Главный герой, именем которого назван роман, неслыханно богат, однако не ищет счастья в деньгах и роскоши. Перед читателем разворачивается трагическая история любви Гэтсби на фоне картины жизни развращённого и циничного общества нуворишей послевоенной Америки. Текст сокращён и адаптирован. Уровень Intermediate. Адаптация, сокращение и словарь И.Б. Загородняя.
ISBN: 978-5-9908367-9-2
Издательство:
Антология
Дата выхода: январь 2015
Cool. Balanced. Modern. The precisions of science, the wild variance of lust, the catharsis of confession and the fear of failure - these are things that happen in the Glass Room. High on a Czechoslovak hill, the Landauer House shines as a wonder of steel and glass and onyx built specially for newlyweds Viktor and Liesel Landauer, a Jew married to a gentile. But the radiant honesty of 1930 that the house, with its unique Glass Room, seems to engender quickly tarnishes as the storm clouds of WW2 gather, and eventually the family must flee, accompanied by Viktor`s lover and her child. But the house`s story is far from over, and as it passes from hand to hand, from Czech to Russian, both the best and the worst of the history of Eastern...
ISBN: 978-0-349-12132-1
Издательство:
Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Modern, original fiction for learners of English. For Grace, a ghost in a haunted house, the arrival of a young mother with a baby stirs memories of the man and the child she lost so many years before. But then danger threatens the baby girl and Grace must act decisively.
ISBN: 9780521705868
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
THE GIFT is the last of the novels Nabokov wrote in his native language and the crowning achievement of that period in his literary career. It is also his ode to Russian literature, evoking the works of Pushkin, Gogol, and others in the course of its narrative: the story of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev, an impoverished emigre poet living in Berlin, who dreams of the book he will someday write - a book very much like THE GIFT itself.
ISBN: 9780679727255
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: май 1991
The Great Gatsby (1925) follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion and obsession for the beautiful former debutante Daisy Buchanan and explores themes of decadence, idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval, and excess.
ISBN: 978-5-521-00164-4
Издательство:
Пальмира
Дата выхода: январь 2017
What does he mean? What`s going on? Are you two thinking of putting Granny into a Home? Thinking is finished`, Natasha told him. `It is decided. The four children, Ivan, Sophie, Tanya and Nicholas, can`t believe it. Their parents are planning to put their grandmother into a Home. She`s a bit of a dotty old lady - sometimes demanding, often annoying - but as much a part of their lives as their shambly house or the whirring of the washing machine. So they decide to take action. They begin `The Granny Project`, with immediate and sensational
ISBN: 978-0-552-55438-1
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Only with the help of Mikael Blomkvist and the journalists at Millennium magazine can Salander avoid the fate that has been decided for her. Together they form a compelling and dynamic alliance. This final volume of the Millennium Trilogy is the culmination of one of the most mesmerising fictional achievements of our time.
ISBN: 978-1-84916-275-3
Издательство:
Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: март 2011
No child likes going to bed and as every parent knows, their little treasures will try and delay it for as long as possible! Discover all the antics children get up to before going to bed, in this hilarious board book, written and illustrated in Boynton`s own unique humourous style. The perfect way to read kids to sleep!
ISBN: 978-0-689-86114-7
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
A mind-bending code spawned from the mind of a maybe just a jealous ex. A desperate race through the cathedrals and hotels of New York a teeny bit of time for shopping, it`s true. An astonishing truth concealed for years, unveiled at more than a little help from a supercute new guy. As if a recent breakup, scrounging for rent money, and lusting after designer shoes weren`t enough, Melanie Prescott starts receiving obscure codes and clues from a menacing stranger. She attempts to solve the mysteries - enlisting the help of a tall, dark, and handsome new friend - with high hopes for the multimillion-dollar reward guaranteed at the end (handbags, sunglasses, and shoes, oh my!). That is, if she can survive the deadly game.
ISBN: 978-1-4165-4337-4
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: май 2008
Searingly hot in the summer, bitterly cold in the winter, the ancestral estate of the Golovlyov family is the end of the road. There Anna Petrovna rules with an iron hand over her servants and family-until she loses power to the relentless scheming of her hypocritical son Judas.One of the great books of Russian literature, The Golovlyov Family is a vivid picture of a condemned and isolated outpost of civilization that, for contemporary readers, will recall the otherwordly reality of Macondo in Gabriel Garc
Danny Coughlin is Boston Police Department royalty and the son of one of the city`s most beloved and powerful police captains. His beat is the predominately Italian neighbourhoods of the North End where political dissent is in the air - fresh and intoxicating. On the hunt for hard-line radicals as a favour to his father, Danny is drawn into the ideological fray and finds his loyalties compromised as the police department itself becomes swept up in potentially violent labour strife. Luther Lawrence is on the run. A suspect in a nightclub shooting in Oklahoma, he flees to Boston, leaving his wife behind. He lands a job in the Coughlin household and meets Danny and the family`s Irish maid, Nora, who once had a powerful bond. As the mystery...
ISBN: 978-0-552-77557-1
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Сборник лучших рассказов классика американской литературы и основоположника детективного жанра Эдгара По. Произведения изданы в авторской версии в полном объеме. Признанный стилист и психолог Эдгар По на протяжении десятилетий считался эталоном для писателей, работающих в жанре детектива. Издание рассчитано на лиц, владеющих основами английского языка.
ISBN: 9785797404866
Издательство:
Икар
Дата выхода: январь 2008
