`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
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
Classic / British English Dr Jekyll is a London doctor who is liked and respected for his work. Mr Hyde is an evil man, completely unknown in London society. There is a murder and Hyde seems to be responsible. So why does the good doctor give Mr Hyde the key to his house - and decide to leave everything to Mr Hyde in his will? This Pack contains a Book and MP3
ISBN: 978-1-4082-7659-4
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: март 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
1067. In the desolate wastes of Greenland, a band of hunters stumble across a strangely-shaped stone which has fallen from the sky. At first, the mysterious `sky-stone` seems to bring good luck. But the villagers are soon cursed with violence and murder as they fight to gain control of the precious object. Over the next six hundred years, the Sky-Stone will fall into the hands of crusading knights, a wicked manor-lord of Devon, a group of radical young kabalists, the dying King Henry III and a band of travelling players. But treachery, discord and violent death follow for all who seek to possess it.
ISBN: 978-1-84739-832-1
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Best mates Sandie, Emily and Grazia thought they`d be friends forever, but they reckoned without the dividing effects of men and Shopping guru Sandie is on a roll, with a baby on the way and Toby, her posh totty partner, proposing every five minutes. But when she realises the legendary Garnett`s Department Store is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, she knows she`s the only one to save it, even though Toby`s mother seems determined to scupper the rescue bid. For Emily, Sandie`s apparently perfect life is a bitter pill to swallow, especially as Emily`s been banned from having a second child by her boyfriend, Will, who is more interested in saving the planet than her. As the rifts grow, will she learn to stand on her own two feet, or...
ISBN: 978-1-4091-1860-2
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
The Caleighs have had a terrible They need time and space, while they await the news they dread. Gabe has brought his wife, Eve, and daughters, Loren and Cally, down to Devon, to the peaceful seaside village of Hollow Bay. He can work and Eve and the kids can have some peace and quiet and perhaps they can try, as a family, to come to terms with what’s happened to Crickley Hall is an unusually large house on the outskirts of the village at the bottom of Devil`s Cleave, a massive tree-lined gorge - the stuff of local legend. A river flows past the front garden. It`s perfect for if a bit gloomy. And Chester, their dog, seems really spooked at being away from home. And old houses do make sounds. And it`s constantly cold. And even though...
ISBN: 978-0-330-41168-4
Издательство:
Pan Macmillan
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
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
