Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Suspense: a Napoleonic Novel is Conrad\'s unfinished novel that he was working on before his death in 1924, in which he returns to one of his favorite subjects: the French Revolution. His character here is a young Englishman named Cosmo Latham, who visits Genoa during the days in which Napoleon was imprisoned on Elba, where a conspiratorial environment of diplomats and spies of all colors pivot around the spectral figure of the exiled emperor. Among the many people that Cosmo meets, there he meets Madame de Montevesso, a liberal aristocrat who has had the misfortune to marry an unscrupulous soldier.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07646-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: май 2018
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. Swallow is a story of a Dutch girl raised in South Africa among the Kaffirs. Lonely, she gazes from shore over the waves of a storm-tossed sea, and dreams of a brother entering her and soon finds herself face-to-face with a shipwrecked waif cast ashore by the storm.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07737-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Американский писатель Джеймс Оливер Кервуд (1878–1927) родился и прожил большую часть своей жизни в штате Мичиган, у канадской границы. Страстный охотник, натуралист и путешественник, он подолгу бродил в глухих и малоисследованных местах Северной Канады и Аляски, хорошо знал и любил эти суровые края. Дикой природе Севера и жизни его четвероногих обитателей посвящены его лучшие произведения. «Быстрая...
ISBN: 978-5-517-10754-1
Издательство:
RUGRAM
Дата выхода: январь 2024
The only Windows 7 book upgraders need! Switching to Microsoft Windows 7? Here’s all the help you’ll ever need! Learn how to move from Windows XP or Windows Vista quickly and painlessly… discover the fast, efficient “Windows 7 way” to perform every common task... do more with your PC than you ever could before! It’s all here... everything from Family Safety to Photo Gallery, to search to security! Every Windows 7 upgrader needs a friendly expert to show them the ropes. With this book, you’ve got yours! • Discover what’s different about Windows 7–and what hasn’t changed from Vista and XP • Plan for the easiest possible upgrade • Migrate your applications and data, painlessly • Find everything fast,...
F. S. Fitzgerald was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. A collection of incredible short stories Tales of the Jazz Age III brings to vivid life the dazzling excesses, stunning contrasts, and simmering unrest of a glittering era. The familiar themes of aspiration and social satire already permeate his writing. For example, The Ice Palace features a Southern belle whose marriage to a Northerner finds her confronted with a cultural clash between tradition and modernity. The volume also containing The Offshore Pirate, Head and Shoulders and The Cut—Glass Bowl.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07586-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018
F. S. Fitzgerald was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. A collection of incredible short stories Tales of the Jazz Age IX brings to vivid life the dazzling excesses, stunning contrasts, and simmering unrest of a glittering era.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07384-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. "Tales of the Camp" is a collection of fascinating military stories, set in the prime days of the British Empire. Not surprisingly, one of the stories has a supernatural element. It is a remarkable book for those who wish to get a closer look at the army life of those times.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07153-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018
Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he was a master stylist, both lush and precise, who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. Tales of Hearsay is a posthumous collection of four stories, published in 1911, the year after Conrad died, including The Tale which is considered to be the one of his best short stories.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07568-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: май 2018
Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. This volume includes a collection of entertaining short stories like "The Green Flag," "The Crime of the Brigadier," "The Lord of Chateau Noir," "A Shadow Before," and others.
ISBN: 978-5-517-05852-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2021
Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. "Tales of Mystery" includes short mystery stories like "The Lost Special", "The Beetle-Hunter" and "The Man with the Watches" filled to the brim with suspense, wild twists, and turns.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08060-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
F.S. Fitzgerald was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. A collection of incredible short stories Tales of the Jazz Age IV brings to vivid life the dazzling excesses, stunning contrasts, and simmering unrest of a glittering era. The familiar themes of aspiration and social satire already permeate Fitzgerald\'s writing. For example in Bernice Bobs Her Hair the fashionable Marjorie attempts to turn her dowdy cousin into a debutante, before betraying her out of jealousy. Also containing Benediction, Dalyrimple Goes Wrong and The Four Fists.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07587-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018
Jack London was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. "Tales of the Fish Patrol" is a collection of stories drawn from author`s own experiences and memories of the days as a teenager aboard the fishing boats of San Francisco Bay.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08116-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he was a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. He wrote stories and novels, many with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an impassive, inscrutable universe. This volume published in 1911 contains four tales; The Warrior`s Soul, Prince Roman, The Tale, and The Black Mate.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06674-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: март 2018
Edith Wharton (1862—1937) was an American novelist and short story writer. Her works show the lives of people of the late nineteenth century, the times of decline in American history. She was the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1921. Wharton also was familiar with many famous people of the time, including President Theodore Roosevelt. "Tales of Men and Ghosts" is a collection of ten masterful ghost stories like "The Bolted Door", "His Father`s Son", "The Daunt Diana" and "Full Circle".
ISBN: 978-5-521-07843-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Мастер готического ужаса, основоположник детектива, гений мрачной прозы — Эдгар Аллан По создал мир, где разум сталкивается с безумием, а страх скрывается в тенях повседневности. В этом сборнике вы найдете леденящие душу произведения: от жуткого "Падения дома Ашеров" до мрачной исповеди "Черного кота" и загадочного "Сердца-обличителя". Грань между реальностью и кошмаром размывается, а каждое слово, словно...
ISBN: 978-5-17-166363-6
Издательство:
АСТ
Дата выхода: май 2025
Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. Filled with supernatural events, horrific scientific experiments, and bizarre events, "Tales of Mystery" is an excellent opportunity to discover another side of author`s ability to immerse and surprise. .
ISBN: 978-5-521-08099-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. "Tales of Blue Water" is a collection of short stories about the sea. Mixing adventure, romance, and humor, these tales present an interesting view of life in the sea.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07155-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018
Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. "Tales of Adventure" is an astounding collection that anthologizes some of the best short fiction stories of the author outside of the world-famous detective`s canon including excellent tales like "The Surgeon of Gaster Fell", "The Sealed Room" and "The Great Brown-Pericord Motor".
ISBN: 978-5-521-08055-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, a dark romantic, and short story writer. Tanglewood Tales are incomparable retellings of Greek myths. And stories in A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys are all stories within an another story. Williams College student, Eustace Bright, is telling these tales to a group of children at Tanglewood, an area in Lenox, Massachusetts. All the tales are modified from the original myths. This volume also includes such an amazing three tales as Fanshawe, The Snow-Image and The New Adam and Eve.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07769-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
