Chase through the streets of Elizabethan London in this historical adventure from the creator of Alex Rider. London is dirty, distant and but that`s where orphan Tom Falconer is heading. And he`s got a whole assortment of vicious criminals hot on his heels. Tom is helpless and alone until he meets Moll Cutpurse, a thirteen-year-old pickpocket. Together they find themselves chased across the city by the murderous Ratsey. But it`s only on the first night of a new play - The Devil and his Boy - that Tom realizes that the fate of the Queen and indeed the entire country rests in his hands. This title is from the creator of Alex Rider series which has sold ten million books worldwide.
ISBN: 978-1-4063-0569-2
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
A 13th-century French version of the Camelot legend, writen by an unknown author. It depicts a Round Table diminished in strength after the Quest for the Holy Grail. Whispers of Queen Guinevere`s infidelity distress King Arthur, leaving him no match for the machinations of Sir Mordred.
ISBN: 978-0-14-044255-7
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850—1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, travel writer, and essayist. He was a celebrity during his lifetime for works like "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and "Treasure Island". Now he is one of the most translated authors in the world. This volume includes fourteen amazing linked short stories like "Challoner`s adventure: The Squire of Dames", "Story of the Destroying Angel", "The Squire of Dames" and "Somerset`s adventure: The Superfluous Mansion". .
ISBN: 978-5-521-07791-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Чарльз Хэйес - известный американских писателей начала XX века. Его произведения продолжают вдохновлять сердца читателей по всему миру. «Тёмный фрегат» - бестселлер Хэйеса, по праву удостоен медали Ньюбери. Роман посвящен приключениям молодого английского моряка XVII века. Читателя ждут незабываемые и опасные приключения, яркие персонажи и лихой сюжет, который никого не оставит равнодушным! Читайте...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05720-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2017
Humorous fantasy author Terry Pratchett returns to his beloved and bestselling Discworld, a flat land of untamed imagination where all manner of oddities and absurdities take place. In his own inimitable fashion, Pratchett turns his mighty talents to satirizing the Santa Claus myth in "Hogfather", where he shows us the ridiculous extent to which some will go to destroy, or preserve, the season of giving. So hop on board for another delightful and hilarious jaunt through Discworld with Terry Pratchett.
ISBN: 978-0-06-105905-6
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: май 2008
Contemporary / British English Meet the Larkin family! They enjoy a wonderful country life, never worrying about money, work or the law. But then, one day, a man arrives from the tax office. Is the taxman going to change the Larkin`s lives? Or is his life going to change forever?
ISBN: 978-1-4058-6769-6
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
A stunning and epic finale to the series, pitting Fandorin against both Ninjas and terrorists on the Trans-Siberian Express! The first of the interlinked plotlines is set in Russia during the Russo-Japanese War in 1905. Fandorin is charged with protecting the Trans-Siberian Railway from Japanese sabotage in a pacy adventure filled with double agents and ticking bombs. Then we travel back to the Japan of the late 1870s. This is the story of Fandorin's arrival and life in Yokohama, his first meeting with Masa and the martial arts education that came in so handy later. He investigates the death of a Russian ship-captain, fights for a woman, exposes double-agents in the Japanese police, fights against, and then with the ninjas, and...
ISBN: 978-0-7538-2819-9
Издательство:
Орион
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Издание на английском языке. This morality tale pits a scientist, a government worker, a mistress, a deacon, and a physician against each other in a verbal battle of wits and ethics - which explodes into a violent contest: the duel. The Duel kindles an introspective challenge of the intellectual and the moral kind.
ISBN: 0-8129-7008-X
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
Continuing the impressive debut fantasy series from author Peter V. Brett, The Desert Spear is book two of the Demon trilogy, pulling the reader into a world of demons, darkness and heroes. The Deliverer has returned, but who is he? Arlen Bales, formerly of the small hamlet of Tibbet`s Brook, learnt harsh lessons about life as he grew up in a world where hungry demons stalk the night and humanity is trapped by its own fear. He chose a different path; chose to fight inherited apathy and the corelings, and eventually he became the Painted Man, a reluctant saviour. But the figure emerging from the desert, calling himself the Deliverer, is not Arlen. He is a friend and betrayer, and though he carries the spear from the Deliverer`s tomb, he...
ISBN: 978-0-00-727617-2
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2012
The first book in the heart-stopping The Darkest Minds trilogy, also now a major movie, from the bestselling author of Lore.Ruby is sixteen. She is dangerous. And she is alive. For now.A mysterious disease has killed most of America’s children. Ruby might have survived, but she and the others have emerged with something far worse than a virus: frightening abilities they cannot control. Pressured by the government, Ruby’s parents sent her to Thurmond, a brutal state ‘rehabilitation camp’, where she has learned to fear and suppress her new power. But what if mastering it is a whole generation’s only chance for survival?
Set in a world of extraordinary circumstances, filled with stunning visual imagery and unforgettable characters, the DARK TOWER series is unlike anything you have ever read. Here is the fifth installment, "one of the strongest entries yet in what will surely be a master storyteller`s magnum opus" ("Locus"). Roland Deschain and his "ka-tet" are bearing southeast through the forests of Mid-World on their quest for the Dark Tower. Their path takes them to the outskirts of Calla Bryn Sturgis. But beyond the tranquil farm town, the ground rises to the hulking darkness of Thunderclap, the source of a terrible affliction that is stealing the town`s soul. The wolves of Thunderclap and their unspeakable depredation are coming. To resist them is...
ISBN: 978-1-4165-1693-4
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: май 2008
Johnny, the small boy who skated at breakneck speed into an accident that for one horrifying moment plunged him into... The Dead Zone. Johnny Smith, the small-town schoolteacher who spun the wheel of fortune and won a trip into… The Dead Zone. John Smith, who awakened from a seemingly interminable coma with an accursed power: the power to see the future and the terrible fate awaiting mankind in... The Dead Zone. Формат: 10,5 см х 17,5 см.
While his literary reputation rests mainly on such celebrated novels as `Crime and Punishment`, `The Brothers Karamazov` and `The Idiot`, Dostoyevsky also wrote much superb short fiction. `The Double` is one of the finest of his shorter works. It appeared in 1846 (his second published work) and is by far the most significant of his early stories, not least for its successful, straight-faced treatment of a hallucinatory theme. In `The Double`, the protagonist, Golyadkin senior, is persecuted by his double, Golyadkin junior, who resembles him closely in almost every detail. The latter abuses the former with mounting scorn and brutality as the tale proceeds toward its frightening denouement. Characteristic Dostoyevskyan themes of...
ISBN: 0-486-29572-9
Издательство:
Dover
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
