ISBN: 9780141394688 Издательство: Penguin Group Дата выхода: январь 2014
Isabel Archer has been brought to England from Albany, New York, by her Aunt Touchett to extend her education, possibly to marry well. Isabel, proud and independent, has other ideas. She has no desire to marry and wishes to create her own future, rather than finding it as a wife. Consequently she refuses two very eligible suitors: Lord Warburton and Caspar Goodwood, who has followed her to Europe from America. When her uncle Lord Touchett dies, leaving Isabel a fortune, he unwittingly does her a great disservice, for on a visit to Italy she is introduced by Madame Merle to Gilbert Osmond. Osmond is a charming but worthless dilettante who sees Isabel as a beautiful prize, a mother for his daughter Pansy, and a source of easily attained...
ISBN: 978-0-14-119790-6 Издательство: Penguin Group Дата выхода: февраль 2011
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 fourth work chronologically in Cooper`s Leatherstocking Tales, The Pioneers is a historical novel that follows the later life of Natty Bumppo. Already introduced by the previous novels as the archetypal American frontiersman and friend to Indians, Natty now struggles with hunting and new societal laws that restrict the freedom of the wilderness he has always known. Just as accessible and enjoyable for today`s modern readers as it would have been when first published, the novel is one of the great works of...
ISBN: 978-5-521-07961-2 Издательство: Т8 Дата выхода: июль 2018
ISBN: 9780141189987 Издательство: Penguin Books Дата выхода: январь 2009
ISBN: 9781784753634 Дата выхода: январь 2021
ISBN: 9780141196428 Издательство: Penguin Group Дата выхода: январь 2012
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
ISBN: 9781405919005 Дата выхода: январь 2016
ISBN: 9780099527091 Издательство: Random House Дата выхода: январь 2008
ISBN: 9780140444216 Издательство: Penguin Books Дата выхода: январь 1992
ISBN: 9780349110851 Издательство: Orion Publishers Дата выхода: январь 2014
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
Written two years before `Jane Eyre`, ` The Professor` was Charlotte Bronte`s first novel and was based on her own experiences in Brussels, although it was not published until after her own death. The story is one of love and doubt, as the hero, William Crimsworth, seeks his fortune as a teacher in Brussels and finds his love for the good Anglo-Swiss girl, Frances Henri, severely tested by the sensuously beguiling and manipulative headmistress, Zoraide Reuter. The novel challenged many of the deeply held expectations of the time and is essential reading for all those seeking an understanding of the author and her work.
ISBN: 1-85326-208-0 Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd. Дата выхода: декабрь 1999
Henry James (1843—1916) was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism. «The Portrait of a Lady» is the awesome story of a spirited young American woman, Isabel Archer. She inherits a large amount of money and subsequently becomes the victim of Machiavellian scheming by two American expatriates. This novel reflects James\'s continuing interest in the differences between the New World and the Old, often to the detriment of the former.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07070-1 Издательство: Т8 Дата выхода: апрель 2018
ISBN: 9780141189796 Издательство: Penguin Books Дата выхода: январь 2015
ISBN: 9780140436112 Дата выхода: январь 2003
"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
ISBN: 9780241458877 Дата выхода: январь 2020
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
ISBN: 9780099511601 Издательство: Random House Дата выхода: январь 2008
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
ISBN: 978-0-241-96176-6 Дата выхода: август 2012
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
The Pioneers enters of Cooper`s Leatherstocking Tales, and the one that incorporates most fully his own experience of growing up in a town of the American frontier. The heart of the novel is a conflict over who owns America, and by what concept of right. The competing claims of Native Americans, Tory loyalists, roving hunters, and visionary cultivators are pitted against one another in the area of history, and the magical village of Cooper`s youth becomes the scene in which a nation`s destiny is forged. Just as accessible and enjoyable for today`s modern readers as it would have been when first published well over a century ago, the novel is one of the great works of American literature and continues to be widely read throughout the world.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06445-8 Издательство: Т8 Дата выхода: январь 2018
