Ardent, impulsive, thirsty for knowledge, Maggie Tulliver is one of the great heroines of literature. George Eliot drew on her own anguished childhood when she depicted the stormy relationship between Maggie and Tom Tulliver. Maggie`s often tormented battle to do her duty and belong on the one hand, and to be herself, wild and natural on the other, propels her from one crisis to another. As the Tulliver fortunes decline and fall, the rift between Maggie and her family becomes almost irreconcilable. But Maggie`s biggest mistake of all is to fall in love with Stephen Guest who is engaged to another woman. Both a sharp and observant picture of English rural life and a profoundly convincing analysis of a woman`s psychology, The Mill on the...

ISBN: 978-0-14-119777-7
Издательство: Penguin Group
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011

ISBN: 9780008519506
Дата выхода: январь 2021

In the beginning was the word, and in the Middle Ages was the zenith of the Bible. It was a time when bibles were commissioned by kings, princes, and high-ranking members of the Curia, whose wealth and influence begat ornately illustrated bibles of extraordinary craftsmanship. The Most Beautiful Bibles covers examples from every epoch of the Middle Ages, presenting the Bible as it was visualized in both theological and historical contexts. As the beauty and significance of the illustrations are undeniable, the manuscripts are also examined from an art historical point of view. Texts by Andreas Fingernagel, Stephan Fussel, Christian Gastgeber, and a team of 15 scientific authors describe each manuscript in detail and explore the evolution...

ISBN: 978-3-8365-0299-3
Издательство: TASCHEN
Дата выхода: январь 2000

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. Partially based on the author`s voyage around Cape Horn on the Dirigo in 1912, this novel tells the story of Mr. Pathurst who books passage on a cargo vessel sailing from Baltimore to Seattle. To his surprise, the hero becomes a witness of a mutiny that starts with the sudden death of the captain.

ISBN: 978-5-521-07482-2
Издательство: Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018

Howard Lovecraft was an American writer who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. Despite the fact that he was virtually unknown before he died, today he is known as the most influential author in his genre. "The Mystery of the Graveyard and Other Stories" is a collection of wonderful short stories such as "The Descendant," "Cool Air" "Pickman`s Model" and others. These stories, full of mystery and fantastic creatures, have captured the minds of readers all over the world.

ISBN: 978-5-517-00253-2
Издательство: Т8
Дата выхода: февраль 2019

The Moonstone is an epistolary novel, generally considered the first full length detective novel in the English language. Besides creating many of the ground rules of the detective novel, The Moonstone also reflected Collins` enlightened social attitudes, i. e. in his treatment of the servants. In 1877 Collins adapted The Moonstone for the stage, but the production was performed for only two months.

ISBN: 978-5-521-00331-0
Издательство: Пальмира
Дата выхода: февраль 2017

Dickens`s final novel, left unfinished at his death in 1870, is a mystery story much influenced by the `Sensation Novel` as written by his friend Wilkie Collins. The action takes place in an ancient cathedral city and in some of the darkest places in Victorian London. Drugs, disappearances, sexual obsession, disguise and a possible murder are among the themes and motifs A sombre and menacing atmosphere, a fascinating range of characters and Dickens`s usual superb command of language combine to make this an exciting and tantalising story. Also included in this volume are a number of unjustly neglected stories and sketches, with subjects as different as murder and guilt and childhood romance. This unusual selection illustrates Dickens`s...

ISBN: 1-85326-729-5
Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2002

Hailed everywhere as a masterpiece of suspense, John le Carre`s return to Africa is the story of Bruno Salvador (aka Salvo), the 25-year-old orphaned love child of an Irish missionary and a Congolese woman. Quickly rising to the top of his profession as an interpreter, Salvo is dispatched by British Intelligence to a top-secret meeting between Western financiers and East Congolese warlords, where he hears things not intended for his ears - and is forced to interpret matters never intended for his reawoken African conscience. By turns thriller, love story, and comic allegory of our times, "The Mission Song" recounts Salvo`s heroically naive journey out of the dark of Western hypocrisy and into the heart of lightness.

ISBN: 978-0-340-92199-9
Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011

Гилберт Кит Честертон - один из классиков английской литературы XX века, известный своими яркими персонажами, тонким юмором и необычными сюжетами. "Человек, который был Четвергом" - это сатирическая притча о вечном противостоянии анархистов и сторонников порядка, двух половинок человеческой сущности. Роман содержит в себе философскую составляющую, облачённую в сюрреалистическую обложку абсурда, а...

ISBN: 978-5-521-05731-3
Издательство: Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2017

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was a Romantic poet of radical imaginings, living in an age of change. His tempestuous life and friendship with Byron, and his tragically early death, at times threatened to overwhelm his legacy as a poet, but today his standing as one of the foremost English authors is assured. This freshly edited collection--the fullest one-volume selection in English--includes all but one of the longer poems, from Queen Mab onwards, in their entirety. Only Laon and Cythna is excerpted, in a generous selection. As well as works such asPrometheus Unbound, The Mask of Anarchy, and Adonais, the volume includes a wide range of Shelley`s shorter poems and much of his major prose, including A Defence of Poetry and almost all...

ISBN: 978-0-19-953897-3
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2011

ISBN: 9780007439126
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: январь 2016

ISBN: 978-5-521-07619-2
Издательство: Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018

Английский писатель Артур Конан-Дойль известен как создатель Шерлока Холмса и один из основателей детективного жанра. Несколько менее известен он как автор исторических, фантастических и приключенческих романов, повестей и рассказов. И почти совсем не известен как сочинитель увлекательных произведений, в которых сильны элементы загадки и мистики. Читатель сможет познакомиться с этими малоизвестными...

ISBN: 5-8346-0075-1
Издательство: Менеджер
Дата выхода: декабрь 1999

Except for catching flies and changing colors occasionally, this chameleon doesn`t find life very exciting. When a surprise visit to the zoo makes this wistful lizard realize it can change its shape and size as easily as its color, it ends up wanting to be like all the animals in the zoo at once - with hilarious results. Full-color illustrations.

ISBN: 978-0-06-443162-0
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: декабрь 2012

ISBN: 9780571237029
Издательство: Faber
Дата выхода: январь 2010

The Moonstone, generally recognized as the first detective novel is not only a work of historical importance but also a work that transcends the genre it created, in the artfulness of its plotting, in its compassionate depiction of servants, and in its enlightened resolution of the theme of the British Empire, its crimes and their consequences. Hinging on the theft of an enormous diamond originally stolen from an Indian shrine, this riveting novel features the innovative Sergeant Cuff, the hilarious house steward Gabriel Betteridge, a lovesick housemaid, and a mysterious band of Indian jugglers.

ISBN: 978-5-521-06180-8
Издательство: Т8
Дата выхода: декабрь 2017

ISBN: 9780825622960
Дата выхода: январь 1992

ISBN: 9781409311201
Издательство: Ladybird Books
Дата выхода: август 2024

Sam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister, who has eloped with a louse called Floyd Thursby. But Miss Wonderley is in fact the beautiful and treacherous Brigid O`Shaughnessy, and when Spade`s partner Miles Archer is shot while on Thursby`s trail, Spade finds himself both hunter and hunted: can he track down the jewel-encrusted bird, a treasure worth killing for, before the Fat Man finds him?

ISBN: 978-0-7528-6533-1
Издательство: Orion Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

ISBN: 9780241339282
Дата выхода: январь 2018

Уильям Уилки Коллинз - известный английский писатель XIX века; драматург, автор многочисленных романов, пьес и рассказов. Роман "Лунный камень" по праву считается лучшим и одним из самых знаменитых романов автора. Увлекательный сюжет, в котором мастерски сплетаются тайна древнего проклятия и запутанная детективная история, отмечен тонким психологизмом. Неповторимая атмосфера старой доброй Англии и...

ISBN: 978-5-521-05153-3
Издательство: Т8
Дата выхода: май 2017

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ISBN: 978-3-8228-3703-0
Издательство: TASCHEN
Дата выхода: январь 2000

ISBN: 9781447262794
Дата выхода: январь 2014

ISBN: 9781908745675
Дата выхода: январь 2017

Mark Twain was an American writer, journalist, and publisher. Among his most famous novels are "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and its sequel, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." His wit and satire, in prose and in speech, earned praise from critics and peers. This volume includes four amazing works like "A Fable," "Hunting a Deceitful Turkey," "The McWilliamses and The Burglar Alarm," and the novel "The Mysterious Stranger" itself.

ISBN: 978-5-517-00216-7
Издательство: Т8
Дата выхода: декабрь 2018