Original / British English Mike is an assistant van driver. He meets Jennifer in her father`s shop and he likes her very much. Jennifer is going to go to the cinema with him. But he is very late, and Jennifer is very angry. Is it really Mike`s lucky day?
ISBN: 978-1-4058-7813-5
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Original / British English Mike is an assistant van driver. He meets Jennifer in her father`s shop and he likes her very much. Jennifer is going to go to the cinema with him. But he is very late, and Jennifer is very angry. Is it really Mike`s lucky day?
ISBN: 978-1-4058-7695-7
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Russia`s literary world is shaken to its foundations when a mysterious gentleman - a professor of black magic - arrives in Moscow, accompanied by a bizarre retinue of servants. It soon becomes clear that he is the Devil himself, come to wreak havoc among the cultural elite of a disbelieving capital. But the Devil`s mission quickly becomes entangled with the fate of the Master - a man who has turned his back on his former life and taken refuge in a lunatic asylum - and his past lover, Margarita. Both a satirical romp and a daring analysis of the nature of good and evil, innocence and guilt, The Master and Margarita is the crowning achievement of one of the greatest Russian writers of the twentieth century.
ISBN: 978-1-84749-782-6
Издательство:
Alma Books
Дата выхода: январь 2018
Mildred Pierce is the story of a determined and ambitious woman who, after her feckless husband abandons her, builds a successful business through hard work and sacrifice in order to ensure the future of her pampered and selfish daughter. But Mildred is completely unprepared for the intrigues and devastating betrayals of those closest to her.
Two complete novels and a short novel in one large volume: "Komarr"— Miles Vorkosigan is sent to Komarr, a planet that could be a garden with a thousand more years of terraforming; or an uninhabitable wasteland, if the terraforming project fails. The solar mirror vital to the project has been shatteredby a ship hurtling off course, and Miles Vorkossigan has been sent to find out if it was an accident, or sabotage. Miles uncovers a plot that could exile him from Barrayar forever — and discovers an unexpected ally, one with wounds as deep and honor as beleaguered as his own. "A Civil Campaign"— On Komarr, Miles met the beautiful Vor widow Ekaterin Vorsoisson, who has no intention of getting married after the heartbreak and betrayal...
ISBN: 978-1-4165-5547-6
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Whether he`s rescuing prisoners, keeping his enemies from replacing him with a clone, or coming back from his own dysfunctional death, Miles gets the job done. Of course, it may not be "quite" the job his superiors wanted done.
ISBN: 978-0-7434-3558-1
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. The novel Afloat and Ashore ends abruptly part way through, and is followed by what critic Harold D. Langely called a "necessary" sequel Miles Wallingford, which resolves many thematic and plot elements.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06655-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
"Two complete novels and a short novel in one large volume": "Falling Free" - The Nebula Award-winning novel. Leo Graf was just your typical efficient engineer: mind your own business and do the job. But all that changed on his assignment to the Cay Habitat, where children had been bio-engineered to have four arms (and no legs) to function in zero gravity. Now that they`re no longer needed, a heartless mega corporation is getting rid of them before they eat into the profit margin. Leo Graf adopted 1000 quaddies - now he had to teach them to be free. Labyrinth - When Miles Vorkosigan is captured while on a secret mission to a lawless world, his only hope of escape is an unlikely pair of allies: a quaddie and a teenage werewolf....
ISBN: 978-1-4165-5600-8
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. Miles Wallingfordis a classic Cooper`s sea adventure novel about merchant mariners and serves as a sequel to the sea adventure classic, "Afloat and Ashore".
ISBN: 978-5-521-07955-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Semyon is disturbed. He has woken up in the living room with blood on his shirt, an angry wife and no idea where he was the night before. After waking to find his boots and overcoat damp on several mornings in a row, Semyon realises his excursions are a nightly occurrence. Concerned for his own safety and for the security of his marriage, he asks his friend and business partner Volodka to follow him on his nocturnal wanderings. The next morning, Volodka gives Semyon a full report. He left the apartment a little after 2 and walked several blocks until he encountered a tall blonde, whom he kissed and accompanied to her door. But when he visits the address in the daytime, the bemused Semyon doesn`t recognise the location. And stranger yet,...
The Mill on the Floss, based on George Eliot`s own experiences of provincial life, is a masterpiece of ambiguity in which moral choice is subjected to the hypocrisy of the Victorian age. As the headstrong Maggie Tulliver grows into womanhood, the deep love which she has for her brother Tom turns into conflict, because she cannot reconcile his bourgeois standards with her own lively intelligence. Maggie is unable to adapt to her community or break free from it, and the result, on more than one level, is tragedy.
ISBN: 1-85326-074-6
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2001
Introduction and Notes by R.T. Jones, Honorary Fellow of the University of York.This novel, based on George Eliot`s own experiences of provincial life, is a masterpiece of ambiguity in which moral choice is subjected to the hypocrisy of the Victorian age.As the headstrong Maggie Tulliver grows into womanhood, the deep love which she has for her brother Tom turns into conflict, because she cannot reconcile his bourgeois standards with her own lively intelligence. Maggie is unable to adapt to her community or break free from it, and the result, on more than one level, is tragedy.
ISBN: 9781853260742
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: октябрь 2022
Boxed set edition of the Millennium Trilogy, the first volume of which, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, has been adapted as a major Hollywood film starring Daniel Craig to be released on the 26th December. The set includes revised hardback editions of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets` Nest, plus a fourth volume containing essays by those who knew and worked with the author, as well as other original material. Extra material in the fourth volume includes an essay by Eva Gedin, Larsson`s publisher, on working with the author; an email correspondence between Larsson and Eva Gedin; an essay by John-Henri Holmberg, placing Stieg Larsson in the context of the resurgence of...
Two bothers, Damian and Anthony, are unwittingly caught up in a train robbery during Britain`s countdown to join the Euro. Suddenly finding themselves with a vast amount of cash, the boys have just one glorious, appalling dilemma -- how to spend it in the few days before it becomes worthless. Torn between the vices of buying a million pizzas and the virtues of ending world poverty, the boys soon discover that being rich is a mug`s game. For not only is the clock ticking -- the bungling bank robbers are closing in. Pizzas or World Peace, what would you choose?
ISBN: 978-0-330-45084-3
Издательство:
Picador USA
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Michael Morpurgo and Helen Stephens` classic Christmas story, now in a brand-new larger gift format - the perfect Christmas gift!High in the mountains of Switzerland, lives a terrible dragon.In the village below, the people do everything they can to keep the dragon away.But one day, a little girl called Mimi finds a baby dragon. The little creature is lost and frightened but how did he get there and what if his mother comes looking for him? Mimi must be extremely brave if she is going to help the little dragon find his way home ...A wonderful story about friendship, courage and adventure, perfect for sharing with the whole family.
ISBN: 9781405294195
Издательство:
Farshore
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2022
A New York Times Bestseller. Her telekinetic gift has forced Dahlia to spend her life isolated from others. And just when she thinks she`s found peace, her world comes crashing She has become the target of deadly assassins and she must rely on Nicholas, a dangerous warrior sent to protect her.
ISBN: 978-0-515-13809-2
Издательство:
Rem Distributors
Дата выхода: август 2011
Northing should be this good. Three weeks on the Keniyan coast with the gorgeous Cara and a part in a cutting-edge experiment on the human mind for Oxford`s hottest researcher. But now Ben Ashurst has been humiliated, betrayed and abandoned to the brutal reality of Africa. Why? Is Ben being played for a fool, or is he in real danger& A nerve-stretching thriller of deceit and manipulation, this is the story of a man forced to play a deadly game - without knowing who the players are, what the prize is, or how to The Mind Game: no rules, no limits. Winner takes all.
ISBN: 978-0-14-101343-5
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Oscar Wilde, Isaac Asimov, James Thurber, Fredric Brown
A Collection of Very Short Stories and Modern Fables Mind the Characters is a journey into the world of English language fiction through the analysis of short stories and modern fables . The authors of the texts include Oscar Wilde, Isaac Asimov, James Thurber and Fredric Brown. Each of the ten units looks at the relationships between the characters and their worlds - both real and imaginary. The characters include Little Red Riding Hood and the wolf, a little girl and a talking snail, a little boy and a star, a man and a computer and a pair of vampires and an alien. INTERACT WITH LITERATURE offers a wide range of original literary texts from intermediate level upwards (unabridged short stories or extracts from novels, as well as...
ISBN: 978885300-654-7
Издательство:
CIDEB
Дата выхода: июль 2011