"The Pit and the Pendulum": A prisoner wakes up to find himself in a dark cell with a deep pit. "The Gold Bug": A golden insect leads to an incredible discovery. "The facts in the case of Mr. Valdemar": A patient is hypnotised minutes before he dies. Is he really dead? "The Fall of the House of Usher": A man visits an old friend and finds himself in a house full of horrors! "Down in the Maelstrom": A sailor describes a terrifying trip though the maelstrom. "The Masque of the Red Death": No one can escape the red death-not even a prince! "The Oblong Box": A traveller boards a ship to New York. What does he carry in the oblong box? Retold by Stephen Colbourn.
ISBN: 978-0-230-03746-5
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
The "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Rhythm of Life" brings a timely approach to the subject of relationships, revealing a seven-level process that creates strong bonds, deep contentment, and lasting connection.
ISBN: 9780743265126
Издательство:
Fireside
Дата выхода: январь 2007
As Angus Calder states in his introduction to this edition, `Seven Pillars of Wisdom is one of the major statements about the fighting experience of the First World War`. Lawrence`s younger brothers, Frank and Will, had been killed on the Western Front in 1915. Seven Pillars of Wisdom, written between 1919 and 1926, tells of the vastly different campaign against the Turks in the Middle East - one which encompasses gross acts of cruelty and revenge and ends in a welter of stink and corpses in the disgusting `hospital` in Damascus. Seven Pillars of Wisdom is no Boys Own Paper tale of Imperial triumph, but a complex work of high literary aspiration which stands in the tradition of Melville and Dostoevsky, and alongside the writings of...
ISBN: 9781853264696
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: октябрь 2022
"Shadowplay" is a revelatory new look at how Shakespeare secretly addressed the most profound political issues of his day, and how his plays embody a hidden history of England.
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. She and Allan is a novel by H. Rider Haggard, first published in 1921. It brought together his two most popular characters, Ayesha from She (to which it serves as a prequel), and Allan Quatermain from King Solomon`s Mines.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07725-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
A new B-format edition of this novel, designed to take fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings deeper into the myths and legends of Middle-earth The Silmarillion is an account of the Elder Days, of the First Age of Tolkien`s world. It is the ancient drama to which the characters in The Lord of the Rings look back, and in whose events some of them such as Elrond and Galadriel took part. The tales of The Silmarillion are set in an age when Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwelt in Middle-Earth, and the High Elves made war upon him for the recovery of the Silmarils, the jewels containing the pure light of Valinor. Included in the book are several shorter works. The Ainulindale is a myth of the Creation and in the Valaquenta the nature and...
Книга содержит неадаптированный текст рассказа СЕРЕБРЯНЫЙ А.Конан Дойля на английском языке с упражнениями, комментариями и словарем. Перевод наиболее трудных предложений дан в сносках, а сложные элементы выделены и объяснены в комментариях. Для широкого круга читателей.
Original / British English (Available February 2008) Simon Simple is going on holiday and the police are looking for a spy. On the train, Simon meets a beautiful girl. He likes her and she likes him. But the spy is there too. Simon and the police can`t see the spy. Can you?
ISBN: 978-1-4058-6961-4
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Anthony Trollope (1815—1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. Since its first appearance in 1870, "Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite" has been regarded as one of Trollope`s finest short novels. On the death of his only son, the wealthy baronet Sir Harry Hotspur has determined to give his property to his daughter Emily. She is vigorous, beautiful and as strong-willed as her father. So when she falls in love with George, the black sheep of the family, Sir Harry must decide what to do.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08360-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: февраль 2020
William Willde Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. Set against the background of the French Revolution, Sister Rose concerns Louis Trudaine; his sister, Rose, who contracts an unhappy marriage to the aristocratic Charles Danville; and Danville\'s land-steward, Lomaque, who is indebted to Trudaine\'s father. Trudaine fulfils a deathbed promise to his mother to protect Rose and arouses Danville\'s animosity.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07583-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018
Using case studies and real-life examples of his "six thinking hats", de Bono shows how each of us can become a better thinker through deliberate role-playing.
A crucial, forgotten chapter of American history--immortalized in a survivor s firsthand account that became one of the bestselling books in 19th-century America and influenced Abraham Lincoln s thoughts on slavery--is brilliantly retold for a new generation.
ISBN: 9780316159357
Издательство:
Back Bay Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2005
The textbook is written under the Federal State Educational Standard of higher professional education approved by the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia on November 8, 2010, as well as the curriculum on skin and venereal diseases. The textbook is aimed at helping students master the vast theoretical and factual material needed when studying this discipline. All dermatological terms are given under the International Clinical Nomenclature. For students of medical universities studying General Medicine and Dermatovenerology at theoretical (lectures) and practical (clinical) classes in the clinic of skin diseases and independently.
ISBN: 978-5-9704-8477-7
Издательство:
ГЭОТАР-Медиа
Дата выхода: июль 2024
Meet the Bedwyns--six brothers and sisters--men and women of passion and privilege, daring and sensuality. Enter their dazzling world of high society and breathtaking seduction...where each will seek love, fight temptation, and court scandal...and where Morgan Bedwyn, the willful youngest daughter, discovers that true love is a temptation no woman can--or should--resist. Young. Ravishing. Exquisitely marriageable. From the moment he spies Lady Morgan Bedwyn across the glittering ballroom, Gervase Ashford, Earl of Rosthorn, knows he has found the perfect instrument of his revenge. But wedlock is not on the mind of the continent s most notorious rake. Nor is it of interest to the fiercely independent Lady Morgan herself...until one night...
ISBN: 9780440241065
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: декабрь 2003
`You should do things because they`re right. Not because gods say so. They might say something different another time.`Religion is a competitive business in the Discworld. Everyone has their own opinion and their own gods, of every shape and size - all fighting for faith, followers, and a place at the top.So when the great god Om accidentally manifests himself as a lowly tortoise, stripped of all divine power, it`s clear he`s become less important than he realised.In such instances, you need an acolyte, and fast. Enter Brutha, the Chosen One - or at least the only One available. He wants peace, justice and love - but that`s hard to achieve in a world where religion means power, and corruption reigns supreme . . .The Discworld novels can...
The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is . . .`Just because you can`t explain it, doesn`t mean it`s a miracle.`In the beginning was the Word. And the Word was: `Hey, you!` This is the Discworld, after all, and religion is a controversial business.Everyone has their own opinion, and indeed their own gods, of every shape and size, and all elbowing for space at the top. In such a competitive environment, shape and size can be pretty crucial to make one`s presence felt.So it`s certainly not helpful to be reduced to appearing in the form of a tortoise, a manifestation far below god-like status in anyone`s...
ISBN: 9780552167512
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: октябрь 2023
