The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is . . .In the beginning there was…a turtle.Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a parallel time and place which might sound and smell very much like our own, but which looks completely different.Particularly as it’s carried though space on the back of a giant turtle (sex unknown). It plays by different rules.But then, some things are the same everywhere. The Disc’s very existence is about to be threatened by a strange new blight: the world’s first tourist, upon whose survival rests the peace and prosperity of the...
ISBN: 9780552166591
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: октябрь 2023
When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty facade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their Pagford is not what it first seems. And the empty seat left by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations? A big novel about a small town, The Casual Vacancy is first novel for adults. It is the work of a storyteller like no other.
Dallas, November`63 - the heart of the American Dream detonated. Wayne Tedrow Jr., a young Vegas cop, arrives with a loathsome job to do. He`s got six thousand in cash and no idea he is about to plunge into the cover-up conspiracy already brewing around the assassination of JFK, no idea that this will mark the beginning of a hellish five-year ride through the private underbelly of public policy. Ellroy`s furiously paced narrative tracks Tedrow`s journey: Dallas to Vega, with the Mob and Howard Hughes, south with the Klan and J. Edgar Hoover, shipping out to Vietnam and returning home, the bearer of white powder, plotting new deaths as 1968 approaches...The Cold Six Thousand is the 1960s under Ellroy`s blistering lens, the icons of the...
ISBN: 0-09-989330-4
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
После смерти деда главный герой получает в наследство результаты исследований таинственных событий в Бостоне, связанных с деятельностью некой секты. Страшное землетрясение пробуждает от векового сна Повелителя Древности и его приближенных. Те, кто послабее рассудком, сходят с ума. "Ктулху восстанет в назначенный час" - поют служители жестокого культа, принося человеческие жертвы своему богу... Истории,...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05534-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2017
Leo Tolstoy`s War and Peace and Anna Karenina, the greatest novels ever written, did not emerge from a vacuum. They were preceded by at least twenty prose works of different kinds, some of them masterpieces in their own right. These stories may be viewed as a fascinating encounter with literary predecessors such as Rousseau and Pushkin, and they are never far removed from autobiography, but in them Tolstoy can be seen forging a strong, new cultural personality. Their virtues lie in local colour, brilliant characterization and dialogue, along with strong narrative interest linked to important ideas and meanings, most of which will re-emerge in the later works. This undervalued area of a great man`s writing deserves closer attention, and...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-691-1
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2013
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811—1863) was a British author and novelist mostly known for his satirical works such as "Vanity Fair" that showed an ironic representation of the British society of those times. This book includes five wonderful stories: "Mrs. Perkin`s Ball", "Our Street", "Doctor Birch And His Young Friends", "The Kickleburys On The Rhine" and "The Rose And The Ring." .
ISBN: 978-5-521-07830-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Yielding to a compulsion he can`t explain, Ted Barton interrupts his vacation in order to visit the town of his birth, Millgate, Virginia. But upon entering the sleepy, isolated little hamlet, Ted is distraught to find that the place bears no resemblance to the one he left behind—and never did. He also discovers that in this Millgate Ted Barton died of scarlet fever when he was nine years old. Perhaps even more troubling is the fact that it is literally impossible to escape. Unable to leave, Ted struggles to find the reason for such disturbing incongruities, but before long, he finds himself in the midst of a struggle between good and evil that stretches far beyond the confines of the valley. Winner of both the Hugo and John W....
ISBN: 978-0-575-07670-9
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
