Paul Auster`s signature work, The New York Trilogy, consists of three interlocking novels: City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room; haunting and mysterious tales that move at the breathless pace of a thriller.
Set amid the austere beauty of the North Carolina coast, The Notebook begins with the story of Noah Calhoun, a rural Southerner recently returned form the Second World War. Noah is restoring a plantation home to its former glory, and he is haunted by images of the beautiful girl he met fourteen years earlier, a girl he loved like no other. Unable to find her, yet unwilling to forget the summer they spent together, Noah is content to live with only until she unexpectedly returns to his town to see him once again. Like a puzzle within a puzzle, the story of Noah and Allie is just the beginning. As it unfolds, their tale miraculously becomes something different, with much higher stakes. The result is a deeply moving portrait of love itself,...
ISBN: 978-0-7515-4047-5
Издательство:
Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: январь 2013
First ever publication of J.R.R. Tolkien’s final writings on Middle-earth, covering a wide range of subjects and perfect for those who have read and enjoyed The Silmarillion, The Lord of the Rings, Unfinished Tales, and The History of Middle-earth, and want to learn more about Tolkien’s magnificent world.It is well known that J.R.R. Tolkien published The Hobbit in 1937 and The Lord of the Rings in 1954–5. What may be less known is that he continued to write about Middle-earth in the decades that followed, right up until the years before his death in 1973.For him, Middle-earth was part of an entire world to be explored, and the writings in The Nature of Middle-earth reveal the journeys that he took as he sought to better understand...
Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, but he is now best remembered for his science fiction novels. "The New Machiavelli" is a 1911 novel, the story of Richard Remington who appears to be a man to envy. But underneath his superficial contentment, he is far from happy with either his marriage or the politics of his party. The novel describes the disarray into which his life is thrown, when he meets the young and beautiful Isabel Rivers and becomes tormented by desire.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08239-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2018
Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford`s collaborative work, The Nature of a Crime is a study of human psychology. Delving into the darkest recesses of human mind, they present idiosyncratic characters fighting with their own overwhelming desires and intuitions. The deep love of the protagonist gives way to even more profound desperation. The feelings of the protagonist, as life is crumbles around him, are expressed profoundly by the two authors.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06680-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
Precious Ramotswe is a kind, warm-hearted and large African lady. She is also the only female private detective in Botswana. Her agency – the Ladies’ Detective Agency – is the best in the country. With help of her secretary, Mma Makutsi, and her best friend, Mr JLB Matekoni, she solves a number of difficult problems. A missing husband, a missing finger and a missing child – she will solve these mysteries in her own special way.
ISBN: 978-1-4479-2570-5
Издательство:
Pearson Education Limited
Дата выхода: июль 2012
When some school strawberry plants are vandalised, a lost shoe buckle at the scene of the crime leads straight to the Naughtiest Girl. It is hers, but how did it get there - and why would anyone want to pin the blame on Elizabeth? The next night, as she`s dropping off to sleep, someone shouts `Fire!` - so Elizabeth jumps up and rings the fire bell. But there is no fire and now Elizabeth is being blamed for a catalogue of silly tricks. If she can`t prove her innocence, she`s in line to lose her hard-won part in the school play. So when the same happens the next night, Elizabeth is reluctant to report a fire - except this time, there really is
ISBN: 978-0-340-91775-6
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Read along and sing along to this rough and tough, swinging and swaying, seawashy piratical yarn! One night, young Tom is awoken by noises outside his house. He peeps out of the window and what should he see but pirates. And stranger still - they`re girl pirates stealing the front of his house! Tom joins their pirate adventure across the high seas to an island where some rather lazy and silly grown-up pirates are guarding their treasure - but not very successfully. Tom and the girl-pirates make a surprise attack and are soon off on the seas once more with the treasure!
ISBN: 978-1-4052-3043-8
Издательство:
Egmont Books Ltd
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
The naughtiest girl in the school is back! And this term she`s trying to be good. But someone wants to spoil things for her. And they`re not going to let her forget how she got her nickname!
ISBN: 978-0-340-91770-1
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Elisa is no ordinary princess – she loves plants rather than palaces. After the king locks her in a tower, Elisa decides to escape and live life by her own rules… A beautifully illustrated version of the forgotten fairy tale, specially written for young readers who have just started to read alone.Retold by Rob Lloyd Jones.
When a black sailor with tuberculosis boards the Narcissus, the shadow of death falls across the ship and the lingering gloom brings out both the best and the worst in the crew. The harsh endurance test of survival at sea, magnified by the dying sailor`s condition, sends the crewmen through an emotional gamut, ranging from pity and selfless compassion to fear, resentment, and a profound hatred that boils perilously close to mutiny. Joseph Conrad drew upon his two decades of experience in the British merchant marine for the vital, memorable characterizations and realistic depictions of seafaring life in this and many of his other works.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06665-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
The much-loved classic Christmas poem is brought beautifully to life in this gorgeous new picture book and CD set, sure to bring visions of sugarplums to everyone`s head. With dreamy, magical artwork by Eric Puybaret and an audio CD recorded by the iconic folk group Peter, Paul and Mary, this is the perfect Christmas present for any child.
ISBN: 978-0-230-75029-6
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
