О. Генри - один из самых известных классиков американской литературы, признанный мастер короткой прозы. Его произведениям свойственны тонкий юмор, неожиданные развязки, яркие персонажи и, безусловно, любовь к людям и жизни. В этот сборник включены интересные и трогательные рассказы "Дары волхвов", "Фараон и хорал", "Меблированная комната", "Через двадцать лет" и многие другие. Читайте зарубежную литературу в...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05345-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2017
In his younger days, Simon Bolivar swept the Spanish back to Europe, liberating South America with his youthful vitality. But Jonely, embittered and sickly at the age of forty-six, his power has dwindled, coups abound and it`s time for The Liberator to send himself into the exile of retirement. Wending his way down the Magdalena River towards the Caribbean with his faithful servant, Jose Palacios, Bolivar`s journey is hindered by his own reluctance to let his power go. Defspite the assassination attempts, jeering and humiliation he encounters, his fear of fading into the shadows keeps him clinging to the man he used to be...
ISBN: 978-0-14-103252-8
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: май 2012
Rapid advances in modern technology present companies with quickly expanding marketing opportunities, but they also create an over-saturated business landscape that both helps and hurts brands. In this thorough investigation of brand strength in the accelerated modern business world, Nigel Hollis draws on his experience at Millward Brown to present a simple formula for determining brand strength based on two axes, Presence (or familiarity) and Voltage (or marketing appeal), to illustrate the market value and performance of brands. He analyzes the five steps of customer commitment to a strong brand - Presence, Relevance, Performance, Advantage, and Bonding. Finally, Hollis emphasizes human nature as a set of constant core values that all...
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
В середине XXI века двух английских ученых отправляют в начало XVII века исследовать легендарный Пороховой заговор, целью которого было убийство короля Якова I. Вторгаться в ход истории исследователи не имеют права, но ведь они всего лишь люди. Удастся ли им установить историческую истину?
ISBN: 978-5-17-056857-4
Издательство:
АСТ/Астрель
Дата выхода: октябрь 2009
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
