Mark Twain was an American writer, journalist, and publisher. Among his most famous novels are "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and its sequel, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." His wit and satire, in prose and in speech, earned praise from critics and peers. This volume includes four amazing works like "A Fable," "Hunting a Deceitful Turkey," "The McWilliamses and The Burglar Alarm," and the novel "The Mysterious Stranger" itself.
ISBN: 978-5-517-00216-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: декабрь 2018
Книга входит в серию иллюстрированных учебных пособий "Читаем вместе", адресованных детям, которые начинают знакомиться с английским языком. Это сказка о бедной девочке и её маме, которым однажды в руки попадает волшебный горшочек. Он варит кашу, стоит только произнести магические слова. Мама девочки в её отсутствие "варит" кашу, но ... забывает слова, чтобы горшочек остановить. Вот уже весь дом полон каши....
ISBN: 978-5-8112-5296-1
Издательство:
Айрис-пресс
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2014
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: 978-5-519-02227-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
Lady Candling`s best Siamese cat has gone missing. It`s another mystery for the Find-Outers! The gardener, Luke, always seems so friendly. He couldn`t possibly be the Or could he?
ISBN: 978-1-4052-0394-4
Издательство:
Egmont Books Ltd
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Set against the backdrop of peaceful south-west England, where Thomas Hardy spent much of his youth, The Mayor of Casterbridge captures the author`s unique genius for depicting the absurdity underlying much of the sorrow and humor in our lives. Michael Henchard is an out-of-work hay-trusser who gets drunk at a local fair and impulsively sells his wife Susan and baby daughter. Eighteen years later Susan and her daughter seek him out, only to discover that he has become the most prominent man in Casterbridge. Henchard attempts to make amends for his youthful misdeeds but his unchanged impulsiveness clouds his relationships in love as well as his fortunes in business. Although Henchard is fated to be a modern-day tragic hero, unable to...
ISBN: 978-0-199-53703-7
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: февраль 2013
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 found and taken to a nearby hospital but he is unconscious and no one has any idea who he is or where he has come from. Meanwhile time is running out for his wife and son who are waiting in the desert for help to arrive.
ISBN: 0-521-78361-5
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
The Moonstone is an epistolary novel, generally considered the first full length detective novel in the English language. Besides creating many of the ground rules of the detective novel, The Moonstone also reflected Collins` enlightened social attitudes, i. e. in his treatment of the servants. In 1877 Collins adapted The Moonstone for the stage, but the production was performed for only two months.
ISBN: 978-5-521-00331-0
Издательство:
Пальмира
Дата выхода: февраль 2017
Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. "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: 978-5-521-08074-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
