Ill-chance brought young Fawn Bluefield together with Dag Redwing Hickory, the seasoned soldier-sorcerer, but it was love and loyalty that joined their fates. While their unorthodox marriage has been grudgingly accepted by the clever farm girl`s people, Dag`s Lakewalker kin are less tolerant, greeting their union with derision, suspicion, and prejudice.
ISBN: 978-0-06-113906-2
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
A tale of sin, punishment and atonement, The Scarlet Letter exposes the moral rigidity of a 17th-Century Puritan New England community when faced with the illegitimate child of a young mother. Regarded as the first real heroine of American fiction, it is Hester Prynne`s strength of character that resonates with the reader when her harsh sentence is cast. It is in her refusal to reveal the identity of the father in the face of her accusers that Hawthorne champions his heroine and berates the weakness of society for attacking the innocent.
ISBN: 978-0-00-735092-6
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: май 2012
The intrepid young Lyra has passed through a shimmering portal in the sky and finds herself in a beautiful, haunted otherworld — Cittagazze, where soul-eating Specters stalk the streets and wingbeats of distant angels sound against the sky. But she is not without allies: twelve-year-old Will Parry, fleeing for his life after taking another`s, has also stumbled into this strange new realm. On a perilous journey from world to world, Lyra and Will uncover a deadly secret: anobject of extraordinary and devastating power. With every step, they move closer to an even greater threat—and the shattering truth of their own destiny. "The story gallops with ferocious momentum [and] Pullman is devilishly inventive." —The New York...
ISBN: 0-440-23814-5
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Miss Emily Fido Faithfull is a woman of business and a spinster pioneer in the British women`s movement, independent of mind but naively trusting of heart. Distracted from her cause by the sudden return of a once-dear friend, the unhappily
ISBN: 978-1-4472-1259-1
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Сборник приключенческих и детективных рассказов содержит произведения английских и американских писателей XIX-XX веков в адаптации Г. К. Магидсон-Степановой. Книга рассчитана на старшие классы средних школ, 9-10 классы школ
ISBN: 5-8112-0240-7
Издательство:
Айрис-пресс
Дата выхода: январь 2003
While Lady Angeline Dudley`s pedigree dictates that she must land a titled gentleman, the irrepressible beauty longs for a simple, ordinary suitor. So when Edward Ailsbury, the new Earl of Heyward, defends her honor with unmatched civility, Angeline thinks that she has found true love. Persuading the earl is another matter entirely. From her unconventional fashion sense to her hoydenish antics, Angeline is the last woman on earth for Edward. And yet a stolen kiss awakens something primal within him. Naturally, being a gentleman, he does the right thing after compromising a lady: He offers marriage. The proposal is born of duty, but will Angeline cause Edward to forget about decorum behind closed doors, where sensuality and seduction play...
ISBN: 978-0-440-24529-2
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012
Carries EU Toy Safety Directive `CE` logo. This small library, perfect for little baby hands, features not only the selfish crocodile but a whole host of his friends, as familiar themes for pre-school readers are explored. Children will relish learning about numbers, colours, animals, sounds, food and first words in these bright and brilliant board books.
ISBN: 978-1-4088-1448-2
Издательство:
Bloomsbury
Дата выхода: июнь 2011
Англ.яз. "I AM A CIVILIZED MAN. MURDER IS ALWAYS WITH US. IT IS ALMOST AN INSTITUTION. THE DEMONSTRATION MUST BE AGAINST LEARNING-SCIENCE. BUT NOT EVERY SCIENCE WILL DO. THE ATTACK MUST HAVE ALL THE SHOCKING SENSELESSNESS OF GRATUITOUS BLASPHEMY. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF HAVING A GO AT ASTRONOMY?’” CONRAD`S SUBTLE EXPLORATION OF AN ANARCHIST BOMBING AND THE PRICE TO BE PAID.
ISBN: 5-17-032881-8
Издательство:
АСТ
Дата выхода: декабрь 2005
The UK number one hardback bestseller from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Line of BeautyThe Sunday Times Novel of the Year`With The Stranger`s Child, an already remarkable talent unfurls into something spectacular` Sunday TimesIn the late summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge friend Cecil Valance, a charismatic young poet, to visit his family home. Filled with intimacies and confusions, the weekend will link the families for ever, having the most lasting impact on George`s sixteen-year-old sister Daphne.As the decades pass, Daphne and those around her endure startling changes in fortune and circumstance, reputations rise and fall, secrets are revealed and hidden and the events of that long-ago summer become part...
ISBN: 9780330483278
Издательство:
Pan Macmillan
Дата выхода: январь 2020
Once Judge Alice was a powerful figure in Clanton, Mississippi - a pillar of the community who towered over local law and politics for forty years. Now the judge is a shadow of his former self, a sick, lonely old man who has withdrawn to his sprawling ancestral home. Knowing the end is near. Judge Atlee has issued a summons for his two sons to return to Clanton to discuss his estate. Ray Atlee is the eldest, a Virginia law professor, newly single and still enduring the aftershocks of a surprise divorce. Forrest is Ray`s younger brother, who redefines the notion of a family`s black sheep. The summons is typed by the judge himself, on his handsome old stationer), and gives the date and time for Ray and Forrest to appear in his study. Ray...
ISBN: 0-440-24107-3
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2006
Tracy Beaker`s not exactly sure what her mother does, because Tracy has been in foster care for as long as she can remember. She has a picture of her mother, who`s pretty enough to be in movies, so maybe she is. And maybe one day Tracy`s mother will show up and reclaim her long-lost daughter, and together they`ll have fabulous adventures. Then again, maybe she won`t. In the meantime, Tracy`s doing everything she can to take care of herself - even though she has to share her birthday cake. And even though the other girls she lives with are mean and nasty and rude and horrible. Mostly. Then a journalist shows up to write a story about their orphanage, and she and Tracy strike up a special friendship. In a story written with humor and...
Mr. Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London`s Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie. When Verloc is reluctantly involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory things go disastrously wrong, and what appears to be `a simple tale` proves to involve politicians, policemen, foreign diplomats and London`s fashionable society in the darkest and most surprising interrelations. Based on the text which Conrad`s first English readers enjoyed, this new edition includes a full and up-to-date bibliography, a comprehensive chronology and a critical introduction which describes Conrad`s great London novel as the realization of a `monstrous town,` a place of idiocy,...
ISBN: 978-0-14-119789-0
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
These three classic SF stories follow the adventures of Ragnar the Space Wolf, from his recruitment by the Space Marines on the savage world of Fenris to his aventures amongst the stars. Whether Ragnar and his friends are fighting orks, mutants, or the foul forces of Chaos, adventure is never far behind!
ISBN: 978-1-84416-457-8
Издательство:
Ред Фиш
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. This volume is a collection of plays about a world-famous detective, and his assistant Dr. Watson, investigating the cases of The Speckled Band, and The Crown Diamond. The book also includes amazing plays like "The Speckled Band", "Waterloo", and "The Crown Diamond".
ISBN: 978-5-521-07183-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018
The main character of this story, Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London`s Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie. When Verloc is reluctantly involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory things go disastrously wrong, and what appears to be "a simple tale" proves to involve politicians, policemen, foreign diplomats and London`s fashionable society in the darkest and most surprising interrelations.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06451-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018