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
Sequel to "The Godfather", this describes the ending of Michael Corleone`s exile in Sicily, his search for Salvatore Giuliano and his troubles, as he confronts brutal and unfamiliar treacheries in the deceitful society within which he moves.
ISBN: 978-0-09-941474-2
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
The fourth volume that contains the early myths and legends which led to the writing of Tolkiens epic tale of war, "The Silmarillion". In this fourth volume of "The History of Middle-earth", the shaping of the chronological and geographical structure of the legends of Middle-earth and Valinor is spread before us. We are introduced to the hitherto unknown Ambarkanta or Shape of the World, the only account ever given of the nature of the imagined Universe, ccompanied by maps and diagrams of the world before and after the cataclyusms of "The War of the Gods" and the "Downfall of Numenor". The first map of Beleriend is also reproduced and discussed. In "The Annals of Valinor" and "The Annals of Beleriend" we are shown how the chronology of...
ISBN: 978-0-261-10218-7
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
The fifth novel in Auel`s Earth`s Children series continues as Ayla and Jondalar face new and perilous challenges at the old stone settlement in prehistoric southwest France - home to the Zelandonii.
ISBN: 978-0-553-28942-8
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
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
`A lie can run round the world before The Truth can get its boots on.`William de Worde has somehow found himself editor of Ankh-Morpork`s first newspaper. Well, with a name like that . . .Launched into the world of investigative journalism, alongside reporter Sacharissa Cripslock, William soon learns that the news is a risky business. For a start, his colleagues include a band of axe-wielding dwarfs and a recovering vampire with a life-threatening passion for flash photography.It`s a big news week: the most powerful man in the city has been arrested, leaving Ankh-Morpork without a leader. And a dangerous criminal organisation will do anything to control the story . . .The Discworld novels can be read in any order but The Truth is a...
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 Two Admirals is an 1842 nautical fiction set during the 18th century. Exploring the British Royal Navy, Cooper wrote the novel out of encouragement of his English publisher, who recommended writing another sea novel. Cooper had originally intended to write a novel where ships were the main characters, though eventually decided not to.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07949-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
It`s been 110 years since Frederick Warne published Beatrix Potter`s very first book, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, and in celebration, we are delighted to be publishing special editions of her entire body of work. Unlike the traditional little white books, t
ISBN: 978-0-7232-6793-5
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012
Begin your journey into Middle-earth.A New Legend Begins on Prime Video, in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.The second part of J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic adventure THE LORD OF THE RINGS.The Fellowship is scattered. Some prepare for war against the Dark Lord. Some fight against the treachery of the corrupt wizard Saruman. Only Frodo and Sam are left to take the accursed Ring to be destroyed in the fires of Mount Doom.Mount Doom lies in the very heart of the Dark Lord’s realm. Their only guide on the perilous journey is Gollum, a deceitful and obsessive creature who once possessed the Ring and longs to wield its power once again.As dark forces assemble, the fate of Middle-earth rests with two lonely hobbits – but is Gollum...
Комедия Уильяма Шекспира «Укрощение строптивой» на английском языке, входит в серию книг «Зарубежная классика — читай в оригинале». Эта коллекция собрана из бессмертных произведений великих мастеров пера, написанных ими на их родном языке. Книги из этой серии помогут читателю углублённо изучать иностранные языки, обогатят его внутренний мир и по-новому откроют произведения известных...
ISBN: 978-5-519-49816-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2016
Unlike other cygnets, Louis, the trumpeter swan, cannot utter a sound. But with the encouragement of his father, Louis sets out to overcome his problem. One way of doing this Louis decides, is to learn to read and write and so he sets off to Montana to find his friend Sam Beaver. Louis goes to school with him and learns to read and write, but when he returns to the lakes and falls in love with the beautiful Serena, he is upset that Serena can`t read his sign, which says `I love you`. Once again his parents are determined to help him find a new way of expressing himself and it is his father who dreams up the brilliant solution that will put Louis firmly on the path to success and fulfilment.
ISBN: 978-0-14-132297-1
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2012
