A tree full of enormous spiders, a living thing with no face, a picture that comes alive, and a boy with no heart. These are some of the frightening things in these stories by M. R. James, one of the greatest horror writers of all time. Penguin Readers are written by specialist ELT authors. The language, vocabulary, style and content of every book is carefully graded to make sure it suits the learner`s own language ability. Every Penguin Reader has a range of activities in the book and accompanying Factsheet to help increase compreh
ISBN: 978-1-4058-8224-8
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Three university students go on holiday to a remote part of Wales. They are going to stay in a cottage without electricity or a telephone in a remote part of the country. But who is the bearded man that haunts them.
ISBN: 978-0-230-03035-0
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Modern, original fiction for learners of English. Hundreds of dead fish, some unexplained deaths and a birdless town. Three newspaper reports from Finland attract interest from the British secret service. `Foreign Executive` Ian Munro is sent to Lahti to investigate. But when his first contact is killed in front of him, Munro realises that someone knows why he is there...and that they will do anything to protect their secret.
ISBN: 0-521-75082-2
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797 - 1851) was an English novelist, dramatist, and short story writer, universally known for her Gothic novel "Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus". "The Last Man" is an apocalyptic sci-fi novel that tells the story about the world of the future, almost destroyed by the plage. The plot revolves around Lionel Verney, the orphan son of an impoverished nobleman, and his adventures before and after the collapse.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07526-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Derace Kingsley`s wife ran away to Mexico to get a quickie divorce and marry a Casanova-wannabe named Chris Lavery. Or so the note she left her husband insisted. Trouble is, when Philip Marlowe asks Lavery about it he denies everything and sends the private investigator packing with a flea lodged firmly in his ear. But when Marlowe next encounters Lavery, he`s denying nothing - on account of the two bullet holes in his heart. Now Marlowe`s on the trail of a killer, who leads him out of smoggy LA all the way to a murky mountain
ISBN: 978-0-241-95632-8
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
The author of the bestselling Amelia Peabody novels returns with the long-awaited final installment in her beloved series featuring art historian Vicky Bliss back in print for the first time in more than a decade. Now available in a tall Premium Edition.
A comprehensive collection of letters spanning the adult life (1914-1973) of one of the world’s most famous storytellers.‘It is not possible even at great length to "pot" The Lord of the Rings in a paragraph or two. It was begun in 1936, and every part has been written many times… the labour has been colossal; and it must stand or fall, practically as it is.’J.R.R. Tolkien was one of the most prolific letter writers of this century. Over the years he wrote to his publishers, his family, to friends (including C.S. Lewis, W.H. Auden and Naomi Mitchison) and to fans of his books. The letters present a fascinating and highly detailed portrait of the man in many of his aspects: as storyteller, scholar, Catholic, parent and observer of...
ISBN: 9780261102651
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2023
В пособие вошли 7 наиболее остросюжетных рассказов из известной книги Агаты Кристи `Подвиги Геракла`. Текст книги методически обработан с учетом языковой подготовки учащихся старших классов спецшкол, студентов I-II курсов и разбит на главы для удобства работы (пересказ, ответы на вопросы и т.д.). В постраничных комментариях объяснены реалии, дан перевод трудных словосочетаний и предложений. В конце пособия...
ISBN: 5-7651-0012-0
Издательство:
Глосса-Пресс
Дата выхода: декабрь 1999
Книга входит в серию иллюстрированных учебных пособий "Читаем вместе". Каждая глава известной сказки сопровождается занимательными упражнениями, составленными с учётом новейших методик преподавания английского языка в раннем возрасте. Их выполнение поможет ребёнку не только легко, без зубрежки усвоить языковой материал, но и превратит чтение в увлекательную игру. Книга также содержит англо-русский...
ISBN: 978-5-8112-5558-0
Издательство:
Айрис-пресс
Дата выхода: январь 2015
"The Last Man" is Mary Shelley`s apocalyptic fantasy of the end of human civilisation. Set in the late twenty-first century, the novel unfolds a sombre and pessimistic vision of mankind confronting inevitable destruction. Interwoven with her futuristic theme, Mary Shelley incorporates idealised portraits of Shelley and Byron, yet rejects Romanticism and its faith in art and nature. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) was the only daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, author of "Vindication of the Rights of Woman", and the radical philosopher William Godwin. Her mother died ten days after her birth and the young child was educated through contact with her father`s intellectual circle and her own reading. She met Percy Bysshe Shelley in...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-403-0
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
When Uncas, the Mohican Indian, first saw the Englishwoman, he immediately fell in love with her. But he could not imagine at the time the price he would pay for this love. Could his white brother, Hawkeye, help him? Will the Mohican tribe manage to survive in the end?
ISBN: 9781842167908
Издательство:
Express Publishing
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2018
Джордж Макдональд - шотландский романист, автор множества прекрасных книг для детей. Его сказочно-фантастическая проза получила высочайшую оценку Дж. Р. Толкина, а его истории читают до сих пор по всему миру. "Невесомая принцесса" - одна из самых известных и поучительных английских сказок. Она рассказывает удивительную историю о прекрасной, но заколдованной принцессе, которая стала совершенно бездушной и...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05487-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2017
