A famous Moscow professor befriends a stray dog and resolves to achieve a daring scientific first by transplanting into it the testicles and pituitary of a dead man. But the experiment goes disastrously wrong and the professor`s hitherto charmed life turns into a nightmare.
ISBN: 1-86046-640-0
Издательство:
Harvill Press
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
This work features a young woman`s dream, an old man`s gift, and the surprises that await us behind every closed house on the hill outside San Francisco was magnificent, built in 1923 by a wealthy man for the woman he adored. When Sarah, a perfectly sensible lawyer, walks through its empty rooms, she is drawn to the once-grand mansion in a way she cannot explain - to a drama that first unfolded in war-torn France, and to a history she never knew she had. Using an unexpected legacy, Sarah takes on the dilapidated house and its mysteries. With the help of architect Jeff Parker Sarah brings the exquisite house back to life, and as one relationship shatters and another begins, she discovers a whole new future. This is a novel of daring and...
ISBN: 978-0-552-15180-1
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
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...
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
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811—1863) was a British author and novelist mostly known for his satirical works such as "Vanity Fair" that showed an ironic representation of the British society of those times. "The History of Pendennis" is a novel set in nineteenth-century England, mostly in London. The book tells the story of a young gentleman Arthur Pendennis from a countryside, who travels to London to find his place in society. In line with other Thackeray`s works, the novel is a satiric picture of the English aristocratic society, which includes all sorts of snobbish and sometimes detestable characters.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07823-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
"You can`t expect an arse like me to tell a story competently. It`s all I can bloody do to work this foul machine. I`ve counted up the words processed, a thing I do every hour and, if technology can be trusted, it looks as if you`re in for 93,682 of them. Good luck to you. You asked for it, you paid me for it, you`re got to sit through it. As the man said, I`ve suffered for my art, now it`s your turn." So starts The Hippopotamus - a novel as surprising, entertaining and side-splittingly funny as you would expect from a man modestly described as having a mind the size of Kent.
ISBN: 0-09-918961-5
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
The Hound of the Basketyilles is the third of the crime novels featuring Sherlock Holmes, first published in 1901-1902. It tells the story of an attempted murder inspired by the legend of a fearsome, diabolical hound of supernatural origin. Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. Watson investigate the case.
ISBN: 978-5-521-00178-1
Издательство:
Пальмира
Дата выхода: январь 2017
