"The Pit and the Pendulum": A prisoner wakes up to find himself in a dark cell with a deep pit. "The Gold Bug": A golden insect leads to an incredible discovery. "The facts in the case of Mr. Valdemar": A patient is hypnotised minutes before he dies. Is he really dead? "The Fall of the House of Usher": A man visits an old friend and finds himself in a house full of horrors! "Down in the Maelstrom": A sailor describes a terrifying trip though the maelstrom. "The Masque of the Red Death": No one can escape the red death-not even a prince! "The Oblong Box": A traveller boards a ship to New York. What does he carry in the oblong box? Retold by Stephen Colbourn.
ISBN: 978-0-230-03746-5
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
"Shadowplay" is a revelatory new look at how Shakespeare secretly addressed the most profound political issues of his day, and how his plays embody a hidden history of England.
A stunning and moving novel from a master storyteller – featuring the bravest dog in the world . . .Shadow broke all Michael Morpurgo records in hardback, selling a massive 50,000 copies through TCM in the first twelve weeks. Now, the phenomenon arrives in paperback, ready to take the mass market by storm…This is the story of Aman, as told in his own words – a boy from Afghanistan fleeing the horror of the Afghan war. When a western dog shows up outside the caves where Aman lives with his mother, Aman is initially repulsed – it is not customary for people to keep dogs as pets in his part of the world. But when Aman and his mother finally decide to make a bid for freedom, the dog Aman has called Shadow will not leave their side....
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. She and Allan is a novel by H. Rider Haggard, first published in 1921. It brought together his two most popular characters, Ayesha from She (to which it serves as a prequel), and Allan Quatermain from King Solomon`s Mines.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07725-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
A new B-format edition of this novel, designed to take fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings deeper into the myths and legends of Middle-earth The Silmarillion is an account of the Elder Days, of the First Age of Tolkien`s world. It is the ancient drama to which the characters in The Lord of the Rings look back, and in whose events some of them such as Elrond and Galadriel took part. The tales of The Silmarillion are set in an age when Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwelt in Middle-Earth, and the High Elves made war upon him for the recovery of the Silmarils, the jewels containing the pure light of Valinor. Included in the book are several shorter works. The Ainulindale is a myth of the Creation and in the Valaquenta the nature and...
Книга содержит неадаптированный текст рассказа СЕРЕБРЯНЫЙ А.Конан Дойля на английском языке с упражнениями, комментариями и словарем. Перевод наиболее трудных предложений дан в сносках, а сложные элементы выделены и объяснены в комментариях. Для широкого круга читателей.
Original / British English (Available February 2008) Simon Simple is going on holiday and the police are looking for a spy. On the train, Simon meets a beautiful girl. He likes her and she likes him. But the spy is there too. Simon and the police can`t see the spy. Can you?
ISBN: 978-1-4058-6961-4
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
This smart new paperback edition contains the fully-reset text of three medieval English poems, translated by Tolkien for the modern-day reader and containing romance, tragedy, love, sex and honour. It features a beautifully decorated text and includes as a bonus the complete version of Tolkien’s acclaimed lecture on Sir Gawain.Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl are two poems by an unknown author written in about 1400. Sir Gawain is a romance, a fairy-tale for adults, full of life and colour; but it is also much more than this, being at the same time a powerful moral tale which examines religious and social values.Pearl is apparently an elegy on the death of a child, a poem pervaded with a sense of great personal loss: but, like...
Anthony Trollope (1815—1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. Since its first appearance in 1870, "Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite" has been regarded as one of Trollope`s finest short novels. On the death of his only son, the wealthy baronet Sir Harry Hotspur has determined to give his property to his daughter Emily. She is vigorous, beautiful and as strong-willed as her father. So when she falls in love with George, the black sheep of the family, Sir Harry must decide what to do.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08360-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: февраль 2020
William Willde Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. Set against the background of the French Revolution, Sister Rose concerns Louis Trudaine; his sister, Rose, who contracts an unhappy marriage to the aristocratic Charles Danville; and Danville\'s land-steward, Lomaque, who is indebted to Trudaine\'s father. Trudaine fulfils a deathbed promise to his mother to protect Rose and arouses Danville\'s animosity.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07583-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018
One of the most powerful monarchs in British history, Henry VIII ruled England in unprecedented splendour. In this remarkable composite biography, Alison Weir brings Henry`s six wives vividly to life, revealing each as a distinct and compelling personality in her own right. Drawing upon the rich fund of documentary material from the Tudor period, The Six Wives of Henry VIII shows us a court where personal needs frequently influenced public events and where a life of gorgeously ritualised pleasure was shot through with ambition, treason and violence.
ISBN: 978-0-09-952362-8
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
A crucial, forgotten chapter of American history--immortalized in a survivor s firsthand account that became one of the bestselling books in 19th-century America and influenced Abraham Lincoln s thoughts on slavery--is brilliantly retold for a new generation.
ISBN: 9780316159357
Издательство:
Back Bay Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2005
