Human interest, Humor, Crime/Detection Adventure/Thriller/Spy A recounting of the humorous adventures of a young orphan boy living beside the great Mississippi River in 1844.
ISBN: 978-1-405-07608-1 Издательство: Langenscheidt Дата выхода: январь 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. "The Sign of the Four" is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes. The novel has a complex plot involving service in India, the Indian Rebellion of 1857, a stolen treasure, and a secret pact among four convicts.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08104-2 Издательство: Т8 Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
A gripping novel which takes us and the hero, adventurer Allan Quatermain, back in time. It relates several exciting adventures like a lion hunt, wrestling with a crocodile, and a large-scale battle between various armies.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06440-3 Издательство: Т8 Дата выхода: январь 2018
ISBN: 9781444959482 Дата выхода: январь 2020
ISBN: 9780099455158 Издательство: Random House Дата выхода: январь 2003
ISBN: 9780140449402 Издательство: Penguin Books Дата выхода: январь 2010
ISBN: 9780241340479 Дата выхода: январь 2018
The characters in this extraordinary book are often - on the surface - depraved, vicious, cowardly and manipulative, but their essential humanity is never undermined. Two professors of philosophy turn pugilists; Leith removal men become the objects of desire for Hollywood goddesses; God turns Boab Coyle into a house-fly; and in the novella, `A Smart Cunt`, the drug-addled young hero spins off on a collision course with his past. The Acid House is a bizarre, disturbing and hilarious collection from one of the most uncompromising and original writers around.
ISBN: 9780099435013 Издательство: Random House Дата выхода: октябрь 2023
ISBN: 9780552166294 Издательство: Transworld publishers Дата выхода: январь 2017
English is the collective work of millions of people throughout the ages. It is democratic, ever-changing and ingenious in its assimilation of other cultures. English runs through the heart of world finance, medicine and the Internet, and it is understood by around two thousand million people across the world. Yet it was very nearly wiped out in its early years. In this book Melvyn Bragg shows us the remarkable story of the English language; from its beginnings as a minor guttural Germanic dialect to its position today as a truly established global language. The Adventure of English is not only an enthralling story of power, religion and trade, but also the story of people, and how their day-to-day lives shaped and continue to change the...
ISBN: 0-340-82993-1 Издательство: Hodder Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
At forty, the writer Nathan Zuckerman comes down with a mysterious affliction - pure pain, beginning in his neck and shoulders, invading his torso, and taking possession of his spirit. Zuckerman, whose work was his life, is unable to write a line. Now his work is trekking from one doctor to another, but none can find a cause for the pain and nobody can assuage it. Zuckerman himself wonders if the pain can have been caused by his own books. And while he is wondering, his dependence on painkillers extends to an addiction to vodka and marijuana. The third volume of the trilogy and epilogue Zuckerman Bound, The Anatomy Lesson is a great comedy of illness and provides some of the funniest scenes in all of Roth`s fiction as well as some of the...
ISBN: 978-0-09-947661-0 Издательство: Vintage Classics Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
ISBN: 9780099469599 Издательство: Random House Дата выхода: январь 2015
ISBN: 9780575105836 Дата выхода: январь 2011
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the series of short stories that made the fortunes of the Strand magazine, in which they were first published, and won immense popularity for Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. The detective is at the height of his powers and the volume is full of famous cases, including `The Red-Headed League`, `The Blue Carbuncle`, and `The Speckled Band`. Although Holmes gained a reputation for infallibility, Conan Doyle showed his own realism and feminism by having the great detective defeated by Irene Adler - the woman - in the very first story, `A Scandal in Bohemia`. The editor of this volume, Richard Lancelyn Green is editor of The Uncollected Sherlock Holmes and The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. With...
ISBN: 978-0-19-953695-5 Издательство: Oxford University Press Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
ISBN: 9780099511113 Издательство: Random House Дата выхода: январь 2007
Серия книг «Зарубежная классика — читай в оригинале» — это бессмертные произведения великих мастеров пера, написанные ими на их родном языке и наречии. Книги из этой серии помогут читателю углубленно изучать иностранные языки, обогатят его внутренний мир и по-новому откроют произведения известных классиков. Неадаптированное издание на английском языке.
ISBN: 978-5-519-02016-9 Издательство: Т8 Дата выхода: январь 2014
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. This book includes a notorious novel "The Abysmal Brute", a moving story about the corrupt practices in the world of boxing.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07480-8 Издательство: Т8 Дата выхода: июль 2018
ISBN: 9780008601423 Дата выхода: ноябрь 2023
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. This volume is a collection of famous stories about the legendary sleuth. Venture back in time to Victorian London to join literature`s greatest detective team — the brilliant Sherlock Holmes and his devoted assistant, Dr. Watson.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08096-0 Издательство: Т8 Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Ordinarily, events that change our path are impersonal affairs, and yet extremely personal. My teacher, don Juan Matsus, said this is guiding me as his apprentice to collect what I considered to be the memorable events of my Don Juan described the total goal of the shamanistic knowledge that he handled as the preparation for facing the definitive journey: the journey that every human being has to take at the end of his life. He said that what modern man referred to vaguely as life after death was, for those shamans, a concrete region filled to capacity with practical affairs of a different order than the practical affairs of daily life, yet bearing a similar functional practicality. Don Juan considered that to collect the memorable in...
ISBN: 978-0-06-092960-2 Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 1930) — a famous Scottish writer. Conan Doyle is most noted for creating the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes and writing stories about him which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. Other works by this prolific writer include fantasy and science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction and historical novels. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, first published in 1892, is a collection of twelve short stories, featuring a fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, related in first-person narrative from the point of view of Holmes\'s friend and admirer Dr. Watson.
ISBN: 978-5-517-07547-5 Издательство: Рипол Классик Дата выхода: август 2022
ISBN: 9780141395500 Издательство: Penguin Group Дата выхода: январь 2014
Walter Scott (1771-1832) was a Scottish historical novelist, poet, and playwright. Although he was an advocate and legal administrator by profession, Scott is most famous for his great literary works and activities in the Royal Highland Society. Being a sequel to the author`s previous work "The Monastery", "The Abbot" primarily focuses on Queen Mary`s imprisonment at Loch Leven Castle, her escape, and her defeat. In parallel, the book describes an interesting love story between Roland Graeme and Catherine Seyton, one of the ladies-in-waiting to the queen, and also the story of Edward Glendinning, the last abbot of the monastery.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07532-4 Издательство: Т8 Дата выхода: июль 2018
ISBN: 9780140276343 Издательство: Penguin Books Дата выхода: январь 2003
Huck Finn escapes from his alcoholic father by faking his own death and so begins his journey through the Deep South, seeking independence and freedom. On his travels, Huck meets an escaped slave, Jim, who is a wanted man, and together they journey down the Mississippi River. Raising the timeless and universal issues of prejudice, bravery and hope, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was and still is considered the great American novel.
ISBN: 9780007351039 Издательство: HarperCollins UK Дата выхода: январь 2019
