The English language is a battlefield. Since the age of Shakespeare, arguments over correct usage have been acrimonious, and those involved have always really been contesting values - to do with morality, politics and class. THE LANGUAGE WARS examines the present state of the conflict, its history and its future. Above all, it uses the past as a way of illuminating the present. Moving chronologically, the book explores the most persistent issues to do with English and unpacks the history of `proper` usage. Where did these ideas spring from? Which of today`s bugbears and annoyances are actually venerable? Who has been on the front line in the language wars? THE LANGUAGE WARS examines grammar rules, regional accents, swearing, spelling,...

ISBN: 978-1-84854-209-9
Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011

F. S. Fitzgerald (1896—1940) was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. «The Last Tycoon» is a magnificient story of doomed love set against the extravagance of America\'s booming film industry. The studio lot looks like \'thirty acres of fairyland\' the night that a mysterious woman stands and smiles at Monroe Stahr, the last of the great Hollywood princes. Enchanted by one another, they begin a passionate but hopeless love affair, starting with a fast-moving seduction as slick as a scene from one of Stahr\'s pictures. The romance unfolds, frame by frame, watched by Cecilia, a thoroughly modern girl who has taken her lessons in sentiment and cynicism from all the movies she has seen.

ISBN: 978-5-521-07031-2
Издательство: Т8
Дата выхода: апрель 2018

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797 - 1851) was an English novelist, dramatist, and short story writer, universally known for her Gothic novel "Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus". "The Last Man" is an apocalyptic sci-fi novel that tells the story about the world of the future, almost destroyed by the plage. The plot revolves around Lionel Verney, the orphan son of an impoverished nobleman, and his adventures before and after the collapse.

ISBN: 978-5-521-07526-3
Издательство: Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018

Three university students go on holiday to a remote part of Wales. They are going to stay in a cottage without electricity or a telephone in a remote part of the country. But who is the bearded man that haunts them.

ISBN: 978-0-230-03035-0
Издательство: Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

ISBN: 9781409118565
Издательство: Orion Books
Дата выхода: январь 2006

Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and politician. A lot of his works contributed to the early growth of the science fiction genre. "The Last Days of Pompeii" is a novel inspired by the painting by the Russian painter Karl Briullov. It describes the cataclysmic destruction of the city of Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The novel uses its characters to contrast the decadent culture of 1 st-century Rome with both older cultures and coming trends.

ISBN: 978-5-521-08265-0
Издательство: Т8
Дата выхода: февраль 2019

ISBN: 9780241341162
Дата выхода: январь 2018

From the author of "The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari" comes an inspiring parableabout the skills needed to excel in career and life.

ISBN: 9781439109137
Дата выхода: декабрь 2010

Probably the first full-length novel with a woman detective as its heroine, The Law and the Lady is a fascinating example of Collins` later fiction. Despite the grave misgivings of both their families, Valeria Brinton and Eustace Woodville are married. But before long the new bride begins to suspect a dark secret in her husband`s past and when she discovers that he has been living under a false name, she determines to find out why he is concealing his true identity from her. Soon she must endure an even greater shock the revelation that her husband has been on trial for poisoning his first wife, Convinced of his innocence, Valeria is prepared to do anything to clear her husband`s name, and in so doing upturns the conventions of polite...

ISBN: 978-5-521-06458-8
Издательство: Т8
Дата выхода: февраль 2018

ISBN: 9781847494146
Издательство: Alma Books
Дата выхода: январь 2020

Эта книга входит в серию иллюстрированных учебных пособий "Читаем вместе", адресованных детям дошкольного и младшего школьного возраста, начинающих знакомиться с английским языком. Это рассказ о том, как серая мышка случайно обнаружила в лесу домик-теремок, в котором никого не было. Мышке домик понравился, и она осталась в нем жить. Прочитав эту историю, ваш ребенок выучит около 60 новых слов, научится...

ISBN: 978-5-8112-5603-7
Издательство: Айрис-пресс
Дата выхода: январь 2015

ISBN: 9781472208422
Дата выхода: январь 2016

ISBN: 978-0-194-23937-0
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: август 2015

Derace Kingsley`s wife ran away to Mexico to get a quickie divorce and marry a Casanova-wannabe named Chris Lavery. Or so the note she left her husband insisted. Trouble is, when Philip Marlowe asks Lavery about it he denies everything and sends the private investigator packing with a flea lodged firmly in his ear. But when Marlowe next encounters Lavery, he`s denying nothing on account of the two bullet holes in his heart. Now Marlowe`s on the trail of a killer, who leads him out of smoggy LA all the way to a murky mountain lake.

ISBN: 978-0-14-010894-1
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

Derace Kingsley`s wife ran away to Mexico to get a quickie divorce and marry a Casanova-wannabe named Chris Lavery. Or so the note she left her husband insisted. Trouble is, when Philip Marlowe asks Lavery about it he denies everything and sends the private investigator packing with a flea lodged firmly in his ear. But when Marlowe next encounters Lavery, he`s denying nothing - on account of the two bullet holes in his heart. Now Marlowe`s on the trail of a killer, who leads him out of smoggy LA all the way to a murky mountain

ISBN: 978-0-241-95632-8
Издательство: Penguin Group
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011