"Серия книг «Зарубежная классика — читай в оригинале» — это бессмертные произведения великих мастеров пера, написанные ими на их родном языке и наречии. Книги из этой серии помогут читателю углубленно изучать иностранные языки, обогатят его внутренний мир и по-новому откроют произведения известных классиков. Приключенческий роман Александра Дюма «Двадцать лет спустя. Том I». Первый роман из...
ISBN: 978-5-519-49764-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2016
Александр Дюма - один из значимых классиков французской литературы. Его произведения продолжают покорять сердца читателей по всему миру. "Двадцать лет спустя" - это известное продолжение романа "Три мушкетёра", на страницах которого нас встречают уже знакомые герои и новые исторические личности на фоне бурной жизни Франции и трагической истории Англии. Книга, от которой невозможно оторваться, бриллиант в...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05442-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2017
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
Decade by decade, the lavishly illustrated Vintage Jewellery recounts over 100 years of history, from Lalique`s Art Nouveau enamelling at the turn of the twentieth century to Cartier`s gemstones and Christian Dior`s mid-century costume pieces to Harry Winston`s diamonds. Accompanied by archive images, fashion photography and specially commissioned photographs of period pieces, the most collectible and beautiful bracelets, necklaces, rings and brooches are showcased. An invaluable reference as well as a visual delight of times past, the book explores the key designers and jewellery houses that shaped jewellery design.
ISBN: 978-1-84732-574-7
Издательство:
Carlton Books Ltd
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Madeleine Arsenault is returning home after her father`s death - determined to prove that she can save her family`s debt-ridden business and run the most prestigious champagne house in Elson `s life is about to change in ways the London hotel maid never imagined. Inheriting a vineyard is only the beginning of her thirst for her marriage to a Hollywood bad boy ends, supermodel Christina Morgan wants to prove she`s more than a pretty face. That`s why she`s set her sights on transforming her ex-husband`s California vineyard into a major One sparkling prize a ruthless shattering family scandalous women competing to produce the world`s best sparkling wine and willing to risk everything to win, unaware that they share a single enemy: driven by...
ISBN: 978-0-440-24514-8
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: август 2011
This generous and discerning volume of 33 stories proves that American short fiction is in the middle of a renaissance. Choosing both contemporary classics and works certain to be well-recognized in years to come, Wolff has assembed the outstanding stories by the most inventive, eloquent, and honest American writers, from 1980 to the present.
ISBN: 978-0-679-74513-6
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The Collector`s Library volumes of short stories - Best Ghost Stories, Best Fairy Stories, Celtic Fairy Tales and Tales of the Macabre have proved popular throughout the world. This new collection of detective stories of the golden age includes intriguing tales by Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Wallace, Chesterton, `Sapper`, Hornung, and Arnold Bennett. These masters of the genre are joined by less well-known but equally skilled writers such as Arthur B. Reeve, Maurice LeBlanc, Ernest Bramah, Mrs Henry Wood, Stacy Aumonier and Herbert Jenkins among others.
ISBN: 978-1-907360-68-8
Издательство:
CRW Publishing
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
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
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
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
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
