This light-hearted masterpiece tells of the influence Eugenia and her brother Felix exert on their Bostonian cousins when they visit the New World. In the hope of making a wealthy marriage, Eugenia, the Baroness Munster, and her younger brother, the artist Felix, descend on the Wentworths, in Boston. Installed in a nearby house, they become close friends with the younger Wentworths - Gertrude, Charlotte and Clifford. Издание полностью на английском языке.

ISBN: 0140620451
Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2002

News of the untimely death of Charles Dickens reaches James R Osgood at his American publisher. Expecting the arrival of the latest instalment of The Mystery of Edwin Drood and suspicious of unscrupulous New York publishers keen to get their hands on the novel, Osgood sends his clerk, Daniel Sands, to await its arrival.

ISBN: 978-0-09-951275-2
Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Set against the French and Indian siege of Fort William Henry in 1757, "The Last of the Mohicans" recounts the story of two sisters, Cora and Alice Munro, daughters of the English commander, who are struggling to be reunited with their father. They are aided in their perilous journey by Hawk-eye, a frontier scout, and his companions Chingachgook and Uncas, the only two survivors of the Mohican tribe. But their lives are endangered by Magua, the savage Indian traitor who captures the sisters, wanting Cora to be his squaw. In setting Indian against Indian and the brutal society of the white man against the civilization of the Mohican, Cooper, more than any author before or since, shaped the American sense of itself as a nation....

ISBN: 978-0-14-062431-1
Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011

It`s 1910. "Anna Karenina" and "War and Peace" have made Leo Tolstoy the world`s most famous author. But fame comes at a price. In the tumultuous final year of his life, Tolstoy is desperate to find respite, so leaves his large family and the hounding press behind and heads into the wilderness. Too ill to venture beyond the tiny station of Astapovo, he believes his last days will pass in isolation. But as we learn through the journals of those closest to him, the battle for Tolstoy`s soul will not be a peaceful one. Jay Parini introduces, translates and edits this collection of Tolstoy`s autobiographical writing, diaries, and letters related to the last year of Tolstoy`s life published to coincide with the 2009 film of Parini`s novel...

ISBN: 978-0-14-119119-5
Издательство: Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Defense attorney David Nash has made a career out of setting monsters free - and no one does it better. Now a case has come to "The Ice Man" that could help cleanse Nash of the guilt and doubts that torment him: that rarest of all defendants, an innocent man. A fellow lawyer has been accused of a heinous crime - the brutal murder of an undercover vice cop. But the case that is supposed to be Nash`s redemption could prove to be his downfall, dragging him into a dark and sinister world where lies and the truth are interchangeable; where the manipulator becomes the manipulated; and where every answer spawns more complex and terrifying questions. And as the shadows close in around him, the final question that remains for David Nash concerns...

ISBN: 978-0-06-073968-3
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Seventeen-year-old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller`s life was turned upside down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York to Wilmington, North Carolina. Since then she has remained angry and alienated from her parents, until her mother decides she should spend the summer with her father. Ronnie`s father, a former concert pianist and teacher, is living a quiet life in the beach town, immersed in creating a work of art that will become the centerpiece of a local church. What unfolds is an unforgettable story about love - first love and the love between parents and children - that demonstrates the many ways that relationship can break our and heal them.

ISBN: 978-0-7515-4326-1
Издательство: Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012

The story opens on the day that the Western Roman Empire collapses finally in 470AD, as the Last Emperor of Rome is encamped protected by the Nova Invicta Legion. All is lost in the space of a few minutes as a horde of Barbarians sweep through the camp in the fog, kill the Imperial family and take the young Emperor captive. The Roman Empire is in But all is not lost. From the dust of battlefields emerges a small team of invincible warriors - The Last Legion. Their task is to rescue the Emperor and his enigmatic tutor and to try and resurrect the glory of Rome. All their strength of character and bravery come into play as they guide the last Caesar in a dramatic journey of escape through a devastated Italy and Northern Europe to their...

ISBN: 978-0-330-48975-1
Издательство: Pan Macmillan
Дата выхода: август 2011

When Linda Fallon and Thomas Janes meet at a writers` festival in Toronto, it is the first time they have seen each other for twenty-six years. Theirs is a story bound by the irresistible pull of true passion - a love which begins in Massachusetts in the early 1960s, is rekindled in Kenya in the mid 1970s and which is about to play out its astonishing final Written with reverse chronology, Anita Shreve`s new novel is a haunting story of mesmerising beauty, with a strong narrative pull that inescapably draws the reader in, and leaves its most stunning revelation until the very last pages. Brilliantly ambitious and powerfully written, "The Last Time They Met" is a tale not so much of life, but of a life not lived.

ISBN: 978-0-349-11360-9
Издательство: Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011

When Web London`s FBI Hostage Negotiation Team is ambushed in a dark alley, Web is the only survivor. As the FBI investigates, suspicion surrounding Web deepens. Now, he needs help from an unlikely ally in his desperate search for the killer of his friends, and finds himself up against a force intent on finishing the job that began in the alley.

ISBN: 0-446-61177-8
Издательство: Warner Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2004

What if you could bio-engineer the next great world prophet, to scientifically produce the next Buddha, the next Mohammed, or the next Jesus? Would it mark the Second Coming or initiate a chain reaction leading to the end of mankind? A think tank of world scientists formed during the Cold War has discovered a way to manipulate and enhance autistic children who show savant talents - mathematical geniuses, statistical masterminds, brilliant conceptual artists - but a strange side-effect begins to arise. Before it can be analyzed fully, a rogue group of scientists begin their own secret experimentation with a cadre of the best children. They seek to create a world prophet for the new millennium, one to be manipulated to create a new era of...

ISBN: 978-1-4091-0211-3
Издательство: Orion Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011