Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title - offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords. A fierce war rages between two powerful and bitter rivals: on one side the House of Lancaster; on the other the House of York. The prize? The crown of England! Young Richard Shelton finds himself torn in his loyalties. Should he serve the interests of his villainous master. or throw in his lot with the dashing outlaw Ellis Duckworth and his band known as the Black Arrow?...

ISBN: 978-0-8125-6562-1
Издательство: Holtzbrink
Дата выхода: июль 2011

In Black Heart And White Heart, Henry Rider Haggard mounts once more those trusty steeds of his, the nobility of the savage and the rascality of the civilized white. He rides, too, with all his old dexterity, and the story concerning Zulus, witches, battles, sacrifices, and traitors.

ISBN: 978-5-521-06608-7
Издательство: Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018

Paha Sapa, `Black Hills`, is a Red Indian shaman who as a young boy at the Battle of Little Bighorn takes the ghost of the dying General Custer into his own body. Sixty years later as an old man working as a dynamiter on Mount Rushmore, he plots to blow it up. Meanwhile, Custer finds himself trapped in a strange, dark place and begins to write sensuous, heartbreaking missives to his beloved wife. Thus begins an intricate narrative that sweeps across decades of American history, building up a portrait of one country`s relentless expansion and what was lost and destroyed in its path. Black Hills is historical fiction with Dan Simmons` trademark twist. He weaves in real places, events and people with his own uniquely weird take on reality...

ISBN: 978-1-84916-090-2
Издательство: Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: август 2011

ISBN: 9780141019239
Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: январь 2008

ISBN: 9781380037862
Издательство: Macmillan
Дата выхода: январь 2019

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ISBN: 3-8228-3205-7
Издательство: TASCHEN
Дата выхода: октябрь 2010

In this swashbuckling novel, by the author of Treasure Island, young Dick Shelton is left orphaned. So he seeks the help of the mysterious Black Arrow fellowship. Brimming with adventure and suspense, this is a portrait of England during the War of the Roses, when many, like Dick, were torn between their loyalties.

ISBN: 978-0-451-52916-9
Издательство: Penguin USA
Дата выхода: апрель 2012

... When the men were all looking at the treasure, something like a black shadow came to the top of the stairs ... It stayed back in the darkness of the stairs until the men moved the chest to their boats ... No one could see it, but the shadow was really a ghost that looked like a pirate ... No one could see him, but it was Blackbeard and the treasure was his to watch ...

ISBN: 9781842169582
Издательство: Express Publishing
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2018

Alexandre Dumas`s novels are notable for their suspense and excitement, their foul deeds, hairsbreadth escapes, and glorious victories. In The Black Tulip (1850), the shortest of Dumas`s most famous tales, the real hero is no Musketeer, but a flower. The novel - a deceptively simple story - is set in Holland in 1672, and weaves the historical events surrounding the brutal murder of John de Witte and his brother Cornelius into a tale of romantic love. The novel is also a timeless political allegory in which Dumas, drawing on the violence and crimes of history, makes his case against tyranny and puts all his energies into creating a symbol of justice and tolerance: the fateful tulipa negra. This new edition reprints the first, classic...

ISBN: 978-0-19-954046-4
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: август 2011

In the wake of 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, the quagmire in Iraq, and other apparently unexpected disasters, it seems reasonable to wonder about our stunted powers of prediction. Couldn`t we have foreseen these debacles and others and taken steps to avoid them? Informed skeptic and former Wall Street trader Nassim Nicholas Taleb very much doubts it, and in this arresting meditation on our wrongheaded beliefs about what is and isn`t likely - he draws his title from the illogical assumption that all swans are white - he explores how and why we`re wired to get the future wrong. You may be put off by Taleb`s discursiveness and, ironically, his smug certainty about our incurable "epistemic arrogance"; but in the face of his deeply considered...

ISBN: 978-0-14-103459-1
Издательство: Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 2011

ISBN: 9781398804173
Дата выхода: январь 2021

Are you brave enough to read four of Poe’s famous horror stories? Edgar Allan Poe wrote strange stories about terrible people and evil crimes. Don’t read this book late at night!

ISBN: 978-1-4058-7889-0
Издательство: Pearson
Дата выхода: июль 2011

When his beloved owners are forced to sell him, Black Beauty leaves his life as a young, care-free colt behind him and embarks on a working life of misery. Cruelly treated by his new masters, Anna Sewell rails against animal mistreatment in this poignant tale of a horse whose spirit can not be broken.

ISBN: 9780007350971
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012