The stranger came early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow.` When the residents of Iping first see him, he is wearing an overcoat and goggles, and is covered from head to toe with bandages. His hidden identity and mysterious behavior causes the locals to start asking questions. At first they assume he must have been involved in some kind of horrific accident. But the truth is far more alarming than that. As the reality of the situation starts to become clear, only one thing is certain; the stranger is a troubled soul and can only deal with his personal fear by terrorizing the people around him. First published in 1897, The Invisible Man is HG Well`s warning to the world about the dangers of science...
ISBN: 3-15-009013-X
Издательство:
Reclam
Дата выхода: март 2014
Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from an asylum in Switzerland. As he becomes embroiled in the frantic amatory and financial intrigues which centre around a cast of brilliantly realised characters and which ultimately lead to tragedy, he emerges as a unique combination of the Christian ideal of perfection and Dostoevsky's own views, afflictions and manners. His serene selflessness is contrasted with the worldly qualities of every other character in the novel. Dostoevsky supplies a harsh indictment of the Russian ruling class of his day who have created a world which cannot accomodate the goodness of this idiot.
ISBN: 978-5-519-49857-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2017
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer whose cancer cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first `immortal` human tissue grown in culture, HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer, viruses, and the effects of the atom bomb; helped lead to important advances like in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping; and, have been bought and sold by the billions. Yet Henrietta herself remains virtually unknown, buried in an unmarked grave. Now Rebecca Skloot takes us on an extraordinary journey in search of Henrietta`s story, from the `coloured` ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the...
ISBN: 978-0-330-53344-7
Издательство:
Picador
Дата выхода: январь 2011
"Серия книг «Зарубежная классика — читай в оригинале» — это бессмертные произведения великих мастеров пера, написанные ими на их родном языке и наречии. Книги из этой серии помогут читателю углубленно изучать иностранные языки, обогатят его внутренний мир и по-новому откроют произведения известных классиков. Роман Герберта Уэллса «Остров доктора Моро» на английском языке, неадаптированное...
ISBN: 978-5-519-49812-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2016
Помимо произведения "Человек-невидимка" в сборник также включены рассказы "Сокровища мистера Бришера", "Империя муравьев", "Неопытное привидение" И "Сокровища в лесу".
ISBN: 5-8346-0034-4
Издательство:
Менеджер
Дата выхода: декабрь 1999
In the town of Ada, Oklahoma, Ron Williamson was going to be the next Mickey Mantle. But on his way to the Big Leagues, Ron stumbled, his dreams broken by drinking, drugs, and women. Then, on a winter night in 1982, not far from Ron’s home, a young cocktail waitress named Debra Sue Carter was savagely murdered. The investigation led nowhere. Until, on the flimsiest evidence, it led to Ron Williamson. The washed-up small-town hero was charged, tried, and sentenced to death—in a trial littered with lying witnesses and tainted evidence that would shatter a man’s already broken life…and let a true killer go free.
ISBN: 978-0-440-24383-0
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Deep in the woods of Maine, there is a dark state facility where kids, abducted from across the United States, are incarcerated. In the Institute they are subjected to a series of tests and procedures meant to combine their exceptional gifts - telepathy, telekinesis - for concentrated effect. Luke Ellis is the latest recruit. He’s just a regular 12-year-old, except he’s not just smart, he’s super-smart. And he has another gift which the Institute wants to use... Far away in a small town in South Carolina, former cop Tim Jamieson has taken a job working for the local sheriff. He’s basically just walking the beat. But he’s about to take on the biggest case of his career. Back in the Institute’s downtrodden playground...
Hector bidding farewell to his wife and baby son, Odysseus bound to the mast listening to the Sirens, Penelope at the loom, Achilles dragging Hector`s body round the walls of Troy - scenes from Homer have been reportrayed in every generation. The questions about mortality and identity that Homer`s heroes ask, the bonds of love, respect and fellowship that motivate them, have gripped audiences for three millennia. Chapman`s Iliad and Odyssey are great English epic poems, but they are also two of the liveliest and readable translations of Homer. Chapman`s freshness makes the everyday world of nature and the craftsman as vivid as the battlefield and Mount Olympus. His poetry is driven by the excitement of the Renaissance discovery of...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-117-6
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
