enemy: men who have money and power, and who will stop at nothing in their pursuit of both. For Pyke, with his young wife and child and an elevated place in society to protect, the stakes have suddenly become alarmingly high. From the sweat shops of the east end to the palace of the Queen-in-waiting; from the elegant drawing rooms of the newly rich, to the...
ISBN: 978-0-7538-2400-9
Издательство:
Орион
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Languishing one summer at the Foreign Office in London, Carruthers is rescued by an unexpected invitation to join Arthur Davies on the `Dulcibella` in the Baltic. A grouse-shooting party or a weekend at Cowes would have been more Carruthers`s style. More disconcerting still, soon after his arrival it emerges that Davies needs his assistance, not on a yachting holiday, but in a spot of amateur spying ... Sounding a warning of the dangers of a German sea-borne invasion, `The Riddle of the Sands` created a sensation when it appeared in 1903. Recognizably the great forerunner of the espionage novels of Graham Greene and John Le Carre, its vivid period flavour and richly detailed background of inshore sailing have made it a classic among...
ISBN: 978-0-14-119799-9
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: февраль 2011
The armies of the Dark Lord are massing as his evil shadow spreads ever wider. Men, Dwarves, Elves and Ents unite forces to do battle against the Dark. Meanwhile, Frodo and Sam struggle further into Mordor in their heroic quest to destroy the One Ring. Третья часть известного фэнтезийного романа на английском языке.
ISBN: 9780261102378
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: январь 2007
Wentworth, Ohio: a small friendly town where the Carver children bicker over sweets in the E-Z shop and writer Johnny Marinville is the only resident who minds his own business. On Poplar Street, apart from the impending storm, it`s just a normal summer`s day - with Frisbees flying, lawn mowers humming and barbeques grilling. As the paperboy makes his round, he is unaware of the chrome red van idling up the Soon the residents will be caught up in a game of wills as the regulators arrive in force to face a child whose powers of expression are just awakening. If you like THE REGULATORS, don`t miss DESPERATION, written as an unidentical pair.
ISBN: 978-1-4447-2352-6
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: январь 2013
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 book is a collection of intriguing short stories with unexpected culminations such as "Like Argus of the Ancient Times," "The Hussy," and "The Red One".
ISBN: 978-5-521-07507-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. The Refugees is another vivid example of the author`s love for historical events. It revolves around two characters: Huguenot guardsman Amory de Catinat, and Amos Green, an American who comes to see France. The book also features many famous historical figures and events: the King of France Louis XIV`s and his marriage to Madame de Maintenon, the cancellation of the Edict of Nantes and the emigration of the Huguenot de Catinats to America
ISBN: 978-5-521-08136-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Two days of fighting on a woodland battlefield are focused through the excited senses of a raw Union recruit, Henry Fleming. Dreaming of heroism, but shamefully discovering his own mortal fear of danger and death - and of fear itself - he flees from his first encounter with Confederate troops. But when he is drawn back into the battle he wins by accident his "red badge", the wound that signifies initiation into manhood and possession of courage to join the world of men. The Red Badge of Courage conveys with intense immediacy the sensations, colours, fever and chaos of battle. It concentrates on the experience of an individual soldier, and it is one of the few novels written before this century that meets our modern sense of the realities...
ISBN: 978-0-14-119788-3
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
In the years between the two great wars, the nations of the world, ravaged by war and depression, struggled to maintain a delicate peace. Torn between pressing social needs - record-setting unemployment and the threat of revolutions, Western Europe played for time in which to repair its economies and to strengthen its governments. No one wanted war: Britain was still healing the wounds of World War I; the Americans had retreated into isolation; the French were divided politically and the Soviet Union, an international outcast, was facing its own enormous problems. Yet, determined to win the `living space` he was convinced Germany needed, Adolf Hitler made war unavoidable, despite the pronounced reluctance of the rest of the world. Almost...
Contemporary / British English (Available June 2008) It is the summer of 1956, and the ageing butler of Darlington Hall takes a rare holiday. But it is a journey that will also take him deep into his past. The Remains of the Day is a remarkable story: a man`s exploration of his own life, and his heart-breaking attempt to make sense of it.
ISBN: 978-1-4058-8269-9
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
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 book is a collection of intriguing short stories with unexpected culminations such as "Like Argus of the Ancient Times", "The Hussv" and "The Red One". .
ISBN: 978-5-521-08124-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Wilhelm von Habsburg wore the uniform of an Austrian officer, the court regalia of a Habsburg archduke, the simple suit of a Parisian exile, the decorations of the Order of the Golden Fleece and, every so often, a dress. He spoke the Italian of his archduke mother, the German of his archduke father, the English of his British royal friends, the Polish of the country his father wished to rule and the Ukrainian of the land Wilhelm wished to rule himself. Timothy Snyder`s masterful biography is not only a reconstruction of the life of this extraordinary man - a man who remained loyal to his Ukrainian dreams even after the country`s dissolution in 1921 - but also charts the final collapse of the ancient regime in Europe and the rise of a new...
Роман У.С.Моэма `Острие бритвы` продолжает знакомить читателя с творчеством одного из лучших английских прозаиков XX века. Увлекательный сюжет, глубокое проникновение в судьбы героев, проблема нравственного выбора и поиска правильного пути, прекрасный английский язык делают книгу интересной широкому кругу читателей.
ISBN: 5-8346-0175-8
Издательство:
Менеджер
Дата выхода: август 2002
Brought right up to date with the latest momentous events, this extremely timely new edition of a best-seller, from arguably the most high profile historian writing today, traces the tangled and bitter history of the Arab-Jewish struggle from the early twentieth century to the present day. Through 187 maps (including thirty two new ones) the complete history of the conflict is revealed by examining: - the prelude and background to the conflict - the Jewish National home - the intensification of the conflict - the state of Israel - the moves to find peace Accompanied by powerful and compelling quotations, this clear, illuminative and highly informative new edition from Martin Gilbert is an absolute must for all students of history.
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. This is the last volume of the Littlepage Manuscripts trilogy, narrating the history of three generations of a Dutch-descended American family starting from the mid-eighteenth century.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06658-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: февраль 2018