Paré de toutes les perfections humaines, le jeune, riche et vertueux Zadig s’apprête à épouser la plus belle des filles de Babylone. Mais «qu’il est difficile d’être heureux dans cette vie»! Sa fiancée le trahit, des canailles le traînent en justice, des fanatiques religieux le menacent, un ange déguisé en ermite vient à son secours. Le chemin vers la sagesse est semé de surprises et d’embûches innombrables. La destinée et l’admirable malice de Voltaire ne lui feront pas de cadeau. Qui a dit que l’homme qui n’a pas lu les contes de Voltaire ne méritait pas d’être français? On dit aussi qu’il n’accordait pas beaucoup d’importance à...
ISBN: 978-2-266-17768-9
Издательство:
Pocket
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Discover the audacious futurism of Zaha Hadid. As the first woman to win both the Pritzker Prize for architecture and the RIBA Royal Gold Medal, Hadid broke the rules and re-defined the game, despite some saying her designs were unbuildable. At the time of her unexpected death in 2016, she was firmly established as the first great architect of the noughties.
ISBN: 9783836536356
Издательство:
TASCHEN
Дата выхода: январь 2020
A novelists search for the wife who left him without an explanation takes him on a long journey from France to Central Asia where he discovers something new about the meaning of life, marriage, and his own celebrity.
ISBN: 978-0-06-083131-8
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
One day a renowned author discovers that his wife, a war correspondent, has disappeared leaving no trace. Was she kidnapped, blackmailed, or simply bored with their marriage? His search for her - and for the truth of his own life - takes him from South America to Spain, France, Croatia and, eventually, the bleakly beautiful landscape of Central Asia. More than that, it leads him into a new understanding of the nature of love, the power of destiny and what it really means to follow your heart.
ISBN: 978-0-00-721362-7
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Zoe can`t wait to visit the Frost Fair with her best friend, Astra, the fairy unicorn. But when cursed snowflakes begin falling, the unicorns are turned to ice. Who could be behind this evil plan - and can Zoe and Astra stop them? A magical addition to Young Reading Series Three, for newly fluent readers who are ready for longer stories.
Scaldingly sarcastic yet enduringly empathetic, The Zap Gun is Dick`s remarkable novel depicting the insanity of the arms race. Lars Powderdry and Lilo Topchev are counterpart weapons fashion designers for a world divided into two factions-Wes-bloc and Peep-East. Since the Plowshare Protocols of 2002, their job has been to invent elaborate weapons that only seem massively lethal. But when alien satellites hostile to both sides appear in the sky, the two are brought together in the dire hope that they can create a weapon to save the world, a task made all the more difficult by Lars falling in love with Lilo even as he knows she`s trying to kill him.
ISBN: 978-0-575-07672-3
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2012
