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Щеголеватый, подкручивающий усы маленький бельгиец с яйцевидной головой, странными манерами и чрезмерным уважением к собственным "серым клеточкам" раскрыл несколько самых загадочных преступлений века. Однако, несмотря на то, что Пуаро знаком миллионам людей, сам он оставался загадкой – до сих пор • С его первого появления в 1920 году до последнего в 1975 году, от гостиных загородного дома до опиумных притонов в Лаймхаусе, от Мэйфэра до Средиземноморья, Энн Харт преследует легендарного сыщика, раскрывая тайны, которые его окружают. Просмотрев 33 романа и 56 коротких рассказов, она исследует его происхождение, вкусы, взаимоотношения и особенности, раскрывая характер столь же увлекательный, как и сами книги • Это новое издание было обновлено, чтобы включить новую информацию о датах первоначальных публикаций, сериалах в газетах и журналах, а также обновленные списки фильмов, теле-, радио- и сценических адаптаций

From one of our most beloved and bestselling authors, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the 1950s • Born in 1951 in the middle of the United States, Des Moines, Iowa, Bill Bryson is perfectly positioned to mine his memories of a totally all-American childhood for 24 carat memoir gold. Like millions of his generation, Bryson grew up with a rich fantasy life as a superhero. In his case, he ran around the house wearing a jersey with a thunderbolt on it and a towel round his neck that served as his cape, leaping tall buildings in a single bound and vanquishing evildoers (in his head) as The Thunderbolt Kid • Using his childhood fantasy life as a springboard, Bill Bryson recreates the life of his family in the 1950s in all its transcendent normality

В интернет-магазине shop.buka.ru вы можете купить цифровую версию игры The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante с активацией в сервисе Steam • The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante – это нарративная ролевая игра на страницах дневника главного героя. Вас ждет история о безжалостном мире, жестоко карающем за нарушение его законов, и о человеке, бросившем ему вызов

From the very first book publication in 1920 to the upcoming film release of Death on the Nile, this investigation into Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot celebrates a century of probably the world’s favourite fictional detective • This book tells his story decade-by-decade, exploring his appearances not only in the original novels, short stories and plays but also across stage, screen and radio productions. The hardback edition includes more than 400 illustrations • Poirot has had near-permanent presence in the public eye ever since the 1920 publication of The Mysterious Affair at Styles. From character development, publication history and private discussion concerning the original stories themselves, to early forays on to the stage and screen, the story of Poirot is as fascinating as it is enduring

The extraordinary story of the UK’s most gruelling and spectacularly beautiful islands. Tom Steel’s acclaimed portrait of the St Kildan’s lives is now updated in this reissued edition • Situated at the westernmost point of the United Kingdom, the spectacularly beautiful but utterly bleak island of St Kilda is familiar to virtually nobody. A lonely archipelago off the coast of Scotland, it is hard to believe that for over two thousand years, men and women lived here, cut off from the rest of the world • With a population never exceeding two hundred in its history, the St Kildans were fiercely self-sufficient. An intensely religious people, they climbed cliffs from childhood and caught birds for food. Their sense of community was unparalleled and isolation enveloped their day-to-day existence

Начиная с самой первой публикации книги в 1920 году и заканчивая недавним выходом фильма "Смерть на Ниле", это расследование Эркюля Пуаро Агаты Кристи посвящено столетию, вероятно, самого любимого в мире вымышленного детектива • Эта книга рассказывает его историю десятилетие за десятилетием, исследуя его появления не только в оригинальных романах, рассказах и пьесах, но и в постановках на сцене, экране и радио • Пуаро почти постоянно находился в поле зрения общественности с момента публикации в 1920 году "Таинственного дела в Стайлзе". Начиная с развития персонажа, истории публикаций и частных обсуждений самих оригинальных историй и заканчивая ранними выходами на сцену и экран, история Пуаро столь же увлекательна, сколь и долговечна • Книга на английском языке

Delve into this impressive reference book on the life and works of Michelangelo Buonarroti - sculptor, painter, architect and poet • Including a fascinating exploration of the artist's life, his role in the Italian Renaissance and the influence he had on European art • Beautifully illustrated with 500 outstanding reproductions and photographs

Purporting to be an autobiography of the antihero Tristram Shandy, Laurence Sterne’s novel is a comic masterpiece of digression, egoism and sensationalism, as its hilarious asides, explanations and host of memorable secondary characters – such as Uncle Toby, Dr Slop, Parson Yorick and Widow Wadman – take centre stage, at the expense of the actual life events the book sets out to depict • A humorous compendium of European thought and literature – pastiching the likes of Locke and Bacon and referencing Pope, Swift, Cervantes and Rabelais – emerges amid the convoluted accounts of Tristram’s conception, misnaming and accidental circumcision by a sash window, in a shrewd narrative that examines the role and nature of language itself • A very ambitious editorial project which took our team more than a year to bring to perfection

'L-d! said my mother, what is all this story about? - A COCK and a BULL, said Yorick - And one of the best of its kind, I ever heard' • Laurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categorize it, with a rich metafictional narrative that might classify it as the first 'postmodern' novel. Part novel, part digression, its gloriously disordered narrative interweaves the birth and life of the unfortunate 'hero' Tristram Shandy, the eccentric philosophy of his father Walter, the amours and military obsessions of Uncle Toby, and a host of other characters, including Dr Slop, Corporal Trim and the parson Yorick. A joyful celebration of the endless possibilities of the art of fiction, Tristram Shandy is also a wry demonstration of its limitations

A spellbinding portrait of Queen Elizabeth's conjuror - the great philosopher, scientist and magician, Dr John Dee (1527-1608) and a history of Renaissance science that could well be the next 'Longitude' • John Dee was one of the most influential philosophers of the Elizabethan Age. A close confidant of Queen Elizabeth, he helped to introduce mathematics to England, promoted the idea of maths as the basis of science, anticipated the invention of the telescope, charted the New World, and created one of the most magnificent libraries in Europe. At the height of his fame, Dee was poised to become one of the greats of the Renaissance. Yet he died in poverty and obscurity - his crime was to dabble in magic • Based on Dee's secret diaries which record in fine detail his experiments with the occult, Woolley's bestselling book is a rich brew of Elizabethan court intrigue, science, intellectual exploration, discovery and misfortune

Sterne's utterly original novel - the meandering, maddening 'autobiography' of one of literature's oldest comic characters • Doomed to become the ‘sport of fortune’ by an interruption at the crucial moment of conception, Tristram Shandy’s life lurches from one mishap to another: his nose crushed by the doctor’s forceps during birth, christened with the wrong name, an unfortunate incident involving a slamming sash window… Discover the anti-autobiography of the hilarious Tristram Shandy

A fascinating biography of the Renaissance artist and inventor, and gallery of paintings and drawings