ISBN: 9781853260629 Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd. Дата выхода: январь 2018
ISBN: 0-451-52326-1 Издательство: Penguin USA Дата выхода: февраль 2007
`If life could write, it would write like Tolstoy.`Isaac Babel Tolstoy`s epic masterpiece intertwines the lives of private and public individuals during the time of the Napoleonic wars and the French invasion of Russia. The fortunes of the Rostovs and the Bolkonskys, of Pierre, Natasha, and Andrei, are intimately connected with the national history that is played out in parallel with their lives. Balls and soirees alternate with councils of war and the machinations of statesmen and generals, scenes of violent battles with everyday human passions in a work whose extraordinary imaginative power has never been surpassed. The prodigious cast of characters, both great and small, seem to act and move as if connected by threads of destiny as...
ISBN: 978-0-19-923276-5 Издательство: Oxford University Press Дата выхода: август 2011
`War and Peace` is a vast epic centred on Napoleon`s war with Russia. While it expresses Tolstoy`s view that history is an inexorable process which man cannot influence, he peoples his great novel with a cast of over five hundred characters. Three of these, the artless and delightful Natasha Rostov, the world-weary Prince Andrew Bolkonsky and the idealistic Pierre Bezukhov illustrate Tolstoy`s philosophy in this novel of unquestioned mastery.
ISBN: 1-85326-062-2 Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd. Дата выхода: январь 2006
The monumental novel considered one of the greatest ever written is an epic of the Napoleonic Wars, a philosophical study, and a celebration of the Russian spirit.
ISBN: 978-0-345-47240-3 Издательство: Random House (USA) Дата выхода: февраль 2012
`You know what they say about GIs and English girls`knickers`, ran the wartime joke, `One Yank and they`re off.` When Gloria met Ron, he was an American pilot who thought nothing of getting hit by shrapnel in the cockpit. She was working in a munitions factory in Bristol during the Blitz, but still found time to grab what she wanted. Ciggies. Sex. American soldiers. But war has an effect on people. Gloria did all sorts of things she wouldn`t normally do - evil things, some of them - because she might be dead tomorrow. Or someone might. Now, fifty years on, it`s payback time. In her old folks` home, Gloria is forced to remember the real truth about her and Ron, and confront the secret at the heart of her dramatic home front story. In a...
ISBN: 978-0-7475-6431-7 Издательство: Bloomsbury Дата выхода: июль 2011
ISBN: 9780008640712 Дата выхода: ноябрь 2023
A richly illustrated gift picture book edition of Michael Morpurgo’s classic wartime story War Horse, which has been captivating audiences young and old for 40 years.War Horse celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2022!This powerful book for younger readers tells the enduring story of a friendship between a boy and his horse amid the turmoil of the First World War. For 40 years, War Horse has been helping children understand conflict. As we move beyond centenary commemorations and continue to strive for peace across the world, it remains an important book for young readers learning about the past.Michael Morpurgo has written more than one hundred books for children and won the Whitbread Award, the Smarties Award, the Circle of Gold Award,...
ISBN: 9781405292443 Издательство: Farshore Дата выхода: ноябрь 2022
In 1914, Joey, a young farm horse, is sold to the army and thrust into the midst of the war on the Western Front. With his officer, he charges towards the enemy, witnessing the horror of the frontline. But even in the desolation of the trenches, Joey`s courage touches the soldiers around him.
ISBN: 978-1-4052-2666-0 Издательство: Egmont Books Ltd Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
ISBN: 9780008535711 Дата выхода: январь 2022
This is a stunning wartime classic. In the deadly chaos of the First World War, one horse witnesses the reality of battle from both sides of the trenches. Bombarded by artillery, with bullets knocking riders from his back, Joey tells a powerful story of the truest friendships surviving in terrible times. "The bedlam of battle had begun. All around me men cried and fell to the ground, and horses reared and screamed in an agony of fear and pain. The shells whined and roared overhead, and every explosion seemed like an earthquake to us". One horse has seen the best and the worst of humanity. The power of war and the beauty of peace. This is his story.
ISBN: 978-1-4052-5941-5 Издательство: Egmont Books Ltd Дата выхода: ноябрь 2011
ISBN: 9781529050424 Дата выхода: январь 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4749-1853-4 Дата выхода: январь 2017
A metal object falls from the sky over the south of England, and strange creatures come out. But they are not human - they are fighting machines from Mars. When another object falls, and then another, people start to worry. Are the Martians trying to take over the Earth?
ISBN: 978-1-4058-0638-1 Издательство: Pearson Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
ISBN: 9780749391300 Издательство: Random House Дата выхода: январь 1991
The second of two companion volumes which documents the later writing of "The Silmarillion", Tolkiens epic tale of war. In "The War of the Jewels" Christopher Tolkien takes up his account of the later history of "The Silmarillion" from the point where it was left in Morgoths Ring. The story now returns to Middle-earth, and the ruinous conflict of the High Elves and the Men who were their allies with the power fothe Dark Lord. With the publication in this book of all Tolkiens later narrative writing concerned with the last centuries of the First Age, the long history of "The Silmarillion", from its beginning in "The Book of Lost Tales", is completed; and the enigmatic state of the work at his death can be understood. This book contains...
ISBN: 978-0-261-10324-5 Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers Дата выхода: август 2011
Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title - offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords. This edition of "War of the Worlds" includes a Introduction, Biographical Note, and Afterword by James Gunn. They came form outer space - Mars, to be exact. With deadly heat-rays and giant fighting machine they want to conquer Earth and keep humans as their slaves. Nothing seems to stop them as they spread terror and death across the planet. It is the start of the most...
ISBN: 0-8125-0515-8 Издательство: Holtzbrink Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Jack London (1876-1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. As the title intends, this volume includes seven interesting works including "The Class Struggle", "The Tramp" and "The Question of the Maximum". Most of them express author`s views on socialism, heavily influenced by the works of Darwin, Marx, and Nietzsche.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07517-1 Издательство: Т8 Дата выхода: июль 2018
ISBN: 9780008183868 Дата выхода: январь 2019
ISBN: 9781847496461 Издательство: Alma Books Дата выхода: январь 2017
A unique anthology of Kipling`s war stories and poems, from the frontier wars of empire to the Boer War and the First World War.
ISBN: 978-0-19-955550-5 Издательство: Oxford University Press Дата выхода: август 2011
The US Army Special Forces, more familiarly known as the Green Berets, are the elite fighting force of the United States military. Their experiences in covert operations and unconventional warfare have been a part of American military action for decades Author Hans Halberstadt has collected first-hand recollections of dozens of Green Berets, past and present, who spent time on the battlefields of Viet Nam, Grenada, Panama, Kuwait, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Their harrowing stories are told here, providing rare insight into the world of the Green Beret.
ISBN: 9780760319741 Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
After bursting onto the fantasy scene with his acclaimed debut novel, "Elantris", and following up with his blockbuster Mistborn trilogy, Brandon Sanderson proves again that he is today’s leading master of what Tolkien called “secondary creation”, the invention of whole worlds, complete with magics and myths all their own. Warbreaker is the story of two sisters, who happen to be princesses, the God King one of them has to marry, the lesser god who doesn’t like his job, and the immortal who’s still trying to undo the mistakes he made hundreds of years ago. Their world is one in which those who die in glory return as gods to live confined to a pantheon in Hallandren’s capital city and where a power known as BioChromatic magic...
ISBN: 978-0-7653-6003-8 Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Дата выхода: август 2011
Kaplan`s SAT/ACT Vocabulary-Building Manga series features an assortment of today`s most popular graphic novels, with the most important and frequently seen words that show up on the SAT and ACT exams, highlighted throughout the text of the story. Definitions are on the margins surrounding the graphics, and words are in talk bubbles and sidebars describing the action.
ISBN: 978-1-4277-5495-0 Дата выхода: июль 2011
Writing towards the close of the nineteenth century, Chekhov - himself a country doctor - recorded in his fiction the symptoms of a diseased society. The seven stories collected here are a bleakly savage indictment of a society paralysed by spiritual malaise, and morbidly conscious of evils which can neither be killed nor cured. This volume also contains an Introduction by Ronald Hingley.
ISBN: 978-0-19-955389-1 Издательство: Oxford University Press Дата выхода: июль 2011
