Now a major motion picture from the human beans that created E.T. and the author of Charlie and The Chocolate Factory and Matilda. The Big Friendly Giant is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It`s lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the middle of the night by any of the other giants she would have soon become breakfast. When Sophie hears that the giants are flushbunking off to England to swollop a few nice little chiddlers, she and the BFG decide they must stop them once and for all!
ISBN: 9780141361321
Издательство:
Puffin Books
Дата выхода: январь 2019
On the banks of the turbid Amazon, Painted Jaguar is hungry. How can Stickly-Prickly Hedgehog and Slow-and-Solid Tortoise escape him? A strange new animal that Painted Jaguar does not know appears! Collect all the titles in the series: How the Camel Got Its Hump, How the Whale Got Its Throat, How the Leopard Got Its Spots, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin, The Beginning of the Armadilloes, The Sing-Song of the Old Man Kangeroo, The Cat that Walked by Himself, The Elephant`s Child.
ISBN: 978-1-84616-411-8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
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
Inquisitor Glokta, a crippled and increasingly bitter relic of the last war, former fencing champion turned torturer extraordinaire, is trapped in a twisted and broken body - not that he allows it to distract him from his daily routine of torturing smugglers. Nobleman, dashing officer and would-be fencing champion Captain Jezal dan Luthar is living a life of ease by cheating his friends at cards. Vain, shallow, selfish and self-obsessed, the biggest blot on his horizon is having to get out of bed in the morning to train with obsessive and boring old men. And Logen Ninefingers, an infamous warrior with a bloody past, is about to wake up in a hole in the snow with plans to settle a blood feud with Bethod, the new King of the Northmen, once...
ISBN: 978-0-575-09108-5
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: декабрь 2012
One man`s obsession with the mysterious life of a silent film star takes him on a journey into a shadow-world of lies, illusions, and unexpected love. After losing his wife and young sons in a plane crash, Vermont professor David Zimmer spends his waking hours mired in grief. Then, watching television one night, he stumbles upon a lost film by silent comedian Hector Mann, and remembers how to Mann was a comic genius, in trademark white suit and fluttering black moustache. But one morning in 1929 he walked out of his house and was never heard from again. Zimmer`s obsession with Mann drives him to publish a study of his work; whereupon he receives a letter postmarked New Mexico, supposedly written by Mann`s wife, and inviting him to visit...
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
John Grady Cole and Billy Parham, two cowboys of the old school, are poised on the edge of a world about to change forever. Their journeys across the border into Mexico, each an adventure fraught with fear and pain, mark a passage into adulthood and eventual salvation.
ISBN: 978-0-330-33461-7
Издательство:
Pan Macmillan
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student`s ability. Chee Seng, a 16-year-old Malaysian boy,...
ISBN: 978-0-521-73546-9
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2012
Jack Mullen is a driven student of the law. His brother Peter is a servant of the rich, parking the cars of the Hamptons` elite —and perhaps satisfying their more intimate needs as well. Then Peter`s body is found on the beach. Jack knows the drowning was no accident, but someone`s unlimited power and money have bought the cops, the judges, the system. Now Jack is learning a lesson in justice he never got in law school...and his astonishing plan to beat the billionaires will have you reeling — and cheering — to the very last page.
ISBN: 0-446-61254-5
Издательство:
Warner Books
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
Where do baby apes sleep? In apricots! I`m Elsa, and that`s one of my jokes (I tell lots of jokes and I`m going to be a big star one day). I do my best to cheer my family up - but no one seems to laugh much any more. Not since we lost our lovely house and had to move into a bed and breakfast hotel...
ISBN: 978-0-440-86760-9
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012
Серия English Fiction Collection состоит из лучших произведений английских и американских авторов. Читая книгу на языке оригинала, вы не только обогатите собственную лексику и научитесь чувствовать грамматический строй, но также сможете насладиться настоящим языком великих писателей и поэтов. Серия предназначена для тех, кто учит английский всерьез, кто действительно хочет знать этот красивый и многогранный язык.
ISBN: 978-5-379-01110-9
Издательство:
Сибирское университетское издательство
Дата выхода: апрель 2009
Anthony Patch and Gloria Gibson are the golden children of the Jazz Age. They marry and embark on a life of glittering parties, lavish expenditure and scandalous revelry. When the money dries up their marriage founders. In this wistful novel Fitzgerald portrays the decline of youthful promise with devastating clarity.
ISBN: 978-0-09-954149-3
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2011
`Once upon a time, there was a boy who lost his mother!` As twelve-year-old David takes refuge from his grief in the myths and fairytales so beloved of his dead mother, he finds the real world and the fantasy world begin to blend. That is when bad things start to happen. That is when the Crooked Man comes. And David is violently propelled into a land populated by heroes, wolves and monsters, his quest to find the legendary Book of Lost Things.
ISBN: 978-0-340-89948-9
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
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: 978-5-521-06267-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018