"I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history", Arthur Miller wrote in an introduction to The Crucible, his classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts. Based on historical people and real events, Miller`s drama is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hysteria. In the rigid theocracy of Salem, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town`s most basic fears and suspicions; and when a young girl accuses Elizabeth Proctor of being a witch, self-righteous church leaders and townspeople insist that Elizabeth be brought to trial. The ruthlessness of the prosecutors and the eagerness of...
Four of Diana Wynne Jones s classic fantasy novels about an enchanter with nine lives titled Chrestomanci are now available in beautiful omnibus volumes that each contain two books each. Volume One includes "The Lives of Christopher Chant" and "Charmed Life", while Volume Two contains "The Magicians of Caprona" and "Witch Week".
Герман Мелвилл - легендарный писатель XIX века, моряк и поэт, признанный классик мировой литературы. "Искуситель" - увлекательный роман, который представляет собой, подобно "Кентерберийским рассказам" Чоссера, вереницу историй, рассказанных в группе пассажиров, плывущих на пароходе в Новый Орлеан. Мастерство повествования, неожиданные персонажи и незабываемые сюжеты оставят след в душе каждого вдумчивого...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05748-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2017
In downtown Manhattan an underground charnel house containing the bones of dozes of murder victims is discovered. Research reveals that a serial killer was at work in New Yorks notorious Five Points neighbourhood in the 1880s, bent on prolonging his by any means. When a newspaper story on the old murders appears to ignite a new series of horrifyingly similar killings, panic overtakes New York City. Now, FBI agent Pendergast, journalist Bill Smithback and archaeologist Nora Kelly join forces to find a vicious before they become the next victims.
ISBN: 0-446-61123-9
Издательство:
Warner Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Джеффри Чосер — известный писатель и поэт XV века, "отец английской поэзии", основоположник национальной литературы и художественного английского языка. "Кентерберийские рассказы" - это сборник, представляющий собой настоящий памятник литературы позднего Средневековья. Автор не останавливается на одном стиле повествования, - читателя ждут самые разнообразные рассказы: смешные и хулиганские,...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05730-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2017
A mother and a daughter live quietly in the rustic gatehouse of Shrove House, an isolated British estate. Their life seems perfectly ordinary except that daughter Liza has been kept isolated from the outside world for all of her sixteen years. And that he has seen her beautiful mother commit more than once. Now, as the police come searching for a missing man, Liza`s sheltered, strange world begins to fall apart. Piece by piece she will reveal her mother`s tale of betrayal, desire, and obsession. Step-by-step we discover how much like mother, like daughter she is.
ISBN: 978-0-440-21865-4
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwells in the vast fortress )f Angband in the North; and within the shadow of the :ar of Angband, and the war waged by Morgoth against the Elves, the fates of Turin and his sister Nienor will be tragically entwined. Their brief and passionate lives are dominated by the mental hatred that Morgoth bears them as the children xurin, the man who dared to defy him to his face. Against m Morgoth sends his most formidable servant, Glaurung, iwerful spirit in the form of a huge wingless dragon of fire i an attempt to fulfil the curse of Morgoth and destroy the children of Hurin.
ISBN: 0-00-725226-9
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: август 2010
