Страшитесь непроходимых джунглей английского? Вам на помощь придет "Книга джунглей"! Знакомые с детства тексты без труда читаются даже в оригинале.Редьяьрд Киплинг - писатель, поэт, путешественник и лауреат Нобелевской премии по литературе. Он родился в Индии и много путешествовал по ней, когда стал старше, изучая жизнь простых людей. "Книга джунглей" рассказывает о разных героях: мальчике Маугли,...
ISBN: 9785171580223
Издательство:
АСТ
Дата выхода: октябрь 2023
The Jungle Book MinaLima (Rudyard Kipling)The second in Harper Design’s newest series of deluxe reimagined children’s classics, this new unabridged gift edition takes readers into the heart of the jungle with specially commissioned artwork and nine exclusive interactive features.MinaLima is a highly regarded graphic design studio based in London. Unique and imaginative in their style, the studio is renowned as the design team behind one of the largest film franchises of all time, Harry Potter, which has garnered them worldwide attention and praise.Книга джунглей издание Миналима (Редьярд Киплинг)Оригинальный текст, без адаптацииВторое издание в...
The Jungle Book introduces Mowgli, the human foundling adopted by a family of wolves. It tells of the enmity between him and the tiger Shere Khan, who killed Mowgli`s parents, and of the friendship between the man-cub and Bagheera, the black panther, and Baloo, the sleepy brown bear, who instructs Mowgli in the Laws of the Jungle. The Second Jungle Book contains some of the most thrilling of the Mowgli stories. It includes Red Dog, in which Mowgli forms an unlikely alliance with the python Kaa, How Fear Came and Letting in the Jungle as well as The Spring Running, which brings Mowgli to manhood and the realisation that he must leave Bagheera, Baloo and his other friends for the world of man.
ISBN: 9781853261190
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2020
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 of the Barons" is a historical novel first published in 1843. Its plot revolves around the power struggle between the English King Edward IV and his powerful minister Earl of Warwick, known as "Warwick the kingmaker." The novel also explores the themes of romance and science in the Middle Ages.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08287-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: май 2019
Fitzgerald was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. The Last Tycoon is a magnificent 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. 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. The play The Vegetable was a satirical attack on the presidency of Warren Harding. An ordinary, incompetent man, taunted for his lack of ambition by...
ISBN: 978-5-521-07706-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
This is an exciting new book that for the first time combines rich biographical information on the founder of Japanese folklore studies, Kunio Yanagita, with a superb updated translation of his literary classic, The Legends of Tono (1910). This marvelous translation of a Japanese literary and folklore classic, reflecting thirty-five years of research and scholarship, is filled with enthralling tales that bring alive Japan s rich traditional heritage.
The Lost Whale is the enchanting second novel from the author of The Last Bear: the bestselling debut hardback of 2021 and The Times Children’s Book of the Week, winner of the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize and the Blue Peter Award and shortlisted for the British Book Awards 2022 and the Indie Book Awards 2022‘Unforgettable highly accomplished animal adventure about the connection between a boy and a whale, with strong ecological themes’ The Bookseller, Editor’s ChoiceWhat if you could communicate with a whale?Rio has been sent to live with a grandmother he barely knows in California, while his mum is in hospital back home. Alone and adrift, the only thing that makes him smile is joining his new friend Marina on her dad`s...
Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. "The Last Galley: Impressions and Tales" is the second volume in the series, consisting of wonderful short stories like "De Profundis", "Out of the Running" and "The Lord of Falconbridge". .
ISBN: 978-5-521-08080-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. "The Last Galley: Impressions and Tales I" is the first volume in the series, consisting of wonderful short stories like "The Last Galley", "The Contest", and "Through the Veil".
ISBN: 978-5-521-07168-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018
In her first novel in nine years, "New York Times"-bestselling author Kingsolver tells the story of Harrison William Shepherd, an unforgettable protagonist whose search for identity takes readers to the heart of the 20th century s most tumultuous events.
Mendelsohn grew up in a family haunted by the disappearance of six relatives during the Holocaust--an unmentionable subject during his childhood. Decades later, he embarked on a hunt for the remaining eyewitnesses of his relatives fates. This is their story.
ISBN: 9780060542993
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2007
James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century. The Lake Gun is a satirical short story named after the mysterious loud exploding sound coming from Seneca Lake, called The Lake Gun by European American settlers to the area, and known today as the Seneca Guns. These sounds remain unexplained to this day, with no clear or agreed-upon cause.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08034-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
The Little Prince is a modern fable, and for readers far and wide both the title and the work have exerted a pull far in excess of the book's brevity. Written and published first by Antoine de St-Exupery in 1943, only a year before his plane disappeared on a reconnaissance flight, it is one of the world's most widely translated books, enjoyed by adults and children alike. In the meeting of the narrator who has ditched his plane in the Sahara desert, and the little prince, who has dropped there through time and space from his tiny asteroid, comes an intersection of two worlds, the one governed by the laws of nature, and the other determined only by the limits of imagination. The world of the imagination wins hands down, with the concerns...
ISBN: 9781840227604
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2018
The eighth book in the classic Martin Beck detective series from the 1960s and 70s – the novels that shaped the future of Scandinavian crime writing.Hugely acclaimed, the Martin Beck series were the original Scandinavian crime novels and have inspired the writings of Stieg Larsson, Henning Mankell and Jo Nesbo.In one part of town, a woman robs a bank. In another, a corpse is found shot through the heart in a room locked from within, with no firearm in sight. Although the two incidents appear unrelated, Detective Inspector Martin Beck believes otherwise, and solving the mystery acquires the utmost importance. Haunted by a near-fatal bullet wound and trying to recover from the break-up of his unhappy marriage, Beck throws himself into...
ISBN: 9780007439188
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2022
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. "The Last Galley: Impressions and Tales II" is the second volume in the series, consisting of wonderful short stories like "De Profundis", "Out of the Running", and "The Lord of Falconbridge".
ISBN: 978-5-521-07169-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018
This is a tale of adventure and derring-do set in the time of King Henry VIII and the pilgrimage of grace. This was the period when King Henry was rebelling against Pope Clement VII, and when many Englishmen in the north, and many clergymen, were rebelling against Henry, in the so-called Pilgrimage of Grace. To raise needed funds for this rebellion against the king, the Spanish abbot Clement Maldon murders Cicely Foterells father and tries to claim all the family`s lands and jewels.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06621-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: март 2018
The Little Book of Calm (Paul Wilson)This book is your pocket-sized stress antidote, full of advice to follow and thoughts to inspireМаленькая книжечка спокойствия (Пол Уилсон)Оригинальный текст, без адаптации.Эта книга - ваш карманный антидот от стресса, наполненный полезными советами и вдохновляющими мыслями.
ISBN: 9780241257449
Издательство:
Ladybird
Дата выхода: декабрь 2025
Honor Bright is a sheltered Quaker who has rarely ventured out of 1850s Dorset when she impulsively emigrates to America. Opposed to the slavery that defines and divides the country, she finds her principles tested to the limit when a runaway slave appears at the farm of her new family. In this tough, unsentimental place, where whisky bottles sit alongside quilts, Honor befriends two spirited women who will teach her how to turn ideas into action.
ISBN: 9780007350353
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2022
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 of the Barons" is a historical novel first published in 1843. Its plot revolves around the power struggle between the English King Edward IV and his powerful minister Earl of Warwick, known as "Warwick the kingmaker." The novel also explores the themes of romance and science in the Middle Ages.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08286-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: май 2019
