Kurt Vonnegut, described by Graham Greene as One of the best living American writers, is equally well known as an essayist and commentator on American society as he is a novelist. This volume brings together the best of his shorter work - essays, stories, speeches, letters, articles and autobiography.
Their passionate encounter happened two centuries ago when the gallant renegade Jamie Fraser sent her back to her own time, pregnant with his child, believing he would be killed in the bloody Battle of Culloden in 1746. Now their daughter has grown up and Claire discovers that Jamie survived. Drawn back across the chasm of time she seeks once more the man she could never forget, the destiny she cannot ignore ... Формат: 11 см x 17,5 см.
ISBN: 978-0-09-942851-0
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: август 2011
Fondateur de la science-fiction, Jules Verne est un des ecrivains francais du XIXe siecle les plus populaires et les plus aimes. «Voyage au centre de la Terre» est un brillant recit des aventures d`Otto Lidenbrock, professeur de mineralogie, et de son neveu qui se rendent en Islande pour plonger dans le cratere d`un volcan sur les traces du grand voyageur Arne Saknussemm menant jusqu`au centre de la Terre.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06019-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: декабрь 2017
The Voyage Out (1915) is the story of a rite of passage. When Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father`s ship she is launched on a course of self-discovery in a modern version of the mythic voyage. Virginia Woolf knew all too well the forms that she was supposed to follow when writing of a young lady`s entrance into the world, and she struggled to subvert the conventions, wittily and assiduously, rewriting and revising the novel many times. The finished work is not, on the face of it, a "portrait of the artist". However, through The Voyage Out readers will discover Woolf as an emerging and original artist: not identified with the heroine, but present everywhere in the social satire and the lyricism and patterning of...
ISBN: 978-0-19-953930-7
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Just how wacky can a Wednesday get? With shoes on the wall, tortoises in trees, pigs without legs and teachers on roller skates, children will have lots of fun counting all the wacky things they can find on each spread of this entertaining book. With his unique combination of hilarious stories, zany pictures and riotous rhymes, Dr. Suess has been delighting young children and helping them learn to read for over fifty years. Creator of the wonderfully anarchic Cat in the Hat, and ranked among the UK`s top ten favourite children`s authors, Dr. Seuss is a global best-seller, with nearly half a billion books sold worldwide. As part of a major rebrand programme, HarperCollins is relaunching Dr. Seuss`s best-selling books. In response to...
ISBN: 978-0-00-717516-1
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
In the midst of a wood of evergreens on the banks of the Arno, a man - young, handsome, and splendidly attired - has thrown himself upon the ground, where he writhes like a stricken serpent. He is the prey of a demoniac excitement: an appalling consternation is upon him - madness is in his brain - his mind is on fire. Lightnings appear to gleam from his eyes - as if his soul were dismayed, and withering within his breast. `Oh! no-no!` he cries with a piercing shriek, as if wrestling madly - furiously - but vainly, against some unseen fiend that holds him in his grasp. Aged and deserted, Fernand Wagner agrees to serve John Faust for the last year of his life. In return he is given youth, wealth and beauty - but at the terrible price of...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-530-3
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: июль 2011
This is a gripping historical adventure by a much-loved and award winning author. It is World War II and Jo stumbles on a dangerous secret: Jewish children are being smuggled away from the Nazis, close to his mountain village in Spain. Now, German soldiers have been stationed at the border. Jo must get word to his friends that the children are trapped. The slightest mistake could cost them their lives.
ISBN: 978-1-4052-2927-2
Издательство:
Egmont Books Ltd
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Never before published in Kerouac`s lifetime, this 1955 biography of the founder of Buddhism is a clear and powerful study of Siddartha Gautama`s life and works. "Wake Up" recounts the story of Prince Siddhartha`s royal upbringing and his father`s wish to protect him from all human suffering, despite a prediction that he would become a great holy man in later life. Departing from his father`s palace, Siddhartha adopts a homeless life, struggles with his meditations, and eventually finds Enlightenment. Written at the end of Kerouac`s career, when he became increasingly interested in Buddhist teachings, and collected for the first time in one book, this fresh and accessible biography is both an important addition to Kerouac`s work and a...
ISBN: 978-0-14-118946-8
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
This elegant alphabet board book will teach little ones all about nature. Following two children on a day in the countryside, beautiful illustrations and visual storytelling bring a narrative feel to this simple book for very young readers.
ISBN: 9780857636164
Издательство:
Nosy Crow
Дата выхода: январь 2020
God only knows what possessed Bill Bryson, a reluctant adventurer if ever there was one, to undertake a gruelling hike along the world`s longest continuous footpath - The Appalachian Trail. The 2,000-plus-mile trail winds through 14 states, stretching along the east coast of the United States, from Georgia to Maine. It snakes through some of the wildest and most spectacular landscapes in North America, as well as through some of its most poverty-stricken and primitive backwoods areas. With his offbeat sensibility, his eye for the absurd, and his laugh-out-loud sense of humour, Bryson recounts his confrontations with nature at its most uncompromising over his five-month journey. An instant classic, riotously funny, "A Walk in the Woods"...
ISBN: 978-0-307-27946-0
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011
