It`s been 110 years since Frederick Warne published Beatrix Potter`s very first book, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, and in celebration, we are delighted to be publishing special editions of her entire body of work. Unlike the traditional little white books, t
ISBN: 978-0-7232-6795-9
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012
The third thrilling adventure thriller featuring archaeologist Nina Wilde, in which Nina must find Excalibur, King Arthur’s beloved sword. Said to make whoever holds it unstoppable in battle, the sword Excalibur has been coveted across the ages, and thought lost for over a thousand years. With a cryptic message to archaeologist Nina Wilde, this may be about to change. Historian Bernd Rust believes he can locate and that the sword is the key to harnessing an incredible source of energy. Nina is sceptical – until she and Rust are attacked by mercenaries determined to steal his research. Nina and her boyfriend, ex-SAS soldier Eddie Chase, are soon propelled into a deadly race to find Excalibur. From the deserts of Syria to the arctic...
ISBN: 978-0-7553-4550-2
Издательство:
Headline Publ.
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. The plot of The Sea Lions; Or, The Lost Sealers revolves around two sealers stranded in amongst Antarctic ice.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06662-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
For Ned, 1980 seems a blissful year. Handsome, charming, popular and talented, his life is progressing smoothly, effortlessly, happily. And when he meets the lovely Portia Fendeman his personal jigsaw appears complete. But timing is everything in life, and his life is about to change for ever. Формат: 13 см x 20 см.
ISBN: 0-099-47155-8
Издательство:
Vintage Classics
Дата выхода: февраль 2007
There`s a killer on the loose who knows that beauty is only skin deep, and a trainee investigator who`s trying to save her own hide. The only man who can help is locked in an asylum. But he`s willing to put a brave face on - if it will help him escape.
ISBN: 0-09-944678-2
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
The Silmarilli were three perfect jewels, fashioned by Feanor, rnost gitted ot rhe Elves. When the first Dark Lord, Morgoth, stole the jewels tor his own ends, Feanor and his kindred took up arms and waged a long and terrible war to recover them. This is the story of their rebellion against the gods and the history of the heroic First Age of Middle-earth.
ISBN: 0-261-10273-7
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: октябрь 2001
The red letter "A" on her dress marks young mother Hester Prynne among her Puritan neighbors, who demand to know who fathered her child. Rumors swirl, but the shunned and shamed Hester keeps her secret for years, until a guilt-ridden confession reveals the truth, with unexpected consequences. Set in seventeenth-century Massachusetts, Hawthorne`s masterwork was originally subtitled "a romance," though its themes include the limits of law, the power of religion, and the nature of sin.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06190-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: декабрь 2017
Роман Теодора Драйзера "Стоик" является заключительным романом из цикла "Трилогия желаний", повествующем о судьбе Фрэнка Каупервуда. После краха в Чикаго главный герой начинает строить свой бизнес с нуля в Лондоне и даже добивается успеха. Но жизнь вносит в его амбициозные планы свои коррективы... Эта книга не только будет интересна для углубленного изучения английского языка, но и даст возможность...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05120-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2017
This title is the winner of the 2005 Man Booker Prize. When art historian Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma. The Grace family had appeared there, in that long-ago summer, as if from another world. Mr. and Mrs. Grace, with their worldly ease and candour, were unlike any adults he had met before. But it was his contemporaries, the Grace twins, Myles and Chloe, who most fascinated Max. He grew to know them intricately, even intimately, and what ensued would haunt him for the rest of his years and shape everything that was to follow. Praise for The Sea: `With his fastidious wit and exquisite style, John Banville is the...
ISBN: 978-0-330-48329-2
Издательство:
Pan Macmillan
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.’I thus drew steadily nearer to that truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two’A London lawyer is drawn into a series of strange occurrences concerning his old friend Henry Jekyll and the despicable stranger Edward Hyde, a man who seems to epitomise the very meaning of evil. What is Hyde’s mysterious hold over Jekyll, and what is the reason behind Jekyll’s increasingly odd behaviour? The investigations will lead into the dark heart of Victorian London, and of human nature itself, as the shocking truth about Hyde’s true identity is finally revealed.Published in 1886 to...
Classic / British English Mary Lennox goes to live with her uncle in a big, old house in the country. There are many gardens round the house. One day Mary finds a garden that has high walls and no doors. What is the secret of the garden?
ISBN: 978-1-4082-0952-3
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
