Clever and witty art history-mystery featuring scholar and sleuth Jonathon Argyll, from the author of the bestselling masterpiece `An Instance of the Fingerpost`. The monastery of San Giovanni on Rome`s Aventine hill has few treasures - only a painting doubtfully attributed to Caravaggio. So Flavia di Stefano of Rome`s art police is surprised to receive a tip-off that a raid is being planned on the building. The raid happens, but the thieves are disturbed and snatch the wrong painting, a curious icon of the Madonna, remarkable only for the affection in which it is held by the local population. Or is this what the thieves wanted all along? Does the legend of the icon`s miraculous powers hold any clue? And who murdered the French dealer...
ISBN: 978-0-00-722921-5
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
An immortal story of chivalry, treachery and death told anew for our times The legend of King Arthur has retained its appeal and popularity through the ages: Mordred`s treason, the knightly exploits of Tristan, Lancelot`s fatally divided loyalties and his love for Guenevere, the quest for the Holy Grail. Now retold by Peter Ackroyd with his signature clarity, charm and relish for a good story, the result is not only one of the most readable accounts of the knights of the Round Table but also one of the most moving.
In the spring of 1948 Arthur Miller retreated to a log cabin in Connecticut with the first two lines of a new play already fixed in his mind. He emerged six weeks later with the final script of Death of a Salesman - a painful examination of American life and consumerism. Opening on Broadway the following year, Miller`s extraordinary masterpiece changed the course of modern theatre. In creating Willy Loman, his destructively insecure anti-hero, Miller himself defined his aim as being `to set forth what happens when a man does not have a grip on the forces of life.`
ISBN: 978-0-14-118274-2
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
When it comes to Death, is there ever a best case scenario? In this disarmingly witty book, Julian Barnes confronts our unending obsession with the end. He reflects on what it means to miss God, whether death can be good for our careers and why we eventually turn into our parents. Barnes is the perfect guide to the weirdness of the only thing that binds us all.Selected from the book Nothing to be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes.
ISBN: 9781784872601
Издательство:
Vintage Classics
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2022
Someone is killing off the competition in the world of chick lit-and the results are hilarious. (Andy Borowitz, author of The Borowitz Report: The Big Book of Shockers) Lola Somerville has a husband and a new apartment in Brooklyn, but what she really wants is for her novel to make a splash. Unfortunately it hasn`t even made a ripple. Then at a book party, Lola finds her author friend Mimi McKee with her throat slashed. When the bodies of It-Girl writers begin to pile up, Lola starts asking dangerous questions: Are the murders connected? Am I next? If not, um, why not? If I solve the mystery, then will my agent remember my name? As Lola digs deeper, the stakes grow higher. Will getting her hands on the killer - and the book deal bound to...
ISBN: 978-0-425-21524-1
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Agatha Christie’s most exotic murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover to tie in with the highly anticipated film adaptation.The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway has been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful, a girl who had everything – until she lost her life.Hercule Poirot recalls an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: ‘I’d like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger.’ Yet in this exotic setting nothing is ever quite what it seems…
Hailed as one of the world`s supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his death so much as apassing thought. But one day death announces itself to him, and to his shocked surprise he is brought face to face with his own mortality. How, Tolstoy asks, does an unreflective man confront his one and only moment of truth?
ISBN: 0-553-21035-1
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. When Dr Leighton is murdered Inspector Frank Williams and Sergeant Kate Miller set out to track down her killer. Was it her husband, her son or her colleague? All had reasons to hate her Level 1.
ISBN: 978-0-521-70464-9
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: декабрь 2012
Linnet Ridgeway is, beautiful and clever. But she has enemies. When she is shot dead on a boat in Egypt, it is fortunate that detective Hercule Poirot is also on the trip. Penguin Readers are written by specialist ELT authors. The language, vocabulary, style and content of every book is carefully graded to make sure it suits the learner`s own language Penguin Reader has a range of activities in the book and accompanying Factsheet to help increase comprehension and develop reading, writing, listening and speaking skills.
ISBN: 978-1-4082-7630-3
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: август 2011
Издание полностью на английском языке. The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful. A girl who had until she lost her life. Hercule Poirot recalled an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: "I'd like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger". Yet in this exotic setting nothing was ever quite what it
ISBN: 978-0-00-711932-5
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2010
Знаменитая пьеса "Смерть коммивояжера" (1949, Пулитцеровская премия), написанная в жанре "домашней трагедии", посвящена конфликту главного героя, стареющего коммивояжера Вилли Ломана, со старшим сыном, не оправдавшим ожиданий отца. Считается, что в этом произведении А.Миллер выступает с критикой американского образа жизни, стремления преуспеть любой ценой.
ISBN: 978-5-94962-162-2
Издательство:
Антология
Дата выхода: январь 2010
This new edition combines Tolstoy’s most famous short tale, “The Death of Ivan Ilyich”, with a less well known but equally brilliant gem, “Master and Man”, both newly translated by Ann Pasternak Slater. Both stories confront death and the process of dying: In “Ivan Ilyich”, a bureaucrat looks back over his life, which suddenly seems meaningless and wasteful, while in Master and Man, a landowner and servant must each confront the value of the other as they brave a devastating snowstorm. The quintessential Tolstoyan themes of mortality, spiritual redemption, and life’s meaning are nowhere more movingly and deftly explored than in these two tales. This unique edition also includes a critical Introduction and extensive notes...
