Гилберт Кит Честертон - один из классиков английской литературы XX века, известный своими яркими персонажами, тонким юмором и необычными сюжетами. "Человек, который был Четвергом" - это сатирическая притча о вечном противостоянии анархистов и сторонников порядка, двух половинок человеческой сущности. Роман содержит в себе философскую составляющую, облачённую в сюрреалистическую обложку абсурда, а...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05731-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2017
Quentin Coldwater`s life is changed forever by an apparently chance encounter: when he turns up for his entrance interview to Princeton he finds his interviewer dead - but a strange envelope bearing Quentin`s name leads him down a very different path to any he`d ever imagined. The envelope, and the mysterious manuscript it contains, leads to a secret world of obsession and privilege, a world of freedom and power and, for a while, it`s a world that seems to answer all Quentin`s desires. But the idyll cannot last - and when it`s finally shattered, Quentin is drawn into something darker and far more dangerous than anything he could ever have expected ...
ISBN: 978-0-09-953916-2
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
It is the spring of 1945, and the Nazis are eliminating all the witnesses to their horrible crimes, including Jews and foreigners remaining in the prison camps. Kommandant Repp, who is known as a master sniper, decides to hone his sniping abilities by taking a little target practice at the remaining laborers in his own prison camp. But one man escapes and becomes the key to solving the mystery of the cold, calculating Kommandmant Repp and his plans for ending the war. Repp was the master sniper whose deadly talent had come to the notice of British Intelligence as the linchpin of a desperate Nazi plot to reverse the fortunes of the Third Reich at the eleventh hour. But what was the nature of the weapon that Repp was to aim - and who was...
ISBN: 978-0-440-22187-6
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Magic takes many forms. The ancient Egyptians explained the night by suggesting that the goddess Nut swallowed the sun. The Vikings believed a rainbow was the gods` bridge to earth. The Japanese used to explain earthquakes by conjuring a gigantic catfish that carried the world on its back - and earthquakes occurred each time it flipped its tail. These are magical, extraordinary tales. But there is another kind of magic, which lies in the exhilaration of discovering the real answers to these questions. It is the magic of reality - science. Packed with inspiring explanations of space, time, evolution and clever thought experiments, The Magic of Reality explains a stunningly wide range of natural phenomena. What is stuff made of? How old is...
ISBN: 978-0-552-77890-9
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Helps you join the fun by making crazy faces for the Dillydalers. This title allows you to stick pink hair on Mr Bump, a bow tie on Little Miss Sunshine or Miss Chatterbox`s mouth on Mr Quiet.
ISBN: 978-1-4052-5138-9
Издательство:
Egmont Books Ltd
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
The Moonstone, generally recognized as the first detective novel is not only a work of historical importance but also a work that transcends the genre it created, in the artfulness of its plotting, in its compassionate depiction of servants, and in its enlightened resolution of the theme of the British Empire, its crimes and their consequences. Hinging on the theft of an enormous diamond originally stolen from an Indian shrine, this riveting novel features the innovative Sergeant Cuff, the hilarious house steward Gabriel Betteridge, a lovesick housemaid, and a mysterious band of Indian jugglers.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06180-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: декабрь 2017
Издательство продолжает знакомить читателей с творчеством выдающегося английского прозаика У.С. Моэма. Предлагаемый роман "Маг" открывает читателям неизвестного Моэма, не только тонкого психолога и знатока человеческой души, но и пытливого исследователя непознанного. Захватывающий сюжет - любовь, магия, колдовство, мистика, оккультизм - делают роман увлекательным и интересным для широкого круга...
ISBN: 5-8346-0225-8
Издательство:
Менеджер
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2002
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was a Romantic poet of radical imaginings, living in an age of change. His tempestuous life and friendship with Byron, and his tragically early death, at times threatened to overwhelm his legacy as a poet, but today his standing as one of the foremost English authors is assured. This freshly edited collection--the fullest one-volume selection in English--includes all but one of the longer poems, from Queen Mab onwards, in their entirety. Only Laon and Cythna is excerpted, in a generous selection. As well as works such asPrometheus Unbound, The Mask of Anarchy, and Adonais, the volume includes a wide range of Shelley`s shorter poems and much of his major prose, including A Defence of Poetry and almost all...
ISBN: 978-0-19-953897-3
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2011
A portrait of a tortured young man, arrested for a series of kidnappings and rapes, explores the world of a multiple personality, whose traumatic childhood shattered his mind into twenty-four distinct personalities. Reissue.
ISBN: 978-0-553-26381-7
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Howard Lovecraft was (1890—1937) an American writer who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. Despite the fact that he was virtually unknown before he died, today he is known as the most influential author in his genre. "The Mystery of the Graveyard and Other Stories" is a collection of wonderful short stories such as "The Descendant", "Cool Air" "Pickman`s Model" and others. These stories, full of mystery and fantastic creatures, have captured the minds of readers all over the world. .
ISBN: 978-5-521-08209-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic. This volume contains two novels, including The Mystery of Edwin Drood, the final unfinished novel by Charles Dickens. Edwin Drood is contracted to marry orphan Rosa Bud when he comes of age, but when they find that duty has gradually replaced affection, they agree to break off the engagement. Shortly afterwards, in the middle of a storm on Christmas Eve, Edwin disappears, leaving nothing behind but some personal belongings. The Haunted House is a collection of ghost tales by Dickens, who wrote the opening and closing stories, framing them, and five other authors: Hesba Stretton, George Augustus Sala, Adelaide Anne Procter, Wilkie Collins and Elizabeth Gaskell.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07944-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
