Brimming with gluttony, booze and lust, Roger Micheldene is loose in America. Supposedly visiting Budweiser University to make deals for his publishing firm in England, Roger instead sets out to offend all he meets and to seduce every woman he encounters. But his American hosts seem made of sterner stuff. Who will be Roger`s undoing? Irving Macher, the young author of an annoyingly brilliant first novel? Father Colgate, the priest who suggests that Roger`s soul is in torment? Or will it be his married ex-lover Helene? One thing is certain ? Roger is heading for a terrible fall. Outrageously funny and irreverent, One Fat Englishman (1963) is a devastating satire on Anglo-American relations.
ISBN: 978-0-14-119426-4
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Эта книга - одно из самых известных произведений знаменитого американского писателя ХХ века К. Кизи. Неадаптированный текст романа снабжен комментариями, заданиями на понимание и словарем. Книга предлагается в качестве учебного пособия для чтения и перевода в вузах и на курсах иностранных языков, а также для самостоятельного чтения.
ISBN: 5-89815-410-8
Издательство:
Каро
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
This is the story of a man who believes in all the British values of a stiff upper lip and keeping emotion in check. He also believes you can only truly love one person in your life, and he loses that love when his wife dies. Taking work as a teacher of English as a foreign language, he begins a series of affairs with his students, knowing that because each of them has to go home after a few months there will be no commitments and no future in any of the relationships. Until he meets a woman who turns all his ideas - about being English, about being foreign, about being able to love - upside down. This novel has all the emotional power and humour of Tony Parson`s 1999 hit novel, Man and Boy. Формат: 13 см x 20 см.
ISBN: 978-0-00-651481-7
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: июль 2011
From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere in this hilarious exploration of simple concepts from the irrepressible Dr. Seuss.This classic Dr. Seuss adventure was first published more than sixty years ago, and it’s still a bestseller today. This hilarious exploration of opposites, colours, numbers and nonsense is the perfect gift for children of any age, as Dr. Seuss paints a crazy world of singing Yings, boxing Goxes and seven-hump Wumps!With his unique combination of hilarious stories, zany pictures and riotous rhymes, Dr. Seuss 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...
ISBN: 9780007425617
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2022
In 1957, Dr. Seuss published the very first Beginner Book, The Cat in the Hat, and made a major impact on the world of education, proving that learning to read can indeed be fun. Now, for the first time, children can hear their favorite Beginner Books on compact disc.
ISBN: 978-0-375-83497-4
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011
One fish, two fish, three, four, one has a car to bouncy counting board book comes with five beads shaped like Seussian fish that toddlers can move across the top of the book as they count along. Based on Dr. Seuss` s celebrated classic, this sturdy board book will be a hit with all the little fish in your family.
ISBN: 978-0-375-83387-8
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011
The dynamite blockbuster that started it all - now a major motion picture starring Katherine Heigl as Stephanie Plum! ONE FINE MESS Welcome to Trenton, New Jersey, home to wiseguys, average Joes, and Stephanie Plum, who sports a big attitude and even bigger money problems (since losing her job as a lingerie buyer for a department store). Stephanie needs cash fast but times are tough, and soon she`s forced to turn to the last resort of the truly desperate: ONE FALSE MOVE Stephanie lands a gig at her sleazy cousin Vinnie`s bail bonding company. She`s got no experience. But that doesn`t matter. Neither does the fact that the bail jumper in question is local vice cop Joe Morelli. From the time he first looked up her dress to the time he...
Bernie Gunther is the ideal narrator for Philip Kerr` bleak tale of the dirty deals made by victors and vanquished alike in post-war Germany. Having learned that there`s no way to distinguish `the one from the other`, the cynical has the moral clarity to see through the deceit and hypocrisy of both friend and is Munich, in the year 1949. Amid the chaos of defeat, it`s home to all the backstabbing intrigue that prospers in the aftermath of war. A place where a private eye can find a lot of not-quite-reputable work: cleaning up the Nazi past of well-to-do locals, abetting fugitives in the flight abroad, and sorting out rival claims to stolen goods. It`s work that fills Bernie with disgust - but it also fills his sorely depleted wallet....
ISBN: 978-1-84724-292-1
Издательство:
Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: март 2012
