William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English poet, playwright, and actor, considered by many as the greatest English writer. Hundreds of specialists were able to translate his works into every major language, and most of the plays are performed more often than those of any other author. "The Merry Wives of Windsor" is a five-act comedy the action of which takes place in the city of Windsor and its environs. It also features Sir John Falstaff, the fat knight who also was one of the characters in both parts of "Henry IV." Nominally set in the reign of Henry IV, this play is the only one where the action doesn`t shy away from the fact that it takes place in the Queen Elizabeth era, and most of the characters are representatives of the...
ISBN: 978-5-517-00390-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
Agatha Christie`s famous Miss Marple mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.Lymstock is a town with more than its share of shameful secrets - a town where even a sudden outbreak of anonymous hate-mail causes only a minor stir.But all that changes when one of the recipients, Mrs Symmington, commits suicide. Her final note said `I can`t go on`. Only Miss Marple questions the coroner`s verdict of suicide. Was this the work of a poison-pen? Or of a poisoner?
ISBN: 9780008196547
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: январь 2020
Modern, original fiction for learners of English. A plane crashes in the middle of the desert in Oman leaving a pilot and his family hurt and stranded. The pilot begins a journey across the desert to get help but collapses from exhaustion. He is
ISBN: 978-0-521-68654-9
Издательство:
Cambridge
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Ardent, impulsive, thirsty for knowledge, Maggie Tulliver is one of the great heroines of literature. George Eliot drew on her own anguished childhood when she depicted the stormy relationship between Maggie and Tom Tulliver. Maggie's often tormented battle to do her duty and belong on the one hand, and to be herself, wild and natural on the other, propels her from one crisis to another. As the Tulliver fortunes decline and fall, the rift between Maggie and her family becomes almost irreconcilable. But Maggie's biggest mistake of all is to fall in love with Stephen Guest who is engaged to another woman. Both a sharp and observant picture of English rural life and a profoundly convincing analysis of a woman's psychology,...
ISBN: 978-0-14-062419-9
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
In a hospice in Bury St Edmunds, a man called Daniel is slowly fading away. His friend Maggie sits with him every day; she holds his hand and she listens to the story of his life, to his regrets and to his secrets. And then he tells her about the children he has never met and never will. He talks of them wistfully. His legacy, he calls them. Lydia, Dean and Robyn don`t know each other. Yet. And they are all facing difficult changes. Lydia is still wearing the scars from her traumatic childhood and although she is wealthy and successful, her life is lonely and disjointed. Dean is a young man, burdened with unexpected responsibility, whose life is going nowhere. And Robyn wants to be a doctor, just like her father - a man she`s never met....
ISBN: 978-0-09-955724-1
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
Издания, представленные в серии «Простое чтение на английском языке», являются учебными пособиями по страноведению и истории, развивают познавательную активность и способствуют развитию у учащихся навыков аналитического мышления. Предназначены для учащихся 7—8 классов школ с углубленным изучением английского языка или школьников старших классов обычной средней школы. Также могут быть полезны...
ISBN: 978-5-17-054655-8
Издательство:
АСТ/Астрель
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2008
"Let me tell you who I am, on the chance that these scribblings do survive... "I am Murgen, Standardbearer of the Black Company, though I bear the shame of having lost that standard in battle. I am keeping these Annals because Croaker is dead, One-Eye won`t, and hardly anyone else can read or write. I will be your guide for however long it takes the Shadowlanders to force our present predicament to its inevitable end..." This omnibus volume comprises the novels Water Sleeps and Soldiers Live.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850—1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, travel writer, and essayist. He was a celebrity during his lifetime for works like "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and "Treasure Island". Now he is one of the most translated authors in the world. This volume includes amazing short stories like "Will o` the Mill", "Markheim", "Thrawn Janet" and "The Merry Men" itself.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07801-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Years later, Susan, now a widow, arrives in Casterbridge with Elizabeth`Jane, to seek her legal husband. To their surprise, Henchard is now the Mayor of Casterbridge and, following the sale of his wife, took a twenty-one`year vow not to drink, out of shame. Henchard remarries Susan and, as Elizabeth-Jane believes herself to be Newson`s daughter, he adopts her as his own. But he cannot evade his destiny by such measures, for his past refuses to be buried. Fate contrives for him to be punished for the recklessness of his younger days. Формат: 11 см x 18 см.
ISBN: 978-0-14-062396-3
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Английский писатель Артур Конан-Дойль известен как создатель Шерлока Холмса и один из основателей детективного жанра. Несколько менее известен он как автор исторических, фантастических и приключенческих романов, повестей и рассказов. И почти совсем не известен как сочинитель увлекательных произведений, в которых сильны элементы загадки и мистики. Читатель сможет познакомиться с этими малоизвестными...
ISBN: 5-8346-0075-1
Издательство:
Менеджер
Дата выхода: декабрь 1999
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: 978-5-519-02472-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018