Vintage books The Summing Up Моэм Уильям Сомерсет

'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

"Дальневосточные сказки" - это сборник рассказов, родившихся на основе впечатлений Уильяма Сомерсета Моэма о Малайе, Сингапуре и других форпостах бывшей Британской империи. Изображают ли они бегство на корабле от проклятия возлюбленного, убийство в джунглях или брак, разрушенный прошлой неосторожностью, все они раскрывают Моэма с лучшей стороны - иногда едкого, иногда слегка комичного, но всегда проницательного и человечного судью характера и души • Книга на английском языке • Mesmerising short stories by this neglected 20th century master • Far Eastern Tales is a collection of short stories born of Maugham's experiences in Malaya, Singapore and other outposts of the former British Empire. Whether portraying a ship-borne flight from a lover's curse, murder in the jungle, or a marriage shattered by a past indiscretion, they all reveal Maugham at his best - sometimes caustic, sometimes gently comic, but always the shrewd and human judge of character and soul

An enjoyable 19th century read following doomed happenings and grisly, secret premonitions • An eminent doctor is visited by a desperate woman with a question: am I evil, or insane? • When the letters from Italian servant to his wife in London suddenly cease, she is convinced he has been murdered • In the darkened bedroom of a mouldering palazzo by the Grand Canal, an English lord sickens and suddenly dies • How are these little mysteries connected? Spend the night in Room 14 of Venice’s finest hotel, and find out the truth – if you dare…

Харуки Мураками: Хроника заводной птицы • Кот Тору Окады исчез • Его жена с каждым днем отдаляется все больше • Затем следуют все более откровенные телефонные звонки, которые он в последнее время получает • По мере развития этой захватывающей истории аккуратные пригородные реалии смутной и безупречной жизни Окады, проводящего время за приготовлением пищи, чтением, прослушиванием джаза и оперы и распитием пива за кухонным столом, выворачиваются наизнанку, и он отправляется в причудливое путешествие, ведомый (пусть и неясно) чередой персонажей, каждому есть что рассказать • Книга на английском языке • Toru Okada's cat has disappeared • His wife is growing more distant every day • Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has recently been receiving

Уильям Моэм: Раскрашенная вуаль • Китти Фэйн - красивая, но поверхностная жена Уолтера, бактериолога, работающего в Гонконге. Неудовлетворенная своим браком, она заводит роман с обаятельным, привлекательным и волнующим Чарльзом Таунсендом. Но когда Уолтер обнаруживает ее обман, он совершает странную и ужасную месть: Китти должна сопровождать его на новое место работы в отдаленный материковый Китай, где свирепствует эпидемия холеры • Впервые опубликованная, вызвавшая бурю протестов, "Раскрашенная вуаль" - это классическая история духовного пробуждения женщины • Книга на английском языке • 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

The first modern spy novel and a must-read for espionage junkies and fans of James Bond and John Le Carre • When Carruthers receives a letter from his friend Davies suggesting a Baltic sailing trip, the vision of a manned yacht, A1 scenery and excellent duck shooting quickly works its charm. But Carruthers hopes for a holiday are quickly dashed. There has been suspicious German activity along the coast. The Medusa, manned by the sinister Dollman, has already tried to destroy Davies. What are the Germans up to? Nothing less than a plot to invade Britain. And only these two courageous Englishmen can stop them • Published in 1903, The Riddle of the Sands is considered the first modern spy novel

Роман Марка Твена "Приключения Гекльберри Финна" - это история о бесшабашном американском мальчишке Гекльберри Финне, друге известного во всем мире веселого и озорного Тома Сойера • После того как два проказника разбогатели, Геку стало слишком скучно вести размеренную жизнь, и он не смог усидеть на месте. В компании своего верного товарища, беглого негра Джима, Гек отправляется в полное невероятных приключений путешествие вдоль диких берегов Миссисипи • Книга на английском языке • 'It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them' • Huck Finn spits, swears, smokes a pipe and never goes to school. With his too-big clothes and battered straw hat, Huck is in need of 'civilising', and the Widow Douglas is determined to take him in hand

This is the archetypal story of the American West. Whether it is cast as a tale of unmatched bravery in the face of impossible odds or of insane arrogance receiving its rightful comeuppance, Custer's Last Stand continues to captivate the imagination • Nathaniel Philbrick brilliantly reconstructs the build-up to the Battle of the Little Big Horn through to the final eruption of violence. Two legendary figures dominate the events: George Armstrong Custer and Sitting Bull. Those involved are brought vividly to life, as well as the history, geography and haunting beauty of the Great Plains • This book provides a thrilling account of what happened there - and why - at the end of June 1876

People are going missing. Only one thing links their cases • They all disappear on the hill • A woman vanishes in the fog up on the Hill in Lafferton. The police have one lead - a pair of expensive cuff-links found in her flat, with a mysterious note attached to them • Then a young girl, an old man and even a dog disappear in quick succession in exactly the same place • Young policewoman Freya Graffham and Chief Inspector Simon Serrailler are given the task of unravelling the mystery. But can they find the Hill killer before he strikes again?

The Ruppert Mundys, once the greatest baseball team in America, are now in a terminal decline, their line-up filled with a disreputable assortment of old men, drunks and even amputees. Around them baseball itself seems to be collapsing, brought down by a bizarre mixture of criminality, stupidity, and The Great Communist Conspiracy, aimed at the very heart of the American way of life • In this hilarious and wonderfully eccentric novel Philip Roth turns his attention to one of the most beloved of all American rituals: baseball. Players, tycoons and the paying public are all targets as Roth satirises the dense tapestry of myths and legends that have grown up around The Great American Pastime

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 vivid scenes on the Bayeux Tapestry depict the events leading up to the Battle of Hastings in 1066. It is one of Europe's greatest treasures and its own story is full of drama and surprise • Who commissioned the tapestry? Was it Bishop Odo, William's ruthless half-brother? Or Harold's dynamic sister Edith, juggling for a place in the new court? Hicks shows us this world and the miracle of the tapestry's making: the stitches, dyes and strange details in the margins. For centuries it lay ignored in Bayeux cathedral until its 'discovery' in the eighteenth century. It became a symbol of power as well as art: townsfolk saved it during the French Revolution; Napoleon displayed it to promote his own conquest; the Nazis strove to make it their own; and its influence endures today