John Galsworthy (1867—1933) was an English novelist and playwright. In this final volume of «The Forsyte Chronicles» Galsworthy writes about the lives and loves of the Cherrell family, cousins of the Forsytes. For centuries, the Cherrell sons have left their home of Condaford Grange to serve the state as soldiers, clergymen and administrators, but the 1930s bring uncertainty in a world of rapidly altering morals and unemployment. Galsworthy\'s portrayal of the effect of political change on individuals show him as a great social novelist as well as the author of one of the most gripping family sagas ever written.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07039-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: апрель 2018
The cell rings twice, and then his old partner in his ear... `I`m at the scene of what appears to be a murder-suicide. I`d like you to come and take...
`Nobody, it seems, could write better than this. No one could have a clearer vision of the micro-circuitry of post-modern life` Evening Standard Ostensibly, DeLillo`s blackly comic second novel is about Gary Harkness, a football player and student at Logos College, west Texas. During a season of unprecedented success, Gary becomes increasingly fixated on the threat of nuclear war. Both frightened and fascinated by the prospect, he listens to his team-mates discussing match tactics in much the same terms as generals might contemplate global conflict. But as the terminologies of football and nuclear war the language of end zones become interchanged, the polysemous nature of words emerges, and DeLillo forces us to see beyond the sterile...
ISBN: 978-0-330-52496-4
Издательство:
Picador
Дата выхода: март 2011
Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards. In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race`s next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn`t make the cut—young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training. Ender`s skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young...
ISBN: 978-0-8125-5070-2
Издательство:
Holtzbrink
Дата выхода: август 2011
After twenty-three years, Orson Scott Card returns to his acclaimed best-selling series with the first true, direct sequel to the classic "Ender`s Game". In "Ender’s Game", the world’s most gifted children were taken from their families and sent to an elite training school. At Battle School, they learned combat, strategy, and secret intelligence to fight a dangerous war on behalf of those left on Earth. But they also learned some important and less definable lessons about life. After the life-changing events of those years, these children—now teenagers—must leave the school and readapt to life in the outside world. Having not seen their families or interacted with other people for years—where do they go now? What can they do?...
ISBN: 978-0-7653-4415-1
Издательство:
Holtzbrink
Дата выхода: июнь 2012
The beloved, bestselling science fiction classic Enders Game by Orson Scott Card comes to the screen in a major motion picture event in November 2013. Starring Hugos Asa Butterfield, Harrison Ford, and Ben Kingsley, the movie is sure to inspire a new audience of fans to read the book that started it all. Ender Wiggin brilliant, ruthless, cunning, tactical and strategic master, and a child.
Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards. In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race`s next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn`t make the cut—young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training. Ender`s skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young...
ISBN: 0-765-34229-4
Издательство:
Holtzbrink
Дата выхода: май 2008
Welcome to Battleschool. Growing up is never easy. But try living on the mean streets as a child begging for food and fighting like a dog with ruthless gangs of starving kids who wouldn`t hesitate to pound your skull into pulp for a scrap of apple. If Bean has learned anything on the streets, it`s how to survive. And not with fists. He is way too small for that. But with brains. Bean is a genius with a magician`s ability to zero in on his enemy and exploit his weakness. What better quality for a future general to lead the Earth in a final climactic battle against a hostile alien race, known as Buggers. At Battleschool Bean meets and befriends another future commander - Ender Wiggins - perhaps his only true rival. Only one problem: for...
ISBN: 978-0-7653-4240-9
Издательство:
Holtzbrink
Дата выхода: июль 2011
To end a history of World War II at VE Day is to leave the tale half told. While the war may have seemed all but over by Hitler`s final birthday (April 20), Stafford`s chronicle of the three months that followed tells a different, and much richer, story. ENDGAME 1945 highlights the gripping personal stories of nine men and women, ranging from soldiers to POWs to war correspondents, who witnessed firsthand the Allied struggle to finish the terrible game at last. Through their ground-level movements, Stafford traces the elaborate web of events that led to the war`s real resolution: the deaths of Hitler and Mussolini, the liberation of Buchenwald and Dachau, and the Allies` race with the Red Army to establish a victors` foothold in Europe,...
In this remarkable account of the end of the Second World War, David Stafford looks behind the headlines of history and uncovers the stories of those, soldier and civilian alike, who had lived through the war and now must endure the daily horrors and hardships of its aftermath. Endgame 1945 is an unforgettable panorama of the defeat of Fascism, of ordinary men and women and extraordinary valour, and of Europe in every way tested to its limits. It is the final chapter of war.
ISBN: 978-0-349-11912-0
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Dans la jeune Union sovietique des annees 1920, Korotkov, modeste chef de bureau au Premier Depot central de materiel pour allumettes, est renvoye du jour au lendemain. Revoke par cette injustice, il decouvre peu a peu qu`il vit dans un monde peuple de cauchemars dont seule la folie lui permettra de s`echapper.
ISBN: 978-2-07-031281-8
Издательство:
Gallimard
Дата выхода: август 2011
When penniless Michael Rogers discovers the beautiful house at Gypsy`s Acre and then meets the heiress Ellie, it seems that all his dreams have come true at once. But he ignores an old woman`s warning of an ancient curse, and evil begins to stir in paradise. As Michael soon learns: Gypsy`s Acre is the place where fatal "accidents" Формат издания: 11 см х 17,5 см.
ISBN: 978-0-00-715167-7
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The author describes her experiences during World War II when she and her family were arrested by the Russians and sent to work in the Siberian gypsum mines.
ISBN: 978-0-06-440577-5
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Страстное желание молодого, но несостоятельного Майкла Роджерса, обладать старинным поместьем, которое в округе считают проклятым, не останавливает его ни перед чем. Сомнений не вызывает, что несчастный случай, унесший жизнь молодой супруги героя, наследницы огромного состояния, дело рук Роджерса. И убийство это оказывается не единственным...
ISBN: 978-5-94962-150-9
Издательство:
Антология
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2009
One windy spring day in the Chilterns Joe Rose`s calm, organized life is shattered by a ballooning accident. The afternoon, Rose reflects, could have ended in mere tragedy, but for his brief meeting with Jed Parry. Unknown to Rose, something passes between them - something that gives birth in Parry to an obsession so powerful that it will test to the limits Rose`s beloved scientific rationalism, threaten the love of his wife Clarissa and drive him to the brink of murder and madness.
ISBN: 978-0-099-48124-9
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2011
