Many legends have grown up about the sexual rapacity of Catherine the Great. While it is true that she shocked the Russian court with the number and age of her lovers, there is no truth in the rumour of her death by stallion. Unhappily married to the Grand Duke Peter, a man who preferred to play with his toy soldiers in the bedroom, they failed to produce an heir, and Catherine turned her attentions to a certain Sergey Saltykov who fathered the future Tsar Paul I. Six months into the reign of Peter III, Catherine, supported by the Imperial Guard, staged a successful coup against her husband and became Empress. It was her ambition to transform a vast but semi-barbaric country with the cultural and political reforms of Enlightenment...
ISBN: 978-0-09-946234-7
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Empress, empire-builder, intellectual, art-collector, and lover - this magnificent new biography does full justice to a truly remarkable ruler. When Catherine II died in St Petersburg in 1796, the world sensed the loss of the most celebrated monarch of Europe - something no one would have predicted at the birth 67 years before of an obscure German princess, Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst, later married off to the pathetic heir to the Russian throne. There were few greater transformations of fortunes in history. Sophie/Catherine had come to rule in her own right over the largest state in existence since the fall of the Roman Empire. She was branded both a usurper and an assassin when she seized power from her wretched husband in 1762. Yet she...
ISBN: 978-1-86197-777-9
Издательство:
Profile Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
It was history`s most successful political partnership - as sensual and fiery as it was creative and visionary. Catherine the Great was a woman of n...
La solitude a deux, tel etait le reve d`Emile et de Juliette. Une maison au fond des bois pour у finir leurs jours, I`un pres de I`autre. Etrangement, cette parfaite thebaTde comportait un voisin. Un nomme Palamede Bernardin, qui d`abord est venu se presenter, puis a pris l`habitude de s`incruster chez eux chaque apres-midi, de quatre a six heures. Sans dire un mot, ou presque. Et cette presence absurde va peu a peu devenir plus derangeante pour le couple que toutes les foules du C`est une comedie tres noire, d`une lucidite tour a tour drole et devastatrice, que nous offre ici la romanciere d`Hygiene de l`assassin, revelation litteraire de 1992.
ISBN: 978-2-253-14170-9
Издательство:
Livre de Poche
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, travel writer, and essayist. He was a celebrity during his lifetime for works like "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and "Treasure Island." Now he is one of the most translated authors in the world. "Catriona" starts right where the previous novel "Kidnapped" ends, continuing the story of David . Now he tries to clear the names of his friends of involvement in the murder of Colin Campbell of Glenure. The political climate after the "Appin murder" makes David`s situation almost hopeless. He tries to find a path that will save Alan, James of the Glens and out of the hangman`s noose.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07780-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
Cat’s Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut’s satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet’s ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist, a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer, and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny. A book that left an indelible mark on an entire generation of readers, Cat’s Cradle is one of the twentieth century’s most important works—and Vonnegut at his very best.
ISBN: 978-0-14-118934-5
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut`s cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon, and, worse still, surviving it ... Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding `fathers` of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For he is the inventor of `ice-nine`, a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. The search for its whereabouts leads to Hoenikker`s three eccentric children, to a crazed dictator in the Caribbean, to madness. Felix Hoenikker`s "Death Wish" comes true when his last, fatal gift to mankind brings about the end, that for all of us, is nigh ...
ISBN: 978-0-14-028560-4
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy boards a huge liner bound for England - a `castle that was to cross the sea`. At mealtimes, he is placed at the lowly `Cat`s Table` with an eccentric group of grown-ups and two other boys, Cassius and Ramadhin. As the ship makes its way across the Indian Ocean, through the Suez Canal, into the Mediterranean, the boys become involved in the worlds and stories of the adults around them, tumbling from one adventure and delicious discovery to another, `bursting all over the place like freed mercury`. And at night, the boys spy on a shackled prisoner - his crime and fate a galvanizing mystery that will haunt them forever. As the narrative moves from the decks and holds of the ship and the boy`s adult...
Experiment Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut`s cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon and, worse still, surviving it, Solution Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding fathers of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For he is the inventor of ice-nine, a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. The search for its whereabouts leads to Hoenikker`s three eccentric children, to a crazed dictator in the Caribbean, to madness. Felix Hoenikker`s death-wish comes true when his last, fatal, gift to mankind brings about an end that, for all of us, is nigh.
ISBN: 978-0-575-08195-6
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: январь 2013
Seventeen-year-old Haley McWaid is a good girl, the pride of her suburban New Jersey family, headed off to college next year with all the hopes and dreams her doting parents can pin on her. Which is why, when her mother wakes one morning to find that Haley never came home the night before and three months quickly pass without word from the girl, the community assumes the worst. Wendy Tynes is a reporter on a mission: to bring down sexual predators via elaborate - and nationally televised-sting operations. Wendy and her team have shamed dozens of men by the time she encounters her latest target. Dan Mercer is a social worker known as a friend to troubled teens, but his story soon becomes more complicated than Wendy could have imagined.
ISBN: 978-1-4091-0377-6
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Having left behind a glitzy life in London, Rosie Richardson spends four years running a refugee camp in Africa. When aid agencies cautiously respond to a famine, she returns to London and breaks back into the celebrity circuit, in order to bring the stars out to Africa for a television appeal.
ISBN: 0-330-39621-8
Издательство:
Pan Macmillan
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
First, the good news: the omni-competent Kay Scarpetta is back, along with her sidekicks, in a murder mystery that`s tighter than her last escapade, From Potter`s Field. Chief medical examiner for the state of Virginia and an FBI consultant, Kay finds ample opportunity to demonstrate her skills in the autopsy room and outside it, too: here, she also dives with a Navy SEAL rescue squad and, through her computer-genius niece Lucy, an FBI agent, takes an up-close-and-personal look at a robot operated via virtual reality. But there is bad news: the work lacks the extraordinary, can`t-go-to-bed-til-you`re-finished suspense of Cornwell`s earlier novels, e.g. Cruel and Unusual. The killers here, members of a nihilistic, fascist cult who think...
ISBN: 0-425-15861-6
Издательство:
Penguin USA
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
A millennium into the future two advancements have altered the course of human histiry: the colonization of the galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. Isaac Asimov`s Robot novels chronicle the unlikely partnership between a New York City detective and a humanoid robot who must learn to work together...
ISBN: 0-553-29340-0
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
This is a 6 level series of readers for children learning English, bringing together a variety of enjoyable fiction and non-fiction titles. The series provides reinforcement of the basic structures and vocabulary contained in most major primary courses.
ISBN: 978-1-4050-7413-1
Издательство:
Langenscheidt
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Il y a le Paris de l`opulence et des raffinements délicats. Il y a celui des petits matins blêmes et des couples éreintés. Prosper Donge, employé d`un palace situé sur les Champs-Elysées, trouve de bon matin le cadavre d`une cliente tassé dans l`une des quatre-vingt-douze armoires métalliques du vestiaire. Cette jeune Américaine aurait été étranglée alors que le mari était absent pour affaires. Que faisait-elle là? Maigret découvre alors pour les besoins de l`enquête un monde à part fait de coulisses et de pièces cachées; un monde avec ses codes et ses drames où s`affairent des anonymes et où la richesse extrême...
ISBN: 978-2-07-030450-9
Издательство:
Gallimard
Дата выхода: май 2012
"Welcome 2" consists of fourteen units of six pages each, with songs, pronunciation twisters, games and projects. Each unit is divided into three lessons where all four skills are thoroughly practised."Welcome 2" combines English language learning with interesting topics. The language is always presented in context, either through lively dialogues or enjoyable texts. New vocabulary is presented at the beginning of each lesson. Grammar is clearly presented and practised in every lesson giving young learners a sense of achievement through moderate grading of the syllabus. There are four revision sections that recycle vocabulary and grammar. There is also a play to be performed at the end of the school year. At the end of the book there is...
ISBN: 9781903128350
Производитель:
Express Publishing
Дата выхода: январь 2008
Welcome 1, 2 and 3 are designed for children learning English at primary level. A lively group of characters invites pupils to join in the fun as Masid, the magical genie, transports them to new and exciting places. The moderate grading of the syllabus enables pupils to use English effectively while developing all four language skills - listening, reading, speaking and writing. The Pupil's Book and the Workbook are designed to be covered in approximately 80 to 100 hours of classroom work.
ISBN: 978-1-84325-317-4
Производитель:
Express Publishing
Дата выхода: январь 2014
Данный комплект дисков является звуковым приложением к адаптированной книге "Английские народные сказки" (на английском языке). Диски содержат текст сказок с выборочными упражнениями, начитанный профессиональными дикторами в учебном темпе (с ясным произношением и немного медленнее по сравнению с естественным темпом речи). Запись может быть использована как для обучения aудированию (восприятию речи...
ISBN: 978-5-8112-3547-6
Издательство:
Айрис-пресс
Дата выхода: апрель 2006
Данный комплект дисков является звуковым приложением к адаптированной книге Сомерсета Моэма «Человек со шрамом и другие рассказы» (на английском языке). Диски содержат текст книги (без упражнений), начитанный профессиональными дикторами в учебном темпе (с ясным произношением и немного медленнее по сравнению с естественным темпом речи). Запись может быть использована как для обучения аудированию...
ISBN: 978-5-8112-3769-2
Производитель:
Айрис-пресс
Дата выхода: апрель 2007
