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 Strength of the Strong and The Turtles of Tasman are collections of beautiful short stories among which there are "Told in the Drooling Ward," "South of the Slot," "The Unparalleled Invasion," "The Eternity of Forms," and many others.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08171-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
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
New from the global bestselling author of THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA: it`s a match made in hell.Sweeping from Wimbledon to the Caribbean, from LA to mega yachts in the Med, The Singles Game is a brilliantly entertaining romp through a world where the stakes are high - and no-one plays by the rules.When Charlotte `Charlie` Silver makes a pact with the devil, infamously brutal tennis coach Todd Feltner, she finds herself catapulted into a world of stylists, private parties and secret dates with Hollywood royalty.Under Todd it`s no more good-girl attitude: he wants warrior princess Charlie all the way. After all, no-one ever won by being nice.Celebrity mags and gossip blogs go wild for Charlie, chasing scandal as she jets around the globe. But...
Howard Lovecraft 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 Lovecraft`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: 978-5-517-00255-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: февраль 2019
The fifth and final volume in Doris Lessings visionary novel cycle Canopus in Argos: Archives. It is a mix of fable, futuristic fantasy and pseudo-documentary accounts of 20th-century history.
In this tragic masterpiece portraying the inner anguish of a tormented artist who burns with unrequited love, the Russian playwright uses the death of a sea gull to symbolize the ruined hopes and dreams of his characters. Universally acclaimed as a prototype of twentieth-century drama, the play pioneered a new form of impressionistic realism
ISBN: 0-486-40656-3
Издательство:
Dover
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
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 Over Innsmouth" is a horror novella and the only Lovecraft story which was published in book form during his lifetime. The narrator is a student conducting an antiquarian tour of New England. He travels to Innsmouth, interacting with strange people, and observes disturbing events that ultimately lead to horrifying, and personal, revelations. .
ISBN: 978-5-521-08217-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
