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
It`s history with the nasty bits left in! Want to know: What the `Fat King` did with food scraps and dead horses? How sniffing your own pee could save your life in a gas attack? Why a pair of old socks gave away top German secrets? Discover all the foul facts about the "Frightful First World War" - all the gore and more!
ISBN: 978-1-4071-0302-0
Издательство:
Scholastic UK
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2011
The inside story of the greatest business and social phenomenon of our age. "David Kirkpatrick has written a fascinating and timely account of the amazing rise of Facebook. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the future of business and the internet". Sir Richard Branson
Back from the abyss and without don Juan, Carlos Castaneda is faced with the staggering effort of recovering, on his own, don Juan`s teachings. In doing so, he understands what don Juan and his cohorts were really doing to him: "They were not teaching me sorcery, but how to master three aspects of an ancient knowledge they possessed: awareness, stalking, and intent. And they were not sorcerers; they were seers." This work deals with the mastery of awareness and with the realization of a new cycle of seers, "warriors of total such masters of awareness, stalking, and intent that they are not caught by death, like the rest of mortal men, but choose the moment and the way of their departure from this world. At that moment they are consumed...
In Mary`s world there are simple truths. The Sisterhood always knows best. The Guardians will protect and serve. The Unconsecrated will never relent. And you must always mind the fence that surrounds the village; the fence that protects the village from the Forest of Hands and Teeth. But, slowly, Mary`s truths are failing her. She`s learning things she never wanted to know about the Sisterhood and its secrets, and the Guardians and their power, and about the Unconsecrated and their relentlessness. When the fence is breached and her world is thrown into chaos, she must choose between her village and her future - between the one she loves and the one who loves her. And she must face the truth about the Forest of Hands and Teeth. Could...
In this final volume of The Forsyte Saga Galsworthy writes about the lives and loves of the Cherrell family, cousins of the Forsytes. For centuries, the Cherrell sons have left their home of Condaford Grange to serve the state as soldiers, clergymen and administrators, but the 1930s bring uncertainty in a world of rapidly altering morals and unemployment. Galsworthy’s portrayal of the effect of political change on individuals show him as a great social novelist as well as the author of one of the most gripping family sagas ever written.
ISBN: 0-14-118684-4
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Daniel Defoe was an English trader, writer, pamphleteer and journalist. He is most famous for his novel "Robinson Crusoe", which is second only to the Bible in its number of translations. The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe finds Crusoe bored with his prosperity and consumed by an irresistible longing to return to the island he left many years before. Along with his trusty servant and companion, Friday, he embarks on a harrowing high-seas adventure that takes them to China, over the Russian steppes, and into Siberia.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08175-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. The Fallen Leaves novel follows the fortunes of four women, all in one way or another `fallen leaves`, who are linked by their relationships with the hero, Amelius Goldenheart, and also by secrets from the past.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07198-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Гилберт К. Честертон - один из классиков английской литературы, известный читателям всего мира, благодаря циклу детективных новелл со священников Брауном и Хорном Фишером. "Перелётный кабак" - это не просто увлекательный роман, а гротескное повествование об антиалкогольной кампании, которая проходила в Англии в XIX веке. Всё шло как по маслу, пока один хитрец не решил: а почему бы не завести кабак, который не...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05483-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2017
Bursting with heroic battle scenes, political intrigue, and eloquent storytelling, Ford s masterfully plotted novel is a riveting tale of the downfall of the world s greatest empire. Martin s Press.
ISBN: 9780312945282
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2008
Jack London (1876-1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. "The Faith of Men" is a short story collection containing eight of Jack London`s amazing adventure tales like "A Relic of the Pliocene", "A Hyperborean Brew", and "The Story of Jees Uck". All of them set in London`s favorite place, the Yukon Territory.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07486-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Herbert George Wells (1866—1946) was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, but he is now best remembered for his science fiction novels. "The First Men in the Moon" is a scientific novel, which tells the story of a journey to the moon undertaken by the two protagonists, a businessman narrator, Mr. Bedford, and an eccentric scientist, Mr. Cavor. Bedford and Cavor discover that the moon is inhabited by a sophisticated extraterrestrial civilisation of insect-like creatures.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08226-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2018
A remarkable piece of forgotten history and the never-before-told story of Americans lured to Soviet Russia by the promise of jobs and better lives, only to meet tragic ends. In 1934, a photograph was taken of a baseball team. These two rows of young men look like any group of American ballplayers, except perhaps for the Russian lettering on their jerseys. The players have left their homeland and the Great Depression in search of a better life in Stalinist Russia, but instead they will meet tragic and, until now, forgotten fates. Within four years, most of them will be arrested alongside untold numbers of other Americans. Some will be executed. Others will be sent to corrective labor camps where they will be worked to death. This book is...
ISBN: 978-0-14-311542-7
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012
A defiant critique of American capitalism A MASTER OF GRITTY NATURALISM, Theodore Dreiser explores the corruption of the American dream in "The Financier," Frank Cowperwood, a fiercely ambitious businessman, emerges as the very embodiment of greed as he relentlessly seeks satisfaction in wealth, women, and power. As Cowperwood deals and double-deals, betrays and is in turn betrayed, his rise and fall come to represent the American success story stripped down to brutal realitiesaa struggle for spoils without conscience or pity. Dreiseras 1912 classic remains an unsparing social critique as well as a devastating character study of one of the most unforgettable American businessmen in twentieth-century literature.
August 1991. In a sweltering New York City apartment, a group of Russian emigres gathers round the deathbed of an artist named Alik, a charismatic character beloved by them all, especially the women who take turns nursing him as he fades from this world. Their reminiscences of the dying man and of their lives in Russia are punctuated by debates and squabbles: Whom did Alik love most? Should he be baptized before he dies, as his alcoholic wife, Nina, desperately wishes, or be reconciled to the faith of his birth by a rabbi who happens to be on hand? And what will be the meaning for them of the Yeltsin putsch, which is happening across the world in their long-lost Moscow but also right before their eyes on CNN? This marvelous group of...
ISBN: 0-8052-1132-2
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
