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
This smart new paperback edition contains the fully-reset text of three medieval English poems, translated by Tolkien for the modern-day reader and containing romance, tragedy, love, sex and honour. It features a beautifully decorated text and includes as a bonus the complete version of Tolkien’s acclaimed lecture on Sir Gawain.Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl are two poems by an unknown author written in about 1400. Sir Gawain is a romance, a fairy-tale for adults, full of life and colour; but it is also much more than this, being at the same time a powerful moral tale which examines religious and social values.Pearl is apparently an elegy on the death of a child, a poem pervaded with a sense of great personal loss: but, like...
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
When Winston Niles Rumfoord flies his spacecraft into a chrono-synclastic infundibulum he is converted into pure energy, and only materializes when his waveforms intercept Earth or some other planet. As a result, he only gets home to Newport, Rhode island, once every 59 days, and then only for an hour. But at least, as a consolation, he now knows everything that has ever happened or that will ever happen. Формат: 12,5 см х 19,5 см.
ISBN: 978-1-85798-884-0
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
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
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
`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...
«Дымка» - самое известное произведение американского писателя и художника Уилла Джеймса (1892–1942). Действие повести разворачивается в Соединенных Штатах начала XX века. В те дни, когда жители Америки постепенно пересаживаются с лошадей в автомобильные кресла, в западных степях рождается жеребенок, которому суждено стать одним из лучших коней современности, грозой прерий и гордостью хозяина. Жеребцу Дымке...
ISBN: 978-5-517-10751-0
Издательство:
RUGRAM
Дата выхода: январь 2024
