Germain Chaze ist eine Seele von Mensch, nur leider nicht der Schlaueste. Als er im Park Margueritte kennenlernt, wird sein Leben auf den Kopf gestellt. Denn die feinsinnige alte Dame beschlieEt, ihn fur die Welt der Bucher zu gewinnen.
`Take this Hercules - this hero! Hero, indeed! What was he but a large muscular creature of low intelligence and criminal tendencies?`In appearance Hercule Poirot hardly resembled an ancient Greek hero. Yet - reasoned the detective - like Hercules he had been responsible for ridding society of some of its most unpleasant monsters.So, in the period leading up to his retirement, Poirot made up his mind to accept just twelve more cases: his self-imposed `Labours`. Each would go down in the annals of crime as a heroic feat of deduction.
Издание полностью на английском языке. Poirot sets himself a challenge before he retires - to solve 12 cases which correspond with the labours of his classical Greek In appearance Hercule Poirot hardly resembled an ancient Greek hero. Yet - reasoned the detective - like Hercules he had been responsible for ridding society of some of its most unpleasant monsters. So, in the period leading up to his retirement, Poirot made up his mind to accept just twelve more cases: his self-imposed 'Labours'. Each would go down in the annals of crime as a heroic feat of deduction.
ISBN: 978-0-00-712075-8
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Après "La Bataille", après "Il neigeait", voici le troisième volet de ma fin d’Empire. Je vous emmène cette fois en 1814. L’Europe envahit la France. Paris est assiégée et ses habitants voient apparaître des Cosaques entre les moulins de Montmartre. Replié à Fontainebleau, abandonné par ses maréchaux, Napoléon est bientôt obligé d’abdiquer. Il déprime, il cherche à se tuer, il se résout enfin à l’exil. Il traverse dangereusement la Provence et s’embarque sur un navire anglais pour son nouveau royaume, l’île d’Elbe, un rocher au large de la Toscane. Comment un homme qui a gouverné un continent va-t-il supporter de...
ISBN: 978-2-253-11265-5
Издательство:
Livre de Poche
Дата выхода: июль 2012
I`m Veronika Mahmurova, I`m a beginner writer, I live in Estonia, Tallinn. I decided to write my first book at the age of 21, as I always dreamed about it and wanted people all over the world to read my work. I wrote my first novel when I was in America, when I studied on screenwriting program. Also I love to write about love story, so I decided to create my characters to describe my vision of what a love story could be. My book is about young writer Jennifer whose dream is to find a mutual love, also about her new life, and about how life could change and how suddenly dreams could come true. I believe in destiny, so therefore my book shows how through time could connect two people even if circumstances did not allow them to be together....
ISBN: 978-5-4491-0541-7
Издательство:
Де'Либри
Дата выхода: февраль 2020
July 1209: in Carcassonne a seventeen-year-old girl is given a mysterious book by her father which he claims contains the secret of the true Grail. Although Alais cannot understand the strange words and symbols hidden within, she knows that her destiny lies in keeping the secret of the labyrinth safe ... July 2005: Alice Tanner discovers two skeletons in a forgotten cave in the Trench Pyrenees. Puzzled by the labyrinth symbol carved into the rock, she realises she`s disturbed something that was meant to remain hidden. Somehow, a link to a horrific past - her past - has been revealed. "Compelling…intriguing…passionate" Sunday Times "An action-packed adventure of modern conspiracy and medieval passion…a Grail gripper [and] elegantly...
ISBN: 978-0-7528-6554-6
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
July 1209: in Carcassonne a seventeen-year-old girl is given a mysterious book by her father which he claims contains the secret of the true Grail. Although Alais cannot understand the strange words and symbols hidden within, she knows that her destiny lies in keeping the secret of the labyrinth July 2005: Alice Tanner discovers two skeletons in a forgotten cave in the French Pyrenees. Puzzled by the labyrinth symbol carved into the rock, she realises she`s disturbed something that was meant to remain hidden. Somehow, a link to a horrific past - her past - has been revealed.
ISBN: 978-0-7528-7732-7
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
Drawn by family. Driven by fear. Haunted by fate. Would knowing the future be a gift or a burden? Or even a curse!? The Whitney women of Salem, Massachusetts are renowned for reading the future in the patterns of lace. But the future doesn`t always bring good news - as Towner Whitney knows all too well. When she was just fifteen her gift sent her whole world crashing to pieces. She predicted - and then witnessed - something so horrific that she vowed never to read lace again, and fled her home and family for good. Salem is a place of ghosts for Towner, and she swore she would never return. Yet family is a powerful tie. So it is that fifteen years later, Towner finds herself back in Salem. Her beloved Great Aunt Eva has suddenly...
ISBN: 978-0-00-730737-1
Издательство:
Collins
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Альберт Пэйсон Терхьюн - удивительный американский писатель и любитель собак. Его произведения покорили тысячи неравнодушных сердец по всему миру. «Лэд» - это трогательная, основанная на реальных событиях, история о собаке породы коли. Читателя ждут необыкновенные приключения, яркие персонажи и интересные истории о преданности, любви и настоящей дружбе. Читайте зарубежную литературу в оригинале!
ISBN: 978-5-521-05710-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2017
Faerie is never as far away as you think. Sometimes you find you have crossed an invisible line and must cope, as best you can, with petulant princesses, vengeful owls, ladies who pass their time embroidering terrible fates or with endless paths in deep, dark woods and houses that never appear the same way twice. The heroines and heroes bedevilled by such problems in these fairy tales include a conceited Regency clergyman, an eighteenth-century Jewish doctor and Mary, Queen of Scots, as well as two characters from "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell": Strange himself and the Raven King.
ISBN: 978-0-7475-8936-5
Издательство:
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Пожалуй, самый известный из романов Лоуренса, "Любовник леди Чаттерлей" больше не шокирует своим предметом изображения: адюльтером между сексуальной неудовлетворенной замужней дамой высшего света и лесником, который работает в поместье ее прикованного к инвалидной коляске мужа. Ныне, когда мы привыкли читать о сексе и видеть его в кино, становится очевидно, что роман запомнился по куда более значащим...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05508-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: март 2017
With its four-letter words and its explicit descriptions of sexual intercourse, "Lady Chatterley`s Lover" is the novel with which D.H.Lawrence is most often associated. First published privately in Florence in 1928, it became a world-wide best-seller when Penguin Books successfully resisted an attempt by the British Director of Public Prosecutions to prevent them publishing an unexpurgated edition. The famous "Lady Chatterley trial" heralded the sexual revolution of the coming decades and signalled the defeat of Establishment prudery. Yet Lawrence himself was hardly a liberationist and the conservatism of many aspects of his novel would later lay it open to attacks from the political avant-garde and from feminists. The story of how the...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-488-7
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: март 2011
The imprisonment and execution of Queen Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII`s second wife, in May 1536 was unprecedented in English history. It was sensational in its day, and has exerted endless fascination over the minds of historians, novelists, dramatists, poets, artists and film-makers ever since. Anne was imprisoned in the Tower of London on 2 May 1536, and tried and found guilty of high treason on 15 May. Her supposed crimes included adultery with five men, one her own brother, and plotting the King`s death. She was executed on 19 May 1536. Mystery surrounds the circumstances leading up to her arrest. Was it Henry VIII who, estranged from Anne, instructed Master Secretary Thomas Cromwell to fabricate evidence to get rid of her so that he...
This book claims to be the facsimile edition of the notebook of Lady Angelica Cottington, who, it is said, took the infamous photograph of a group of fairies that was authenticated by Conan Doyle, but later discredited. Lady Cottington was determined to prove the existence of fairies, and began to capture them between the pages of her notebook, in which she had previously pressed wild flowers. In the introduction to the book, it is explained that one of Lady Cottington`s notebooks was recently discovered, intact and in good condition, and has been reproduced complete with biographical information about the near-reclusive Lady Cottington, and a photograph of her holding the original book between the pages of which so many fairies,...
ISBN: 978-1-86205-700-5
Издательство:
Anova Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
This is the story of Lady Constance Chatterley, or Connie`, her loveless marriage to Sir Clifford Chatterley, a man rendered both physically and emotionally crippled and impotent by the First World War, and her love affair with their gamekeeper, Mellors, a unique character who has deliberately retreated from opportunities for social and economic advancement and returned to his working class roots. The story is completely character-driven, which is why its grand themes of the immutability of the class divide, the dangers of championing the mind over the body and the fundamental human need for true `connexion` with other human beings are almost never jarring.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06047-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
Pop princess. Fashionista. Icon. Rebel. Eccentric. Superstar. She's known all over the world for her catchy music, outlandish style and often controversial opinions. A paparazzi favourite, she manages to grab headlines whilst remaining enigmatic. Whether she's carrying a purple teacup, fuelling the fire about her gender or stealing the limelight with her creative performances, no one can deny this twenty-first-century sensation is turning heads wherever she goes. She is Lady Gaga. But Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta was always destined to be a star. Just Dance is the first unauthorised biography to reveal how she achieved popworld domination to become one of the globe's most exciting new entertainers - an artist who...
Modern, original fiction for learners of English. Is it coincidence or is he losing his mind? While researching a new programme, John, a successful television producer, comes across a story about a ghostly hitch-hiker. Soon he realises that the
ISBN: 978-0-521-66620-6
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: август 2011
