Вашингтон Ирвинг (1783-1859) - новеллист, очеркист, историк, биограф — первый американский писатель, завоевавший европейское признание для себя и американской национальной литературы. Не считая эссе и очерков, печатавшихся в журналах и газетах, он опубликовал шестнадцать книг. Истоки романтических рассказов Ирвинга - в английской и американской просветительской журналистике. Сборник сопровождается...
ISBN: 5-05-006077-X
Издательство:
Радуга
Дата выхода: январь 2004
Jack London 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 Star Rover tells the story of a sentenced to death prisoner of San Quentin, Darrel Standing. For a long time, Darrel was in solitary confinement, experiencing tortures executed by prison workers. Trying to ease the anguish, Standing gets his mind into a state of trance, making his mind travel among the stars, experiencing lives of his past incarnations.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08154-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
Vivienne Michel is a troubled young woman on the run. Fleeing England she comes to a deserted motel in the Adirondack Mountains where she thinks she has finally escaped her past. Sluggsy and Horror are ruthless mobsters on a mission of their own. Holding a terrified Viv hostage in the motel, they plot death and destruction. Bond has just one night to take on the gangsters. But with two hardened killers to outwit, and time running out, can he save Vivienne - and himself?
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. "The Stark Munro Letters" is an epistolary novel in the form of twelve letters written in the late nineteenth century by a doctor J. Stark Munro and sent to his American friend Herbert Swanborough. These letters describe his attempts to create a medical practice with the help of an unorthodox doctor James Cullingworth.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07180-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018
The Shadow-Line is based upon events and experiences from twenty-seven years earlier to which Conrad returned obsessively in his fiction. A young sea captain`s first command brings with it a succession of crises: his sea is becalmed, the crew laid low by fever, and his deranged first mate is convinced that the ship is haunted by the malignant spirit of a previous captain. The novella is notable for its dual narrative structure.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06669-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
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 Star Rover`` tells the story of a sentenced to death prisoner of San Quentin, Darrel Standing. For a long time, Darrel was in solitary confinement, experiencing tortures executed by prison workers. Trying to ease the anguish, Standing gets his mind into a state of trance, making his mind travel among the stars, experiencing lives of his past incarnations.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07483-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
A sturdy steamship sinks like a stone in calm waters. A terrified magician performs a desperate disappearing act on a London stage. Investigating two mysteries. Sally Lockhart discovers a deadly web of clues that lead to a high-society murderer, and to the terrifying secret of the Shadow in the
Peace may finally be at hand in the Middle East—as Deputy Director of the CIA Jack Ryan lays the groundwork for a peace plan that could end centuries of conflict. But ruthless terrorists have a final, desperate card to play: they have their hands on a nuclear weapon and have placed it on American soil in the midst of an escalation in tension with the Soviet Union. The terrorists hope to rekindle cold war animosity and prevent reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians. With one terrible act, distrust mounts, forces collide, and the floundering U.S. president seems unable to cope with the crisis. With the world on the verge of nuclear disaster, Ryan must frantically seek a solution—before the chiefs of state lose control of...
ISBN: 0-425-18422-6
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Tess Leonard thought matrimony was for life, but her husband has decided that their marriage is the relationship equivalent of a starter home: cramped, claustrophobic and something he`s definitely outgrown. Now, at thirty-five, Tess is in the biggest mess of her life. Known to all her friends as `Tip Top Tess` because of her dogged pursuit of the perfect home, the perfect marriage and the perfect career, she`s now a candidate for How Clean Is Your House? And it`s all because Barney has walked out. But there`s a life raft on the horizon: The Divorce Survival Class. It may be uncomfortable, overcrowded and nearly sinking under the weight of excess baggage, but it`s a boot-camp for the broken-hearted. Over eight weeks, Tess and her...
ISBN: 978-0-7528-6458-7
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Fans of The Twilight Saga will be enthralled by this riveting story of Bree Tanner, a character first introduced in Eclipse, and the darker side of the newborn vampire world she inhabits. In another irresistible combination of danger, mystery, and romance, Stephenie Meyer tells the devastating story of Bree and the newborn army as they prepare to close in on Bella Swan and the Cullens, following their encounter to its unforgettable conclusion.
ISBN: 031612558X
Издательство:
Little, Brown
Дата выхода: июль 2010
