Capturing tales of the American West told through wildly-humorous autobiographical essays by Mark Twain, this classic offers an insightful account of Twain`s own life and experiences.
ISBN: 978-0-7434-3650-2
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The Rough Guide to British Cult Comedy is the ultimate guide to live and television comedy in Britain from the 1980s to the present day. From Ben Elton to Alan Carr, this book profiles fifty of the most influential cult comedy icons and discovers how they became household names. Throughout the book, there are tips from comedians and industry insiders, with a mix of amusing anecdotes and practical suggestions for writing and performing your own live show and sitcom. The guide reviews the top cult comedy on TV and in the movies, with a detailed focus on what inspired them and what they in turn inspired. Comedy Stories looks at the highs and lows of performing live comedy with tales of the rowdiest hecklers and strangest audiences. The book...
ISBN: 978-1-84353-618-5
Издательство:
Rough Guides
Дата выхода: август 2011
A gripping and unnerving story of a family`s secrets and lies, from the bestselling author of `Notes from an Exhibition`. Julian as a small boy is taken on the perfect Cornish holiday. When glamorous American cousins unexpectedly swell the party, however, emotions run high and events spiral out of control. Though he has been brought up in the forbidding shadow of the prison his father runs, though his parents are neither as normal nor as happy as he supposes, Julian`s world view is the sunnily selfish, accepting one of boyhood. It is only when he becomes a man - seemingly at ease with love, with his sexuality, with his ghosts - that the traumatic effects of that distant summer rise up to challenge his defiant assertion that he is happy...
ISBN: 978-0-00-730767-8
Издательство:
Collins
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. "Round the Red Lamp" is a splendid collection of medical and detective short stories, the idea of which was suggested to the author by none other than Jerome K. Jerome.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07162-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Round the Sofa is a collection of short stories, which introduces us to a set of characters who take turns to recount stories during their weekly soiree. It contains several tales, including "An Accursed Race", an essay about a persecuted minority group of Cagots in Western France, and "The Half Brothers" - touching and sad story about brotherly love and a sheep-dog named Lassie.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07717-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Classic / British English (Available April 2008) Phileas Fogg is living quietly in London. Then he makes a bet that he can travel around the world in eighty days. The result is a crazy, exciting race against time across Europe, Asia and America. There are many dangers along the way and a detective who wants to arrest him!
ISBN: 978-1-4058-6518-0
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Can Phileas Fogg go round the world in eighty days? He doesn`t know that somebody wants to stop him. Then Fogg will lose his bet twenty thousand pounds!
ISBN: 978-1-4058-8441-9
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
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. Round the Red Lamp is a collection of medical and detective stories by Doyle, where he focused on the problems that present themselves to physicians and surgeons at the time. The Captain of the Polestar and Other Tales is a collection of early Doyle`s short stories. It includes stories of mystery, comedy, shipwrecks and fantasy.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08145-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
Phileas Fogg is living quietly in London. Then he makes a bet that he can travel around the world in eighty days. The result is a crazy, exciting race against time across Europe, Asia and America. There are many dangers along the way and a detective who wants to arrest him!
ISBN: 978-1-4082-7653-2
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
What`s it like to drive a car that`s actively trying to kill you? This and many other burning questions trouble Jeremy Clarkson as he sets out to explore the world from the safety of four wheels. Avoiding the legions of power-crazed traffic wombles attempting to block highway and byway, he: shows how the world of performance cars may be likened to Battersea Dogs` Home; reveals why St Moritz may be the most bonkers town in all of the world; reminds us that Switzerland is so afraid of snow that any flakes falling on the road are immediately arrested; and, argues that washing a car is a waste of time. Funny, globe-trotting, irreverent and sometimes downright rude, "Round the Bend" is packed with curious and fascinating but otherwise...
ISBN: 978-0-241-95695-3
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: май 2012
For the first time in A-format paperback, J.R.R. Tolkien`s novella about the adventures of a bewitched toy dog While on holiday in 1925, four-year-old Michael Tolkien lost his beloved toy dog on the beach at Filey in Yorkshire. To console him, his father, J. R. R. Tolkien, improvised a story about Rover, a real dog who is magically transformed into a toy and is forced to seek out the wizard who wronged him in order to be returned to normal. This charming tale, peopled by a sand-sorcerer and a terrible dragon, by the king of the sea and the Man-in-the-Moon, went through several drafts over the years. Now, more than 70 years on, the adventures of Rover -- or, for reasons that become clear in the story, "Roverandom"-- are published in A...
ISBN: 0-00-714911-5
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
