Assembled here for the first time in book form are the very best of several decades` worth of occasional writings from perhaps the best-loved and most-admired of Britain`s great female writers. A selection of the very best of Doris Lessing`s essays, never before collected together and published in book form. Articles on writers as diverse as Jane Austen, Muriel Spark, Virginia Woolf, Lawrence, Mikael Bulgakov sit alongside autobiographical looks at the beliefs that have shaped Lessing`s thinking. There are adoring and adorable pieces on the beloved cats that she has allowed to share her life, and insightful looks at the Africa in which she grew up, and London and England, the place where she made her home. The range of subjects, cultures...
ISBN: 978-0-00-717986-2
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: август 2011
The second volume in a trilogy begun in "When Christ and His Saints Slept Here." Hoping to subdue the Church, Henry II - against the advice of Eleanor of Aquitaine - raises Thomas Becket to the position of Archbishop of Canterbury. But when the once worldly Becket discovers faith, their alliance withers.
ISBN: 978-0-345-39672-3
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011
Two men and a woman embark on a hunt that will tear their safe African safari apart in a deadly civil war. For Sean Courtney, guerilla fighter, it is a time to fight and find love. For Claudia Montero it is the ultimate test of her values, and, for her father, a time to confront obsession.
ISBN: 0-449-14761-4
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
When Carl Lee Hailey guns down the hoodlums who have raped his ten-year-old child, the people of Clanton see it as a crime of blood and call for his acquittal. But when extremists outside Clanton hear that a black man has killed two white men, they invade the town, determined to destroy anything and anyone that opposes their sense of justice. Jake Brigance has been hired to defend Hailey. It`s the kind of case that can make or break a young lawyer. But in the maelstrom of Clanton, it is also the kind of case that could get a young lawyer killed.
ISBN: 978-0-09-913401-5
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Contemporary / American English Ten-year-old Tonya Hailey is attacked and raped by two local men. Carl Lee, Tonya’s father, shoots them. Now only his lawyer and friend, Jake Brigance, stands between him and the electric chair. Is there a legal defense for Carl Lee’s actions? Penguin Readers are written by specialist ELT authors. The language, vocabulary, style and content of every book is carefully graded to make sure it suits the learner`s own language ability. Every Penguin Reader has a range of activities in the book and accompanying Factsheet to help increase comprehension and develop reading, writing, listening and speaking skills.
ISBN: 978-1-4082-7665-5
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: июнь 2012
An old man wearing a brown robe is found wandering disoriented in the Arizona desert. He is miles from any human habitation and has no memory of how he got to be there, or who he is. The only clue to his identity is the plan of a medieval monastery in his pocket. So begins the mystery of "Timeline", a mystery that will catapult a group of young scientists back to the Middle Ages and into the heart of the Hundred Years` War. Imagine the risks of such a journey. Imagine the impossible.
`His funniest book since `Breakfast of Champions`...There are nuggets of Vonnegutian wisdom throughout.` (`Newsweek`). `Hilarious... unsettling... exhilarating...This work has been a blessing.` - (Valerie Sayers, `The New York Times Book Review`). `Timequake` is a novel by, and starring, Kurt Vonnegut... What Vonnegut does, which no one can do better, is give a big postmodern shrug...You`ve got to love him.` - (`Washington Post Book World`). `Humorous, sardonic...`Timequake` makes for irresistible reading that`s loaded with more important truths than it lets on...Moralizing has never been funnier.` - (`Chicago Sun-Times`) `Vonnegut is at his best.` - (`Atlanta Journal-Constitution`).
ISBN: 0-425-16596-5
Издательство:
Penguin USA
Дата выхода: декабрь 1999
After the universe decides to back up ten years and all humans must live through the 1990s again, author Kurt Vonnegut finds himself trying to write a book called "Timequake", which he knows he will never finish since he already did not finish it.
1885, the North West Frontier. Rudyard Kipling is witness to a bizarre encounter between the British army and what appears to be an impossibly advanced piece of Russian technology. And then to a terrifying intervention by a helicopter from 2037. Before the full impact of this extraordinary event has even begun to sink in, Kipling, his friends and the helicopter crew stumble across Alexander the Great`s army. Mankind`s time odyssey has begun. It is a journey that will see Alexander avoid his premature death and carve out an Empire that expands from Carthage to China, beating the time-slipped army of Ghenghis Khan in a battle outside the ruins of Babylon in the process. And it will present mankind with two devastating truths. Aliens are...
ISBN: 978-0-575-07647-1
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Time`s Arrow tells the story, backwards, of the life of Nazi war criminal, Doctor Tod T Friendly. He dies and then feels markedly better, breaks up with his lovers as a prelude to seducing them and mangles his patients before he sends them home-Escaping from the body of the dying doctor who had worked in Nazi concentration camps, the doctor`s consciousness begins living the doctor`s life backwards, aware only that he is living the life of a horrible man at a horrible place in time.
ISBN: 978-0-09-945535-6
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: август 2011
Timmy is a little lamb with a lot to learn. He`s a bit of a handful, but only because he`s eager and enthusiastic! Timmy Needs a Bath: Timmy gets mud all over the Nursery, but will he be brave enough to have a bath?
ISBN: 978-1-4052-5329-1
Издательство:
Egmont Books Ltd
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Timmy`s jigsaw puzzle is missing a piece! He and his friends search every inch of the nursery, uncovering all sorts of lost objects - but will they ever find the missing piece?
ISBN: 978-1-4052-4903-4
Издательство:
Egmont Books Ltd
Дата выхода: август 2011
6 new novelty board books featuring popular characters. Pull the sliding pages to change the scene, find out facts and answer questions. The characters will be familiar to kids from TV, or they will be entranced by popular subjects such as dinosaurs and wild animals.
ISBN: 978-1-4052-5564-6
Издательство:
Egmont Books Ltd
Дата выхода: февраль 2012