Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. "The Stark Munro Letters" is an epistolary novel in the form of twelve letters written in the late nineteenth century by a doctor J. Stark Munro and sent to his American friend Herbert Swanborough. These letters describe his attempts to create a medical practice with the help of an unorthodox doctor James Cullingworth.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07180-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018
Jack London (1876-1916) 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: 978-5-521-07483-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
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
Lara Cameron is America`s Princess, the power behind the tallest building on earth, a self-made billionaire who towers over a traditionally male domain, an icon of glamour and accomplishment to men and women everywhere. Beautiful but insecure, ruthless yet vulnerable, Lara has struggled brutally to achieve it all—yet she still wants more. And in a dazzling global setting from London to New York, from Reno to Rome, she will find everything she has ever desired and won—her fortune, her fame, the man she loves-swiftly and shockingly imperiled.
ISBN: 0-446-36476-2
Издательство:
Warner Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
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
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
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 Sea Lions, originally published in 1849, tells the story of two ships seeking seals among the icebergs of Antarctica, and caught there during the long winter night.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07953-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
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.
The Sea-Wolf, first published in 1904, is a psychological adventure novel. The book`s protagonist, Humphrey van Weyden, is a literary critic who is a survivor of an ocean collision and who comes under the dominance of Wolf Larsen, the powerful and amoral sea captain who rescues
ISBN: 978-5-521-00182-8
Издательство:
Пальмира
Дата выхода: январь 2017
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...
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
