Contemporary / American English (Available June 2008) Memoirs of a Geisha is one of the great stories of our time. We follow Sayuri`s life: her early years in a small fishing village and as a geisha in Gion. And throughout her struggle, we know of her secret love for the only man who ever showed her any kindness - a man who seems to be out of her reach.
ISBN: 978-1-4058-8267-5
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Elles sont deux, Renée et Louise, qui, à peine sorties du couvent, vont suivre des destinées contraires. Faut-il mettre de la passion dans le mariage? Ou y chercher un bonheur raisonnable? Derrière cette "dispute", menée par correspondance, une lutte sourde oppose deux ambitions: Renée la sage n`exige pas moins de la vie que Louise la folle. Débat sur le mariage, les Mémoires de deux jeunes mariées sont aussi l`histoire d`une rivalité. Et si la sagesse finit par triompher du "romanesque", il ne faut peut-être pas trop se fier au dénouement: "J`aimerai mieux être tué par Louise que de vivre longtemps avec Renée", disait Balzac.
ISBN: 978-2-07-037268-3
Издательство:
Gallimard
Дата выхода: январь 2013
`The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself a gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin`. He has never married, never loved and never gone to bed with a woman he didn`t pay. But on finding a young girl naked and asleep on the brothel owner`s bed, a passion is ignited in his heart - and he feels, for the first time, the urgent pangs of love. Each night, exhausted by her factory work, `Delgadina` sleeps peacefully whilst he watches her quietly. During these solitary early hours, his love for her deepens and he finds himself reflecting on his newly found passion and the loveless life he has led. By day, his columns in the local newspaper are read avidly by those who recognise in his outpourings the enlivening and...
ISBN: 978-0-14-102873-6
Издательство:
Книжный мир
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Великолепное подарочное издание. Книга в суперобложке с трехсторонним золотым обрезом и ляссе. Sherlock Holmes is back on the case in this collection of sparkling short stories. Not only does Sir Arthur Conan Doyle`s brilliant detective investigate a fascinating series of crimes and misdemeanours in "The Memoirs", but we also learn about Holmes`s early days as a sleuth-hound and encounter the detective`s brilliant brother, Mycroft, who is a member of the Diogenes Club, one of the strangest establishments in London. And, of course, in "The Final Problem" Holmes comes face to face with his nemesis, Professor Moriarty, the Napoleon of Crime. Their struggle,...
Pour sa nouvelle vie de femme divorcee sans enfant, Pascaline a trouve l`appartement qu`elle voulait. Mais contre toute attente, elle se sent mal dans ce deux-pieces pourtant calme et clair. Elle apprend qu`un drame y a eu lieu mais elle decide malgre tout de rester entre ces murs marques par la tragedie, qui lentement la poussent a deterrer une ancienne douleur, qu`a 40 ans elle devra affronter.
ISBN: 978-2-253-12771-0
Издательство:
Livre de Poche
Дата выхода: июль 2011
In this almost documentary account of his own experience of penal servitude in Siberia, Dostoevsky describes the physical and mental suffering of the convicts, the squalor and the degradation, in relentless detail. The intricate procedure whereby the men strip for the bath without removing their ten-pound leg-fetters is an extraordinary tour de force, compared by Turgenev to passages from Dante`s Inferno. Terror and resignation - the rampages of a psychopath, the brief serene interlude of Christmas Day - are evoked by Dostoevsky, writing several years after his release, with a strikingly uncharacteristic detachment. For this reason, House of the Dead is certainly the least Dostoevskian of his works, yet, paradoxically, it ranks among...
ISBN: 978-0-19-954051-8
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2011
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes are overshadowed by the event with which they close - the meeting of the great detective and Moriarty, the Napoleon of Crime. Their struggle, seemingly to the death, was to leave many readers desolate at the loss of Holmes, but was also to lead to his immortality as a literary figure. However illogical as a detective story, `The final Problem` has proved itself an unforgettable tale. The stories that precede it included two narratives from Holmes himself, on a mutiny at sea and a treasure hunt in a Sussex country house, as well as a meeting with his brilliant brother Mycroft, of whom Holmes says, `If the art of the detective began and ended in reasoning from any armchair, my brother would be the greatest...
ISBN: 978-0-19-955548-2
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Текст романа на английском языке. This is a rare and utterly engaging story. It tells the extraordinary tale of a geisha - summoning up a quarter century, from 1929 to the post-war year s of Japan's dramatic history, and opening a window onto a half-hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation.
ISBN: 0-09-949818-9
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: февраль 2007
Age has not diminished Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel-winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude. His most recent novel, Memories of My Melancholy Whores is slight in physical stature only because of the remarkable compression of style Marquez has achieved. It is his first novel in 10 years not because he has retired but because he has been apparently working on a screenplay of his epic One Hundred Years and fighting lymphatic cancer, which is bound to distract anyone.
ISBN: 978-0-307-27849-4
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: июль 2012
Families have secrets they hide even from It should have been an ordinary birth, the start of an ordinary happy family. But the night Dr David Henry delivers his wife`s twins is a night that will haunt five lives for ever. For though David`s son is a healthy boy, his daughter has Down`s syndrome. And, in a shocking act of betrayal whose consequences only time will reveal, he tells his wife their daughter died while secretly entrusting her care to a nurse. As grief quietly tears apart David`s family, so a little girl must make her own way in the world as best she can.
ISBN: 978-0-14-103014-2
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
In The Other Side of Midnight, they played the ultimate game of love, lust, and death. Now, in Memories of Midnight, the survivors meet to play one last Shadowed by tragedy and burdened by amnesia, a beautiful woman desperately tries to return to reality. She is Catherine Douglas, once again destined to challenge the cruel, charismatic power of Constantin Demiris, the Greek shipping tycoon who murdered her husband. Now, in the glittering capitals and carefree playgrounds of postwar Europe, Demiris sets his deadly sights on Catherine-and the single, treacherous secret whose shattering truth is known to her alone.
ISBN: 0-446-35467-8
Издательство:
Warner Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
When a spike in CIA intelligence suggests a major terrorist attack planned for Memorial Day, the president orders Mitch Rapp, his top counterterrorism operative, to pull out all the stops. Rapp heads for Afghanistan where he leads a secret Special Forces unit on a daring commando raid across the border into Northern Pakistan. Their target: an al-Qaeda stronghold. Within a subterranean room, they discover a treasure trove of maps, computers, files and bills of lading for multiple freighters heading to US ports - all pointing to plans for a catastrophic attack on Washington DC. Information is quickly relayed back to CIA headquarters, and a nuclear emergency search team scrambles to the scene. In a few hours, the freighters have been...
This stunning novel begins on a winter night in 1964, when a blizzard forces Dr. David Henry to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy, but the doctor immediately recognizes that his daughter has Down syndrome. For motives he tells himself are good, he makes a split-second decision that will haunt all their lives forever. He asks his nurse, Caroline, to take the baby away to an institution. Instead, she disappears into another city to raise the child as her own. Compulsively readable and deeply moving, The Memory Keeper`s Daughter is a brilliantly crafted story of parallel lives, familial secrets, and the redemptive power of love.
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. This book is an autobiography of Sir Doyle, describing different aspects of his professional life as an adventurer, doctor, sportsman, box fan, and writer. It also describes most of his adventures and relationship with many famous figures like Kipling, Arthur Balfour, and Oscar Wilde.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07200-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018
Dying is easy. Coming back to life is hard. At least that`s what Miles Vorkosigan thinks and he should know, having done both once already. Thanks to his quick-thinking staff and the specialist who revived him, his first death won`t be his last. But his next one might be, a realization he finds profoundly unsettling. Even after he returns to military duty, his late death seems to be having a greater effect than he`s willing to admit. Unfortunately, his weakness reveals itself to the world at large at just the wrong time and in just the wrong way, and Miles is summoned home to face Barrayaran security chief Simon lllyan. But when things begin to go subtly wrong in Imperial Security itself, "Who shall guard the guardians?" becomes a...
The #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Survivor in Death has Lieutenant Eve Dallas walking a tightrope between her professional duties and her private demons. Eve Dallas is one tough cop. She`s got no problem dealing with a holiday revele in a red suit who plunges thirty-seven stories and gives new meaning to the term "sidewalk Santa." But when she gets back to the station and Trudy Lombard shows up, it`s all Eve can do to hold it together. Instantly, she`s thrown back into the past, to te days when she was a vulnerable, traumatized girl-trapped in foster care with the twisted woman who now sits in front of her, smiling. Trudy claims she just wanted to see how Eve was doing. But Eve`s husband, Roarke, suspects otherwise-and hi...
ISBN: 978-0-425-21073-4
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 2011
