The Secret

В книге представлены рассказы о захватывающих детективных приключениях отца Брауна из сборников «Тайна отца Брауна» и «Скандальное происшествие с отцом Брауном», написанные классиком английской литературы, одним из самых заметных писателей конца XIX – начала XX вв. Г. К. Честертоном (неадаптированное издание). Все произведения даны на языке оригинала. Знакомство с оригиналами

Гілберт Кіт Честертон (1874—1936) – англійський християнський мислитель, журналіст і письменник кінця ХІХ – початку ХХ століття. Він написав близько 80 книжок, серед яких кілька сотень віршів, 200 оповідань, 4000 есеїв, п’єси та романи, але найбільшої слави зажив як автор циклу детективних новел, головним персонажем яких є патер Браун. Основний

A Chinese Taoist nun Lin Bao from a monastery located in the picturesque Wudang Mountains, who was a famous Chinese scholar in worldly life, possesses phenomenal knowledge of history and medicine, a master of sexual kung fu, turned out to be immortal, known in history as “Tea Elder”. She announced

This adaptation of what is recognized today as the oldest Mongolian text (written two decades after Chingis Khan's death) tells the Mongols' own version of the origin of their nation, the life of C

This book offers a new reading of early modern romance in the light of historically contemporary accounts of mind, and specifically the medical tradition of love-melancholy. The book argues that the medical profile of the melancholic lover provides an essential context for understanding the characteristic patterns of romance: narrative deferral,

This collection of thirteen essays by writers from several countries lavishly celebrates the centenary of the publication of Conrad's The Secret Agent. It reconsiders one of Conrad's most important political novels from a variety of critical perspectives and presents a stimulating documentary section as well as specially commissioned maps and

Dr Montessori s revolutionary method of education began early this century. In this classic work she expounds her conviction that in the child there are laws of growth in character and disposition as marked as those in his physical life. This book will be of great interest and importance to

"Madame Defarge is one of Dickens''supreme villainesses. Her secret drives her to seek a revenge so strong that it ties her to the French revolution. In this short play, the main story of Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities becomes the peripheral story to that of Madame Defarge and

The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit was born in the early 1980s as part of the drive to liberalize and reinvigorate the American economy. Its docket covers the rules guiding patents, innovation, globalization, and much of government. Are these rules impelling the economy forward or holding

The Secret Agent (1907) is a compelling tale of espionage and terrorism set in Edwardian London. This new edition is based on a painstaking comparison of the original manuscript of the work.