Wordsworth The Thirty-Nine Steps Buchan John

'My guest was lying sprawled on his back. There was a long knife through his heart which skewered him to the floor' • Richard Hannay has just returned to England after years in South Africa and is thoroughly bored with his life in London. But then a murder is committed in his flat, just days after a chance encounter with an American who had told him about an assassination plot which could have dire international consequences. An obvious suspect for the police and an easy target for the killers, Hannay goes on the run in his native Scotland where he will need all his courage and ingenuity to stay one step ahead of his pursuers • The Penguin English Library - collectable general readers' editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century to the end of the Second World War

Ричард Ханней становится главным подозреваемым, когда в его квартире находят труп американца. Американца, не так давно предупредившего его о плане политического убийства, успех которого рискует втянуть Британию в войну. Наш герой бежит к болотам Шотландии, пока его преследуеют полицейские и немецкие шпионы, намеренные украсть британские секреты. Книга Джона Бакена "39 ступеней" стала одним из первых и самых влиятельных шпионских романов. Позднее у неё появилось множество подражателей, но никто из них не смог переплюнуть её напряжённое повествование и закрученный сюжет • Книга на английском языке • I snapped the switch, but there was nobody there. Then I saw something in the far corner which made me drop my cigar and fall into a Cold sweat • When Richard Hannay is warned of an assassination plot that has the potential to take Britain into a war, and then discovers in his flat the murdered body of the American that warned him, he becomes a prime suspect

Richard Hannay has just returned to England after years in South Africa and is thoroughly bored with his life in London. But then a murder is committed in his flat, just days after a chance encounter with an American who had told him about an assassination plot which could have dire international consequences. An obvious suspect for the police and an easy target for the killers, Hannay goes on the run in his native Scotland where he will need all his courage and ingenuity to stay one step ahead of his pursuers

When Richard Hannay finds the corpse of freelance spy Franklin P. Scudder in his London flat, he goes on the run, fearing that his life is in danger. Scudder had previously revealed that he was investigating a ring of German spies, who were conspiring to sabotage Britain's war capability. Hannay becomes both hunter and hunted as he struggles to unravel the tangled threads of this plot while staying one step ahead of his pursuers, who will stop at nothing to keep their nefarious secrets • First published in 1915, John Buchan's definitive spy novel was the first in a long line of espionage thrillers to delve into the underbelly of the British establishment. Over a hundred years later, The Thirty-Nine Steps remains resonant, and the various film, television and theatre adaptations of this classic - most notably Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 version - are a testament to its capacity to thrill

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"Тридцать девять шагов" Джона Бакера знакомит читателя с Ричардом Ханнеем, оригинальным джентльменом-героем шпионских триллеров и предшественником Джеймса Бонда. Эта история об интригах и предательстве сталкивает Ханнея не только с немецкой шпионской сетью, но и с британской полицией, которая ошибочно подозревает его в убийстве • Безжалостно преследуемый, он бежит в Шотландию, чтобы разоблачить заговор, который поставит Британию на грань войны. Его успех зависит от местонахождения таинственных тридцати девяти ступеней • В "Доме власти" другой из самых популярных героев Бьюкена, сэр Эдвард Лейтен, выполняет отчаянную миссию по раскрытию зловещего заговора с целью уничтожения западной цивилизации • Книга на английском языке • The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915) introduces Richard Hannay, the original gentleman-hero of spy thrillers and a forerunner of James Bond

Убийства, погони, переодевания, государственные секреты - всего пару дней назад Ричард Хэнней даже представить себе не мог, что все эти «прелести» шпионской жизни ворвутся в его размеренное существование в результате случайной встречи на лондонской улице. Но в предвоенной Европе идет большая игра, и на кону стоит судьба целой страны, так что герою волей-неволей придется принять участие в опасном противостоянии. .Остросюжетный роман Джона Бакена, послуживший основой для одноименного фильма Альфреда Хичкока, адаптирован в настоящем издании по методу Ильи Франка: снабжен транскрипцией, дословным переводом на русский язык и необходимым лексико-грамматическим комментарием (без упрощения текста оригинала). Уникальность метода заключается в том, что запоминание слов и выражений происходит за счет их повторяемости, без заучивания и необходимости использовать словарь

"The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists" is a classic representation of the impoverished and politically powerless underclass of British society in Edwardian England, ruthlessly exploited by the institutionalized corruption of their employers and the civic and religious authorities. Epic in scale, the novel charts the ruinous effects of the laissez-faire mercantilist ethics on the men, women, and children of the working classes, and through its emblematic characters, argues for a socialist politics as the only hope for a civilized and humane life for all. This Wordsworth edition includes an exclusive foreword by the late Tony Benn

The Jungle Book introduces Mowgli, the human foundling adopted by a family of wolves. It tells of the enmity between him and the tiger Shere Khan, who killed Mowgli's parents, and of the friendship between the man-cub and Bagheera, the black panther, and Baloo, the sleepy brown bear, who instructs Mowgli in the Laws of the Jungle • This edition includes The Second Jungle Book which contains some of the most thrilling of the Mowgli stories. It includes Red Dog, in which Mowgli forms an unlikely alliance with the python Kaa, How Fear Came and Letting in the Jungle as well as The Spring Running, which brings Mowgli to manhood and the realisation that he must leave Bagheera, Baloo and his other friends for the world of man

"The Last Man" is Mary Shelley's apocalyptic fantasy of the end of human civilisation. Set in the late twenty-first century, the novel unfolds a sombre and pessimistic vision of mankind confronting inevitable destruction. Interwoven with her futuristic theme, Mary Shelley incorporates idealised portraits of Shelley and Byron, yet rejects Romanticism and its faith in art and nature. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) was the only daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, author of "Vindication of the Rights of Woman", and the radical philosopher William Godwin. Her mother died ten days after her birth and the young child was educated through contact with her father's intellectual circle and her own reading. She met Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1812; they eloped in July 1814

В сборнике "Собрание стихотворений Элизабет Барретт Браунинг" читатели найдут не только ее хорошо известную серию любовных стихотворений "Сонеты с португальского", но и менее известные сонеты • Эта обширная подборка ее стихов показывает реальную историю ее продолжительной творческой жизни, которая началась с ее детских поэтических амбиций и закончилась только с ее смертью • Книга на английском языке • Elizabeth Barrett Browning was such an acclaimed poet in her own lifetime that she was suggested as a candidate for the Poet Laureateship when Wordsworth died in 1850. Yet today we have only a limited knowledge of her considerable life's work as a poet, in part because of a lack of representative but accessible editions of her work. Readers will find here not only her well-known sonnet sequence of love poems, Sonnets From the Portuguese, but also lesser known sonnets, some in praise of the cross-dressing bohemian writer George Sand, others to contemporary poets and artists