When Mario Puzo`s blockbuster saga, The Godfather, was first published in 1969, critics hailed it as one of the greatest novels of our time, and "big, turbulent, highly entertaining." Since then, The Godfather has gone on to become a part of America`s national culture, as well as a trilogy of landmark motion pictures. Now, in this newly-repackaged 30th Anniversary Edition, readers old and new can experience this timeless tale of crime for themselves. From the lavish opening scene where Don Corleone entertains guests and conducts business at his daughter`s wedding...to his son, Michael, who takes his father`s place to fight for his family...to the bloody climax where all family business is finished, The Godfather is an epic story of...
ISBN: 0-451-16771-6
Издательство:
Penguin USA
Дата выхода: январь 1999
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald`s third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. In planning his novel, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, "I want to write something new something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned." Working with anxiety and saw he feeling that it was the supreme test, he committed all his imaginative resources to the project. This exemplary novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted "gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession", it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in...
ISBN: 978-5-521-06164-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2018
Roger is a middle-aged and divorced \`aisles associate\` at a Staples outlet. His co-worker Bethany is facing fifty more years of shelving Post-it notes. Then Bethany discovers Roger\`s notebook and finds that he\`s writing diary entries pretending to be her - and weirdly, he\`s getting it right. Bethany and Roger strike up a secret correspondence, and as it unfolds so too do the characters of Roger\`s work-in-progress, Glove Pond, a Cheever-era novella gone horribly, horribly wrong.
ISBN: 978-0-7475-9382-9
Издательство:
Bloomsbury
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
"Read It Yourself" is a learning to read series of classic, traditional stories with four levels of difficulty to suit the stage your child is at with reading. Written in a simple way for young readers, they will build their confidence in learning to read as they progress through each level. Familiar fairytales and exciting stories will amuse children and encourage them to progress further with this series and become confident readers. Each book in "The Read It Yourself With Ladybird Series" is carefully structured to include many everyday words that are vital for first reading/beginner readers. They also contain clear, beautiful pictures for extra support and interest. Extra puzzle questions at the end of each book further help with...
ISBN: 978-1-4093-0393-0
Издательство:
Ladybird Books
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Издательство продолжает знакомить читателей с наиболее значительными произведениями английской и американской литературы. Роман Ф.С.Фицджеральда `Великий Гэтсби` (1925) по праву считается одной из лучших работ писателя. Тонкий психологический анализ, точное использование стилистических приемов, прекрасный язык делают прозу Фицджеральда интересной широкому кругу читателей.
ISBN: 5-8346-0049-2
Издательство:
Менеджер
Дата выхода: декабрь 1999
With a consuming enthusiasm for the paintings of Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), art collector Sterling Clark assembled one of the greatest private collections of Renoir`s work during the first half of the twentieth century. Today the masterpieces he so admired form a vital part of the Impressionist holdings of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. "The Genius of Renoir: Paintings from the Clark" offers a fascinating, fresh look at the thirty-two Renoir paintings in the Clark collection, featuring beautiful digital colour reproductions created especially for this volume. This book brings to light new and often revelatory scholarship concerning the importance of each work both within Renoir`s oeuvre and within the Clark...
Vina Aspara, a famous and much-loved singer, is caught up in a devastating earthquake and never seen again by human eyes. This is her story, and that of Ormus Cama, the lover who finds, loses, seeks, and again finds her over and over throughout his own extraordinary life in music.
