Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and politician. A lot of his works contributed to the early growth of the science fiction genre. "The Last of the Barons" is a historical novel first published in 1843. Its plot revolves around the power struggle between the English King Edward IV and his powerful minister Earl of Warwick, known as "Warwick the kingmaker." The novel also explores the themes of romance and science in the Middle Ages.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08286-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: май 2019
The Lost Whale is the enchanting second novel from the author of The Last Bear: the bestselling debut hardback of 2021 and The Times Children’s Book of the Week, winner of the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize and the Blue Peter Award and shortlisted for the British Book Awards 2022 and the Indie Book Awards 2022‘Unforgettable highly accomplished animal adventure about the connection between a boy and a whale, with strong ecological themes’ The Bookseller, Editor’s ChoiceWhat if you could communicate with a whale?Rio has been sent to live with a grandmother he barely knows in California, while his mum is in hospital back home. Alone and adrift, the only thing that makes him smile is joining his new friend Marina on her dad`s...
Mendelsohn grew up in a family haunted by the disappearance of six relatives during the Holocaust--an unmentionable subject during his childhood. Decades later, he embarked on a hunt for the remaining eyewitnesses of his relatives fates. This is their story.
ISBN: 9780060542993
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2007
The eighth book in the classic Martin Beck detective series from the 1960s and 70s – the novels that shaped the future of Scandinavian crime writing.Hugely acclaimed, the Martin Beck series were the original Scandinavian crime novels and have inspired the writings of Stieg Larsson, Henning Mankell and Jo Nesbo.In one part of town, a woman robs a bank. In another, a corpse is found shot through the heart in a room locked from within, with no firearm in sight. Although the two incidents appear unrelated, Detective Inspector Martin Beck believes otherwise, and solving the mystery acquires the utmost importance. Haunted by a near-fatal bullet wound and trying to recover from the break-up of his unhappy marriage, Beck throws himself into...
ISBN: 9780007439188
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2022
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. "The Last Galley: Impressions and Tales" is the second volume in the series, consisting of wonderful short stories like "De Profundis", "Out of the Running" and "The Lord of Falconbridge". .
ISBN: 978-5-521-08080-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
When a fake relationship between scientists meets the irresistible force of attraction, it throws one woman`s carefully calculated theories on love into chaos.Когда фальшивые отношения между учеными сталкиваются с непреодолимой силой притяжения, это превращает тщательно продуманные теории одной женщины о любви в хаос.
The Little Prince is a modern fable, and for readers far and wide both the title and the work have exerted a pull far in excess of the book's brevity. Written and published first by Antoine de St-Exupery in 1943, only a year before his plane disappeared on a reconnaissance flight, it is one of the world's most widely translated books, enjoyed by adults and children alike. In the meeting of the narrator who has ditched his plane in the Sahara desert, and the little prince, who has dropped there through time and space from his tiny asteroid, comes an intersection of two worlds, the one governed by the laws of nature, and the other determined only by the limits of imagination. The world of the imagination wins hands down, with the concerns...
ISBN: 9781840227604
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2018
Fitzgerald was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. The Last Tycoon is a magnificent story of doomed love set against the extravagance of America`s booming film industry. The studio lot looks like `thirty acres of fairyland` the night that a mysterious woman stands and smiles at Monroe Stahr, the last of the great Hollywood princes. Enchanted by one another, they begin a passionate but hopeless love affair. The romance unfolds, frame by frame, watched by Cecilia, a thoroughly modern girl who has taken her lessons in sentiment and cynicism from all the movies she has seen. The play The Vegetable was a satirical attack on the presidency of Warren Harding. An ordinary, incompetent man, taunted for his lack of ambition by...
ISBN: 978-5-521-07706-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and politician. A lot of his works contributed to the early growth of the science fiction genre. "The Last of the Barons" is a historical novel first published in 1843. Its plot revolves around the power struggle between the English King Edward IV and his powerful minister Earl of Warwick, known as "Warwick the kingmaker." The novel also explores the themes of romance and science in the Middle Ages.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08287-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: май 2019
In her first novel in nine years, "New York Times"-bestselling author Kingsolver tells the story of Harrison William Shepherd, an unforgettable protagonist whose search for identity takes readers to the heart of the 20th century s most tumultuous events.
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. "The Last Galley: Impressions and Tales I" is the first volume in the series, consisting of wonderful short stories like "The Last Galley", "The Contest", and "Through the Veil".
ISBN: 978-5-521-07168-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018
James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century. The Lake Gun is a satirical short story named after the mysterious loud exploding sound coming from Seneca Lake, called The Lake Gun by European American settlers to the area, and known today as the Seneca Guns. These sounds remain unexplained to this day, with no clear or agreed-upon cause.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08034-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
This is an exciting new book that for the first time combines rich biographical information on the founder of Japanese folklore studies, Kunio Yanagita, with a superb updated translation of his literary classic, The Legends of Tono (1910). This marvelous translation of a Japanese literary and folklore classic, reflecting thirty-five years of research and scholarship, is filled with enthralling tales that bring alive Japan s rich traditional heritage.
Honor Bright is a sheltered Quaker who has rarely ventured out of 1850s Dorset when she impulsively emigrates to America. Opposed to the slavery that defines and divides the country, she finds her principles tested to the limit when a runaway slave appears at the farm of her new family. In this tough, unsentimental place, where whisky bottles sit alongside quilts, Honor befriends two spirited women who will teach her how to turn ideas into action.
ISBN: 9780007350353
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2022
This is a tale of adventure and derring-do set in the time of King Henry VIII and the pilgrimage of grace. This was the period when King Henry was rebelling against Pope Clement VII, and when many Englishmen in the north, and many clergymen, were rebelling against Henry, in the so-called Pilgrimage of Grace. To raise needed funds for this rebellion against the king, the Spanish abbot Clement Maldon murders Cicely Foterells father and tries to claim all the family`s lands and jewels.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06621-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: март 2018
The Little Book of Calm (Paul Wilson)This book is your pocket-sized stress antidote, full of advice to follow and thoughts to inspireМаленькая книжечка спокойствия (Пол Уилсон)Оригинальный текст, без адаптации.Эта книга - ваш карманный антидот от стресса, наполненный полезными советами и вдохновляющими мыслями.
ISBN: 9780241257449
Издательство:
Ladybird
Дата выхода: декабрь 2025
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. "The Last Galley: Impressions and Tales II" is the second volume in the series, consisting of wonderful short stories like "De Profundis", "Out of the Running", and "The Lord of Falconbridge".
ISBN: 978-5-521-07169-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850—1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, travel writer, and essayist. He was a celebrity during his lifetime for works like "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and "Treasure Island." Now he is one of the most translated authors in the world. Tired of his father refusing to tolerate his addiction for alcohol, John Nicholson decides to leave Edinburgh for a better life in America. For some time he seems to have achieved success, but John learns that all of his excesses mixed with internal problems would ultimately lead him to failure. .
ISBN: 978-5-521-07792-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Thomas Love Peacock (1785—1866) was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company. «The Misfortunes of Elphin» is a awesome novella. It is set in a somewhat historically fanciful Arthurian Britain which incorporates many Welsh legends, but avoids all supernatural and mystical elements. Seithenyn appears as a major character.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07105-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: май 2018
