О. Генри - один из самых известных классиков американской литературы, признанный мастер короткой прозы. Его произведениям свойственны тонкий юмор, неожиданные развязки, яркие персонажи и, безусловно, любовь к людям и жизни. В этот сборник включены интересные и трогательные рассказы "Дары волхвов", "Фараон и хорал", "Меблированная комната", "Через двадцать лет" и многие другие. Читайте зарубежную литературу в...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05345-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2017
Step into the powerhouse life of Bull Meecham. He`s all Marine - fighter pilot, king of the clouds, and absolute ruler of his family. Lillian is his wife - beautiful, southern-bred, with a core of velvet steel. Without her cool head, her kids would be in real trouble. Ben is the oldest, a born athlete whose best never satisfies the big man. Ben`s got to stand up, even fight back, against a father who doesn`t give in - not to his men, not to his wife, ant certainly not to his son. Bull Meecham is undoubtedly Pat Conroy`s most explosive character - a man you should hate, but a man you will love.
ISBN: 0-553-26892-9
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
The landmark novel by Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing – a powerful account of a woman searching for her personal, political and professional identity while facing rejection and betrayal.Anna Wulf is a young novelist with writer’s block. Divorced, with a young child, and disillusioned by unsatisfactory relationships, she feels her life is falling apart. Fearing the onset of madness, she records her experiences in four coloured notebooks. The black notebook addresses her problems as a writer; the red her political life; the yellow her relationships and emotions; and the blue becomes a diary of everyday events. But it is the fifth notebook – the Golden Notebook – which is the key to her recovery and renaissance.Bold and...
Roger is a middle-aged and divorced \`aisles associate\` at a Staples outlet. His co-worker Bethany is facing fifty more years of shelving Post-it notes. Then Bethany discovers Roger\`s notebook and finds that he\`s writing diary entries pretending to be her - and weirdly, he\`s getting it right. Bethany and Roger strike up a secret correspondence, and as it unfolds so too do the characters of Roger\`s work-in-progress, Glove Pond, a Cheever-era novella gone horribly, horribly wrong.
ISBN: 978-0-7475-9382-9
Издательство:
Bloomsbury
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Издательство продолжает знакомить читателей с наиболее значительными произведениями английской и американской литературы. Роман Ф.С.Фицджеральда `Великий Гэтсби` (1925) по праву считается одной из лучших работ писателя. Тонкий психологический анализ, точное использование стилистических приемов, прекрасный язык делают прозу Фицджеральда интересной широкому кругу читателей.
ISBN: 5-8346-0049-2
Издательство:
Менеджер
Дата выхода: декабрь 1999
In this second instalment of teenager Adrian Mote`s diaries, the Mole family is in crisis and the country is beating the drum of war. While his parents have reconciled after both embarking on disastrous affairs, Adrian is shocked to learn of his mother`s pregnancy. And even though at the mercy of his rampant hormones and the fickle whims of the divine Pandora, a victim of a broken home and his own tortured (though unrecognized) genius, Adrian continues valiantly to chronicle the pains and pleasures of a misspent adolescence.
ISBN: 978-0-14-104643-3
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2012
В середине XXI века двух английских ученых отправляют в начало XVII века исследовать легендарный Пороховой заговор, целью которого было убийство короля Якова I. Вторгаться в ход истории исследователи не имеют права, но ведь они всего лишь люди. Удастся ли им установить историческую истину?
ISBN: 978-5-226-01562-5
Издательство:
АСТ
Дата выхода: август 2010
`Hale`s writing is beautiful, with a vivid eye for detail` Daily Telegraph Anidora-Kiladra Talianna Isilee, Crown Princess of Kilindree, spent the first years of her life listening to her aunt`s incredible stories, and learning the language of the birds. Little knowing how valuable her aunt`s strange knowledge would prove to be when she grew older. From the Grimm`s fairy tale of the princess who became a goose girl before she could become a queen, Shannon Hale has woven an incredible, original and magical tale of a girl who must understand her own incredible talents before she can overcome those who wish her harm. Shannon Hale has drawn on her incredible gift for storytelling to create a powerful and magical grown-up fairy tale.
ISBN: 978-0-7475-9800-8
Издательство:
Bloomsbury
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
"Read It Yourself" is a learning to read series of classic, traditional stories with four levels of difficulty to suit the stage your child is at with reading. Written in a simple way for young readers, they will build their confidence in learning to read as they progress through each level. Familiar fairytales and exciting stories will amuse children and encourage them to progress further with this series and become confident readers. Each book in "The Read It Yourself With Ladybird Series" is carefully structured to include many everyday words that are vital for first reading/beginner readers. They also contain clear, beautiful pictures for extra support and interest. Extra puzzle questions at the end of each book further help with...
ISBN: 978-1-4093-0393-0
Издательство:
Ladybird Books
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
William Sydney Porter, known by his pen name 0. Henry, was an American short story writer. His wit and plot twists were adored by his readers, but often panned by the critics. The Gentle Grafter is a collection of short stories, first published in 1908. The main characters of these tales are Jeff Peters and his friend and companion Andy Tucker. Both of them earn a living with the help of petty fraud, exploiting human greed, stupidity, fear and vanity.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07669-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
