Cornelius von Baerle lives only to cultivate the elusive black tulip and win a magnificent prize for its creation. But when his powerful godfather is assassinated, the unwitting Cornelius becomes caught up in a deadly political intrigue. Falsely accused of high treason by a bitter rival, Cornelius is condemned to life in prison. His only comfort is Rosa, the jailer`s beautiful daughter, who helps him concoct a plan to grow the black tulip in secret. As Robin Buss explains in his informative introduction, Dumas infuses his story with elements from the history of the Dutch Republic (including two brutal murders) and Holland`s seventeenth-century "tulipmania" phenomenon. Retold by Florence Bell.
ISBN: 978-1-4050-7228-1
Издательство:
Langenscheidt
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Black Magic, White Noise presents an unsettling and fascinating collection of visuals focusing on the physical and the psychological as interpreted by contemporary designers from around the globe. From dark images of mystery and horror to works in which the irrational infiltrates broad daylight, the book draws its readers into an ambivalent world of chillingly beautiful illustration, photography, graphic design, collage, painting and installation. Not for the fainthearted, Black Magic, White Noise is a potent cocktail of the drastic themes and motifs that are being used and finding widespread acceptance in present-day design and other creative disciplines.
ISBN: 978-3-89955-187-7
Издательство:
Die Gestalten Verlag
Дата выхода: июль 2011
A story about being in love, "The Black Prince" is also a remarkable intellectual thriller with a superbly involved plot, and a meditation on the nature of art and love and the deity who rules over both. Bradley Pearson, narrator and hero, is an elderly writer with a "block". Encompassed by predatory friends and relations - his ex-wife, her delinquent brother and a younger, deplorably successful writer, Arnold Baffin, together with Baffin`s restless wife and youthful daughter - Bradley attempts escape. His failure and its aftermath lead to a violent climax; and to a coda which casts a shifting perspective on all that has gone before.
ISBN: 0-09-928399-9
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
A grand master of the form Rex Stout is one of America`s greatest mystery writers, and his literary creation Nero Wolfe is one of fiction`s greatest detectives. In this double helping of classic Nero Wolfe mysteries, Stout presents the arrogant, gourmandizing, sedentary sleuth and his trusty man-about-town, Archie Goodwin, with a pair of delectable murders that no connoisseur of the whodunit could possibly resist.
David Mitchell comes home - to England, 1982, and the cusp of adolescence. Jason Taylor is 13, doomed to be growing up in the most boring family in the deadest village (Black Swan Green) in the dullest county (Worcestershire) in the most tedious nation (England) on earth. And he stammers. 13 chapters, each as self-contained as a short story, follow 13 months in his life as he negotiates the pitfalls of school and home and contends with bullies, girls and family politics. In the distance, the Falklands conflict breaks out; close at hand, the village mobilises against a gypsy camp. And through Jason`s eyes, we see what he doesn`t know he knows - and watch unfold what will make him wish his life had been as uneventful as he had believed....
ISBN: 978-0-340-82279-1
Издательство:
Hodder
Дата выхода: август 2011
Остросюжетный детектив. Салахадин Эль Нур работает инспектором в отделе античного искусства египетской полиции. После гибели археолога из Европы он разыскивает бесценную древнюю статуэтку. Вскоре Салахадин нападает на след международной банды контрабандистов.
ISBN: 978-0-230-02923-1
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
A New York Times Bestseller. Kirkus Reviews hailed Clive Cussler`s last Dirk Pitt(R) novel, Trojan Odyssey, as Hurricane Clive at his most tumultuous. Nobody has been able to match Cussler for the intricate plotting and the sheer audacity of his work - and Black Wind sets the bar even higher.
ISBN: 978-0-425-20423-8
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
The GREEN APPLE series is composed of illustrated graded readers. The readers are graded into three levels - Starter, Step 1 and Step 2 - according to structural and lexical criteria, as well as by choice of subject matter. Features: • introduction about the author and his/her times • wide variety of interesting activities to promote understanding of the text, as well as all four language skills, lexis and sociocultural awareness and knowledge • activities in the style of the Cambridge ESOL and Trinity exams • informative and fascinating cross-curricular dossiers, which explore the historical and cultural background of the text • a recording on CD of the text in British or American English, with extra listening activities •...
ISBN: 9788853005564
Издательство:
CIDEB
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Cassel Sharpe knows he`s been used as an assassin, but he`s trying to put all that behind him. He`s trying to be good, even though he grew up in a family of con artists and cheating comes as easily as breathing to him. He`s trying to do the right thing, even though the girl he loves is inextricably connected with crime. And he`s trying to convince himself that working for the Feds is smart, even though he`s been raised to believe the government is the enemy.But with a mother on the lam, the girl he loves about to take her place in the Mob, and new secrets coming to light, the line between what`s right and what`s wrong becomes increasingly blurred. When the Feds ask Cassel to do the one thing he said he would never do again, he needs to...
ISBN: 9780575096813
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: январь 2024
This illustrated dictionary includes more than 6000 carefully selected rhyming words to inspire primary children to write their own poems. It also includes more than 50 commissioned poems, rhymes, couplets and over 70 amusing and eye-catching illustrations to offer visual inspiration.
