With the Cold war fought and won, British spymaster Tim Cranmer accepts early retirement to rural Englang and a new life with his alluring young mistress, Emma. But when both Emma and Cranmer`s star double agent and lifelong rival, Larry Pettifer, disappear, Cranmer is suddenly on the run, searching for his brilliant protege, desperately eluding his former colleagues, in a frantic journey across Europe and into the lawless, battered landscapes of Moscow and southern Russia, to save whatever of his life he has left...
ISBN: 0-345-40000-3
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
At forty-eight, Tim Cranmer is a secret servant in a premature retirement to deepest rural England. His Cold War is fought and won, and he is free to devote himself to his stately manor house, his vineyard, and his beautiful young mistress, Emma.
ISBN: 978-0-340-92436-5
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: август 2011
Just over a century ago, Our Island Story entranced a nation`s children by telling their history in stories. Short, simply written chapters, packed with living characters and thrilling action - and illustrated with vivid colour pictures - illuminate all the main events from Britain`s earliest days to the end of Victoria`s reign. And its glorious fusion of myth and legend with sober fact - Canute and King Arthur with Cromwell and the Indian Mutiny - is as seductive now as it ever was.
ISBN: 978-0-7538-2300-2
Издательство:
Орион
Дата выхода: август 2011
Britain is in the depths of recession. A left leaning young Oxford academic and his barrister girlfriend take an off peak holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua. By seeming chance they bump into a Russian millionaire called Dima who owns a peninsula and a diamond-encrusted gold watch. He also has a tattoo on his right thumb, and wants a game of tennis. What else he wants propels the young lovers on a tortuous journey through Paris to a safe house in the Swiss Alps, to the murkiest cloisters of the of London and its unholy alliance with Britain`s Intelligence Establishment.
ISBN: 978-0-241-95401-0
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Why do we say “I am reading a catalog” instead of "I read a catalog?" Why do we say “do” at all? Is the way we speak a reflection of our cultural values? Delving into these provocative topics and more, Our Magnificent Bastard Language distills hundreds of years of fascinating lore into one lively history. Covering such turning points as the little-known Celtic and Welsh influences on English, the impact of the Viking raids and the Norman Conquest, and the Germanic invasions that started it all during the fifth century ad, John McWhorter narrates this colorful evolution with vigor. Drawing on revolutionary genetic and linguistic research as well as a cache of remarkable trivia about the origins of English words and syntax...
Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic. Our Mutual Friend is Charles Dickens` last novel and one of his most sophisticated works, combining psychological insight with social analysis. John Harmon returns to England after years in exile to claim his inheritance: a great fortune and a beautiful young woman to whom he is betrothed, but has never met. When Harmon`s body is pulled out of the Thames, all of London is fascinated by the mystery of the murdered man and his unclaimed riches. Social-climbers, lawyers, teachers, a money-lender, men and women both honest and villainous will all become embroiled in this tale of love and obsession, death and rebirth.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07940-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. "Our Midnight Visitor" is a wonderful collection of short stories like "Our Midnight Visitor", "The Stone of Boxman`s Drift", " The Voice of Science" and other interesting tales.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08066-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Wormold, a vacuum cleaner salesman, was short of money. His daughter had reached an expensive age - so he accepted Hawthorne`s offer of $300-plus a month and became Agent 59200/5, MI6`s man in Havana. To keep the job, he pretends to recruit sub-agents and sends fake stories. Then they come true.
ISBN: 978-0-09-928608-0
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
As the boat moved silently over the water, the thing at the end of the rope always followed. Sometimes it came near the boat and sometimes it pulled away like something alive. As it moved through the water, changes seemed to pass over the dead man`s face. For the thing that followed at the end of the rope was the body of a drowned man. At the inquest the dead man was identified as Mr John Harmon, who had recently returned from abroad. John Harmon had not been drowned, but murdered. But how had he died and who had killed him? Retold by Margaret Tarner.
ISBN: 978-1-4050-7329-5
Издательство:
Langenscheidt
Дата выхода: июль 2011
"Our Mutual Friend", Dickens` last novel, gives one of his most comprehensive and penetrating accounts of Victorian society. Its vision of a culture stifled by materialistic values emerges not just through its central narratives, but through its apparently incidental characters and scenes. The chief of its several plots centres on John Harmon who returns to England as his father`s heir. He is believed drowned under suspicious circumstances - a situation convenient to his wish for anonymity until he can evaluate Bella Wilfer whom he must marry to secure his inheritance. The story is filled with colourful characters and incidents - the faded aristocrats and parvenus gathered at the Veneering`s dinner table, Betty Higden and her terror of...
ISBN: 1-85326-194-7
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: февраль 2007
Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic. Our Mutual Friend is Charles Dickens` last novel and one of his most sophisticated works, combining psychological insight with social analysis. John Harmon returns to England after years in exile to claim his inheritance: a great fortune and a beautiful young woman to whom he is betrothed, but has never met. When Harmon`s body is pulled out of the Thames, all of London is fascinated by the mystery of the murdered man and his unclaimed riches. Social-climbers, lawyers, teachers, a money-lender, men and women both honest and villainous will all become embroiled in this tale of love and obsession, death and rebirth,
ISBN: 978-5-521-07939-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, a dark romantic, and short story writer. Our Old Home is a collection of essays, based on Hawthorne`s stay in England from 1853 to 1857 as American Consul in Liverpool. It was first published in the form of a series of travel papers for "The Atlantic Monthly". In his essays Hawthorne aimed to show us the splendors of London, and the horrors of the poverty that so many suffered.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07765-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Данный сборник - первая литературная попытка авторов в написании рассказов на иностранном языке, максимально приближенном к его носителям. Сборник рассказов будет полезен для студентов языковых вузов, переводчиков художественной литературы и всех интересующихся изучением иностранных языков.
ISBN: 978-5-98405-096-8
Издательство:
Издательство "ВК"
Дата выхода: июль 2011
