Автор: Kipling Rudyard Название: The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories ISBN: 0199536473 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199536474 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 1944.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This collection brings together seventeen of Kipling`s early stories, written between 1885 and 1888, when Kipling was working as a journalist in India. Wry comedies of British officialdom alternate with glimpses into the harsh lives of the common soldiers and the Indian poor, revealing Kipling`s legendary powers of observation and, in `Baa Baa, Black Sheep` his own miserable childhood. From Mrs Hauksbee`s Simla drawing-room to Mulvaney`s cot in barracks, to the wild hills of Kafiristan, Kipling re-creates the India he knew in stories by turns ironic and sentimental, compassionate and bitter, displaying the brilliance that has captivated readersfor over a century.
Автор: Tolstoy Leo Название: How Much Land Does a Man Need? and Other Stories ISBN: 142094553X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781420945539 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2021.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Glenda Watters Название: My Life Takes Up Too Much of My Time ISBN: 1622881834 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781622881833 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 3049.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In a series of short, often funny lyrical pieces, author Glenda Watters explores small-town East Texas folklore and mythos, bringing them together with her own eventful upbringing to create many memorable vignettes with a flare of what it is like to live within the Piney Woods.
Автор: Kipling Rudyard Название: The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories ISBN: 1420962213 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781420962215 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2205.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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"The Man Who Would be King and Other Stories" is a classic collection of some of the most loved short stories of Rudyard Kipling, one of the most important and accomplished English authors of the twentieth century. The youngest winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature at age 42 in 1907, Kipling, who was born in India in 1865, captured in his writing the British Empire in all of its glory and contradiction in unparalleled detail and nuance. Contained here in this volume are some of his most enduring and fascinating short stories, such as the titular "The Man Who Would be King", a story of two young British adventurers who believe they can talk and intimidate their way into being kings of a small country near Afghanistan. It is a fascinating and brutal tale of greed, imperialism, arrogance, and desperation. Also included is the haunting ghost story "The Phantom 'Rickshaw", where a young man is driven mad by the ghost of the young lady he once spurned, and the dark and heartbreaking "Baa Baa, Black Sheep", a story of an unwanted young ward who is driven to desperate acts by his cruel and heartless aunt. Together this collection includes seventeen of Kipling's best short stories. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.
Описание: Table of Contents: - Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951) was an English short story writer and novelist, one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre. Blackwood wrote a number of horror stories. His most work seeks less to frighten than to induce a sense of awe. Blackwood's best known stories are "The Willows" and "The Wendigo". - Contents: - The Willows - The Insanity of Jones - Ancient Sorceries - The Man Who Found Out - The Wendigo - The Glamour of the Snow - The Man Whom the Trees Loved - Sand
Автор: Hamilton, Henrietta Название: Man who wasn`t there ISBN: 191309958X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781913099589 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2757.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: People who get mixed up in murder cases must expect to be bothered. And so it is for sleuths Sally and Johnny Heldar. It seems cousin Tim`s fiancee, Prue, has reneged on their engagement after becoming a suspect in the murder of her unlikeable employer. But will they be able to help Prue... or is she more wrapped up in the case than Tim realised?
Автор: Chesterton, G. K. Название: Man who was thursday ISBN: 1595970010 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781595970015 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 1786.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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When a book of unexplainable occurences brings Petra and Calder together, strange things start to happen: Seemingly unrelated events connect; an eccentric old woman seeks their company; an invaluable Vermeer painting disappears. Before they know it, the two find themselves at the center of an international art scandal, where no one is spared from suspicion. As Petra and Calder are drawn clue by clue into a mysterious labyrinth, they must draw on their powers of intuition, their problem solving skills, and their knowledge of Vermeer. Can they decipher a crime that has stumped even the FBI?
Название: Very Much Alive: Stories of Resilience ISBN: 1777086523 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781777086527 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 3104.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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The stories you will find in this book do not contain utopias or cast a light back on a better or happier time. They don't tell stories of a world where nothing bad happens. As you'll read, it is the small acts of resiliency that give humans the courage to face their fears, and ultimately, to change.
Автор: Hungerford Brian Название: She Said She Knew What Side of the Family That Came from ISBN: 1760417513 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781760417512 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 3219.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Brian Hungerford is an award winning author and one of the World's most experienced storytellers, in the oral tradition. In the 1950s he sold over 40 radio plays and dramatised documentaries, along with many short stories. Later he won the top award for an audio-visual program on Bangladesh. The competition involving 140 countries was organised by the UN in New York. Born in Australia in 1935, he was brought up by his grandmother, a formidable woman, who had an unsatisfiable passion for travel. In 1940, Brian and his grandmother left Sydney and began a farming life in Candelo. Candelo later became the setting and mainspring of many stories. In 1959, with a record of more than 25 radio plays and a handful of published short stories, he left his grandmother, back in Sydney with an aunt, and sailed to Spain. He stayed for over a year but couldn't resist the urge to move and flew to London and work with the World Service of the BBC. Three years later, he was seconded to FAO (The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN) and spent the next 15 years working in Rome and 13 Third-World countries. His first country was Cuba, a country and its people he will never forget. By 1985 he was settled in Canberra living and partly living, scribbling stories, plays and, so far, three novels. He is popular on the storytelling circuit and travels up and down the east coast of Australia with a repertoire of 300 odd stories. In suburban Canberra, his neighbours also know him as a player of assorted bagpipes.
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