Now in a new edition, "Transmetropolitan" chronicles the exploits of 21st-century outlaw journalist Spider Jerusalem, who returns to The City after five years of self-imposed exile.
Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic. Barnaby Rudge is a story of mystery and suspense which begins with an unsolved double murder. Barnaby Rudge is a young innocent simpleton who is devoted to his talkative raven, Grip. When he gets caught up in the mayhem of the Gordon riots and a mysterious unsolved murder, his life is put in jeopardy. And, as London erupts into riot, Barnaby himself struggles to escape the curse of his own past. Barnaby Rudge is a powerful, disturbing blend of historical realism and Gothic melodrama, it is a tale of treachery, forbidden love, abduction and the dangerous power of the mob.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07931-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Herman Melville (1819—1891) was an American poet and novelist of the American Renaissance, best known for his allusive adventure novel "Moby-Dick". "Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War" is his first book of poetry, fully dedicated to the battles of the Civil War and its aftermath. This compilation includes 72 poems about almost every major event, passed through the author\'s point of view on the war and its impact on people.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07466-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Original / British English The houses in Newton Road are small, but people are very happy there. Then a civil engineer wants to knock down the houses and build a new road. The people of Newton Road are very angry. But can they win the battle?
ISBN: 978-1-4058-7694-0
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850—1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, travel writer, and essayist. He was a celebrity during his lifetime for works like "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and "Treasure Island." Now he is one of the most translated authors in the world. The story of "Beach of Falesa" told from John Wiltshire`s point of view, a British copra trader on the fictional island of Falesa in the South Sea. There he meets a trader Case, who arranges a marriage for him and a local girl Uma. After that John discovers that Uma has a taboo which makes all the other natives refuse to trade with him. Soon Wiltshire finds out that Case may have arranged the deaths of his competitors. .
ISBN: 978-5-521-07796-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. Beatrice follows the story of the Welsh title character Beatrice Granger, a teacher, and the affair that takes place with an unhappily married man, Geoffrey Bingham. Trouble awaits, in the form of Bingham`s wife Honoria (who`s only interested in money and social climbing), Owen Davies (one of the richest men in Wales, who is morbidly obsessed with marrying Beatrice), and Elizabeth (Beatrice`s older sister, who will do just about anything to marry Davies herself).
ISBN: 978-5-521-07752-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. Belshazzar is a last novel written by Haggard, finished just before his death and published posthumously. Ramose is the offspring of an Egyptian Pharaoh and a Greek woman. Brought up in a life of luxury he is catapulted into a life of adventure which leads him to the fall of Babylon at the hand of the Persian Empire under Cyrus. Smith and the Pharaohs is a collection of short stories by Haggard. The title tale concerns a budding Egyptologist who is accidentally locked up one night in the Cairo Museum. Falling asleep, he dreams that he is put on trial by the ghosts of Egypt`s pharaohs and queens.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07728-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
John Galsworthy (1867—1933) was an English novelist and playwright. One of his notable works is the novel «Beyond». Together with his heroes the author goes to spheres of unrestrained feelings. Love is depicted as an all consuming power, before which man is powerless.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06898-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: апрель 2018
Billy and his sister want new bicycles, but they don’t have any money. Then their grandmother has an idea. There’s a competition in Palace magazine. The first prize is £500. ‘What do you think?’ Billy asks his sister. ‘We can buy two new bicycles for £500’, she says.
ISBN: 978-1-4058-6944-7
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Original / British English (Available February 2008) Billy and his sister want new bicycles, but they don`t have any money. Then their grandmother has an idea. There`s a competition in Palace magazine. The first prize is GBP500. What do you think?` Billy asks his sister. We can buy two new bicycles for GBP500,` she says.
ISBN: 978-1-4058-8055-8
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Kelley Armstrong s debut novel--which does "much the same for werewolves as Anne Rice did for vampires" ("Rocky Mountain News")--is now available in mass market paperback. Thirty-year-old Elena Michaels comes to terms with her feral appetites as the world s only living female werewolf.
Cassel Sharpe knows he`s been used as an assassin, but he`s trying to put all that behind him. He`s trying to be good, even though he grew up in a family of con artists and cheating comes as easily as breathing to him. He`s trying to do the right thing, even though the girl he loves is inextricably connected with crime. And he`s trying to convince himself that working for the Feds is smart, even though he`s been raised to believe the government is the enemy.But with a mother on the lam, the girl he loves about to take her place in the Mob, and new secrets coming to light, the line between what`s right and what`s wrong becomes increasingly blurred. When the Feds ask Cassel to do the one thing he said he would never do again, he needs to...
ISBN: 9780575096813
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: январь 2024
