Peter Sinclair is tormented by bereavement and failure. In an attempt to conjure some meaning from his life, he embarks on an autobiography, but he finds himself writing the story of another man in another, imagined, world, whose insidious attraction draws him even further TheAffirmation is at once an original thriller and a haunting study of schizophrenia; it has a compulsive, dream-like quality.
ISBN: 978-0-575-07577-1
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
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
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
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
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
