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
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
In 1955 eight crew members of Caldas, a Colombian destroyer, were swept overboard. Velasco alone survived, drifting on a raft for ten days without food or water. Marquez retells the survivor`s amazing tale of endurance, from hisloneliness and thirst to his determination to survive. "The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor" was Marquez`s first major work, published in a Colombian newspaper, "El Espectador", in 1955 and then in book form in 1970.
ISBN: 978-0-14-103244-3
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2012
Англ.яз. "I AM A CIVILIZED MAN. MURDER IS ALWAYS WITH US. IT IS ALMOST AN INSTITUTION. THE DEMONSTRATION MUST BE AGAINST LEARNING-SCIENCE. BUT NOT EVERY SCIENCE WILL DO. THE ATTACK MUST HAVE ALL THE SHOCKING SENSELESSNESS OF GRATUITOUS BLASPHEMY. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF HAVING A GO AT ASTRONOMY?’” CONRAD`S SUBTLE EXPLORATION OF AN ANARCHIST BOMBING AND THE PRICE TO BE PAID.
ISBN: 5-17-032881-8
Издательство:
АСТ
Дата выхода: декабрь 2005
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
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. Orphaned and sent to live with her uncle in his austere manor on the moors, Mary Lennox is a lonely and unhappy child. A meeting with Dickon, her servant`s brother begins her adventure and it is through their friendship and her relationship with her troubled hypochondriac cousin Colin that she begins to learn about herself. Their lives all begin to change when a Robin shows Mary the door to a mysterious secret garden.
ISBN: 978-0-00-735106-0
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: март 2013
«Тайная роза» — сборник новелл ирландского англоязычного поэта и писателя Уильяма Батлера Йейтса (1865–1939), написанных им в ответ на многочисленные просьбы его друзей написать что-то поистине ирландское. Увлеченный кельтским фольклором и оккультизмом, Йейтс соединяет ирландских персонажей с розенкрейцеровскими. Ирландцы, как отмечает он в посвящении, сохранили свой особый «дар видения», при...
ISBN: 978-5-517-09695-1
Издательство:
RUGRAM
Дата выхода: октябрь 2023
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
It is only days before Britain declares war on Germany. Harry Clifton, hoping to escape the consequences of a familyscandal, and realizinghe can never marry Emma Barrington, has joined the Merchant Navy. Whena German U-boat sinks his ship, Harry and a handful of sailors are rescued by the SS Kansas Star, among them an American named Tom Bradshaw. That night, when Bradshaw dies, Harry seizes a chance to bury his past-by assumingthe man's identity.
«Зарубежная классика — читай в оригинале» — коллекция, которая собрана из бессмертных произведений великих мастеров пера, написанных ими на их родном языке. Книги из этой серии помогут читателю углублённо изучать иностранные языки, обогатят его внутренний мир и по-новому откроют произведения известных классиков. Учись английскому у Теодора Драйзера!
ISBN: 978-5-519-49534-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2016
Communication is essential to our lives, but how often do we stop to think about where the words we use have come from? Have you ever thought about which words in English have been borrowed from Arabic, French or Dutch? Try admiral, landscape and marmalade just for starters. "The Secret Life of Words" is a wide-ranging account not only of the history of English, but also of how words witness history, reflect social change and remind us of our turbulent past. Henry Hitchings delves into our promiscuous language and reveals how and why it has absorbed words from more than 350 other languages many originating from the most unlikely of places, such as shampoo from Hindi and kiosk from Turkish. From the Norman Conquest to the present day,...
ISBN: 978-0-7195-6455-0
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
After two high-risk missions, CIA special agent John Wells is living on the edge, his nights filled with disturbing dreams. He knows he has no time for rest - and he has made many enemies. But what happens next shocks him to the core. First, he is targeted by assassins sent by a psychotic arms dealer out for revenge. His girlfriend is left for dead. Then, in vengeful pursuit of his assailants in Moscow, he stumbles on a terrifying plot. Terrorists have successfully targeted Russia`s nuclear complex and are planning an attack on America`s shores. With the clock ticking, Wells realises that to stand a chance of preventing it, he mustn`t let a personal vendetta get in his way - the future of the West depends upon him.
ISBN: 978-0-09-953696-3
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2012
