An adventurous trader, hearing from some natives in the territory that lies at the back of Quilimane, the legend of a great treasure buried in or about the sixteenth century by a party of Portuguese who were afterwards massacred, as a last resource attempted its discovery by the help of a mesmerist. According to this history the child who was used as a subject in the experiment, when in a state of trance, detailed the adventures and death of the unhappy Portuguese men and women, two of whom leapt from the point of a high rock into the Zambesi.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06616-2 Издательство: Т8 Дата выхода: январь 2018
The translation of Beowulf by J.R.R. Tolkien was an early work, very distinctive in its mode, completed in 1926: he returned to it later to make hasty corrections, but seems never to have considered its publication. This edition is twofold, for there exists an illuminating commentary on the text of the poem by the translator himself, in the written form of a series of lectures given at Oxford in the 1930s; and from these lectures a substantial selection has been made, to form also a commentary on the translation in this book. From his creative attention to detail in these lectures there arises a sense of the immediacy and clarity of his vision. It is as if he entered into the imagined past: standing beside Beowulf and his men shaking out...
ISBN: 9780007590094 Дата выхода: январь 2020
ISBN: 9780007271221 Издательство: HarperCollins UK Дата выхода: ноябрь 2022
ISBN: 9781853267482 Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd. Дата выхода: январь 2018
Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. Original stories at seven levels from starter to advanced, written specially for learners of English. With gripping plots and a range of genres to satisfy every taste, Cambridge English
ISBN: 978-0-521-73545-2 Издательство: Cambridge University Press Дата выхода: сентябрь 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. "Beyond the City" is a novel set in the Victorian era. It tells the story of different women, whose desire for money and romance forces them to go way beyond the traditional notions of middle-class life.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08075-5 Издательство: Т8 Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
A ruthless international cartel seeks world domination…Framed in the doorway of Poirot`s bedroom stood an uninvited guest, coated from head to foot in dust. The man`s gaunt face stared for a moment, then he swayed and fell.Who was he? Was he suffering from shock or just exhaustion? Above all, what was the significance of the figure 4, scribbled over and over again on a sheet of paper? Poirot finds himself plunged into a world of international intrigue, risking his life to uncover the truth about `Number Four`.
ISBN: 9780008164904 Дата выхода: ноябрь 2022
`We fed the monster until it blew ` While Wall Street was busy creating the biggest credit bubble of all time, a few renegade investors saw it was about to burst, bet against the banking system - and made a fortune. From the jungles of the trading floor to the casinos of Las Vegas, this is the outrageous story of the misfits, mavericks and geniuses who, against all odds, made the greatest financial killing in history.
ISBN: 978-0-14-104353-1 Издательство: Penguin Books Дата выхода: август 2011
Billy and his sister want new bicycles, but they don’t have any money. Then their grandmother has an idea. There’s a competition in Palace magazine. The first prize is £500. ‘What do you think?’ Billy asks his sister. ‘We can buy two new bicycles for £500’, she says.
ISBN: 978-1-4058-6944-7 Издательство: Pearson Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Billy was a champion soccer star, playing for Chelsea in the 1930s. But that was before war broke This tale is told through the voice of an 80 year-old man, who looks back on his life as Chelsea`s champion striker until the outbreak of war in 1939 and on through his subsequent life.
ISBN: 978-0-00-710547-2 Дата выхода: октябрь 2012
Kelley Armstrong s debut novel--which does "much the same for werewolves as Anne Rice did for vampires" ("Rocky Mountain News")--is now available in mass market paperback. Thirty-year-old Elena Michaels comes to terms with her feral appetites as the world s only living female werewolf.
ISBN: 9780452286030 Дата выхода: сентябрь 2004
ISBN: 9780857633545 Дата выхода: январь 2018
Penguin Readers New Edition Level 2 Three Musket book+mp3
ISBN: 978-1-4082-7800-0 Издательство: Pearson Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set largely in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and influential. In Black Heart and White Heart, Henry Rider Haggard mounts once more those trusty steeds of his, the nobility of the savage and the rascality of the civilized white. He rides, too, with all his old dexterity, and the story concerning Zulus, witches, battles, sacrifices, and traitors.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07598-0 Издательство: Т8 Дата выхода: июль 2018
It`s a dank January in the Worcestershire village of Black Swan Green and thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor - covert stammerer and reluctant poet - anticipates a stultifying year in the deadest village on Earth. But Jason hasn`t reckoned with a junta of bullies, simmering family discord, the Falklands War, an exotic Belgian emigre, a threatened gypsy invasion and the caprices of those mysterious entities known as girls. BLACK SWAN GREEN charts thirteen months in the black hole between childhood and adolescence, set against the sunset of an agrarian England still overshadowed by the Cold War. Wry, painful, funny and vibrant with the stuff of life, it is David Mitchell`s subtlest and most captivating achievement to date.
ISBN: 978-0-340-82280-7 Издательство: Hodder Дата выхода: август 2011
The ivied walls of "Blandings Castle" have seldom glowed as sunnily as in these wonderful stories - but there are snakes in the rolling parklanc ready to nip Clarence, the absent-minded Ninth Earl of Emsworth, when he least expects it. For a start the Empress of Blandings, in the running for her first prize in the Fat Pigs Class at the Shropshire Agricultural Show, is off her food and can only be coaxed back to the trough by a call in her own language. Then there is the feud with Head Gardener McAllister, aided by Clarence`s sister, the terrifying Lady Constance, and the prospect of the summer fete - twin problems solved by the arrival of a delightfully rebellious little girl from London. But first of all there is the vexed matter of the...
ISBN: 978-0-09-951383-4 Издательство: Random House Дата выхода: июль 2011
In a unique creative experiment, Dickens divides the narrative between his heroine, Esther Summerson, who is psychologically interesting in her own right, and an unnamed narrator whose perspective both complements and challenges hers.
ISBN: 9781853260827 Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd. Дата выхода: октябрь 2022
The lgal case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce has become a joke to some people. People are born, marry and die, and still the case continues. But will the lives of Ada and Richard be ruined, like so many before? And how will their friend Esther be affected by secrets from her past?
ISBN: 978-1-4082-3118-0 Издательство: Pearson Дата выхода: август 2011
ISBN: 9781595827180 Издательство: Random House (USA) Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Unlike most vampires, Eleisha Clevon doesn t like to kill, but self-preservation comes first. After an old friend destroys himself by walking into the sunlight, she is shocked to discover the depravity that had marked his life, in this first title of a new dark fantasy series.
ISBN: 9780451463050 Издательство: Penguin Group Дата выхода: октябрь 2009
Neil Gaiman wrote Blueberry Girl for a friend who was about to become the mother of a little girl. He has turned the deeply personal wish for a daughter into a book that celebrates the glory of growing up. Illustrated throughout with gorgeous art by Charles Vess, whose work can also be seen in Susanna Clarke`s The Ladies of Grace Adieu.
ISBN: 978-0-7475-9598-4 Издательство: Bloomsbury Дата выхода: август 2011
The year is 1539. Henry VIII must take another wife and the dangerous prize of the crown of England is won by Anne of Cleves. Although she is fascinated by the glamour of her new surroundings, she can sense a trap closing around her. Katherine Howard, meanwhile, is to flirt her way to the throne. But her kinswoman Jane Boleyn is haunted by the past and the Boleyn inheritance of suspicion, betrayal and death. In this time of upheaval and uncertainty, these three young women must try to survive the most volatile court in Europe.
ISBN: 978-0-00-719033-1 Издательство: HarperCollins UK Дата выхода: август 2011
ISBN: 9781423449232 Дата выхода: ноябрь 2007
ISBN: 9780793542116 Дата выхода: сентябрь 1995
ISBN: 9780141365534 Издательство: Puffin Books Дата выхода: январь 2019
