Penguin Readers are written by specialist ELT authors. The language, vocabulary, style and content of every book is carefully graded to make sure it suits the learner`s own language ability. Every Penguin Reader has a range of activities in the book and accompanying Factsheet to help increase comprehension and develop reading, writing, listening and speaking skills.
ISBN: 978-1-4082-7425-5 Издательство: Pearson Дата выхода: октябрь 2012
Hugo`s epic tale of social injustice, politics, heroism and love is a towering work of Western literature. It follows in particular the fortunes of Jean Valjean who out of extreme poverty steals a loaf of bread and then spends many years trying to escape his reputation as a criminal. In later years he rises socially and is a respectable member of society; but he is not allowed to forget his past by the sadistic policeman Javert who is determined to expose him. As Valjean struggles to elude his nemesis, we meet many other unforgettable characters: the tragically victimized Fantine and her daughter Cosette, whom Valjean has sworn to protect; the rascally Thenardier and the quick-witted street urchin Gavroche. Each of them prepares to meet...
ISBN: 978-0-14-062415-1 Издательство: Penguin Books Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
ISBN: 9782226401175 Дата выхода: январь 2017
ISBN: 9782344043271 Дата выхода: январь 2023
Au programme: jacuzzi, bains moussants, cocktails au bord de la piscine et séances de massages. Voilà comment Rachel s`imagine la vie au Prieuré, un centre de désintoxication pour vedette du show-biz. Persuadée qu`elle n`est pas droguée, elle se réjouit de ces trois semaines de cure forcée. On a vu pire. Seulement papa et maman ont choisi la formule économique. Et ça change tout! Levée sept heures, couchée à neuf! Repas à la cantine et tâches ménagères obligatoires. Enfin, le bouquet: thérapie de groupes tous les après-midi. Finie la belle vie, les bars branchés de New York, les virées avec Luke et sa bande. Désormais, c`est...
ISBN: 978-2-266-18872-2 Издательство: Pocket Дата выхода: июнь 2012
Join Gerda on her magical journey to rescue her friend Kay from the evil Snow Queen. Press the sound buttons to hear a clear, lively reading of the classic winter fairy tale, specially recorded for little ones. With simple text and charming illustrations by Elena Selivanova throughout.
ISBN: 9781474969604 Дата выхода: январь 2019
This collection of essays thrusts Brodsky - heretofore known more for his poetry and translations - into the forefront of the "Third Wave" of Russian emigre writers. His insights into the works of Dostoyevsky, Mandelstam, Platonov, as well as non-Russian poets Auden, Cavafy and Montale are brilliant. While the Western popularity of many other Third Wavers has been stunted by their inability to write in English, Brodsky consumed the language to attain a "closer proximity" to poets such as Auden. The book, which won a National Book Critics Circle Award, opens and closes with revealing autobiographical essay.
ISBN: 978-0-374-52055-7 Дата выхода: февраль 2012
In 1985, Bret Easton Ellis shocked, stunned and disturbed with his debut novel, Less Than Zero. Published when he was just twenty-one, this extraordinary and instantly infamous work has done more than simply define a genre, it has become a rare thing: a cult classic and a timeless embodiment of the zeitgeist. It continues to be a landmark in the lives of successive generations of readers across the globe. Filled with relentless drinking in seamy bars and glamorous nightclubs, wild, drug-fuelled parties, and dispassionate sexual encounters, Less Than Zero narrated by Clay, an eighteen-year-old student returning home to Los Angeles for Christmas is a fierce coming-of-age story, justifiably celebrated for its unflinching depiction of...
ISBN: 978-0-330-53932-6 Издательство: Picador Дата выхода: апрель 2011
When Fifi moves to London with her bricklayer boyfriend Dan, her mother is outraged. Despite initial feelings of horror at her new surroundings, Fifi finds the freedom from her middle-class family background exhilarating. Insatiably inquisitive, Fifi is fascinated by her new neighbours and wants to know what goes on behind all those shabby front doors. Why is Yvette, the French dressmaker, such a hermit? Why doesn`t widower Frank join his daughter and grandchildren in Australia? And why doesn`t the formidable and well-bred Miss Diamond move somewhere smarter? But most of all she is ghoulishly fascinated by the Muckles who live opposite in terrible squalor. She listens to their violent quarrels, watches their ill-treated and wretchedly...
ISBN: 978-0-14-104609-9 Издательство: Penguin Books Дата выхода: июль 2011
Greg Gutfeld was a high-achieving New Yorker in therapy when he was posted to the UK to take up the position of editor of Maxim magazine. Once settled in London he had something of a cultural epiphany. Service and transport were poor and slow, food was soggy and came in tiny portions and the beer was warm. The British, he decided, viewed the world through a prism of dreariness but, despite this, they seemed to be more cheerful than his fellow countrymen, who expected to be happy on demand. After two years in the UK, Gutfeld was12 kilos heavier but a lot more content. The key to his new-found contentment lay in adopting the British attitude to life: having diminished expectations reaps its own rewards. His hilarious observations on...
ISBN: 978-1-84739-075-2 Издательство: Simon & Schuster UK Дата выхода: август 2011
Izzie Silver left the small Irish town of Tamarin behind for New York. Life is good - until she breaks her own rules and falls for a married man. On the other side of the ocean, Izzie`s aunt Anneliese discovers the pain of infidelity for herself. Then Lily, the wise and compassionate family matriarch, is taken ill. At her bedside back in Ireland, Izzie discovers a past her grandmother has never spoken of, while Anneliese fears that, Lily, the one person she could talk to, is starting to slip away. The lessons each of the women learns - both past and present - bring joy and heartbreak. And the hardest lesson of all is learning to let go.
ISBN: 978-0-00-724040-1 Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers Дата выхода: июль 2011
LET IT BLEED takes you where no Rolling Stones book has before. Author and photographer Ethan Russell was one of only sixteen people - including the Rolling Stones - who made up the 1969 tour. He was with them in their hotel rooms, at rehearsals, and on stage. He tells the story of this monumental and historic tour firsthand, including recollections from band members, crew, security, and other sixties icons - like Abbie Hoffman and Little Richard - they met along the way. And he also includes amazing photos of the performers who toured with the Stones that year: the legendary Tina Turner and B. B. King. Through vivid quotes taken from his interviews with the band and crew, and through more than 220 revealing photographs, Russell takes...
ISBN: 978-0-446-53904-3 Дата выхода: июль 2011
Modern, original fiction for learners of English. Nolan is a robot, created by a lonely electronics expert, John, to run his home, cook and do the ironing. But Nolan is not content; he wants to be human. When he realizes that this is not possible, he turns against John, who finds there is no escape from his malevolence.
ISBN: 978-0-521-68329-6 Издательство: Cambridge Дата выхода: июль 2011
Oskar and Eli. In very different ways, they were both victims. Which is why, against the odds, they became friends. And how they came to depend on one another, for life itself. Oskar is a 12 year old boy living with his mother on a dreary housing estate at the city's edge. He dreams about his absentee father, gets bullied at school, and wets himself when he's frightened. Eli is the young girl who moves in next door. She doesn't go to school and never leaves the flat by day. She is a 200 year old vampire, forever frozen in childhood, and condemned to live on a diet of fresh blood. John Ajvide Lindqvist's novel is a unique and brilliant fusion of social novel and vampire legend, a deeply moving fable about rejection, friendship and loyalty.
ISBN: 978-0-85738-256-6 Издательство: Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press) Дата выхода: июль 2011
Modern, original fiction for learners of English. Nolan is a robot, created by a lonely electronics expert, John, to run his home, cook and do the ironing. But Nolan is not content; he wants to be human. When he realizes that this is not possible,
ISBN: 978-0-521-68330-2 Издательство: Cambridge Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
The Caucasus mountains are a land of jagged peaks and rugged people, who for over 200 years have rebelled against Russia`s attempts to add them to its empire. Oliver Bullough`s extraordinary debut tells their story for the first time. Travelling from remote village to refugee camp, rocky mountain gorge to forgotten massacre site, he discovers exiles, fighters, lost sects, defiant survivors - and an unbreakable spirit.
ISBN: 978-0-14-103774-5 Издательство: Penguin Group Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
With two years experience behind him, James Herriot still feels privileged working on the beautiful Yorkshire moors as assistant vet at the Darrowby practice. Time to meet yet more unwilling patients and a rich cast of supporting owners. Full of hilarious tales of his unpredictable boss Siegfreid Farnon, his charming student brother Tristan, the joys of spring lambing, a vicious cat called Boris and James` jinxed courtship of the lovely Helen, this third volume of memoirs is sure to delight hardened fans and new readers of James Herriot titles alike. `He can tell a good story against himself, and his pleasure in the beauty of the countryside in which he works is infectious.` - "Daily Telegraph". `Full of warmth, wisdom and wit.` - "The...
ISBN: 978-0-330-44354-8 Издательство: Picador Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Oskar and Eli. In very different ways, they were both victims. Which is why, against the odds, they became friends. And how they came to depend on one another, for life itself. Oskar is a 12 year old boy living with his mother on a dreary housing estate at the city`s edge. He dreams about his absentee father, gets bullied at school, and wets himself when he`s frightened. Eli is the young girl who moves in next door. She doesn`t go to school and never leaves the flat by day. She is a 200 year old vampire, forever frozen in childhood, and condemned to live on a diet of fresh blood. John Ajvide Lindqvist`s novel is a unique and brilliant fusion of social novel and vampire legend, a deeply moving fable about rejection, friendship and loyalty.
ISBN: 978-1-84724-848-0 Издательство: Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press) Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
In this latest novel from bestselling author John Verdon, ingenious puzzle solver Dave Gurney puts under the magnifying glass a notorious serial murder case – one whose motives have been enshrined as law-enforcement dogma - and discovers that everyone has it wrong. The most decorated homicide detective in NYPD history, Dave Gurney is still trying to adjust to his life of quasi-retirement in upstate New York when a young woman who is producing a documentary on a notorious murder spree seeks his counsel. Soon after, Gurney begins feeling threatened: a razor-sharp hunting arrow lands in his yard, and he narrowly escapes serious injury in a booby-trapped basement. As things grow more bizarre, he finds himself reexamining the case of The...
ISBN: 978-0-7181-9714-8 Дата выхода: июль 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4088-0868-9 Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
ISBN: 9780857385512 Издательство: Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press) Дата выхода: январь 2017
ISBN: 9780571356904 Дата выхода: январь 2019
ISBN: 9780141188492 Издательство: Penguin Books Дата выхода: январь 2006
Caught between two lovers, Madison Castelli, the savvy heroine from the L.A. Connections series, discovers someone close to her is keeping deadly secrets. Madison is plunged into the high-powered circles of New York and manic thrills of Las Vegas, only to find out nothing is ever as it seems.
ISBN: 9780671020965 Издательство: Simon & Schuster UK Дата выхода: июнь 2001
Let`s Explore a Pirate Ship! Come discover the complex inner-workings of a pirate ship from the roaring raids on a Spanish galleon to the salvage mission of a sunken vessel. From the outer decks to the crew`s quarters this book reveals every part of pirate life. Beautiful and intricate illustrations show the smallest details and will even cause some laughs as you notice funny scenes hidden inside the ship. Featuring naval battle scenes, a sunken ship panorama, and even funny scenes like pirates dropping cannon balls. Peek behind decks, windows and hulls to unfold panoramic foldouts of four unbelievably detailed scenes. Then, on the next page you`ll find a breakdown of each scene, with clear explanations, interesting facts and even more...
ISBN: 978-0-8437-1378-7 Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
