ISBN: 9780099559849 Издательство: Random House Дата выхода: январь 2011
In a sleepy village in the Shire, a young hobbit is entrusted with an immense task. He must make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom, there to destroy the Ruling Ring of Power - the only thing that prevents the Dark Lord`s evil dominion. Thus begins `s classic tale, which continues in The Two Towers and The Return of the King.
ISBN: 978-0-261-10235-4 Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers Дата выхода: январь 2007
Gabby looked at the woman she had hated nearly all her life. Then she sat down on the ladder-backed chair, put her face into her bloodied hands and cried. To the outside world, Cynthia Tailor is a woman to envy; she has a devoted husband, a lovely home and two gorgeous children. But Cynthia is deeply unhappy with her lot; she has always craved the best things in life, and is determined to see that she gets them. Cynthia will let nothing stand in her way, even if it means devastation and tragedy for those nearest to her. And the casualties are many: her husband Jimmy, weak and unable to fight the wife he can never please; her sister Celeste, from whom Cynthia steals her most precious possession; and her parents, Mary and Jack, who pick...
ISBN: 978-0-7553-7555-4 Издательство: Headline Publ. Дата выхода: январь 2013
The Gingerbreadman - psychopath, sadist, convicted murderer and cake/biscuit - is loose on the streets of Reading. It isn`t Jack Spratt`s case. Despite the success of the Humpty Dumpty investigation, the well publicised failure to prevent Red Riding-Hood and her Gran being eaten once again plunges the Nursery Crime Division into controversy. Enforced non-involvement with the Gingerbreadman hunt looks to be frustrating until a chance encounter at the oddly familiar Deja-Vu Club leads them onto the hunt for missing journalist Henrietta `Goldy` Hatchett, star reporter for The Daily Toad. The last witnesses to see her alive were The Three Bears, comfortably living out a life of rural solitude in Andersen`s wood. But all is not what it seems....
ISBN: 978-0-340-83573-9 Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
"The Football Factory" is on one level the most authentic book you`re likely to read about the culture surrounding a group of Chelsea "football hooligans", but it is much more than that. Mixed in with graphic descriptions of gang violence are wonderful vignettes about laundry women, old men, small children and warehouse dreamers. In short, a spicy (and very funny) slice of inner-city London life." Mark Piggot Формат: 11 см х 18 см.
ISBN: 978-0-09-947462-3 Издательство: Vintage Classics Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Sam Vimes is a man on the run. Yesterday he was a duke, a chief of police and the ambassador to the mysterious, fat-rich country of Uberwald. Now, he has nothing but his native wit and the gloomy trousers of Uncle Vanya (don`t ask). It`s snowing. It`s freezing. And if he can`t make it through the forest to civilization there`s going to be a terrible war. But there are monsters on his trail. They`re bright. They`re fast. They`re werewolves - and they`re catching up. Sam Vimes is out of time, out of luck and already out of breath.
ISBN: 978-0-552-15422-2 Издательство: Random House Дата выхода: январь 2013
In this final volume of The Forsyte Saga Galsworthy writes about the lives and loves of the Cherrell family, cousins of the Forsytes. For centuries, the Cherrell sons have left their home of Condaford Grange to serve the state as soldiers, clergymen and administrators, but the 1930s bring uncertainty in a world of rapidly altering morals and unemployment. Galsworthy’s portrayal of the effect of political change on individuals show him as a great social novelist as well as the author of one of the most gripping family sagas ever written.
ISBN: 0-14-118684-4 Издательство: Penguin Books Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Вниманию читателей предлагается полный, неадаптированный текст известного сборника рассказов Редьярда Киплинга "Первая книга джунглей" (1894). Издание рассчитано на лиц, владеющих основами английского языка и совершенствующих свои навыки в нём.
ISBN: 5-9542-0014-9 Издательство: Икар Дата выхода: январь 2003
ISBN: 9780007433360 Издательство: HarperCollins UK Дата выхода: январь 2013
Meet the Diamond Brothers, the world`s worst private-detective agency, in this Chandler-esque spoof from the creator of the Alex Rider series. When a dwarf comes into the office and leaves a package, Tim Diamond, the world`s worst private-detective, is faced with his toughest case yet. The office is ransacked and the package is found to contain simply a box of Maltesers. Who was the and why was he murdered shortly after his visit? The Diamond Brothers` exposure is at an all-time high with brand-new covers for the entire series. Part of the Diamond Brothers series that also includes The Four of Diamonds (four novellas in one book), Public Enemy Number Two and South by South East.
ISBN: 978-1-4063-4142-3 Дата выхода: июнь 2012
ISBN: 9780141184142 Издательство: Penguin Books Дата выхода: январь 2000
The Godfather and The Last Don, there was Puzo`s classic story about the loves, crimes and struggles confronted by one family of New York City immigrants living in Hell`s Kitchen. Fresh from the farms in Italy, Lucia Santa struggles to hold her family together in a strange land. At turns poignant, comic and violent, and with a new preface by the author, The Fortunate Pilgrim is Italian-American fiction at its very best.
ISBN: 978-0-345-47672-2 Издательство: Random House (USA) Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
ISBN: 9780141023809 Издательство: Книжный мир Дата выхода: январь 2005
A lost child: On the eve of the First World War, a little girl is found abandoned on a ship to Australia. A mysterious woman called the Authoress had promised to look after her - but has disappeared without a trace. A terrible secret: On the night of her twenty-first birthday, Nell Andrews learns a secret that will change her life forever. Decades later, she embarks upon a search for the truth that leads her to the windswept Cornish coast and the strange and beautiful Blackhurst Manor, once owned by the aristocratic Mountrachet family. A mysterious inheritance: On Nell`s death, her granddaughter, Cassandra, comes into an unexpected inheritance. Cliff Cottage and its forgotten garden are notorious amongst the Cornish locals for the...
ISBN: 978-0-330-44960-1 Издательство: Picador Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
ISBN: 9780007489893 Дата выхода: январь 2013
When Patricia Cornwell introduced the quicksilver, cut-to-the-bone style and extraordinary cast of characters of At Risk, the result was electrifying. Now America`s number one bestselling crime writer returns with an audacious new
ISBN: 978-0-425-22475-5 Издательство: Penguin Group Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Джон Голсуорси - признанный английский писатель XIX века, лауреат Нобелевской премии по литературе. «Сага о Форсайтах» - одно из самых известных произведений автора, которое заслуженно принесло ему Нобелевскую премию. Воздушный роман-сага представляет собой портрет английского общества на стыке веков, а история целой семьи на протяжении многих лет оставит неизгладимый след в душе каждого читателя....
ISBN: 978-5-521-05457-2 Издательство: Т8 Дата выхода: июль 2017
Даниэль Дефо - это знаменитый английский писатель и публицист рубежа XVII-XVIII вв., чьи произведения до сих пор остаются самыми читаемыми и любимыми по всему миру. Роман "Радости и горести знаменитой Молль Флендерс" повествует о бедной девушке, родившейся в Ньюгетской тюрьме и решившей вопреки всему стать богатой. Необычная судьба сильной женщины со взлётами и падениями оставит неизгладимый след в душе...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05724-5 Издательство: Т8 Дата выхода: июль 2017
ISBN: 9780141441832 Дата выхода: январь 2006
ISBN: 9780349138718 Дата выхода: январь 2015
ISBN: 9781444959475 Дата выхода: январь 2020
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: 978-5-521-06271-3 Издательство: Т8 Дата выхода: январь 2018
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
ISBN: 9780099532743 Издательство: Random House Дата выхода: январь 2010
Walter Scott (1771-1832) was a Scottish historical novelist, poet, and playwright. Although he was an advocate and legal administrator by profession, Scott is most famous for his great literary works and activities in the Royal Highland Society. Inspired by the story of the Battle of the North Inch, "The Fair Maid of Perth" is set in Perth, Saint John`s Town, and several other parts of Scotland in the early fifteenth century. It tells the story of Catharine Glover, the fair maid of the title and the daughter of a local glovemaker. While being in love with Henry Gow, the armorer, she also catches the eye of the Duke of Rothesay. When Gow interrupts an attempted abduction, he becomes drawn into royal intrigues and highland feud.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07552-2 Издательство: Т8 Дата выхода: август 2018
