Reading Classics is series of 19th and 20th-century classics from the world of British and American literature edited by Paolo Bertinetti, Dean of the Faculty of Modern Languages at the University of Turin. Reading Classics are aimed specifically at non-native speakers of English who wish to improve their language skills by analysing major novels, short stories and plays. Each volume guides the reader towards comprehension and appreciation of the literary work. Features: • extensive introduction putting the author and his/her work into context • in-depth bibliography providing a springboard for further study • detailed chronology giving a complete view of the author`s life and works • wide variety of activities encouraging...

ISBN: 978887754-937-2
Издательство: CIDEB
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Wilbur Smith’s adventure tales are big, bold and unforgettable. In SHOUT AT THE DEVIL, the New York Times bestselling master storyteller takes us to a brutal paradise engulfed in the fires of civilization’s

ISBN: 978-0-312-94063-8
Издательство: Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2012

ISBN: 9781526611932
Издательство: Bloomsbury
Дата выхода: январь 2020

Can you tell Farkle from Fergus? Do you know why Puss In Boots piled on the pounds? This official handbook is packed with fun facts, character lowdowns, and awesome activities from all Shrek`s adventures, including the awesome new movie, "Shrek Forever After"! This is the ultimate book for every Shrek fan, young or old! If you love Shrek then you`ll love this book.

ISBN: 978-0-553-82233-5
Издательство: Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011

Ex-NYPD detective Dave Gurney is supposed to be retired. But people with problems keep knocking on his door. Like the police, for instance, who are baffled by a gruesome murder they just can`t seem to solve. A young bride has been killed in the middle of her own wedding reception. The prime suspect, her new husband`s Mexican gardener, is missing. As is the murder weapon, likely a machete, used to decapitate the bride. The police have drawn a blank. It`s as if the killer has vanished into thin air. But when Gurney begins his investigations, he finds that a baffling murder is just the latest of many sadistic crimes committed by an individual who`ll do anything to avoid capture.

ISBN: 978-0-14-104871-0
Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012

Prentis, senior clerk in the `dead crimes` department of police archives, is becoming more and more confused. Alienated from his wife and children, and obsessed by his father, a wartime hero now the mute inmate of a mental hospital, Prentis feels increasingly unsettled as his enigmatic boss, Mr Quinn, turns his investigation towards him - and his father. Gradually Prentis suspects that his father`s breakdown and Quinn`s menacing behavior are connected and the link is to be found in his father`s memoirs, Shuttlecock. `Excellent, profound` - Alan Hollinghurst, London Review of Books. `An astonishing study of forms of guilt, laced with a thread of detection, and puckering now and then into outrageous humor` - Sunday Times. `A superbly...

ISBN: 978-0-330-51825-3
Издательство: Picador
Дата выхода: август 2011

Summer, 1954 - US Marshal Teddy Daniels has come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Along with his partner, Chuck Aule, he sets out to find an escaped murderess named Rachel Solando as a hurricane bears down upon them. But nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is what it seems, and neither is Teddy Daniels. Is he there to find a missing patient? Or has he been sent to look into rumours of Ashecliffe`s radical approach to psychiatry? Rumours that hint of drug experimentation, surgical trials, and lethal countermoves in the shadow war against Soviet brainwashing ...As the investigation deepens, the questions mount. How has a barefoot woman escaped an island from a locked room? Who is leaving them clues in...

ISBN: 978-0-553-82024-9
Издательство: Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011

From the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Mystic River" comes the tie-in edition to a haunting psychological thriller in which two U.S. Marshals hunt an escaped mental patient. Opening on October 22, the film from Paramount Pictures is directed by Martin Scorsese and stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, and Ben Kingsley. Reissue.

ISBN: 9780061703256
Издательство: HarperCollins
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2009

After Mario Puzo wrote his internationally acclaimed The Godfather, he has often been imitated but never equaled. Puzo`s classic novel, The Sicilian, stands as a cornerstone of his work - a lushly romantic, unforgettable tale of bloodshed, justice, and year is 1950. Michael Corleone is nearing the end of his exile in Sicily. The Godfather has commanded Michael to bring a young Sicilian bandit named Salvatore Guiliano back with him to America. But Guiliano is a man entwined in a bloody web of violence and vendettas. In Sicily, Guiliano is a modern day Robin Hood who has defied corruption - and defied the Cosa Nostra. Now, in the land of mist-shrouded mountains and ancient ruins, Michael Corleone`s fate is entwined with the dangerous...

ISBN: 978-0-345-44170-6
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011

Side by Side has helped more than 25 millions students worldwide persist and succeed as language learners! This course is a dynamic all skills programme that integrates conversation practice, reading, writing and listening - all in a light-hearted, fun and easy-to-use format. This edition promotes active communication between speaking together `side by side`,

ISBN: 978-0-13-183934-2
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

A humor classic by one of the funniest writers today, Side Effects is a treat for all those who know his work and those just discovering how gifted he is. Included here are such classics as Remembering Needleman, The Kugelmass Episode, a new sory called Confessions Of A Buglar, and more.

ISBN: 978-0-345-34335-2
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011

Midsummer approaches, and Inspector Kurt Wallander prepares for a holiday with the new woman in his life, hopeful that his wayward daughter and his ageing father will cope without him. But his restful summer plans are thrown into disarray when a teenage girl commits suicide before his eyes, and a former minister of justice is butchered in the first of a series of apparently motiveless murders. Wallander`s desperate hunt for the girl`s identity and his furious pursuit of a killer who scalps his victims will throw him and those he loves most into mortal danger. This title is the winner of the Crime Writers` Association Gold Dagger.

ISBN: 978-0-09-957173-5
Дата выхода: январь 2013

Midsummer approaches, and Wallander prepares for a holiday with the new woman in his life, hopeful that his wayward daughter and his ageing father will cope without him. But his summer is ruined when a girl commits suicide before his eyes, and a former minister of justice is butchered in the first of a series of apparently motiveless murders. Wallander`s hunt for the girl`s identity and his furious pursuit of a killer who scalps his victims will throw him and those he loves most into mortal danger.

ISBN: 978-0-09-952662-9
Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: апрель 2012

There was a terrible mistake-Wayside School was built with one classroom on top of another, thirty stories high (The builder said he was sorry.) Maybe that`s why all kinds of funny things happened at Wayside-especially on the thirteenth floor. There was a terrible mistake-Wayside School was built with one classroom on top of another, thirty stories high (The builder said he was sorry.) Maybe that`s why all kinds of funny things happened at Wayside-especially on the thirteenth floor.

ISBN: 978-0-380-73148-0
Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

ISBN: 978-0-06-188283-8
Дата выхода: июль 2011

ISBN: 9781407116686
Издательство: Scholastic UK
Дата выхода: август 2011

New York Times bestselling author Tilly Bagshawe, who delivered the late beloved author`s brilliance in Sidney Sheldon`s After the Darkness, is back with a stunning tale of duplicity and vengeance in Sidney Sheldon`s The Tides of Memory. The members of the formidable and captivating De Vere family of London live enviable lives in the world`s most powerful and desirable places, from London`s poshest neighborhoods to influential boardrooms. But when old secrets begin to unravel and threaten everything the De Veres have worked for, the ramifications are deadly. Bagshawe upholds Sheldon`s legacy with a blistering story of revenge, passion, and betrayal in a book that is quintessential Sheldon.

ISBN: 9780062073464
Дата выхода: январь 2020

The spellbinding sequel to Sidney Sheldon’s "Master of the Game", one of the most glamorous and suspenseful tales ever told… It began with Jamie MacGregor, stealing diamonds in Africa. It continued with his daughter, the powerful Kate Blackwell, who grew her father’s company into a world wide conglomerate. Now the story passes to the next generation. Spanning the decades and picking up exactly where Sidney Sheldon’s bestselling Master of the Game finished, Mistress of the Game follows the Blackwell family as they love, lose, scheme and murder through the 80s up until the present day. Heart–stopping and glamorous, tense and provocative, Mistress of the Game is the sequel that Sheldon fans have been waiting for…

ISBN: 978-0-00-730450-9
Издательство: Collins
Дата выхода: июль 2011

ISBN: 9781408862278
Издательство: Bloomsbury
Дата выхода: январь 2016

ISBN: 9781408870235
Дата выхода: январь 2017

A thrilling tale of murder, lies, and lust, drawn from the mind and archives of the timeless Sidney Sheldon and told in the master`s vintage style. Elderly multimillionaire art dealer Andrew Jakes is brutally murdered in his ransacked Hollywood home. His young wife is raped and beaten, and his art and jewels are stolen. To the police, the case seems clear cut. But when the investigation doesn`t turn up a single solid lead, it is moved to the cold files and the only witness, the stunning young widow, vanishes. A decade later, Andrew Jakes` estranged son, Matt Daley, begins digging into his father`s murder and makes some shocking discoveries. Three killings, nearly identical to his father`s, have taken place across the globe. Each victim...

ISBN: 978-0-06-212848-5
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012

A classic Sheldon tale of love and betrayal, of a struggle for survival in the new world order.

ISBN: 978-0-06-199778-5
Дата выхода: июль 2011

ISBN: 9781408851012
Издательство: Bloomsbury
Дата выхода: январь 2015

ISBN: 9781408843536
Издательство: Bloomsbury
Дата выхода: январь 2014

ISBN: 9781408863077
Издательство: Bloomsbury
Дата выхода: январь 2014