The ivied walls of "Blandings Castle" have seldom glowed as sunnily as in these wonderful stories - but there are snakes in the rolling parklanc ready to nip Clarence, the absent-minded Ninth Earl of Emsworth, when he least expects it. For a start the Empress of Blandings, in the running for her first prize in the Fat Pigs Class at the Shropshire Agricultural Show, is off her food and can only be coaxed back to the trough by a call in her own language. Then there is the feud with Head Gardener McAllister, aided by Clarence`s sister, the terrifying Lady Constance, and the prospect of the summer fete - twin problems solved by the arrival of a delightfully rebellious little girl from London. But first of all there is the vexed matter of the...
ISBN: 978-0-09-951383-4
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Aldous Huxley`s Brave New World is one of the great works of science fiction. It is the year After Ford 632 in the New World. People are born and live by scientific methods. There is worldwide happiness and order. Then John comes from the Savage Reservation to the New World and with him he brings strong emotions love, hate, anger, fear. Suddenly, danger threatens the New World. Retold by H. A. Cartledge.
ISBN: 978-1-4058-8258-3
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
John Flory, a white timber merchant in 1920s Burma, has unorthodox views. To him, the Burmese culture and people should be appreciated as things of beauty and worth. To the other white members of the European club of which he is member, these views are dangerous, undermining the foundation of British colonial rule.Flory is drawn into a deadly rivalry when he befriends Veraswami, an Indian doctor, who is under the scrutiny of a corrupt magistrate. Flory defies the convention of imperial bigotry in Burma by offering to help his new friend, but the consequences to him, and Elizabeth Lackersteen, the woman he loves, will be explosive.Based on his experiences as a policeman in Burma, Burmese Days was Orwell`s first novel, and sparked...
These marvellous stories introduce us to Jeeves, whose first ever duty is to cure Bertie`s raging hangover ("If you would drink this, it is a little preparation of my own invention. It is the Worcester Sauce that gives it its colour. The raw egg makes it nutritious. The red pepper gives it its bite. Gentlemen have told me they have found it extremely invigorating after a late evening"). And from that moment, one of the funniest, sharpest and most touching partnerships in English literature never looks Формат издания: 13 см х 19,5 см.
ISBN: 978-0-09-951369-8
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
История маленького сонного городка на юге Америки, поведанная маленькой девочкой. История ее брата Джима, друга Дилла и ее отца - честного, принципиального адвоката Аттикуса Финча, одного из последних и лучших представителей старой "южной аристократии". История судебного процесса по делу чернокожего парня, обвиненного в насилии над белой девушкой. Но прежде всего - история переломной эпохи, когда...
ISBN: 9785428398564
Производитель:
Аудиокнига
Дата выхода: август 2014
The Oldest Member knows everything that has ever happened on the golf course - and a great deal more besides. Take the story of Cuthbert, for instance. He`s helplessly in love with Adeline, but what use are his holes-in-one when she`s in thrall to Culture and prefers rising young writers to winners of the French Open? But enter a Great Russian Novelist with a strange passion, and Cuthbert`s prospects are transformed. Then look at what happens to young Mitchell Holmes, who misses short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows. His career seems on the skids - but can golf redeem it? The kindly but shrewd gaze of the Oldest Member picks out some of the funniest stories Wodehouse ever wrote.
ISBN: 978-0-09-951386-5
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
A Jeeves and Wooster novelWhen Bertie Wooster goes to Totleigh Towers to pour oil on the troubled waters of a lovers` breach between Madeline Bassett and Gussie Fink-Nottle, he isn-t expecting to see Aunt Dahlia there - nor to be instructed by her to steal some silver. But purloining the antique cow creamer from under the baleful nose of Sir Watkyn Bassett is the least of Bertie-s tasks. He has to restore true love to both Madeline and Gussie and to the Revd Stinker Pinker and Stiffy Byng - and confound the insane ambitions of would-be Dictator Roderick Spode and his Black Shorts. It-s a situation that only Jeeves can unravel. Формат: 13 см x 20 cм.
ISBN: 978-0-09-951375-9
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Lady Maud, the spirited young daughter of the Earl of Marshmoreton, is confined to her home, Belpher Castle in Hampshire, under aunt`s orders because of an unfortunate infatuation. Enter our hero, George Bevan, an American who writes songs for musicals and is so smitten with Maud that he descends on Hampshire`s rolling acres to see off his rival and claim her heart. Meanwhile, in the great Wodehousian tradition, the Earl of Marshmoreton just wants a quiet life pottering in his garden, supported by his portly butler Keggs and free from the demands of his bossy sister and his silly-ass son. In a sunny story which involves chorus-girls, the theatre and a ball at the castle during a two-week house-party, Wodehouse deftly unties all the knots...
ISBN: 978-0-09-951413-8
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
