Пятница 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

Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic. The Mudfog Papers is his collection of sketches that describes the local politics of the fictional town of Mudfog. It also describes the delusions of its mayor Nicholas Tulrumble and his disastrous attempts at putting on a public show and the meetings of its Society for the Advancement of Everything. .

ISBN: 978-5-521-08031-1
Издательство: Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018

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 Mystery of Cloomber" is a suspenseful gothic novel that centers around mysterious general Heatherstone and his family. Every single year his paranoia rises around the autumn time. Only his new neighbor John Fothergill West is curious enough to uncover the secret of such unusual behavior. .

ISBN: 978-5-521-08076-2
Издательство: Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018

Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. The stories contained in this volume take rank with the most mature and romantic of his works. The charming love and adventure of the life that he depicts in remote places confirm the growing belief that he is among the greatest of living creative writers. The story of The Nigger of the Narcissus have started when a black sailor with tuberculosis boards the ship Narcissus. The shadow of death falls across the ship and the lingering gloom brings out both the best and the worst in the crew.

ISBN: 978-5-521-07647-5
Издательство: Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018

Jack London was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. This collection consists often great stories such as "The Madness of John Harned", "When the World Was Young", "The Benefit of the Doubt" and "The Night-Born". .

ISBN: 978-5-521-08121-9
Издательство: Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018

James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. The Oak Openings; or, The Bee Hunter focuses on the activities of professional honey-hunter Benjamin Boden, nicknamed "Ben Buzz". The novel is set in Kalamazoo, Michigan`s Oak Opening, a wooded prairie during the War of 1812.

ISBN: 978-5-521-06660-5
Издательство: Т8
Дата выхода: февраль 2018

Henry James (1843—1916) was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism. «The Outcry» is an effervescent comedy of money and manners. Breckenridge Bender, a very rich American with a distinct resemblance to J.P. Morgan, arrives in England with the purpose of acquiring some very great art; he is directed to Dedborough, the estate of the debt-ridden Lord Theign. But plutocrat and aristocrat come into unexpected conflict when a young connoisseur, out to establish his own reputation, declares a prize painting from the lord\'s collection to be in fact an even rarer, and pricier, work than had been thought.

ISBN: 978-5-521-07080-0
Издательство: Т8
Дата выхода: апрель 2018

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor, and are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. The Old Nurse\'s Stories II is a collection of three beautifully written and gripping tales, including Crowley Castle which is set in eighteenth-century England, featuring a love triangle of sorts.

ISBN: 978-5-521-07593-5
Издательство: Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018

Дата выхода: май 2008

Let`s face it: Managers hate conducting performance appraisal discussions. In "The Performance Appraisal Question and Answer Book", renowned performance appraisal expert Dick Grote answers more than 140 of the most common - and most difficult - questions about this powerful but misunderstood management technique. His guidance will help you and your organization use the appraisal process for the benefit of all involved.

ISBN: 9780814471517
Дата выхода: январь 2002

В сборник включены рассказы, очерки, статьи, письма и документы XIX-XXI веков, выражающие общественную потребность в таком уникальном явлении, как Пушкинский заповедник. Материалы двух веков, впервые объединенные в данном издании, являются памятниками нашей культуры. Современные статьи дают возможность понять смысл и пути создания пушкинских музеев сегодня. Это документальный рассказ не только о...

ISBN: 978-5-88503-958-1
Издательство: Диля
Дата выхода: июль 2010

Essential reference by designer of the most widely known Tarot deck contains a detailed description of each card in the popular 78-card Rider-Waite Tarot deck, along with regular and reversed meanings. 78 b/w plates of illustrations.

ISBN: 9780486442556
Издательство: Daedalus
Дата выхода: июнь 2005

Chandra Nalaar is the impulsive young fire mage whose exploration of the multiverse and the extent of her own volatile power draws the attention of an ancient faith that sees her as a herald of the apocalypse.

ISBN: 9780786955596
Дата выхода: май 2010

“Портрет Дориана Грея” - лучшее прозаическое произведение блестящего виртуоза слова и неподражаемого стилиста английской литературы Оскара Уайльда. В основе сюжета трагическая судьба художника и созданного им шедевра. Издание рекомендуется преподавателям и студентам языковых факультетов и вузов для использования в качестве пособия для домашнего чтения.

ISBN: 978-5-7974-0408-8
Издательство: Икар
Дата выхода: июль 2014

Все проблемы, страдания и боль порождаются нашим эгоистичным умом, цепляющимся за свое ложное "я". Вырваться из его плена можно только через абсолютное присутствие в Настоящем?- единственно реальном моменте жизни. Именно в Настоящем мы обретаем свою истинную суть, а также радость и понимание того, что целостность и совершенство есть не цель, а реальность, доступная нам уже сейчас.

ISBN: 978-5-906791-44-3
Издательство: София
Дата выхода: январь 2016

В книге представлен первый роман английской писательницы Шарлотты Бронте «Учитель». Произведение дано на языке оригинала.Знакомство с оригиналами творений классиков зарубежной литературы, науки, искусства поможет сегодняшним студентам составить более точное представление о неповторимой стилистике каждого автора, а также расширит словарный запас, знания об истории языка, фразеологии....

ISBN: 9785534058666
Издательство: Юрайт
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2017

Henry James (1843—1916) was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism. «The Portrait of a Lady» is the awesome story of a spirited young American woman, Isabel Archer. She inherits a large amount of money and subsequently becomes the victim of Machiavellian scheming by two American expatriates. This novel reflects James\'s continuing interest in the differences between the New World and the Old, often to the detriment of the former.

ISBN: 978-5-521-07071-8
Издательство: Т8
Дата выхода: апрель 2018

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 -1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most influential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. "The Purcell Papers I" is a collection of early works of the author, united by one vivid dark theme. All these stories are a prime example of Victorian Gothic art, which inspired a whole genre.

ISBN: 978-5-521-07116-6
Издательство: Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most influential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. "The Purcell Papers III" contains five gothic short stories like "Jim Sulivan`s Adventures in the Great Snow" and "The Quare Gander," recognized as a classic of Fantasy & Horror genres.

ISBN: 978-5-521-07118-0
Издательство: Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018

Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. The People of the Mist is a classic lost race fantasy novel. It is the tale of a British adventurer seeking wealth in the wilds of Africa, finding romance, and discovering a lost race and its monstrous god. In the novel Penniless Leonard Outram attempts to redress the undeserved loss of his family estates by seeking his fortune in Africa. In the course of his adventures he and his Zulu companion, Otter, save a young Portuguese woman, Juanna Rodd from slavery. Leonard and Juanna are plainly attracted to each other, but prone to bickering, and their romance is impeded by the watchful and jealous Soa.

ISBN: 978-5-521-07739-7
Издательство: Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018

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, The protagonist of the novel, "The Passionate Friends" is Stephen Stratton, who writes a long and deeply personal letter to his son, hoping that, as his son becomes a man, he can benefit from Stephen`s experience and wisdom. As Stephen sets down his life`s history, he tells the remarkable story of his former lover, Lady Mary. .

ISBN: 978-5-521-08236-0
Издательство: Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018

Роман "Тихий американец" (1955), на первый взгляд, посвящен вечной коллизии: на фоне трагических событий в Сайгоне развиваются отношения внутри любовного треугольника - английский журналист, его вьетнамская подруга и молодой американец. Однако за любовным конфликтом скрываются куда более масштабные вещи: и муки морального выбора главного героя, и размышления о ничтожной цене жизни человека, попавшего в...

ISBN: 978-5-907097-00-1
Издательство: Антология
Дата выхода: декабрь 2018

Kagan argues that hopes for a new peaceful international order after the end of the Cold War have proved wrong. He stresses that peoples of the liberal world need to choose whether they want to shape it or let others shape it for them.

ISBN: 9780307269232
Дата выхода: апрель 2008

David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and literary critic, one of the key writers of the early twentieth century, most famous for his criticism of rationalism and industrialization. Set in the Nottinghamshire, England, The Rainbow follows three generations of the Brangwens, a strong and energetic family, deeply attached to the land they own. The book focuses on the individual`s struggle against the confining rules and restrictions of social life.

ISBN: 978-5-521-07213-2
Издательство: Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018

David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and literary critic, one of the key writers of the early twentieth century, most famous for his criticism of rationalism and industrialization. Set in the Nottinghamshire, England, The Rainbow follows three generations of the Brangwens, a strong and energetic family, deeply attached to the land they own. The book focuses on the individual`s struggle against the confining rules and restrictions of social life.

ISBN: 978-5-521-07214-9
Издательство: Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018