Dr Jekyll is a London doctor who is liked and respected for his work. Mr Hyde is an evil man, completely unknown in London society. There is a murder and Hyde seems to be responsible. So why does the good doctor give Mr Hyde the key to his house – and decide to leave everything to Mr Hyde in his will?
ISBN: 978-1-4058-8014-5
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Rudyard Kipling, celebrated author of "The Jungle Book", the "Just So Stories" and other entertaining fictions, was also a master of the short story in which he was able to combine the strange and unnerving in order to draw the reader into the world of his own dark imaginings. This collection presents the best of these strange tales in which ghosts, monsters and inexplicable happenings abound. From the exotic and magical locale of India, to the leafy suburbs of England and then to the blood-soaked trenches of the First World War, Kipling provides us with a chilling array of experiences and images which will linger long in the memory. There is a timeless element to these tales which make them as relevant and as stimulating today as when...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-532-7
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: август 2010
A consuming tale of fame and passion from the internationally bestselling author of The Other Side of Midnight and If Tomorrow Comes. From humble beginnings, Toby Temple becomes a superstar. He knows what he wants – and he always makes sure he gets what he wants. He is the world`s funniest comedian, loved by presidents, lusted after by women. But, deep down, he yearns for love and stability. Jill Castle has always been an outsider, desperate to be accepted. Despite her great beauty, she finds breaking into Hollywood as an actress impossible without auditioning on the Directors` infamous casting couches. But, with one glance, Toby falls for Jill`s beauty and sweeps her out of obscurity to stardom by his side. Now, she can get the...
ISBN: 978-0-00-722826-3
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: май 2012
A man alone in the sky has a chance to touch the stars. But as Richard Bach, flying a lone jet across Europe, reaches for the eternal, he must also confront the fear and danger that shadow the unknown.
ISBN: 0-440-20658-8
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Роберт Льюис Стивенсон - один из самых известных классиков, шотландский писатель и поэт, автор приключенческих романов, представитель английского неоромантизма, чьи произведения покоряют сердца читателей XXI века. "Странная история доктора Джекила и мистера Хайда" была написана автором после прочтения романа Ф.М. Достоевского "Преступление и наказание". Она представляет собой...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05152-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2017
A dark and handsome stranger opens a shop in the quiet village of Woodend. Anna begins to wonder about the visitors who come to Dave Slatin`s shop. What exactly do they buy?
ISBN: 978-0-230-03513-3
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Chuck Palahniuk’s world has always been, well, different from yours and mine. In his first collection of nonfiction, Chuck Palahniuk brings us into this world, and gives us a glimpse of what inspires his fiction. At the Rock Creek Lodge Testicle Festival in Missoula, Montana, average people perform public sex acts on an outdoor stage. In a mansion once occupied by The Rolling Stones, Marilyn Manson reads his own Tarot cards and talks sweetly to his beautiful actress girlfriend. Across the country, men build their own full-size castles and rocketships that will send them into space. Palahniuk himself experiments with steroids, works on an assembly line by day and as a hospice volunteer by night, and experiences the brutal murder of his...
Сколько себя помнит, Дрю Андерсон всегда была странной. Странной? А слышать, видеть и чувствовать обитателей темного мира, о которых думают не иначе как о выдумке — это не странно?! А убить отца, превратившегося в зомби и жаждущего вашей смерти, — обычная история?! А в 16 лет остаться сиротой и дружить с вампирами и оборотнями — нормальная жизнь подростка?! Однако Дрю не из робких девочек!
ISBN: 978-1-84916-996-7
Издательство:
Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: август 2011
Max Frei has discovered that the one place he really fits in is the parallel world of Echo. In our world he`s a loser, an insomniac with dubious social skills and an addiction to cigarettes. But in Echo, the reality is far stranger. There he is Sir Max, a superb magician and one of the powerful few chosen to defend the land against all possible enemies. And he`s finally happy. But when one of his esteemed Knight colleagues tells Max of a strange dream - one that seems disturbingly familiar to Max - Max realises he will have to investigate. The subsequent series of events will remind our hero - and the people he protects - just how tenuous happiness can be. It could be his most dangerous mission yet, but The Stranger`s Magic may win him...
ISBN: 978-0-575-08984-6
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: декабрь 2012
A young and successful journalist working in New York, Maureen English appears to have the perfect life and family. But Maureen`s husband, a highly respected fellow reporter, has in private a tendency towards alcohol and violent abuse. When the situation at home becomes intolerable, Maureen takes her baby daughter and flees. In a Maine fishing town she assumes a new identity and spends six weeks battling sub-zero temperatures, the intrusive glare of the townsfolk - and her fears of discovery. Against the force of the wintry sea - the cawing of the gulls, the lobstermen hauling their catch, the press of waves against the rocks - Maureen settles into the rhythms of a new life. Two married men pursue her, and one captures her heart. But...
ISBN: 978-0-349-10586-4
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Dru Anderson: Night Hunter. Knife Wielder. Heart Breaker. Dru can sense evil, which helps when she and her Dad are tracking down ghosts, suckers, wulfen, and the occasional reanimated corpse. It`s a dangerous life, but it`s the only one she knows. Then Dru`s dad turns up dead and she suddenly finds herself in the middle of a deadly game where every move she makes could be her last. Dru is more special than she realizes - and whatever killed her dad could be coming for her next. Can Dru stay alive long enough to fall for one - or both - of the guys hungry for her affections? Find out in the heart-stopping first book in a thrilling series.
ISBN: 978-1-84916-125-1
Издательство:
Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Their distant, nostalgic memories of home, their sence of anonymity in a foreign land, the terrifying pang of vulnerability they feel as they step over the threshold into an alien world... Marquez`s strange pilgrims - the ageing prostitute preparing for death by teaching her dog to weep at her grave, the panicked husband scared for the life of his injured wife, the old man who allows his mind to wander on a long-haul flight from Paris - experience with all his humour, warmth and colour what it is to be a Latin American adrift in Europe or, indeed, any outsider living far from home.
ISBN: 978-0-14-103249-8
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2012
Max Frei, and the LABYRINTHS OF ECHO series, is a multi-million copy selling Russian literary sensation appearing in English for the first time. Intriguing, original, remarkable and THE LABYRINTHS OF ECHO is a piece of absolute enchantment. "Splash a bit of enchantment into my glass"... there is no better phrase to describe the state that a reader may find themselves in when exposed to this strong, absolutely legal, literary narcotic which goes by the name of Max Frei.` - Stolichniye Novosti If it weren`t for bad luck, Max Frei wouldn`t have any luck at all. A self-described twenty-something classic loser`, an insomniac, hardened smoker, a glutton and a loafer, there`s nothing much going for Max at least not until he arrives in the...
ISBN: 978-0-575-08979-2
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
Here at last is the complete, uncut version of Heinlein`s all-time masterpiece, the brilliant novel that grew from a cult favorite to a bestseller to a classic in a few short years. It is the story of Valentine Michael Smith, the man from Mars who taught humankind grokking and water-sharing. And love.
