ISBN: 0-00-717198-6
Издательство: HarperCollins
Дата выхода: апрель 2004

The Two Towers is the second part of J.R.R. Tolkien`s epic adventure, The Lord of the Rings.Frodo and the Companions of the Ring have been beset by danger during their quest to prevent the Ruling Ring from falling into the hands of the Dark Lord by destroying it in the Cracks of Doom. They have lost the wizard, Gandalf, in the battle with an evil spirit in the Mines of Moria; and at the Falls of Rauros, Boromir, seduced by the power of the Ring, tried to seize it by force. While Frodo and Sam made their escape the rest of the company were attacked by Orcs.Now they continue their journey alone down the great River Anduin - alone, that is, save for the mysterious creeping figure that follows wherever they go.The text of this edition has...

ISBN: 9780008376130
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2022

An explosive story of East End violence, the terrors of prison life and the pursuit of justice against all odds, with a heroine whose heartbreaking story will stay with you forever.

ISBN: 978-0-7472-5540-6
Издательство: Hodder
Дата выхода: июль 2011

ISBN: 9780340821381
Издательство: Hodder
Дата выхода: январь 2018

ISBN: 9780752882321
Издательство: Orion Books
Дата выхода: январь 2007

It is the story of one unremarkable steamship captain, pitted against a storm of incredible fury. Captain Macwhirr has a reputation as a solid, steadfast man, who "having just enough imagination to carry him through each successive day, and no more" cannot fully believe any storm would be a match for his powerful ship. When the barometer and other clues begin to hint at trouble ahead, he is only moderately concerned and unwilling to change course and lose precious time-a decision that may prove more costly than he could ever have imagined.

ISBN: 978-5-521-06449-6
Издательство: Т8
Дата выхода: февраль 2018

"Typhoon", "Falk", "Amy Foster", "The Secret Sharer" The four tales in this volume share autobiographical origins in Conrad`s experience at sea and his exile from Poland, the country of his birth. `Typhoon` is the story of a steamship and her crew beset by tempest, and of the stolid captain whose dogged courage is tested to the limit. In `Falk` a taciturn young woman is bizarrely courted by a tug-boat master who is haunted by a terrible secret. `Amy Foster` tells of an emigrant Pole struggling to overcome isolation and prejudice in England. The final tale, `The Secret Sharer`, is Conrad`s most famous short story, a masterpiece of suspense and ambiguity. Giving sanctuary to a fugitive sailor, a young sea-captain risks his ship and his...

ISBN: 978-0-19-953903-1
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: июль 2011

ISBN: 9781405927710
Дата выхода: январь 2018

Hong Kong 1997 - only a few short months of British rule remain before the territory returns to Chinese rule. It’s a febrile place. And in that claustrophobic environment of uncertainty and fear the spooks are hard at work, jostling for position and influence. So when an elderly man emerges from the seas off the New Territories, claiming to know secrets he will share only with the Governor himself, a young MI6 agent, Joe Lennox, sees an opportunity to make his reputation. But when the old man, a high-profile Chinese professor, is spirited away in the middle of the night by Joe’s superiors in collusion with the CIA, it’s clear that there’s a great deal more than a young spy’s career at stake. The professor, it seems, holds the...

ISBN: 978-0-14-104129-2
Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: август 2011

Множество книг написано о морских приключениях, но лишь немногие могут сравниться с шедевром Джозефа Конрада. Морское судно попадает в тайфун - тропический циклон в северо-западной части Тихого океана. Капитан судна, обладающий репутацией стойкого и несгибаемого человека, намеренно отказывается сменить курс... Что окажется сильнее - сила человеческого духа или бездушная стихия? Читайте зарубежную...

ISBN: 978-5-521-05541-8
Издательство: Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2017

A moon rock missing for thirty Five buckets of blood-soaked sand found in a New Mexico A scientist with ambition enough to A monk who will redeem the A dark agency with a deadly The greatest scientific discovery of all What fire bolt from the galatic dark shattered the Earth eons ago, and now hides in that remote cleft in the southwest United States known Tyrannosaur Canyon? The stunning new masterwork from the acclaimed bestselling author recently hailed by "Publishers Weekly" as `better than Crichton`.

ISBN: 978-0-330-44864-2
Издательство: Picador
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

Welcome to the world of the Instrumentalities of the Night, where imps, demons, and dark gods rule in the spaces surrounding upstart humanity. At the edges of the world stand walls of ice which push slowly forward to reclaim the land for the night. And at the world’s center, in the Holy Land where two great religions were born, are the Wells of Ihrain, the source of the greatest magics. Over the last century the Patriarchs of the West have demanded crusades to claim the Wells from the Pramans, the followers of the Written. Now an uneasy truce extends between the Pramans and the West, waiting for a spark to start the conflict anew. Then, on a mission in the Holy Land, the young Praman warrior Else is attacked by a creature of the...

ISBN: 978-0-7653-4596-7
Издательство: Holtzbrink
Дата выхода: август 2011

ISBN: 978-0-330-43964-0
Издательство: Pan Macmillan
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

Everyone knows that tyrannosauruses are big and scary, so when a placid duckbill dinosaur`s egg ends up in the wrong nest confusion is sure to ensue! When the baby dinosaur hatches out, he`s so out of place that his grisly big sisters

ISBN: 978-0-230-01550-0
Издательство: Macmillan ELT
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

Eyewitness testimony is notoriously unreliable. Even more so when Kinsey Milhone`s only lead is a grown man dredging up a repressed childhood memory - of something that may never have happened. (Grafton`s) most structurally complex, psychologically potent book to date.

ISBN: 978-0-425-23811-0
Издательство: Penguin Group
Дата выхода: август 2011

ISBN: 9780470436394
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

In this experimental trilogy, Dos Passos uses "camera eye" and "newsreel" sections to create a fragmented atmosphere. Through the testimony of numerous characters, both fictional and historical figures, he buids up a composite picture of American society in the first quarter of the 20th century.

ISBN: 0-14-118581-3
Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2004

Featuring interviews with band members and key people close to them, and tracing the band`s meteroic rise from the early days to a group that has galvanized the pop music scene, this title explores the background and inspiration behind the songs written by U2.

ISBN: 9781847322876
Издательство: Carlton Books Ltd
Дата выхода: октябрь 2009