Творчество Фрэнсиса Скотта Фицджеральда, одного из самых известных и блистательных авторов "эпохи джаза", остаётся актуальным и интересным и по сей день. Его роман "Прекрасные и проклятые", во многом автобиографичный, рисует читателю портрет американской элиты из "потерянного поколения" - людей со средствами, которые не видят перед собой никакой цели и продолжают вести светский образ жизни, заведомо...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05163-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2017
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was an Irish satirist, essayist, prose writer and poet, who has found his calling as a cleric of St Patrick`s Cathedral in Dublin. "The Battle of the Books" is the name of a short satire story published as introduction to his "A Tale of a Tub." It depicts a battle between books in the King`s Library as ideas and authors struggle for supremacy.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07558-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
A cutting-edge collection of the most terrifying and fascinating monsters. These are tales of tragedy, love and loss, gruesome monsters and mythical beasts, complex people making their way in a broken world, and the uncanny mysteries that never leave us alone.Ультрасовременная коллекция самых ужасающих и завораживающих монстров. Это истории о трагедиях, любви и потерях, ужасных монстрах и мифических зверях, сложных людях, прокладывающих свой путь в разрушенном мире, и жутких тайнах, которые никогда не оставляют нас в...
Jack Mullen is a driven student of the law. His brother Peter is a servant of the rich, parking the cars of the Hamptons` elite —and perhaps satisfying their more intimate needs as well. Then Peter`s body is found on the beach. Jack knows the drowning was no accident, but someone`s unlimited power and money have bought the cops, the judges, the system. Now Jack is learning a lesson in justice he never got in law school...and his astonishing plan to beat the billionaires will have you reeling — and cheering — to the very last page.
ISBN: 0-446-61254-5
Издательство:
Warner Books
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
The third book in Jason Goodwin`s celebrated series takes Yashim from the winding alleyways of Istanbul to the decaying grandeur of Venice. Charged by the Sultan to find a stolen painting by Bellini, he enlists the help of his friend Palewski, the Polish Ambassador, and goes undercover. Venice in 1840 is a city of empty palazzos and silent canals, and Palewski starts to mingle with Venetian dealers - self-made men, faded aristocrats and the hedonistic Contessa. But when two bodies turn up in the canal, he realises that art in Venice is a deadly business. And meanwhile, what has happened to Yashim? "The Bellini Card" is a thrilling adventure in which a quest for a lost painting turns into dangerous game of cat and mouse that threatens to...
ISBN: 978-0-571-23991-7
Издательство:
Faber
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Nat and his family live near the sea. Nat watches the birds over the sea. Suddenly the weather is colder, and there is something strange about the birds. They are angry. They start to attack. They want to get into the house. They want to kill.
ISBN: 978-1-4082-8495-7
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: июль 2012
Centaine de Thiry grew up with privilege, wealth, and freedom on a sprawling French estate. Then war came crashing down around her, and a daring young South African aviator named Michael Courtney stole her heart amidst the destruction. But the tides of fate and battle sent the young woman on a journey across a dangerous sea to the coast of Africa. When Centaine`s ship is torpedoed and sunk, she is plunged into a shark-filled sea miles from the unseen shore. And when she reaches land, Centaine puts foot not in the lush world that Michael Courtney described to her, but on the edge of a burning desert - alone and fighting for her life. In a strange world, under a great rushing sky, Centaine sets forth in the company of wandering Bushmen -...
ISBN: 978-0-312-94080-5
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: январь 2013
On the banks of the turbid Amazon, Painted Jaguar is hungry. How can Stickly-Prickly Hedgehog and Slow-and-Solid Tortoise escape him? A strange new animal that Painted Jaguar does not know appears! Collect all the titles in the series: How the Camel Got Its Hump, How the Whale Got Its Throat, How the Leopard Got Its Spots, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin, The Beginning of the Armadilloes, The Sing-Song of the Old Man Kangeroo, The Cat that Walked by Himself, The Elephant`s Child.
ISBN: 978-1-84616-411-8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Father Christmas, a sickly Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, an elf who gets locked in the workshop, the story of the birth of the list goes on in this wonderful volume of stories for young readers all about Christmas. Lavishly illustrated throughout by a plethora of brilliant artists, including Sue Hellard, Michael Foreman, Eleanor Taylor and Ian Beck.
ISBN: 978-0-7475-9344-7
Издательство:
Bloomsbury
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Michael Adams shares a flat with three other men in their late twenties. Days are spent lying in bed, playing computer games and occasionally doing a bit of work. And then, when he feels like it, he crosses the river and goes back to his unsuspecting wife and children. For Michael is living a double life - he escapes from the exhausting misery of babies by telling his wife he has to work through the night or travel up north. And while she is valiantly coping on her own, he is just a few miles away in a secret flat, doing all the things that most men with small children can only dream about. He thinks he can have it all, until is deception is inevitably "The Best a Man Can Get" is written with the hilarious eye for detail that sent John...
ISBN: 978-0-552-99844-4
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
This unforgettable novel puts human faces on the Syrian war with the immigrant story of a beekeeper, his wife, and the triumph of spirit when the world becomes unrecognizable.Этот незабываемый роман придает человеческое лицо трагедии сирийской войны, через историю иммигранта-пчеловода, его жены и торжества духа, когда мир становится неузнаваемым.
Anthony Patch and Gloria Gibson are the golden children of the Jazz Age. They marry and embark on a life of glittering parties, lavish expenditure and scandalous revelry. When the money dries up their marriage founders. In this wistful novel Fitzgerald portrays the decline of youthful promise with devastating clarity.
ISBN: 978-0-09-954149-3
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2011
`Once upon a time, there was a boy who lost his mother!` As twelve-year-old David takes refuge from his grief in the myths and fairytales so beloved of his dead mother, he finds the real world and the fantasy world begin to blend. That is when bad things start to happen. That is when the Crooked Man comes. And David is violently propelled into a land populated by heroes, wolves and monsters, his quest to find the legendary Book of Lost Things.
ISBN: 978-0-340-89948-9
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Congratulations! You`re about to have a kid? Well, Bro, you might be asking yourself a series of important questions: Will I ever be able to do awesome things again? Will I be able to afford this? Can I ever have sex again? Will I be a good parent? Am I able to love this child as much as I love my own life? Well, the answer to all of these questions is a rock solid no. But just because your life is now a petrifying turd on the canvas of life doesn`t mean your kid has to be as lame as you`re about to become. Which is why Barney has written this book.
It`s history with the nasty bits left in! Want to know: What really happened in Dad`s Army? How to make a rude noise with a gas mask? Why the blitzed Brits ate chicken-fruit, sinkers and nutty? Discover all the foul facts about the Blitzed Brits - all the gore and more!
ISBN: 978-1-4071-0343-3
Издательство:
Scholastic UK
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Randall Haight has a secret: when he was a teenager, he and his friend killed a 14-year-old girl. Randall did his time and built a new life in the small Maine town of Pastor`s Bay, but somebody has discovered the truth about Randall. He is being tormented by anonymous messages, haunting reminders of his past crime, and he wants private detective Charlie Parker to make it stop. But another 14-year-old girl has gone missing, this time from Pastor`s Bay, and the missing girl`s family has its own secrets to protect. Now Parker must unravel a web of deceit involving the police, the FBI, a doomed mobster named Tommy Morris, and Randall Haight himself. Because Randall Haight is telling
Cambridge English Readers is an exiting new series of original fiction, specially written for learners of English, Graded into six levels - from elementary to advanced - the stories in this series provide easy and enjoyable reading on a wide range of contemporary topics and themes.
ISBN: 0-521-75016-4
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
