Сборник составлен из произведений известных английских писателей и ставит своей целью усовершенствование навыков чтения и понимания англоязычной литературы. Издание содержит оригинальные тексты, которые были подвергнуты некоторому сокращению.
ISBN: 985-13-1896-5
Издательство:
Харвест
Дата выхода: июль 2005
Остросюжетный философский роман Колина Уилсона `Паразиты сознания`, содержащий элементы фантастики, по праву считается лучшим произведением писателя. Символические существа, проникающие в сознание человека и преследующие тех, кто смело и творчески мыслит,порождают общественное зло и разрушительные войны, приводят к гибели людей. Познать себя и мир - главная задача человека, помогающая ощутить свободу...
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, a dark romantic, and short story writer. The Marble Faun is Hawthorne`s awesome novel of Americans abroad, the first novel to explore the influence of European cultural ideas on American morality. Hawthorne is concerned here with the nature of transgression and guilt. A murder, motivated by love, affects not only Donatello, the murderer, but his beloved Miriam and their friends Hilda and Kenyon.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07768-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. "The Maracot Deep" is an amazing fantasy-fiction novel about Professor Maracot and his team of explorers discovering a sunken city of Atlantis. There, scientists are trying to study the culture and life of the inhabitants of the depths, incidentally encountering unimaginable dangers.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07170-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018
Уильям Уилки Коллинз - известный английский писатель XIX века; драматург, автор многочисленных романов, пьес и рассказов. Роман "Лунный камень" по праву считается лучшим и одним из самых знаменитых романов автора. Увлекательный сюжет, в котором мастерски сплетаются тайна древнего проклятия и запутанная детективная история, отмечен тонким психологизмом. Неповторимая атмосфера старой доброй Англии и...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05153-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: май 2017
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
Magic takes many forms. The ancient Egyptians explained the night by suggesting that the goddess Nut swallowed the sun. The Vikings believed a rainbow was the gods` bridge to earth. The Japanese used to explain earthquakes by conjuring a gigantic catfish that carried the world on its back - and earthquakes occurred each time it flipped its tail. These are magical, extraordinary tales. But there is another kind of magic, which lies in the exhilaration of discovering the real answers to these questions. It is the magic of reality - science. Packed with inspiring explanations of space, time, evolution and clever thought experiments, The Magic of Reality explains a stunningly wide range of natural phenomena. What is stuff made of? How old is...
ISBN: 978-0-552-77890-9
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
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, The Mill...
ISBN: 0140620273
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: декабрь 2001
The Moonstone, generally recognized as the first detective novel is not only a work of historical importance but also a work that transcends the genre it created, in the artfulness of its plotting, in its compassionate depiction of servants, and in its enlightened resolution of the theme of the British Empire, its crimes and their consequences. Hinging on the theft of an enormous diamond originally stolen from an Indian shrine, this riveting novel features the innovative Sergeant Cuff, the hilarious house steward Gabriel Betteridge, a lovesick housemaid, and a mysterious band of Indian jugglers.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06180-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: декабрь 2017
Средневековая Англия. Темные Века. Власть предержащие, включая жадного шерифа Ноттингемского, не считаются ни с кем и притесняют простой народ. Но уже идет молва, что Шервудский Лес приютил лучшего в мире разбойника и его добрых малых. Они отнимают деньги у богачей и раздают беднякам, помогают сражаться благородным рыцарям и освобождают невинно осужденных. Смогут ли стрелы Робина восстановить...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05553-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2017
It is the spring of 1945, and the Nazis are eliminating all the witnesses to their horrible crimes, including Jews and foreigners remaining in the prison camps. Kommandant Repp, who is known as a master sniper, decides to hone his sniping abilities by taking a little target practice at the remaining laborers in his own prison camp. But one man escapes and becomes the key to solving the mystery of the cold, calculating Kommandmant Repp and his plans for ending the war. Repp was the master sniper whose deadly talent had come to the notice of British Intelligence as the linchpin of a desperate Nazi plot to reverse the fortunes of the Third Reich at the eleventh hour. But what was the nature of the weapon that Repp was to aim - and who was...
ISBN: 978-0-440-22187-6
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
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