Chance is narrated by Conrad`s regular narrator, Charles Marlow, but is characterized by a complex, nested narrative in which different narrators take up the story at different points. The novel is also unusual among its author`s works for its focus on a female character: the heroine, Flora de Barral. The narrators describe and attempt to interpret various episodes in the life of the Miss de Barral, the daughter of a convicted swindler, named Smith de Barral.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06668-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
Inver Brass: a group of high-minded and high-placed intellectuals. They see a monstrous threat to the country in Hoover`s unethical use of his scandal-ridden private files. And so they decide to do away with him - quietly, efficiently, with no hint of impropriety. Until bestselling thriller writer Peter Chancellor stumbles onto information that makes his previous books look like harmless fairy tales. Now Chancellor and Inver Brass are on a deadly collision course, spiralling across the globe in an ever-widening arc of violence and terror. They are hurtling towards a showdown that will rip Washington`s intelligence community apart, leaving only one damning document to survive: The Chancellor
The stunning new summer besteller from Freya North. Sparkling, poignant and wise, Chances is a tale of love, marriage and friendship, and the accidental love triangle people can sometimes find themselves in. When Vita`s relationship with Tim ended, they both knew they had to move on but Vita`s struggling to come to terms with Tim`s new girlfriend. Then Oliver comes into her life and he seems to be the perfect man but will she ever be able to compete with the memories of his late wife? Meanwhile, Tim, Vita`s ex, finds himself similarly torn between two women as he tries to make peace with Vita and work out his true feelings for his new girlfriend. What Vita is about to discover is that people come into your life for a reason and that...
ISBN: 978-0-00-732666-2
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: май 2011
For almost a century, the name Chanel has been inextricably linked to elegance, modernity, and fashion innovation. It was Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel who single-handedly made striped jerseys and loose trousers chic, costume jewelry desirable, the little black dress the height of sophistication, and tweed suits a staple of every fashion-conscious woman`s wardrobe. In this beautifully illustrated book, drawing on the renowned collections of the V&A, fashion historian Amy de la Haye celebrates Chanel as the couturi?re who changed the way stylish women everywhere dress, then and now. She also examines the creative output of this most famous of fashion houses, from its infancy in the 1920s to the present day as it continues to prosper under the...
ISBN: 978-1-85177-643-6
Издательство:
V&A Publishing
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
A sparkling collection of Zadie Smithas nonfiction over the past decade. Zadie Smith brings to her essays all of the curiosity, intellectual rigor, and sharp humor that have attracted so many readers to her fiction, and the result is a collection that is nothing short of extraordinary. Split into four sections: Reading, Being, Seeing, and Feeling. Changing My Mind invites readers to witness the world from Zadie Smith`s unique vantage. Smith casts her acute eye over material both personal and cultural, with wonderfully engaging essays some published here for the first time on diverse topics including literature, movies, going to the Oscars, British comedy, family, feminism, Obama, Katharine Hepburn, and Anna Magnani. In her investigations...
When Philip Swallow and Professor Morris Zapp participate in their universities` Anglo-American exchange scheme, the Fates play a hand, and each academic finds himself enmeshed in the life of his counterpart on the opposite side of the Atlantic. Nobody is immune to the exchange: students, colleagues, even wives are swapped as events spiral out of control. And soon both sundrenched Euphoric State university and rain-kissed university of Rummidge are a hotbed of intrigue, lawlessness and broken
ISBN: 978-0-09-955417-2
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
How did George Eliot?s love life affect her prose? Why did Kafka write at three in the morning? In what ways is Barack Obama like Eliza Doolittle? Can you be over-dressed for the Oscars? What is Italian Feminism? If Roland Barthes killed the Author, can Nabokov revive him? What does ?soulful? mean? Is Date Movie the worst film ever made? A collection of essays that brims over with personality and warmth, Changing My Mind is journalism at its most expansive, intelligent and funny ? a gift to readers and writers both. Within its covers an essay is more than a column of opinions: it?s a space in which to think freely.
ISBN: 978-0-14-101946-8
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Twenty-eight-year-old Geraldine travels to Kenya with her new husband James with the intent of staying a year. In a dizzying multicultural city, she struggles to maintain her balance as her sense of self, her marriage, and her understanding of
ISBN: 978-0-316-07259-5
Издательство:
Hachette Livre
Дата выхода: июль 2011
To dare to Heart surgeon Dr Peter Hallam was trained to fight time, to conquer odds beyond hope. He had saved the lives of countless strangers, only to see his own wife die tragically beyond the reach of his healing hands. Months later the deep wound of loss had begun to heal as he learned to live without love. Melanie Adams, television newscaster, lived for her work and her children: nothing else mattered. On screen she was the ultimate professional, covering the biggest stories and meeting the hardest deadlines, but she was lonely inside. After heartbreak and desertion she had made her way to the top alone. And she, like Peter, had learned to live without love. But one day, for Peter and Melanie, everything changes.
ISBN: 978-0-7515-4244-8
Издательство:
Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: июль 2012
Top TV anchorwoman Melanie Adams had given up on love after a failed marriage and an unhappy affair. With her two teenage children and her television news career, she had no room in her life for a man. Then she met famous heart surgeon Peter Hallam, a widower with three children of his own. Suddenly Melanie was experiencing feelings she thought were gone forever. But two families (one in New York and one in Los Angeles), two exciting careers, and two strong-willed people were too much to handle. And Melanie faced a painful choice between her glamorous life in the public eye, her private life, the needs of her family, and the new family she took on. Changes lead each of them to new places, new problems, new people, and the new life they...
ISBN: 978-0-345-52706-6
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011
Picoult bangs out another ripped-from-the-zeitgeist winner, this time examining a condemned inmate`s desire to be an organ donor. Freelance carpenter Shay Bourne was sentenced to death for killing a little girl, Elizabeth Nealon, and her cop stepfather. Eleven years after the murders, Elizabeth`s sister, Claire, needs a heart transplant, and Shay volunteers, which complicates the state`s execution plans. Meanwhile, death row has been the scene of some odd events since Shay`s arrival — an AIDS victim goes into remission, an inmate`s pet bird dies and is brought back to life, wine flows from the water faucets. The author brings other compelling elements to an already complex plot line: the priest who serves as Shay`s spiritual adviser...
ISBN: 978-1-4165-5434-9
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
Twenty-eight-year-old Geraldine travels to Kenya with her new husband James with the intent of staying a year. In a dizzying multicultural city, she struggles to maintain her balance as her sense of self, her marriage, and her understanding of the world are shaken to the core. Invited on a climbing expedition to Mt. Kenya, the newlyweds are caught up in a horrific accident. In its aftermath, Geraldine must try to understand exactly what happened on that mountain and what it has done to her and to her marriage. A major author in terms of critical acclaim and bestseller status, Anita Shreve limns the secrets at the core of our closest relationships and the ways in which lives can turn on the axis of a single catastrophic event.
ISBN: 978-0-349-12059-1
Издательство:
Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: август 2011
Alexia Tarabotti, the Lady Woolsey, awakens in the wee hours of the mid-afternoon to find her husband, who should be decently asleep like any normal werewolf, yelling at the top of his lungs. Then he disappears - leaving her to deal with a regiment of supernatural soldiers encamped on her doorstep, a plethora of exorcised ghosts, and an angry Queen Victoria. But Alexia is armed with her trusty parasol, the latest fashions, and an arsenal of biting civility. Even when her investigations take her to Scotland, the backwater of ugly waistcoats, she is prepared: upending werewolf pack dynamics as only the soulless can. She might even find time to track down her wayward husband, if she feels like it.
ISBN: 978-0-316-07414-8
Издательство:
Hachette Livre
Дата выхода: июль 2011
En trente ans de chansons, Georges Brassens a legue a ses millions d`admirateurs un monde poetique tour a tour drole et emouvant, truculent et pittoresque, plein de personnages inoubliables - I`oncle Archibald, Jeanne, Pauvre Martin - et de couplets aussi celebres que les plus belles pages de La Fontaine ou de Villon: "Le Parapluie", "La Non-Demande en mariage", "Le Grand Chene"... Voici reunie Vintegrale de cette ceuvre : plus de cent soixante chansons, у compris celles qui furent ecrites pour d`autres interpretes (Marcel Amont, ), et les dernieres compositions, enregistrees apres la mort du poete par son ami Jean Bertola. A retrouver, a savourer, a decouvrir peut-etre, un des plus authentiques tresors de la chanson et de la poesie...
ISBN: 978-2-253-06298-1
Издательство:
Livre de Poche
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
L`Impératrice, le Pape, l` Les arcanes du tarot de Marseille se réveillent au prix de sacrifices humains: une carte, un meurtre. Une puissance secrète et maléfique vient de remporter la première manche et s`apprête à effectuer la prochaine levée. Quand Matthias quitte Paris, il ne se doute pas qu`il a été choisi comme atout majeur pour contrer l`ennemi. Après une escale au Chili où des esprits l`initient à des rites mystérieux, il part en quête d`une solution pour empêcher l`apocalypse, armé de son insouciance et des quelques notions de magie qu`on lui a inculquées. Prochaine étape, l`Australie, tandis que sur l`île de Pâques le...
ISBN: 978-2-266-16765-9
Издательство:
Pocket
Дата выхода: август 2011
Infamous for his politics and his scandalous sex life, Charlie Chaplin was a much more complex and contradictory character than has hitherto been known. Weissman casts a whole new light both on the screen legend and on the turbulent era through which he lived. 16-page b&w photo insert.
ISBN: 978-1-55970-892-0
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Charles Chaplin`s Little Tramp is the supreme icon of motion pictures - still recognized and loved throughout the world, more than 90 years since he first burst on the screen. The shabby little figure - with derby hat, too-tight jacket, oversized boots and pants, dandified bow tie, and swagger cane - seemed to symbolize the hopes and fears, defeats and optimism of all humanity. Chaplin`s own biography was a rags-to-riches story that saw the product of a destitute childhood in Victorian London become one of Hollywood`s first millionaires and the owner of his own studio before he was 30. His supreme gift was to transform his experience and knowledge of the human lot into comedy, for which his invention and skill have never been surpassed....
ISBN: 3-8228-2005-9
Издательство:
TASCHEN
Дата выхода: январь 2000
