mild-mannered
1A Game for the Living , Highsmith P. (2016)
Mild-mannered Theo is a wealthy German expatriate; hot-tempered Ramon was born into poverty in Mexico City. The two men are unlikely friends - especially as they are in love with the same woman. When… 572 руб2The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde , Robert Louis Stevenson (2010)
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.'All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.'After taking an elixir created in his… 202 руб3Rupture , Simon Lelic (2010)
'Find what you were looking for, Inspector'? Every day the same question. A different uniform but the same question. They thought Lucia enjoyed being here. They thought that was why she kept coming… 562 руб4After the Quake , Murakami Haruki (2002)
The six stories in Haruki Murakami’s mesmerizing collection are set at the time of the catastrophic 1995 Kobe earthquake, when Japan became brutally aware of the fragility of its daily existence… 948 руб5Insomnia , King Stephen (2011)
You'll lose a lot of sleep... Ralph does. At first he starts waking up earlier. And earlier. Then the hallucinations start - the colours, shapes and strange auras. Not to mention the bald doctors who… 655 руб6Ed King , Guterson David (2011)
In 1962, actuary Walter Cousins makes the biggest mistake of his life. When mild-mannered Walter -'a man who weighs risk for a living'- sleeps with the sharp-tongued, not-quite-legal British au pair… 1369 руб7Putin's Oil. The Yukos Affair and the Struggle for Russia , Sixsmith Martin (2010)
This title investigates Vladimir Putin's war for control of Russia's vast oil reserves, in particular Mikhail Khodorkovsky's oil firm, Yukos. Putin's Oil investigates the complex world of Kremlin… 4509 руб8The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde , Stevenson Robert Louis (2010)
After taking an elixir created in his laboratory, mild mannered Dr Jekyll is transformed into the cruel and despicable Mr Hyde. Although seemingly harmless at first, things soon descend into chaos… 348 руб9Expo 58 , Jonathan Coe (2014)
The World's Fair, Belgium, 1958. Freshly arrived is mild-mannered civil servant Thomas Foley, heir to ensure the British contribution - a pub called the Britannia - is no national embarrassment. But… 609 руб10In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin , Erik Larson (2011)
Berlin, 1933. William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany in a year that will prove to be a turning point in history. A mild-mannered professor from Chicago, he brings… 1519 руб