When Richard Hannay returns from a long stay in Africa, he becomes caught up in a sensational plot to precipitate a pan-European war. After the discovery of a corpse in his flat, Hannay flees the attentions of both the conspirators and the forces of the law, and the pursuit turns into a thrilling manhunt. Set against the hot summer which precedes the outbreak of the First World War, `The Thirty-nine Steps` is one of the finest and most highly admired thrillers ever written.
ISBN: 1-85326-080-0
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: декабрь 1999
The Things We Leave Unfinished (Rebecca Yarros)When Georgia Stanton discovers that her late grandmother, Scarlett, the infamous romance author, didn`t get the chance to finish her last book, she is determined to share her story. But first, it needs to be written.Enter Noah Harrison, the bestselling and most charismatic romance author of his generation. When Georgia meets him, she is distraught - athough he`s charming and handsome, there`s nothing beneath the surface. But as they start working together, Georgia begins to see that there might be more to Noah than meets the eye.Together, they realize that Scarlett was saving the greatest love story of all until last - her own. While serving in World War Two, she fell in love with the...
It`s been 110 years since Frederick Warne published Beatrix Potter`s very first book, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, and in celebration, we are delighted to be publishing special editions of her entire body of work. Unlike the traditional little white books, t
ISBN: 978-0-7232-6792-8
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012
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 Turtles of Tasman" is a collection of beautiful short stories among which there are "The Hobo and the Fairy", "The Eternity of Forms" and "Told in the Drooling Ward" — a first-person narrative as told by a feebleminded inmate of a mental institution. .
ISBN: 978-5-521-08123-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Генри Джеймс - не только один из самых известных классиков мировой литературы, но и ярчайший представитель трансатлантической культуры рубежа XIX и XX веков. "Поворот винта" - успешно экранизированная, мистико-психологическая повесть. Загадочная история няни двух детей, Флоры и Майсла, за которыми охотятся призраки, поражает воображение читателя. Но реальны ли потусторонние силы, или это плод расстроенного...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05742-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2017
"Clippety, clop! Clippety clop!" The Three Billy Goats Gruff are going across the bridge. But there is an ugly troll under the bridge. He wants to eat them! What will happen?
ISBN: 9781845580278
Издательство:
Express Publishing
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2018
Герберт Уэллс - знаменитый английский писатель рубежа XIX-XX века, яркий представитель критического реализма, автор блестящих научно-фантастических романов и повестей. "Машина времени" - один из самых известных романов автора, который переносит читателя в мир будущего нашего человечества, населённого всего двумя видами существ: подземными жителями морлоками и хрупкими неприспособленными для труда...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05382-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2017
