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ISBN: 5-17-034196-2 Издательство: АСТ Дата выхода: декабрь 2005
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
Книга на английском языке Данная подборка - крупнейший из известных сборников уайльдовских афоризмов. Она была выпущена в свет в 1905 г. и является исторической вехой в осмыслении творчества английского писателя. Представляя собой вполне законченное произведение, книга заслуживает новейшей публикации и благосклонного внимания читателя.
ISBN: 5-8346-0124-3 Издательство: Менеджер Дата выхода: февраль 2001
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
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
ISBN: 9781408866825 Издательство: Bloomsbury Дата выхода: январь 2021
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!
ISBN: 978-0-19-271999-7 Дата выхода: ноябрь 2012
ISBN: 978-0-345-50695-5 Издательство: Random House (USA) Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Agatha Christie`s world-famous serial killer mystery, coming to BBC TV and reissued in a beautiful new classic hardcover edition designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.`Let us see, Mr Clever Poirot, just how clever you can be.`Murder is a very simple crime. But at the hands of a maniac, a serial killer, it becomes a very complicated business.With the whole country in a state of panic, the killer is growing more confident with each successive execution - Mrs Ascher in Andover, Betty Barnard in Bexhill, Sir Carmichael Clarke in Churston... But laying a trail of deliberate clues to taunt the proud Hercule Poirot might just be his first mistake...
ISBN: 9780008310226 Дата выхода: ноябрь 2022
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
Книга знакомит читателя с произведениями Г.К.Честертона, классика английской литературы первой трети XX века. В сборник включены приключенческие рассказы об отце Брауне. Острый детективный сюжет, увлекательные методы раскрытия преступлений, парадоксы, яркие описания, прекрасный язык делают книгу интересной широкому кругу читателей.
ISBN: 5-8346-0058-1 Издательство: Менеджер Дата выхода: сентябрь 2001
ISBN: 9781444959482 Дата выхода: январь 2020
ISBN: 9781847498892 Издательство: Alma Books Дата выхода: январь 2022
Серия состоит из лучших произведений английских и американских авторов. Тексты книг не адаптированы и не сокращены, поэтому Вы сможете насладиться настоящим языком великих писателей - мягким юмором Марка Твена, фантазией Редьярда Киплинга, остроумием Бернарда Шоу, безукоризненным стилем Эдгара По и многим другим. Серия предназначена для тех, кто учит английский всерьез, кто действительно хочет знать...
ISBN: 5-8168-0047-7 Издательство: Химера Дата выхода: январь 2001
From his Baker Street apartment, Sherlock Holmes wields his powers of deduction in pursuit of justice and truth, venturing out into foggy Victorian London accompanied by his faithful sidekick Dr Watson. This classic collection of Holmes tales includes many of the detective’s most-loved exploits: Holmes is confronted by a venomous snake in ‘The Adventure of the Speckled Band’, mystified by a missing thumb in ‘The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb’ and beguiled by a beautiful opera singer in ‘A Scandal in Bohemia’, never once losing his famous cool. First appearing separately in the Strand Magazine, these stories were published together in 1892 in a volume that rapidly became one of the most popular Sherlock Holmes...
ISBN: 9781847496164 Издательство: Alma Books Дата выхода: август 2020
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
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
Lyra and Will, two ordinary children on an extraordinary and otherworldly quest, have fallen into unspeakable danger. With help from the armored bear Iorek Byrnison and two tiny Gallivespian spies, they must enter a gray-lit world where no living soul has ever gone. All the while, Dr. Mary Malone builds a magnificent amber spyglass. An assassin hunts her down. And Lord Asriel, with troops of shining angels, fights his mighty rebellion. As war rages and Dust drains from the sky, the fate of the living- and the dead - finally comes to depend on two children and the simple truth of one simple story. The Amber Spyglass reveals that story, bringing Philip Pullman`s His Dark Materials to an astonishing conclusion.
ISBN: 0-440-23815-3 Издательство: Random House (USA) Дата выхода: апрель 2004
ISBN: 9780099455158 Издательство: Random House Дата выхода: январь 2003
