Lubji Hoch survived World War II on luck, guts, and ruthlessness. At the war`s end, renamed Richard Armstrong, he buys a floundering newspaper in Berlin and deviously puts his competitors out of business. But it isn`t enough. Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, Keith Townsend, the Oxford-educated son of a millionaire newspaper owner, takes over his family`s business. His energy and brilliant strategic thinking quickly make him the leading newspaper publisher in Australia. Still, he longs to move on to the world stage. As both Armstrong and Townsend seize control of everything they see, their ambitions collide on a global scale. But suddenly they both find themselves threatened by finicial disaster and enormous debt. Frantic to...
ISBN: 0-06-109203-7
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Джон Голсуорси - признанный английский писатель XIX века, лауреат Нобелевской премии по литературе. "Первые и последние" - одно из самых известных произведений автора. В привычной и размеренной жизни королевского адвоката никто не предвещало беды, но однажды его младший брат совершает убийство… История о последствиях, к которым могут привести необдуманные поступки, обязательно произведёт впечатление на...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05451-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2017
The three novels which make up The Forsyte Saga chronicle the ebbing social power of the commercial upper-middle class Forsyte family between 1886 and 1920. Soames Forsyte is the brilliantly portrayed central figure, a Victorian who outlives the age, and whose baffled passion for his beautiful but unresponsive wife Irene reverberates throughout the saga. Written with both compassion and ironic detachment, Galsworthy`s masterly narrative examines not only their fortunes but also the wider developments within society, particularly the changing position of women in an intensely competitive male world. Above all, Gallsworthy is concerned with the conflict at the heart of English culture between the soulless materialism of wealth and property...
ISBN: 978-5-521-06272-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
Herbert George Wells (1866—1946) was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, but he is now best remembered for his science fiction novels. "The First Men in the Moon" is a scientific novel, which tells the story of a journey to the moon undertaken by the two protagonists, a businessman narrator, Mr. Bedford, and an eccentric scientist, Mr. Cavor. Bedford and Cavor discover that the moon is inhabited by a sophisticated extraterrestrial civilisation of insect-like creatures.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08226-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2018
It is a time of political unrest in Great Britain. And behind the Iron Curtain an insidious plot is being hatched, a plan so incendiary that even the KGB is ignorant of its existence - Aurora, the sinister brainchild of two of the world`s most dangerous men: the general secretary of the Soviet Union and master spy Kim Philby. The wheels are in motion, the pawns are in place, and the countdown has begun toward an accident that could change the fact of British politics forever and trigger and collapse of the Western alliance. Only British agent John Preston stand any chance of breaching the conspiracy. Through plot and counterplot, from bloody back streets to polished halls of power both East and West, his desperate investigation is...
ISBN: 0-553-25113-9
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Серия книг «Зарубежная классика — читай в оригинале» — это бессмертные произведения великих мастеров пера, написанные ими на их родном языке и наречии. . .Книги из этой серии помогут читателю углубленно изучать иностранные языки, обогатят его внутренний мир и по-новому откроют произведения известных классиков. . .Неадаптированное издание на английском языке. .
ISBN: 978-5-519-02039-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe finds Crusoe bored with his prosperity and consumed by an irresistible longing to return to the island he left many years before. Along with his trusty servant and companion, Friday, he embarks on a harrowing high-seas adventure that takes them to China, over the Russian steppes, and into Siberia.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06460-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: март 2018
Jack London (1876-1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. "The Faith of Men" is a short story collection containing eight of Jack London`s amazing adventure tales like "A Relic of the Pliocene", "A Hyperborean Brew", and "The Story of Jees Uck". All of them set in London`s favorite place, the Yukon Territory.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07486-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
A remarkable piece of forgotten history and the never-before-told story of Americans lured to Soviet Russia by the promise of jobs and better lives, only to meet tragic ends. In 1934, a photograph was taken of a baseball team. These two rows of young men look like any group of American ballplayers, except perhaps for the Russian lettering on their jerseys. The players have left their homeland and the Great Depression in search of a better life in Stalinist Russia, but instead they will meet tragic and, until now, forgotten fates. Within four years, most of them will be arrested alongside untold numbers of other Americans. Some will be executed. Others will be sent to corrective labor camps where they will be worked to death. This book is...
ISBN: 978-0-14-311542-7
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012
Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. The Fallen Leaves novel follows the fortunes of four women, all in one way or another `fallen leaves`, who are linked by their relationships with the hero, Amelius Goldenheart, and also by secrets from the past.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07198-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Private William Mandella is a reluctant hero in an interstellar war against an unknowable and unconquerable alien enemy. But his greatest test will be when he returns home. Relativity means that for every few months` tour of duty centuries have passed on Earth, isolating the combatants ever more from the world for whose future they are fighting.
ISBN: 978-0-575-09414-7
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. "The Firm of Girdlestone" is a truly fascinating novel that tells a story of a merchant John Girdlestone and his son, Ezra who have a big problem in life. Their firm is about to collapse, and if they do not do something about it, the name of Girdlestone will be tainted with disgrace.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07176-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018
The inside story of the greatest business and social phenomenon of our age. "David Kirkpatrick has written a fascinating and timely account of the amazing rise of Facebook. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the future of business and the internet". Sir Richard Branson
Daniel Defoe was an English trader, writer, pamphleteer and journalist. He is most famous for his novel "Robinson Crusoe", which is second only to the Bible in its number of translations. The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe finds Crusoe bored with his prosperity and consumed by an irresistible longing to return to the island he left many years before. Along with his trusty servant and companion, Friday, he embarks on a harrowing high-seas adventure that takes them to China, over the Russian steppes, and into Siberia.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08175-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
Гилберт К. Честертон - один из классиков английской литературы, известный читателям всего мира, благодаря циклу детективных новелл со священников Брауном и Хорном Фишером. "Перелётный кабак" - это не просто увлекательный роман, а гротескное повествование об антиалкогольной кампании, которая проходила в Англии в XIX веке. Всё шло как по маслу, пока один хитрец не решил: а почему бы не завести кабак, который не...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05483-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2017
It`s history with the nasty bits left in! Want to know: What the `Fat King` did with food scraps and dead horses? How sniffing your own pee could save your life in a gas attack? Why a pair of old socks gave away top German secrets? Discover all the foul facts about the "Frightful First World War" - all the gore and more!
ISBN: 978-1-4071-0302-0
Издательство:
Scholastic UK
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2011
Emma Thompson celebrates 110 years of Peter Rabbit by giving us a brand-new tale! Celebrate 110 years of Peter Rabbit with a new, original tale written by Oscar-winning actress and screenwriter Emma Thompson and based on the original tales by Beatrix Potter. In this story, Peter`s adventures take him beyond the boundaries of Mr. McGregor`s garden and all the way to Scotland! With 72 pages of beautiful text and illustrations, this hardcover picture book is sure to become a classic - and a collector`s item!
ISBN: 978-0-7232-6710-2
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Begin your journey into Middle-earth.A New Legend Begins on Prime Video, in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.The first part of J. R. R. Tolkien’s epic adventure THE LORD OF THE RINGS.In a quiet village in the Shire, young Frodo is about to receive a gift that will change his life forever.Thought lost centuries ago, it is the One Ring, an object of terrifying power once used by the Dark Lord to enslave Middle-earth. Now darkness is rising, and Frodo must travel deep into the Dark Lord’s realm, to the one place the Ring can be destroyed: Mount Doom.The journey will test Frodo’s courage, his friendships and his heart. Because the ring corrupts all who bear it – can Frodo destroy it, or will it destroy him?
