Carmen got the jeans at a thrift shop. They didn`t look all that great; they were worn, dirty, and speckled with bleach. On the night before she and her friends part for the summer, Carmen decides to toss them. But Tibby says they`re great. She`d love to have them. Lena and Bridget also think they`re fabulous. Lena decides they should all try them on. Whoever they fit best will get them. Nobody knows why, but the pants fit everyone perfectly. Even Carmen (who never thinks she looks good in anything), thinks she looks good in the pants. Over a few bags of cheese puffs they decide to form a sisterhood, and take the vow of The Sisterhood of the Traveling the next morning, they say good-bye. And now the journey of the pants-and the most...
`My sister would never have killed ` When Beatrice hears that her little sister, Tess, is missing, she returns home to London on the first flight available. But Bee is unprepared for the terrifying truths she must face about her younger sibling when Tess`s broken body is discovered in Hyde Park. The police, Bee`s friends, her fiance and even her mother accept the fact that Tess committed suicide. But nobody knows a sister like a sister, and Bee is convinced that something more sinister is responsible for Tess`s untimely death. So she embarks on a journey to discover the truth, no matter the
Some sisters are good friends, some are not. Sometimes there is more hate in a family than there is love. Karin is beautiful and has lots of men friends, but she can be very unkind to her sister Marcia. Perhaps when they were small, there was love between them, but that was a long time ago. They say that everybody has one crime in them. Perhaps they only take an umbrella that does not belong to them. Perhaps they steal from a shop, perhaps they get angry and hit someone, perhaps they
ISBN: 978-0-194-78921-9
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: июнь 2011
When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse.` The tale of Carrie Meeber`s rise to stardom in the theatre and George Hurstwood`s slow decline captures the twin poles of exuberance and exhaustion in modern city life as never before. The premier example of American naturalism, Dreiser`s remarkable first novel has deeply influenced such key writers as William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Saul Bellow, and Joyce Carol Oates. This edition uses the 1900 text, which is regarded as the author`s final version.
ISBN: 9780451531148
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: январь 2019
This is a landmark in American literature, presented in its complete and unexpurgated version. Dreiser`s unsparing story of a country girl`s rise to riches as the mistress of a wealthy man marked the beginning of the naturalist movement in America. Both its subject matter and Dreiser`s objective, nonmoralizing approach made it highly controversial, and only a heavily edited version could be published in 1900. In this restored version, the truly revolutionary nature of Sister Carrie is made fully evident.
ISBN: 0-14-018828-2
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Can`t wait for the next installment of the Pants? Check out the SPECIAL EDITION of The Second Summer of the Sisterhood, in stores now Inside you`ll find an exclusive Who`s Your Soul Mate Quiz and a sneak peak at the third book, Girls in Pants. With a bit of last summer`s sand in the pockets, the Traveling Pants and the Sisterhood that wears them embark on their 16th summer. Bridget: Impulsively sets off for Alabama, wanting to both confront her demons about her family and avoid them all at once. Lena: Spends a blissful week with Kostos, making the unexplainable silence that follows his visit even more painful. Carmen: Is concerned that her mother is making a fool of herself over a man. When she discovers that her mother borrowed the...
Книга входит в серию иллюстрированных учебных пособий "Читаем вместе". Русская народная сказка о хитрой лисичке и чересчур доверчивом волке пересказана на английском языке с использованием простой грамматики и наиболее употребительных английских слов. Прочитав сказку, ребёнок познакомится с простым будущим временем (Future Simple), с глаголами в повелительном наклонении и глаголами движения. Книга также...
ISBN: 978-5-8112-5615-0
Издательство:
Айрис-пресс
Дата выхода: февраль 2015
The ship carrying the devout to Jerusalem has run into rough waters, in this third outing for Sister Pelagia. Onboard is Manuila, controversial leader of the Foundlings, a sect that worships him as the Messiah. But soon the polarizing leader is no longer a passenger or a prophet but a corpse, beaten to death by someone almost supernaturally strong. But not everything is as it seems, and soon the clumsy, bespectacled, yet surprisingly astute nun finds her investigation taking her to the most dangerous areas of the Middle East and Russia. She emerges with not just the culprit in the case but also a clue to the earth`s greatest secret.
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7515-4
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
"Сестра Керри" - первый роман известного американского писателя Теодора Драйзера, опубликованный в 1900 году. Восемнадцатилетняя Каролина, в попытке устроить свою судьбу и обрести счастье, уезжает из родного дома к сестре в Чикаго. Но и город, и родственница встречают девушку совсем неласково. Каролина решает не оставлять мечту и стать известной актрисой. Но какой ценой она добьётся этого?.. Читайте...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05190-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2017
Книга входит в серию иллюстрированных учебных пособий "Читаем вместе". Русская народная сказка о хитрой лисичке и чересчур доверчивом волке пересказана на английском языке с использованием простой грамматики и наиболее употребительных английских слов. Прочитав сказку, ребенок познакомится с простым будущим временем (Future Simple), с глаголами в повелительном наклонении и глаголами движения. Книга также...
ISBN: 978-5-8112-5297-8
Издательство:
Айрис-пресс
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2014
"Sister Carrie" was first printed in 1900 but publication was effectively held up until 1912 because its realism and supposed immorality were judged likely to give offence. Theodore Dreiser intertwined his narrative of a young woman seduced by the lure of the modern city with the counter-narrative of a middle-aged man seduced by desire for Carrie herself. This eminently American story of rags to riches is balanced between Carrie Meeber`s rise to stardom in the theatre and George Hurstwood`s slow decline. The twin poles of exuberance and exhaustion in American life are captured as never before. The premier example of American naturalism, "Sister Carrie" has deeply influenced a number of writers, from William Faulkner and F. Scott...
ISBN: 978-0-19-953908-6
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012
The driving forces of our culture -- restless idealism, glamorous material seductions and spiritual innocence -- are revealed in Dreiser`s transformation of the conventional "fallen woman" story into a genuinely original work of imaginative fiction. Theodore Dreiser had a hardscrabble youth and the years of newspaper work behind him when he began his first novel, Sister Carrie, the story of a beautiful Midwestern girl who makes it big in New York City. Published by Doubleday in 1900, it gained a reputation as a shocker, for Dreiser had dared to give the public a heroine whose "cosmopolitan standard of virtue" brings her from Wisconsin, with four dollars in her purse, to a suite at the Waldorf and glittering fame as an actress. With...
ISBN: 0-553-21374-1
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
The Pants first came to us at the perfect moment. That is, when we were splitting up for the first time. It was two summers ago when they first worked their magic, and last summer when they shook up our lives once again. You see, we don`t wear the Pants year-round. We let them rest so they are extra powerful when summer comes. (There was the time this spring when Carmen wore them to her mom`s wedding, but that was a special case.) Now we`re facing our last summer together. In September we go to college. And it`s not like one of those TV shows where all of us magically turn up at the same college. We`re going to four different colleges in four different cities (but all within four hours of one another - that was our one rule). We`re...
Sister Carrie (1900) tells the story of a young country girl who moves to the big city where she starts realizing her own American Dream, first as a kept woman, and later becoming a famous actress. Sister Carrie has been called the "greatest of all American urban novels."
ISBN: 978-5-521-00329-7
Издательство:
Пальмира
Дата выхода: февраль 2017
Книга входит в серию иллюстрированных учебных пособий "Читаем вместе". Русская народная сказка о хитрой лисичке и чересчур доверчивом волке пересказана на английском языке с использованием простой грамматики и наиболее употребительных английских слов. Прочитав сказку, ребенок познакомится с простым будущим временем (Future Simple), с глаголами в повелительном наклонении и глаголами движения. Книга также...
ISBN: 978-5-8112-4935-0
Издательство:
Айрис-пресс
Дата выхода: март 2013
Some friends just fit together. With unraveled embroidery and fraying hems, the Traveling Pants are back for one last, glorious summer. Join Ann Brashares`s beloved sisterhood once again in a dazzling, fearless novel about a summer that will forever change the lives of Lena, Carmen, Bee, and Tibby, here and now, past and future, together and apart.
ISBN: 978-0-440-23983-3
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011
A new edition of Agatha Christie`s thriller, an almost impossible puzzle with supernatural trappings. In a remote house in the middle of Dartmoor, six shadowy figures huddle around a small table for a seance. Tension rises as the spirits spell out a chilling message: "Captain ". Is this black magic or simply a macabre joke? The only way to be certain is to locate Captain Trevelyan. Unfortunately, his home is six miles away and, with snow drifts blocking the roads, someone will have to make the journey on
ISBN: 978-0-00-713684-1
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: август 2011
M-U-R-D-E-R. It began as an innocent parlor game intended to while away the hours on a bitter winter night. But the message that appeared before the amateur occultists snowbound at the Sittaford House was spelled out as loud and clear as a scream. Of course, the notion that they had foretold doom was pure bunk. Wasn`t it? And the discovery of a corpse was pure coincidence. Wasn`t it? If they`re to discover the answer to this baffling murder, perhaps they should play again. But a journey into the spirit world could prove terribly dangerous - especially when the killer is lurking in this one.
ISBN: 978-0-312-97981-2
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
Original / British English What is the secret of Room 7? Why do the Frobishers feel so uncomfortable with their young visitor? Why is Roger afraid to drive his new car? Is the old woman at number 91 really waiting for a birthday card that never comes? Find the answers in the pages of this book - sleep comfortably after reading them!
ISBN: 978-1-4082-0954-7
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
In the final days of the Second World War, Michael Rogan, an American intelligence officer, is tortured by a group of seven senior Gestapo officers who need to discover the secrets he alone can give them. Ten years later, when he has recovered from the appalling injuries he suffered, and determined to revenge the death of his wife at the hands of the same men, he begins a quest to track down and kill each one of his tormentors. Dark, violent, and graphic, this is an addictive thriller about how far one man will go to exact his own justice. Written a year before Puzo completed The Godfather, published under a pseudonym and only very recently brought to light, Six Graves to Munich bears all the hallmarks of a master storyteller.