Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. This book is one of many wonderful historical stories about Brigadier Gerard, an officer in the French Army during the Napoleonic Wars, the bravest soldier, and one of the most gallant lovers in France.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07173-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018
Coinciding with the bicentenary of the birth of Hans Christian Andersen, comes this retelling of his comical fairytale about a fashion-crazy emperor who will stop at nothing to have the most talked-about outfit in the land! Amusingly illustrated throughout by award-winning cartoonist Mike Gordon. Young readers will treasure this gift edition, which is published in hardback with a ribbon marker. The Young Reading Series is designed to encourage independent reading and covers a range of subject matter, including the retelling of children`s classics, fairytales, and a wide variety of narrative non-fiction.
ISBN: 978-0-7460-6775-8
Издательство:
Usborne
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Lubji Hoch survived World War II on luck, guts, and ruthlessness. At the war`s end, renamed Richard Armstrong, he buys a floundering newspaper in Berlin and deviously puts his competitors out of business. But it isn`t enough. Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, Keith Townsend, the Oxford-educated son of a millionaire newspaper owner, takes over his family`s business. His energy and brilliant strategic thinking quickly make him the leading newspaper publisher in Australia. Still, he longs to move on to the world stage. As both Armstrong and Townsend seize control of everything they see, their ambitions collide on a global scale. But suddenly they both find themselves threatened by finicial disaster and enormous debt. Frantic to...
ISBN: 0-06-109203-7
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Begin your journey into Middle-earth.A New Legend Begins on Prime Video, in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.The first part of J. R. R. Tolkien’s epic adventure THE LORD OF THE RINGS.In a quiet village in the Shire, young Frodo is about to receive a gift that will change his life forever.Thought lost centuries ago, it is the One Ring, an object of terrifying power once used by the Dark Lord to enslave Middle-earth. Now darkness is rising, and Frodo must travel deep into the Dark Lord’s realm, to the one place the Ring can be destroyed: Mount Doom.The journey will test Frodo’s courage, his friendships and his heart. Because the ring corrupts all who bear it – can Frodo destroy it, or will it destroy him?
The three novels which make up The Forsyte Saga chronicle the ebbing social power of the commercial upper-middle class Forsyte family between 1886 and 1920. Soames Forsyte is the brilliantly portrayed central figure, a Victorian who outlives the age, and whose baffled passion for his beautiful but unresponsive wife Irene reverberates throughout the saga. Written with both compassion and ironic detachment, Galsworthy`s masterly narrative examines not only their fortunes but also the wider developments within society, particularly the changing position of women in an intensely competitive male world. Above all, Gallsworthy is concerned with the conflict at the heart of English culture between the soulless materialism of wealth and property...
ISBN: 978-5-521-06248-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
From Ernest Hemingway`s Preface: `There are many kinds of stories in this book. I hope you will find some that you like - In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dulled and know I had to put it on the grindstone and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining, and nothing to say, or smooth and well-oiled in the closet, but unused`. This is a collection of Hemingway`s first forty-nine short stories, featuring a brief introduction by the author and lesser known as well as familiar tales, including "Up in Michigan",...
ISBN: 9780099339212
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2020
Джон Голсуорси - признанный английский писатель XIX века, лауреат Нобелевской премии по литературе. "Первые и последние" - одно из самых известных произведений автора. В привычной и размеренной жизни королевского адвоката никто не предвещало беды, но однажды его младший брат совершает убийство… История о последствиях, к которым могут привести необдуманные поступки, обязательно произведёт впечатление на...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05451-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2017
CIA agent John Wells has been undercover so long that his bosses are no longer sure he’s still loyal – or even still alive. For years Wells has been building his cover in the mountains of Afghanistan, his existence known only to a few senior CIA officials. But now he`s coming home - and no one, including his CIA minder Jennifer Exley, knows what to expect. He is a man alone, used by two adversaries and trusted by neither. And as terrorists prepare to unleash the most devastating attack in history, Wells knows he is the only man who can stop them. With or without the government’s
ISBN: 978-0-09-950215-9
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
