A mystery of unrelenting suspense and penetrating characterization, The Dead Secret explores the relationship between a fallen woman, her illegitimate daughter, and buried secrets in a superb blend of romance and Gothic drama. Reprinted here in the only critical edition available, is the text of the first edition, including Collins`s preface and revisions. A superb introduction relates the text to Collins`s love of the theatre, and previous and subsequent works.
ISBN: 978-0-19-953671-9
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012
While in Paris, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is awakened by a phone call in the dead of the night. The elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum, his body covered in baffling symbols. As Langdon and gifted French cryptologist Sophie Neveu sort through the bizarre riddles, they are stunned to discover a trail of clues hidden in the works of Leonardo da Vinci—clues visible for all to see and yet ingeniously disguised by the painter. Even more startling, the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion—a secret society whose members included Sir Isaac Newton, Victor Hugo, and Da Vinci—and he guarded a breathtaking historical secret. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine...
Can the secrets of one woman`s past change another woman`s future? Cate is a gifted young artist who survives in New York by producing remarkable copies of Old arrives in London to stay with her aunt Rachel who owns an auction house, determined to leave the pain of her past behind. Cate is sent to Devon with Rachel`s colleague Jack to value the contents of Endsleigh, the grand Georgian home of a former socialite. But inside, its once elegant interiors are now worn with age and dust. Then Cate discovers hidden in the back of one of the bookshelves, an old shoebox containing an exquisite pair of silk dancing shoes from the 1930`s along with a mysterious collection of objects - a diamond brooch, a photograph of a handsome young sailor, a...
ISBN: 978-0-00-721540-9
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: апрель 2011
In Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson took science fiction to dazzling new levels. Now, in The Diamond Age, he delivers another stunning tale. Set in twenty-first century Shanghai, it is the story of what happens when a state-of-the-art interactive device falls in the hands of a street urchin named Nell. Her life - and the entire future of humanity - is about to be decoded and
Edith Wharton (1862—1937) was an American novelist and short story writer. Her works show the lives of people of the late nineteenth century, the times of decline in American history. She was the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1921. Wharton also was familiar with many famous people of the time, including President Theodore Roosevelt. This volume includes many wonderful short stories like "The Other Two", "Expiation", "The Lady`s Maid`s Bell" and the title story "The Descent of Man". .
ISBN: 978-5-521-07842-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
