Jack London`s novels and ruggedly individual life seemed to embody American hopes, frustrations and romantic longings in the turbulent first years of the 20th century, years infused with the wonder and excitement of great technological and historic change. His restless spirit, taste for a life of excitement and probing mind led him on a series of hard-edged adventures from the Klondike to the South Seas. Out of these sometimes harrowing experiences - and his fascination with the theories of such thinkersas Darwin, Spencer and Marx - came the inspiration for novels of adventure that would make him one of America`s most popular writers. `The Call of the Wild`, considered by many London`s greatest novel, is a gripping tale of a heroic dog...
ISBN: 0-486-26472-6
Издательство:
Dover
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2005
Книга адресована дошкольникам и младшим школьникам, начинающим изучать английский язык, и входит в комплект книг для чтения 1-го уровня сложности (`Beginning to Read`).
ISBN: 5-7107-4284-8
Издательство:
Дрофа
Дата выхода: январь 2001
Robert Forester didn`t look like the kind of man to be a prowler. His ex-wife had told the police he was erratic, liable to violence, had even fired a gun at her. Maybe he was psychopathic
ISBN: 978-0-09-928297-6
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. The Chainbearer is the second book in a trilogy starting with "Satanstoe" and ending with "The Redskins". The novel focuses mainly on issues of land ownership and the displacement of American Indians as the United States moves Westward.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07964-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Произведения Фрэнсиса Скотта Фицджеральда, одного из самых известных и блистательных авторов "эпохи джаза", остаются актуальными, интересными и по сей день. А загадочная, фантастическая история молодеющего с каждым днём Бенджамина Баттона не только завоевала признание читателей всего мира, но и стала вдохновением для известной экранизации Дэвида Финчера. Читатель получит незабываемые впечатления от...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05103-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2017
Saki (H.H.Munro) stands alongside Anton Chekov and O.Henry as a master of the short story. His extraordinary stories are a mixture of humorous satire, irony and the macabre, in which the stupidities and hypocrisy of conventional society are viciously pilloried. Among the short stories are the well-known classics, "Sredni Vastar" and "The Unrest Cure".
ISBN: 1-85326-071-1
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Benjamin Button is a very strange baby. Born with a white beard, he looks like his grandfather. As years pass, he seems to get younger. This brings many problems, for him and the people around him. In these three stories by Fitzgerald, people are not always as they seem.
ISBN: 978-1-4082-6121-7
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: февраль 2011
