Lady Candling`s best Siamese cat has gone missing. It`s another mystery for the Find-Outers! The gardener, Luke, always seems so friendly. He couldn`t possibly be the Or could he?
ISBN: 978-1-4052-0394-4
Издательство:
Egmont Books Ltd
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Contemporary / American English Allie Fox hates the United States and he hates the twentieth century. He takes his wife and children to the jungle in Honduras to find a new, simpler way of living. But things go wrong, and their lives become much worse and more frightening than anything back home. This Pack contains a Book and MP3
ISBN: 978-1-4082-9438-3
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: январь 2013
This anthology of Rudyard Kipling`s greatest short stories contains some of the most memorable and popular examples of the genre of which he was an undisputed master. `The Man Who Would be King` is a classic tale of adventure as the opportunistic, renegade and vagabond pair of Daniel Dravot and Peachey Carnehan attempt to establish themselves at the level of god and king over the primitive people of Kafiristan. Other famous short stories included are: `Only a Subaltern`, `The Phantom Rickshaw`, `Wee Willie Winkle`, and `Baa Baa, Black Sheep`. `The Man Who Would be King` was made into a popular film in 1975, starring Sean Connery, Michael Caine and Christopher Plummer and directed by John Huston.
ISBN: 1-85326-209-9
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2002
Semyon is disturbed. He has woken up in the living room with blood on his shirt, an angry wife and no idea where he was the night before. After waking to find his boots and overcoat damp on several mornings in a row, Semyon realises his excursions are a nightly occurrence. Concerned for his own safety and for the security of his marriage, he asks his friend and business partner Volodka to follow him on his nocturnal wanderings. The next morning, Volodka gives Semyon a full report. He left the apartment a little after 2 and walked several blocks until he encountered a tall blonde, whom he kissed and accompanied to her door. But when he visits the address in the daytime, the bemused Semyon doesn`t recognise the location. And stranger yet,...
ISBN: 978-0-09-954886-7
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012
The Mahatma and the Hare is the story of the self-called mahatma — a spiritual man who is able, when asleep, to view "The Great White Road" on which the souls of those recently departed enter heaven — encounters the hare of the title after that animal`s death. Barbara Who Came Back is the story of Septimus Walrond, who was returning from a professional visit to a distant cottage of his remote and straggling parish upon the coast of East Anglia. His errand had been sad, to baptise the dying infant of a fisherman, which just as the rate was finished wailed once feebly and expired in his arms.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06625-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
Years later, Susan, now a widow, arrives in Casterbridge with Elizabeth`Jane, to seek her legal husband. To their surprise, Henchard is now the Mayor of Casterbridge and, following the sale of his wife, took a twenty-one`year vow not to drink, out of shame. Henchard remarries Susan and, as Elizabeth-Jane believes herself to be Newson`s daughter, he adopts her as his own. But he cannot evade his destiny by such measures, for his past refuses to be buried. Fate contrives for him to be punished for the recklessness of his younger days. Формат: 11 см x 18 см.
ISBN: 978-0-14-062396-3
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
