Random House

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2008

Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway`s magnificent fable is the story of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. It was The Old Man and the Sea that won for Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature. Here, in a perfectly crafted story, is unique and timeless vision of the beauty and grief of man`s challenge to the elements in which he lives.

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2020

Not quite novel or novella, McEwan`s masterful 13th work of fiction most resembles a five-part classical drama rendered in prose. It opens on the anxious Dorset Coast wedding suite dinner of Edward Mayhew and the former Florence Ponting, married in the summer of 1963 at 23 and 22 respectively; the looming dramatic crisis is the marriage`s impending consummation, or lack of it. Edward is a rough-hewn but sweet student of history, son of an Oxfordshire primary school headmaster and a mother who was brain damaged in an accident when Edward was five. Florence, daughter of a businessman and (a rarity then) a female Oxford philosophy professor, is intense but warm and has founded a string quartet. Their fears about sex and their inability to...

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011

In a flat near Reykjavik city centre, a young man lies dead in a pool of blood. There is no sign of a break-in: the only clues are a woman`s purple shawl, found under the bed in the next room, and a vial of prescription drugs in the victim`s pocket. With Detective Erlendur away in a remote part of Iceland, Detective Elinborg, who is already struggling to juggle family life and the relentless demands of her job, is assigned the case. Her investigation into the murdered man`s past soon uncovers a squalid tale of double lives, drug dealers and the unsolved disappearance of a young girl many years before. From its explosive opening, Outrage leads down a trail of hidden violence, psychological brutality and of wrongs that will never be fully...

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2019

Someone is awake early on the farm. Do you know who? He has lots of fluffy feathers and goes cock-a-doodle-doo!It`s a beautiful morning on the farm - time to wake up! Help Cockerel find his farmyard friends hiding under the flaps, and watch them pop up from the page!Children will delight in the collage-like illustrations of their favourite farmyard animals, by renowned artist Jonny Lambert, and will love joining in with the story as they visit characters one by one. The sturdy board-book format is perfect for little hands, and fun pop-ups under flaps will entertain children again and again.

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2023

Tiana s big dreams are put on hold when she is transformed into a frog. Discover how she finds love and learns all about what is truly important in the Little Golden Book retelling of Disney s new animated feature film, "The Princess and the Frog." Full color.

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2009

Saturday, February 15, 2003. Henry Perowne is a contented man - a successful neurosurgeon, the devoted husband of Rosalind and proud father of two grown-up children. Unusually, he wakes before dawn, drawn to the window and filled with a growing unease. As he looks out at the night sky he is troubled by the state of the world - the impending war against Iraq, a gathering pessimism since 9/11, and a fear that his city and his happy family life are under threat. Later, as Perowne makes his way through London streets filled with hundreds of thousands of anti-war protestors, a minor car accident brings him into a confrontation with Baxter, a fidgety, aggressive young man, on the edge of violence. To Perowne`s professional eye, there appears...

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: август 2011

One of the most powerful monarchs in British history, Henry VIII ruled England in unprecedented splendour. In this remarkable composite biography, Alison Weir brings Henry`s six wives vividly to life, revealing each as a distinct and compelling personality in her own right. Drawing upon the rich fund of documentary material from the Tudor period, The Six Wives of Henry VIII shows us a court where personal needs frequently influenced public events and where a life of gorgeously ritualised pleasure was shot through with ambition, treason and violence.

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: апрель 2012

Prisoner of war, optometrist, time-traveller - these are the life roles of Billy Pilgrim, hero of this miraculously moving, bitter and funny story of innocence faced with apocalypse. "Slaughterhouse 5" is one of the world`s great anti-war books. Centring on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden in the Second World War, Billy Pilgrim`s odyssey through time reflects the journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know.

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: апрель 2004

Find out what happens when an evil fairy places a spell on a baby princess in the Walt Disney classic, "Sleeping Beauty." Full color.

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2004

Meet the Bedwyns--six brothers and sisters--men and women of passion and privilege, daring and sensuality. Enter their dazzling world of high society and breathtaking seduction...where each will seek love, fight temptation, and court scandal...and where Morgan Bedwyn, the willful youngest daughter, discovers that true love is a temptation no woman can--or should--resist. Young. Ravishing. Exquisitely marriageable. From the moment he spies Lady Morgan Bedwyn across the glittering ballroom, Gervase Ashford, Earl of Rosthorn, knows he has found the perfect instrument of his revenge. But wedlock is not on the mind of the continent s most notorious rake. Nor is it of interest to the fiercely independent Lady Morgan herself...until one night...

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: декабрь 2003

After fleeing from her evil stepmother, Snow White seeks refuge with seven dwarfs.

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2003

Men and women of passion and action live, fight, love and die in scenes of dramatic intensity. From haunting tragedy on the snow-capped peak of Kilimanjaro to brutal sensationalism in the bullring; from rural America with its deceptive calm to the heart of war-ravaged Europe, each of the stories in this classic collection is a feat of imagination, and a masterpiece of description. The Snows of Kilimanjaro is one of the best known and loved collections of stories by one of the greatest literary novelists of the twentieth century.

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2020

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2011

As heard on Radio 4 - the classic dark and hilarious take on mankind`s final judgment, from bestselling authors Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.`Armageddon only happens once, you know. They don`t let you go around again until you get it right` People have been predicting the end of the world almost from its very beginning, so it`s only natural to be skeptical when a new date is set for Judgement Day. But what if, for once, the predictions are right, and the apocalypse really is due to arrive next Saturday, just after tea? You could spend the time left drowning your sorrows, giving away all your possessions in preparation for the rapture, or laughing it off as (hopefully) just another hoax.Or you could just try to do something about it.

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2011

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a murder mystery novel like no other.The detective, and narrator, is Christopher Boone. Christopher is fifteen and has Asperger`s Syndrome. He knows a very great deal about maths and very little about human beings. He loves lists, patterns and the truth. He hates the colours yellow and brown and being touched. He has never gone further than the end of the road on his own, but when he finds a neighbour`s dog murdered he sets out on a terrifying journey which will turn his whole world upside down."Любопытный случай с собакой в ночное время" - это детективный роман об убийстве, не похожий ни на один...

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: август 2023

For this new edition of The Writer`s Tale, Russell T. Davies and Benjamin Cook expand their in-depth discussion of the creative life of Doctor Who to cover Russell`s final year as Head Writer and Executive Producer of the show, as well as his work behind the increasingly successful Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures spin-offs. Candid and witty insights abound throughout two years` worth of correspondence, covering David Tennant`s last episodes as the Doctor and the legacy that Russell and David leave behind as a new era of Doctor Who begins. With over 300 pages of new material, and taking in events from the entire five years since the show`s return in 2005, The Writer`s Tale: The Final Chapter is the most comprehensive - and...

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: февраль 2010

Julia Lambert is in her prime, the greatest actress in England. On stage she is a true professional, in full possession of her emotions. Off stage, however, she is bored with her husband, less disciplined about her behaviour. She is at first amused by the attentions of a shy but ambitious young fan, then thrilled by his persistence - and at last wildly but dangerously in love Although Maugham is most celebrated as a novelist and short-story writer, it was as a playwright that he first knew success. Theatre is both a tribute to a world from which he had retired and a persuasive testimony to his enthusiasm for drama and the stage.

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2001

A lawyer`s advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of this enchanting classic - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the thirties. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina of one man`s struggle for justice. But the weight of history will only tolerate so Формат: 11 см x 17,5 см.

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

This is the first novel by the author of "Gravity`s Rainbow", and a profoundly impressive and original work in its own right. The search for the mysterious V ranges from New York to Cairo to Alexandria to Malta. Apart from its strange heroine, the book`s characters include sailors, spies, priests, philosophers, bums and bawds.

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004

In this novel, Sharpe turns his attention to a very minor public school, taking hilarious pot-shots at the public school system. The humorous and wild incidents include hoaxes, chases, car crashes, shootings and general mayhem.

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2019

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2023

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2019