For all the strange worlds borne of his vast and vivid imagination, Philip K. Dick was largely concerned with humanity`s most achingly familiar heartaches and struggles. In Our Friends From Frolix 8, he clashes...
With the Cold war fought and won, British spymaster Tim Cranmer accepts early retirement to rural Englang and a new life with his alluring young mistress, Emma. But when both Emma and Cranmer`s star double agent and...
At forty-eight, Tim Cranmer is a secret servant in a premature retirement to deepest rural England. His Cold War is fought and won, and he is free to devote himself to his stately manor house, his vineyard, and his...
Britain is in the depths of recession. A left leaning young Oxford academic and his barrister girlfriend take an off peak holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua. By seeming chance they bump into a Russian...
Our Midnight Visitor = Сборник рассказов. Полуночный посетитель: на англ.яз
Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and...
Our Man in Havana (intro. Christopher Hitchens)
Wormold, a vacuum cleaner salesman, was short of money. His daughter had reached an expensive age - so he accepted Hawthorne`s offer of $300-plus a month and became Agent 59200/5, MI6`s man in Havana. To keep the job,...
Our Mutual Friend 1 = Наш общий друг 1. Т. 24: на англ.яз
Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic. Our Mutual Friend is Charles Dickens` last novel and one of his most sophisticated works, combining psychological insight with social analysis. John Harmon...
As the boat moved silently over the water, the thing at the end of the rope always followed. Sometimes it came near the boat and sometimes it pulled away like something alive. As it moved through the water, changes...
"Our Mutual Friend", Dickens` last novel, gives one of his most comprehensive and penetrating accounts of Victorian society. Its vision of a culture stifled by materialistic values emerges not just through its central...
Our Mutual Friend 2 = Наш общий друг 2. Т. 25: на англ.яз
Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic. Our Mutual Friend is Charles Dickens` last novel and one of his most sophisticated works, combining psychological insight with social analysis. John Harmon...
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: Untold Story of English (HB)
Why do we say “I am reading a catalog” instead of "I read a catalog?" Why do we say “do” at all? Is the way we speak a reflection of our cultural values? Delving into these provocative topics and more, Our Magnificent...
Our Old Home = Наша старая родина: на англ.яз
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, a dark romantic, and short story writer. Our Old Home is a collection of essays, based on Hawthorne`s stay in England from 1853 to 1857 as American Consul in Liverpool. It...
Данный сборник - первая литературная попытка авторов в написании рассказов на иностранном языке, максимально приближенном к его носителям. Сборник рассказов будет полезен для студентов языковых вузов, переводчиков...
Out for Blood (Drake Chronicles)
Hunter Wild, vampire hunter and star pupil at a top secret slayer academy, has a crush on a guy called Quinn. He's tall, dark and very handsome. He's also a vampire, and one of the infamous Drake brothers at...
The restrictions of a wartime childhood in London and subsequent post-war shortages have done little to enrich Timothy`s early youth. But everything changes when his glamorous older sister, Kath, invites him to spend...
`I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills ... Up in this high air you breathed easily ... you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be` From the moment Karen Blixen arrived in...
The restrictions of a wartime childhood in London and post-war shortages have done little to enrich Timothy`s early youth. But everything changes when his glamorous older sister Kath invites him to spend the summer at...
From the moment Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya in 1914 to manage a coffee plantation, her heart belonged to Africa. Drawn to the intense colours and ravishing landscapes, Karen Blixen spent her happiest years on the...
The first novel in C.S. Lewis`s classic sci-fi trilogy which tells the adventure of Dr Ransom who is kidnapped and transported to MarsIn the first novel of C.S. Lewis`s classic science fiction trilogy, Dr Ransom, a...
