Jasper Fforde has done it again in this genre-bending blend of crime fiction, fantasy, and top-drawer literary entertainment. After two rollicking New York Times bestselling adventures through Western literature, resourceful literary detective Thursday Next definitely needs some downtime. And what better place for a respite than in the hidden depths of the Well of Lost Plots, where all unpublished books reside? But peace and quiet remain elusive for Thursday, who soon discovers that the Well is a veritable linguistic free-for-all, where grammasites run rampant, plot devices are hawked on the black market, and lousy books - like the one she has taken up residence in - are scrapped for salvage. To make matters worse, a murderer is stalking...
ISBN: 978-0-340-82593-8
Издательство:
Hodder
Дата выхода: июль 2012
From one of the greatest living literary imaginations and the celebrated author of Fahrenheit 451 comes a collection of never-before-published effortlessly beautiful tales. Recently described in The Times as "the uncrowned poet laureate of science fiction" Ray Bradbury has won numerous awards including a Pulitzer Prize special citation in 2007 and an Emmy. In this new volume of never-before-published stories, follow a space shuttle crew as they voyage sixty million miles from home, discover what happens when a writer "with the future`s eye" believes his friend to be writing stories aboard a UFO, and listen in on a couple talking themselves backwards through time to the moment when they first held hands. This entertaining and gripping...
ISBN: 978-0-00-730364-9
Издательство:
Collins
Дата выхода: август 2011
Lia and Jay`s grandmother is old and in poor health. She asks her family to fetch water from the well. But the journey to the well is dangerous. There is smoke and fire. Why does grandmother want water from the well? What wil Lia and Jay find there?
ISBN: 978-1-4050-7799-6
Издательство:
Langenscheidt
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Lia and Jay`s grandmother is old and in poor health. She misses her husband who has recently died. She begs her family to fetch water from the well at the abandoned family farm in the hills. After listening to their parents` words of caution about the recent volcanic activity in the area, Lia and Jay set off early in the morning to walk to the farm. On their journey the teenagers meet a variety of people and when they return, it is not just the well water that they bring back to the city.
ISBN: 978-0-230-03590-4
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
"The Well-Beloved" completes the cycle of Hardy`s great novels, reiterating his favourite themes of man`s eternal quest for perfection in both love and art, and the suffering that ensues. Jocelyn Pierston, celebrated sculptor, tries to create an image of his ideal woman - his imaginary "Well-Beloved" - in stone, just as he tries to find her in the flesh. Powerful symbolism marks this romantic fantasy that Hardy has grounded firmly in reality with a characteristically authentic rendering of location, the Isle of Slingers, or Portland as we know it. Overt exploration of the relationship between erotic fascination and creativity makes this novel a nineteenth-century landmark in the persistent debate about art, aesthetics and gender.
ISBN: 978-1-84022-405-4
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Sure to delight fans of Project Runway and Top Design, The Well-Dressed Home shows how to translate favorite wardrobe influences into stylish home dcor.
Can the graphic identity of a restaurant transmit the aromas, colours and flavours of the dishes presented in a menu, even before the first dish arrives at the table? Is experimental cuisine a Futura font or a Times? All these questions and many more are answered in Well-seasoned which features dozens of restaurants from around the world with a graphic identity that transmits an overwhelming array of sensations to their customers. Widely documented with hundreds of photographs, Well-seasoned is an essential reference guide for those interested in the design of restaurants` graphic identities.
ISBN: 978-84-96774-67-4
Издательство:
Index Book
Дата выхода: июль 2011
When thirteen-year-old Matthew Whately goes missing from Bredgar Chambers, a prestigious public school in the heart of West Sussex, aristocratic Inspector Thomas Lynely receives a call for help from the lad`s housemaster, who also happens to be an old school chum.
ISBN: 0-553-28734-6
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
A recognized prodigy at age 10, world famous by age 23, Orson Welles was a triple magician of theater, radio, and film-and by age 25 a promising figure in American politics. President Franklin Roosevelt encouraged him to try a run for the Senate; newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst branded him a pariah. But by the time he turned 30, Orson Welles` professional success ended irreversibly; from then until the day he died, he endured ridicule and reproach over what many judged his "failure." Few knew how feverishly he had persisted as an independent filmmaker. Now, decades after his death, "new" work keeps emerging, and his reputation as an undefeated genius and creator only grows. Издание на английском языке.
ISBN: 3-8228-2003-2
Издательство:
TASCHEN
Дата выхода: январь 2000
Ein neuartiges Landeskundebrevier für alle, die Wissensdurst mit Freude am Quiz verbinden. Es ist in einfacher Sprache gehalten und für Lernende mit Vorkenntnissen geeignet (ab ca. 80 Unterrichtsstunden sind die Fragen bereits erschließbar). Die Fragen befassen sich mit Themenbereichen wie Geografie, Kultur, Geschichte, Alltag usw. und umfassen die drei deutschsprachigen Länder. Speziell für den Einsatz im Unterricht wird jedes Kapitel durch ein "Trainingslager" zu dem Thema ergänzt, das auch den Spiel - und Wettbewerbscharakter verstärkt. Zu jedem Kapitel gibt es viele Hintergrundinformationen und die Lösungen zu den Fragen.
ISBN: 978-3-468-49894-7
Издательство:
Langenscheidt
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Forget the Government`s Citizenship Test - this is the real measure of Britishness. With a wealth of brand-new material that will bring a smile of recognition to even the stiffest of upper lips, Iain Aitch brings us even more explorations of innate Britishness. Continuing in the snappy A-Z format, Iain Aitch brings us all things uniquely British, whether it`s our love of fish and chips, our high regard for James Bond or the red telephone box, everything you`ve ever regarded as being inimitably British is contained within these pages. Test your knowledge of Britain and what it means to be British by answering the multiple choice questions at the end of the book. What kind of peas are used to make mushy peas? What were the last words of...
For brave hunters and bear-lovers, the classic chant-aloud by Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury in a large board book edition.We`re Going on a Bear Hunt. We`re going to catch a big one. Will you come too? For a quarter of a century, readers have been swishy-swashying and splash-sploshing through this award-winning favourite. Follow and join in the family`s excitement as they wade through the grass, splash through the river and squelch through the mud in search of a bear. What a surprise awaits them in the cave on the other side of the dark forest!
The wolf has always been a creature of legend and romance, while kings, sorcerers and outlaws have been proud to be called by the name of the wolf, it’s no wonder, then, that tales of transformation between man and wolf are so powerful and persistent. This original collection offers some of the greatest, rarest and most unusual werewolf stories ever. From the forests of Transylvania to the ordered lawns of an English country estate, here are all the classic aspects of the tale. You will encounter shadows that lope under the moon, chilling howls, family curses, crimson feasts, the desperate chase and the deathly duel. But you will also find the werewolf in less expected guises – as an adversary for Sherlock Holmes, as a myth of the...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-087-2
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The second collection of short stories from the highly acclaimed author of the novels ‘The Mysteries of Pittsburgh’ and ‘Wonder Boys’. There are the two boys of the title story, locked in their own world of fantasy and make-believe, reaching out to each other to survive the terrible prospect of fatherlessness. ‘House Hunting’ shows us the grim spectacle of a couple whose marriage is in its death throes, and whose search for a happy home is doomed; in another story a couple struggle to overcome the effects of a brutal rape. Elsewhere, a family therapist comes face to face with the dark secret of his childhood, and an American football star down on his luck makes his peace with his father. The collection culminates in a daring...
