`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...
"Машина времени" - одно из самых популярных произведений Герберта Уэллса, рисует удивительные картины далекого будущего. Перелет путешественника во времени, в 802701 год, размышления об увиденном приводят к резкой перемене взглядов на мир и жизнь. В сборник также включены рассказы "Дверь в стене", "Катастрофа", "Страна слепых", "Новейший ускоритель", "Красный гриб" и "Пучеглазое божество", а также эссе...
ISBN: 5-8346-0099-9
Издательство:
Менеджер
Дата выхода: декабрь 1999
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
For use in schools and libraries only. Whether sorting out shoe sizes with Big Bird, putting on one too many colorful layers to play in the snow, saving a single treat from Cookie Monster`s clutches, or learning the ups and downs of flying from Abby, Elmo sure get the concept!
ISBN: 978-0-7232-6769-0
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012
To celebrate Peter`s birthday, Frederick Warne is publishing new editions of all 23 of Potter`s original tales, which take the very first printings of Potter`s works as their guide. The aim of these editions is to be as close as possible to Beatrix Potter`s intentions while benefiting from modern printing and design techniques. The colors and details of the watercolors in the volumes are reproduced more accurately than ever before, and it has now been possible to disguise damage that has affected the artwork over the years. Most notably, The Tale of Peter Rabbit restores six of Potter`s original illustrations. Four were sacrificed in 1903 to make space for illustrated endpapers, and two have never been used before. Of course, Beatrix...
ISBN: 0-7232-4772-2
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: январь 2002
Lucy Silchester keeps receiving this strange appointment card and sweeping its gold embossed envelope under the rug. Literally. She busies herself with a job she doesn`t like, helping out friends, fixing her car, feeding her cat, and devoting her time to her family`s dramas. But Lucy is about to find out that this is one appointment she can`t miss, when Life shows up at her door, in the form of a sloppy but determined man. Life follows her everywhere - from the office, to the bar, and to her bedroom - and Lucy learns that some of the choices she has made and the stories she has told aren`t what they seem. Now her half-truths are about to be revealed, unless Lucy tells the truth about what really matters to her. The Time of My Life is...
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 —1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most influential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. "The Tenants of Malory" is the sensation novel about two feuding families, Verney and Fanshawe, and their ambiguous relationship. Arthur, Lord Verney\'s nephew, cannot choose between his feelings to Margaret Fanshawe and for his benefit. Through this novel, the author asks a question — how many moral principles is a person willing to sacrifice for a brief sense of superiority?
ISBN: 978-5-521-07452-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: май 2018
The pigs set off, and in a field They saw a heap of straw. `I`ll build my house of that`, said one. `Straw`s nice and quick, I`m sure`. The classic story of three little pigs and a wicked wolf, retold in glorious rhyme that`s perfect for reading aloud. With flaps and surprises on every spread, this sturdy book is ideal for young children. Now in a new enlarged format including a free audio CD with two tracks. Listen to the story alone, or follow along with the book by turning the pages when you hear the chime.
ISBN: 978-0-230-73613-9
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Explore the making of the film "New Moon" in this ultimate visual companion, lavishly illustrated with full-color photos of the cast, locations, and sets. With never-before-seen images, exclusive interviews and personal stories, this guide takes fans behind the scenes with cast and crew, uncovering intimate details of the filmmaking process.
ISBN: 9780316075800
Издательство:
Hachette Livre
Дата выхода: октябрь 2009
(Helen) Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) was an English author and illustrator, botanist, and conservationist, born in Kensington, London best known for her children`s books, which featured animal characters such as Peter Rabbit. Educated at home by a succession of governesses, she had little opportunity to mix with other children. Potter had frogs and newts, and even a pet bat. The basis of her many projects and stories were the small animals that she smuggled into the house or observed during family holidays in Scotland and the Lake District. She was encouraged to publish her story, The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902), but she struggled to find a publisher until it was accepted when she was 36, by Frederick Warne & Co. The small book and her...
ISBN: 978-0-7232-6776-8
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012
On a brisk autumn day, a thirteen-year-old boy stands on the shores of the gray Atlantic, near a silent amusement park and a fading ocean resort called the Alhambra. The past has driven Jack Sawyer here: His father is gone, his mother is dying, and the world no longer makes sense. But for Jack everything is about to change. For he has been chosen to make a journey back across America - and into another realm. One of the most influential and heralded works of fantasy ever written, The Talisman is an extraordinary novel of loyalty, awakening, terror, and mystery. Jack Sawyer, on a desperate quest to save his mother`s life, must search for a prize across an epic landscape of innocents and monsters, of incredible dangers and even more...
ISBN: 0345444884
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: февраль 2002
Sally`s oldest friend, Jim Taylor, has been searching for Adelaide all his life - since he saved the little slum girl from a cruel mistress and then lost her again in the dark alleys of Victorian London. He never expected to find her as the Crown Princess of Razkavia, threatened by dangerous rivals in a corrupt kingdom where her fate will once more lie in his
This text contains two of Graham Greene`s novels. The Third Man is a recreation of post-war Vienna in which Rollo Martins visits his friend and hero, Harry Lime, to find Harry has died in suspicious circumstances. The Fallen Idol is the chilling story of a small boy caught up in adult games.
ISBN: 978-0-09-928623-3
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
A dazzling novel in the most untraditional fashion, this is the remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare`s passionate love affair endures across a sea of time and captures the two lovers in an impossibly romantic trap, and it is Audrey
A bilingual fiction title for children who are independent readers. The parallel text, speech bubles and pictures by different, talented illustrators provide a child-friendly bridge to reading - and speaking - in another language. There is a quiz at the end of each story to help comprehension and revise vocabulary.
ISBN: 978-1-905710-43-0
Издательство:
CRW Publishing
Дата выхода: январь 2013
The Two Admirals is an 1842 nautical fiction novel by James Fenimore Cooper. The novel was written after the Leatherstocking Tales novel The Deerslayer. Set during the 18th century and 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: 978-5-521-06651-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018