Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, travel writer, and essayist. His most famous works are "Treasure Island" and "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." Now he is one of the most translated authors in the world. This volume consists of two magnificent short stories: intriguing "The Pavilion on the Links" and dramatic "A Lodging for the Night."
ISBN: 978-5-517-00208-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: ноябрь 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. Partially projecting author`s political views, the novel "The Plumed Serpent" tell a story of a European woman Kate Leslie and her adventure in Mexico. After meeting with several unusual personalities, she enters their religious cult, full of intrigues, passions, and pagan rituals.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07207-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
China`s Communist Party is the largest, most powerful political machine in the world. Here, for the first time, Richard McGregor delves deeply into its inner sanctum, revealing how this secretive cabal keeps control of every aspect of the country - its military and media, legal system and businesses, even its religious organizations. How has the Party merged Marx, Mao and the market to create a global superpower? And what does this mean for the world?
ISBN: 978-0-14-103885-8
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июнь 2011
Чарльз Диккенс - один из самых известных писателей Англии XIX века. Мастерство владения языком, умение строить сюжет и наполнять его незабываемыми персонажами принесли автору заслуженное звание классика, а роман "Посмертные записки Пиквикского клуба" - настоящую литературную славу и признание читателей во всём мире. В этом увлекательном произведении, написанном с прекрасным чувством юмора, автор...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05180-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2017
Вниманию читателей предлагается полный, неадаптированный текст популярного романа Оскара Уайльда "Портрет Дориана Грея" (1890). Издание рассчитано на лиц, владеющих основами английского языка и совершенствующих свои навыки в нем.
ISBN: 5-9542-0035-1
Издательство:
Икар
Дата выхода: декабрь 2004
A burning curiosity draws Rudolf Rassendyll, a young Englishman, to Ruritania to see the coronation of the new King. His distinctive red hair and long sharp nose bear witness to the ancestral indiscretion that links his blood with that of the ruling monarchy. There he is thrown into a series of adventures beyond his wildest dreams. For the King is kidnapped by his treacherous brother, the Duke of Strelsau, and only Rudolf can save him. His own life in danger, he battles to outwit not only the Duke and his evil henchmen but the ruthless young Rupert Hentzau, who 'feared neither man nor devil'. At the same time he finds himself irresistibly attracted to the beautiful Princess Flavia, the betrothed of the King. Издание...
ISBN: 978-0-14062-421-2
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: август 2010
"The prince and the pauper; a tale for young people of all ages by Mark Twain. With one hundred and ninety-two illustrations and four color illustrations by W. Hatherell".
ISBN: 978-5-519-49873-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2016
In Washington, two Supreme Court judges are murdered and only the young and beautiful law student Darby Shaw knows why. She has uncovered a deadly secret but will anyone believe her? Can she stay alive long enough to persuade them she is right?
ISBN: 978-1-4082-7646-4
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: июнь 2011
Марк Твен - один из самых известных американских писателей, чьи произведения отличает живость повествования, искромётный юмор и умение тонко поднимать философские вопросы. "Принц и нищий" - блестящее произведение автора, которое любят и взрослые, и дети, по праву стало классикой мировой литературы. Волею судеб мальчик-бедняк Том Кенти оказывается в королевском дворце и меняется одеждой с принцем...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05409-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2017
Sue Townsend`s The Public Confessions of a Middle-Aged Woman (Aged 55?) is a wonderful collection of non-fiction pieces, giving us an insight into Sue`s hilarious world. Sue Townsend is the much-loved comic author who brought us the bestselling Adrian Mol
Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde`s story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the author`s most popular work. The tale of Dorian Gray`s moral disintegration caused a scandal when it first appeared in 1890, but though Wilde was attacked for the novel`s corrupting influence, he responded that there is, in fact, "a terrible moral in Dorian Gray."
ISBN: 978-5-521-06184-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
In The Pickwick Papers we are introduced not just to one of the greatest writers in the English language, but to some of fiction`s most endearing and memorable characters, starting with the `illustrious, immortal and colossal-minded` Samuel Pickwick himself. It is a rollicking tour de force through an England on the brink of the Victorian era. Reform of government, justice and commercial life are imminent, as are rail travel, social convulsion and the death of deference, but Pickwick sails through on a tide of delirious adventure, fortifying us for the future - whatever it might throw at us.This Macmillan Collector`s Library edition is illustrated by H. K. Browne (`Phiz`), with an afterword by Ned Halley.Designed to appeal to the book...
Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic. The Pickwick Papers, written when Dickens was only 25 years old, immediately brought him immense popularity. Mr. Samuel Pickwick, retired business man and confirmed bachelor, is determined that after a quiet lite of enterprise the time has come to go out into the world. Together with the other members of the Pickwick Club: Tracy Tupman, Augustus Snodgrass and Nathaniel Winkle, he embarks on a series of hilariously comic adventures. From these reports emerge the rascal Jingle and his servant, Job Trotter, the engaging Sam Weller, the greedy drunkard Stiggins, and many more of Dickens`s best-loved characters.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07930-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
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 Poison Belt" was the second story, a novella that Doyle wrote about Professor Challenger. He and his team should face the very end of the world as Earth slowly moves through a belt of poisonous ether.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08052-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Книги серии "Читаем на английском языке в оригинале" — это любимые всеми произведения мировых классиков, представленные на языке оригинала. Вы сможете не только по-настоящему "прочувствовать" стиль автора и познакомиться с характерными выражениями и речевыми оборотами, но и повысить свой уровень владения языком. Перед вами всемирно известный роман Оскара Уайльда "Портрет Дориана Грея", который по своей...
ISBN: 978-5-17-121597-2
Издательство:
АСТ
Дата выхода: март 2020
The stunning debut fantasy novel from author Peter V. Brett. The Painted Man, book one of the Demon trilogy, is a captivating and thrilling fantasy adventure, pulling the reader into a world of demons, darkness and heroes. Sometimes there is very good reason to be afraid of the dark! Arlen lives with his parents on their small farmstead, half a day`s ride from the isolated hamlet of Tibbet`s Brook. As dusk falls each evening, a mist rises from the ground promising death to any foolish enough to brave the coming darkness. For hungry demons materialize from the vapours to feed, and as the shadows lengthen, all of humanity is forced to take shelter behind magical wards and pray that their protection holds until the dawn. But when Arlen`s...
ISBN: 978-0-00-727614-1
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2011
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most influential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. "The Purcell Papers II" is a collection of classic short stories. The author filled the book with dark, alluring atmosphere. It immerses the reader in a world of the unknown, even supernatural.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07117-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018