1572. La France des guerres de religion est devenue le champ clos des grands seigneurs et des pretendants au trone. A Paris, le jeune roi protestant de Navarre, le futur Henri V, vient d`epouser Marguerite de Valois, dite Margot; mariage politique qui n`empeche pas les Guise et le roi Charles IX de fomenter les horreurs de la Saint-Barthelemy. Sur les pas du jeune comte de La Mole, dont s`eprend eperdument la belle Margot, et de son compagnon, le tonitruant Annibal de Coconnas, nous entrons dans ce labyrinthe d`intrigues, d`alliances, de trahisons. Les poignards luisent sous les pourpoints. Rene le Florentin fournit les poisons a l`implacable Catherine de Medicis. Le vieux Louvre, avec ses fetes brillantes, ses passages secrets, son...
ISBN: 9782253099994
Издательство:
Livre de Poche
Дата выхода: январь 2020
«C’est l’histoire de ma vie qui a croisé la tienne, c’est l’histoire de nos nerfs en crise, de deux malades qui n’ont que l’amour pour moteur, la rage de rester haut. C’est l’histoire de deux têtes capables de se saborder pour que l’autre ne meure pas. C’est l’histoire du sillon creusé depuis cette rencontre-là, le long duquel poussent les fées et les fleurs. C’est l’histoire d’un prunier à déraciner parce qu’il s’est fichu au milieu, et les fleurs n’ont plus d’eau. Il faut l’abattre, en faire du bois, le bois de notre croix et celui de nos feux. Tu ne mourras pas. Je t’aime».
"Wilhelm von Kaulbach (1805–1874), war ein deutscher Maler, der durch große Wand - und Deckengemälde mit geschichtlichem Inhalt und Literaturillustrationen bekannt wurde. 1839/40 beauftragte ihn der Stuttgarter Verleger Georg von Cotta Johann Wolfgang von Goethes Reinecke Fuchs zu illustrieren. Angeregt von William Hogarth und Grandville schuf Kaulbach bis 1847 36 Hauptbilder und zahlreiche Vignetten, die von Hans Rudolf Rahn und Adrian Schleich gestochen wurden. Die verblüffend vermenschlichte Animierung der Tierwelt zeigte Kaulbachs zweite künstlerische Seite, einen Humor, der ihn über seine Berühmtheit als Historienmaler hinaus populär machte. In den 1850-er Jahren begannen die Arbeiten an den...
ISBN: 978-5-519-48981-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2017
This important book picks up where Dr Deepak Chopra left off in his pioneering work Ageless Body, Timeless Mind. Having revealed the connection between our health and our thoughts, Dr Chopra shows us how to create a whole new self - the self we want to be - in this revolutionary sequel. Dr Chopra explains how the body is a reflection of the mind, `a symbol in flesh and blood of everything you think and feel`. From early childhood each one of us has invented our bodies and our personalities through our beliefs, conditioning and responses to everyday stress. But we have mostly done this unconsciously, which is why we may now feel unfulfilled. Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul will help us to reconnect with our ideal sense of...
Paris - die Stadt der Liebe und des Eiffelturms, der verwinkelten Gassen und ьberfullten Touristenbusse. Hier darf Onkel Boris, ein echter sowjetischer Held der Arbeit, Urlaub machen. Dass sich die vermeintliche franzosische Metropole zu Beginn des Herbstes in ein nebelverhangenes London verwandelt und in Wahrheit eine Kulisse in der sudrussischen Steppe ist, werden die Besucher nie erfahren. Auf der Krim dagegen ist alles echt, selbst die angesengten Stiefel des im Krieg uber der Halbinsel abgeschossenen Joseph Beuys. Und da genug von dem wertvollen Schuhwerk vorhanden scheint, lebt die Bevolkerung nicht schlecht von den Souvenir sammelnden Kunst-Touristen. Формат: 11,5 см x 18 см.
Der Katalog und die Ausstellung veranschaulichen das umfassende Interesse der Braunschweiger Herzöge des 18. Jahrhunderts an Kunst und Kultur der Antike. Antike Artefakte großen und kleinen Formats wurden aufmerksam studiert, gesammelt und nachgeahmt. Besonders aufschlussreich sind hier die Erzeugnisse der von Herzog Carl I. gegründeten Porzellanmanufaktur Fürstenberg, die – ähnlich wie Wedgwood in England – Kaffeeservice und Vasen „im antiken Geschmacke“ nach prunkvollen Publikationen antiker Vasen des 18. Jahrhunderts herstellte. Ein in Italien entstandenes Porträt Batteo Batonis präsentiert Erbprinz Carl Wilhelm Ferdinand als Antikenkenner vor zwei Vasen, die Winckelmann zuvor als Zeugnisse...
ISBN: 978-3-86568-396-0
Издательство:
Michael Imhof Verlag
Дата выхода: август 2011
INTERACT WITH LITERATURE offers a wide range of original literary texts from intermediate level upwards (unabridged short stories or extracts from novels, as well as complete unabridged plays) from English-speaking countries, designed to introduce students to the world of literature. The aim of these volumes is to familiarise readers with the language of literature and encourage them to formulate their own response to what they read. Each volume concentrates on a particular theme, genre or literary current. This selection of extracts from important works by these major 20th-century authors, James Joyce, George Orwell and Virginia Woolf is specially designed for high-school students to supplement their literary studies – in class or as...
ISBN: 978887754-223-6
Издательство:
CIDEB
Дата выхода: июль 2011
A must-read thriller from Dean Koontz - the worldwide bestseller of over 400 million copies. RELENTLESS is a pulse-pounding, page-turning race to the finish. It looked like just a bad review. But perhaps it was a death threat… Being a writer is a dangerous business. When Cubby Greenwich receives a scathing review for his latest bestseller by the feared and therefore revered critic Shearman Waxx, he is determined to take no notice of it. But Fate carries him right into Waxx's path. What began as an innocent and unexpected encounter is about to trigger an inferno of violence. For Shearman Waxx is not merely a ferocious literary enemy, but a ruthless sociopath, and now he is intent on destroying Cubby and everything he holds dear:...
ISBN: 978-0-00-734262-4
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
COUNTRY BUSINESSMAN SEEKS RELIABLE WIFE. COMPELLED BY PRACTICAL REASONS. REPLY BY LETTER. Rural Wisconsin, 1907. In the bitter cold, Ralph Truitt, a successful industrialist, stands alone on a train platform waiting for the woman who answered his newspaper advertisement. But when Catherine steps of the train she`s not the woman that Ralph is expecting. She is both complex and devious. And, haunted by a terrible past, she is motivated by greed. Catherine`s plan is simple. She will win Ralph`s devotion. Later, she will leave him as a wealthy woman. What Catherine has not counted on however is that Ralph might have plans of his own for his new
ISBN: 978-0-349-12236-6
Издательство:
Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The boring debate between fundamentalist believers and non-believers is finally moved on by Alain de Botton`s inspiring new book, which boldly argues that the supernatural claims of religion are of course entirely false - and yet that religions still have important things to teach the secular world. Rather than mocking religions, agnostics and atheists should instead steal from them - because they`re packed with good ideas on how we live and arrange our societies. Blending deep respect with total impiety, de Botton (a non-believer) proposes that we should look to religions for insights into how to build a sense of community, make our relationships last, get more out of art, overcome feelings of envy and inadequacy, and much more. For too...
ISBN: 978-0-241-96405-7
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
This is a new title in the fantastic "First Reading" series, aimed at children who are beginning to read. When a young boy meets a dragon who doesn`t believe in violence he has to defend his new friend from the slash-happy St. George the dragonslayer. This book is developed in consultation with Alison Kelly, who is a senior lecturer in education and an early reading specialist from Roehampton University. It offers a great value quality hardback with ribbon marker guaranteed to foster pride in book ownership.
ISBN: 978-0-7460-9694-9
Издательство:
Usborne Publishing Ltd
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Seven titles in the popular First Reading series are re-issued with hardback covers with audio CDs inserted into a wallet inside the back cover, making the book and CD easy to store together. The Young Reading series is developed with reading expert Alison Kelly from Roehampton University to help young readers grow in confidence and ability.
ISBN: 978-1-4095-3360-3
Издательство:
Usborne
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
At a cafe table in Lahore, a Pakistani man converses with a stranger. As dusk deepens to dark, he begins the tale that has brought him to this fateful the brightest and best of his graduating class at Princeton, Changez is snapped up by an elite firm and thrives on New York and the intensity of his work. And his infatuation with fragile Erica promises entree into Manhattan society on the exalted footing his own family once held back in Lahore. For a time, it seems as though nothing will stand in the way of Changez`s meteoric rise to personal and professional success: the fulfillment of the immigrant`s dream. But in the wake of September 11, he finds his position in the city he loves suddenly overturned, and his budding relationship with...
ISBN: 978-0-14-102954-2
Издательство:
Книжный мир
Дата выхода: июль 2011
This is a classic retelling of St George and the Dragon from a well-loved author and a illustrator pairing `Now, dragon`, said the Boy imploringly. `You`ve got to fight him some time or other you know, `cos he`s St George and you`re the dragon. Better get it over, and then we can go on with the sonnets.`Everyone knows St. George has to do battle with the dragon, but what happens when the dragon simply won`t fight St George? It is a funny story of bravery, friendship and derring-do - gently told and beautifully illustrated.
ISBN: 978-1-4052-3729-1
Издательство:
Egmont Books Ltd
Дата выхода: июль 2012
At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. As dusk deepens into night, he begins the tale that has brought him to this fateful encounter. Changez has lived an immigrant`s dream, studying at Princeton and snapped up by a powerful firm in New York, with the beautiful Erica on his arm and the promise of entry into Manhattan`s elite society. All of this changes after the September 11th attack, and allegiances are unearthed that may be more fundamental than money, power, or even love. The author of the PEN/Hemingway Award nominated New York Times Notable Book Moth Smoke here explores the unexpected connections between the political and the personal.
McCarthy`s debut novel, set in London, takes a clever conceit and pumps it up with vibrant prose to such great effect that the narrative`s pointlessness is nearly a nonissue. The unnamed narrator, who suffers memory loss as the result of
ISBN: 978-1-84688-145-9
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Merrily Watkins, parish priest, single mum and Deliverance Consultant to the Diocese of Hereford, heads for the Malvern Hills to investigate an alleged paranormal dimension to a spate of road accidents in the sleepy village of Wychehill. Merrily is called in when two people are killed in a head-on crash that is also linked to the revamped local pub which, it seems, has injected the valley with a shattering, strobing surge of inner-city and drugs. When a dealer is found savagely murdered below the great earthen hillfort of Herefordshire Beacon, police ask: is it a ritual killing, a gangland disposal or a cry of outrage? As Merrily and the police follow separate paths towards the truth, Merrily`s teenage daughter, Jane, faces the...
ISBN: 978-1-84724-091-0
Издательство:
Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
A contemporary classic, "The Remains of the Day" is Kazuo Ishiguro`s beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House.
ISBN: 978-0-571-20073-3
Издательство:
Faber
Дата выхода: август 2011
It is the summer of 1956, and the ageing butler of Darlington Hall takes a rare holiday. But it is a journey that will also take him deep into his past. The Remains of the Day is a remarkable story: a man’s exploration of his own life, and his heart-breaking attempt to make sense of it.
ISBN: 9781405880442
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Tracy Chevalier’s stunning novel of how one woman’s gift transcends class and gender to lead to some of the most important discoveries of the nineteenth century.A revealing portrait of the intricate and resilient nature of female friendship.In the early nineteenth century, a windswept beach along the English coast brims with fossils for those with the eye…From the moment she’s struck by lightning as a baby, it is clear Mary Anning is marked for greatness. When she uncovers unknown dinosaur fossils in the cliffs near her home, she sets the scientific world alight, challenging ideas about the world’s creation and stimulating debate over our origins. In an arena dominated by men, however, Mary is soon reduced to a serving role,...
ISBN: 9780007178384
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2022
