Six masterpieces of the genre include title story plus "An Amateur Peasant Girl," "The Shot," "The Snowstorm," "The Postmaster," and "The Coffin-Maker - all fascinating portraits of life in Tsarist Russia by one of that country`s greatest poets and most influential writers. Издание на английском языке. Формат: 13 см х 21 см.
ISBN: 978-0-486-28054-7
Издательство:
Dover
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012
Into the intrigue and violence of Indo-China comes Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious "Third Force". As his naive optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, finds it hard to stand aside and watch. But even as he intervenes he wonders why: for the sake of politics, or for love?
ISBN: 0-099-47839-0
Издательство:
Vintage Classics
Дата выхода: февраль 2007
In their fifth decade together, the Rolling Stones are still the world`s best rock band-and they`re not slowing down. Fueled by the songwriting talents of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, they`ve created countless number-one singles and albums; produced the highest-grossing concert series ever (Voodoo Lounge), and starred in a Martin Scorsese IMAX documentary (Shine a Light). This volume tells the Stones` incredible story through their music, featuring an account of every song they wrote, recorded, and released.
ISBN: 978-1-84732-695-9
Издательство:
Carlton Books Ltd
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Katie Lavender has always thought she was pretty unshockable, until a year after her mother`s death she receives a letter from a solicitor telling her that the man she thought was her father, in fact wasn`t. Her real father, a man named Stirling Nightingale, has for years been building a trust fund for her. And now she`s of an age to collect it. But Katie`s not interested in the money. She wants to know about the man instead. So decides to do some snooping. She tracks him down to a beautiful riverside home in Surrey on the night he`s hosting a birthday party for his 90-year-old mother. And as she`s hovering outside, Katie is mistaken for a replacement waitress - an opportunity just too good to miss. And so Katie discovers that the...
ISBN: 978-1-4091-3539-5
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: июль 2012
The Rough Guide to Chick Flicks is an essential guide to the movies that women love to watch. Taking a female perspective, this book covers everything, from the history of cinema and the different films made around the world, to the stars, the directors and the people behind the scenes of this increasingly popular movie genre. The guide includes details on costume design and has a unique chapter on the chick lit/chick flick crossover. Written by a film scholar, this book leaves no stone unturned with an exciting mix of old favorites from Bridget and Bette Davis to some surprising choices - thrillers, warrior movies and even the odd western. With hundreds of film reviews, this guide opens up a whole new world of interesting and fun films...
ISBN: 978-1-84353-710-6
Издательство:
Rough Guides
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Deeply moving and compelling, The Rain Before It Falls is the story of three generations of one family riven by tragedy. When Rosamond, a reluctant bearer of family secrets, dies suddenly, a mystery is left for her niece Gill to unravel. Some photograph albums and tapes point towards a blind girl named Imogen whom no one has seen in twenty years. The search for Imogen and the truth of her inheritance becomes a shocking story of mothers and daughters and of how sadness, like a musical refrain, may haunt us down the years. Формат: 13 см х 20 см.
ISBN: 978-0-14-103321-1
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2012
James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. The Redskins is the last volume of the Littlepage Manuscripts trilogy, narrating the history of three generations of a Dutch-descended American family starting from the mid-eighteenth century.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07959-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
A novel of naval life in Napoleonic France. After forty years of piracy on Eastern seas, Citizen Peyrol returns to his native France, a country now ravaged and scarred by revolution and war. Looking for peace in which to end his days, he withdraws to a safe harbor in a remote farmhouse on Escampobar Peninsula, which looks out to the distant Mediterranean, where the lovely Arlette lives with her aunt and the revolutionary Scevola. But the arrival of young Lieutenant Real calls Peyrol once again to action in a mission of danger, patriotism and heroism.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06672-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
Let me tell you who I am, on the chance that these scribblings do survive... “I am Murgen, Standardbearer of the Black Company, though I bear the shame of having lost that standard in battle. I am keeping these Annals because Croaker is dead, One–Eye won’t, and hardly anyone else can read or write. I will be your guide for however long it takes the Shadowlanders to force our present predicament to its inevitable end...” This omnibus volume comprises the novels Bleak Seasons and She is the Darkness.
HE`S A YOUNG LAWYER WHO DOES YARD WORK IN EXCHANGE FOR RENT. THEN ONE LITTLE CASE BEGINS TO EXPLODE...It`s summer in Memphis. The sweat is sticking to Rudy Baylor`s shirt and creditors are nipping at his heels. Once he had aspirations of breezing through law school and punching his ticket to the good life.Now he doesn`t have a job or a prayer... except for one: an insurance dispute that leaves a family devastated and opens the door for a lawsuit, if Rudy can find a way to file it.By the time Rudy gets to court, a heavyweight corporate defense team is there to meet him. And suddenly he`s in over his head, plunged into a nightmare of lies and legal maneuverings.A case that started small is exploding into a thunderous, million-dollar war of...
ISBN: 9780440221654
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: январь 2020
British Intelligence recruits a derelict, saxophone-playing publisher who visits the Moscow Book Fair and stumbles across the hottest Soviet defence secrets in years. Classic spy moves in what is both a love story and a thriller from the creator of Smiley and author of "A Perfect Spy".
ISBN: 0-340-51121-4
Издательство:
Hodder
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Роман У.С.Моэма `Острие бритвы` продолжает знакомить читателя с творчеством одного из лучших английских прозаиков XX века. Увлекательный сюжет, глубокое проникновение в судьбы героев, проблема нравственного выбора и поиска правильного пути, прекрасный английский язык делают книгу интересной широкому кругу читателей.
ISBN: 5-8346-0175-8
Издательство:
Менеджер
Дата выхода: август 2002
Contemporary / American English (Available February 2008) Bill Gates, the richest man in the world, started Microsoft in 1975 with a friend when he was only nineteen years old. Twenty years later he wrote this book about the future of computers and the Internet. Read the ideas and dreams of a man who has changed the world.
ISBN: 978-1-4058-7690-2
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
