Agatha Christie’s seasonal Poirot and Marple short story collection in a new hardback special edition.First came a sinister warning to Poirot not to eat any plum pudding… then the discovery of a corpse in a chest… next, an overheard quarrel that led to murder… the strange case of the dead man who altered his eating habits… and the puzzle of the victim who dreamt his own suicide.What links these five baffling cases? The little grey cells of Monsieur Hercule Poirot!Contains the stories:• The Adventure Of The Christmas Pudding• The Mystery of the Spanish Chest• Four-And-Twenty Blackbirds• The Under Dog• The Dream
Tom Sawyer, a shrewd and adventurous boy, is as much at home in the respectable world of his Aunt Polly as in the self-reliant and parentless world of his friend Huck Finn. The two enjoy a series of adventures, accidentally witnessing a murder, establishing the innocence of the man wrongly accused, as well as being hunted by Injun Joe, the true murderer, eventually escaping and finding thetreasure that Joe had buried.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06142-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: декабрь 2018
Серия книг «Зарубежная классика — читай в оригинале» — это бессмертные произведения великих мастеров пера, написанные ими на их родном языке и наречии. Книги из этой серии помогут читателю углубленно изучать иностранные языки, обогатят его внутренний мир и по-новому откроют произведения известных классиков. Неадаптированное издание на английском языке.
ISBN: 978-5-519-02016-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2014
English is the collective work of millions of people throughout the ages. It is democratic, ever-changing and ingenious in its assimilation of other cultures. English runs through the heart of world finance, medicine and the Internet, and it is understood by around two thousand million people across the world. Yet it was very nearly wiped out in its early years. In this book Melvyn Bragg shows us the remarkable story of the English language; from its beginnings as a minor guttural Germanic dialect to its position today as a truly established global language. The Adventure of English is not only an enthralling story of power, religion and trade, but also the story of people, and how their day-to-day lives shaped and continue to change the...
ISBN: 0-340-82993-1
Издательство:
Hodder
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
THE ANCESTOR`S TALE is a pilgrimage back through time; a journey on which we meet up with fellow pilgrims as we and they converge on our common ancestors. Chimpanzees join us at about 6 million years in the past, orang utans at 14 million years, as we stride on together, a growing band. The journey provides the setting for a collection of some 40 tales. Each explores an aspect of evolutionary biology through the stories of characters met along the way. The tales are interspersed with prologues detailing the journey, route maps showing joining lineages, and life-like reconstructions of our common ancestors. THE ANCESTOR`S TALE represents a pilgrimage on an unimaginable scale: our goal is four billion years away, and the number of pilgrims...
ISBN: 978-0-7538-1996-8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) is a novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River, set in the fictional town of St. Petersburg. Tom Sawyer is more than a boyhood adventure story, it is a tale of maturing, a novel whose principal subject is the moral, psychological, and intellectual development of a youthful main character.
ISBN: 978-5-521-00158-3
Издательство:
Пальмира
Дата выхода: январь 2017
Jack London (1876 - 1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. This book includes a notorious novel "The Abysmal Brute", a moving story about the corrupt practices in the world of boxing.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07480-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
In this unique and important book, and now celebrating its 10th year, one of the world`s great spiritual leaders offers his practical wisdom and advice on how we can overcome everyday human problems and achieve lasting Art of Happiness is a highly accessible guide for a western audience, combining the Dalai Lama`s eastern spiritual tradition with Dr Howard C. Cutler`s western perspective. Covering all key areas of human experience, they apply the principles of Tibetan Buddhism to everyday problems and reveal how one can find balance and complete spiritual and mental many who wish to understand more about the Dalai Lama`s approach to living, there has never been a book which brings his beliefs so vividly into the real world.
ISBN: 978-0-340-99592-1
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
This book is a manual on the art of rigging the sailing ship. "The Art of Rigging" is based on the extensively revised and updated 1848 edition prepared by Captain George Biddlecombe, a Master in the Royal Navy and former merchant seaman.
ISBN: 9780486263434
Издательство:
Dover
Дата выхода: август 1990
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. This volume is a collection of famous stories about the legendary sleuth. Venture back in time to Victorian London to join literature`s greatest detective team — the brilliant Sherlock Holmes and his devoted assistant, Dr. Watson.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08096-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
For Gertrude Stein and her companion Alice B. Toklas, life in Paris was based upon the rue de Fleurus and the Saturday evenings, and `it was like a kaleidoscope slowly turning`. Picasso was there with `his high whinnying Spanish giggle`, as were Cezanne and Matisse, Hemingway and Fitzgerald. As Toklas put it - "The geniuses came and talked to Gertrude Stein and the wives sat with me".
ISBN: 978-0-14-118536-1
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
To celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the publication of The Lord of the Rings, a sumptuous full-colour art book containing the complete collection of almost 200 sketches, drawings, paintings and maps by J.R.R. Tolkien.As he wrote The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien’s mental pictures often found expression in drawing, from rough sketches made within the manuscript to more finished illustrations. Only a few of these were meant for publication; most were aids to help Tolkien conceive his complex story and keep it consistent. Many do not illustrate the final text, but represent moments of creation, illuminating Tolkien’s process of writing and design. In addition to pictorial sketches, numerous maps follow the development of the Shire...
