Three high-powered Hollywood couples, two hot affairs, one underage Russian ex-hooker, a passionate murder - and the players lives are changed forever.
ISBN: 978-1-84739-307-4
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Herbert George Wells (1866—1946) was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, but he is now best remembered for his science fiction novels. "Marriage" is a novel, which features two protagonists: Marjorie Pope, the oldest daughter of a carriage manufacturer and R.A.G. Trafford, a physicist specializing in crystallography whom she marries against the wishes of her family. The novel traces the history of their relationship, which begins when an early airplane Trafford is piloting crashes into the garden of a house Marjorie's family is renting for the summer.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08237-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2018
It`s the early 1980s, In American colleges, the wised-up kids are inhaling Derrida and listening to Talking Heads. Bur Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English major, is writing her senior thesis on Jane Ausfen and George Eliot, purveyors of the marriage plot that lies at the heart of the greatest English novels. As Madeleine studies the age-old motivations of the human heart, real life, in the form of two very different suitors, intervenes. Leonard Bankhead - charismatic loner and college Darwinist - turns up in a seminar, and soon Madeleine finds herself in a highly charged relationship with him. At the same time, her old friend Mitchell Grammaticus - who`s been reading Christian mysticism and generally acting strange - resurfaces, obsessed...
The new novel from the bestselling author of Middlesex and The Virgin Suicides. Brown University, 1982. Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English student and incurable romantic, is writing her thesis on Jane Austen and George Eliot -- authors of the great marriage plots. As Madeleine studies the age-old motivations of the human heart, real life, in the form of two very different men, intervenes. Leonard Bankhead, brilliant scientist and charismatic loner, attracts Madeleine with an intensity that she seems powerless to resist. Meanwhile, her old friend Mitchell Grammaticus, a theology student searching for some kind of truth in life, is certain of at least one thing -- that he and Madeleine are destined to be together. But as all three leave...
When girl-about-town Charlotte discovers her husband has been arrested for fraud, she flees to the wilds of Exmoor to nurse her broken heart. But she`s not the only one with a life in turmoil. Sebastian - bad boy of the British art scene - is determined to drink the local pub dry while his wife lives it up in London. Fitch married the high-spirited Hayley hoping for wedded bliss, but is struggling to keep up with her outrageous demands. Penny is recenlty divorced, and determined to have fun - but who with? As Charlotte adapts to life without LK Bennett and Starbucks, she turns to her new-found friends for advice. But can she forgive her husband for what he did, before it`s too late?
ISBN: 978-1-4091-0226-7
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
A brilliant, funny, and heartbreaking novel about the glories and vicissitudes of young love. His many awards include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, a Whiting Writers` Award, and the Harold D. Vursell Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Author of Middlesex (bestselling winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize, with more than 3 million copies sold) and the now classic The Virgin Suicides (made into a haunting film by Sofia Coppola).
Personal trainer Cameron Paradise flees Hawaii and her abusive champion-surfer husband, Gregg, and makes her way to With her to-die-for looks, it doesn`t take Cameron long to find a job at an exclusive private fitness club. Every man she meets comes on to her, but Cameron is more focused on opening her own studio one day than getting caught up in the scene of wild parties and recreational drugs. Then Cameron meets Ryan Richards, a successful movie producer who happens to be married to Mandy, the princess daughter of Hollywood mogul Hamilton J. Heckerling. Ryan has never cheated on Mandy, but after he meets Cameron, all bets are off--even if she`s seeing his best friend Don Verona, the devastatingly attractive talk-show host and legendary...
ISBN: 978-0-312-93710-2
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
Sally is big, blonde and pampered. She’s married to Richard. But she loves Jerry. Jerry loves Sally in return, but he’s also still in love with his wife Ruth. Who’s been sleeping with As a hot, feverish summer of snatched weekends, secret phone calls and illicit lovemaking on the beach comes to a head, it turns out everyone knows more than they’ve been letting on. And that no one knows quite when to stop.
ISBN: 978-0-14-118940-6
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
A gentleman of means, neither young nor decrepit. Looks irrelevant. Generous to a fault. Criminal record not a problem. Witty, mature, decisive widow has recently relocated to New York City in order to be very, very close to her grown children (who prefer managing their own lives, thank you very much). Their lifelong gratitude and relief (plus their lovely mother -- as long as you move out of state) will be your REWARD. Not offer of any kind will be rufused
ISBN: 0-06-109554-0
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Written by the author of Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus, this collection of first-person stories illustrate how couples have successfully put Dr Gray`s principles to work in their own lives and provides advice and inspiration for readers.
The author of the phenomenal # 1 New York Times bestseller "Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus", John Gray has helped millions of men and women achieve lasting love and happiness. Now he turns his wisdom and expertise to one of the most sensitive and essential issues in a relationship: sex. In "Mars and Venus in the Bedroom", he explains how we can use advanced relationship skills to keep the fires of passion burning and achieve much greater intimacy. Romance can thrive when we accept that men and women have very different, yet complementary, emotional and physical needs. Dr. Gray shows us how we can make small but important adjustments in our attitudes, schedules, and techniques so that both partners are happy in the bedroom - and...
They do everything together, but lately Skye`s been feeling like second-best - it`s the story of her life. And when her friend Alfie confesses he`s fallen not for her but for Summer it hurts. Skye wants to be her own person, but, with an effortlessly cool twin, will she get her own chance to shine?
ISBN: 978-0-14-132524-8
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Martha really does speak in this book and audio CD set, which features two readings - one with page-turn cues for reading along, and one without - by Kathy Najimy, who voices Martha`s many, many comments about the world around her. It all begins when young Helen gives her lovable mutt Martha a bowl of alphabet soup, and the letters bypass the dog`s stomach and go directly to her brain. Not only does Martha start talking, she can`t shut up, and eventually drives her family crazy. The inaugural title in Susan Meddaugh`s delightful series for readers up to 8, this New York Times Best Illustrated Book for 1992 is reminiscent of William Steig`s quirky children`s stories.
The first book in the "Children of Violence" series, a quintet of novels tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in colonial Africa through to old age in a post-nuclear Britain. The other novels are "A Proper Marriage", "A Ripple from the Storm", "Landlocked" and "The Four-Gated City".
Martin Chuzzlewit is Charles Dickens` comic masterpiece about which his biographer. Forster, noted that it marked a crucial phase in the author`s development as he began to delve deeper into the `springs of character`. Old Martin Chuzzlewit, tormented by the greed and selfishness of his family, effectively drives his grandson, young Martin, to undertake a voyage to America. It is a voyage which will have crucial consequences not only for young Martin, but also for his grandfather and his grandfather`s servant, Mary Graham, with whom young Martin is in love. The commercial swindle of the Anglo-Bengalee Company and the fraudulent Eden Land Corporation have a topicality in our own time. This strong sub-plot shows evidence of Dickens`...
ISBN: 1-85326-205-6
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2001
Серия книг «Зарубежная классика — читай в оригинале» — это бессмертные произведения великих мастеров пера, написанные ими на их родном языке и наречии. Книги из этой серии помогут читателю углубленно изучать иностранные языки, обогатят его внутренний мир и по-новому откроют произведения известных классиков. Неадаптированное издание на английском языке.
ISBN: 978-5-517-09733-0
Издательство:
RUGRAM
Дата выхода: январь 2023
