By 1910, Leo Tolstoy, the world`s most famous author, had become an almost religious figure, surrounded on his lavish estate by family and followers alike. Set in the tumultuous last year of the count`s life, The Last Station centres on the battle for his soul waged by his wife and his leading between his professed doctrine of poverty and chastity on the one hand and the reality of his enormous wealth, his thirteen children, and a life of hedonism on the other, Tolstoy makes a dramatic flight from his home. Too ill to continue beyond the tiny station of Astapovo, he believes he is dying alone, while outside over one hundred newspapermen are awaiting hourly reports on his in six different voices, including Tolstoy`s own from his diaries...
ISBN: 978-1-84195-967-2
Издательство:
Ред Фиш
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
The plot of the novel The Lost World (1912) describes an expedition to a plateau in the Amazon basin where prehistoric animals still survive, led by a charismatic leading character Professor Challenger. The novel also describes a war between indigenous people and a vicious tribe of ape-like creatures.
ISBN: 978-5-521-00322-8
Издательство:
Пальмира
Дата выхода: февраль 2017
April 1986: American F-111 warplanes bomb the Al Azziyah compound in Libya where President Gadhafi is residing. A 16-year-old youth, Asad - Arabic for `lion ` - loses his mother, two brothers and two sisters in the raid. Asad sees himself as chosen to avenge not only his family but his nation, his religion and the Great Leader - Gadhafi. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. Twelve years later, Asad arrives in New York City, intent on killing all five surviving pilots across America who participated in the bombing, one by one. John Corey - from the international bestseller PLUM ISLAND - is no longer with the NYPD and is working for the Anti-Terrorist Task Force. He has to stop Asad`s revenge killings. But first he has to find him. A...
ISBN: 978-0-7515-2823-7
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
A tree full of enormous spiders, a living thing with no face, a picture that comes alive, and a boy with no heart. These are some of the frightening things in these stories by M. R. James, one of the greatest horror writers of all time. Penguin Readers are written by specialist ELT authors. The language, vocabulary, style and content of every book is carefully graded to make sure it suits the learner`s own language ability. Every Penguin Reader has a range of activities in the book and accompanying Factsheet to help increase compreh
ISBN: 978-1-4058-8224-8
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797 - 1851) was an English novelist, dramatist, and short story writer, universally known for her Gothic novel "Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus". "The Last Man" is an apocalyptic sci-fi novel that tells the story about the world of the future, almost destroyed by the plage. The plot revolves around Lionel Verney, the orphan son of an impoverished nobleman, and his adventures before and after the collapse.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07526-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Thwarting an attack by a suspected serial killer puts Virginia`s Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta in the harsh glare of the spotlight. As her personal and professional lives come under suspicion, she discovers that the so-called Werewolf murders may have extended to New York City and into the darkest corners of her past. A formidable prosecutor, a female assistant district attorney from New York, is brought into the case - and Scarpetta must struggle to make what she knows to be the truth prevail against mounting and unnerving evidence to the contrary. Tested in every way, she turns inward to ask, `Where do you go when there is nowhere left`?
ISBN: 0-425-18063-8
Издательство:
Rem Distributors
Дата выхода: январь 1993
Книга входит в серию иллюстрированных учебных пособий "Читаем вместе". Каждая глава известной сказки сопровождается занимательными упражнениями, составленными с учётом новейших методик преподавания английского языка в раннем возрасте. Их выполнение поможет ребёнку не только легко, без зубрежки усвоить языковой материал, но и превратит чтение в увлекательную игру. Книга также содержит англо-русский...
ISBN: 978-5-8112-5558-0
Издательство:
Айрис-пресс
Дата выхода: январь 2015
When Uncas, the Mohican Indian, first saw the Englishwoman, he immediately fell in love with her. But he could not imagine at the time the price he would pay for this love. Could his white brother, Hawkeye, help him? Will the Mohican tribe manage to survive in the end?
ISBN: 9781842167908
Издательство:
Express Publishing
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2018
Джордж Макдональд - шотландский романист, автор множества прекрасных книг для детей. Его сказочно-фантастическая проза получила высочайшую оценку Дж. Р. Толкина, а его истории читают до сих пор по всему миру. "Невесомая принцесса" - одна из самых известных и поучительных английских сказок. Она рассказывает удивительную историю о прекрасной, но заколдованной принцессе, которая стала совершенно бездушной и...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05487-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2017
