Equally at home in satirical novels and biting critical essays, wickedly funny short stories and intimate autobiography, Martin Amis is widely regarded as one of the most influential yet inimitable voices in contemporary fiction, a writer whose prose captures the warp-speed rush of modernity. "Vintage Amis" displays this versatility in an excerpt from the author’s award-winning memoir, "Experience"; the “Horrorday” chapter from "London Fields"; a vignette from his novel "Money"; the stories “State of England”, “Insight at Flam Lake” and “Coincidence of the Arts”; and the essays “Visiting Mrs. Nabokov”, “Phantom of the Opera”. Also included, for the first time in book form, the short story “Porno’s Last...
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3399-7
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011
A richly entertaining and exciting collection of mystery and detective stories from the golden age of crime fiction. This was a period when crimes were solved by the wit and ingenuity of the sleuth who only had his own intelligence to rely on rather than a battery of scientific devices and procedures employed by the modern crime solver. Within these pages you will meet such fascinating sleuths as Chesterton`s Mr Pond, Ernest Bramah`s remarkable blind detective, Max Carrados, who can read newspapers by allowing his sensitive fingers to run over the print, Craig Kennedy, `the American Sherlock Holmes` created by Arthur B. Reeve, and Jacques Futrelle`s Professor Van Dusen, `The Thinking Machine` amongst others. Tales by Charles Dickens,...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-065-0
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: август 2011
This title contains geography with the gritty bits left in. Where in the world can you: Find red-hot volcanic rocks the size of cars? Visit geysers that could boil you alive? Sniff some stinky sulphur?
ISBN: 978-0-439944-58-8
Издательство:
Scholastic Inc
Дата выхода: август 2010
In the grand manner of Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice`s new novel moves across time and the continents, from nineteenth-century Vienna to a St. Charles Greek Revival mansion in present-day New Orleans to the dazzling capitals of the modern-day world, telling a story of two charismatic figures bound to each other by a passionate commitment to music as a means of rapture, seduction, and liberation. At the novel`s center: a uniquely fascinating woman, Triana - who once dreamed of becoming a great musician - and the demonic fiddler Stefan, tormented ghost of a Russian aristocrat, who begins to prey upon her, using his magic violin first to enchant, then to dominate and draw her into a state of madness through the music she loves. But...
The National Bestseller In the autumn of 1558, church bells across England ring out the joyous news that Elizabeth I is the new queen. One woman hears the tidings with utter dread. She is Amy Dudley, wife of Sir Robert, and she knows that Elizabeth`s ambitious leap to the throne will draw her husband back to the center of the glamorous Tudor court, where he was born to be. Elizabeth`s excited triumph is short-lived. She has inherited a bankrupt country where treason is rampant and foreign war a certainty. Her faithful advisor William Cecil warns her that she will survive only if she marries a strong prince to govern the rebellious country, but the one man Elizabeth desires is her childhood friend, the ambitious Robert Dudley. As the...
ISBN: 978-0-7432-6926-1
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster USA
Дата выхода: май 2012
On the morning the last Lisbon daughter took her turn at suicide — it was Mary this time, and sleeping pills, like Therese — the two paramedics arrived at the house knowing where the knife drawer was, and the gas oven, and the beam in the basement from which it was possible to tie a ’ First published in 1993, the haunting, humorous and tender story of the brief lives of the five entrancing Lisbon sisters is Pulitzer Prize-winner Jeffrey Eugenides classic debut novel.
ISBN: 978-0-7475-6059-3
Издательство:
Bloomsbury
Дата выхода: июль 2011
This book is from the bestselling author of Girl With a Pearl Earring, a reissue of her first novel, which was first published in 1996. This is the compelling story of two women, born four centuries apart, and the ancestral legacy that binds them. Ella Turner does her best to fit in to the small, close-knit community of Lisle-sur-Tarn. She even changes her name back to Tournier, and knocks the rust off her high school French. But it is all in vain. Isolated and lonely, she is drawn to investigate her Tournier ancestry, which leads to her encounter with the town`s wolfish librarian. Isabelle du Moulin, known as Le Rousse due to her fiery red hair, is tormented and shunned in the village - suspected of witchcraft and reviled for her...
ISBN: 978-0-00-724146-0
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
Getting old? Get over it! For too long those in short skirts have been telling us oldies we don`t matter: `you`re out of touch! Get out of the way, grandma! The next generation is coming through`. Well, enough is enough. Because getting old is great. For a start you no longer need to care what anyone thinks. You can let - if you`ve got any left - your hair down. No one will tell you off for grumbling. And no one minds if you forget (or pretend to forget) who you`re talking to. Being rude has never been so easy - or liberating. And that`s not all you can get away with now that you`ve seen it all (and done most of it)... Let Virginia Ironside take you through the top twenty reasons why getting old is good for you - and let the young and...
ISBN: 978-0-14-104371-5
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
Sumptuous historical novel from bestselling author of the other boleyn girl and the queen`s fool Elizabeth I has acceded to the throne of England, a position she has waited and schemed for all her life. She is surrounded by advisers, all convinced that a young woman cannot form political judgements. Elizabeth feels that she can rely on just one man: her oldest friend, Robert Dudley. It is soon plain that he is more than merely a friend. In a house in the countryside waits a very different woman, Amy Robsart - Robert`s wife. She has no taste for life at court and longs for the day when her husband will return home. She has loved him since she was a girl, but now they are adults she hardly sees him. Meanwhile, the pressure grows for...
ISBN: 978-0-00-714731-1
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
Every summer, the Ramsays visit their summer home on the beautiful Isle of Skye, surrounded by the excitement and chatter of family and friends, mirroring Virginia Woolf`s own joyful holidays of her youth. But as time passes, and in its wake the First World War, the transience of life becomes ever more apparent through the vignette of the thoughts and observations of the novel`s disparate cast. A landmark of high modernism and the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf`s novels, To the Lighthouse explores themes of loss, class structure and the question of perception, in a hauntingly beautiful memorial to the lost but not forgotten. Chosen by TIME magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present.
Terrific, free-standing suel to the historical bestseller Earthly Joys, as John Tradescant, the Younger witnesses the English Civil War and its aftermath from his position as royal gardener. John Tradescant, the Younger has inherited his fathers unique collection of plants along with his unerring ability to nurture them. But as gardener to Charles I, he confronts an unbearable dilemma when England descends into Civil War. Fleeing from the chaos, John travels to the Royalist colony of Virginia in America. But, the virgin land is not uninhabited. Johns plant hunting brings him to live with the native people, and he learns to love and respect their way of life just as it is threatened by the colonial settlers. In the new world and the old,...
ISBN: 978-0-00-722848-5
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: июль 2012
With bridal magazine covers to her credit, Mackensie "Mac" Elliot is most at home behind the camera - ready to capture the happy moments she never experienced while growing up. Her father replaced his first family with a second, and now her mother, moving on to yet another man, begs Mac for attention and money. Mac`s foundation is jostled again moments before an important planning meeting when she bumps into the bride-to-be`s brother…an encounter that has them both seeing stars. Carter Maguire is definitely not her type: he`s stable, and he`s safe. He`s even an English teacher at their high school alma mater. There`s something about him that makes Mac think a casual fling is just what she needs to take her mind off dealing with...
