Vintage books The Haunted Hotel Коллинз Уильям Уилки

An English aristocrat, Lord Montbarry, abandons his fiancee for an enigmatic countess with a dark past, before moving with her and her brother, Baron Rivar - who is rumoured to be her lover, and is fond of gambling and alchemy - into a decayed Venetian palazzo. An Italian servant disappears, and his wife receives a note containing one thousand pounds • As the palazzo is transformed into a luxury hotel, all these strands begin to come together, yet strange and macabre events are occurring, and the dead seem unable to rest • Contains notes on the text, Wilkie Collins's life and works and a select bibliography

Frank Aldersley becomes engaged to Clara Burnham on the eve of his departure on a journey to discover the Northwest Passage. Unbeknownst to him, Richard Wardour, his spurned rival, joins the crew of another ship belonging to the same expedition. When the ships get trapped in the ice and the men are randomly drawn into the same search party, Richard finds himself torn between his desire for revenge and the need for solidarity in the face of adversity • Based on an actual doomed mission to the Arctic captained by Sir John Franklin, and initially written for the stage in collaboration with Dickens – who also acted in the play – The Frozen Deep is an action-packed tale of vengeance and sacrifice

When Francis Raven is roused from his sleep on the eve of his birthday and confronted by the sight of a woman trying to stab him, he is unsure whether she is real or an apparition. Years later, against the wishes of his mother, he marries Alicia, a woman with a strange resemblance to the mysterious visitor, who ends up attacking him on his birthday, before vanishing from his life. Is Francis’s wife a ghost, a demon or a living human being? And will the prophecy of the night-time visitation be fulfilled one day? • Originally published in Household Words in 1855 as ‘The Ostler’, but recast and expanded two decades later, The Dream Woman is a powerfully dark and suspenseful multi-narrative novella from the master of the mystery genre and the author of some of the most enduringly popular novels of the Victorian era

Редкая и ценная возможность поближе взглянуть на жизнь и внутренний мир одного из самых загадочных писателей XX века • Эта книга, которую Уильям Сомерсэт Моэм написал в возрасте шестидесяти четырёх лет, не автобиография, но она рассказывает историю его жизни. Не исповедь, но она полна откровений. "Подводя итоги" - уникальное выражение личного кредо, не только рассказывающее о взглядах великого писателя на стиль, литературу, искусство, театр и философию, но и позволяющее по-новому оценить его мастерство • Книга на английском языке • A rare glimpse into the life and mind of one of the most enigmatic of 20th century authors • Autobiographical without being an autobiography, confessional without disclosing his private self, The Summing Up, written when Maugham was sixty-four, is an inimitable expression of a personal credo

'She was a fool and he knew it and because he loved her it had made no difference' • Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. Unsatisfied by her marriage, she starts an affair with charming, attractive and exciting Charles Townsend. But when Walter discovers her deception, he exacts a strange and terrible vengeance: Kitty must accompany him to his new posting in remote mainland China, where a cholera epidemic rages • VINTAGE DECO: Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on

Nella, daughter of millionaire Theodore Racksole, orders a dinner of steak and beer at the exclusive Grand Babylon Hotel in London. Her order is refused, so Theodore promptly buys the chef, the kitchen and the whole hotel. But when hotel staff begin to vanish and a German prince goes missing, Nella discovers that murder, blackmail and kidnapping are also on the menu. A rollicking murder mystery from one of the finest writers of the last century

Уилки Коллинза любят поколения читателей - за прекрасные детективы, такие как "Лунный камень" и "Женщина в белом". Однако как всякому большому писателю, Коллинзу было тесно в узких рамках жанра - "Без права на наследство" не только увлекательная детективная история с неожиданной развязкой, но и широкая панорама общественной жизни викторианской Англии, нравов ее жителей, социальных проблем и борьбы поколений. Если бы Толстой писал детективы, он написал бы "Без права на наследство"!

The first novel from one of the twentieth century's most admired and stylish writers • It's the balmy days of the 1920s and where could be more pleasant for a holiday than a hotel on the Italian Riviera? Filled with prosperous English visitors, the Hotel offers a closed world of wealth and comfort. It also provides the stage for the display of social niceties, for passionate but unspoken love affairs and for the comedy of the shared bathroom. With great wit and insight Elizabeth Bowen's first novel lays bare the intricacies and eccentricities of polite society

Haunted by the fate of Dora Bruder – a fifteen-year-old girl listed as missing in an old December 1941 issue of Paris Soir – Nobel Prize-winning author Patrick Modiano sets out to find all he can about her. From her name on a list of deportees to Auschwitz to the fragments he is able to uncover about the Bruder family, Modiano delivers a moving survey of a decade-long investigation that revived for him the sights, sounds and sorrowful rhythms of occupied Paris. And in seeking to exhume Dora Bruder's fate, he in turn faces his own family history

The breathtaking short story collection from the Costa-shortlisted Irish writer • Three gunshots on the Irish border define the course of a young man's life; a writer clings fast to a star-crossed affair with a woman who has never been fully in his reach; a fisherman accustomed to hard labour rolls up his sleeves to dig a grave for his child; a pair of newly-weds embark on their first adventure, living wild on the deserted Beginish Island • Spanning a century and two continents - from the muddy fields of Ireland to a hotel room in Paris, a dingy bar in Segovia to an aeroplane bound for Taipei - these densely layered tales reveal the quiet heroism and gentle dignity of ordinary life. Ranging from the elegiac to the brutally confrontational, Billy O'Callaghan's stories explore the resilience of the human heart and its ability to keep beating even in the wake of grief, trauma and lost love

Уильям Стайрон: выбор Софи • В этом необычном романе Стинго, неопытный двадцатидвухлетний южанин, переносит нас назад, в лето 1947 года, в пансионат в зеленом пригороде Бруклина. Там он знакомится с Натаном, пылким еврейским интеллектуалом, и Софи, красивой и хрупкой польской католичкой. Стинго оказывается втянутым в самое сердце их страстных и разрушительных отношений в качестве свидетеля, доверенного лица и просителя. В конечном счете, он добирается до темной сердцевины прошлого Софи: ее воспоминаний о довоенной Польше, концентрационном лагере и - суть ее ужасной тайны - ее выборе • Книга на английском языке • In this extraordinary novel, Stingo, an inexperienced twenty-two year old Southerner, takes us back to the summer of 1947 and a boarding house in a leafy Brooklyn suburb

The Ds can't wait to go and stay with Nancy and Peggy in the Lake District during the summer holidays. But when the Amazons’ dreadful Great Aunt invites herself to stay too, the summer is threatened with dullness. Staying indoors and reading poetry is not what anyone had in mind. To save the Ds from total boredom, the Amazons arrange for their friends to stay in a tumble-down hut in the woods. And as long as no one discovers they're there they can sail all summer long • In the Backstory you can learn how to make a campfire! • Vintage Children’s Classics is a twenty-first century classics list aimed at 8-12 year olds and the adults in their lives