This is an Elementary Level title in a series of ELT readers comprising a wide range of stories - some original and some simplified - from modern and classic novels, and designed to appeal to all age-groups, tastes and cultures. The books are divided into five levels: Starter Level, with about 300 basic words; Beginner Level (600 basic words); Elementary Level (1100); Intermediate Level (1600); and Upper Level (2200). Some of the titles are also available on cassette. Three strange and frightening short stories by the author of Dracula: The Judge`s House; The Iron Maiden; The Return of Abel Behena; Extra grammar and vocabulary exercises; Audio CD/download available for this title. Retold by John Davey.
ISBN: 978-1-4050-7664-7
Издательство:
Langenscheidt
Дата выхода: июль 2011
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. This is a collection of medical and detective stories by Doyle, where he focused on the problems that present themselves to physicians and surgeons at the time. .
ISBN: 978-5-521-08102-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
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. Tales of Twilight and the Unseen is a collection of short stories filled with supernatural events, horrific scientific experiments, and bizarre events. It is an excellent opportunity to discover another side of author`s ability to immerse and surprise. Danger! And Other Stories is a collection of fascinating short stories like "One Crowded Hour", "A Point of View", "How It Happened", "The Prisoner`s Defence" and others.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08144-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. This volume includes short mystery stories like "The Lost Special", "The Beetle-Hunter", and "The Man with the Watches", filled to the brim with suspense, wild twists, and turns.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07157-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018
Родоначальник "литературы ужасов", известнейший американский автор мистических детективов, Эдгар Аллан По широко известен именно своими короткими рассказами, в которых проявилась вся многогранность его таланта. Увлекающие, ужасающие и неповторимые истории ждут вас на страницах этой книги! Читайте зарубежную литературу в оригинале!
ISBN: 978-5-521-05113-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2017
This gripping set of tales by the master storyteller Arthur Conan Doyle is bound both to thrill and unnerve you. In these twilight excursions, Doyle`s vivid imagination for the strange, the grotesque and the frightening is given full rein. We move from the mysteries of Egypt and the strange powers granted by "The Ring of Thoth" to the isolated ghostlands of the Arctic in "The Captain of the Polestar", we encounter a monstrous creature in "The Terror of Вlue John Gap" and the beings that live above our heads in "The Brazilian Cat and The Leather Funnel"; and we shudder at the thing in the next room in "Lot 249". Sit down in your uneasy chair and enjoy this unique collection of chillers. Издание на английском языке.
ISBN: 1-8402-2406-1
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: декабрь 1999
A boy is put on a train by his stepmother to make his first journey on his own. But soon that journey turns out to be more of a challenge than anyone could have imagined as the train stalls at the mouth of a tunnel and a mysterious woman in white helps the boy while away the hours by telling him stories - stories with a difference.
ISBN: 978-1-4088-0274-8
Издательство:
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: март 2011
If you found a tiny golden dragon with green paws, would you know what to do with it? Moomintroll thinks he does, but when he takes his new-found pet home, things don`t quite work out as planned. And suppose Too-ticky brought you an invisible child, would you know how to make her visible again?Meet new and delightful characters and re-encounter old friends, such as Snufkin and Little My in this entertaining collection of nine stories about the trials and tribulations of the inhabitants of Moominvalley. There are some new characters to meet, such as the Fillyjonk and the Hattifatteners, as well as old friends, namely Snufkin and Little My - and not to mention dear Moominpappa, Moominmamma and Moomintroll of course!
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. "Tales of Adventure" is an astounding collection that anthologizes some of the best short fiction stories of the author outside of the world-famous detective`s canon, including excellent tales like "The Surgeon of Gaster Fell", "The Sealed Room", and "The Great Brown-Pericord Motor".
ISBN: 978-5-521-07159-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018
The `Tales from Shakespeare` by Charles and Mary Lamb were written to be an `introduction to the study of Shakespeare` but are much more entertaining than that. All of Shakespeare`s best loved plays, comic and tragic, are retold in a clear and robust style, and their literary quality has made them popular and sought-after ever since their first publication in 1807. This edition contains the delightful pen-and-ink drawings of that master of illustration, Arthur Rackham.
ISBN: 1-85326-140-8
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2002
Modern, original fiction for learners of English. Six stories about a world we cannot explain. A film star discovers the dangers of dancing with a stranger. A man comes face-to-face with his father`s history. An Irish-American family cannot escape someone from the past. A woman doesn`t listen to warnings about an old tree. An English writer slowly becomes more and more Japanese. And a killer watches himself die in hospital.
ISBN: 978-0-521-54276-0
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Generations of children have been captivated by the hair-raising adventures and misadventures of Brer Rabbit. Come along as he sneaks into Mr. Man`s garden, persuades Brer Wolf to be burned in a hollow log, and kicks Brer Fox`s Tar Baby. Jerry Pinkney`s lively and humorous illustrations are a perfect match for Julius Lester`s contemporary approach, which expertly introduces a modern sense of humor to these forty-eight tales while paying homage to their roots as traditional American folklore.
ISBN: 978-0-14-240720-2
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: август 2011
Five stories engagingly reveal Poe’s virtuoso gifts for both crime detection and the macabre. Two of his most famous tales, "The Mystery of Marie Roget" and "The Purloined Letter" introduce C. Auguste Dupin, the first fictional detective. "William Wilson" is a chilling tale of crime and evil. Also included: two tales of terror: "MS. Found in a Bottle" and "The Oblong Box."
ISBN: 0-486-28744-0
Издательство:
Dover
Дата выхода: январь 2004
For the first time in A-format, the definitive collection of Tolkiens four acclaimed modern classic fairie tales in the vein of The Hobbit. Farmer Giles of Ham is fat and unheroic, but - having unwittingly managed to scare off a short-sighted giant - is called upon to do battle when the dragon Chrysophylax comes to town; The Adventures of Tom Bombadil tells by way of verse of Toms many adventures with hobbits, princesses, dwarves and trolls; Leaf by Niggle recounts the strange adventures of the pater Niggle who sets out to paint the perfect tree; Smith of Wootton Major journeys to the Land of Faery thanks to the magical ingredients of the Great Cake of the Feast of Good Children. The four tales are written with the same skill, quality...
ISBN: 978-0-00-714912-4
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Modern, original fiction for learners of English. Six stories about a world we cannot explain. A film star discovers the dangers of dancing with a stranger. A man comes face-to-face with his father`s history. An Irish-American family cannot escape someone from the past. A woman doesn`t listen to warnings about an old tree. An English writer slowly becomes more and more Japanese. And a killer watches himself die in hospital.
ISBN: 978-0-521-68610-5
Издательство:
Cambridge
Дата выхода: август 2011
Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, but he is now best remembered for his science fiction novels. "Tales of Space and Time" is a fantasy and science fiction collection of three short stories and two novellas, including "A Story of the Days To Come" — a novella which depicts two lovers in a dystopian future London of the 22nd century.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08228-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2018
More than two decades after the publication of his acclaimed classic, "Watership Down", author Richard Adams finally returns to the vivid and remarkable animal world he so masterfully imagined in his earlier work. Here again are Fiver, Bigwig, Hazel, Dandelion - all the victorious heroes of the apocalyptic battle against the evil General Woundwort - as well as a host of endearing new characters and the great champion of rabbit myth, El-ahrairah, in a wonderful collection of new adventures that will delight the millions of "Watership Down" fans, and create many more
ISBN: 978-0-380-72934-0
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011