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Джек Лондон, Jack London и др.
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.‘Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on…‘Set in the frozen forests of the Yukon Territory, Canada, during the Klondike Gold Rush of the 1890s, ‘White Fang’ tells the story of a young wolf-dog’s journey from the wild into human territory. As White Fang learns that civilisation is every bit as vicious and violent as nature – and that survival is only awarded to the fittest – we too see how instinct,...
| Автор | Джек Лондон, Jack London и др. |
"White Fang" is an adventure story of the great Northwestern Canadian frontier. It the type of story for which Jack London is most well known. White Fang, who is the son of Kiche and One Eye, is born in the wild but comes to live among man in an Indian camp as a cub. White Fang who is essentially a wild animal must learn to live among man as a domesticated animal. The novel deals with the theme of both a domesticated animal learning to live in the wild as well as a wild animal learning to...
| Автор | Jack London |
Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) was an American novelist, historian and editor, who has been recognized as one of the first American novelists and an early proponent of the Gothic romance genre. Brown's works are a combination of his own Romantic imagination and the Enlightenment ideals of reason and realism, and are often characterized by elements of the sensational and violent. His work also reflects an interest in the early feminist movement, and frequently draws on Enlightenment-era...
| Автор | Charles Brockden Brown |
Double trouble surprise! Julia hasn’t seen her husband Max for almost a year – but he’s just walked through the door looking as breathtaking as ever! Max has come to make things right with his beloved Julia. But he hasn’t bargained on meeting two surprise little twin girls…Now Max has two weeks to prove he can be a wonderful husband and father…Baby on Board From bump to baby and beyond…
| Автор | Caroline Anderson |
Will she succumb to the sheikh?Who dares trespass on Sheikh Zageo's palace on the exotic island of Zanzibar?Zageo demands that the intruder be brought before him! Emily Ross is appalled to find she's the sheikh's prisoner.To prove her innocence she needs Zageo's help.If the price is giving herself to him, then it's one she'll have to pay…
| Автор | Emma Darcy |
Charles Brockden Brown was an American novelist, historian, and editor, who has been recognized as one of the first American novelists and an early proponent of the Gothic romance genre. Brown’s works are a combination of his own Romantic imagination and Enlightenment ideals, and are often characterized by elements of the sensational and violent. His work also reflects an interest in the early feminist movement, and frequently draws on Enlightenment-era medical writings by authors like Erasmus...
| Автор | Charles Brockden Brown |
Elizabeth Gaskell's «Wives and Daughters» was originally published serially in «Cornhill Magazine» between August 1864 and January 1866. The work, which was left unfinished at the time of Gaskell's death in 1865, was completed by Frederick Greenwood. The novel is chiefly concerned with Molly Gibson, the only daughter of a widowed Doctor, who upon visiting the Hamleys of Hamley Hall finds a substitute for her mother in Mrs. Hamley. «Wives and Daughters» is a classic 19th century...
| Автор | Элизабет Гаскелл |
The sequel to «The Rainbow», D. H. Lawrence's «Women in Love» follows the continuing lives and loves of Gudrun and Ursula Brangwen. This is the story of two sisters, Ursula, a teacher, and Gudrun, an artist, living in the midlands of England during the early 20th century who meet two men who live nearby, Rupert Birkin and Gerald Crich, and soon get involved with them romantically. Controversial during its time, «Women in Love» is a tragic tale of love set against the backdrop of the First...
| Автор | Lawrence Lawrence |
A level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West. The wind is strong on the Yorkshire moors. There are few trees, and fewer houses, to block its path. There is one house, however, that does not hide from the wind. It stands out from the hill and challenges the wind to do its worst. The house is called Wuthering Heights. When Mr Earnshaw brings a strange, small, dark child back home to Wuthering heights, it seems he has opened his doors to...
| Автор | Эмили Бронте |
Do not mix business with pleasure!Infamous playboy and music producer Jake Sorenson never gives in to temptation at work – not even for sexy Caitlin Ryan.Caitlin’s determined to focus on her music, but she has never met a man as commanding as Jake, and their craving for one another soon builds to a crescendo. Now they’ve tasted rebellion perhaps the strictest rules might just be there to be broken…
| Автор | Maggie Cox |
Kate had learned certain lessons as Drake Daniels's lover: Lesson number one: the price of loving Drake was not to love him.Lesson number two: never give him what he expected.Discovering she was pregnant certainly fulfilled lesson number two. Drake had made it clear commitment and children were not on his menu. Now Kate must break her news. But when she sees Drake, passion kicks in, begging to be indulged again… just once!
| Автор | Susan Napier |
Since her divorce, cupcake queen Alysse Dresden prefers baking to boys…until a phone order from a sexy-voiced stranger melts her insides like butter.It isn’t until Alysse makes the delivery that she realises – there’s only been one man whose voice had such an effect: her mysterious, gorgeous ex-husband…
| Автор | Katherine Garbera |
"Wuthering Heights", the only novel that Emily Bronte wrote, is a classic of 19th century American literature. It is considered by many as one of the most important romantic novels ever written. Set in Northern England, Wuthering Heights is the story of Catherine Earnshaw and the love that she shares with Heathcliff. Catherine and Heathcliff are brought together as children when her father brings the young foundling home. The relationship between Catherine and Heathcliff is a tumultuous one...
| Автор | Эмили Бронте |
Венедикт Ерофеев – писатель и драматург, автор гениальной поэмы «Москва—Петушки» (1970) и пьесы «Вальпургиева ночь» (1985) – явление в русской литературе огромное и еще не до конца осмысленное. В краткой автобиографии своим «первым заслуживающим внимания сочинением» Ерофеев называет «Записки психопата» (1956-1958), начатые в семнадцатилетнем возрасте, «самое объемное и нелепое из написанного». Долгое время «Записки» не публиковались, в то время как в своих интервью Ерофеев снова и снова...
| Автор | Венедикт Ерофеев |
«Заводной апельсин» – литературный парадокс ХХ столетия. Продолжая футуристические традиции в литературе, экспериментируя с языком, на котором говорит рубежное поколение malltshipalltshikov и kisok «надсатых», Энтони Бёрджесс создает роман, признанный классикой современной литературы. Умный, жестокий, харизматичный антигерой Алекс, лидер уличной банды, проповедуя насилие как высокое искусство жизни, как род наслаждения, попадает в железные тиски новейшей государственной программы по...
| Автор | Энтони Бёрджесс |
The Sheikh wants a wife…Prince al Drac'ar al Karim, Sheikh of Dhurahn, has sworn to find a bride forhis brother – and who better than virginal Englishwoman Sadie Murray, who is jobless, friendless and alone? But Drax must make utterly sure that Sadie is as innocent as she seems. While he has her in his power she's his to command, and he'll test her wife-worthiness at every opportunity…
| Автор | Пенни Джордан |
Liam Jameson is a world-famous writer of paranormal thrillers. But fame has its price, and now Liam lives reclusively on a remote Scottish island. Then Rosa Chantry knocks on his door and throws his world upside down.His desire for her is strong, but his conviction that he cannot satisfy a woman is stronger. But Rosa is persistent, and so is Liam's need for her. She is determined to ease his fear that the past has robbed him of his power as a man…
| Автор | Anne Mather |
В книгу вошли три повести и рассказы о самых разных людях – о бизнесменах и алкоголиках, о врачах и бомжах, о священниках и самоубийцах. Главные герои пытаются найти ответы на вечные вопросы: чему посвятить себя в этой жизни? что лучше: самому служить или когда тебе служат? может ли земная любовь перерасти в небесную? как в обыденной жизни отличить друзей от врагов? как очистить своё зрение, чтобы ясно различать свет от тьмы? Эти рассказы и повести учат человека не сдаваться в самых...
| Автор | Дмитрий Савельев |
Таинственные обстоятельства приводят Санди – главного героя спектакля «Золотая цепь» – в необыкновенный дом, где он оказывается в центре событий, о которых будет вспоминать всю жизнь: "… парни испортили мне кожу на правой руке, выколов татуировку в виде трех слов – «я все знаю». Они высмеяли меня за то, что я читал книги, много книг и мог ответить на вопросы, которые никогда не приходили им в голову.
| Автор | Александр Грин |
Среди тинейджеров всегда находятся те, кто не желает быть «как все», хочет выделиться. Поэтому они надевают на себя цепи или бреют виски, катаются на скейтах или разрисовывают стены, слушают музыку, раздражающую родителей, – становятся участниками субкультур. О них эта книга.
| Автор | Владимир Козлов |
«Слово было в конце… И слово было матерное – «…». Как сразу меняется представление о мире!.. А вначале произошёл Большой Взрыв. Невероятно горячий огненный шар, температура которого достигала миллиардов градусов, если хотите знать, в какой-то момент взорвался и разбросал к чёртовой матери во всех направлениях потоки энергии и частиц материи, придав им колоссальное ускорение…»
| Автор | Виктор Мельников |
With his chocolate eyes sparkling above his surgical mask, Nurse Marni finds her first surgery with hot-shot surgeon Gaz is unforgettable!And when he whisks her off to the magical red desert sand dunes of Ablezia a sizzling kiss leaves her wanting more…But Marni’s about to learn a secret – her perfect date is a prince!
| Автор | Meredith Webber |
A money-grabbing beauty, that's all she was–and Jake D'Amato was determined to make Charlotte Summerville pay. His plan was simple: he'd take revenge in his bed!Actually, Charlie's intentions were purely innocent–just like her. But suddenly she found herself married to a man who wanted her but seemed to hate her…and now she was pregnant with his child!
| Автор | Jacqueline Baird |
Zara Kingston has gone to the desert city of Zaddara to confront the man she blames for her troubled past.But when, during a sandstorm, she's protected by a dark stranger, she finds that the desert holds hidden treasures. Zara soon realizes that the man she yearns for is Sheikh Shahin—the thief of her happiness!Shahin knows that Zara is a virgin—forbidden, no matter how strong his desire. But it's forbidden fruit that tastes the sweetest…
| Автор | Susan Stephens |