Maugham takes us from England to France, to Chicago and to the beautiful island of Tahiti. Roger Charing is engaged to marry Ruth, but he changes his mind. We read how he makes his clever Escape. Many men fall in love with Louise. But she is selfish and uses her poor health to live as she pleases. In The Ant and the Grasshopper, George and Tom are brothers. One works hard and is unhappy. The other is lazy but enjoys his life. Romance on the Pacific island of Tahiti leads to The Fall of Edward Barnard.
ISBN: 978-1-4050-7266-3
Издательство:
Langenscheidt
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The wonderful warm-hearted story of Mr Hoppy, Mrs Silver and the tortoise who brings them together. This edition has a great new Quentin Blake cover as well as some new biographical facts about Roald Dahl.
ISBN: 978-0-14-132279-7
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Phizzwhizzing new cover look and branding for the World`s number one storyteller! This is the wonderful and warm-hearted Roald Dahl classic, Esio Trot. Mr Hoppy really loves his neighbour Mrs Silver, and Mrs Silver really loves her tortoise, Alfie. One day Mrs Silver asks Mr Hoppy how to make Alfie grow, and suddenly Mr Hoppy knows the way to win her heart. With the help of a magical spell and some cabbage leaves, can Mr Hoppy be happy at last?
ISBN: 9780141365480
Издательство:
Puffin Books
Дата выхода: январь 2020
Provides students of all ages with easy-to-follow guidance on how to structure an essay and how to select and research the most appropriate subject to write on. The first section covers gathering and developing information; the second offers schematic sumaries to the first part.
ISBN: 978-0-19-860505-8
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: июль 2011
"Essays in Love" will appeal to anyone who has ever been in a relationship or confused about love. The book charts the progress of a relationship between a man and a woman, from their first kiss to the onset of anxiety and heartbreak. The work`s genius lies in the way it minutely analysis emotions we`ve all felt before but have perhaps never understood so well: it includes a chapter on the anxieties of when and how to say "I love you" and another on the challenges of disagreeing with someone else`s taste in shoes. While gripping the reader with the talent of a great novelist, de Botton brings a philosopher`s sensibility to his analyses of the emotions of love, resulting in a genre-breaking book that is at once touching and...
ISBN: 978-0-330-44078-3
Издательство:
Picador
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
From the dawn of civilization to the first decade of the 21st century, this straightforwardly written, superbly accessible reference distills the concentrated essence of world history into a single compact, 544-page volume that fits in the palm of your hand. Featuring more than 1,000 illustrations, it`s a book as vivid as it is definitive, with an innovative design that invites readers to envision the human epic from a wide variety of revealing perspectives. Here are history`s greatest moments presented in self-contained, interactive spreads organized by epochal themes and cross-referenced to offer an in-depth and multi-dimensional view of major world events. The book is organized into eight fundamental eras from prehistory to the...
ISBN: 978-1-4262-0091-5
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: май 2012
Essential Science is an attractive six-level course for primary schools which teaches the basics of Science, Geography and History through English. Ideal for classes with limited contact hours, Essential Science provides a carefully graded language syllabus which covers all the Science content required by students at this level, with clear motivating lesson stages described in the Teacher`s Guide.
The author who most epitomises the decadent jazz age and "the lost generation" of post-World War One America, Fitzgerald remains a best-selling author worldwide. Collected here in this covetable and must-have boxed set are four of his major works, including "The Great Gatsby".
ISBN: 978-0-14-119816-3
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
George Orwell was perhaps the twentieth century`s best chronicler of English culture and one of our most significant political thinkers. In this covetable boxed set are collected together four of his essential works, including the seminal novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
ISBN: 978-0-14-119818-7
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
A reference book chock-full of sidebars, quotes, and short interviews, this illustrated guide to Middle-earth and beyond will be an indispensable addition to any Tolkien collection.
ISBN: 978-1-56414-702-8
Издательство:
Феникс
Дата выхода: май 2012
Of the two hundred stories that Anton Chekhov wrote, the twenty stories that appear in this extraordinary collection were personally chosen by Richard Ford - an accomplished storyteller in his own right. Included are the familiar masterpieces - "The Kiss," "The Darling," and "The Lady with the Dog" - as well as several brilliant lesser-known tales such as "A Blunder," "Hush!," and "Champagne." These stories, ordered from 1886 to 1899, are drawn from Chekhov`s most fruitful years as a short-story writer. A truly balanced selection, they exhibit the qualities that make Chekhov one of the greatest fiction writers of all time: his gift for detail, dialogue, and humor; his emotional perception and compassion; and his understanding that life`s...
ISBN: 978-0-06-095656-1
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
"The Essential Hemingway" is the perfect introduction to the astonishing, wide-ranging body of work by the Nobel Prizewinning author. This impressive collection includes: the full text of "Fiesta", Hemingway`s first major novel; long extracts from three of his greatest works of fiction, "A Farewell to Arms", "To Have and Have Not" and "For Whom the Bell Tolls"; twenty-five complete short stories; and the breathtaking Epilogue to "Death in the Afternoon".
ISBN: 0-09-933931-5
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2004
An immortal war has been brewing in the And now one woman has stumbled into the shadows. Chicago private investigator Kira Graceling should have just kept on walking. But her sense of duty refused to let her ignore the moans of pain coming from inside a warehouse just before dawn. Suddenly she finds herself in a world she`s only imagined in her worst nightmares. At the center is Mencheres, a breathtaking Master vampire who thought he`d seen it all. Then Kira appears - this fearless, human who braved death to rescue him. Though he burns for her, keeping Kira in his world means risking her life. Yet sending her away is unthinkable. But with danger closing in, Mencheres must choose either the woman he craves, or embracing the darkest magic...
Haven Moore has always known she`s different: there are the talents that can`t be explained; the knowledge of places she`s never been; and, then there are the visions that overwhelm her - terrifying visions of a life that ended tragically two decades earlier and more than a thousand miles away in New York City. The citizens of Haven`s rural, highly religious community, believe that she`s been possessed by a demon. But this is no demon: it`s reincarnation. Haven journeys all the way to Manhattan in search of clues about her past life and a decades-old murder. One wrong move could lead her into the clutches of the sinister villain at the center of a conspiracy much larger than she could have ever imagined. But if she makes the right...
ISBN: 978-0-14-133199-7
Издательство:
Puffin
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Five classic short stories by Dostoevsky are collected in a single anthology for the first time, showcasing the author`s strange and intoxicating literary genius.
ISBN: 978-0-553-21444-4
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011
The heart-pounding conclusion to the InterWorld series, by award-winning writers Neil Gaiman, Michael Reaves and Mallory ReavesAs the threat of FrostNight looms ever closer, Joey Harker seeks out more of his fellow Walkers across the Altiverse, training them as fast as he can. But even a solid team of recruits can’t prepare Joey for the ultimate showdown with InterWorld’s enemies, old and new.Joey never wanted to be in charge. But he’s the one everyone is looking to now, and he’ll have to step up if he has any hope of saving InterWorld, the Multiverse, and everything in between.
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