Portraying a young man`s first sea-voyage to the East in Youth, and the blind old age of Captain Whalley in The End of the Tether, the stories in this volume are united in their theme — the `Ages of Man` — and in their scepticism. Conrad`s vision has influenced twentieth-century writers and artists from T. S. Eliot to Jorge Luis Borges and Werner Herzog, and continues to draw critical fire.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06450-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
Youth`s narrator, a student in 1950s South Africa, has long been plotting an escape from his native country. Studying mathematics, reading poetry, saving money, he tries to ensure that when he arrives in the real world he will be prepared to experience life to its full intensity, and transform it into art. Arriving at last in London, however, he finds neither poetry nor romance. Instead he succumbs to the monotony of life as a computer programmer, from which random, loveless affairs offer no relief. Devoid of inspiration, he stops writing and begins a dark pilgrimage in which he is continually tested and continually found wanting. Set against the background of the 1960s, Youth is a remarkable portrait of a consciousness turning in on...
ISBN: 978-0-09-943362-0
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Kristin Burns has lived her life by the philosophy, ‘don’t think, just shoot’ – pictures that is. Struggling to make ends meet, she works full time as nanny to the fabulously wealthy Turnbull family, looking after their two children and waiting for her life as a New York fashion photographer to begin. But Kristin has a major distraction: forbidden love. The man of her dreams is almost hers for keeps. Breathless with an inexhaustible passion and the excitement of being within reach of everything she wants, Kristin ignores all signs of catastrophe brewing. Fear exists for a reason. And Kristin can only dismiss the warnings for so long. Searching desperately for the truth through the lens of her camera she can only hope that it’s...
ISBN: 978-0-7553-3045-4
Издательство:
Headline Publ.
Дата выхода: август 2011
A beautiful box set with Yuval Harari`s three phenomenal global bestselling titles:Includes:SAPIENSHOMO DEUS21 LESSONS FOR THE 21ST CENTURYThese books are must haves for anyone interested in the history of humanity and the lessons we can learn from the past as we prepare for our future.These books have sold over 30 million copies in 60 languages worldwide and they continue to take the world by storm.Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling historian and philosopher, is considered one of the world`s most influential thinkers and pubic intellectuals. He has a PhD from the University of Oxford and now lectures at the department of history, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
ISBN: 9781529115666
Издательство:
Vintage Books
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2021
Yves Saint Laurent: Icons of Fashion Design, acclaimed by the critics as an intoxicating book remains the most attractive homage to the uncrowned king of haute couture. Pictures taken by the world`s leading fashion photographers trace the success of Saint Laurent`s designs, which, since conquering the fashion world five decades ago, have caused sensation after sensation each year. The book also constitutes a high-quality review of fashion photography over a period of forty years, collecting 135 YSL dresses in images created by fashion photography`s greatest 20th century heroes. Yves Saint Laurent was equipped with an infallible instinct for reading the aesthetic signs of the times, and this enabled him to have a profound effect on...
ISBN: 978-3-8296-0471-0
Издательство:
Schirmer/Mosel
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Cette fille, Yvette, me deconcerte C`est un mystere. Si elle n`est pas le monstre d`astuce et de perversite le plus complet que j`aie jamais vu, elle est certes le phenomene d`innocence le plus merveilleux qu`on puisse trouver. Elle vit dans ce milieu infame avec une aisance tranquille et triomphante, admirablement scelerate ou naive. Merveilleux rejeton d`aventuriere, pousse sur le fumier de ce monde-la, comme une plante magnifique nourrie de pourritures, oubien fille de quelque homme de haute race, de quelque grand artiste ou de quelque grand seigneur, de quelque prince ou de quelque roi tombe, un soir, dans le lit de la mere, on ne peut comprendre ce qu`elle est ni ce qu`elle pense. Mais tu vas la voir.
ISBN: 978-2-07-038870-7
Издательство:
Gallimard
Дата выхода: август 2011
Vous voulez apprendre le russe ou rafraîchir vos connaissances, mais la grammaire vous effraie et toutes ces règles vous ennuient? Alors, ce livre est fait pour vous! II vous aidera à maîtriser les éléments essentiels de la grammaire russe tout en vous amusant. Cet ouvrage original, largement illustré, facile à consulter, à la fois pédagogique et ludique, se démarque résolument des grammaires traditionnelles, car il vous fait apprendre ou réviser la grammaire russe de façon distrayante. II comprend: 2 grandes parties où sont abordés l`alphabet, l`orthographe, la prononciation, les déclinaisons et la conjugaison; 33 jeux ou exercices, tous corrigés....
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
