Учитесь ли вы иностранному языку или говорите на нем в совершенстве, любите ли читать книги на языке автора, а не в переводе – вам в этот раздел! Успешным бизнесменам, топ-менеджерам и тем, кто хочет таковыми стать будет полезен Курс делового английского языка. Тем, кто уже владеет английским, повезло - они могут прямо сейчас, не дожидаяь перевода на русский, прочитать захватывающий роман Стивена Joyland и европейский бестселлер Inferno Дэна Брауна. Ну, а тем, кто решил провести свой отпуск во Франции, пригодится Русско-французский разговорник и словарь.
Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard is a 1904 novel by Joseph Conrad, set in the fictitious South American republic of "Costaguana". The events described in the novel are typical for political life in underdeveloped countries. The author takes up the problem of imperialism and its corrupting action even on the best people, which is the main character of the novel — the sailor Nostromo.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06667-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
Nostromo is the only man capable of the decisive action needed to save the silver of the San Tome mine and secure independence for Sulaco, Occidental Province of the Latin American state of Costaguana. Is his integrity as unassailable as everyone believes, or will his ideals, like those, which have inspired the struggling state itself, buckle under economic and political pressures? `Nostromo` is an extraordinary illustration of the impact of foreign commercial exploits on a young developing nation, and of the problems of reconciling individual identity with a social role. Conrad peoples his imaginary Latin American state with a multi-national cast of fully-rounded characters to achieve striking realism and create a novel that he called...
ISBN: 1-85326-174-2
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2002
In the imaginary South American republic of Costaguana, Charles Gould`s San Tomé silver mine is besieged by rebels, in this 1904 novel by the author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim. Gould recruits the allegedly incorruptible hero Nostromo to oppose the marauders, but Nostromo`s own mistakes may have disastrous repercussions. Conrad`s novel portrays in shocking detail the corrupting influence of money, the devious effects of greed, and the lure of silver and its power over men - destroying some and revealing the strengths of others.
ISBN: 978-0-486-42452-1
Издательство:
Dover
Дата выхода: январь 2012
One million dollars - that`s what Harvey Metcalfe, lifelong king of shady deals, has pulled off with empty promises of an oil bonanza and instant riches. Overnight, four men - the heir to an earldom, a Harley Street doctor, a Bond Street art dealer and an Oxford don - find themselves penniless. But this time Harvey has swindled the wrong men. They band together and shadow him from the casinos of Monte Carlo to the high-stakes windows at Ascot and the hallowed lawns of Oxford. Their plan is simple: to sting the crook for exactly what they lost - not a penny more, not a penny less. `Marvellously plotted, with just the right amounts of romance, wit and savoir-faire`. Publishers Weekly. `There isn`t a better storyteller alive`. Larry King....
ISBN: 978-1-4472-1822-7
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
A plot-twisting classic from one of the world's biggest authors, reissued with a new cover look One million dollars - that's what Harvey Metcalfe, lifelong king of shady deals, has pulled off with empty promises of an oil bonanza and instant riches. Overnight, four men - the heir to an earldom, a Harley Street doctor, a Bond Street art dealer and an Oxford don - find themselves penniless. But this time Harvey has swindled the wrong men. They band together and shadow him from the casinos of Monte Carlo to the high-stakes windows at Ascot and the hallowed lawns of plan is simple: to sting the crook for exactly what they lost. To the penny. 'Marvellously plotted, with just the right amounts of romance, wit and...
ISBN: 978-0-330-41904-8
Издательство:
Pan Macmillan
Дата выхода: август 2011
One million dollars - that`s what Harvey Metcalfe, lifelong king of shady deals, has pulled off with empty promises of an oil bonanza and instant riches. Overnight, four men - the heir to an earldom, a Harley Street doctor, a Bond Street art dealer and an Oxford don - find themselves penniless. But this time Harvey has swindled the wrong men. They band together and shadow him from the casinos of Monte Carlo to the high-stakes windows at Ascot and the hallowed lawns of Oxford. Their plan is simple: to sting the crook for exactly what they lost. To the penny. `Marvelously plotted, with just the right amounts of romance, wit and savoir-faire` - "Publishers Weekly".
ISBN: 978-0-312-99713-7
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student`s ability. George Keegan, a Dublin lawyer, wakes
ISBN: 9780521140966
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
They say that opposites might explain why sexy, successful Adele Harris is such a loser-magnet! Frankly, she attracts so many weridos and nut-jobs that she`s beginning to think that she`s cursed. And it`s about to get worse. When Adele heads home to Cedar Creek, Texas, she runs into her first-ever bad date - the delicious Zach - and it seems he wants a second chance. Like she`d ever let him (big ol` drop-dead-gorgeous him) near her heart again. Uh-huh. No way. Ain`t never gonna and, to make matters worse, a thoroughly unwelcome American girl has just arrived.
ISBN: 978-0-7553-4597-7
Издательство:
Headline Publ.
Дата выхода: июль 2011
One million dollars - that`s what Harvey Metcalfe, lifelong king of shady deals, has pulled off with empty promises of an oil bonanza and instant riches. Overnight, four men - the heir to an earldom, a Harley Street doctor, a Bond Street art dealer and an Oxford don - find themselves penniless.
ISBN: 0-06-100735-8
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
What does a gal have to do to get a good date in this town? Adele Harris can`t even begin to answer that question. She`s had so many lousy dates that she`s sure she`s cursed. Why else would every man she goes out with suddenly act like he`s lost his mind - and his manners? Adele thought life couldn`t get any more until she learns the marriage of her seemingly Miss Perfect sister is on the rocks. So she goes back to their hometown to give her a shoulder to cry on, only to run smack into Zach the one who got away. Texans love God, family, and football, though not always in that order Zach, a former pro star, knows all about football. As for the other two, well, he`s doing his best. But when Adele comes charging back into his life - still...
On the night Brian Bishop murdered his wife, he was sixty miles away, asleep in bed at the time. At least, that’s the way it looks to Detective Superintendent Roy Grace who is called in to investigate the kinky slaying of beautiful young Brighton socialite, Katie Bishop. Soon, Grace starts coming to the conclusion that Bishop has performed the apparently impossible feat of being in two places at once. Has someone stolen his identity, or is he simply a very clever liar? As Grace digs deeper behind the facade of the Bishops’ outwardly respectable lives, it starts to become clear that all is not at all as it first seemed. And then he digs just a little too far, and suddenly the fragile stability of his own troubled, private world is facing
ISBN: 978-0-330-44612-9
Издательство:
Picador
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Here together for the first time in one volume are the twenty five spooky stories created by Sir Andrew Caldecott in two collections the 1940s: Not Exactly Ghosts and Fires Burn Blue. Caldecott, who only turned to fiction after retiring from the civil service, allowed his lifelong fascination with the supernatural full reign in these simple yet remarkably disturbing stories. Taking his inspiration from the master of the ghost story, M. R. James, who chilled by implication rather than by gory description, Caldecott created believable but unsettling scenarios which effectively produce a sense of unease in the reader. The mundane becomes horrific; the everyday is unnerving; and the commonplace is frightening. At last these rare forgotten...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-549-5
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: июль 2011
What is the real world? Does it exist, or is it merely a means of keeping another reality at bay? This collection offers a vision of another world which lurks just beneath the surface of our consciousness, a world where the myths we have banished from our lives are present and where imagination has the power to transform reality.
ISBN: 978-0-552-77105-4
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
When the going gets tough, you find out who your friends really Laura Fanning has talent to burn, a brand-new jewellery design company and a wonderful husband. Nicola Peters has independence, a job she loves and her own home. Helen Jackson has a killer wardrobe, a thriving career and a lively and engaging daughter. But all is not as it seems. Laura`s struggling to live up to her parents` impossible expectations, Nicola is coping with a life-changing event, Helen`s worried that her maternal instinct has gone AWOL - and trying to cope with their problems alone is driving the three friends apart just when they need each other most. Then into the mix comes Chloe Fallon. She`s marrying gorgeous Dan Hunt and planning the wedding of the year,...
ISBN: 978-0-09-948692-3
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: август 2011
A man picks up a faded, well-worn notebook and begins reading to a frail elderly woman, his voice recalling the heartbreaking story of two star-crossed lovers and their poignant, bittersweet journey to happiness. So begins this touching novel that is a dual tale of love lost and found, and of a man`s gentle battle to reach an aging woman who cannot remember the most cherished moments of her life. New Line Cinema is developing a screenplay from the novel.
ISBN: 0-446-60523-9
Издательство:
Warner Books
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
Every so often a love story so captures our hearts that it becomes more than a story-it becomes an experience to remember forever. The Notebook is such a book. It is a celebration of how passion can be ageless and timeless, a tale that moves us to laughter and tears and makes us believe in true love all over again... At thirty-one, Noah Calhoun, back in coastal North Carolina after World War II, is haunted by images of the girl he lost more than a decade earlier. At twenty-nine, socialite Allie Nelson is about to marry a wealthy lawyer, but she cannot stop thinking about the boy who long ago stole her heart. Thus begins the story of a love so enduring and deep it can turn tragedy into triumph, and may even have the power to create a...