Beranbaum has written the classic cake cookbook. A chapter devoted to the master baker offers clear, precise instructions for making special-occasion cakes of any size up to 18 inches in diameter. A chapter of special decorative techniques makes it possible for even the beginning baker to make cakes look terrific. Includes countless solutions and tips for all the little problems that may arise. Illustrated.
W. B. Yeats was Romantic and Modernist, mystical dreamer and leader of the Irish Literary Revival, Nobel prizewinner, dramatist and, above all, poet. He began writing with the intention of putting his ‘very self’ into his poems. T. S. Eliot, one of many who proclaimed the Irishman’s greatness, described him as ‘one of those few whose history is the history of their own time, who are part of the consciousness of an age which cannot be understood without them’. For anyone interested in the literature of the late nineteenth century and the twentieth century, Yeats’s work is essential. This volume gathers the full range of his published poetry, from the hauntingly beautiful early lyrics (by which he is still fondly remembered)...
ISBN: 9781853264542
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2020
Dallas, November`63 - the heart of the American Dream detonated. Wayne Tedrow Jr., a young Vegas cop, arrives with a loathsome job to do. He`s got six thousand in cash and no idea he is about to plunge into the cover-up conspiracy already brewing around the assassination of JFK, no idea that this will mark the beginning of a hellish five-year ride through the private underbelly of public policy. Ellroy`s furiously paced narrative tracks Tedrow`s journey: Dallas to Vega, with the Mob and Howard Hughes, south with the Klan and J. Edgar Hoover, shipping out to Vietnam and returning home, the bearer of white powder, plotting new deaths as 1968 approaches...The Cold Six Thousand is the 1960s under Ellroy`s blistering lens, the icons of the...
ISBN: 0-09-989330-4
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
The Churchills dominated world politics for generations - but, like every family, they too have their secrets. Winston`s mother, Jennie, had an affair with the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII, and her spendthrift habits devastated the family`s reputation. The younger brother, Jack, played a crucial role both in Winston`s successes and in holding the family together during tough times. From Sir Randolph`s alleged syphilis to Winston`s illegitimacy, from Jennie`s gambling problem to Jack`s dashed ambitions, authors Celia and John Lee use never-before-seen archives to cut through the rumors and lies and get to the truth about the life of the former prime minister and his relationship with his family.
Издание полностью на английском языке.Father Brown, one of the most quirky genial and lovable characters to emerge from English detective fiction, first made his appearance in "The Innocence of Father Brown" in 1911. That first collection of stories established G.K. Chesterton`s kindly cleric in the front rank of eccentric sleuths.This complete collection contains all the favourite Father Brown stories, showing a quiet wit and compassion that has endeared him to many, whilst solving his mysteries by a mixture of imagination and a sympathetic worldliness in a totally believable manner.
ISBN: 9781853260032
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2006
This is a classic story from one of our best-loved authors. Gemma doesn`t believe a chicken could have written a book - chickens can`t even read! But here in front of them is The True Story of Harrowing Farm, and its scratchy pages definitely look, well, chickeny. It is an epic tale of cruelty and bravery, the story of a chicken who flies frillions of miles, reaching the heights of intergalactic superstardom, to try to save us humans.
ISBN: 978-1-4052-3321-7
Издательство:
Egmont Books Ltd
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Jim Qwilleran and his Siamese sleuths, Koko and Yum Yum, investigate the disappearance of a wealthy railroad buff - and alleged multimillion-dollar embezzler - a case that becomes complicated by red herrings, a tragic train wreck, and murder at a railroad tavern.
