Jack London was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. Partially based on the author`s voyage around Cape Horn on the Dirigo in 1912, The Mutiny of the Elsinore tells the story of Mr. Pathurst who books passage on a cargo vessel sailing from Baltimore to Seattle. To his surprise, the hero becomes a witness of a mutiny that starts with the sudden death of the captain.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08153-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
Jack London (1876-1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. Partially based on the author`s voyage around Cape Horn on the Dirigo in 1912, this novel tells the story of Mr. Pathurst who books passage on a cargo vessel sailing from Baltimore to Seattle. To his surprise, the hero becomes a witness of a mutiny that starts with the sudden death of the captain.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07482-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
The Mahatma and the Hare is the story of the self-called mahatma — a spiritual man who is able, when asleep, to view "The Great White Road" on which the souls of those recently departed enter heaven — encounters the hare of the title after that animal`s death. Barbara Who Came Back is the story of Septimus Walrond, who was returning from a professional visit to a distant cottage of his remote and straggling parish upon the coast of East Anglia. His errand had been sad, to baptise the dying infant of a fisherman, which just as the rate was finished wailed once feebly and expired in his arms.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06625-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, travel writer, and essayist. His most famous works are "Treasure Island" and "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." Now he is one of the most translated authors in the world. This volume includes amazing short stories like "Will o` the Mill," "Markheim," and "The Merry Men" itself.
ISBN: 978-5-517-00198-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: декабрь 2018
Suze should be spending the summer vacation at the beach. Instead she`s been forced to get a babysitting job at a swanky resort. She`d expected to look after some boring brat, so Suze is surprised to find that her charge is actually a budding mediator – with a totally hot older brother. Not that Suze`s head could be turned by some guy – she`s pledged her heart to Jesse, the most gorgeous ghost ever. But it`s tough when the boy you love doesn`t seem to love you back, and it`s even tougher when you think you`ve found his 150-year-old grave in your backyard. Suze knows it`s dangerous to dig up the past, but how can she focus on babysitting when she could be close to discovering who killed Jesse?
ISBN: 978-0-330-43740-0
Издательство:
Pan Macmillan
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Semyon is disturbed. He has woken up in the living room with blood on his shirt, an angry wife and no idea where he was the night before. After waking to find his boots and overcoat damp on several mornings in a row, Semyon realises his excursions are a nightly occurrence. Concerned for his own safety and for the security of his marriage, he asks his friend and business partner Volodka to follow him on his nocturnal wanderings. The next morning, Volodka gives Semyon a full report. He left the apartment a little after 2 and walked several blocks until he encountered a tall blonde, whom he kissed and accompanied to her door. But when he visits the address in the daytime, the bemused Semyon doesn`t recognise the location. And stranger yet,...
ISBN: 978-0-09-954886-7
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012
Книга входит в серию иллюстрированных учебных пособий "Читаем вместе", адресованных детям, которые начинают знакомиться с английским языком. Это сказка о бедной девочке и ее маме, которым однажды в руки попадает волшебный горшочек. Он варит кашу, стоит только произнести магические слова. Мама девочки в ее отсутствие "варит" кашу, но забывает слова, чтобы горшочек остановить. Вот уже весь дом полон каши. Вот...
ISBN: 978-5-8112-5014-1
Издательство:
Айрис-пресс
Дата выхода: май 2013
`...an agility astounding, a strength superhuman, a ferocity brutal, a butchery without motive, a grotesquerie in horror absolutely alien from ` Horror, madness, violence and the dark forces hidden in humanity abound in this collection of Poe`s brilliant tales, including - among others - the bloody, brutal and baffling murder of a mother and daughter in Paris in "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", the creeping insanity of "The Tell-Tale Heart", the Gothic nightmare of "The Masque of the Red Death", and the terrible doom of "The Fall of the House of Usher". The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.
ISBN: 978-0-14-119897-2
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Except for catching flies and changing colors occasionally, this chameleon doesn`t find life very exciting. When a surprise visit to the zoo makes this wistful lizard realize it can change its shape and size as easily as its color, it ends up wanting to be like all the animals in the zoo at once - with hilarious results. Full-color illustrations.
ISBN: 978-0-06-443162-0
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: декабрь 2012
Книга входит в серию иллюстрированных учебных пособий "Читаем вместе". Это сказка о бедной девочке и её маме, которым однажды в руки попадает волшебный горшочек. Горшочек варит кашу, стоит только произнести волшебные слова. Но как же его остановить? Помимо увлекательной сказки, книга содержит занимательные упражнения и словарик, в котором собраны все новые слова с транскрипцией. Адаптация текста,...
ISBN: 978-5-8112-6023-2
Издательство:
Айрис-пресс
Дата выхода: июнь 2015
When her cousin is slain by an unknown assassin, Ariel Behn becomes the sole heir to a family legacy: a sinister cache of manuscripts that thrusts her into the deadly center of international intrigue - and an age-old enigma that spans the centuries. Whoever assembles and interprets the cryptic clues of this ancient mystery will possess the power to control the fate of the world. What strange powers lie hidden within the manuscripts? Splashed against a lavish backdrop that sweeps from the rise of the Roman Empire to the fall of the Berlin Wall, "The Magic Circle" finds one woman standing at the center of it all: Ariel Behn. As she races across continents to reveal the dark secrets buried in her family`s past, she begins to unlock the...
ISBN: 0-345-42313-5
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: май 2008
Роман "Тайна Клумбер-холла" - один из шедевров А. Конан-Дойля, на страницах которого читатель погружается в мистическую атмосферу таинственного и загадочного. Для широкого круга читателей, изучающих английский язык.
ISBN: 5-8346-0156-1
Издательство:
Менеджер
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2004
