This dazzling novel from bestselling author Philippa Gregory presents a new and unique view of one of history's most intriguing, romantic, and maddening heroines. Biographers often neglect the captive years of Mary, Queen of Scots, who trusted Queen Elizabeth's promise of sanctuary when she fled from rebels in Scotland and then found herself imprisoned as the "guest" of George Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, and his indomitable wife, Bess of Hardwick. The newly married couple welcome the doomed queen into their home, certain that serving as her hosts and jailers will bring them an advantage in the cutthroat world of the Elizabethan court. To their horror, they find that the task will bankrupt them, and as their home becomes the...
ISBN: 978-1-4165-4914-7
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: январь 2013
In EDI (the European Department of Intelligence in Brussels) there are some very secret files - the Omega Files. There are strange, surprising, and sometimes horrible stories in these files, but not many people know about them. You never read about them in the newspapers. Hawker and Jude know all about the Omega Files, because they work for EDI. They think fast, they move fast, and they learn some very strange things. They go all over the world, asking difficult questions in dangerous places, but they don`t always find the answers ...
ISBN: 978-0-194-78913-4
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: июнь 2011
When it was first published in 1967, "The Outsiders" defied convention with its immediate, deeply sympathetic portrayal of Ponyboy and his struggle to find a place for himself in a difficult world.
В настоящий том включен первый роман трилогии `Приключения капитана Блада`, написанной английским писателем Рафаэлем Сабатини. Рафаэль Сабатини (1875-1950) - классик приключенческой литературы, написавший десятки историко-приключенческих романов, к лучшим из которых, несомненно, принадлежит предлагаемая читателям `Одиссея капитана Блада` Книга выдержала десятки изданий на русском языке, и теперь читающие...
ISBN: 5-8346-0163-4
Издательство:
Менеджер
Дата выхода: август 2002
With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Preston, University of Nottingham.Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phis) and George Cattermole.The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-41), with its combination of the sentimental, the grotesque and the socially concerned, and its story of pursuit and courage, which sets the downtrodden and the plucky against the malevolent and the villainous, was an immediate popular success. Little Nell quickly became one of Dickens` most celebrated characters, who so captured the imagination of his readers that while the novel was being serialised, many of them wrote to him about her fate.Dickens was conscious of the `many friends` the novel had won for him, and `the many hearts it turned to me when they were full of...
ISBN: 9781853262449
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2017
`Ah, you English girls! There is nobody like you when you are nice!` said Mam`zelle. Pat and Isabel are determined to work hard this term. But it`s just so tempting to play a few tricks on Mam`zelle.
ISBN: 978-1-4052-1978-5
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
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 Outsider and Other Stories" is a collection of wonderful short stories such as "The Book," "He, What the Moon Brings," "Hypnos" and others. These stories, full of mystery and fantastic creatures, have captured the minds of readers all over the world.
ISBN: 978-5-517-00254-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: февраль 2019
From the author of the award-winning work "The Last Season" comes the untold story of the U.S. Army Special Forces team that conquered the Taliban against overwhelming odds.
