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
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
The final volume sees gunslinger Roland on a roller-coaster mix of exhilarating triumph and aching loss in his unrelenting quest to reach the dark tower. Roland`s band of pilgrims remains united, though scattered. Susannah-Mia has been carried off to New York to give birth, Terrified of what may happen, Jake, Father Callahan and Oy follow. Roland and Eddie are in Maine, looking for the site which will lead them to Susannah. As he finally closes in on the tower, Roland`s every step is shadowed by a terrible and sinister creation. And finally, he realises, he may have to walk the last dark strait alone! You`ve come this far, Come a little farther, Come all the way, The sound you hear may be the slamming of the door behind you. Welcome to...
ISBN: 978-0-340-83617-0
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Edith Wharton (1862—1937) was an American novelist and short story writer. Her works show the lives of people of the late nineteenth century, the times of decline in American history. She was the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1921. Wharton also was familiar with many famous people of the time, including President Theodore Roosevelt. This volume includes many wonderful short stories like "The Other Two", "Expiation", "The Lady`s Maid`s Bell" and the title story "The Descent of Man". .
ISBN: 978-5-521-07842-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
