Macmillan Songs of Innocence and of Experience Blake William

Эдгар Аллан По - американский писатель-романтик, критик и поэт, положивший начало современному детективу и жанру психологической прозы • В этом сборнике произведений собраны одни из его самых захватывающих рассказов. Они варьируются от поэтических до таинственных и мрачно-комических, но все они обладают гением гротеска, который определяет творчество Эдгара По • Книга на английском языке • This collection of Poe's work contains some of the most exciting and haunting stories ever written. They range from the poetic to the mysterious to the darkly comic, yet all possess the genius for the grotesque that defines Poe's writing. They are peopled with neurotics and social outcasts, obsessed with nameless terrors or preoccupied with seemingly unsolvable mysteries

Welcome to Castle Deverill, and the incredible sweeping story of love and family from bestselling author Santa Montefiore • Their lives were mapped out ahead of them. But love and war will change everything… • Castle Deverill, nestled in the rolling Irish hills, is home to three very different women: flame-haired Kitty Deverill, her best friend and daughter of the castle’s cook, Bridie Doyle, and her flamboyant English cousin, Celia Deverill • When war breaks out, their lives will change forever • Wrenched apart by betrayal and swept to different parts of the globe, their friendship will be tested a thousand times over. But one bond will keep them together forever: their fierce and unwavering longing for Castle Deverill and all the memories contained within it

Серия книг «Зарубежная классика — читай в оригинале» — это бессмертные произведения великих мастеров пера, написанные ими на их родном языке и наречии. Книги из этой серии помогут читателю углубленно изучать иностранные языки, обогатят его внутренний мир и по-новому откроют произведения известных классиков

With God’s Little Book of Hope, words of refreshment and encouragement are always at hand, and they will bring renewed inspiration and vigour to our daily lives • ‘What a caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly.’ • When times are hard we struggle to find purpose and meaning, and we need reassurance. This is when hope is most valuable, yet can seem so hard to find • There are people dying with no hope and, perhaps even worse, people living with no hope … and yet in the midst of such a seemingly dark and gloomy outlook, there is a ray of light. We can experience life and be optimistic of a bright future and a hopeful tomorrow. It is God’s desire that we live life abundantly, but how can we do this? • Open this little book at any page, and the answers will be provided, enabling you to experience a life worth living

After nearly three decades reporting conflict from all over the world for the BBC, Fergal Keane has gone home to Ireland to tell a story that lies at the root of his fascination with war. It is a family story of war and love, and how the ghosts of the past return to shape the present • Wounds is a powerful memoir about Irish people who found themselves caught up in the revolution that followed the 1916 Rising, and in the pitiless violence of civil war in north Kerry after the British left in 1922 • It is the story of Keane’s grandmother Hannah Purtill, her brother Mick and his friend Con Brosnan, and how they and their neighbours took up guns to fight the British Empire and create an independent Ireland. And it is the story of another Irishman, Tobias O’Sullivan, who fought against them as a policeman because he believed it was his duty to uphold the law of his country

Чарльз Диккенс был одним из великих летописцев лондонской жизни. От красочного хаоса танцев и пивных до скудной обстановки ломбарда - он с необычайным блеском запечатлел грязь и славу английской столицы • Сироты и нищие, лорд-мэры и убийцы, актеры, преступники, таксисты и проститутки - все они встают плечом к плечу в замечательном сборнике "Сцены из Лондонской жизни" • Книга на английском языке • Charles Dickens was one of the great chroniclers of London life. From the colourful chaos of dances and gin-shops to the sparse destitution of the pawnshop and the penitentiary, he captured the grime and the glory of the English capital with singular brilliance • Orphans and beggars, lord mayors and murderers, actors, criminals, cab drivers and prostitutes; all rub shoulders in this wonderful selection from Sketches by Boz