The fourth in the Fantasy Masterworks series, the Dying Earth saga inspired writers like Michael Moorcock and Gene Wolfe, who freely acknowledges his debt to Vance in his own Book of the New Sun. Here, in one volume, is Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Award-winning author Jack Vance`s classic Dying Earth saga comprising The Dying Earth, The Eyes of the Overworld, Cugel`s Saga and Rhialto the Marvellous. Travel to a far distant future, when the sun bleeds red in a dark sky, where magic and science is one, and the Earth has but a few short decades to
ISBN: 978-1-85798-994-6
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
This famous retelling of twenty of Shakespeare`s plays by Charles and Mary Lamb has delighted generations of adults as well as children and provides entertaining and informative introductions to these great works. Using prose to simplify plot and language but incorporating some of the original speeches, the Lambs remained sensitive to the original plays, brilliantly re-creating characters and action. From the overpowering drama of `Hamlet` and `Macbeth` to the engaging wit of `The Tamingof the Shrew` and `Twelfth Night`, Shakespeare`s best-known tragedies and comedies are brought vividly to life.
ISBN: 0-14-062159-8
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2002
The master storyteller Andrew Lang draws on his classical learning to recount the Homeric legend of the wars between the Greeks and the Trojans. Paris, the lovely Helen of Troy, Achilles, Hector, Ulysses, the Amazons and the Wooden Horse all figure in this magical introduction to one of the greatest legends ever told. Also included in this book are the adventures of Theseus and his dramatic battle with the Minotaur with the help of Ariadne, and the quest of Jason for the Golden Fleece with the help of the Princess Medea.
ISBN: 1-85326-172-6
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: декабрь 1999
Kaplan guarantees that readers will improve their SAT score using guides - or get their money back. Vocabulary is a critical part of studying for the SATs. Memorizing words that are written on flashcards can be difficult because they are not put in the context of a sentence. Kaplan`s SAT Score-Raising Classics make learning SAT vocabulary words easier and more enjoyable for students. Classic novels that are taught throughout high school can now be read while learning vocabulary words that frequently appear on the SAT exam. Designed for easy use, these books feature the actual text on one side of the page, with the word definitions on the opposite side. In addition, the vocabulary words are in easy-to-spot bold typeface throughout. Each...
ISBN: 978-1-60714-866-1
Издательство:
Kaplan Publishing
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Have you ever walked into a half empty Parisian restaurant, only to be told that it`s "complet"? Attempted to say "merci beaucoup" and accidentally complimented someone`s physique? Been overlooked at the boulangerie due to your adherence to the bizarre foreign custom of waiting in line? Well, you`re not alone. The internationally bestselling author of A Year in the Merde and In the Merde for Love has been there too, and he is here to help. In Talk to the Snail, Stephen Clarke distills the fruits of years spent in the French trenches into a truly handy (and hilarious) book of advice. Read this book, and find out how to get good service from the grumpiest waiter; be exquisitely polite and brutally rude at the same time; and employ the...
ISBN: 978-0-552-77409-3
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Featuring the illustrations of Stephen Cartwright, illustrator of the best-selling "Farmyard Tales" series, this title features an interactive experience for young children, who love to hunt for items and talk what`s happening in the busy, colourful scenes.
ISBN: 978-0-7460-8662-9
Издательство:
Usborne
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Featuring the illustrations of Stephen Cartwright, illustrator of the best-selling "Farmyard Tales" series, this title features an interactive experience for young children, who love to hunt for items and talk what`s happening in the busy, colourful scenes.
ISBN: 978-0-7460-8663-6
Издательство:
Usborne
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Shy, sensible banker Stuart has trouble with women; that is, until a fortuitous singles night, where he meets Gillian, a picture restorer recovering from a destructive affair. Stuart`s best friend Oliver is his complete opposite - a language teacher who `talks like a dictionary`, brash and feckless. Soon Stuart and Gillian are married, but it is not long before a tentative friendship between the three evolves into something far different. Talking it Over is a brilliant and intimate account of love`s vicissitudes. It begins as a comedy of misunderstanding, then slowly darkens and deepens, drawing us compellingly into the quagmires of the heart.
ISBN: 978-0-09-954013-7
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Simple Simon, Little Miss Muffet, Humpty Dumpty, and all the Mother Goose favorites are here in this timeless collection. With fifty-one lively rhymes, The Tall Book of Mother Goose is the perfect book for sharing.
ISBN: 978-0-060-54373-0
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: апрель 2011
When book editor Kate C. Leever visits reclusive romance author Lucern Argeneau to try and persuade him to make more public appearances, she has no idea that he is a 612-year-old vampire. He agrees to her request, but isn`t ready for what he has committed himself to - a romance book convention with some two thousand rabid female romance fans. SINGLE WHITE VAMPIRE is a hilarious romantic comedy where a vampire finds his habits of a lifetime overturned and an unlikely romance blooms.
ISBN: 978-0-575-09384-3
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Trouble is magic is so addictive, especially when you’ve got inner goddesses like Lilith to contend with. And it doesn’t stop there for Garnet; if you are going to run an occult bookstore then you’ve got to expect customers like Sebastian Von Traum, with his piercing brown eyes, sexy accent, killer body and total lack of an aura; which means he’s Trouble can be so hard to resist, and what with Vatican witch hunters, long lost vampire exes and a boyfriend with an ex-wife who is literally stirring in her grave, Garnet Lacey has trouble enough for anyone.
ISBN: 978-0-7553-3655-5
Издательство:
Headline Publ.
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Unwittingly invited to a marriage of vampires, an Englishwoman finds herself falling for the tallest, darkest, and hungriest of the lot in New York City. This edition features a brand-new cover and a letter from the author detailing her inspiration for writing the book.
Sarah Dearly`s vampire life is not all B-positive cocktails. A curse made her a nightwalker, the most vicious vamp there is; the charm she wears to curb her deadly tendencies is losing its juice; and a hunter from hell is turning up the heat. Gideon Chase will kill the ones she loves most if she doesn`t obey his orders. That includes breaking up with master vampire Thierry and turning Gideon into an immortal vamp so he can escape a doom of eternal hellfire. Making things worse are Sarah`s growing feelings for Gideon, a bad boy who keeps showing a vulnerable but is it for real? Will Sarah`s dark side take over? Or can she cure herself of the nightwalker curse in time to stop Gideon and finally live happily ever after with
Meet Mr. Ash, quiet-spoken, tall, unfailingly kind - sole survivor of an ancient species, the Taltos - thriving among humankind as he has always done, now the head of a great corporate empire. As the novel opens, he is stunned to learn from an old and mysterious friend that another Taltos has been seen - in the very same Scottish glen where centuries ago, long before the coming of the Romans, Ash ruled his clan. At once he is propelled into the world of Rowan Mayfair, and into the mysteries of the Mayfair family - the New Orleans dynasty of witches forever besieged by ghosts, spirits, and the dizzying powers of his own species - a family intimately involved with the heritage of the Taltos, a family of unique, brilliant, and troubled...
When Ashlar learns that another Taltos has been seen, he is suddenly propelled into the haunting world of the Mayfair family, the New Orleans dynasty of witches forever besieged by ghosts, spirits, and their own dizzying powers. For Ashlar knows this powerful clan is intimately linked to the heritage of the Taltos. In a swirling universe filled with death and life, corruption and innocence, this mesmerizing novel takes us on a wondrous journey back through the centuries to a civilization half human, of wholly mysterious origin, at odds with mortality and immortality, justice and guilt. It is an enchanted, hypnotic world that could come only from the imagination of Anne Rice… Формат издания: 10,5 см х 17,5 см.
ISBN: 978-0-345-40431-2
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The Wordsworth Classics` Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare`s works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal. "The Taming of the Shrew" is one of the most famous and controversial of Shakespeare`s comedies. The central relationship, in which Petruchio boisterously "tames" a rebellious Kate, has often appeared problematic. In the theatre, it has been treated in a diversity of ways, so that Kate`s apparent capitulation varies between the ironic and the sincere. Feminists have been divided in their responses. The provocative vitality of this comedy has been transmitted by numerous adaptations for stage and screen, notably the film...
ISBN: 978-1-85326-079-7
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Liza, Kellyanne and Billie are ambitious heroines chasing their dreams in the demimondes of media politics, reality television and rock music. Their journey unfolds thrill by thrill, shock by shock in an unputdownable story about the illusions of glamour, the dark side of success, the elusiveness of love and the fragility of relationships. Three incidents will change their lives forever: a career free fall, a surprise pregnancy and a brutal murder. And it all happens during one unforgettable season at a summer share in the Hamptons. Tan Lines – a Valley of the Dolls for the 21st century – portrays their passions, triumphs and heartbreaks with a sly intelligence and a wickedly sharp prose that will be loved by fans of Jackie Collins,...
ISBN: 978-0-330-45617-3
Издательство:
Picador USA
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Tanaka Ikko (b. 1930) is one of the established masters of Japanese graphic design. His work draws together influences from East and West, acknowledging the vocabulary of European Modernism while remaining characteristically Japanese. Inspired by sources as diverse as traditional Japanese illustration techniques and his passion for American jazz, he is renowned for numerous cultural posters and programmes for theatre and ballet, many for Kanze Noh Drama. This book examines Tanaka’s entire career, encompassing graphic design and art direction, editorial and interior design. Following an introduction by Gian Carlo Calza, the book is structured in four chapters: Japanese Style, Typography, Invitation to Theatre, and Art and Communication...
ISBN: 0714837164
Издательство:
Phaidon
Дата выхода: март 2002
Танжер - город-рай, остров безрассудства, сладостных наслаждений и вольных мечтаний. На Танжере в свое время были повернуты все французские интеллектуалы. Этот город был их территорией независимости - песок, любовь, наркотики. Они бежали туда из мертвой Европы, прятались от своих жен и любовников. Там же и умирали. Фарид Нагим пытается найти свой Танжер в холодной и циничной Москве.
ISBN: 978-5-901635-23-0
Издательство:
ЛексЭст
Дата выхода: декабрь 2010
Join Tangled stars Rapunzel, Flynn, Maximus, and Pascal for a hilarious wedding adventure, based on the upcoming animated short. Follow along with the story on the CD, featuring real character voices, vivid sound effects, and word-for-word narration.
Maddie is determined to uncover the untold story about the town`s sordid past - her past. As a child, Maddie lost everything, and now she`s back at the scene of the scandal - a local establishment that`s always belonged to the Hennessys - determined to uncover the truth, and nothing is going to stand in her way. Especially not a black-haired, blue-eyed Hennessy. Everyone in Truly knows that the Hennessy men are irresistible, and the current owner, Mick, is no exception. His late father was a skirt-chasing heartbreaker who ended up causing disaster for two families. So far, Mick`s managed to keep the ladies in line, but when he claps eyes on Maddie, with her luscious curves and tempting lips, he can`t resist getting tangled up with her....
