L Frank Baum.retold by Virginia Evans - Jenny Dooley.
Dorothy is a farm girl from Kansas. She is lonely and dreams of a better place, so she plans to run away. During a tornado she is transported to a land "beyond the rainbow" where she meets magical characters. After lots of adventures she and her friends are rewarded by the Wizard of Oz and she is enabled to go back home to Kansas. The Express Publishing Showtime Readers is a brand new series of books at four levels, which introduce students to classic childrens stories in English, using a unique approach with special emphasis on dramatisation. Students first enjoy the story as a reading text in several two-page episodes with beautiful illustrations. Each episode is accompanied by language activities to help comprehension and consolidate...
ISBN: 9781846793455
Издательство:
Express Publishing
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2018
Leading ornithologist Birkhead takes readers on a journey through the wonderful world of birds. Conceived for a general audience, and illustrated throughout with more than 100 beautiful images, this field guide is full of stories, knowledge, and unexpected revelations.
Последний роман известной английской писательницы Джейн Остин был закончен посмертно её племянницей и опубликован под названием "Младшая сестра". Действие произведения разворачивается в сельской Англии XVIII-XIX вв. Главная героиня Эмма воспитывается в уважаемой и респектабельной семье. Но после замужества тёти она вынуждена вернуться домой и столкнуться с неожиданным вниманием сразу... двух мужчин. Кого...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05104-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2017
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850—1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, travel writer, and essayist. He was a celebrity during his lifetime for works like "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and "Treasure Island". Now he is one of the most translated authors in the world. Praised by many as a potential masterpiece, "The Weir of Hermiston" tells the story of young Archie Weir from a rich Edinburgh family. Having abandoned all attempts to get along with his father, Archie is banished from his family and sent to live as the local landlord on family property in the Borders hamlet Hermiston. There Archie meets and falls in love with a young local girl named Kirstie. .
ISBN: 978-5-521-07784-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Pride & Prejudice Jane Austen constructed Pride & Prejudice, with wit, social precision and an irresistible heroine. Beginning with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, it is a perfect ironic novel of manners. Persuasion Jane Austen`s question `What is persuasion?` - a firm belief, or the action of persuading someone to think something else? - is the force behind this novel. Anne Elliot, one of Austen`s quietest yet strongest heroines, is also open to change. Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte`s poor, plain, but plucky heroine, possesses an indomitable spirit, a sharp wit and great courage. She is forced to battle against a cruel guardian, a harsh employer and a rigid social order. Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte`s tale is a...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-486-3
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
September and already she has performance anxiety. Not surprising when she has agreed to lay on the annual Christmas Eve village bash - the piece de resistance of her husband`s former wife - not to mention having to host Christmas for his difficult offspring. New to this frenzied build-up to the festivities, Beth begins to lose sight of what it all means. To her the Christmas lights are looking more like the headlamps of an oncoming train. Carol: glamorous magazine editor, who put her aspirational Christmas issue to bed sometime in July and is so involved in finding a scoop to save her ailing magazine that she fails to notice the impending festive rush. Panicked and wracked with guilt, she is determined to make it a picture perfect time...
ISBN: 978-0-7528-8177-5
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. The main hero of The Yellow God is Alan Vernon, a young retired army major, who, after undergoing financial ruin, decides to travel to Africa to make his fortune, in hopes of eventually winning the hand of beautiful Barbara Champers-Haswell. Vernon has heard of a mysterious kingdom ruled by the priestess and he plans to help himself to the gold found there.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07734-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Classic / British English Strange and wonderful things happen in t seven short stories. Oscar Wilde takes us into a world of kings and queens, mermaids and witches, giants and dwarfs, and talking animals. Exciting and amusing, happy and sad, these stories are for all ages.
ISBN: 978-1-4082-0956-1
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882—1941) was an English writer and literary critic, the leading figure of the modernist literature of the first half of the twentieth century. She also was part of a group of English intellectuals, writers, and artists, graduates of Cambridge, called the Bloomsbury group. Being the most popular of Woolf`s novel during her lifetime, "The Years" is a criticism of British society at the turn of the century. It tells the story of three generations of the Pargiter family from the 1880s to the mid-1930s. Their joys and adversities, triumphs and failures, all accompanied by rhythms of London`s streets. Each section of the story takes place during a single day of a year, in a particular moment of the season.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07854-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Вирджиния Вулф - легендарная британская писательница первой половины XX века. Её прозу отличает изысканный язык, яркие персонажи и трогательные сюжеты. В замечательном романе "Годы" перед читателем разворачивается повествование о пятидесяти годах из жизни большой английской семьи. Это калейдоскоп событий, персонажей, чувств и эмоций. Удивительная красивая и пронзительно ностальгическая история, в...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05471-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2017
Three South Yorkshire friends, all on the cusp of 40, fall pregnant at the same time following a visit to an ancient fertility symbol. For Helen, it`s a dream come true, although her husband is not as thrilled about it as she had hoped. Not only wrestling with painful ghosts of the past, Helen has to deal with the fact that her outwardly perfect marriage is crumbling before her eyes. For Janey, it is an unmitigated disaster as she has just been offered the career break of a life-time. And she has no idea either how it could possibly have happened, seeing as she and her ecstatic husband George were always so careful over contraception. For Elizabeth, it is mind-numbing, because she knows people like her shouldn`t have children. Damaged by...
ISBN: 978-1-84983-410-0
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: январь 2011
Julia Lambert is in her prime, the greatest actress in England. On stage she is a true professional, in full possession of her emotions. Off stage, however, she is bored with her husband, less disciplined about her behaviour. She is at first amused by the attentions of a shy but ambitious young fan, then thrilled by his persistence - and at last wildly but dangerously in love Although Maugham is most celebrated as a novelist and short-story writer, it was as a playwright that he first knew success. Theatre is both a tribute to a world from which he had retired and a persuasive testimony to his enthusiasm for drama and the stage.
ISBN: 9780099286837
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2001
Роман выдающегося английского писателя У.Сомерсета Моэма `Театр` широко известен в России. Автор продолжает исследовать тему судьбы художника в искусcтве и в жизни. Пережив любовь и разочарование, главная героиня романа, актриса Джулия Ламберт, пытается разобраться в себе и своем окружении. Полученный духовный опыт обогащает ее как личность и помогает подняться на новую ступень в творчестве.
ISBN: 5-8346-0031-X
Издательство:
Менеджер
Дата выхода: декабрь 1999
Julia Lambert is in her prime, the greatest actress in England. Off stage, however, she is bored with her handsome husband, coquettish and undisciplined. She is at first flattered and amused by the attentions of an eager young fan, but before long Julia is amazed to find herself falling wildly, dangerously, in love. Формат: 13 см x 20 cм.
ISBN: 0-09-928683-1
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
"Театр" - произведение, в котором есть место улыбке и печали, быту и глубочайшей философии, любви и предательству, низости и наивности, нищете и роскоши, корысти и преданности.
ISBN: 978-5-89815-979-5
Издательство:
Каро
Дата выхода: август 2008
Narrated by the twin voices of the artist Butcher Bones, and his `damaged two-hundred-and-twenty-pound brother` Hugh, "Theft: A Love Story" once again displays Peter Carey`s extraordinary flair for language. Ranging from the rural wilds of Australia to Manhattan via Tokyo, it is a brilliant and moving exploration of art, fraud, responsibility and redemption.
ISBN: 978-0-571-23149-2
Издательство:
Faber
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh sweeps us back in time to an age of scandal and glittering society—and brings to life an extraordinary family: the daring, passionate Huxtables. Katherine, the youngest sister—and society’s most ravishing innocent—is about to turn the tables on the irresistible rakehell sworn to seduce her, body and In a night of drunken revelry, Jasper Finley, Baron Montford, gambles his reputation as London’s most notorious lover on one woman. His challenge? To seduce the exquisite, virtuous Katherine Huxtable within a fortnight. But when his best-laid plans go awry, Jasper devises a wager of his own. For Katherine, already wildly attracted to him, Jasper’s offer is irresistible: to make...
ISBN: 978-0-440-24423-3
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: август 2011
#1 New York Times bestseller John Grisham's next Theo Boone novel, now in paperback! When we last saw Theo Boone, he ensured that justice was served by uncovering evidence that kept a guilty man off of the streets. Hot off this high-profile murder trial, thirteen-year-old Theo is still dispensing legal advice to friends and teachers. But just when it seems as if his life has calmed down and gone back to the status quo, a new legal mystery comes to town, and this time it's personal.