Colonel Quaritch, V.C

Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, tells a powerful tale of poverty and undying hope in his moving novel No One Writes to the Colonel • 'The Colonel took the top off the coffee can and saw that there was only one spoonful left' • Fridays are different. Every other day of the week, the Colonel and his ailing wife fight a constant battle against poverty and monotony, scraping together the dregs of their savings for the food and medicine that keeps them alive. But on Fridays the postman comes - and that sets a fleeting wave of hope rushing through the Colonel's ageing heart • For fifteen years he's watched the mail launch come into harbour, hoping he'll be handed an envelope containing the army pension promised to him all those years ago

An old man arrives at the offices of the lawyer Derville, claiming to be Colonel Chabert, a hero of the Napoleonic Wars who was left for dead on the battlefield, but in fact managed to survive under a pile of corpses before spending years as a recovering amnesiac. Having returned to Paris and discovered that his wife has married an aristocrat who has liquidated all his assets, Chabert enlists the help of Derville to recover both his name and his fortune • Part of Balzac’s La Comedie humaine cycle, Colonel Chabert is a poignant tale about the pursuit of justice, as well as a portrait of France’s transition from the Napoleonic Empire to the Restoration. Inspired by actual events, the novella has captured the imagination of generations of readers and has been adapted for the stage and screen numerous times

Пол: Женский • Цвет: Синий • Материал: 47% полиэстер, 43% шерсть, 10% акрил • Colonel Jacket - куртка из смешанного материала с шерстью. Полоски, прорезные карманы по бокам, нашивка на груди. Рост модели 180 см, размер S. Материал: 47% полиэстер, 43% шерсть, 6% акрил, 4% искусственная нить

Discover Kingsley Amis's classic James Bond tie-in. First published in 1968, four years after Ian Fleming's death, this was the first Bond 'continuation' novel. Catch up on this new take on Bond before the release of No Time to Die • 'A man in my line of business shouldn't work to a timetable' • Lunch at Scott's, a quiet game of golf, a routine social call on his chief M - James Bond's life has begun to fall into a pattern that threatens complacency...until the sunny afternoon when M is kidnapped and his house staff savagely murdered. The action ricochets across the globe to a volcanic Greek island where, stripped of all professional aids, Bond must avert a world-menacing conspiracy and face unarmed the monstrous devices of the glacial, merciless Colonel Sun

Les morts ne devraient jamais resurgir du neant. Apres avoir aide Napoleon a conquerir l'Egypte et l'Europe, le colonel Chabert est porte disparu a la bataille d'Eylau, enseveli sous la neige et un monceau de cadavres. Dix ans plus tard, ce revenant n'est plus qu'un miserable fantome, un dechu de la societe. Chasse de partout, humilie, renie par sa femme, comment pourrait-il retrouver sa place dans la France de la Restauration qui l'assassine une seconde fois ? Sa reapparition gene trop de monde • Tout conspire a lui refuser sa dignite et son rang. La trahison et l'infamie entrainent le heros vaincu vers l'hospice et la folie. Le destin de ce soldat de l'Empire devient, par le genie de Balzac, une tragedie de tous les temps

Предлагаем вниманию читателей два произведения великого французского писателя Оноре де Бальзака «Полковник Шабер» и «Красная гостиница» • Книга адресована студентам филологических факультетов, учащимся старших классов гимназий и школ с углубленным изучением французского языка, а также всем любителям литературы, владеющим французским языком

Платформа: Windows 10, PC, • Тип издания: расширенное, • Язык: русский, • Возрастное ограничение: 6+, • Дата релиза: 06.06.2016, • Жанр: Стратегия

Enfant trouvé, fasciné par la carrière des armes, Hyacinthe dit Chabert s'est illustré aux premiers rangs de la Grande Armée. Laissé pour mort à Eylau, puis miraculeusement sauvé, il tentera quelques années plus tard de retrouver sa place dans une France bourgeoise qui veut oublier ses héros, auprès d'une femme qui lui doit tout, qui l-a dépouillé et qui le rejette • Nul destin, peut-être, n'éclaire mieux que le sien l'envers de la «comédie humaine», dans cette tragédie domestique doublée d'un drame social où le sublime côtoie constamment le sordide • Nous n'oublierons jamais l'entrée pitoyable de Chabert à l'étude Derville éclairée au gaz le matin, avec le déjeuner, réchauffé sur la cheminée, des clercs, des clercs rieurs, insolents et clabaudeurs, Chabert avec ses rides blanches, son vieux carrick, Chabert méprisé, aliéné de cette patrie et de cette femme qu'il continue à aimer, dénoncé de cette société où, bien qu'enfant trouvé, il s'était, si difficilement, fait un nom… Chabert a sa place dans toutes les mémoires, à côté du cousin Pons et du père Goriot, et sur le même rang

An impressive debut from an exciting new Scottish voice – a stunning novel about history, identity and redemption. A no. 2 best-seller in Scotland • It is Spring 1997 and Hugh Hardie needs a ghost for his Tours of Old Edinburgh. Andrew Carlin is the perfect candidate. So, with cape, stick and a plastic rat, Carlin is paid to pretend to be the spirit of Colonel Weir and to scare the tourists. But who is Colonel Weir, executed for witchcraft in 1670 • In his research, Carlin is drawn into the past, in particular to James Mitchel, the fanatic and co-congregationist of Weir’s, who was tried in 1676 for the attempted assassination of the Archbishop of St Andrews, James Sharp • Through the story of two moments in history, ‘The Fanatic’ is an extraordinary history of Scotland

The peaceful slumber of the Worcester village of Rudge-in-the-Vale is about to be rudely disrupted. First there's a bitter feud between peppery Colonel Wyvern and the Squire of Rudge Hall, rich but miserly Lester Carmody. Second, that arch-villain Chimp Twist has opened a health farm - and he and Soapy and Dolly Molloy are planning a fake burglary so Lester can diddle his insurance company. After the knockout drops are served, things get a little complicated. But will Lester's nephew John win over his true love, Colonel Wyvern's daughter Pat, and restore tranquillity to the idyll? It's a close-run thing