Fyodor Dostoyevsky, the brilliant Russian novelist whose psychological delvings into the human soul profoundly influenced the twentieth-century novel, wrote a prolific amount of shorter works that are masterpieces in their own right. His novella The Eternal Husband is considered one of the author`s most powerful and perfect creations. This surreal tale of duality and interchanging rivalry explores the life of a rich, idle man suddenly forced to confront the husband of his dead mistress. With keen insight into the human condition, the story relates the shared hatred, love, and guilt of the two men. Ripe with the emotional themes central to Dostoyevsky`s greatest novels, including morality, the bonds of sexual love, mental torture, and...
Eugenia`s wit, guile and sophistication, and Felix`s debonair vivacity form an uneasy alliance with the Puritan morality and the frugal, domestic virtues of the Americans. A rich and delicately balanced comedy of manners, The Europeans weighs the values of the established order against those of New England society, but makes no simple judgements, only subtle contrasts and beautifully observed comparisons. Формат: 11 см x 18 см.
ISBN: 978-0-14-062397-0
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
I looked around and people`s faces were distorted...lights were flashing everywhere...the screen at the end of the room had three or four different films on it at once, and the strobe light was flashing faster than it had been...the band was playing but I couldn`t hear the music...people were dancing...someone came up to me and I shut my eyes and with a machine he projected images on the back of my eye-lids...I sought out a person I trusted and he laughed and told me that the Kool-Aid had been spiked and that I was beginning my first LSD experience...
ISBN: 978-0-552-99366-1
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
This series of books combines good stories with easy reading text for children aged six to seven years and over who have just started reading alone. The series has been developed with Alison Kelly who is an expert in early reading.
ISBN: 978-0-7460-6303-3
Издательство:
Usborne
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
The world is peering into the terrifying chasm of a new kind of conflict, where computers take over from missiles and global damnation comes at the click of a button. Cyber-warfare: the kind that brings nations to their knees, switching off energy lifelines, crippling the financial markets, starving leaders of authority. An old Russian nuclear reactor goes into Chernobyl-style meltdown, while on the other side of the world, the US Eastern Seabord is plunged into darkness. Nobody knows - yet - who is responsible for the chaos. Hidden from the rest of the world, an extraordinary meeting of the US President, the Russian President and the British Prime Minister is about to take place. They have the weekend to save the world - and they must...
ISBN: 978-1-84739-322-7
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Ladybird Tales are based on the original best-selling "Well-Loved Tales". These classic stories have been combined with beautiful new illustrations to bring the magic of Ladybird Tales to a new generation. Children have always loved these stories, and reading them together is an experience to treasure.
ISBN: 978-1-4093-1426-4
Издательство:
Ladybird Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012
When Alice Farrell is drawn to Grantchester churchyard and reads the strange inscription on Rosemary Virginia Ashley`s gravestone, she feels oddly disturbed. And when former boyfriend Joe returns to Cambridge with his new girlfriend Ginny, Alice is repelled by the ethereal, lavender-eyed beauty - and is certain of her evil. Then Alice finds an old diary in Ginny`s room and reads the story of Daniel Holmes, who lived in Cambridge forty years earlier, and fell under the fatal spell of Rosemary Ashley. As the two stories intertwine, Alice`s suspicions about Ginny increase - until the past meets present in a terrifying
ISBN: 978-0-552-77504-5
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Based on the classic story "The Elves and the Shoemaker", this vibrantly illustrated story is sure to become a favourite in every home. Meet the poor and hungry shoemaker who wakes up one morning to find that his shoes have been magically made for him! Part of the Ladybird "First Favourite Tales" series - a perfect introduction to fairy tales for preschoolers - this hardback book contains lots of funny rhythm and rhyme to delight young children. Ideal for reading aloud and sharing with 2-4 year olds. Retold by Lorna Read.
ISBN: 978-1-4093-0628-3
Издательство:
Ladybird Books
Дата выхода: январь 2013
Sarajevo, 2003. Best friends Frito and Bannerman roll into town, still in search of the fortune they missed out on in the dot-com years. For a while it seems that soaking up reconstruction money isn’t the worst plan ever. But then they both meet Clare, a prosecutor with the international war crimes tribunal, and they both realise she is the best person they`ve has ever met, and that they can’t both have her as much as they would, ideally, like. Meanwhile the city is awash with black marketeers, poker hustlers, intelligence officers, and expat hedonist, and by the time Frito and Bannerman have started bounty hunting men accused of war crimes, their lives have taken on all the risk - but very little of the money - that they’d bargained
ISBN: 978-0-09-951345-2
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
The eighth book in the epic and bestselling series that has gripped millions.A hero will be forged from this broken land.In the battle for power, there can be only one ruler.The ruler of Mercia is dying, leaving no apparent heir. His wife is a born leader, but no woman has ever ruled over an English kingdom. And she is without her greatest warrior and champion, Uhtred of Bebbanburg.An empty throne leaves the kingdom exposed to rival West Saxons and to the Vikings, who are on a bloody rampage once more.A hero is needed, a hero who has been in battle all his life, who can destroy the double threat to Mercia. A hero who will ultimately decide the fate of a nation…
At the heart of the ruined city of Arcopolis is the Fortress. It`s a brutalstructure placed here by one of the sides in a devastating intergalactic warthat`s long ended. Fifteen years ago, the entire population of the planet waskilled in an instant by the weapon housed deep in the heart of the Fortress. Nowonly the ghosts remain. When The Doctor arrives, determined to fight his waypast the Fortress`s automatic defenses and put the weapon beyond use, he soondiscovers he`s not the only person in Arcopolis! What is the true nature of theweapon? Is the planet really haunted? Who are the Eyeless? And what will happenif they get to the weapon before the Doctor?
ISBN: 9781846075629
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2009
