The name Edgar Allan Рое conjures up thoughts of hearts beating long after their owners are dead, of disease and plague amid wealth, and of love that extends beyond the grave. The richness of Poe`s writing, however, includes much more than horror, loss, and death. Poe`s stories teem with irony and black humor, in addition to plot twists and surprise endings. Living by their own rules and charged with passion, Poe`s characters are instantly recognizable— even though we may be appalled by their actions, we understand their motivations. This collection contains eleven of Poe`s best stories. They are "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Cask of Amontillado," "The Premature Burial,"...
ISBN: 978-5-521-06265-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
Настоящая книга представляет собой переработку романа известного английского писателя Роберта Луи Стивенсона "Черная стрела" (R. L. Stevenson "The Black Arrow"). Книга является пособием для самостоятельного чтения на английском языке. Для облегчения чтения и понимания в книге имеется словарь и постраничные комментарии. Книга адресована школьникам старших классов, а также всем, изучающим английский язык.
ISBN: 5-93414-040-X
Издательство:
Б & К
Дата выхода: август 2004
Роберт Льюис Стивенсон - известный шотландский писатель и поэт XIX века, автор приключенческих романов и повестей, крупнейший представитель английского неоромантизма, чьи произведения остаются любимыми и читаемыми до сих пор. Сюжет повести «Чёрная стрела» разворачивается в Англии XV века, во время войны Роз, а главным героем выступает сын английского короля - Ричард. Читателей ждёт лихой сюжет, бравые...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05817-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2017
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811—1863) was a British author and novelist mostly known for his satir-ical works such as "Vanity Fair" that showed an ironic representation of the British society of those times. "The Book of Snobs" is a collection of many satirical works originally written by Thackeray in 1848 for Punch magazine. It is a humorous study that starts with the statement that "Snobs are to be studied like other objects of Natural Science". .
ISBN: 978-5-521-07822-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
The now global phenomenon of graffiti was first captured in New York by a professional photographer, Jon Naar, in early 1973. The Faith of Graffiti, the first and most celebrated book about this controversial new art form, reproduced just over forty selections from the hundreds of photographs he took. Now more than one hundred thirty never-before-published pictures from that landmark body of work, together with a selection of key photographs from The Faith of Graffiti, are brought together in a book destined to become a classic in its own right. Presented full-frame, at high resolution, and with meticulous attention to the original color, this book brings to life the gritty, exciting New York of the early 1970s and the raw visual power...
ISBN: 978-3-7913-3796-8
Издательство:
Prestel
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Издания, представленные в серии «Простое чтение на английском языке», являются учебными пособиями по страноведению и истории, развивают познавательную активность и способствуют развитию у учащихся навыков аналитического мышления. Предназначены для учащихся 7—8 классов школ с углубленным изучением английского языка или школьников старших классов обычной средней школы. Также могут быть полезны...
ISBN: 978-5-17-054660-2
Издательство:
АСТ/Астрель
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2008
Original / British English The year was 1963, and Beatlemania was only just beginning. Soon the Beatles had fans all around the world. For the rest of the 1960s their music led the way and they changed modern music forever. This book tells the story of the greatest band in the world from the early days in Liverpool to the Beatles’ music in the world today. 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: 978-1-4479-2535-4
Издательство:
Pearson Education Limited
Дата выхода: май 2012
Fitzgerald was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. The Beautiful and Damned, first published in 1922, is Fitzgerald`s second novel. It explores and portrays New York society and the American Eastern elite during the Jazz Age before and after "the Great War" and in the early 1920s.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07704-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
The Beautiful and Damned tells the story of Anthony Patch, a 1910s socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon`s fortune, and his courtship and relationship with his wife Gloria Gilbert. It describes his brief service in the Army during World War I, and the couple`s post-war partying life in New York, and his later alcoholism. Gloria and Anthony’s love story is much more than just a couple falling in love. Their story deals with the hardships of a relationship, especially when each character has a tendency to be selfish. Joanna Stolarek suggests, Fitzgerald draws on “Zelda, the object of the writer’s literary passion”.
When William Kamkwamba was just 14 years old his parents told him that he must leave school and come and work on the family farm as they could no longer afford to $80 a year tuition fees. This is the story of his refusal to give up on learning and reading. A story of passion, determination and remarkable achievements. Malawi is a country battling AIDS, drought and famine, and in 2002, a season of floods, followed by the most severe famine in fifty years, brought it to its knees. Like the majority of the population, William`s family were farmers. They were totally reliant of the maize crop. By the end of 2001, after many lean and difficult years, there was no more crop. They were running out of food - had nothing to sell - and had months...
ISBN: 978-0-00-731619-9
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2011
Twenty wickedly anarchic tales from the master of the unpredictable, chosen from his bestsellers "Over to You", "Someone Like You", "Kiss Kiss" and "Switch Bitch". Stylish, outrageous and haunting, they explore the sinister side of the human psyche with unexpected outcomes. There`s the wife who serves up a murderous new dish to her husband, the gambler who collects little fingers from losers, the sound machine that can hear the grass scream, and the night-time seduction that has macabre consequences, to name a few. Формат издания: 11 см х 18 см.
ISBN: 0-14-100337-5
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
The 19th national bestseller by Patterson marks Alex Cross`s debut with the FBI. His first case: beautiful women across the country are being kidnapped and possibly sold into slavery. Behind this depraved scheme stands The Wolf, a master criminal who brings a new reign of terror to organized crime.
ISBN: 0-446-61022-4
Издательство:
Warner Books
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
Серия книг «Зарубежная классика — читай в оригинале» — это бессмертные произведения великих мастеров пера, написанные ими на их родном языке и наречии. Книги из этой серии помогут читателю углубленно изучать иностранные языки, обогатят его внутренний мир и по-новому откроют произведения известных классиков. Неадаптированное издание на английском языке.
ISBN: 978-5-519-49425-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: май 2016
Congratulations! You`re about to have a kid? Well, Bro, you might be asking yourself a series of important questions: Will I ever be able to do awesome things again? Will I be able to afford this? Can I ever have sex again? Will I be a good parent? Am I able to love this child as much as I love my own life? Well, the answer to all of these questions is a rock solid no. But just because your life is now a petrifying turd on the canvas of life doesn`t mean your kid has to be as lame as you`re about to become. Which is why Barney has written this book.
Кэтлин Кент - американская писательница, ведущая свою родословную от одной из "салемских ведьм", удивительная судьба которой легла в основу двух романов, полных приключений тайны и борьбы за право быть самим собой. В двадцать три года Марта Аллен считается едва ли не старой девой - слишком она несговорчива, своенравна и остра на язык, чтобы недолго думая отдать свое сердце мужчине. И только когда судьба...
ISBN: 978-5-389-01597-5
Издательство:
Азбука
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
This summer, 2010, Veronica Henry will bring us THE BEACH HUT. A wonderful novel of linked short stories, each focussing on a gaily painted row of beach huts on the picturesque Woolacoombe beach in Devon. Just as each beach hut has a girl`s name painted above the door, each has its own individual story. Ronnie has spent many summers eavesdropping on what goes on in them. Various comings and goings, the people who hire them, the people who own them, and what goes on in the huts on this beautiful beach over a long, hot, lazy
ISBN: 978-1-4091-1995-1
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: январь 2013
Walter Scott (1771-1832) was a Scottish historical novelist, poet, and playwright. Although he was an advocate and legal administrator by profession, Scott is most famous for his great literary works and activities in the Royal Highland Society. The historical novel "The Bride of Lammermoor," set in in the Lammermuir Hills, Scotland, tells the story of tragic love. In an attempt of vengeance, Edgar Ravenswood falls in love with his enemy`s daughter, Lucy Ashton. However, fate is cruel, and this union entails terrible consequences for both. The story is based on real events, which Walter Scott had heard in his childhood.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07547-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
A distant lake house in Wisconsin. A call to police emergency is cut short. A phone glitch or something more sinister? Off-duty deputy Brynn McKenzie goes to find out. And stumbles onto the scene of a murder. Before she can call for backup, she finds herself the next potential victim. Deprived of her phone, weapon and car, Brynn flees, along with the only survivor of the crime. These unlikely allies can survive only by escaping into the dense, deserted woods, on a desperate trek to safety. And ultimately to a life or death choice. Flight. Or fight?
ISBN: 978-0-340-97789-7
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
They call themselves the Brethren: three disgraced former judges doing time in a Florida federal prison. One was sent up for tax evasion. Another, for skimming bingo profits. And the third, for a career-ending drunken joyride. Meeting daily in the prison law library, taking exercise walks in their boxer shorts, these judges-turned-felons can reminisce about old court cases, dispense a little jailhouse justice, and contemplate where their lives went wrong. Or they can use their time in prison to get very rich - very fast. And so they sit, sprawled in the prison library, furiously writing letters, fine-tuning a wickedly brilliant extortion scam... while events outside their prison walls begin to erupt. A bizarre presidential election is...
ISBN: 0-440-23667-3
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
The bad-tempered ladybird picks fights with every animal it meets, no matter how big or small. But, after a whole day of being bad-tempered, the ladybird realizes that life is much better when you`re in a good mood! In this comical story, Eric Carle explores the concepts of size and time, using his trademark collage style with lots of bold colour and beautiful illustrations.
ISBN: 978-0-14-138350-7
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
The name Edgar Allan Рое conjures up thoughts of hearts beating long after their owners are dead, of disease and plague amid wealth, and of love that extends beyond the grave. The richness of Poe`s writing, however, includes much more than horror, loss, and death. Poe`s stories teem with irony and black humor, in addition to plot twists and surprise endings. Living by their own rules and charged with passion, Poe`s characters are instantly recognizable— even though we may be appalled by their actions, we understand their motivations. This collection contains eleven of Poe`s best stories. They are "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Cask of Amontillado," "The Premature Burial,"...
ISBN: 978-5-521-06266-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018