After their thrilling exploits in Matthew Reilly’s bestseller Seven Ancient Wonders, super-soldier Jack West and his loyal team of adventurers are back, and now they face an all-but impossible challenge. For a mysterious ceremony in an unknown location has triggered a catastrophic countdown that will climax in the destruction of all life on Earth. But there is one last hope. If Jack’s team can find and rebuild a legendary ancient device known only as the “Machine”, they might be able to ward off this coming Armageddon. The only clues to its location, however, are held within the fabled Six Sacred Stones, long lost in the fog of history. And so the hunt From Stonehenge in England, to the deserts of Egypt, to the spectacular Three...
ISBN: 978-0-330-42658-9
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
`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
«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. O. Henry, the pen name of William Sydney Porter, is known for short stories with surprise endings. In this collection you will find the following beloved O....
ISBN: 978-5-519-49880-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2016
Сборник приключенческих и детективных рассказов содержит произведения английских и американских писателей XIX—XX веков в адаптации Г. К. Магидсон-Степановой. Книга рассчитана на учащихся старших классов средних школ, лицеев, гимназий, студентов I—II курсов неязыковых вузов. После каждого рассказа приводятся упражнения, направленные на овладение лексикой, грамматикой и развитие навыков общения. Книга...
ISBN: 978-5-8112-3190-4
Издательство:
Айрис-пресс
Дата выхода: июнь 2008
Sequel to "The Godfather", this describes the ending of Michael Corleone`s exile in Sicily, his search for Salvatore Giuliano and his troubles, as he confronts brutal and unfamiliar treacheries in the deceitful society within which he moves.
ISBN: 978-0-09-941474-2
Издательство:
Random House
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
