In the summer of 1812 Napoleon, the master of Europe, marched into Russia with the largest army ever seen, confident that he would sweep everything before him. Yet less than two years later his empire lay in ruins,...
Russias Empires: from Prehistory to Putin
Through the centuries, Russia has swung between successful expansionism, catastrophic collapse and spectacular recovery. This illuminating history traces these cycles from the late Neolithic age to Ivan the Terrible...
Spanning 1800 years of Russia`s history, people, poltics, and culture, Edward Rurtherford, tells a grand saga that is as multifaceted as Russia itself. Here is a story of a great civilization made human, played out...
- Brightly coloured editions of the much-loved Farmyard Tales series. - All 20 stories available in miniature format. - Enjoyable and collectible stories for children who are just learning to read.
A fallen woman would seem a less-than-ideal choice for a Victorian heroine. Elizabeth Gaskell courageously created just such a portrait in her Ruth. Overturning the conventional assumption that a woman once seduced is...
Ruth = Руфь. Т. 8.: на англ.яз
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Even though a fallen woman would seem a less-than-ideal choice for a Victorian heroine, Elizabeth Gaskell courageously created...
Lire et voir les classiques • Un cahier iconographique en couleurs avec un questionnaire pour la lecture de I`image. • Le texte integral annote. • La biographie de I`auteur et la genese de I`oeuvre. • L`etude des...
S is for Silence (NY Times bestseller)
In Kinsey Millhone`s 19th excursion into the world of suspense and misadventure, a daughter wants the solace of closure in the mystery surrounding her mother`s absence. Thirty-four years earlier, Violet Sullivan put...
In a moment of sudden inspiration Sarah Worth - S. - has walked out on her husband to join the Ashram Arhat. Famous for his transcendent wisdom and divine immobility, the Arhat has transferred his ahram from India to...
Once a scandalously inventive puppeteer, Micky Sabbath at sixty-four is still defiantly antagonistic and exceedingly libidinous. But after the death of his long-time mistress - an erotic free spirit whose adulterous...
Dennis Lehane won a Shamus Award for A Drink Before the War, his first book about working-class Boston detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. His second in the series, Darkness, Take My Hand, got the kind of...
Nina Wilde and Eddie Chase are back in another epic contemporary adventure thriller. As the story opens Michelangelo`s David is stolen from its plinth in Florence, Italy, in the latest of a series of audacious raids...
A brilliant and enthralling debut historical thriller in the vein of Sansom. London, 1563. England is a troubled nation. Catholic plots against the young Queen Elizabeth spring up all over the country. The herald...
For the first time in decades The Eternal City is paralysed by a blizzard. And a gruesome discovery is made in the Pantheon - one of Rome`s most ancient and revered architectural treasures. Covered by softly falling...
Combining explosive suspense with sensual passion, Nora Roberts turns up the heat in this classic tale - the sizzling story of a man and woman on the trail of a demented killer, a search that will plunge them headlong...
The snow is falling on the ancient streets of Rome. And in the heart of the city, under the Pantheon’s great dome, a woman’s body lies on the marble floor, carefully positioned with a gruesome carving on her David...
Dying billionaire, Trevor Stone hires private detectives, Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro to find his missing daughter. Grief-stricken over the death of her mother and the impending death of her father, Desiree...
Sad Cypress (Hercule Poirot Mysteries) HB
Beautiful, young Elinor Carlisle stands serenely in the dock accused of the murder of Mary Gerrard, her rival in love. The evidence is damning: only Elinor had the motive, the opportunity and the means to administer...
