The Woman in Black Hill Susan Random House, Inc

"Женщина в каюте 10" - роман Рут Уэйр • Это должно было стать идеальным путешествием. Северное сияние. Роскошный пресс-релиз на круизном лайнере-бутике • Шанс для журналистки-путешественницы Ло Блэклок оправиться от травмирующего взлома, который поставил ее на грань срыва • Вот только все идет не так, как планировалось • Разбуженная ночью криками, Ло бросается к своему окну, чтобы увидеть тело, выброшенное за борт из соседней каюты. Но записи показывают, что никто никогда не регистрировался в этой каюте, и ни один пассажир с судна не пропал • Измученная и эмоциональная, Ло вынуждена признать тот факт, что, возможно, она совершила ошибку - либо это, либо она сейчас в ловушке на лодке с убийцей • Книга на английском языке • From the bestselling author of Richard and Judy pick In A Dark, Dark Wood comes Ruth Ware's next compulsive page-turner • 'A rollicking page-turner that reads like Agatha Christie got together with Paula Hawkins to crowdsource a really fun thriller' Stylist • This was meant to be the perfect trip

In love with the beautiful heiress Laura Fairlie, the impoverished art teacher Walter Hartright finds his romantic desires thwarted by her previous engagement to Sir Percival Glyde. But all is not as it seems with Sir Percival, as becomes clear when he arrives with his eccentric friend Count Fosco. The mystery and intrigue are further deepened by the ghostly appearances of a woman in white, apparently harbouring a secret that concerns Sir Percival’s past • A tale of love, madness, deceit and redemption, boasting sublime Gothic settings and pulse-quickening suspense, The Woman in White was the first best-selling Victorian sensation novel, sparking off a huge trend in the fiction of the time with its compulsive, fascinating narrative

The original 'sensation novel', The Woman in White opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter with a strange, solitary woman on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter becomes embroiled in the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival Glyde and his 'charming' friend Count Fosco, who has a taste for white mice, vanilla bonbons and poison. Pursuing questions of identity and insanity along the corridors of English country mansions and the madhouse, this is the first and most influential of the Victorian genre that combined Gothic horror with psychological realism

The Woman in the Purple Skirt is being watched. Someone is following her, always perched just out of sight, monitoring which buses she takes; what she eats; whom she speaks to. But this invisible observer isn’t a stalker – it’s much more complicated than that

Dazzlingly original, Kobo Abe's The Woman in the Dunes is one of the premier Japanese novels in the twentieth century, and this Penguin Classics edition contains a new introduction by David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas • Niki Jumpei, an amateur entomologist, searches the scorching desert for beetles. As night falls he is forced to seek shelter in an eerie village, half-buried by huge sand dunes. He awakes to the terrifying realisation that the villagers have imprisoned him with a young woman at the bottom of a vast sand pit. Tricked into slavery and threatened with starvation if he does not work, Jumpei's only chance is to shovel the ever-encroaching sand - or face an agonising death. Among the greatest Japanese novels of the twentieth century, The Woman in the Dunes combines the essence of myth, suspense, and the existential novel

With carefully adapted text, new illustrations, language practise activities and additional online resources, the Penguin Readers series introduces language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction. The Woman in White, a Level 7 Reader, is B2 in the CEFR framework. The longer text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing future perfect simple, mixed conditionals, past perfect continuous, mixed conditionals, more complex passive forms and modals for deduction in the past. One night when Walter Hartwright is walking home, he meets and helps the mysterious woman in white. Soon after this meeting, Walter starts a job as a drawing teacher in the north of England and falls in love with his student, Laura Fairlie

London, 1960. The lives of teenage twins Maisy and Duncan change forever the night their sick mother is taken to an asylum. Sent to live in the New Forest with their cold-hearted grandmother, Mrs Mitcham, they feel unloved and abandoned • And when one day Duncan doesn't come home from exploring in the forest, no one - least of all his grandmother - appears to care about his disappearance. The police, who've found the bodies of other missing boys, offer little hope of finding Duncan alive • Yet Maisy refuses to give up. Though she doesn't know the woods well, she knows someone who does. The strange old woman who lives at their heart • Dare Maisy enlist the help of the woman in the wood?

Shay Bastable is the woman in the middle. She is part of the sandwich generation – caring for her parents and her children, supporting her husband Bruce, holding them all together and caring for them as best she can • Then the arrival of a large orange skip on her mother’s estate sets in motion a cataclysmic series of events which leads to the collapse of Shay’s world. She is forced to put herself first for a change • But in order to move forward with her present, Shay needs to make sense of her past. And so she returns to the little village she grew up in, to uncover the truth about what happened to her when she was younger. And in doing so, she discovers that sometimes you have to hit rock bottom to find the only way is up

Уилки Коллинз - мастер мистики, и "Женщина в белом" - его первый экскурс в этот жанр • Когда герой, Уолтер Хартрайт, лунной ночью в северном Лондоне встречает одинокую, испуганную и красивую женщину, одетую в белое, он чувствует побуждение разгадать тайну ее страданий • Запутанный сюжет населен тонко подобранным актерским составом, от сварливого инвалида мистера Фэрли до тучного злодея графа Фоско и самой загадочной женщины • Книга на английском языке • Wilkie Collins is a master of mystery, and "The Woman in White" is his first excursion into the genre • When the hero, Walter Hartright, on a moonlit night in north London, encounters a solitary, terrified and beautiful woman dressed in white, he feels impelled to solve the mystery of her distress

Роман Уилки Коллинза покорил мир моды с момента своего появления в 1860 году, когда все, от танцев до платьев, было названо в честь "женщины в белом". Его неизменная способность очаровывать отчасти проистекает из отличительного сочетания мелодрамы, комедии и реализма, а отчасти из силы его сюжета. Однако "Женщина в белом" - это нечто большее, чем просто классический триллер, и современные критики нашли в нем феминистскую притчу для нашего времени • Книга на английском языке • Wilkie Collins’ novel took the fashionable world by storm on its appearance in 1860 when everything from dances to dresses was named after the ‘woman in white’. Its continuing power to fascinate stems in part from a distinctive blend of melodrama, comedy and realism; and in part from the power of its story