Complete in five handsome volumes, each with an introduction by a Doyle scholar, a chronology, a selected bibliography, and explanatory notes, the Oxford Sherlock Holmes series offers a definitive collection of the famous detective`s adventures. No home library is complete without it. Comprising the series of short stories that made the fortunes of the Strand, the magazine in which they were first published, this volume won even more popularity for Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Holmes is at the height of his powers in many of his most famous cases, including The Sussex Vampire, The Mazarin Stone, The Three Gables and the famous The Valley of Fear.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06028-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: октябрь 2017
"I decided to talk to women about their vaginas, to do vagina interviews, which became vagina monologues...At first women were reluctant to talk. They were a little shy. But once they got going, you couldn`t stop them. Women secretly love to talk about their vaginas. They get very excited, mainly because no one`s ever asked them before." A poignant and hilarious tour of the last frontier, the ultimate forbidden zone, "The Vagina Monologues" is a celebration of female sexuality in all its complexity and mystery. Hailed as the bible for a new generation of women, it has been performed in cities and colleges throughout the world, and has inspired a dynamic grassroots movement - V-Day - to stop violence against women. Eve Ensler`s work gives...
ISBN: 1-86049-926-0
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
When a young boy gets a beautiful velveteen rabbit for a gift, he plays with his new toy for a while, but in all the excitement of opening presents, he forgets about it. But only temporarily. How the rabbit comes to be loved by the boy and finally comes to life is a classic story that has been read and cherished by many generations of children and their parents.
ISBN: 0-582-77858-1
Издательство:
Longman
Дата выхода: январь 2011
Nothing could be more exciting than a night flight on Bill`s plane. But in The Valley of Adventure, Philip, Dinah, Lucy-Ann, Jack and Kiki the parrot fly straight into terrible danger. In The Sea of Adventure, the children find themselves marooned on a desolate coast, playing a dangerous game of hide-and-seek with an unknown enemy.
ISBN: 978-0-330-39836-7
Издательство:
Pan Macmillan
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Fitzgerald was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. An oddity in F. S. Fitzgerald`s career, his play The Vegetable was a satirical attack on the presidency of Warren Harding. An ordinary, incompetent man, taunted for his lack of ambition by his family, realises his dream of ruling the United States of America.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07616-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018
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. Inspired by Maurice Greiffenhagen`s painting "An Idyll," and narrated in the first person by a character named Cyril Beardsall, "The White Peacock" is a novel that tells the story of Lettie Beardsall, involved in a love triangle with George and Leslie Temple. It also has a strong emphasis on a theme of the damage in relationships caused by mismatched marriage.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07202-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
