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. "The Sea-Wolf" is a psychological adventure novel that tells the story of Humphrey van Weyden, a literary critic and a survivor of an ocean collision. After the rescue, he falls under the influence of a powerful and amoral sea captain Wolf Larsen. So a soft, domesticated man is forced to become tough and self-reliant through exposure to cruelty and brutality.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07489-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
The third thrilling adventure thriller featuring archaeologist Nina Wilde, in which Nina must find Excalibur, King Arthur’s beloved sword. Said to make whoever holds it unstoppable in battle, the sword Excalibur has been coveted across the ages, and thought lost for over a thousand years. With a cryptic message to archaeologist Nina Wilde, this may be about to change. Historian Bernd Rust believes he can locate and that the sword is the key to harnessing an incredible source of energy. Nina is sceptical – until she and Rust are attacked by mercenaries determined to steal his research. Nina and her boyfriend, ex-SAS soldier Eddie Chase, are soon propelled into a deadly race to find Excalibur. From the deserts of Syria to the arctic...
ISBN: 978-0-7553-4550-2
Издательство:
Headline Publ.
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Meet Adrian Mole, a hapless teenager providing an unabashed, pimples-and-all glimpse into adolescent life. Telling us candidly about his parents` marital troubles, The Dog, and his life as a tortured poet and `misunderstood intellectual`, Adrian`s painfully honest diary is still hilarious and compelling reading thirty years after it first appeared.
ISBN: 978-0-14-104642-6
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2012
Arguably the greatest horror novel ever written by the greatest horror novelist, this is a true Modern Classic that was first published in 1978, and then re-published in 1990, complete and unabridged, with 150,000 words cut from the first edition restored, and now accompanied by unusual and imaginative line art. The total copies for both editions, in hardcover and paperback, exceeds 4 million worldwide. The Stand is a truly terrifying reading experience, and became a four-part mini-series that memorably brought to life the cast of characters and layers of story from the novel. It is an apocalyptic vision of the world, when a deadly virus runs amok around the globe. But that lethal virus is almost benign compared to the satanic force...
ISBN: 978-0-307-74368-8
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: июнь 2011
Michael Morpurgo is a master storyteller, former Children`s Laureate and multi-award winner. This is a fresh reissue of a much-loved story with a beautiful new cover. Michael loves summer holidays in Wales, and Dadci`s tall stories about the Sandman, the old Russian sea captain and blood-red dragon in his lair. Little cousin Polly believes every word of the magical tales and she`s determined to make it all come true.
ISBN: 978-1-4052-2667-7
Издательство:
Egmont Books Ltd
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
A secret terrorist group infiltrates the household of a government official`s son, with a view to spying on the father and, ultimately, assassinating him. But the young man entrusted with the task - an ailing, world-weary "nobody" - seized with the purposelessness of life and a sense of his own impending death, gradually becomes disillusioned with his mission, and decides to embark on a new path which will lead him to tragedy. Combining psychological detail with a strong sense of place and time, "The Story of a Nobody" bears all the hallmarks of Chekhov`s genius, and perfectly captures the political and social tensions of its day.
Вниманию читателей предлагаются известные рассказы Э.Хемингуэя: "Недолгое счастье Френсиса Макомбера", "Снега Килиманджаро" . Издание рассчитано на лиц, владеющих основами английского языка и совершенствующих свои навыки в нем.
ISBN: 978-5-9542-0090-4
Издательство:
Икар
Дата выхода: май 2010
Tracy Beaker`s not exactly sure what her mother does, because Tracy has been in foster care for as long as she can remember. She has a picture of her mother, who`s pretty enough to be in movies, so maybe she is. And maybe one day Tracy`s mother will show up and reclaim her long-lost daughter, and together they`ll have fabulous adventures. Then again, maybe she won`t. In the meantime, Tracy`s doing everything she can to take care of herself - even though she has to share her birthday cake. And even though the other girls she lives with are mean and nasty and rude and horrible. Mostly. Then a journalist shows up to write a story about their orphanage, and she and Tracy strike up a special friendship. In a story written with humor and...
Mr. Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London`s Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie. When Verloc is reluctantly involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory things go disastrously wrong, and what appears to be `a simple tale` proves to involve politicians, policemen, foreign diplomats and London`s fashionable society in the darkest and most surprising interrelations. Based on the text which Conrad`s first English readers enjoyed, this new edition includes a full and up-to-date bibliography, a comprehensive chronology and a critical introduction which describes Conrad`s great London novel as the realization of a `monstrous town,` a place of idiocy,...
ISBN: 978-0-14-119789-0
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850—1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, travel writer, and essayist. He was a celebrity during his lifetime for works like "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and "Treasure Island". Now he is one of the most translated authors in the world. "The Suicide Club" is a collection of three intriguing detective fiction stories set in the nineteenth century: "Story of the Young Man with the Cream Tarts", "Story of the Physician and the Saratoga Trunk" and "The Adventure of the Hansom Cab".
ISBN: 978-5-521-07789-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
«Зарубежная классика — читай в оригинале» — коллекция, которая собрана из бессмертных произведений великих мастеров пера, написанных ими на их родном языке. Книги из этой серии помогут читателю углублённо изучать иностранные языки, обогатят его внутренний мир и по-новому откроют произведения известных классиков. O. Henry, the pen name of William Sydney Porter, is known for short stories with surprise endings. In this collection you will find the following beloved O....
ISBN: 978-5-519-49880-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2016
These three classic SF stories follow the adventures of Ragnar the Space Wolf, from his recruitment by the Space Marines on the savage world of Fenris to his aventures amongst the stars. Whether Ragnar and his friends are fighting orks, mutants, or the foul forces of Chaos, adventure is never far behind!
ISBN: 978-1-84416-457-8
Издательство:
Ред Фиш
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Howard Lovecraft (1890—1937) was an American writer who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. Despite the fact that he was virtually unknown before he died, today he is known as the most influential author in his genre. "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" is a horror novella and the only Lovecraft story which was published in book form during his lifetime. The narrator is a student conducting an antiquarian tour of New England. He travels to Innsmouth, interacting with strange people, and observes disturbing events that ultimately lead to horrifying, and personal, revelations. .
ISBN: 978-5-521-08217-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life. Now Tony is retired. He`s had a career and a single marriage, a calm divorce. He`s certainly never tried to hurt anybody. Memory, though, is imperfect. It can always throw up surprises, as a lawyer`s letter is about to prove.
The red letter "A" on her dress marks young mother Hester Prynne among her Puritan neighbors, who demand to know who fathered her child. Rumors swirl, but the shunned and shamed Hester keeps her secret for years, until a guilt-ridden confession reveals the truth, with unexpected consequences. Set in seventeenth-century Massachusetts, Hawthorne`s masterwork was originally subtitled "a romance," though its themes include the limits of law, the power of religion, and the nature of sin.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06190-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: декабрь 2017
After the #1 New York Times bestsellers Split Second, Hour Game, Simple Genius, and First Family, Sean King and Michelle Maxwell return in their most shocking case: a high stakes struggle where the relentless needs of national security run up against the absolute limits of the human mind. THE SIXTH MAN Edgar Roy - an alleged serial killer held in a secure, fortress-like Federal Supermax facility-is awaiting trial. He faces almost certain conviction. Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are called in by Roy's attorney, Sean's old friend and mentor Ted Bergin, to help work the case. But their investigation is derailed before it begins--en route to their first meeting with Bergin, Sean and Michelle find him murdered. It is now up to...
Leningrad, September 1941. Hitler orders German forces to surround the city at the start of the most dangerous, desperate winter in its history. For two pairs of lovers - young Anna and Andrei, Anna's novelist father and actress Marina - the siege becomes a battle for survival. They will soon discover what it is like to be so hungry you boil shoe leather to make soup, so cold you burn furniture and books. But this is not just a struggle to exist, it is also a fight to keep the spark of hope alive. The Siege is a brilliantly imagined novel of war and the wounds it inflicts on ordinary people's lives, and also a profoundly moving celebration of love, life and survival.
ISBN: 978-0-241-95219-1
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
This is the UK number one hardback bestseller from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of "The Line of Beauty". It is the "Sunday Times" Novel of the Year. In the late summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge friend Cecil Valance, a charismatic young poet, to visit his family home. Filled with intimacies and confusions, the weekend will link the families for ever, having the most lasting impact on George`s sixteen-year-old sister Daphne. As the decades pass, Daphne and those around her endure startling changes in fortune and circumstance, reputations rise and fall, secrets are revealed and hidden and the events of that long-ago summer become part of a legendary story, told and interpreted in different ways by successive...
Настоящее издание представлено известными произведениями Конана Дойла на английском языке: "Скандал в Богемии", "Союз рыжих", "Установление личности", "Тайна Боскомской долины", "Пять зернышек апельсина". В книге реализован оригинальный метод адаптации, сочетающий купирование, пересказ купюр, комментарии страноведческих реалий, сложных для понимания лексики и грамматики. В ряде случаев произведение...
ISBN: 978-985-16-8987-9
Издательство:
Харвест
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2010
In it, Mary Lennox, an overindulged child suddenly orphaned, is almost magically transformed into an agreeable child when she comes to live at Misselthwaite Manor, the gloomy Yorkshire estate owned by her reclusive uncle, Archibald Craven. With the help of Dickon, an unusual local youngster with the ability to charm nature, Mary not only manages to bring life and beauty to the secret garden - abandoned years ago when themistress of the manor was fatally injured there - but also persuades Colin, her uncle`s frail son, to lead a normal life.
ISBN: 5-17-032890-7
Издательство:
АСТ
Дата выхода: июнь 2006
The intrepid young Lyra has passed through a shimmering portal in the sky and finds herself in a beautiful, haunted otherworld — Cittagazze, where soul-eating Specters stalk the streets and wingbeats of distant angels sound against the sky. But she is not without allies: twelve-year-old Will Parry, fleeing for his life after taking another`s, has also stumbled into this strange new realm. On a perilous journey from world to world, Lyra and Will uncover a deadly secret: anobject of extraordinary and devastating power. With every step, they move closer to an even greater threat—and the shattering truth of their own destiny. "The story gallops with ferocious momentum [and] Pullman is devilishly inventive." —The New York...
ISBN: 0-440-23814-5
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Carries EU Toy Safety Directive `CE` logo. This small library, perfect for little baby hands, features not only the selfish crocodile but a whole host of his friends, as familiar themes for pre-school readers are explored. Children will relish learning about numbers, colours, animals, sounds, food and first words in these bright and brilliant board books.
ISBN: 978-1-4088-1448-2
Издательство:
Bloomsbury
Дата выхода: июнь 2011