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. The Star Rover tells the story of a sentenced to death prisoner of San Quentin, Darrel Standing. For a long time, Darrel was in solitary confinement, experiencing tortures executed by prison workers. Trying to ease the anguish, Standing gets his mind into a state of trance, making his mind travel among the stars, experiencing lives of his past incarnations.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08154-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
This is the UK number one hardback bestseller from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of "The Line of Beauty". It is the "Sunday Times" Novel of the Year. In the late summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge friend Cecil Valance, a charismatic young poet, to visit his family home. Filled with intimacies and confusions, the weekend will link the families for ever, having the most lasting impact on George`s sixteen-year-old sister Daphne. As the decades pass, Daphne and those around her endure startling changes in fortune and circumstance, reputations rise and fall, secrets are revealed and hidden and the events of that long-ago summer become part of a legendary story, told and interpreted in different ways by successive...
The first edition of Shakespeare`s collected works, the First Folio, published in 1623, is one of the most valuable books in the world and has historically proven to be an attractive target for thieves. Of the 160 First Folios listed in a census of 1902, 14 were subsequently stolen-and only two of these were ever recovered. In his efforts to catalog all these precious First Folios, renowned Shakespeare scholar Eric Rasmussen embarked on a riveting journey around the globe, involving run-ins with heavily tattooed criminal street gangs in Tokyo, bizarre visits with eccentric, reclusive billionaires, and intense battles of wills with secretive librarians. He explores the intrigue surrounding the Earl of Pembroke, arguably Shakespeare`s...
Howard Lovecraft (1890—1937) 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 Shadow Out of Time" is one of the latest Love-craft`s novellas. It tells a story of the Great Race of Yith, an extraterrestrial species with the ability to travel through space and time. The Yithians accomplish this by switching bodies with hosts from the intended spatial or temporal destination. The story is told through the eyes of Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee, who is "possessed" by a Yithian. .
ISBN: 978-5-521-08218-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Now updated with a new chapter, the #1 "New York Times" - bestselling true crime writer tells the chilling tale of how she came to learn that Ted Bundy, her close friend and colleague at a Seattle crisis hotline, was in fact a savage serial killer.
ISBN: 978-1-4165-5959-7
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
The Golden Section, also known as the Divine Proportion or ф, can be observed in plant seed patterns as well as in the pyramids, in Gothic cathedrals and in the human body, to mention just a few phenomena from an infinite series. This book presents not only the multifaceted forms of the Golden Section in nature, art, architecture, music and science, but also variations, such as the Golden Spirals in the human inner ear. With more than 300 illustrations and graphs it explores the exciting issue of the laws of the universe and the concealed "divine plan" that is revealed within it. Формат: 19,5 см x 21,5 см.
ISBN: 978-3-8365-0711-0
Издательство:
TASCHEN
Дата выхода: январь 2000
`Then vision of an enormous town presented itself, of a monstrous town... a cruel devourer of the world`s light. There was room enough there to place any story, depth enough for tiny passion, variety enough there for any setting, darkness enough to bury five millions of lives.` Conrad`s `monstrous town` is London, and his story of espionage and counter-espionage, anarchists and embassies, is a detective story that becomes the story of Winnie Verloc`s tenacity in maintaining her devotion to her peculiar and simple-minded brother, Stevie, as they pursue their very ordinary lives above a rather dubious shop in the back streets of Soho. However, far from offering any sentimental picture, `The Secret Agent` is Conrad`s funniest novel. Its...
ISBN: 1-85326-065-7
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 1995
This is an updated addition to Usborne Young Reading Series 2, which is aimed at children whose reading ability is beginning to grow, and helps build confidence and ability. It is a lively and engaging look at the story of the Olympic Games, from its foundations in Ancient Greece to the global spectacles seen by modern audiences. It is humorously illustrated throughout by Paddy Mounter. It is developed in consultation with Alison Kelly, who is a senior lecturer in education and an early reading specialist from Roehampton University.
ISBN: 978-1-4095-4593-4
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Сборник приключенческих и детективных рассказов содержит произведения английских и американских писателей XIX - XX века: А. Конан-Дойла, Г. Уэллса, Г. Честертона, С. Моэма, адаптированные для чтения в старших классах средних школ, 9-10 классах школ с углубленным изучением английского языка, I-II курсах неязыковых вузов. После каждого рассказа в книге приводятся упражнения, направленные на овладение лексикой и...
ISBN: 5-8112-0791-3
Издательство:
Айрис-пресс
Дата выхода: январь 2004
More than a thousand years ago, in what is now the territory of modern Mauritania and partly of its neighboring States, was located a rather powerful and militant Caliphate. The ruler of this Caliphate had at his court a personal magician, astrologer and soothsayer. The astrologer was an expert in different areas of secret knowledge, and he was highly esteemed by the ruler. In his Book of Knowledge, he wrote down all that was of magical practices and of nature observation in detail, which came to him by inheritance from other great magicians. The Caliph`s astrologer had a very inquisitive and dexterous servant, who also led his book and was going to give it to his worthy successor. Of course, the book of the servant was nothing like...
ISBN: 978-5-6041795-3-6
Издательство:
Jellyfish Jam
Дата выхода: декабрь 2018
General Khrapov, newly appointed Governor-General of Siberia and soon-to-be Minister of the Interior, is murdered in his official saloon carriage on his way from St Petersburg to Moscow. The killer, disguised as Fandorin, leaves a knife thrust up to the hilt in his victim`s chest and escapes through the window of the carriage. Can Fandorin escape suspicion? A battle of wills and ideals, revolutionaries and traditionalists and good versus evil.
ISBN: 978-0-7538-2642-3
Издательство:
Орион
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
How many legs does an octopus have? How much water should you drink every day? What is the chance of tossing a coin and it landing on heads? What is house dust mostly made from? What colour are oranges? Who in the world is most likely to kill you? What was the first dishwasher built to do? A wonderful collection of the most outrageous, fascinating and mind-bending facts. And whatever your answers to the questions above, you can be sure that everything you think you know is wrong.
