It`s Fran`s thirtieth birthday and things are good. She`s bluffed her way into a Very Posh Job and her outlandishly handsome and talented boyfriend Michael is escorting her to the Ritz with a bulge the shape of a ring box in his pocket. But something has gone wrong. Very wrong. By the end of the evening Fran is howling in bed with a bottle of cheap brandy and one of Michael`s old socks. In her quest to figure out why her life has suddenly gone down the pan, Fran comes up with a failsafe plan: live like a badger, stalk a stranger called Nellie and cancel her beloved Gin Thursdays in favour of drinking gin every night. But then Fran`s friends force a very different plan on her and it`s nowhere near as fun. How could eight dates possibly...
ISBN: 978-0-241-95298-6
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Edith Wharton (1862—1937) was an American novelist and short story writer. Her works show the lives of people of the late nineteenth century, the times of decline in American history. She was the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1921. Wharton also was familiar with many famous people of the time, including President Theodore Roosevelt. This volume includes a collection of wonderful short stories like "The Muse`s Tragedy", "The Pelican", "Souls Belated" and "The Twilight of the Gods". .
ISBN: 978-5-521-07831-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
`Hale`s writing is beautiful, with a vivid eye for detail` Daily Telegraph Anidora-Kiladra Talianna Isilee, Crown Princess of Kilindree, spent the first years of her life listening to her aunt`s incredible stories, and learning the language of the birds. Little knowing how valuable her aunt`s strange knowledge would prove to be when she grew older. From the Grimm`s fairy tale of the princess who became a goose girl before she could become a queen, Shannon Hale has woven an incredible, original and magical tale of a girl who must understand her own incredible talents before she can overcome those who wish her harm. Shannon Hale has drawn on her incredible gift for storytelling to create a powerful and magical grown-up fairy tale.
ISBN: 978-0-7475-9800-8
Издательство:
Bloomsbury
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
From the author of `Blonde`, `The Falls` and `We Were the Mulvaneys`, this new novel takes in the themes of race, immigration, family and social mobility, and is Joyce Carol Oates at her storytelling best. `The Gravedigger`s Daughter` tells the tale of Rebecca Schwart, born in the late 1930s to an immigrant family from Nazi Germany, just as they are arriving to America. The family settles in a small, bleak town in upstate New York, where the only job the father can get is as the town gravedigger and caretaker of the cemetery. Soon the town`s prejudice and the family`s own emotional frailty results in unspeakable tragedy. In the wake of this loss, and in an attempt to put her past behind her, young Rebecca Schwart moves on, across America...
ISBN: 978-0-00-725846-8
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Danny Coughlin is Boston Police Department royalty and the son of one of the city`s most beloved and powerful police captains. His beat is the predominately Italian neighbourhoods of the North End where political dissent is in the air - fresh and intoxicating. On the hunt for hard-line radicals as a favour to his father, Danny is drawn into the ideological fray and finds his loyalties compromised as the police department itself becomes swept up in potentially violent labour strife. Luther Lawrence is on the run. A suspect in a nightclub shooting in Oklahoma, he flees to Boston, leaving his wife behind. He lands a job in the Coughlin household and meets Danny and the family`s Irish maid, Nora, who once had a powerful bond. As the mystery...
ISBN: 978-0-552-77558-8
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Френсіс Скотт Кей Фіцджеральд — видатний американський письменник, представник “втраченого покоління”. “Великий Гетсбі” (1925) є найвідомішим романом Ф.С. Фіцджеральда і типовим твором “епохи джазу”. Автор надзвичайно майстерно передав приховану за карнавальною яскравістю життя психологічну надломленість після воєнного покоління. Це захоплююча й вишукана казка про Америку 20-х років минулого...
William Sydney Porter, known by his pen name 0. Henry, was an American short story writer. His wit and plot twists were adored by his readers, but often panned by the critics. The Gentle Grafter is a collection of short stories, first published in 1908. The main characters of these tales are Jeff Peters and his friend and companion Andy Tucker. Both of them earn a living with the help of petty fraud, exploiting human greed, stupidity, fear and vanity.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07669-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
A rhyming story of a mouse and a monster. Little mouse goes for a walk in a dangerous forest. To scare off his enemies, he invents tales of a fantastical creature called the Gruffalo. Imagine his surprise when he meets the real Gruffalo!
ISBN: 978-0-333-71093-7
Издательство:
Macmillan ELT
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
In this second instalment of teenager Adrian Mote`s diaries, the Mole family is in crisis and the country is beating the drum of war. While his parents have reconciled after both embarking on disastrous affairs, Adrian is shocked to learn of his mother`s pregnancy. And even though at the mercy of his rampant hormones and the fickle whims of the divine Pandora, a victim of a broken home and his own tortured (though unrecognized) genius, Adrian continues valiantly to chronicle the pains and pleasures of a misspent adolescence.
ISBN: 978-0-14-104643-3
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2012
Джек Лондон - классик американской литературы, автор ярких романов и рассказов, которые продолжают покорять сердца читателей по всему миру. «Игра» - это известная повесть о двадцатилетнем боксере Джо, решившем оставить спорт ради любимой. Читателей ждут трогательные и живые персонажи, отличных слог и увлекательный сюжет, послуживший основой для многих кинофильмов. Читайте зарубежную литературу в...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05761-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2017
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
Jack London (1876-1916) 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. This is a collection of marvelous stories including "The God of His Fathers" itself, "The Great Interrogation", "Which Make Men Remember", and many other wonderful tales.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07495-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
"Зарубежная классика - читай в оригинале" - коллекция, которая собрана из бессмертных произведений великих мастеров пера, написанных ими на их родном языке. Книги из этой серии помогут читателю углублённо изучать иностранные языки, обогатят его внутренний мир и по-новому откроют произведения известных классиков. Учись английскому у О. Генри! Неадаптированное издание.
ISBN: 978-5-519-49879-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2016
Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. "The Golden Lion of Granpere" was written when Trollope was at the height of his popularity. The novel concerns the events in the lives of an innkeeper`s family; the relationship between George Voss, the landlord`s son, and his beloved Marie, the rivalry between Voss and another suitor for Marie`s hand in marriage, and the results of a betrothal based on mutual misunderstandings.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08359-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: март 2020
F. S. Fitzgerald was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. The Great Gatsby, his 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." He committed all his imaginative resources to the project. This exemplary novel has been acclaimed by generations of readers. It is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s, the story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan.
ISBN: 978-5-517-05752-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2021
A fantastic activity book packed with exciting puzzles, games and colouring-in featuring all the characters from the much-loved picture book classic. Spot the difference, lead the mouse through the deep dark wood maze, complete the Gruffalo word search, colour in a picture of the fox, do the Gruffalo dot-to-dot, and play a fun game! And if that isn`t enough there are over 50 reusable stickers and a scene from the picture book so you can create your own stories again and again.
