Джеймс Джонсон - известный американский писатель XIX века, дипломат и борец за права человека, чьи произведения до сих пор остаются читаемыми и любимыми по всему миру. "Автобиография Экс-Мулата" - интересный роман Джонсона, опубликованный анонимно. Перед читателем разворачивается удивительная история необычной судьбы молодого мулата, живущего в Америке в эпоху пост-Реконструкции. Автор тонко подмечает...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05756-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2017
Atlanta judge Rachel Cutler loves her job and her kids, and remains civil to her ex-husband, Paul. But everything changes when her father dies under mysterious circumstances, leaving behind clues to a secret about something called the Amber Room. Desperate for the truth, Rachel takes off for Germany, with Paul close behind. Before long, they`re in over their heads. Locked into a treacherous game with professional killers, Rachel and Paul find themselves on a collision course with the forces of greed, power, and history itself.
ISBN: 0-345-46004-9
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
When Mollie and Peter go to buy their mother a birthday present, they discover the most extraordinary thing: a chair that can fly and grant wishes! The Wishing-Chair takes them on some marvellous adventures - to a castle where they narrowly escape from a giant and rescue Chinky the pixie, to the Land of Dreams, and to a disappearing island! You can be whisked away by Enid Blyton`s magical Wishing-Chair stories.
ISBN: 978-1-4052-3958-5
Издательство:
Egmont Books Ltd
Дата выхода: январь 2013
If you love a good story, then look no further. Oxford Children`s Classics bring together the most unforgettable stories ever told. They`re books to treasure and return to again and again. Meet the boy who can find trouble without even looking. At school, at home, in church and outdoors, if there`s mischief afoot, Tom Sawyer will be in the thick of it!
Agatha Christie’s seasonal Poirot and Marple short story collection in a new hardback special edition.First came a sinister warning to Poirot not to eat any plum pudding… then the discovery of a corpse in a chest… next, an overheard quarrel that led to murder… the strange case of the dead man who altered his eating habits… and the puzzle of the victim who dreamt his own suicide.What links these five baffling cases? The little grey cells of Monsieur Hercule Poirot!Contains the stories:• The Adventure Of The Christmas Pudding• The Mystery of the Spanish Chest• Four-And-Twenty Blackbirds• The Under Dog• The Dream
While on the trail of Al Qaeda lieutenant Abu Qasim, ex-burglar turned CIA operative Tommy Carmellini photographs an American mobster boarding a yacht in the harbour of the island of Capri. Tommy`s boss, Jake Grafton, sends him to find the link, if there is one, between the mobster, Fioratti, and Al Qaeda. Meanwhile Fioratti is busy planning a terror-for-hire strike that will make him rich beyond the dreams of avarice. Soon Tommy and Jake are embroiled in a stew of American mobsters, killers and thieves, and the clock is
A sumptuous full-colour art book containing the complete collection of almost 200 sketches, drawings, paintings and maps created by J.R.R. Tolkien for The Lord of the Rings.As he wrote The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien’s mental pictures often found expression in drawing, from rough sketches made within the manuscript to more finished illustrations. Only a few of these were meant for publication; most were aids to help Tolkien conceive his complex story and keep it consistent. Many do not illustrate the final text, but represent moments of creation, illuminating Tolkien’s process of writing and design. In addition to pictorial sketches, numerous maps follow the development of the Shire and the larger landscape of Middle-earth,...
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: 978-5-521-08093-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
In this unique and important book, and now celebrating its 10th year, one of the world`s great spiritual leaders offers his practical wisdom and advice on how we can overcome everyday human problems and achieve lasting Art of Happiness is a highly accessible guide for a western audience, combining the Dalai Lama`s eastern spiritual tradition with Dr Howard C. Cutler`s western perspective. Covering all key areas of human experience, they apply the principles of Tibetan Buddhism to everyday problems and reveal how one can find balance and complete spiritual and mental many who wish to understand more about the Dalai Lama`s approach to living, there has never been a book which brings his beliefs so vividly into the real world.
ISBN: 978-0-340-99592-1
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Издательство "Менеджер" продолжает знакомить читателей с лучшими произведениями английской и американской литературы. В повести "Приключения Гекльберри Финна" автор рассказывает о жизни на Миссисипи. Он развертывает перед читателями широкую панораму современной ему американской действительности - плантации, фермы, провинциальные городки, деревушки по берегам реки. Повествование ведется от лица...
ISBN: 5-8346-0194-4
Издательство:
Менеджер
Дата выхода: август 2002
Fro 25 years, Burke Devore has provided for his family and played by the rules. Until now. Downsized from his job, Devore is slipping away: from his wife, his family, and from all civilized norms of behavior. He wants his life back, and will do anything to get it. In this relentlessly fascinating novel, the masterful Westlake takes readers on a journey of obsession and outrage inside a quiet man`s desperate world.
ISBN: 0-446-60608-1
Издательство:
Warner Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Peter Sinclair is tormented by bereavement and failure. In an attempt to conjure some meaning from his life, he embarks on an autobiography, but he finds himself writing the story of another man in another, imagined, world, whose insidious attraction draws him even further TheAffirmation is at once an original thriller and a haunting study of schizophrenia; it has a compulsive, dream-like quality.
ISBN: 978-0-575-07577-1
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
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