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,...
BEATRIX POTTER loved the countryside and she spent much of her otherwise conventional Victorian childhood drawing and studying animals. Her passion for the natural world lay behind the creation of her famous series of little books. A particular source of inspiration was the English Lake District where she lived for the last thirty years of her life as a farmer and land conservationist, working with the National Trust.The Tale of Peter Rabbit, published in 1902, was her first book, expanded from an illustrated letter she had sent to a young friend who was ill. One hundred years later the classic tale of naughty Peter Rabbit`s escape from Mr McGregor`s garden still brings to children all over the world the pleasure that it gave to its very...
ISBN: 9780723247708
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2022
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: 978-5-17-166362-9
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
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.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06675-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: март 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
F.S. Fitzgerald was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. A collection of incredible short stories Tales of the Jazz Age II brings to vivid life the dazzling excesses, stunning contrasts, and simmering unrest of a glittering era.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07613-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018
F. S. Fitzgerald was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. Tales of Jazz Age VIII is a collection of brilliant short stories, including "Two Wrongs" and an ironic "The Night of Chancellorsville" in which a trainload of light ladies is catapulted unawares into the realities of the Civil War.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07615-4
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. The Tales of Hearsay is a posthumous collection of four stories, published in 1911, the year after Conrad died, including The Tale, considered to be the one of his best short stories. Tales of Unrest is the collection of short stories where a reader will find many of Conrad\'s most frequently explored themes: isolation, distinctions between East and West, between colonial and native, a discernment and critique of civilization.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07641-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: май 2018
This book features an Introduction by John S. Whitley, University of Sussex. This collection of Poe`s best stories contains all the terrifying and bewildering tales that characterize his work. As well as the Gothic horror of such famous stories as "The Pit and the Pendulum", "The Fall of the House of Usher", "The Premature Burial" and "The Tell-Tale Heart", all of Poe`s Auguste Dupin stories are included. These are the first modern detective stories and include "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", "The Mystery of Marie Roget" and "The Purloined Letter".
ISBN: 978-1-84022-072-8
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: август 2010
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 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: 978-5-521-08056-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
F.S. Fitzgerald was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. Tales of Jazz Age VI is a wonderful short-story collection showcases many of the celebrated novel\'s themes, as well as its unique writing style. The collection contains six stories, including Absolution in which a boy confesses to a priest and The Sensible Thing, where George O\'Kelly, an aspiring engineer turned insurance salesman, fights to recapture the love of Jonquil Cary.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07589-8
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
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
