Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) was an English novelist, dramatist, and short story writer, universally known for her Gothic novel "Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus". "The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck" is a historical novel about the life of Perkin Warbeck, claimed to be Richard of Shrewsbury, the second son of King Edward IV. The book takes a point of view that Perkin Warbeck died in childhood and the supposed impostor was Richard indeed. The book also contains the message that an ideal political system is impossible without significant changes in human nature.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07527-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
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
Happy with her husband-to-be and beloved son, Isabel Dalhousie has feelings about parenthood that grow more tender daily. So when Jane, a visiting academic adopted and sent to Australia as a baby, asks for help in tracing her Scottish origins, she cannot refuse. However, habitually upright Isabel finds herself beset by temptation - for instance, to be suspicious of Professor Lettuce`s latest subterfuge, and of her niece Cat`s weakness for the wrong man. And when the search for Jane`s parents turns troubling, she can hardly prevent herself from interfering too forcefully in family secrets. As she steers a course between love and laissez-faire, our philosopher heroine succeeds in resisting all temptations but those which must be answered,...
ISBN: 978-0-349-12387-5
Издательство:
Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: январь 2013
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: 978-5-521-05454-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2017
О. Henry is the pen name of American writer William Sydney Porter. He wrote 381 short while living there. He wrote a story a week for over a year for the New York World Sunday Magazine. The Four Million is the second collection of short stories by 0. Henry that was published in 1906. The title refers to the population of New York City at that time and is where all the stories are based.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06158-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
Continuing the story begun in The Hobbit, this is the first part of Tolkien’s epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, featuring an exclusive cover image from the film, the definitive text, and a detailed map of Middle-earth. Sauron, the Dark Lord, has gathered to him all the Rings of Power – the means by which he intends to rule Middle-earth. All he lacks in his plans for dominion is the One Ring – the ring that rules them all – which has fallen into the hands of the hobbit, Bilbo Baggins. In a sleepy village in the Shire, young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task, as his elderly cousin Bilbo entrusts the Ring to his care. Frodo must leave his home and make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the...
Книга полностью на английском языке. It's 1922 and Fleur Forsyte is now married to Michael Mont. Fleur throws herself into the roaring 20s with the rest of London, taking life as it comes. But the marriage is haunted by the ghost of a past love affair, and however vibrant Fleur appears, those closest to her sense her unhappiness. Michael, devoted to Fleur but not blind to her faults, is determined to stand by her through anything. He also finds himself caught up in the tragic and poignant story of a young couple struggling for survival in an age of unemployment and extreme poverty.
ISBN: 978-0-7553-4088-0
Издательство:
Headline Publ.
Дата выхода: январь 2013
В середине XXI века двух английских ученых отправляют в начало XVII века исследовать легендарный Пороховой заговор, целью которого было убийство короля Якова I. Вторгаться в ход истории исследователи не имеют права, но ведь они всего лишь люди. Удастся ли им установить историческую истину?
ISBN: 978-5-17-056857-4
Издательство:
АСТ/Астрель
Дата выхода: октябрь 2009
Rapid advances in modern technology present companies with quickly expanding marketing opportunities, but they also create an over-saturated business landscape that both helps and hurts brands. In this thorough investigation of brand strength in the accelerated modern business world, Nigel Hollis draws on his experience at Millward Brown to present a simple formula for determining brand strength based on two axes, Presence (or familiarity) and Voltage (or marketing appeal), to illustrate the market value and performance of brands. He analyzes the five steps of customer commitment to a strong brand - Presence, Relevance, Performance, Advantage, and Bonding. Finally, Hollis emphasizes human nature as a set of constant core values that all...
It`s Fran`s thirtieth birthday and things are good. She`s bluffed her way into a Very Posh Job and her outlandishly handsome and talented boyfriend Michael is escorting her to the Ritz with a bulge the shape of a ring box in his pocket. But something has gone wrong. Very wrong. By the end of the evening Fran is howling in bed with a bottle of cheap brandy and one of Michael`s old socks. In her quest to figure out why her life has suddenly gone down the pan, Fran comes up with a failsafe plan: live like a badger, stalk a stranger called Nellie and cancel her beloved Gin Thursdays in favour of drinking gin every night. But then Fran`s friends force a very different plan on her and it`s nowhere near as fun. How could eight dates possibly...
ISBN: 978-0-241-95298-6
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
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 a collection of wonderful short stories like "The Muse`s Tragedy", "The Pelican", "Souls Belated" and "The Twilight of the Gods". .
ISBN: 978-5-521-07831-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Вниманию читателей предлагается полный, неадаптированный текст психологического романа Френсиса Скотта Фицджеральда `Великий Гетсби`. Издание рассчитано на лиц, владеющих основами английского языка и совершенствующих свои навыки в нем.
ISBN: 5-9542-0031-9
Издательство:
Икар
Дата выхода: декабрь 2004
`Hale`s writing is beautiful, with a vivid eye for detail` Daily Telegraph Anidora-Kiladra Talianna Isilee, Crown Princess of Kilindree, spent the first years of her life listening to her aunt`s incredible stories, and learning the language of the birds. Little knowing how valuable her aunt`s strange knowledge would prove to be when she grew older. From the Grimm`s fairy tale of the princess who became a goose girl before she could become a queen, Shannon Hale has woven an incredible, original and magical tale of a girl who must understand her own incredible talents before she can overcome those who wish her harm. Shannon Hale has drawn on her incredible gift for storytelling to create a powerful and magical grown-up fairy tale.
ISBN: 978-0-7475-9800-8
Издательство:
Bloomsbury
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011