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
Серия `Chimera Classics` дает возможность познакомиться с лучшими произведениями английских и американских авторов в подлиннике (не адаптированными и бес сокращений). Книги серии рассчитаны на читателей разноге возраста и вкуса, изучающих английский языкуже не первый год и стремящихся углубить и расширить свои знания.
ISBN: 5-8168-0057-4
Издательство:
Химера
Дата выхода: декабрь 1999
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
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
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
They`re called Lincoln Lawyers: the bottom of the legal food chain, the criminal defence attorneys who operate out of the back of a Lincoln Town Car, taking whatever cases the system throws in their path. Mickey Haller has been in the business a long time, and he knows just how to work it. When a Beverly Hills rich boy is arrested for brutally beating a woman, Haller has his first high-paying client in years. The evidence mounts on the defence`s side, and Haller might even be in the rare position of defending a client who is actually innocent. But when his case starts to fall apart and neither the suspect nor the victim are quite who they seem, Haller quickly discovers that when you swim with the sharks, it`s easy to wind up as prey.
ISBN: 978-0-7528-7779-2
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Beth, Lara and Rio - three exotic women with a common cause and vengeance in their hearts. They`re out to avenge a murder and they`ll go to any lengths. Their targets: the heirs of the Bassalino crime family. Their weapon: sex. The result: a bloodbath of sexual mayhem through the lethal corridors of organized crime. Three beautiful women set out to prove that when it comes to revenge, the female is far deadlier than the male - especially when they`re THE LOVE KILLERS.
ISBN: 978-1-84983-633-3
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: январь 2013
The Every Friday night a lilac-colored minibus leaves Dublin for the Irish country town of Rathdoon with seven weekend commuters on board. All of them, from the joking bank porter to the rich doctor`s daughter, have their reasons for making the journey. The Rathdoon is the kind of Irish village where family histories are shared and scandals don`t stay secret for long. And this weekend, when the bus pulls in, the riders find the unexpected waiting for as each of their private lives unfolds to reveal a sharp betrayal of the heart, a young man`s crime, and a chance for new dreams among the eight intriguing men and women Plus a special bonus in this Maeve Binchy`s DUBLIN 4 tales - a truly unforgettable collection of stories about today`s...
ISBN: 978-0-440-21302-4
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
F. S. Fitzgerald (1896—1940) was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. «The Last Tycoon» is a magnificient story of doomed love set against the extravagance of America\'s booming film industry. The studio lot looks like \'thirty acres of fairyland\' the night that a mysterious woman stands and smiles at Monroe Stahr, the last of the great Hollywood princes. Enchanted by one another, they begin a passionate but hopeless love affair, starting with a fast-moving seduction as slick as a scene from one of Stahr\'s pictures. The romance unfolds, frame by frame, watched by Cecilia, a thoroughly modern girl who has taken her lessons in sentiment and cynicism from all the movies she has seen.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07031-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: апрель 2018
The Lord of the Rings cannot be described in a few words. J. R. R. Tolkien\'s great work has been labelled both a heroic romance and a classic of science fic- tion. It is, however, impossible to convey to the new reader all of the book\'s qualities, and the range of its creation. By turns comic, homely, epic, monstrous and diabolic, the narrative moves through countless changes of scenes and character in an imaginary world which is totally convincing in its detail. Tolkien created a new mythology in an invented world which has proved tuneless in its appeal. This one volume paperback edition includes the complete unabridged text of the three books, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two \'Towers and The Return of the King, that together make...
ISBN: 0-00-714924-7
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: январь 2003
The plot of the novel The Lost World (1912) describes an expedition to a plateau in the Amazon basin where prehistoric animals still survive, led by a charismatic leading character Professor Challenger. The novel also describes a war between indigenous people and a vicious tribe of ape-like creatures.
ISBN: 978-5-521-00322-8
Издательство:
Пальмира
Дата выхода: февраль 2017
The Narnia Chronicles, first published in 1950, remain some of the most enduringly popular ever published. "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe", has been translated into 29 languages! The illustrations in this book have been coloured by the original artist, Pauline Baynes. Now published with the original cover, as designed by Pauline Baynes. "It`s a magic wardrobe. There`s a wood inside it, and it`s snowing! Come and see," begged Lucy. Lucy has stumbled upon a marvellous land of fauns and centaurs, nymphs and talking animals. But soon she discovers that it is ruled by the cruel White Witch, and can only be freed by Aslan, the great Lion and four children... This is the second adventure in the exciting Chronicles of Narnia....
April 1986: American F-111 warplanes bomb the Al Azziyah compound in Libya where President Gadhafi is residing. A 16-year-old youth, Asad - Arabic for `lion ` - loses his mother, two brothers and two sisters in the raid. Asad sees himself as chosen to avenge not only his family but his nation, his religion and the Great Leader - Gadhafi. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. Twelve years later, Asad arrives in New York City, intent on killing all five surviving pilots across America who participated in the bombing, one by one. John Corey - from the international bestseller PLUM ISLAND - is no longer with the NYPD and is working for the Anti-Terrorist Task Force. He has to stop Asad`s revenge killings. But first he has to find him. A...
ISBN: 978-0-7515-2823-7
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Hailed everywhere as a masterpiece of suspense, John le Carre`s return to Africa is the story of Bruno Salvador (aka Salvo), the 25-year-old orphaned love child of an Irish missionary and a Congolese woman. Quickly rising to the top of his profession as an interpreter, Salvo is dispatched by British Intelligence to a top-secret meeting between Western financiers and East Congolese warlords, where he hears things not intended for his ears - and is forced to interpret matters never intended for his reawoken African conscience. By turns thriller, love story, and comic allegory of our times, "The Mission Song" recounts Salvo`s heroically naive journey out of the dark of Western hypocrisy and into the heart of lightness.
ISBN: 978-0-340-92199-9
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Вниманию читателей предлагается полный, неадаптированный текст известного романа С.Моэма "Луна и грош" (1919). Издание рассчитано на лиц, владеющих основами английского языка и совершенствующих свои навыки в нем.
ISBN: 5-9542-0039-4
Издательство:
Икар
Дата выхода: декабрь 2004
Jules Verne.retold by Virginia Evans - Jenny Dooley.
One night, four men and a boy, who are prisoners of war, escape in a hot air balloon. They travel for five days in a dangerous storm and then crash on a very strange island. During their adventures on the island, they realise that someone is watching and helping them. Who is this unknown person? And will they ever escape from the Mysterious Island?
ISBN: 9781845588649
Издательство:
Express Publishing
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2018