Alan Lee, the Oscar-winning conceptual designer for the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, discusses his approach to depicting Tolkien`s imaginary world. The book presents more than 150 of Lee`s celebrated illustrations to show how his imagery for both the illustrated Lord of the Rings and the films progressed from concept to finished art. In addition, the book contains 20 full-color plates and numerous examples of the conceptual art produced for Peter Jackson`s film adaptation. The Lord of the Rings Sketchbook provides a wealth of background information and will be of interest to those who know and love Tolkien`s work, from books to films to DVDs, as well as to budding artists and illustrators interested in how to approach book illustration.

ISBN: 978-0-618-64014-0
Дата выхода: январь 2013

Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. The Lost World tells the story of a journalist Edward Malone who decides to join the dangerous but exciting expedition to a world populated by dinosaurs. The Land of Mist is a novel about Professor Challenger, heavily inspired by the ideas of Spiritualism. This book contains a brilliant story about exploring the world of supernatural through the series of fascinating seances.

ISBN: 978-5-521-08142-4
Издательство: Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018

David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and literary critic, one of the key writers of the early twentieth century, most famous for his criticism of rationalism and industrialization. "The Lost Girl" is a novel, first published in 1920 and awarded with James Tait Black Memorial Prize in the fiction category. It tells the story of Alvina Houghton and her father James Houghton who, in an attempt to keep his business afloat, buys a theater and hires actors. Alvina falls in love with one of them and flies with him to Naples, leaving all her former life behind.

ISBN: 978-5-521-07204-0
Издательство: Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018

Her name is Orfamay Quest and she`s come all the way from Manhattan, Kansas, to find her missing brother Orrin. Or leastways that`s what she tells PI Philip Marlowe, offering him a measly twenty bucks for the privilege. But Marlowe`s feeling charitable - though it`s not long before he wishes he wasn`t so sweet. You see, Orrin`s trail leads Marlowe to luscious movie starlets, uppity gangsters, suspicious cops and corpses with ice picks jammed in their necks. When trouble comes calling, sometimes it`s best to pretend to be

ISBN: 978-0-241-95432-4
Издательство: Penguin Group
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011

ISBN: 9780141393377
Издательство: Penguin Group
Дата выхода: январь 2013

The Lacuna is the heartbreaking story of a man`s search for safety of a man torn beween the warm heart of Mexico and the cold embrace of 1950s McCarthyite America. Born in the and reared in Mexico, Harrison Shepherd is a liability to his social-climbing flapper mother, Salome. Making himself useful in the household of the famed Mexican artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, and exiled Bolshevik leader Lev Trotsky, young Shepherd inadvertently casts his lot with art and revolution. A violent upheaval sends him north to a nation newly caught up in World War II. In the mountain city of Asheville, North Carolina he remakes himself in America`s hopeful image. But political winds continue to throw him between north and south, in a plot that...

ISBN: 978-0-571-25266-4
Дата выхода: декабрь 2012

A comprehensive collection of letters spanning the adult life (1914-1973) of one of the world’s most famous storytellers.‘It is not possible even at great length to "pot" The Lord of the Rings in a paragraph or two. It was begun in 1936, and every part has been written many times… the labour has been colossal; and it must stand or fall, practically as it is.’J.R.R. Tolkien was one of the most prolific letter writers of this century. Over the years he wrote to his publishers, his family, to friends (including C.S. Lewis, W.H. Auden and Naomi Mitchison) and to fans of his books. The letters present a fascinating and highly detailed portrait of the man in many of his aspects: as storyteller, scholar, Catholic, parent and observer of...

ISBN: 9780261102651
Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2023

In 1970, one of Mississippi's more colourful weekly newspapers, The Ford County Times, went bankrupt. To the surprise and dismay of many, ownership was assumed by a 23 year-old college drop-out, named Willie Traynor. The future of the paper looked grim until a young mother was brutally raped and murdered by a member of the notorious Padgitt family. Willie Traynor reported all the gruesome details, and his newspaper began to prosper. The murderer, Danny Padgitt, was tried before a packed courtroom in Clanton, Mississippi. The trial came to a startling and dramatic end when the defendant threatened revenge against the jurors if they convicted him. Nevertheless, they found him guilty, and he was sentenced to life in prison. But in...

ISBN: 0-440-24157-X
Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: февраль 2007