Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. After the event of World War I, the famous writer drew almost all his attention towards spiritualism. "The History of Spiritualism" is one of the most extended of Doyle`s nonfictional works advocating this teaching. It contains a huge amount of essays on this topic, considering the many different aspects of this phenomenon.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07197-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018
How shall we begin? This is the story of a book called The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy—not an Earth book, never published on Earth and, until the terrible catastrophe occurred, never seen or even heard of by any Earthman. Nevertheless, a wholly remarkable book. or This is the story of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, a number-one best seller in England, a weekly radio series with millions of fanatic listeners, and soon to be a television spectacle on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. or This is the story of Arthur Dent, who, secnds before Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, is plucked off the planet by his friend, Ford Prefect, who has been posing as an out-of-work actor for the last...
ISBN: 978-1-4000-5292-9
Издательство:
АСТ/Астрель
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2011
From the bestselling creators of THE GRUFFALO, Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler Quick! Hide all your goodies! The Highway Rat`s coming, and he`s going to steal your He takes clover from a rabbit, nuts from a squirrel -- he even steals his own horse`s hay! Can no one stop him? The creators of STICK MAN and A GOLD STAR FOR ZOG stand and deliver this fabulous new story of a wickedly loveable villain who gets his just deserts.
ISBN: 978-1-4071-2438-4
Издательство:
Scholastic UK
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
In one of the most unique memoirs of addiction ever published, Mtley Cre s Sixx shares mesmerizing diary entries from the year he spiraled out of control in a haze of heroin and cocaine, presented alongside riveting commentary from people who were there at the time.
ISBN: 9781416511946
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: октябрь 2008
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. The story of "The Highland Widow" takes place near the river Awe in Argyllshire during the Seven Years War, and tells the story of the widow, Elspat MacTavish. She lives alone with her son, Hamish, hoping that one day he will continue his father`s path and become one of the Highland caterans. However, the boy has different plans for life, which inevitably leads to the conflict with his mother.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07535-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, a dark romantic, and short story writer. The House of the Seven Gables is one of Hawthorne`s defining works, a vivid depiction of American life and values replete with brilliantly etched characters. The tale of a cursed house with a "mysterious and terrible past" and the generations linked to it, Hawthorne`s chronicle of the Maule and Pyncheon families over two centuries reveals lives "caught in the common fire of history".
ISBN: 978-5-521-07766-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Classic / American English The House of the Seven Gables is the home of an important family: the Pyncheons. They have the house and a lot of land, but no money and many problems. Is there a curse on the family? This is a story about money, murder, and love.
ISBN: 978-1-4058-7806-7
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
An ancient people, the Gzilt helped set up the Culture ten thousand years ago and were very nearly one of its founding societies, deciding not to join only at the last moment. Now they`ve made the collective decision to follow the well-trodden path of millions of other civilisations: they are going to Sublime, elevating themselves to a new and almost infinitely more rich and complex existence. Amid preparations, though, the Regimental High Command is destroyed. Lieutenant Commander (reserve) Vyr Cossont is now wanted - dead, not alive. Aided only by a reconditioned android and a suspicious Culture avatar, Cossont must complete her last mission and find the oldest person in the Culture, a man over nine thousand years old, who might have...
Jack London 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 Human Drift includes amazing short stories and sketches like "Small-Boat Sailing," "Four Horses and a Sailor," and "That Dead Men Rise Up Never" - a nautical ghost story of London`s youth. Brown Wolf and Other Stories is a collection of adventure short stories that includes many amazing tales such as "That Spot," "Trust," "All Gold Canyon," and "The Story Of Keesh."
ISBN: 978-5-521-08172-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
Уильям Уилки Коллинз - известный английский писатель XIX века; драматург, автор многочисленный романов, пьес и рассказов. "Отель с привидениями" - один из самых загадочных романов Коллинза. Что стало причиной, нарушившей покой постояльцев, - мистика или преступление? Призрак скоропостижно скончавшегося лорда Монтберри поселился в венецианском палаццо. Возможно ли, что злодеяния главных героев стали...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05489-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2017
The unforgettable story of Bilbo, a peace-loving hobbit, who embarks on a strange and magical adventure. A timeless classic now available as a two-part boxed set. Bilbo Baggins enjoys a quiet and contented life, with no desire to travel far from the comforts of home; then one day the wizard Gandalf and a band of dwarves arrive unexpectedly and enlist his services - as a burglar - on a dangerous expedition to raid the treasure-hoard of Smaug the dragon. Bilbo`s life is never to be the same again. Seldom has any book been so widely read and loved as Tolkien`s classic tale, `The Hobbit`. Since its first publication in 1937 it has remained in print to delight each new generation of readers all over the world, and its hero, Bilbo Baggins, has...
Modern, original fiction for learners of English. Carl begins to worry when his wife Linda does not arrive for the weekend at their seaside house in the east of England. When he asks local people whether they have seen her, they appear helpful, but he soon begins to wonder whether they are hiding information from him about his missing wife.
ISBN: 0-521-77578-7
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения. Set in 1482, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame is a compelling story of love and betrayal, brutal deeds and one of the most famous acts of revenge in world literature. Quasimodo, the hunchback of the title, is one of fiction`s most extreme characters - beneath his monstrous disfigurement, his love for the beautiful Esmerelda reveals a heart full of intense emotion. The novel is set in the great cathedral of Notre-Dame and had a profound influence on the Romantic Movement.
ISBN: 9781853260681
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2020
They say Black Dow`s killed more men than winter, and clawed his way to the throne of the North up a hill of skulls. The King of the Union, ever a jealous neighbour, is not about to stand smiling by while he claws his way any higher. The orders have been given and the armies are toiling through the northern mud. Thousands of men are converging on a forgotten ring of stones, on a worthless hill, in an unimportant valley, and they`ve brought a lot of sharpened metal with them. Bremer dan Gorst, disgraced master swordsman, has sworn to reclaim his stolen honour on the battlefield. Obsessed with redemption and addicted to violence, he`s far past caring how much blood gets spilled in the attempt. Even if it`s his own. Prince Calder isn`t...
