Miller's groundbreaking first novel, banned in Britain for almost thirty years, now reinvigorated in a new Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition. A penniless and as yet unpublished writer, Henry Miller arrived in Paris in 1930. Leaving behind a disintegrating marriage and an unhappy career in America, he threw himself into the low-life of bohemian Paris with unwavering gusto. A fictional account of Miller's adventures amongst the prostitutes and pimps, the penniless painters and writers of Montparnasse, Tropic of Cancer is an extravagant and rhapsodic hymn to a world of unrivalled eroticism and freedom. Tropic of Cancer's 1934 publication in France was hailed by Samuel Beckett as 'a momentous event in the history...
ISBN: 978-0-00-720446-5
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
Robert Service completes his masterful trilogy on the founding figures of the Soviet Union in an eagerly anticipated, authoritative biography of Leon Trotsky. Trotsky is perhaps the most intriguing and, given his prominence, the most understudied of the Soviet revolutionaries. Using new archival sources including family letters, party and military correspondence, confidential speeches, and medical records, Service offers new insights into Trotsky. He discusses Trotsky’s fractious relations with the leaders he was trying to bring into a unified party before 1914; his attempt to disguise his political closeness to Stalin; and his role in the early 1920s as the progenitor of political and cultural Stalinism. Trotsky evinced a surprisingly...
ISBN: 978-0-330-43969-5
Издательство:
Pan Macmillan
Дата выхода: август 2011
Few political figures of the twentieth century have aroused as much passion, controversy, and curiosity as Leon Trotsky. Trotsky was that rare combination of the man of ideas and the man of action. His role in history - his epic rise and fall, his fiery persona, his violent end in Mexico in August 1940 - holds a fascination that transcends the history of the Russian Revolution. Based on extensive firsthand research, this groundbreaking biography examines Trotsky`s remarkable life from the perspective of his last exile in Mexico. Bertrand M. Patenaude masterfully interweaves the story of Trotsky`s final years in Mexico with flashbacks to pivotal episodes in his career as a young Marxist, revolutionary hero, Red Army chief, Bolshevik...
ISBN: 978-0-06-082068-8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
What is the difference between mean and median, blatant and flagrant, flout and flaunt? Is it whodunnit or whodunit? Do you know? Are you sure? With Troublesome Words, journalist and bestselling travel-writer Bill Bryson gives us a clear, concise and entertaining guide to the problems of English usage and spelling that has been an indispensable companion to those who work with the written word for over twenty years. So if you want to discover whether you should care about split infinitives, are cursed with an uncontrollable outbreak of commas or were wondering if that newsreader was right to say `an historic day`, this superb book is the place to find out.
ISBN: 978-0-14-104039-4
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Every morning Hakan von Enke takes a walk in the forest near his apartment in Stockholm. However, one winter`s day he fails to come home. It seems that the retired naval officer has vanished without trace. Detective Kurt Wallander is not officially involved in the investigation but he has personal reasons for his interest in the case as Hakan`s son is engaged to his daughter Linda. A few months earlier, at Hakan`s 75th birthday party, Kurt noticed that the old man appeared uneasy and seemed eager to talk about a controversial incident from his past career that remained shrouded in mystery. Could this be connected to his disappearance? When Hakan`s wife Louise also goes missing, Wallander is determined to uncover the truth. His search...
ISBN: 978-0-09-954842-3
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: май 2012
Mark Jackson is on holiday in Turkey. He visits the old city of Troy and finds a yellow stone. I know this stone, he thinks. It comes from from ... Suddenly Mark goes back in time. He can see a beautiful city, soldiers and a big wooden horse.
ISBN: 978-1-4058-8071-8
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Terry Pratchett`s extraordinary, and extraordinarily funny, book, Truckers, available for the first time in an edition beautifully illustrated by Mark Beech.Imagine that all around you, hidden from sight, there are thousands of tiny people.They are four inches tall, brave, stubborn and resourceful.They are the nomes.The nomes in this story live under the floorboards of a large Department Store and have never been Outside. In fact, they don`t even believe in Outside. But new nomes arrive, from - where else? - and they bring with them terrifying news: the Store is closing down and Everything Must Go . . .The fantastically funny first book of the nomes, from the author of the bestselling Discworld series.
The GREEN APPLE series is composed of illustrated graded readers. The readers are graded into three levels - Starter, Step 1 and Step 2 - according to structural and lexical criteria, as well as by choice of subject matter. Features: • introduction about the author and his/her times • wide variety of interesting activities to promote understanding of the text, as well as all four language skills, lexis and sociocultural awareness and knowledge • activities in the style of the Cambridge ESOL and Trinity exams • informative and fascinating cross-curricular dossiers, which explore the historical and cultural background of the text • a recording on CD of the text in British or American English, with extra listening activities •...
ISBN: 978887754-982-2
Издательство:
CIDEB
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Jeremy Marsh is a born skeptic and a science journalist who specializes in debunking the supernatural. When he hears about ghostly apparitions in a cemetery in Boone Creek, North Carolina, he leaves his beloved New York City for this small, rural town - and what his instincts tell him could make a great story. What he doesn`t plan on is meeting and falling hopelessly in love with Lexie Darnell, who is sure of one thing: her future is here in Boone Creek, close to the people she loves. Now, if the young lovers are to be together, Jeremy must make a difficult choice: return to the life he knows in New York, or do something he could never do take a giant leap of faith.
ISBN: 978-0-446-61815-1
Издательство:
Warner Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Blonde, bubbly Sookie Stackhouse loves her job as a cocktail waitress in Merlotte`s, in her home town of Bon Temps. Sookie`s cute, but it took her a long time to make friends; perhaps that`s not so surprising when you consider how few people appreciate her telepathic ability. Then the vamps came to town, and Sookie discovered she couldn`t `hear` them at all. Instead, she gets to make friends the old-fashioned way, first with Bill, tall, dark and handsome, then with Eric, the blond Viking, who`s undeniably attractive, especially when he loses his memory. And when Sookie`s cousin Hadley dies - for the second time - she comes to the attention of Sophie-Anne Leclerq, vampire queen of New Orleans, who is very interested in Sookie`s unique...
ISBN: 978-0-575-09689-9
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011
A vintage performance from the world`s number one psychological thriller writer. True Detectives follows Moe Reed and Aaron Fox on the twisted trail of a missing girl, a dark, baffling whodunit that forces the brothers to put aside their mutual animus – and to confront the unresolved family mystery that turned them into enemies. PIs can do things, legally, that cops can’t. And cops have access to resources denied their private counterparts. Only by pooling their efforts – and by consulting a man both brothers respect, psychologist Alex Delaware, do Fox and Reed stand a chance of peeling back the secrets in high places that explain the fate of an outwardly innocent young woman. And, by doing so, the brothers learn about much more...
ISBN: 978-0-7553-4531-1
Издательство:
Headline Publ.
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Chosen by Paul Auster out of 4000 stories submitted to his American radio programme, these 180 stories provide an illuminating portrait of America in the 20th century. The selection requirement of the stories was that they should be true and not previously published.
Gorgeous Faith Duffy has been a lot of things in her 30 years. She started as an exotic dancer at 18, then became a Playboy model, a devoted wife to her 81-year-old husband Virgil, and now, a widow and business owner. Virgil Duffy owned the Seattle Chinooks hockey team and left it to Faith in his will, even though she knows nothing about the sport. Determined to prove she`s more than just one of Hef`s bunnies, she dives in, learning all she can about hockey and her new team. The only obstacle is the team captain, Ty Savage. Brooding and intimidating, Ty has led his team to the NHL playoffs, and he`s not about to let some gold digger of a widow ruin his chances. The press build up the initial rivalry between Faith and Ty, but the pair may...
Sookie Stackhouse works as a cocktail waitress in Merlotte`s, a little bar in Bon Temps, a small town deep in Louisiana. She`s funny and pretty and well-mannered, but she doesn`t have that many close friends - mind you, that`s not so surprising when you consider how few people can appreciate her abilities as a mind-reader. It`s not a quality that has the guys beating down her door - well, unless they`re vampires or werewolves or the but they`re not just supernatural freaks, some of them are friends, even And then along comes Bill: he`s tall, he`s dark and he`s handsome - and Sookie can`t `hear` a word he`s thinking. He`s exactly the type of guy she`s been waiting all her life for. But Bill has a disability of his own: he`s fussy about...
ISBN: 978-0-575-09122-1
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
Effortless and inevitable are architect Steven Harris`s two favorite words. With sensitivity to the surrounding landscape, Harris designs homes custom-made to his client`s daily-lived experience. His dining rooms are not aggrandizements of tradition, they are places to eat, to gather, or even work; his entry halls are not the primary places of arrival, but rather the final segments of a long trajectory that begins when the resident turns off the main road or exits the elevator. True Life, the firm`s first monograph, showcases Harris`s residential work over the past twenty-five years. Organized by the activities that propel his designs-dine, lounge, study, play, sleep, and so on-it focuses on people rather than objects. Harris`s works are...
ISBN: 978-1-56898-971-6
Издательство:
Daedalus
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Four true, breathtaking stories of adventure and courage which take us across the ocean, the ice of the Antarctic, the sky and the desert. ‘Lost at Sea’ tells the adventures of a family sailing round the world and their battle to survive in the ocean after a shipwreck. In ‘The Impossible Journey’ we follow Sir Ernest Shackleton as he and his men make their way on foot towards the South Pole. The brave young woman in ‘Amy Johnson, Woman Pioneer’ attempts a heroic solo flight from England to Australia. In ‘David Livingstone’s Last African Expedition’ we meet the great explorer on his last expedition to find the source of Africa’s longest river, the Nile.
ISBN: 978885300-830-5
Издательство:
CIDEB
Дата выхода: август 2011
Penguin Books "The True Confessions of Adrian Mole" is the third in the series to be part of Penguin`s Sue Townsend repackaging programme. A chance to sell Sue Townsend to a whole new audience! Adrian Mole has grown up. At least that`s what it says on his passport. But living at home, clinging to his threadbare cuddly rabbit "Pinky", working as a paper pusher for the DoE and pining for the love of his life Pandora has proved to him that adulthood isn`t quite what he hoped it would be. Still, intellectual poets can`t always have things their own Included here are two other less well-known diarists: Sue Townsend and Margaret Hilda Roberts, a rather ambitious grocer`s daughter from Grantham.
ISBN: 978-0-14-101085-4
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
A fictionalised account of Hemingway`s time spent living and hunting in Kenya. The single draft, written in 1953, was discovered and edited by his son Patrick, and is published to commemorate the centenary of the writer`s birth.
ISBN: 0-09-928212-7
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
based tabloid reporter Hope Spencer has come to Gospel hoping for inspiration. Well, she gets has never met anyone quite like the resident of Gospel. From the Dean sisters with their color-coordinated hair to the toilet-tossing the murder victim whose body had been found in her house years before. She discovers that really is stranger than fiction - even tabloid fiction! And then there is local sheriff Dylan Taber. He is no made-up character from one of her stories. Dylan is all too soon Hope is forced to face the awful truth - she`s been too long without a man. But once she gets wind of a Hollywood actress somehow mixed up Dylan`s life, Hope realizes that if they are to have a furture together, he has some true confessing to do.
ISBN: 978-0-380-81438-1
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: август 2011
