Introducing a major literary talent, The White Tiger offers a story of coruscating wit, blistering suspense, and questionable morality, told by the most volatile, captivating, and utterly inimitable narrator that this millennium has yet seen. Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier, Balram tells us the terrible and transfixing story of how he came to be a success in life - having nothing but his own wits to help him along. Born in the dark heart of India, Balram gets a break when he is hired as a driver for his village`s wealthiest man, two house Pomeranians (Puddles and Cuddles), and the rich man`s (very...
Father Brown appears to be a clumsy and naive man but this unimpressive exterior hides a razor sharp mind. His great intellect and an intrinsic knowledge of humanity`s capacity for evil, gained through the confessional, make him an expert at solving crimes. This gifted sleuth uses intuition over scientific method, putting himself in the shoes and minds of the criminals he seeks.This collection contains classic stories featuring G.K. Chesterton`s much-loved character such as `The Absence of Mr Glass`, `The Duel of Mr Hirsch`, and `The Purple Wig`. Solving crimes with sympathy and insight this genial priest has continually charmed readers from first publication until today.
September and already she has performance anxiety. Not surprising when she has agreed to lay on the annual Christmas Eve village bash - the piece de resistance of her husband`s former wife - not to mention having to host Christmas for his difficult offspring. New to this frenzied build-up to the festivities, Beth begins to lose sight of what it all means. To her the Christmas lights are looking more like the headlamps of an oncoming train. Carol: glamorous magazine editor, who put her aspirational Christmas issue to bed sometime in July and is so involved in finding a scoop to save her ailing magazine that she fails to notice the impending festive rush. Panicked and wracked with guilt, she is determined to make it a picture perfect time...
ISBN: 978-0-7528-8177-5
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882—1941) was an English writer and literary critic, the leading figure of the modernist literature of the first half of the twentieth century. She also was part of a group of English intellectuals, writers, and artists, graduates of Cambridge, called the Bloomsbury group. Being the most popular of Woolf`s novel during her lifetime, "The Years" is a criticism of British society at the turn of the century. It tells the story of three generations of the Pargiter family from the 1880s to the mid-1930s. Their joys and adversities, triumphs and failures, all accompanied by rhythms of London`s streets. Each section of the story takes place during a single day of a year, in a particular moment of the season.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07854-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. The Yellow Mask is a mystery novel. The secret of Wilkie Collins\'s success is the combination of various genres: the writer-master of intrigue and fascinating plot skillfully combines melodrama, detective and a manners novel in his books, generously flavoring them elements of the Gothic novel.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07584-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. The main hero of The Yellow God is Alan Vernon, a young retired army major, who, after undergoing financial ruin, decides to travel to Africa to make his fortune, in hopes of eventually winning the hand of beautiful Barbara Champers-Haswell. Vernon has heard of a mysterious kingdom ruled by the priestess and he plans to help himself to the gold found there.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07734-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Three South Yorkshire friends, all on the cusp of 40, fall pregnant at the same time following a visit to an ancient fertility symbol. For Helen, it`s a dream come true, although her husband is not as thrilled about it as she had hoped. Not only wrestling with painful ghosts of the past, Helen has to deal with the fact that her outwardly perfect marriage is crumbling before her eyes. For Janey, it is an unmitigated disaster as she has just been offered the career break of a life-time. And she has no idea either how it could possibly have happened, seeing as she and her ecstatic husband George were always so careful over contraception. For Elizabeth, it is mind-numbing, because she knows people like her shouldn`t have children. Damaged by...
ISBN: 978-1-84983-410-0
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: январь 2011
Вирджиния Вулф - легендарная британская писательница первой половины XX века. Её прозу отличает изысканный язык, яркие персонажи и трогательные сюжеты. В замечательном романе "Годы" перед читателем разворачивается повествование о пятидесяти годах из жизни большой английской семьи. Это калейдоскоп событий, персонажей, чувств и эмоций. Удивительная красивая и пронзительно ностальгическая история, в...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05471-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2017
The hero of the story is Alan Vernon, a young retired army major, who, after undergoing financial ruin, decides to travel to Africa to make his fortune, in hopes of eventually winning the hand of beautiful Barbara Champers-Haswell. Vernon has heard of a mysterious kingdom ruled by the priestess and plans to help himself to the gold found there.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06620-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
Classic / British English Strange and wonderful things happen in t seven short stories. Oscar Wilde takes us into a world of kings and queens, mermaids and witches, giants and dwarfs, and talking animals. Exciting and amusing, happy and sad, these stories are for all ages.
ISBN: 978-1-4082-0956-1
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
On doit beaucoup à Schmitt: il a réussi à faire revivre une forme de théâtre que beaucoup pensaient mort et enterré, la pièce intellectuelle brillante. C`est un genre qui n`a jamais connu d`éclipse dans le théâtre anglais, comme le montre la continuité de travail de George Bernard Shaw à Tom Stoppard ou Christopher Hampton, mais en France ce genre avait disparu entre Sartre et Schmitt. Chaque fois, Schmitt réussit à créer des situations qui provoquent la réflexion dans le monde d`aujourd`hui
ISBN: 978-2-253-15599-7
Издательство:
Livre de Poche
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Роман выдающегося английского писателя У.Сомерсета Моэма `Театр` широко известен в России. Автор продолжает исследовать тему судьбы художника в искусcтве и в жизни. Пережив любовь и разочарование, главная героиня романа, актриса Джулия Ламберт, пытается разобраться в себе и своем окружении. Полученный духовный опыт обогащает ее как личность и помогает подняться на новую ступень в творчестве.
ISBN: 5-8346-0031-X
Издательство:
Менеджер
Дата выхода: декабрь 1999
