"Let me tell you who I am, on the chance that these scribblings do survive... "I am Murgen, Standardbearer of the Black Company, though I bear the shame of having lost that standard in battle. I am keeping these Annals because Croaker is dead, One-Eye won`t, and hardly anyone else can read or write. I will be your guide for however long it takes the Shadowlanders to force our present predicament to its inevitable end..." This omnibus volume comprises the novels Water Sleeps and Soldiers Live.
Ньютон Бут Таркингтон - знаменитый американский писатель первой половины XX, один из немногих авторов, удостоенный Пулитцеровской премии более одного раза. "Великолепные Эмберсоны" - это одно из самых известных произведений Таркингтона, которое было экранизировано Орсоном Уэллсом. Действие разворачивается в начале XX века на Среднем Западе в богатой семье Эмберсонов, веривших в прочность и незыблемость...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05714-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2017
Серия книг «Зарубежная классика — читай в оригинале» — это бессмертные произведения великих мастеров пера, написанные ими на их родном языке и наречии. Книги из этой серии помогут читателю углубленно изучать иностранные языки, обогатят его внутренний мир и по-новому откроют произведения известных классиков. Неадаптированное издание на английском языке.
ISBN: 978-5-517-09747-7
Издательство:
RUGRAM
Дата выхода: январь 2023
Modern, original fiction for learners of English. A plane crashes in the middle of the desert in Oman leaving a pilot and his family hurt and stranded. The pilot begins a journey across the desert to get help but collapses from exhaustion. He is
ISBN: 978-0-521-68654-9
Издательство:
Cambridge
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
In The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury, America’s preeminent storyteller, imagines a place of hope, dreams, and metaphor— of crystal pillars and fossil seas—where a fine dust settles on the great empty cities of a vanished, devastated civilization. Earth
ISBN: 978-1-4516-7819-2
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Bram Stoker (1847-1912) was an Irish novelist, best known today for his universally famous gothic novel "Dracula," the main villain of which is still one of the most popular antagonists in the modern media. The novel "The Mystery of the Sea" tells the story of Archibald Hunter, an Englishman from Aberdeenshire, Scotland, who meets and falls in love with an American heiress Marjory Drake. She is involved with the intrigues of the Spanish-American War, and all of a sudden, Archibald becomes a participant in a complex scheme including kidnapping, secret codes and even second sight that unfolds in front of him over the course of the story.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07519-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Preston, University of Nottingham.Illustrations by S.L. Fildes and Hablot K. Browne (Phiz).Dickens`s final novel, left unfinished at his death, is a tale of mystery whose fast-paced action takes place in an ancient cathedral city and in some of the darkest places in nineteenth-century London. Drugs, sexual obsession, colonial adventuring and puzzles about identity are among the novel`s themes. At the centre of the plot lie the baffling disappearance of Edwin Drood and the many explanations of his whereabouts. 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...
ISBN: 9781853267291
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: октябрь 2022
`...an agility astounding, a strength superhuman, a ferocity brutal, a butchery without motive, a grotesquerie in horror absolutely alien from ` Horror, madness, violence and the dark forces hidden in humanity abound in this collection of Poe`s brilliant tales, including - among others - the bloody, brutal and baffling murder of a mother and daughter in Paris in "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", the creeping insanity of "The Tell-Tale Heart", the Gothic nightmare of "The Masque of the Red Death", and the terrible doom of "The Fall of the House of Usher". The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.
ISBN: 978-0-14-119897-2
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
The Man with the Golden Gun, Paco Scaramanga, is one of the deadliest hit men in the world and the British Secret Service want him eliminated. A brainwashed James Bond tried, and failed, to kill his boss, M. It`s time for him to prove he can be trusted again. Bond finds his man in the sweltering heat of Jamaica. His plan is to infiltrate Scaramanga`s gang of criminals to get close to the man himself. But if he fails, Bond will be the next target for the golden gun.
