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
It is the spring of 1945, and the Nazis are eliminating all the witnesses to their horrible crimes, including Jews and foreigners remaining in the prison camps. Kommandant Repp, who is known as a master sniper, decides to hone his sniping abilities by taking a little target practice at the remaining laborers in his own prison camp. But one man escapes and becomes the key to solving the mystery of the cold, calculating Kommandmant Repp and his plans for ending the war. Repp was the master sniper whose deadly talent had come to the notice of British Intelligence as the linchpin of a desperate Nazi plot to reverse the fortunes of the Third Reich at the eleventh hour. But what was the nature of the weapon that Repp was to aim - and who was...
ISBN: 978-0-440-22187-6
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. "The Mystery of Cloomber" is a suspenseful gothic novel that centers around mysterious general Heatherstone and his family. Every single year his paranoia rises around the autumn time. Only his new neighbor John Fothergill West is curious enough to uncover the secret of such unusual behavior. .
ISBN: 978-5-521-08076-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Suze should be spending the summer vacation at the beach. Instead she`s been forced to get a babysitting job at a swanky resort. She`d expected to look after some boring brat, so Suze is surprised to find that her charge is actually a budding mediator – with a totally hot older brother. Not that Suze`s head could be turned by some guy – she`s pledged her heart to Jesse, the most gorgeous ghost ever. But it`s tough when the boy you love doesn`t seem to love you back, and it`s even tougher when you think you`ve found his 150-year-old grave in your backyard. Suze knows it`s dangerous to dig up the past, but how can she focus on babysitting when she could be close to discovering who killed Jesse?
ISBN: 978-0-330-43740-0
Издательство:
Pan Macmillan
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker, abandons his wife and children for Paris and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter. Whilst his betrayal of family, duty and honour gives him the freedom to achieve greatness, his decision leads to an obsession which carries severe implications. Inspired by the life of Paul Gauguin, The Moon and Sixpence is at once a satiric caricature of Edwardian conventions and a vivid portrayal of the mentality of a genius.
ISBN: 0-09-928476-6
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Jack London 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, The Mutiny of the Elsinore 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: 978-5-521-08153-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
Роман "Тайна Клумбер-холла" - один из шедевров А. Конан-Дойля, на страницах которого читатель погружается в мистическую атмосферу таинственного и загадочного. Для широкого круга читателей, изучающих английский язык.
ISBN: 5-8346-0156-1
Издательство:
Менеджер
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2004
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English poet, playwright, and actor, considered by many as the greatest English writer. Hundreds of specialists were able to translate his works into every major language, and most of the plays are performed more often than those of any other author. "The Merchant of Venice" is one of Shakespeares most famous plays. The action takes place partly in Venice and Belmonte. Young Bassanio, who is in debt, decided to marry rich beauty Portia and asks his friend, merchant Antonio, for help. Antonio decides to help him and takes money from a local usurer Shylock. Under the terms of the bill, if he does not return the debt on time, Shylock has the right to cut a pound of meat from the merchants body.
ISBN: 978-5-517-00389-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2019
Жан-Батист Поклен, творивший под псевдонимом Мольер, - классик французской литературы XVII века, создатель классической комедии, чьи произведения ставят на театральных сценах по всему миру до сих пор. Пятиактная театральная комедия в стихах "Мизантроп" - это история о молодом человеке Альцесте, который вопреки укладу жизни общества нацелен говорить в лицо правду и быть излишне честным. Но не помешает ли его...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05763-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2017
The influence of traditional Asian design is far-reaching, and today, contemporary Asian interior designers and architects have developed a new kind of modernism that references the appropriate elements of their own traditions. The New East is the first comprehensive volume to present this ongoing style revolution and is sure to inspire anyone looking to add harmony and sensuality to their homes. Rich photographs brilliantly showcase Asian designs for living. Here you`ll find everything you need to know about combining Western design motifs with Eastern traditional elements, such as the Japanese sliding screens; creating harmonious balance between the indoor and the outdoor space; and selecting specific materials that make up the...
ISBN: 978-0-8478-2914-9
Издательство:
Rizzolli
Дата выхода: январь 2000
The naughtiest girl in the school is back! And this term she`s trying to be good. But someone wants to spoil things for her. And they`re not going to let her forget how she got her nickname!
ISBN: 978-0-340-91770-1
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Paul Auster`s signature work, The New York Trilogy, consists of three interlocking novels: City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room; haunting and mysterious tales that move at the breathless pace of a thriller.
The New Cambridge English Course is a course teachers and students can rely on to cover the complete range and depth of language and skills needed from beginner to upper-intermediate level. Each level is designed to provide at least 72 hours of class work using the Student`s Book, with additional self-study material provided in the Practice Book. The course has a proven multi-syllabus approach which integrates work on all the vital aspects of language study: grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, skills, notions and functions.
ISBN: 0-521-37668-8
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: январь 1999
The New Cambridge English Course is a four-level course for learners of English. Level 4 takes learners from intermediate to upper-intermediate standard (approximately at the level of the Cambridge First Certificate). It can be used with learners who have studied previous levels of the course, or as an independent upper-intermediate course. The course features: proven multi-syllabus approach, clearly focused and \'signposted\' aims for each lesson, wide variety of presentation and practice material, allowance for different learning styles and teaching situations, balance between control and freedom in language practice, motivating range of up-to-date topics, frequent use authentic reading and listening material, highly attractive,...
ISBN: 0521376645
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: декабрь 1995
