THE `ROMANOV` BONES DISCREDITED - New scientific analysis challenges the authenticity of the DNA tests and of the bones themselves. THE PLOTS TO SAVE THE TSAR - Primary documentary evidence, including recently declassified intelligence files, reveals that Britain and her allies were pouring money and their finest secret agents into Russia as part of a top secret plan to topple the Bolsheviks and save the Tsar. A SAFE HOUSE - Incontrovertible proof that a secret house intended for the Tsar was built in a remote part of northern Russia and paid for by British Intelligence. A TALE OF SURVIVAL? - Urgent, coded telegrams sent by the American Embassy and Department of State five months after the Romanov family`s disappearance suggest the...
ISBN: 0-09-929810-4
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
A fast-paced narrative full of adventure and majestic descriptions of early frontier life, Indian raiders, and defenseless outposts, The Pathfinder set the standard for epic action literature. Vigorous, self-reliant, amazingly resourceful, and moral, Natty Bumppo is the prototype of the Western hero. A faultless arbiter of wilderness justice, he hates middle-class hypocrisy. But he finds his love divided between the woman he has pledged to protect on a treacherous journey and the untouched forest that sustains him in his beliefs.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06648-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
Daniel Defoe was an English trader, writer, pamphleteer and journalist. He is most famous for his novel "Robinson Crusoe", which is second only to the Bible in its number of translations. Irreverent and ironic, The Political History of the Devil is a satire that examines the evolution of evil and the rise of the historical force known as "the devil." An overview of satanic influences on eighteenth-century life follows, focusing on monarchs and tyrants as well as common folk. Defoe supports his arguments not only with extensive quotes from scripture but also with citations from other sources, including Milton`s "Paradise Lost."
ISBN: 978-5-521-08184-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
Rich with surprise and hilarious adventure, “The Prince And The Pauper” is a delight satire of England`s romantic past and a joyful boyhood romp filled with the same tongue-in-cheek irony that sparked the best of Mark Twain`s tall tales. Two boys, one an urchin from London`s filthy lanes, the other a prince born in a lavish palace, unwittingly trade identities. Thus a bedraggled "Prince of Poverty" discovers that his private dreams have all the come true - while a pampered Prince of Wales finds himself tossed into a rough-and-tumble world of squalid beggars and villainous thieves. Originally written as a story for children, “The Prince And The Pauper” is a classic novel for adults as well - through its stinging attack on the...
ISBN: 978-0-553-21256-3
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Стильно оформленное подарочное издание в суперобложке, с трехсторонним золотым обрезом и шелковым ляссе. On its first publication The Picture of Dorian Gray was regarded as dangerously modern in its depiction of fin-de-sicle decadence. In this updated version of the Faust story, the tempter is Lord Henry Wotton, who lives selfishly for amoral pleasure; Dorian`s good angel is the portrait painter Basil Hallward, whom Dorian murders. The book highlights the tension between the polished surface of high society and the life of secret vice. Although sin is punished in the end the book has a flavour of the elegantly perverse. Формат: 10 см x 15,5...
ISBN: 978-1-904633-15-0
Издательство:
Collector's Library
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Jack London (1876-1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. The book "The People of the Abyss" is a conclusion to the results of a journalistic investigation conducted by Jack London in the capital of the British Empire. In the summer of 1902, he voluntarily descended to the "bottom of London". As the urban proletarian, he lived and worked for some time in the blocks of the East End to see with his own eyes the degree of hardship and daily dangers experienced by the social lower classes in the capital of the most powerful country in the world.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07510-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Coyotito, the baby boy, is to be the future for his parents, the young couple Kino and Juana, pearl fishers on the Gulf of California. The boy is to go to school and learn to read, so that he will know what is in the books. That will give knowledge and freedom to him and, through him, to his parents. All that is needed is money to pay for the school. Money will come when they sell the great pearl they have found. Then they will even be able to buy some new clothes, and to get married in church. That is their well-laid plan. Steinbeck tells you what becomes of it.
ISBN: 978-87-23-90118-7
Издательство:
Easy Readers
Дата выхода: август 2008
Mia`s got everything a girl could possibly want. She`s a princess - and she`s got a boyfriend! But that`s where it all goes wrong. Because Kenny is just NOT the guy she really wants. Michael`s the one she`s loved forever - but he`s going out with someone infinitely cleverer than Mia. Someone who can clone FRUIT FLIES, for heaven`s sake! Will the story end happily ever after for the Princess of Genovia?
ISBN: 978-0-330-48207-3
Издательство:
Pan Macmillan
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
War threatens to take all she has loved and lived for… On the outbreak of war, Belle Reilly`s husband Jimmy enlists and heads for the deadly trenches of northern France. But Belle knows she cannot stand idly by when so many are sacrificing their lives.
ISBN: 978-0-241-95037-1
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 2012
Элизабет Гаскелл — известная английская писательница эпохи викторианской Англии. Её произведения отличаются изящностью слога и мысли, яркими персонажами и необычными сюжетами. В данную книгу включены рассказ "Бедняжка Клэр" и повесть "Лиззи Лэй", в которых Гаскелл с тонким психологизмом рассказывает истории прекрасных, но несчастных в своей трагичной судьбе женщин. Читайте зарубежную литературу в...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05726-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2017
One of the most successful and beloved of Victorian fairy tales, George Macdonald`s The Princess and the Goblin tells the story of young Princess Irene and her friend Curdie, who must outwit the threatening goblins who live in caves beneath her mountain home. Macdonald`s pioneering use of fanstasy as a literary medium had a great influence on Lewis Carroll, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Madeleine L`Engle, all great admirers of his work, which has remained popular to this day. I write, not for children, he wrote, but for the child-like, whether they be of five, or fifty, or seventy-five.