Previously adapted into a critically acclaimed film by Sofia Coppola starring Kirsten Dunst, this is the story of the five Lisbon sisters - beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the entire neighbourhood. The boys that once loved them from afar are now grown men, determined to understand a tragedy that has always defied explanation. For still, the question remains - why did all five of the Lisbon girls take their own lives? This hypnotic and unforgettable novel treats adolescent love and death with haunting sensitivity and dark humour, and creates a coming of age story unlike any of our time.
Fitzgerald was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. An oddity in F. S. Fitzgerald`s career, his play The Vegetable was a satirical attack on the presidency of Warren Harding. An ordinary, incompetent man, taunted for his lack of ambition by his family, realises his dream of ruling the United States of America.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07616-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018
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. "The Voyage Out" is Woolf`s first novel, and it revolves around Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose and their niece, Rachel Vinrace, on a sea voyage from London to the South American coast. On the ship, Rachel faces different people: politicians, writers, scientists. She learns life, experiences the first feeling, and then even real love, and begins to understand what is valuable in human relations. .
ISBN: 978-5-521-07848-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Complete in five handsome volumes, each with an introduction by a Doyle scholar, a chronology, a selected bibliography, and explanatory notes, the Oxford Sherlock Holmes series offers a definitive collection of the famous detective`s adventures. No home library is complete without it. Comprising the series of short stories that made the fortunes of the Strand, the magazine in which they were first published, this volume won even more popularity for Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Holmes is at the height of his powers in many of his most famous cases, including The Sussex Vampire, The Mazarin Stone, The Three Gables and the famous The Valley of Fear.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06028-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: октябрь 2017
Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. The Valley of Fear is the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel. In this tale drawn from the notebooks of Dr. Watson, the deadly hand of Professor Moriarty once more reaches out to commit a vile and ingenious crime. The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes is the final set of twelve Sherlock Holmes short stories first published in the Strand Magazine.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08133-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Tlie Valley of Fear is the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel, first published in the Strand Magazine in 1914-1915. It is a captivating mystery about the murder of a certain John Douglas with a quite unpredictable and dramatic ending.
Moscow 1876. A young law student commits suicide in broad daylight in Moscow`s Alexander Gardens. But this is no ordinary death, for the young man was the son of an influential industrialist. Erast Fandorin, a hotheaded new recruit to the Criminal Investigation Department, is assigned to the case. Brilliant, young, and sophisticated, Fandorin embarks on an investigation that will take him from the palatial mansions of Moscow to the seedy back-streets of London in his hunt for the conspirators.
ISBN: 978-0-7538-1759-9
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
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 White Ship and Other Stories" is a collection of wonderful short stories such as "Memory," "The White Ship," "The Doom That Came to Sarnath," "The Cats of Ulthar" and others. These stories, full of mystery and fantastic creatures, have captured the minds of readers all over the world.
ISBN: 978-5-517-00258-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: февраль 2019
`A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores` - From, The Fifth Elephant. `Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened` - From, Moving Pictures. The Discworld is filled with a vast and diverse population - from witches to vampires and from the fiendish to the foolish, it is a world in which magical books can devour the unsuspecting, and Death can escape to the country for some time off. The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld is a collection of the wittiest, pithiest and wisest quotations from this extraordinary universe, dealing one-by-one with each book in the canon. Guaranteed to transport you back to your favourite or forgotten Discworld moments it is the perfect...
ISBN: 978-0-552-15946-3
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2011
For readers new to The Dark Tower, The Wind Through The Keyhole is a stand-alone novel, and a wonderful introduction to the series. It is a story within a story, which features both the younger and older gunslinger Roland on his quest to find the Dark Tower. Fans of the existing seven books in the series will also delight in discovering what happened to Roland and his ka tet between the time they leave the Emerald City and arrive at the outskirts of Calla Bryn Sturgis. This Russian Doll of a novel, a story within a story, within a story, visits Mid-World`s last gunslinger, Roland Deschain, and his ka-tet as a ferocious storm halts their progress along the Path of the Beam. (The novel can be placed between Dark Tower IV and Dark Tower V.)...
Герберт Уэллс (1866-1946) знаменит прежде всего своими фантастическими произведениями, основные темы которых (полеты в космосе, атомное оружие, применение лазера, идея невидимости) в современной литературе стали общим местом, а некоторые сменили жанровую принадлежность, обретя реалистичность не только в книгах, но и в обыденной жизни. Роман <Война миров> (1897) изображает вторжение марсиан на Землю: целью...
ISBN: 978-5-6044158-3-2
Издательство:
Банда умников
Дата выхода: июнь 2020
Bram Stoker (1847-1912) was an Irish novelist, best known today for his universally famous gothic novel "Dracula," the main villain of which is still one of the most popular antagonists in the modern media. "The Watter`s Mou`" is Bram Stoker`s third novel. It is an adventure romance about Maggie MacWhirter and her lover, young coast guard officer William Barrow who is bound by duty to stop his girlfriend`s father and other local fishers from smuggling. Torn between her love for the coastguard officer and her love for her father, Maggie plans a dangerous mission to try to keep them both safe.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07518-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Hailed as "one of the best" ( Toronto Sun ) writers of contemporary suspense fiction, international bestselling author John Connolly returns with an electrifying novel featuring his acclaimed private detective, Charlie Parker.In South Carolina a young black man faces the death penalty for the rape and murder of Marianne Larousse, daughter of one of the wealthiest men in the state. It`s a case that nobody wants to touch, deeply rooted in old evil -- and old evil is Charlie Parker`s specialty. H`s about to enter a living nightmare, a dreamscape of sorrow haunted by the murderous specter of a hooded woman, by a black car waiting for a passenger that never comes, and by the sinister complicity of both friends and enemies in Larousse`s brutal...
ISBN: 978-0-7434-5639-5
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
The War of the Ring takes up the story of The Lord of the Rings with the Battle of the Hornburg and the drowning of Isengard by the Ents, continues with the journey of Frodo, Sam and Gollum to the Pass of Cirith Ungol, describes the war in Gondor, and ends with the parley between Gandalf and the ambassador of the Dark Lord before the Black Gate of Mordor. Unforeseen developments that would become central to the narrative are seen at the moment of their emergence: the palantir bursting into fragments on the stairs of Orthanc, its nature as unknown to the author as to those who saw it fall, or the entry of Faramir into the story.
ISBN: 978-0-261-10223-1
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
