"The Last Man" is Mary Shelley`s apocalyptic fantasy of the end of human civilisation. Set in the late twenty-first century, the novel unfolds a sombre and pessimistic vision of mankind confronting inevitable destruction. Interwoven with her futuristic theme, Mary Shelley incorporates idealised portraits of Shelley and Byron, yet rejects Romanticism and its faith in art and nature. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) was the only daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, author of "Vindication of the Rights of Woman", and the radical philosopher William Godwin. Her mother died ten days after her birth and the young child was educated through contact with her father`s intellectual circle and her own reading. She met Percy Bysshe Shelley in...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-403-0
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
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
The Moonstone is an epistolary novel, generally considered the first full length detective novel in the English language. Besides creating many of the ground rules of the detective novel, The Moonstone also reflected Collins` enlightened social attitudes, i. e. in his treatment of the servants. In 1877 Collins adapted The Moonstone for the stage, but the production was performed for only two months.
ISBN: 978-5-521-00331-0
Издательство:
Пальмира
Дата выхода: февраль 2017
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 Maracot Deep" is an amazing fantasy-fiction novel about Professor Maracot and his team of explorers discovering a sunken city of Atlantis. There, scientists are trying to study the culture and life of the inhabitants of the depths, incidentally encountering unimaginable dangers.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08074-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Howard Lovecraft was 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: 978-5-517-00253-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: февраль 2019
This anthology of Rudyard Kipling`s greatest short stories contains some of the most memorable and popular examples of the genre of which he was an undisputed master. `The Man Who Would be King` is a classic tale of adventure as the opportunistic, renegade and vagabond pair of Daniel Dravot and Peachey Carnehan attempt to establish themselves at the level of god and king over the primitive people of Kafiristan. Other famous short stories included are: `Only a Subaltern`, `The Phantom Rickshaw`, `Wee Willie Winkle`, and `Baa Baa, Black Sheep`. `The Man Who Would be King` was made into a popular film in 1975, starring Sean Connery, Michael Caine and Christopher Plummer and directed by John Huston.
ISBN: 1-85326-209-9
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2002
Suze should be spending the summer vacation at the beach. Instead she`s been forced to get a babysitting job at a swanky resort. She`d expected to look after some boring brat, so Suze is surprised to find that her charge is actually a budding mediator – with a totally hot older brother. Not that Suze`s head could be turned by some guy – she`s pledged her heart to Jesse, the most gorgeous ghost ever. But it`s tough when the boy you love doesn`t seem to love you back, and it`s even tougher when you think you`ve found his 150-year-old grave in your backyard. Suze knows it`s dangerous to dig up the past, but how can she focus on babysitting when she could be close to discovering who killed Jesse?
ISBN: 978-0-330-43740-0
Издательство:
Pan Macmillan
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
When Miss Marple complains of feeling old and helpless, her doctor jokingly suggests that she needs a murder to solve. Then there is a death in the village. Is it murder? Did the right person die? Suddenly, Jane Marple has a new interest in life. And then there are more deaths
ISBN: 978-1-4082-6130-9
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: март 2011
