After seventeen-year-old Thais Allard loses her widowed father in a tragic car accident, she is forced to leave the only home she's ever known to live with a total stranger in New Orleans. New Orleans greets Thais with many secrets and mysteries, but none as unbelievable as the moment she comes face to face with the impossible — an identical twin, Clio.

Thais soon learns that she and the twin she never knew come from a family of witches, that she possesses astonishing powers, and that she, along with Clio, has a key role in Balefire, the coven she was born into. Fiery Clio is less than thrilled to have to share the spotlight, but the twins must learn to combine their powers in order to complete a rite that will transform their lives and the coven forever.

New edition of a classic adventure novel and one of the most startling, highly praised stories in English literature-a brilliant chronicle of two sensitive children's violent voyage from innocence to experience.

After a terrible hurricane levels their Jamaican estate, the Bas-Thorntons decide to send their children back to the safety and comfort of England. On the way their ship is set upon by pirates, and the children are accidentally transferred to the pirate vessel. Jonsen, the well-meaning pirate captain, doesn't know how to dispose of his new cargo, while the children adjust with surprising ease to their new life. As this strange company drifts around the Caribbean, events turn more frightening and the pirates find themselves increasingly incriminated by the children's fates. The most shocking betrayal, however, will take place only after the return to civilization.

The swift, almost hallucinatory action of Hughes's novel, together with its provocative insight into the psychology of children, made it a best seller when it was first published in 1929 and has since established it as a classic of twentieth-century literature — an unequaled exploration of the nature, and limits, of innocence.

The heroes are eager to sail to Troy for war, but the wind is still. To fill their sails and set out, they must sacrifice Agamemnon's daughter Iphigenia-and how does a human girl become the wind? The starkness and psychological insight of Rachel Swirsky's Tor.com story earned it a place among the finalists for the 2010 Nebula Award. Rachel Swirsky's short fiction has appeared in Weird Tales, Fantasy Magazine, and Subterranean Magazine, among others, and has been collected in Year's Best anthologies edited by Rich Horton, Jonathan Strahan, and the VanderMeers. She is also the submissions editor of Podcastle, an audio fantasy magazine.

First appeared in Galaxy Magazine, 1957/7.

A part of Notions: Unlimited collection of science fiction short stories by Robert Sheckley. It was first published in 1960 by Bantam Books.

It was felt that Saito and narrow the distance at a party Louise, Louise treat a servant as ever Saito. Saito does not understand is, just fight with Louise. Saito is not convincing, just fight with Louise. One day, the princess Henrietta Torisutein, we have Louise's had a wish. The Prince of Albion was once love, that I want you to return the love letters exchanged. The letter offers came never to be seen by others. We assumed Saito, but would go along with Wardes Viscount escort, I Wardes, the fiancee Louise, or how -!?

Decades after the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia invades Poland in an effort to expand its influence over all of Europe. Seeing the invasion coming, the allied nations must select a leader to lead the Allied forces in countering the invasion and to stop Russian aggression. Admiral Roger Hammond is selected and must match his forces against the Russian military with a 10 to 1 disadvantage. Using every piece of modern technology in the arsenal, he must drive the Russians from Poland and the other nations and find a way to defeat the aims of the Russian President Borodin. Following a plan developed by a young naval officer, Allied forces attack from Poland, the Black Sea and the Pacific. Using technology from satellites to drones, he pushes the Russian forces from all sides. Ultimately the Russian people must decide to continue or end the war.

Charles Clover, award-winning journalist and former Moscow bureau chief for the Financial Times, here analyses the idea of “Eurasianism,” a theory of Russian national identity based on ethnicity and geography. Clover traces Eurasianism’s origins in the writings of White Russian exiles in 1920s Europe, through Siberia’s Gulag archipelago in the 1950s, the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, and up to its steady infiltration of the governing elite around Vladimir Putin. This eye-opening analysis pieces together the evidence for Eurasianism’s place at the heart of Kremlin thinking today and explores its impact on recent events, the annexation of Crimea, the rise in Russia of anti-Western paranoia and imperialist rhetoric, as well as Putin’s sometimes perplexing political actions and ambitions.

Based on extensive research and dozens of interviews with Putin’s close advisers, this quietly explosive story will be essential reading for anyone concerned with Russia’s past century, and its future.

Set against the divergent landscape of British Columbia — from the splendours of nature to its immense dangers, from urban grease and grit to dry, desert towns — Clear Skies, No Wind, 100% Visibility examines human beings and their many frailties with breathtaking insight and accuracy.

Théodora Armstrong peoples her stories with characters as richly various — and as compelling — as her settings. A soon-to-be father and haute cuisine chef mercilessly berates his staff while facing his lack of preparedness for parenthood. A young girl revels in the dark drama of the murder of a girl from her neighbourhood. A novice air-traffic specialist must come to terms with his first loss — the death of a pilot — on his watch. And the dangers of deep canyons and powerful currents spur on the reckless behaviour of teenagers as they test the limits of bravery, friendship, and sex.

With startling intimacy and language stripped bare, Clear Skies, No Wind, 100% Visibility announces the arrival of Théodora Armstrong as a striking new literary voice.

A tragic past has driven Lord Strathmore to use his formidable talents to protect his country from secret enemies, and he does it superlatively well - until he meets a mysterious woman. By turns glamorous and subdued, reckless yet vulnerable, she baffles his mind even as she captures his heart.

Dieser Roman spielt in derselben Zukunftswelt wie vorhergehende Werke der Autoren. Maxim Kammerer, der Erzähler schon in Ein Käfer im Ameisenhaufen, berichtet hier als alter Mann von Ereignissen, die zwei Jahrzehnte zurückliegen. Damals war er Abteilungsleiter des KomKon 2, eines irdischen Sicherheitsdienstes; Held des Romans ist aber Toivo Glumow, ein ehemaliger „Progressor“, d. h. Agent der Erde auf einem anderen Planeten. Besessen von der Idee, es müsse unter den Menschen Agenten außerirdischer Mächte geben, beginnt er mit der Auswertung isolierter rätselhafter Vorfälle, etwa dem ungeklärten Verschwinden einzelner Menschen. Rätselhaftes häuft sich, bis der Leser im Verlauf einer ungemein spannenden, einfallsreichen Detektivfabel die wahre Lösung des Mysteriums erfährt.

Dieser neueste Roman der Strugatzkis beweist, daß es die Autoren verstehen, raffiniert angelegte Romane zu schreiben, die den Leser nicht nur verblüffen, sondern auch ganz neue Perspektiven über die Natur und die Zukunftsaussichten des Menschen eröffnen.

Nobel winner Pearl S. Buck’s classic debut novel, about one Chinese woman’s coming of age as she’s torn between Eastern and Western cultures.

Kwei-lan is a traditional Chinese girl — taught by her mother to submit in all things, “as a flower submits to sun and rain alike.” Her marriage was arranged before she was born. As she approaches her wedding day, she’s surprised by one aspect of her anticipated life: Her husband-to-be has been educated abroad and follows many Western ideas that Kwei-lan was raised to reject. When circumstances push the couple out of the family home, Kwei-lan finds her assumptions about tradition and modernity tested even further.

East Wind: West Wind is a sensitive, early exploration of the cross-cultural themes that went on to become a hallmark of Buck’s acclaimed novels.

The greatest love story of our time, the story of Scarlett O’Hara and Rhett Butler… Margaret Mitchell’s monumental epic of the South won a Pulitzer Prize, gave rise to the most popular motion picture of our time, and inspired a sequel that became the fastest selling novel of the century. It is one of the most popular books ever written; more than 28 million copies of the book have been sold in more than 37 countries. Today, more than half a century after its initial publication, its achievements are unparalleled, and it remains the most revered American saga and the most beloved work by an American writer…

Die letzte und endgültige Auseinandersetzung stand bevor. Im Reich des Erhabenen war die Zeit des Friedens zu Ende — durch Morgons Kampf mit dem teuflischen Zauberer Ohm, durch die Machenschaften der rätselhaften Gestaltwandler.

Morgon wußte, daß es Verbindungslinien zwischen all diesen einzelene Vorfällen geben mußte — nur konnte er die Linien nicht ziehen. Wer wer Ohm? Welche Rolle spielte Thod, jener geheimnissvolle Harfner, der ihn einst an Ohm verraten hatte?

Und was wollten die Gestaltwandler aus dem Meer?

Als Fürst von Hed war Morgon ein friedliebender Mensch. Aber für ihn wie für das Reich des Erhabenen gab es nirgendwo mehr Frieden — und erst der letzte verzweifelte Augeblick der Kampfes brachte Kunde vom anbreichen des neuen Zeitalters.

In the midst of conflict and unrest the Prince of Hed solves the puzzle of his future when he learns to harp the wind, discovers who the shape changers are, and understands his own relationship to Deth, harpist of the wizard Ohm.

Nominated for Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1980.

Hear the Wind Sing (風の歌を聴け Kaze no uta o kike?) is the first novel by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami. It first appeared in the June 1979 issue of Gunzo (one of the most influential literary magazines in Japan), and in book form the next month. The novel was adapted by Japanese director Kazuki Ōmori in a 1981 film distributed by Art Theatre Guild. An English translation by Alfred Birnbaum appeared in 1987.

It is the first book in the so-called "Trilogy of the Rat" series of independent novels, followed by Pinball, 1973 (1980) and A Wild Sheep Chase (1982), before the later epilogue Dance Dance Dance (1988). All four books in the series have been translated into English, but Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973 (which are realist novels slightly differing from the author's later style) were never widely distributed in the English-speaking world, having only been published in Japan by Kodansha under their Kodansha English Library branding (for English Foreign Language learners), and both only as A6-sized pocketbooks. Translations by Ted Goossen of "Hear the Wind Sing" and "Pinball, 1973" are scheduled to be released by Knopf on August 4, 2015 under the title "Wind, Pinball".

The Wardens Association has been around pretty much forever. Some Wardens control fire, others control earth, water, or wind— and the most powerful can control more than one element. Without Wardens, Mother Nature would wipe humanity off the face of the earth….

Joanne Baldwin is a Weather Warden. Usually, all it takes is a wave of her hand to tame the most violent weather. But now Joanne is trying to outrun another kind of storm: accusations of corruption and murder. So she's resorting to the very human tactic of running for her life….

Her only hope is Lewis, the most powerful Warden. Unfortunately, he's also on the run from the World Council. It seems he's stolen not one but three bottles of Djinn—making him the most wanted man on earth. And without Lewis, Joanne's chances of surviving are as good as a snowball in—well, a place she may be headed. So she and her classic Mustang are racing hard to find him because there's some bad weather closing in fast….

The superlatively analytical Inspector Hemingway is confronted by a murder that seems impossible—no one was near the murder weapon at the time the shot was fired. Everyone on the scene seems to have a motive, not to mention the wherewithal to commit murder, and alibis that simply don't hold up. The inspector is sorely tried by a wide variety of suspects, including the neglected widow, the neighbor who's in love with her, her resentful daughter, and a patently phony Russian prince preying on the widow's emotional vulnerability and social aspirations. And then there's the blackmail plot that may—or may not—be at the heart of the case…

Ranger Blueeyes swore an oath to the Navajo and was duty bound to protect his people. Blessed with the golden eagle as his spiritual brother, the proud warrior had the ability to soar and overcome every obstacle. He would need those powers even more now with the Brotherhood under attack-and one very tiny woman as the only defense.

Anglo schoolteacher Dana Seles survived an unspeakable crime on the Navajo Nation and could expose a traitor within the tribe. Ranger had to convince Dana to cooperate with his investigation if he was to save her and defend his honor. But would the task be threatened by a building physical attraction gaining gale force?

Another cutting-edge naval warfare thriller from Award-Winning Author Jeff Edwards

What if North Korea’s sudden turn towards peace is a cunning act of misdirection?

A routine Coast Guard inspection of a cargo ship in the Caribbean turns into a vicious firefight with unidentified Asian commandos. The second attempt to board the vessel ends with a nuclear detonation.

North Korea has been smuggling short and intermediate-range missiles into Cuba. An unknown number of nuclear warheads are hidden less than 100 miles from the tip of Florida. Every American city east of San Antonio is in the target zone.

Scrambling to stop the flow of weapons to Cuba, the president orders the Atlantic Fleet to surround the island, cutting off all access. It’s the Cuban Missile Crisis all over again, but this time there won’t be a diplomatic resolution. The North Koreans have developed a secret weapon that rips through the blockade with ease, leaving burning ships and floating bodies in its wake.

Against this unimagined threat stand a small detachment of United States Marines and a cutting-edge destroyer that’s never been tested in combat.

It’s a battle we never expected to fight, against an enemy we can barely comprehend…

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The Machineries of Joy (Механизмы радости)

The Stories of Ray Bradbury (И грянул гром: 100 рассказов)

I have stolen princesses back from sleeping  barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to Gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep.

You may have heard of me.

So begins the tale of Kvothe—from his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, to years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-riddled city, to his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a difficult and dangerous school of magic. In these pages you will come to know Kvothe as a notorious magician, an accomplished thief, a masterful musician, and an infamous assassin. But THE NAME OF THE WIND is so much more—for the story it tells reveals the truth behind Kvothe’s legend.

Like two giants the old enemies faced each other across the reaches of the galaxy — the Terran Empire and the Ythrian Domain. Terra was a Leviathan, encroaching ever further among the stars, promising peace and prosperity — but at the price of freedom. Ythri was smaller, but an empire in its own right, peopled by birdlike beings with a civilization and intellect that easily matched Terra’s own.

Nominated for Nebula Award in 1973, Hugo and Locus awards in 1974.

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Dark Carnival (Тёмный карнавал)

The October Country (Октябрьская страна)

Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales (Сборник ста лучших рассказов)

Humanity is obviously in danger of extinction from many causes, all of our own doing. If we do disappear from the world, what might an alien research team millennia from now think of us, as they discover what happened? Remember, alien beings aren’t likely to think just as we do—they might find something admirable, even esthetic, about our racial suicide.

About the Story: Del Rey wrote the original (and much longer) version of this novella many years earlier, was unable to place it and only hauled it from the trunk when Horace Gold in mid-1950 solicited something for his new magazine. THE WIND BETWEEN THE WORLDS is at least in conception a standard ASTOUNDING problem-solving story (interstellar matter transmitter is sabotaged; Earth and alien ports are in danger, resourceful engineer-protagonist figures out the solution) with a standard STARTLING STORIES subplot (engineer and his pretty female assistant are deeply attracted but he’s too dedicated to his job to get fresh). The premise however is ingenious - alien cultures intervene and as a result of this Earth is given the means for interstellar trade before the planet has even achieved space travel. Teleportation as an instrument of routine commerce (and profit) was a fairly original concept at the time this story was published. Del Rey’s altered culture is lived-in, letting the story act as a letter from the future. Gold wanted the story significantly cut and del Rey of course complied; in THE EARLY DEL REY he used the original version and appended some notes on the nature of Horace’s intervention.

About the Author: Lester del Rey (1915-1993) was born Leonard Knapp (but this became known only long after his death), somewhere in the Midwest and after a spotty, abbreviated education and itinerant existence headed to New York where he became almost immediately a significant constituent of ASTOUNDING and John Campbell’s celebrated GOLDEN AGE. Del Rey sold his first story to John Campbell in the first months of Campbell’s editorship and over the next several years he sold him many more, including his female-android story HELEN O’LOY (1938), perhaps the first true science fiction romance and NERVES (1942, novelized in 1956), a brilliant novella of atomic pile disruption, amazingly prescient of Three Mile Island and Chernobyl. Del Rey’s apostosaic and profoundly controversial short novel FOR I AM A JEALOUS PEOPLE (1956), positing a malevolent Deity, is also very well known. Del Rey worked (at the same time as Damon Knight and James Blish) in the Scott Meredith Fee Department in the late 1940’s, edited science fiction magazines in the early 50’s, published some noted juveniles (THE RUNAWAY ROBOT) in the mid-fifties and eventually became the founding editor of Del Rey Books, a fantasy & science fiction imprint under the aegis of Ballantine. In collaboration with his third wife, Judy-Lynn, del Rey’s imprint became the most successful fantasy & science fiction publisher in history. The two of them nurtured fantasy writers like Stephen Donaldson, Anne McCaffrey and Terry Brooks to bestselling status. In 1991, del Rey was named a Grand Master of the Science Fiction Writers of America. He died only a few months after his retirement from Ballantine.

About The Galaxy Project: Horace Gold led GALAXY magazine from its first issue dated October 1950 to science fiction’s most admired, widely circulated and influential magazine throughout its initial decade. Its legendary importance came from publication of full length novels, novellas and novelettes. GALAXY published nearly every giant in the science fiction field.

The Galaxy Project is a selection of the best of GALAXY with new forewords by some of today’s best science fiction writers. The initial selections in alphabetical order include work by Ray Bradbury, Frederic Brown, Lester del Rey, Robert A. Heinlein, Damon Knight, C. M. Kornbluth, Walter M. Miller, Jr., Frederik Pohl, Robert Sheckley, Robert Silverberg, William Tenn (Phillip Klass) and Kurt Vonnegut with new Forewords by Paul di Filippo, David Drake, John Lutz, Barry Malzberg and Robert Silverberg. The Galaxy Project is committed to publishing new work in the spirit GALAXY magazine and its founding editor Horace Gold.

The Wind From Nowhere (1961) is JG Ballard’s first novel, not that you’d know it from official JGB bibliographies, where it’s never mentioned, or in interviews, where Ballard continues to assert that The Drowned World was his first book.

The wind from nowhere has gone back to nowhere.

In a 1975 interview with David Pringle, Ballard says: “I don’t see my fiction as being disaster-oriented, certainly not most of my SF – apart from The Wind from Nowhere which is just a piece of hackwork. The others, which are reasonably serious, are not disaster stories.”

The book does contain some ‘empty symbolism’, and the characters sometimes articulate overlong expositions, all a bit jarring from an author who was to bloom into the master of sparse, laser-sharp, all-killer-no-filler writing.

Still, it *is* Ballard; all the classic archetypes are in place, if a little sketchily (except for the ‘Vaughan’ figure) – the bitch-as-catalyst, especially – and it does have what must be the first truly classic JGB quote, one that ranks with the pearls collected in Vale’s RE/Search book, a quote that both presages future events and qualifies current ones.

A JGB ’soundbite’ as Mr Pringle calls them… On p112 of my Penguin edition, Ballard writes: “Remember, it’s not enough to make history – you’ve got to arrange for someone to record it for you.”

One of the true classics of English literature, here are the adventures of Mole, Water Rat, Badger, and Toad. Grahame’s idyllic world is as fresh now as when they first discovered his enchanting tales—of Ratty sculling his boat on the River, Badger grumpily entertaining his friends in his comfortable underground home, and the exasperating Toad being driven into one tangle after another by his obsession with motor cars.

NOT ALL PATIENTS CAN BE CURED—OR WANT TO BE.

Visiting psychologist Carolyn Fern’s newest patient is Josephine Ruggles, an heiress whose nightmares leave glyph-shaped wounds across her back. Miss Ruggles’s case is unusual, even for an institution like Arkham Sanatorium. Her case takes an even stranger turn after she claims to have met Malachi—Carolyn’s former patient whose treatment was cut short when he was brutally murdered—in her dreams. When Carolyn uses hypnotherapy to address Josephine’s trauma, they find themselves both journeying to a strange place Josephine calls “the Dreamlands.”

Together, Carolyn and Josephine discover that the mind is a powerful tool, but knowledge is dangerous. What is learned cannot be unlearned, and not everyone is prepared to pay the price.

It is the late spring of 1978 in a world in which the American Revolution failed in 1776 after George Washington was killed and the Continental Army was destroyed at the Battle of Long Island.

The rumbling aftershocks of the Empire Day atrocities which reverberated through the pages of Two Hundred Lost Years are threatening to come to the boil.

While in Philadelphia the politics become ever more fractious in Spain the Royal Alcazar is a citadel besieged in a country which might as well still be stuck in the nineteenth century.

Preparations for war hamstrung by colonial politics begin to gather pace in New England in a climate where the Governor in his mansion and the government back in England continues to tiptoe around provocations in the Caribbean and the Borderlands of the South.

In Spain, Melody Danson and Henrietta De L’Isle have performed their role as distractions, adornments to a diplomatic mission whose only purpose is to delay the moment when the truth about the Empire Day attacks finally emerge. Because, when that day comes the road to war will suddenly confront the great European powers.

The Peace of Paris, the basis of the post-Great War of 1857-66 settlement, threatened by Anglo-German-Russia tensions is now hostage to the machinations of a Spanish Empire in its death throes and the failing health of Old Spain, ‘the sick man of Europe’.

Brothers Abe and Alex Fielding find themselves making ready for war. Melody and Henrietta discover unlikely friends in the Mountains of Madrid. Journalist Albert Stanton of the Manhattan Globe unwittingly stumbles into a war zone. The Governor of the Commonwealth of New England and his political masters in England wrestle with a crisis they saw coming years ago but can do little or nothing to avert.

The World in which England’s Georgian colonies in the Americas became the keystone of the British Empire◦– upon which it seemed the Sun could never set◦– is about to fray around the edges and our heroes and heroines are going to find themselves directly in the firing line!

In The War God’s Own, Bahzell had managed to stop a war by convincing Baron Tellian, leader of the Sothōii, to “surrender” to him, the War God’s champion. Now, he has journeyed to the Sothōii Wind Plain to oversee the parole he granted to Tellian and his men, to represent the Order of Tomanâk, the War God, and to be an ambassador for the hradani. What’s more, the flying coursers of the Sothōii have accepted Bahzell as a windrider-the first hradani windrider in history. And since the windriders are the elite of the elite among the Sothōii, Bahzell’s ascension is as likely to stir resentment as respect. That combination of duties would have been enough to keep anyone busy-even a warrior prince like Bahzell-but additional complications are bubbling under the surface. The goddess Shīgū, the Queen of Hell, is sowing dissension among the war maids of the Sothōii. The supporters of the deposed Sothōii noble who started the war are plotting to murder their new leige lord and frame Bahzell for the deed. Of course, those problems are all in a day’s work for a champion of the War God. But what is Bahzell going to do about the fact that Baron Tellian’s daughter, the heir to the realm, seems to be thinking that he is the only man-or hradani-for her?

Данная статья входит в большой цикл статей о всемирно известных пресс-секретарях, внесших значительный вклад в мировую историю. Рассказывая о жизни каждой выдающейся личности, авторы обратятся к интересным материалам их профессиональной деятельности, упомянут основные труды и награды, приведут малоизвестные факты из их личной биографии, творчества.

Каждая статья подробно раскроет всю значимость описанных исторических фигур в жизни и работе известных политиков, бизнесменов и людей искусства.

Фееричная слава художника Уолтера Кина в середине прошлого века потрясала. Его картины были необычайно популярными во всем мире. И как же была шокирована публика, когда узнала, что автором этих картин была его жена Маргарет Кин. Устав от унижения мужа, она подала на него в суд, заявила всему миру, кто настоящий автор работ.

«Большие глаза» – биография Маргарет Кин, история ее мучений, заточения в собственном доме, страхе за свою жизнь и жизнь своей дочери.

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Эта книга – история жизни всемирно известного британского политика ХХ века Маргарет Тэтчер, рассказанная ее собственными словами. Ни один другой премьер-министр современности не стремился изменить Великобританию и ее место в мире, так радикально, как это сделала она. Тэтчер откровенно пишет о формировании ее характера и ценностей, о полученном опыте, которые способствовали достижению ею вершин в мире политики. От трогательных воспоминаний детства через годы юности и учебы в Оксфорде к вступлению в парламент и занятию должности премьер-министра Великобритании. Эта книга не только о политике, она о женщине, ставшей символом эпохи!

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После разрушения Иерусалима чудом уцелевшая юная христианка вместе с другими пленниками совершает вынужденное путешествие в Рим, где ее ожидает участь рабыни в одной из богатейших римских семей, проблемы в которой очень похожи на проблемы в современных бездуховных семьях. Испытания укрепляют веру девушки, и даже под угрозой смерти она сохраняет верность невидимому Богу и, искренне любя своих хозяев, старается направить их на путь истины и спасения.

Один из двух *фантастических* рассказов Вальтера Скотта. История магического зеркала вплетена в весьма обыденный светский разговор.

“Копальні царя Соломона” і “Прекрасна Маргарет” — ці два романи становлять кращий доробок у творчості англійського письменника кін. XIX — поч. XX століття.

Напружений гостросюжетний пригодницький роман “Копальні царя Соломона” оповідає про мандри трьох англійських джентльменів у пошуках алмазних копалень на півдні африканського материка. Відважні, щирі герої попадають у Країну Зулусів та інших негритянських племен, де стають свідками місцевих обрядів та звичаїв і здійснюють благородні вчинки.

У романі “Прекрасна Маргарет” дія відбувається в Англії та Іспанії. Захоплюючі пригоди закоханої пари відбуваються на фоні тодішньої епохи, коли велику роль у політичному житті Іспанії відігравала жорстока інквізиція.

Ці романи мають незаперечний успіх у читачів багатьох країн.

Генри Райдер Хаггард (1856–1925) — английский писатель и публицист, автор увлекательных приключенческих романов.

Романы "Копи царя Соломона" и "Прекрасная Маргарет" проникнуты симпатией к угнетенным народам колоний, отличаются острым, динамичным сюжетом, познавательны.

СОДЕРЖАНИЕ:

Копи царя Соломона. Перевод с английского Н. Б. Маркович

Прекрасная Маргарет. Перевод с английского Б. Т. Грибанова

Оформление: С. М. ПОЖАРСКОГО

Рисунки художника: И. С. КУСКОВА

Текст печатается по изданию: Генри Райдер Хаггард "КОПИ ЦАРЯ СОЛОМОНА". "ПРЕКРАСНАЯ МАРГАРЕТ" (Библиотека приключений) М. Детгиз. 1958

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В конце концов, какая преуспевающая, вполне довольная собой и своей судьбой современная женщина сможет выдержать БОЛЬШЕ ГОДА напряженной личной жизни?! Добро пожаловать в XXI век, господа мужчины!

Счастью Питера Брума и Маргарет Кастелл угрожает коварный маркиз Морелла. Он заманивает девушку на свой корабль и увозит ее в Гранаду. Питер и отец Маргарет — Джон Кастелл бросаются на поиски той, которая была для них всем.

Роман повествует о дальнейшей судьбе героев, после того, как Ретт Батлер покидает Скарлетт, — именно этим и заканчивается знаменитый роман Маргарет Митчелл. Оставшись одна, Скарлетт, следуя принципу, — выжить в любой ситуации, пытается определить для себя новый способ существования без Ретта. Испробовав многое из того, что ей было доступно по мере своего материального положения, она останавливается на коммерческой деятельности, которая в силу ее характера, всегда имела для нее важное значение и окунается в работу с головой. По мере возникновения проблем, связанных со своей деятельностью, жизнь забрасывает Скарлетт в Чарльстон и даже в Нью-Йорк к ненавистным янки, многие из которых к удивлению, доставляют ей немало приятного. Она часто посещает любимую Тару, чтобы обрести душевное равновесие, которое может получить только там и увидеть престарелую Мамушку, — единственное звено, все еще связывающее ее с далеким прошлым. А однажды, по приглашению некого, влюбленного в нее поклонника, отправляется в Новый Орлеан на карнавал Марди — Грас! Ретт так же желает отыскать свое место в жизни на данном ее этапе и пытается примкнуть то к одному, то к другому берегу. Однако, как и обещал, изредка наведывается в Атланту, чтобы не скомпрометировать Скарлетт перед горожанами. В периоды их совместного короткого проживания, отношения между отвернувшимися друг от друга супругами, достигают контрастного накала, — в них прослеживается страсть и ненависть, протест и притяжение!…. Какого же предела достигнут эти неистовые, сметающие все на своем нелегком пути отношения? Примирением или разлукой закончится сложный строптивый роман двух сердец, таких одинаковых по сути своей и от того еще более контрастных?

Впервые на русском! Приквел к одному из самых любимых романов во все времена – «Унесенные ветром». Автор, которого наследники Маргарет Митчелл выбрали на написание истории о Ретте Батлере, в новом романе великолепно описал жизнь Мамушки – няни знаменитой Скарлетт О’Хара, – родившейся на Гаити и ребенком вывезенной в Америку. Много пришлось пережить юной Руфи: потерять близких и обрести новый дом, встретить любовь и пройти самое сложное испытание в жизни. И навсегда сохранить доброе сердце и несгибаемую волю, став самым родным человеком для нескольких поколений одной семьи – и одним из любимейших образов читателей всего мира.

Возвращаясь в события 1820-х гг., в период до начала Гражданской войны, перед нами предстает грандиозная картина войны и мира, любви и горя нескольких поколений – история, которая всегда будет освещать незабываемую классику Маргарет Митчелл «Унесенные ветром».

Суржикову несказанно повезло: его одного из целого КБ отправили в командировку в Японию. Вначале говорили, что поедут три человека, но затем одну единицу сократили, а еще одну забрало Министерство культуры.

За границей Суржиков проявил себя как настоящий советский человек, надежный и морально устойчивый, поэтому ему доверили также оказать интернациональную помощь развивающейся Голодандии.

В четвертой книге этого необычайно популярного цикла комиссару Каину, герою поневоле, вновь грозит слава. Избежав катастрофических последствий космического сражения, комиссар и его малоароматный помощник Юрген совершают аварийную посадку в тылу врага. На этот раз даже такому проныре, как Каин, не отвертеться от открытого боя, и единственный способ выжить в нем - собрать вокруг себя немногие оставшиеся войска и силой проложить себе путь к безопасности. Но на этом пути стоят тьмы и тьмы диких орков... какое невезение! Научно-фантастический боевик в этой взрывной книге соседствует с юмором, и вместе получается история, полная сражений, побед и вынужденного героизма.

Аннотация издательства:

Тонко, увлекательно и с юмором раскрывает перед нами автор душу взрослеющей Маргарет, которая трепетно осознает свою женскую сущность и всем сердцем ищет дружбы с Богом, доверчиво открываясь Ему.

Изысканные, элегантные, умные, брутальные, насмешливые, а порой и откровенно бунтарские современные притчи о любви и сексе, семье и обществе, вышедшие из-под пера писательницы, читаются легко и с наслаждением — однако серьезность тем заставляет задумываться над ними надолго и возвращаться к ним не раз.