This is the tumultuous novel of men and women pitted against a world of wealth, power, and story of the powerful Van Zale clan, and the man, Cornelius Van Zale, whose dynastic struggle to control a great fortune becomes the center of his life. When the world of the Van Zales, of servants and country houses, of European summers and Bar Harbor clambakes, polite marriages and discreet affairs, suddenly begins to fall apart, we see this glamorous sphere for what it really is--rife with ruthless, power-hungry men, fortune hunters, secret sex, violence.
When a young reporter looks for a story full of danger and adventure, he ends up in a land unknown for millions of years. He and his companions must fight for their lives with terrifying prehistoric creatures to find their way home. Will they make it? Join their amazing expedition in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle`s exciting tale. Retold by Virginia Evans and Jenny Dooley.
ISBN: 978-1-84-679911-2
Издательство:
Express Publishing
Дата выхода: январь 2008
This is a translation of three medieval tales. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl are two poems by an unknown author written in about 1400. Sir Gawain is a romance, a fairy-tale for adults, full of life and colour; but it is also much more than this, being at the same time a powerful moral tale which examines religious and social values. Pearl is apparently an elegy on the death of a child, a poem pervaded with a sense of great personal loss: but, like Gawain it is also a debate on much less tangible matters. Sir Orfeo is a slighter romance, belonging to an earlier and different tradition. The three translations represent the complete rhyme and alliterative schemes of the original.
ISBN: 978-0-261-10259-0
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: март 2012
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. "Sir Nigel" is a historical novel set during the early days of the Hundred Years` War. As a background story to his book "The White Company", it describes the early life of Sir Nigel Loring in the service of King Edward III at the start of the war.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07172-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 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. Sir Nigel is a historical novel set during the early days of the Hundred Years` War. As a background story to his book "The White Company", it describes the early life of Sir Nigel Loring in the service of King Edward III at the start of the war. .
ISBN: 978-5-521-08141-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Артур Конан Дойл - всемирно известный английский писатель, подаривший миру не только великолепный цикл рассказов и повестей о Шерлоке Холмсе, но и множество замечательных романов, отличающихся богатством языка, удивительными персонажами и яркими сюжетами. "Сэр Найджел Лоринг" - это исторический роман Дойла, рассказывающий о юности главного героя, проведённой на службе короля Англии. Автор необычайно...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05708-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2017
The third in Doris Lessing s visionary novel cycle Canopus in Argos: Archives . It is a mix of fable, futuristic fantasy and pseudo-documentary accounts of 20th-century history.
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 Russian creator of the czarist master detective Erast Fandorin here introduces another irresistible sleuth in the form of an orthodox nun in a remote province of late 19th-century Russia. Bishop Mitrofanii has a family crisis on his hands: one of his great aunt`s rare white bulldogs has been poisoned on her estate, probably as an attack on the old woman. With a fistful of erratic family members and hangers-on as possible suspects, the bishop knows the only person able to unravel the apparently clueless crime is Sister Pelagia - freckled, bespectacled, lively, curious, clumsy, and extraordinarily persistent.
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7513-0
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Four sisters, a Manhattan brownstone, and a tumultuous year of loss and courage are at the heart of Danielle Steel’s new novel about a remarkable family, a stunning tragedy — and what happens when four very different young women come together under one very lively roof. Candy – it’s the only name she needs — is blazing her way through Paris, New York, and Tokyo as fashion’s latest international Her sister Tammy has a job producing the most successful hit show on TV, and a home she loves in ’s Hollywood In New York, oldest sister Sabrina is an ambitious young lawyer, while Annie is an American artist in Florence, living for her On one Fourth of July weekend, as they do every year, the four sisters come home to Connecticut...
ISBN: 978-0-440-24326-7
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
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
The girls from the Sisterhood return in the next film based on Ann Brashares` bestselling series, set for theatrical release by Warner Bros. Pictures on August 8. This tie-in includes "Forever in Blue" the final novel in the series, a full-color insert of movie stills, and favorite moments from the entire series.
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
From the day of its troubled publication in 1900 to its inclusion in Modern Library`s list of of Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century, Sister Carrie has been the source of controversy and debate. Regarded as the "first masterpiece of the American naturalistic movement" (The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature), this 100th Anniversary Edition of the classic includes additional material by the author and a new introduction by the definitive Dreiser biographer.
ISBN: 0-451-52760-7
Издательство:
Penguin USA
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
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
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
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.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06126-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: декабрь 2017
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...
William Willde Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. Set against the background of the French Revolution, Sister Rose concerns Louis Trudaine; his sister, Rose, who contracts an unhappy marriage to the aristocratic Charles Danville; and Danville\'s land-steward, Lomaque, who is indebted to Trudaine\'s father. Trudaine fulfils a deathbed promise to his mother to protect Rose and arouses Danville\'s animosity.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07583-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018
