On a hot August morning in 1963, the rural towf Grandville is covered with fliers announcing the coming of something extraordinary - a one-night-only performance of The Travelling Vampire Show, featuring Valeria, the only known vampire in captivity. For three local teenagers, it’s a show they don’t want to miss. The trouble is, the show starts at midnight and they’re supposed to be home by then. And in any case, Janks Field, where the show will take place, has been declared off-limits because of its own sinister history. But they can’t just sit at home and let Valeria do her thing without them, can they?
ISBN: 0-7472-5829-5
Издательство:
Hodder
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
In 1960, when he was almost 60 years old, John Steinbeck set out to rediscover the United States, feeling he might have lost touch with its sights sounds and the essence of its people. This book decribes his travels in a pick-up truck across nearly 40 states with his dog Charlie, a French poodle.
ISBN: 978-0-14-118610-8
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years at what he supposes to be his mother`s funeral. Soon after, she persuades Henry to abandon Southwood, his dahlias and the Major next door to travel her way, Brighton, Paris, Istanbul, Paraguay. Through Aunt Augusta, a veteran of Europe`s hotel bedrooms, Henry joins a shiftless, twilight society: mixing with hippies, war criminals, CIA men; smoking pot, breaking all the currency regulations and eventually coming alive after a dull suburban life. In Travels with my Aunt Graham Greene not only gives us intoxicating entertainment but also confronts us with some of the most perplexing of human dilemmas.
ISBN: 978-0-09-928258-7
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
An old man sits in a room, with a single door and window, a bed, a desk and a chair. Each day he awakes with no memory, unsure of whether or not he is locked into the room. Attached to the few objects around him are one-word, hand-written, labels and on the desk is a series of vaguely familiar black-and-white photgraphs and four piles of paper. Then a middle-aged woman called Anna enters and talks of pills and treatment, but also of love and promises. Who is he? What is he doing here? When did he arrive and how long will he remain? With any luck, time will tell us
ISBN: 978-0-312-94840-5
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
An old man awakens, disoriented, in an unfamiliar chamber. With no memory of who he is or how he has arrived there, he pores over the relics on the desk, examining the circumstances of his confinement and searching his own hazy mind for clues. Determining that he is locked in, the man - identified only as Mr. Blank - begins reading a manuscript he finds on the desk, the story of another prisoner, set in an alternate world the man doesn`t recognize. Nevertheless, the pages seem to have been left for him, along with a haunting set of photographs. As the day passes, various characters call on the man in his cell - vaguely familiar people, some who seem to resent him for crimes he can`t remember - and each brings frustrating hints of his...
This title includes an introduction and notes by Professor Roger Cardinal. The author of dozens of adventure novels and fantastical tales, Robert Louis Stevenson was also an enthusiast of travel, whether wandering on foot through France in the company of a donkey, crossing the plains of North America in a train crammed with emigrants, or cruising under sail with his wife in the waters of the Pacific. A lively curiosity stimulated his observations of distant places and unknown people: and this selection from his travel writings bears the imprint of a generous and plucky spirit, always eager to embrace the unfamiliar and the exotic. `There are no foreign lands`, Stevenson once wrote, `it is the traveller only who is foreign`. This volume...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-633-1
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: июль 2011
An old man sits in a room, with a single door and window, a bed, a desk and a chair. Each day he awakes with no memory, unsure of whether or not he is locked into the room. Attached to the few objects around him are one-word, hand-written labels, and on the desk is a series of vaguely familiar black-and-white photographs and four piles of paper. Then a middle-aged woman called Anna enters and talks of pills and treatment, but also of love and promises. Who is this Mr Blank, and what is his fate? What does Anna represent from his past - and will he have enough time to ever make sense of the clues that arise? After the huge success of The Brooklyn Follies, his new novel sees Auster return to the metaphysical territory familiar from his...
ISBN: 978-0-571-23257-4
Издательство:
Faber
Дата выхода: август 2011
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, travel writer, and essayist. His most famous works are "Treasure Island" and "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." Now he is one of the most translated authors in the world. Written by young Robert Stevenson, "Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes" is considered a pioneering classic of outdoor literature. Stevenson started the twelve-day track through the wild Cevennes region of France and wrote down the whole way in this story. His only companion for the trip, as you can tell from the title, was a stubborn donkey named Modestine.
ISBN: 978-5-517-00207-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2018
Adventure and piracy in the 18th century! When young Jim Hawkins finds a map of an island where Captain Flint has hidden his treasure, the boy, Squire Trelawney and his friend Dr Livesey sail to the island to look for it. But during the voyage Jim discovers more about the ship’s company, which includes Long John Silver, a man with only one leg. And then the battle for the treasure begins!
ISBN: 978885300-640-0
Издательство:
CIDEB
Дата выхода: февраль 2013
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (1850–1984) - A famous Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. A literary celebrity during his lifetime, Stevenson now ranks among the 26 most talented authors in the world. His most famous works are the Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and A Child’s Garden of Verses. Treasure Island, first published in 1883, is an adventure novel, narrating a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold". It is traditionally considered a coming-of-age story, and is noted for its atmosphere, characters, and action.
ISBN: 978-5-517-09436-0
Издательство:
RUGRAM
Дата выхода: февраль 2023
Jim Hawkins and his parents have a quiet inn by the sea. Then one day, an old sailor arrives at the inn. What is he afraid of? Dangerous men come to the inn. Jim`s quiet life changes, and he goes across the sea by ship to Treasure Island.
ISBN: 978-1-4058-7878-4
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: июль 2012
"Fifteen men on the dead man`s chest - Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!" Treasure Island is a tale of pirates and villains, maps, treasure and shipwreck, and is perhaps the best adventure story ever written. When young Jim Hawkins finds a packet in Captain Flint`s sea chest, he could not know that the map inside would lead him to unimaginable treasure. Shipping as cabin boy on the Hispaniola, he sails with Squire Trelawney, Captain Smollett, Dr Livesey, the sinister Long John Silver and a frightening crew to Treasure Island. There, mutiny, murder and mayhem lead to a thrilling climax.
ISBN: 1-85326-103-3
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2001
Robert Louis Stevenson.retold by Virginia Evans - Jenny Dooley.
Jim Hawkins, a boy with large appetite for adventure, runs an inn with his mother on the south coast of England. One day, an old sea captain, once part of the famous Captain Flints crew, comes to the inn. When the sea captain suddenly dies, Jim finds himself with the captains map of Treasure Island. He and his friends find a ship and set sail to find the buried treasure. But soon they find out that their crew is full of pirates. Will they get the treasure or be left at the pirates mercy?
ISBN: 9781846791307
Издательство:
Express Publishing
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2018
- The classic adventure story by Robert Louis Stevenson re-told for children growing in reading confidence and ability. - When Jim Hawkins sets sail searching for buried treasure and adventure, he finds himself caught up in a deadly mutiny where he must outwit the cunning pirate Long John Silver in order to stay alive. - Boldly illustrated by Peter Dennis. - Usborne Young Reading has been developed with reading experts from Roehampton University.
ISBN: 978-0-7460-8015-3
Издательство:
Usborne
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
