Howard Lovecraft (1890—1937) 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: 978-5-521-08207-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Jerome Klapka Jerome was an English writer and humorist. The Observations of Henry is the collection of wonderful tales told by the waiter Henry to the author, mostly about people he has known and their ways to solve romantic problems. In Novel Notes Jerome and three of his pipe party bachelor friends: Jephson, Brown, and MacShaughnassy decided to stake their claim to literary fame by writing a book together.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07979-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
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
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 Oak Openings focuses on the activities of professional honey-hunter Benjamin Boden, nicknamed "Ben Buzz". The novel is set in Kalamazoo, Michigan`s Oak Opening, a wooded prairie during the War of 1812.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07965-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
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.
The wizard Alder comes from Roke to the island of Gont in search of the Archmage, Lord Sparrowhawk, once known as Ged. The man who was once the most powerful wizard in the Islands now lives with his wife Tenar and their adopted daughter Tehanu. Alder needs help: his beloved wife died and in his dreams she calls him to the land of the dead - and now the dead are haunting him, begging for release. He can no longer sleep, and the Wizards of Earthsea are worried. But there is more at stake than the unquiet rest of one minor wizard: for the dragons of Earthsea have arisen, to reclaim the lands that were once theirs. Only Tehanu, herself daughter of a dragon, can talk to them; it may be that Alder`s dreams hold the key to the salvation of...
ISBN: 978-1-84255-211-7
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
The Outsiders by is a ground-breaking, timeless story by a brilliant writer. `...the hand at the back of my neck was strong. I`m drowning, I thought ...`The Socs` idea of having a good time is beating up Greasers like Ponyboy. Ponyboy knows what to expect and knows he can count on his brothers and friends - until the night someone takes things too far. The original teenage rebel story. The 40th anniversary edition. was only seventeen when The Outsiders was first published in the USA. She grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where the story takes place, and lived in a borderline neighbourhood mixing with both greasers and socs. This experience helped her to understand the boys about whom she writes. The Outsiders was made into a major film,...
ISBN: 978-0-14-131457-0
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: январь 2013
Caesar is in the prime of his life and the height of his powers as the novel opens. A man of contradictions, Caesar is happily married yet at the same time the lover of the enigmatic and subtle Egyptian ruler, Cleopatra. He is at once a great general who commands the instinctive loyalty of Rome`s legions, and a man who wishes to bring to an end Rome`s endless civil and external wars, a man not only conscious of his own power, and contemptuous of lesser men, but respectful of the republic, and determined not to be worshipped as a living god or crowned as an emperor, a man whose very greatness attracts envy and jealousy to a dangerous degree. With her extraordinary knowledge of Roman history, Colleen McCullough brings Caesar to life as...
ISBN: 978-0-09-928052-1
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
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
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.
Jerome Klapka Jerome was an English writer and humourist. The Observations of Henry is the collection of wonderful tales told by the waiter Henry to the author, mostly about people he has known and their ways to solve romantic problems.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08036-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
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.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was an Irish satirist, essayist, prose writer and poet, who has found his calling as a cleric of St Patrick`s Cathedral in Dublin. This book is the first volume of the extensive collection of Swift`s best poems.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07561-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
A dark, gothic tale of romance... and murder. In the right dose, everything is a poison. Jessamine has spent her whole life in a cottage close to her father`s apothecary garden, surrounded by medicinal plants and herbs that could kill her -- although her father has never allowed her into the most dangerous part of the grounds... the poison garden. And so she`s never had reason to be afraid -- until now. Because now a newcomer has come to live with the family, a quiet but strangely attractive orphan boy named Weed. Though Weed doesn`t say much in words, he has an instant talent for the apothecary`s trade, seeming to possess a close bond with the plants of the garden. Soon, he and Jessamine also share a close bond. But little does...
ISBN: 978-0-00-735443-6
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2011
English translations of Chekhov`s classic plays by a Russian-language scholar who is also a veteran Chekhovian actor. Because of Paul Schmidt`s expertise in both the theater and Russia, these translations preserve the social context of Chekhov`s THE CHERRY ORCHARD, THREE SISTERS, THE SEAGULL, UNCLE VANYA, and other works, while restoring the vitality and humor that are often lost in academic translations.
ISBN: 0-06-092875-1
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
