Sherlock Holmes is bored. But a fascinating new case is just around the corner. The attractive Mary Morstan arrives at 221B Baker Street with a strange story to tell. Her father vanished ten years ago: four years later she receives six beautiful pearls, one each year. She has been invited to meet the sender of these pearls and asks Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson for their help. The case involves a mysterious map, hidden treasure and a wooden-legged man, enough to intrigue even Sherlock Holmes. But it’s more than just a mystery for loyal Doctor Watson: will he find love with the lovely Miss Morstan?
ISBN: 9788853005977
Издательство:
CIDEB
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
A remote shelf in the Arctic circle. A small TV crew is braving the harsh conditions to film the breaking off of a major ice shelf - yet another nail in the planet`s eco-coffin. Then someone calls out, pointing at something up in the sky overhead. The camera pans up and they look up to see a blazing symbol clear, burning high over the bleak, deserted terrain. Thus begins a series of strange events worldwide as the mysterious sign appears over the sites of conflict, natural disasters and terrorist atrocities. What can it portend? The world is wracked with both fear and hope. Suddenly, all this is focused onto one man. An obscure monk who recognises the symbol from the past and understands what it means for the future of humanity. But as...
ISBN: 978-1-4091-0223-6
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
1860 - England. Two frightening ghost stories. The Signalman: A visitor comes to a signal-box next to a railway tunnel. The signalman tells the visitor about his important work. But the signalman also tells him a frightening story. Is the story true? Is there a ghost on the railway? The Ghost at the Trial: George Fothergill listens to a trial in a court of law. A man is accused of murder. Did the man murder his friend? Then George sees something strange at night. And he sees a strange man in the court. Why does the man always look at George? Why does the man never speak? A Picture Dictionary of difficult vocabulary; Notes about the life of Charles Dickens; Notes about the story. Retold by
ISBN: 978-1-4050-7249-6
Издательство:
Langenscheidt
Дата выхода: июль 2011
"Demain, à cinq heures de relevée, je tuerai la voyante. Signé: Picpus". Qui est ce Picpus? Quelle voyante? Pourquoi ce crime invraisemblable et sans mobile annoncé? Maigret, qui a fait établir une surveillance très large au risque d`être ridicule, en arrive, pour la première fois de sa carrière, à souhaiter que le meurtre ait bien lieu. Ce qui arrive en effet. Une Mlle Jeanne est poignardée chez elle dans son boudoir. Dans la cuisine mitoyenne est enfermé à clef un vieil homme en pardessus, calmement assis sur une chaise. Il attend. Il semble n`avoir rien vu et pleure doucement à la nouvelle du drame."Jamais devant un homme [Maigret] n`a eu une telle impression de...
ISBN: 978-2-07-030635-0
Издательство:
Gallimard
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
From the early 1800s to the outbreak of World War II, this collection spans more than 100 years of literary history with 33 complete short stories by such timeless masters as Washington Irving, Mark Twain, Jack London, and William Faulkner. Reissue.
ISBN: 978-0-451-52963-3
Издательство:
Penguin USA
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
For nearly two decades before Mark Twain published his finest novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, he was refining his craft and winning tremendous popularity with his short stories and sketches. This richly entertaining and comprehensive collection presents sixty-five of the very best of Mark Twain’s short pieces, from the classic frontier sketch “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” to the richly imaginative fable “Extract from Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven.” Compiled by Pulitzer Prize–winning Twain scholar and biographer, Justin Kaplan, this collection represents some of Mark Twain’s wittiest and most insightful writing.
ISBN: 978-0-451-53016-5
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: август 2011
Features award-winning interiors from the USA by notable architecture and design firms. This work contains 55 projects that were selected based on the criteria of creativity and innovation.
ISBN: 978-1-86470-200-2
Издательство:
Antique Collector Club
Дата выхода: июль 2011
George Eliot`s own favourite novel centres on Silas Marner, the linen weaver of Raveloe, a village on the brink of industrialization. Once he was a respected member of a narrow congregation, but the events that took place during one of his cataleptic fits led to the loss of everything that he valued. Now he lives a withdrawn half-life and is an object of suspicion to his new neighbours; he exists only for his work and his golden guineas. But when his precious money is stolen and, shortly after, seeminglyand mysteriously replaced by the child Eppie, Silas is awakened to life by the redemptive power of love. George Eliot`s affectionate but unsentimental portrait of rural life combines irony, humour and sharp social comment. Above all, she...
ISBN: 0-14-062091-5
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: декабрь 2001
This novel tells the sad story of the unjustly exiled Silas Marner, a handloom linen weaver of Raveloe in the agricultural heartland of England, and how he is restored to life by the unlikely means of the orphan child Eppie. It is a tender tale of sin and repentance set in a rural world.
ISBN: 1-85326-221-8
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2001
Трогательный роман английской писательницы Мэри Энн Эванс, писавшей под псевдонимом Джордж Элиот, безусловно, покорит читателя с добрым сердцем. Сайлес Марнер, искусный ткач и некогда уважаемый член небольшого религиозного общества, пережил предательство, людскую несправедливость и потерю с трудом заработанных денег. Когда ничто, казалось бы, не вернёт замкнувшемуся и нелюдимому Сайлесу веру в жизнь и...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05533-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: март 2017
